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The Lost City Opens Today

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Here's a list, via Uncommon Sense, of theaters running The Lost City today:

4/28/2006
Encino, CA: Town Center 5

Hollywood, CA: ArcLight Hollywood 15

Irvine, CA: University Town Center 6 Cinemas

South Pasadena, CA: Rialto Theatre

West Los Angeles, CA: Westside Pavilion Cinemas

Aventura, FL: Aventura Mall 24 Theatres

Miami, FL: Palace 18

Miami, FL: Dolphin Cinema 19

Miami, FL: LeJeune Cinemas VI

Miami Beach, FL: South Beach 18

Miami Lakes, FL: Miami Lakes 17

South Miami, FL: Sunset Place 24 Theatres

Montclair, NJ: Clairidge Cinemas

Union City, NJ: Summit Quadplex

New York, NY: Sunshine Cinema

New York, NY: Empire 25 Theaters

New York, NY: Coliseum Theatre

White Plains, NY: Clearview Cinema 100 Twin

I've already had the pleasure of seeing it and all I can say is bring tissue with you.

The Religion of Peace?

Nicojones.

Good friend Aaron of Aarons cc has been hacked repeatedly for the past few weeks. He was down for close to ten days all because he exercized his freedom of expression and posted numerous Mohammed cartoons. All the hackers were traced to Saudi Arabia.

Today, these purveyors of peace via religion have hacked Aaron's internet host company Hosting Matters and taken down a slew of bloggers, including Instapundit, Captains Quarters, Powerline and many many others through Denial of Service attacks.

So, in solidarity with my buddy Aaron, I give you the prophet Mohammed:

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And a brief message to those Islamist extremists out there:

It's the fucking twenty-first century, assholes, hurry up and catch up with the rest of us.

Michelle Malkin has more.

Oops…

I forgot to mention that I was interviewed the other day for an article on Blogs in this week's Miami Sun Post by Tiffany Rainey:

The ‘Cubiche’

Blogs first came to the attention of Valentin Prieto, editor of Babalú, when he heard an MSNBC report on the trend almost three years ago. But, according to Prieto, he could find no blog about Cuba anywhere on the Internet. So he borrowed a term made famous by Cuban, I Love Lucy character Ricky Ricardo, and started his own.

“Cubans in Miami have been voicing the crimes of Castro for years in Spanish,” Prieto, who only blogs in English, said, “but if you don’t do it in English then you don’t reach the people that can help.”

Babalú, which runs a mixture of culture and politics from a strictly Cuban perspective, draws readers from throughout the world, including the occasional coveted Cuban reader, and gets around 200 to 300 e-mails a day, Prieto said. Luckily the blog has a loyal following of readers who send links daily and is one of the few Miami blogs that has several staff writers, all with nicknames. Prieto is “El Bárbaro”.

“I’ve gotten a lot of support from fellow Americans,” he said. “They thank me for giving a different perspective that they don’t get from mainstream media.”

But, while Americans may applaud Prieto’s efforts, the Cuban government isn’t so happy. According to the blogger, the government in Havana monitors his and other political Cuban sites, many of which he refers to as his “blog kids,” on a daily basis.

“They can’t afford not to,” Prieto said. “The one thing Fidel can’t lose is control of information. I don’t know how big of a dent we’re making but we are getting it out there.”

Babalú can be found at www.babalublog.com. See also: http://the26thparallel.blogspot.com and http://cubanamericanpundits.blogspot.com.

We are living in strange times…

The California Senate has endorsed the "May Day" immigration boycott/protest/work stoppage in California. I don't know about you, but it seems to me that these folks are always boycotting the wrong things. Then, they turn around and criticise the folks who boycott the right things.

A couple more card designs

Sent in by Paul at Wanderlust:

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Whaddaya think?