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  1. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. On February 4 last, listener Irwin Daisy wrote in to suggest that we conjure up a little Eric Dolphy here in the SDA LNR studio. The day before, in the discussion of the now infamous Donna Summers v. Dolly Parton show, Mr. Daisy also mentioned that he was a fan of Charles Mingus, which we covered here later on February 4, with his sextet’s performance in Oslo in 1964.
    Tonight, for your delection, here are Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus performing Farewill in 1964. It’s about a half-hour, total length.
    video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5244296148915957069
    SDA LNR Archive: tinyurl.com/26tb25

  3. CBC and CTV news reports Liberals introduce deductible RESP’s and TSE has a huge drop. Conservatives tables amendment to budget to prevent deductibility of RESP’s and TSE takes huge climb. Two Liberals are elected in Toronto and TSE drops by over 300 points below 13,000.
    More to follow.

  5. Jason Cherniak is getting ahead of the tomorrow’s bad news for the liberals while endorsing Dion’s strategy of hand-picking female candidates in Liberal ridings.
    http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/2008/03/martha-was-appointed.html
    While I’m waiting for Jason to “approve” my comments at the Cherniak East German Post Office, I figured I’d post them here:
    Martha’s win in a riding thats been held by the liberals for two decades can hardly be considered a resounding endorsement of Dion’s strategy, particularly when you look at the whole picture: Outremont (loss), DMC (loss), Willowdale (win).
    You can spin it anyway you want – either Dion is a 66.6% loser or a 33.3% winner.

  6. Now, now kiddies enough with the CBC bashing. The Borg does in fact perform a valuable public service – ie it collectively soaks up all the guilt, angst and self-loathing us Anglos are supposed to be wallowing in for the sins (real
    and imagined) visited by our ancestors on other
    cultures for the last four or five hundred years.
    This is a good thing because it frees us up so
    we don’t pain to much about it.
    What my great, great, great, great grandfather did
    or didn’t do in Africa or India or anywhere else is of not much worry to me.
    I expect truth were told he was stealin sheep in
    Wales or some such.
    Now whether this Public Service is worth the $750
    million or so we pony up is another question.
    Just my opinion – I coould be wrong

  7. I am really looking forward to the explanations these three new libs will give their electorate when they abstain in voting. Actually, I am more interested in the explation to be given to those in Quadra, for I think it’s safe to say tORONTO enjoys being whipped by the liberals…………talk about abuse fetish.
    LPT……………Liberal Party of tORONTO
    I hope Bob Ekhert in Erindale Mississauga is running, I think he was only 1000 votes away from Al-Ghabara…………Unless mississauga has increased more in its huge muslim pop, I think we will get it. There are other places in the burbs that are more open to the conservatives, North Mississauga/Brampton will be under Bains as long as these Sikhs keep voting Baines in, this won’t change until the guy retires I am afraid. Anybody care to talk about their local ridings that might swing?
    It should also be noted that Quadra can be a considered a loss for the Libs, along with the fact that there are two more chefs in the kitchen.

  8. Its nearly midnight here in BC, and National Newswatch has these results posted:
    Desnethé–Missinippi–Churchill River
    Bob Rae (LIB) Wins Toronto Centre
    Vancouver Quadra
    Martha Hall Findlay (LIB) Wins Willowdale
    Notice that the only declared winners are (LIB). You could forgive them for not declaring Vancouver Quadra, but come on. Desnethé–Missinippi–Churchill River was a clear victory for the CPC. How come no acknowledgement? Just too hard to post,,,,,, I guess.

  9. I predicted 3 libs and 1 conservative.
    Came true
    Me too!!
    Wonder whether Quadra is close enough for a recount to make a difference?

  10. Saw this from B.C. Torys blog……..
    VANCOUVER-QUADRA
    Joyce Murray (LIB)- 10,155
    Deborah Meredith (CON)- 10,004
    Rebecca Coad (NDP)- 4,064
    Dan Grice (GRN)- 3,792
    My jaw dropped when I saw the vote diff by only 150 or so!!!! LMAO. Want to know whats funnier then that? The media spin on things ala “I love Liberals”
    http://www.thestar.ca Banner says ‘It’s a great day for Liberals’

  12. The Vancouver Quadra results have got to shake the Liberals in B.C. to the core. Stephen Owen won that riding in ’06 by greater than 10,000 votes. For Murray to win by 150(!) is a clear message about Dion’s leadership abilities and coattails. BC ridings like North Van, West Van, Vancouver South all become viable Conservative wins plus the NDP’s poor showing and notable bleeding to the the Greens means that Conservatives are going to suddenly be a lot more competitive in the close three way ridings on Vancouver Island.

  13. I cannot believe that anyone in Toronto would vote for Bob Rae. Surely his last NDP government was enough to convince everyone of the follies of Socialism. Then again, Stalin is still highly respected in Russia after he
    killed 20 million of them.

  14. Toronto would vote for a monkey if endorsed by the Liberals, the fact that the Liberals have done nothing for Toronto , ever, does not seem to bother the Zombies here.

  15. Exclusive, no links; just serious punditry:
    The Canadian Sentinel delivers his best on yesterday’s by-election results and analyzes the Liberals’ hopeless future and bleak options. You’ll love this take… I’m back, baby, in top Liberal-fighting form and will not relent until the Liberals are burnt, inedible toast, ready to be tossed into the big green compost bin in the next election.
    http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/03/liberals-lose-seat-to-conservatives.html
    Yeah, yeah… I know… shameless self-promotion, but I believe you’ll find it worth it!

  16. Check out the CBC’s description of the “blow-out on the Churchill”. With the Conservative winning the riding by one of the highest margins ever, smashing the Liberal appointed candidate 48% to 31%, CBC spins it this way: “Conservative candidate Rob Clarke won a tight federal byelection in northern Saskatchewan on Monday evening.”
    Of course, with the amount of the repudiation of Dion’s leadership, the Liberals may well have been tight – in the other meaning of the word.

  17. And check out CBC’s description of the Vancouver Quadra result. “Former B.C. environment minister Joyce Murray won the seat, but was only about 5 per cent ahead of Deborah Meredith, running for the Conservatives.” Which would have been impressive enough, but not nearly as impressive as the truth – that she was only one half of a percent ahead. Oops. I guess they forgot the decimal point.

  18. Anyone who suggests for a second that the National Post is a Conservative friendly paper should take a look at this front page hatchet job by Juliet O’Neill:
    “Liberals take three of four byelections
    OTTAWA — Liberal leader Stephane Dion declared Monday “a great day for Liberals” as his party’s candidates claimed victory in three of four federal byelections, two in Toronto and one in Vancouver.
    Within minutes of the victory declarations, Liberal party president Marie Poulin e-mailed a fundraising letter to party faithful, saying “we can all be assured that tonight’s successes show Canadians that the Liberal Party is primed and ready for whenever a federal election is called.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=383880
    Liberals winning Willowdale and Toronto Centre is not news. They’ve been doing that for decades.
    Liberals losing by-election to governing party is, statistically, very big news. This does not often happen in Canadian politics.
    Liberals nearly losing Van Quadra, a seat they won by a large percentage last election, to the governing party is, statistically, news. Again, very unusual for a governing party to gain a large % of votes mid-term.
    This coming from what is purported to be “the” conservative and Conservative newspaper in Canada.

  19. Maclean’s joins the battle
    By Ezra Levant
    Via Connie at Free Dominion, here are the written documents forming Maclean’s court application to open up next week’s secret trial at the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
    Here is the affidavit of Maclean’s reporter Charlie Gillis; and here is Maclean’s legal argument (called a factum). There is nothing extraordinary about these two documents. What is extraordinary is that Maclean’s is doing this at all. It’s the first mainstream, well-heeled Canadian media organization to dig into this story on the reporting side — and to put some of Rogers’ considerable resources into removing CHRC roadblocks.
    I’ve read too many HRC rulings and other transcripts, and let’s just say the kids who got the A’s and B’s in law school don’t go work for human rights commissions. …-
    http://ezralevant.com/

  20. The Non-News at CTV news this morning. Absolutely no analysis of the close vote in the Vancouver Quadra. Guess they have to call in the creative writing team to spin it into a victory for Dion.

  21. Highlight news at National Newswatch.
    …-
    “Canadian politicians listed as hookers’ clients”

  22. I wonder if I should apoligize to voters in Toronto, and instead congratulate them. That so called liberal stronghold only managed to get a total of 27,711 out to vote for Rae and MHF. What an embarassment for them. Guess liberals are really the Abstaining Party.
    And didn’t MHF get more votes than the Saviour.
    And they almost lost in BC. Not a good day to be a liberal.

  25. In the United States only 8% of journalists are admitted to be conservatives.
    In Canada I doubt if that number would reach 5% who are conservative in their political leaning.
    That would mean that 95% are gut leftist in their outlook and would naturally reflect in their output.
    Therefore the talking heads on Canadian TV not only spin to the left, they also clearly reflect the mindset of their Corporate owners.
    Conclusion- MSM is in the tank for the socialist Liberals, Greens and Taliban Jack’s ND’s.
    I truly long for FOX Cable to come into the Canadian market for some fresh air.

  27. Some Euro Skewering of the leftarded and their media favorites….
    NoPasaran – Joe Noori …. damned fine writer when it comes to highlighting the absolute stupidity of the left….
    BTW – The comments on that children love Obama video are NOP

  28. I am still flabergasted that the Liberals and their media puppets keep saying that Conservatives can’t get elected in cities blah blah blah.
    Does somebody out there with the investigative and compilation skills want to take this fabrication to task.
    The REAL truth is that it is LIBERALS who have been virtually shut out of most of Canada’s major cities – crowing about inner city Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal when there are hundreds of Canaian cities where there are no Liberals at all or a few who hung on by their teeth in a few urban ridings across the country.
    Is there anybody reading this who could do an analysis – Say, Canada’s 50 largest cities and which party represents them.
    Thanks in advance. Should be interesting.

  29. Joseph Loconte, The Wrong Reverend
    WHEN TELEVANGELISTS Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blamed the 9/11 attacks on “gays, feminists and the ACLU,” their obscene remarks were used like a club to bludgeon George Bush and his “fundamentalist” base right up to the 2004 elections. For media elites such as The New York Times and CNN, it didn’t matter that Bush quickly condemned their hate speech, or that he had no relationship to either man or their churches. It was guilt by association–an association that existed only in the feverish imaginations of the Bush-hating intelligentsia.
    Well, now. Barack Obama has nourished–and been nourished by–a 20-year relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright…
    (Via Israpundit) See also Spengler, The peculiar theology of black liberation

  30. Anne Applebaum, Cellphone Pictures In Lhasa
    That covert cellphones have become the most important means of transmitting news from certain parts of East Asia is no accident. Lhasa, Rangoon, Xinjiang and North Korea are all places dominated, directly or indirectly, by the same media-shy, publicity-sensitive Chinese regime…

  31. Caroline Glick, Germany’s pro-Israel power play
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s speech in German before the Knesset this afternoon will be the culmination of what the Israeli media has referred to as an “historic” three-day state visit to Israel. The day before Merkel launched her “historic” visit, Der Spiegel reported on the “historic” visit of another German to Afghanistan.
    That visit ended on March 3 when the visitor in question, known as Cüneyt C. from Bavaria and also known as Saad Ebu Furkan blew himself up in front of a US guard post in Khost, an hour’s drive from the border with Pakistan where the German-Turk underwent terror training…
    See also Berlin’s Worst Nightmare: Germany’s First Suicide Bomber in Afghanistan?

  34. Barrack Obama on Race (or, dealing with white people):
    (ibloga.blogspot.com and hnn)
    In the good, old tradition of revolutionaries, Obama hides in plain print. So, before listening to his speech, it’s worth while to note the following passages from his autobiography.
    On p. 94-95 he describes an effective tactic to deal with White people:
    It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved – such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.
    Indeed, when he was a community organizer (age 22 prior to going to law school) he happily cooperated with Rafiq, a former gangster turned Nation of Islam. He even believed that Black Nationalism was a good therapy for Blacks. That was also the reason he supported Wright (pp. 190-200). For he shares Michelle’s sentiments of alienation, came to believe that race should trump everything and it should be anti-white:
    . . . :all the black people who, it turned out, shared with me a voice that whispered inside them – “You don’t really belong here.”
    In a sense, then, Rafiq was right when he insisted that, deep down, all blacks were potential Nationalists. The anger was there, bottled up and often turned inward. And . . . I wondered whether, for now at least, Rafiq wasn’t also right in preferring that that anger be redirected; whether a black politics that
    suppressed rage towards white generally, or one that failed to elevate race loyally above all else, was a politics inadequate to the task.

  35. I don’t sit on my laurels vis a vis The National Post: Hey, the Aspers, big-time supporters of the Librano$, own the paper, for G*d’s sake. There’s a residual of Conrad Black’s paper, because the Aspers know that c/Conservatives will buy a paper if they know there’ll be some c/Conservative-friendly articles (I stopped, however), but it’s swung way too pro-Librano for my taste.
    ‘Heard Little Dion on the CBC news at noon, singing the praises of THE GREEN PARTY. I smell a rat here. What’s the guy up to? “We didn’t win too well but, hey, look at the Green Party. They did very well and isn’t that just great?!”
    What kind of idiot IS he? Are Dion and May going to form a coalition against Bob Rae and Martha Hall-Findlay? One wonders…

  36. “Saudi breeders search for new ‘Miss Camel'”
    By Damien McElroy, the telegraph.co.uk
    Camels are being prized for their beauty – not just their usefulness – in Saudi Arabia where strict Islamic laws and tribal customs prohibit beauty contests for women.
    Camel breeders are open about their admiration for the physical attributes of the animals as they gather at this spring’s camel markets.
    Judges look for big eyes and long necks “It’s just like judging a beautiful girl,” said Fowzan al-Madr, a camel breeder. “You look for big eyes, long lashes and a long neck.”
    Public displays of affection between men and women are rigidly policed by the feared officials of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice but in the camel bazaars anything goes.
    “Camels are just like humans,” breeder Haza al-Shammari told the International Herald Tribune. “They love and hate just like humans. That’s why you have to bring them up very gently.”
    Mr Shammari grabbed his favourite camel’s neck and kissed the beast on the mouth.
    “She isn’t married yet, this one,” he said. “She’s still a virgin. Look at the black eyes, the soft fur. The fur is trimmed so it’s short and clean, just like a girl going to a party.

  37. Best article on the left ever.
    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23398835-7583,00.html
    …
    “As I parse the shrieks of horror over Mamet’s move to the Right, I recall what a friend on the Labor side of politics said to me late last week. So many on the Left are obsessed with how they feel about something, he says.
    Think about it. So many issues the Left is consumed by are about raw emotion, not intellectual analysis. They will ask you how you feel – not what you think – about some gripping issue. And that’s why Mamet changed his views. He started thinking about issues, engaging his head. So many on the Left take the shortcut, letting their gut reaction dictate their response.
    Of course, even before Mamet’s political conversion it was easy to work out that left-wing politics is essentially emotional, not logical.
    With only rare exceptions, poets, playwrights, actors, directors and artistes generally are overwhelmingly political bleeding hearts.”
    Read it all!

  38. “Iran Mulls the Death Penalty for Apostates—Perhaps with Worldwide Jurisdiction.”
    Oh, and Christians and Bahais are to be labeled as Apostates as well.
    Joseph Griebowski, cuttingedgenews.com:
    Life for so-called apostates in Iran has never been easy, but it could become literally impossible if Iran passes a new draft penal code. For the first time in its history, Iran is considering the death penalty for apostates. In the past, authorities have executed apostates. But punishment by death has never before been set down in law.
    The text of the draft penal code uses the word Hadd, which explicitly sets death as a fixed punishment that cannot be changed, reduced or annulled. The rest of the code is little better. By using ill-defined terms, other provisions also open the door to abuse Iran’s already beleaguered religious and ethnic minorities.
    Article 225-1 states “Any Muslim who clearly announces that he/she has left Islam and declares blasphemy is an Apostate.”
    The code would also further erode the rights of minorities such as Bahá’ís or Christians by labeling them apostates. “False prophets”—a term undefined in the code—are to be sentenced to death. Any Muslim who “invents a heresy” or a sect contrary to Islam is also an apostate.
    The code’s authors go even further, extending its jurisdiction beyond Iran’s borders to those acting “against the government, the independence and the internal and external security of the country.” The law does not define the term “security.” This means that groups around the world that Iran’s regime consider dangerous could be liable for actions they take outside the country.

  39. batb – Dion is praising the Green Party because it is moving into a position where it is taking more votes than the NDP! The NDP and the Liberals are fighting for the left vote.
    If Dion can convince voters that voting for the Liberals in a general election is equivalent to voting for a Green candidate (who can’t form the govt), then, his Liberal candidate will get that Green vote.
    Get it?

  40. The West’s Oslo Syndrome
    By Jamie Glazov
    […[
    FP: I want to talk to you today about how the Oslo Syndrome infects the West overall. But let’s first begin by you telling us what the Oslo Syndrome is itself.
    Levin: The Oslo Syndrome, taking Israel’s Oslo agreements with Yasir Arafat and his PLO as a model, refers to the inclination of some within populations under chronic attack to take to heart the indictments of their attackers, however hateful or absurd, and to insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that sufficient concessions and self-reform will appease the attackers and end the threat. It is particularly found within minorities that are subjected to continual marginalization, denigration and assault by the surrounding majority, or small states under chronic siege by their neighbors. But, as the aftermath of 9/11 has demonstrated, even segments of powerful nations can react in this way when confronted by a threat for which there is no simple or quick solution.
    FP: So the Oslo Syndrome has infected the American, and wider Western, response to the existential threat posed by Islamo-fascism, right? There is a widespread refusal in the U.S. and in the West to acknowledge the threat is there. What is the psychology behind that refusal?
    Levin: The basic psychological motivation involves the powerful wish to be in control of one’s fate and, more particularly, people’s wish to believe that they can extricate themselves from painful and threatening situations.
    The paradigm on the level of individual psychology is the psychology of chronically abused children, which typically means those abused by parents or parent surrogates. Such children almost invariably blame themselves for their predicament. This is often attributed to children’s naivete, but children are not that naive. The son of an alcoholic father who comes home in a drunken rage several nights a week and beats him knows he’s being abused. But he will typically suppress that awareness and choose to believe that if he only behaved better he would be treated better. To understand why, consider the child’s options. He can recognize the reality of his predicament, his essential helplessness, and resign himself to that reality. Or he can delude himself into believing that he is somehow “bad” and that if he becomes “good” his father will reciprocate and his situation will improve. The latter requires his enduring the “guilt” of feeling he is “bad” but preserves the fantasy that he has control over his situation and so fends off hopelessness. Children tend to avoid hopelessness at all costs, and adults do the same.
    To either deny the threat of Islamo-fascism and see 9/11 as the work of a small group of terrorists who can be put out of business by issuing Interpol arrest warrants, or to blame America for 9/11, attribute the attacks to America’s being “bad,” however that is defined, and insist that sufficient American reform and amends will end the threat, serves that same psychological impulse. The self-delusion serves to reduce an existential challenge to one manageable and resolvable by relatively easy steps entirely within the target’s own control. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2swll7

  41. Barrak Obama*s Father *got around*
    My understanding is that this half brother living in China is Mark. He’s the son of Obama’s father and an American woman named Ruth, whom Obama Sr. met while at Harvard in the 1960s and brought back to Kenya.
    That was after his marriage with Obama’s mother in Hawaii ended. Another son from the union with Ruth, called David, was killed in a motorcycle accident. In all, Obama Sr. fathered eight children by four women.
    http://tinyurl.com/36lpxo
    ========================== NY Times
    = TG

  42. Thanks, ET. I think I “get it”!
    At the risk of being called a Janey One-Note, I’ll posit that one of the only truly effective antidotes to suffering from “the Oslo Syndrome” (akin to the Stokholm Syndrome?) is a belief in a higher power that/who watches over one, and stengthens one’s inner resolve and ability to face reality in order to be able to rebuff the temptation to give into one’s captors’ views.
    An example of faith acting as an antidote to responding with despair and surrender to one’s captors is Cornelia Johanna Arnolda (Corrie) ten Boom, a Dutch Christian and Holocaust survivor, who was able to maintain not only her sanity in a concentration camp (Ravensbruk) but was able to give others hope for the future.
    After the War, ten Boom was honoured as one of “The Righteous Among the Nations” by the State of Israel, for her tireless work, before she herself was incarcerated by the Nazis, in saving Dutch Jews from the Gestapo by her family’s home becoming a hiding place for them.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrie_ten_Boom

  45. Found this article link at Ezra’s site. Former Mossad agent writes about anti-Semitism.
    ===============
    “[Mossad] invariably concluded that modern anti-Semitism has very little to do with the reawakening of National Socialism, and everything to do with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Western countries — with occasional collusion from elements of the radical left, not the radical right.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?id=380251

  46. The deadly words of the left-socialists, black liberationists, Islamists.
    The enemies of the West in full display.
    …-
    Human rights make for strange bedfellows
    Excerpt:
    “One of Mr. Hadayet’s [Hesham Mohamed Hadayet] claims was that Israel was wiping out the Egyptian population by introducing AIDS-infected prostitutes.”
    (From the NP article cited above)
    …-
    [The Rev.] “Jeremiah Wright says [US] government created AIDS to infect and kill black people”
    http://tinyurl.com/38l5y9 (demunderground)

  47. You do whatever you like with this info; I’m directing it at Kate. Did you know that many government computers that are owned and operated by Public Services Canada, and specifically installed for free use to the general public have a special “firewall” that prohibits access to SDA and many other similar political blogs, sites, etc. Enter “Small daed Animals” and you get a pop up that says “ponographic site,” or “violence and criminal material.”
    I don’t know if you have a Services Canada office in Deslise, however I’m sure they have an office in S’toon. Check it out.

  48. ET: Re Dion & the Green Party vs NDP
    They started to spin that one last nite on ctv newsnet Reid vs lavigne, Tim Powers sat back and had a good laugh.
    So basicaly the spin doctors were well prepared as to how they were going to explain there dismal performance last nite other then the Sure Thing, Remember they were defending 4.

  49. “You do whatever you like with this info; I’m directing it at Kate. Did you know that many government computers that are owned and operated by Public Services Canada, and specifically installed for free use to the general public have a special “firewall” that prohibits access to SDA and many other similar political blogs, sites, ”
    I can confirm this, and also confirm that Steve Janke is blocked. But Warren Kinsella is not. There is a verifiable pro-Liberal anti-Conservative bias at Public Works Canada at this very moment. It was reported here at SDA months ago, if you check the archives.
    The government of Canada is specifically censoring the blog SmallDeadAnimals.com from PWGSC computers, while allowing similarly political Liberal blogs such as WarrenKinsella.com. This is a fact that will be confirmed by an access to information request.

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