I’ll be on the road over the next few days, though I should be able to check in from time to time. Guest bloggers are welcome to stop by, as usual, but if the weather is nice where you are, turn off the computer and get out of the house for a while!
I’ll be on the road over the next few days, though I should be able to check in from time to time. Guest bloggers are welcome to stop by, as usual, but if the weather is nice where you are, turn off the computer and get out of the house for a while!
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. As you are no doubt aware, Earle Hagen passed away last Monday. While perhaps most well known for the many television theme songs he composed, in particular the famous Andy Griffith Show tune (where he also performed the role of the whistler), and the custom scores for each episode of the I Spy series, Earle Hagen composed in 1939 a perhaps more timeless classic. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Ray Anthony and the boys performing Harlem Nocturne, by Earle Hagen, in the early ’50s (which was later used as the theme for Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-2MPKDR4VU
Earle Hagen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earle_Hagen
Ray Anthony: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Anthony
Mike Hammer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Spillane’s_Mike_Hammer
DANG!
I wanted to post another cheesy German disco knock-off! Oh well.
So here’s some prog-rock from the 70’s. Remember the group Kansas? The only rock-and-roll band to use classical mythology for material and shun the sex-drugs thing. Kerry Livgren (main song-writer) actually became a born-again Christian and left the group.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRj7AF8YjQ
“The Pinnacle” was pretty good, but a huge Kansas fan myself, I think this next song is the pinnacle of their performances (pun intended):
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=qCYIiHAhIdo
FWIW, I think that Robby Steinhardt (fiddle/backup and sometimes lead vocals) is a severely underrated musician.
Duh, I mean “Icarus” was pretty good, pinnacle yadayadayada. Late night, and all.
Curious,
Mideast power house buys in heavy on firm that makes vehicles that use no gas or oil.
[You may not see this in the usual MSM.]
Mr. Eqbal Al Yousuf is President of Dubai’s Al Yousuf Group, buys into ZAP Motors US, who supplied 10,000 EV mail delivery vehicles to France, among others.
The Al-Yousuf Group bought $475,000 of Zap’s convertible debt, the president of that group, Eqbal Al Yousuf, was named chairman of Zap. This is not the first time Zap and Al-Yousuf came together: last November, the group (based in the United Arab Emirates) bought $5 million worth of ZAP shares and Eqbal Al-Yousuf has been on ZAP’s Board of Directors since December.
The Al Yousuf Group is involved in a multitude of industries under various subsidiaries. Al Yousuf Group has 18 subsidiaries with branch offices in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Cairo, Fujairah, Jeddah, Ras Al Khaimah, Riyadh, and Sharjah, according to The Middle East information resource Zawya zawya.com/cm/profile.cfm/cid489977/
Al-Yousuf Motors, a member of the Al-Yousuf family, is one of the leading distributors of automobiles and automotive related equipment in the Middle East. The Al Yousuf Group has developed partnerships with many of the world’s renowned brand names in Asia, Europe and the USA.
[ This fluke comment surprised me .. ],
**I feel the timing is right for this,** said Starr, a 34-year veteran in electric transportation. **Mr. Eqbal told me that the most important technologies to invest in for the future were electric transportation and water purification. His vision and business experience are welcome just as ZAP begins its next growth phase.**
tinyurl.com/5mq2qj
**water purification??**, Well blow me away..
[Note, this is newtrends news, NOT stock tipping.] Just interesting for now. = TG
According to the Hollywood Reporter, China has banned all cinemas from showing Sharon Stone’s films, after the, er, actress was quoted as saying that the Chinese earthquake was the result of “bad karma” due to China’s treatment of Tibet.
I have only one question – what Sharon Stone films? Are they still playing Total Recall and Basic Instinct?
In the National Post today, David Asper’s column “An attack driven by hypocrisy and sexism” on the Bernier/Couillard affair hits the nail on the head.
This is becoming sillier by the day and silly jerks like Don Martin are all too eager to spin it. They seem to be so all-knowing without being so, no proof, just tabloid journalism, much of it
provided by the Opposition zealots. There has to be a line over which these buffoons in the media and the Opposition have already crossed.
We have to assume Harper will deal with the issue with the spinning fools very soon.
Just recieved a flyer from the Sask. NDP in the mail, filled with NDP bullshit, how sad Lorne calvert has sunk to this level of LOW
The irony of a cruise so to the gullible as a “See The Ice Pack Before its Gone” . . .
” I am on the bridge of the massive Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, and the tension is palpable. We have hit ice – thick ice.
The ice master studies the mountains of white packed around the ship while the 24,000-horsepower diesel engines work at full throttle to open a path. The ship rises slowly onto the barrier of ice, crushes it and tosses aside blocks the size of small cars as if they were ice cubes in a glass. It creeps ahead a few metres, then comes to a halt, its bow firmly wedged in the ice. After doing this for two days, the ship can go no farther.
The ice master confers with the captain, who makes a call to the engine room. The engines are shut down. He turns to those of us watching the drama unfold, and we are shocked by his words: “Now, only nature can help this ship.” We are doomed to drift.
What irony. I am a passenger on one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world, travelling through the Northwest Passage – which is supposed to become almost ice-free in a time of global warming, the next shipping route across the top of the world – and here we are, stuck in the ice, engines shut down, bridge deserted. Only time and tide can free us.”
http://tinyurl.com/5enw77
Kate, I’m taking your advice today and going outside to build stairs. Have fun driving!
Washington asks nuclear watchdog to search for two more Syrian nuclear sites – report
According to the Washington Post, US officials have identified at least three suspected nuclear sites in Syria, two more than the Al Kibar reactor Israel bombed last year, and passed the information to the International Atomic Energy Agency. This confirms the Oct. 25, 2007, disclosure by DEBKAfile military sources that the Israeli raid of Sept. 6 had destroyed at least two nuclear sites in Syria…
Our military sources add: The fact that Syria was building three interconnected nuclear sites, a North Korean reactor and facilities for supplying nuclear fuel rods and fuel processing for extracting plutonium, proves Damascus was close to completing a weaponization program fueled by plutonium rather than enriched uranium. Both American and Israeli sources reported that the reactor was only weeks or months away from being ready for production.
Our sources add that if Syria was that close, how much closer must Iran, the senior partner in the alliance, be to its goal of a homemade nuclear weapon?
The Washington Post story is here (registration required): http://tinyurl.com/4dk7rt
From the National Post, another example of liberal fascism on campuses:
In response to a series of controversies over abortion debates on Canadian campuses, the student government of York University in Toronto has tabled an outright ban on student clubs that are opposed to abortion.
Gilary Massa, vice-president external of the York Federation of Students, said student clubs will be free to discuss abortion in student space, as long as they do it “within a pro-choice realm,” and that all clubs will be investigated to ensure compliance.
“You have to recognize that a woman has a choice over her own body,” Ms. Massa said. “We think that these pro-life, these anti-choice groups, they’re sexist in nature … The way that they speak about women who decide to have abortions is demoralizing. They call them murderers, all of them do … Is this an issue of free speech? No, this is an issue of women’s rights.”
What clueless little lefty Gilary Massa doesn’t get is that one essential right of women IS free speech. Want to bet this little fool is a big advocate of the CHRC’s arbitrating free speech.
What Ms Massa can’t get thru her head is that a woman also has the right to have her child. And, it is murder, a dead baby is the result of an abortion. When people are more concerned over dead seals than dead children we have really gone over the cliff.
At one time I used to ask, if it is not a baby what is it. But with the crap going on in England with a half human and half animal being developed, I would certainly be scared of AI in the future. Weird people in this world.
Canada’s Anglican Church is broke. Even after a million dollar government handout, the church still ended up with a $770,000 deficit.
Fundraising numbers didn’t meet their expectations. One reason might be their far left policies. Here’s a snippet of what today’s Anglicans are about. From their website:
“Our addiction to oil is killing people and the planet … sometimes slowly through the degradation of the air that we breathe and the ecosystems on which we all depend, and sometimes quickly as a result of human rights abuses…”
Here’s one reason why the Anglican church is broke – Bishop says collapse of Christianity is wrecking British society – and Islam
is filling the void
Finally a Christian leader with some balls, from Pakistan no less.
The Anglican and United churches deserve to go bankrupt.
They ceased to be religious organizations a few decades ago. There is no logical reason for them to exist.
Lorrie Golstein is onto something that just may stick.
The Fumbling idiots – even the name is almost identical !
The new Wile E. Coyote cartoon – Wile E. Kyoto
[Whenever Canadian politicians talk about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, I’m reminded of the classic Looney Tunes cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote, in his mad and perpetually unsuccessful pursuit of the Road Runner.] LG
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2008/05/29/5702681-sun.php
Aspers piece in the post,outstanding !! the hypocrisy of the lieberals! they have no shame I smell a setup. Is it just me or do they trot out a scandal-du-jour evertime PMSH is overseas looking after Canadas buisness ?? As for the Bernier/couillard affair it is truely a tempest in a double D cup.
cheers Bubba
ron in kelowna – thanks for the link. Excellent post by Goldstein. And I think your semantic analogy is perfect: Wiley E. Kyoto. Doomed by ignorance, greed, corruption etc to fail, again and again.
Seen this yet?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7422595.stm
Trying to solve the John Robin Sharp problem.
Wish them luck.
RobertJago, it is called ‘hitching your hopes to a falling star’ !
It’s as if the Church thought they would jump on the bandwagon – the new religion of global warming.
Collection plate – carbon taxes.
Fear of death – cooked on earth.
Saviours
Hard to disprove the need, at least initially.
A compliant media; saturation AGW coverage – the standard ‘on the scene line’, thank goodness one person was saved (even though hundreds of others had their lives taken)
Ah come on mom! I don’t want to go and play outside. There’s Muslims out there. But…wait…I can go downtown Vancouver and get in line for the Mark Steyn protest. That could be loads of fun. Rumour has it men in black suits are going to come and take Steyn away, driving sales of America Alone sky high in Tehran.
ron in kelowna – thanks for the link. Excellent post by Goldstein. And I think your semantic analogy is perfect: Wiley E. Kyoto. Doomed by ignorance, greed, corruption etc to fail, again and again.Posted by: ET at May 29, 2008 12:07 PM
I like the tag ‘Dion Quixote’ too, reminds me of tilting against windmills – like Wiley Kyoto
Finally a Christian leader with some balls, from Pakistan no less.
Posted by: Fritz at May 29, 2008 11:46 AM
It looks like Standpoint will be well worth reading. Here’s a link to the Bishop of Rochester’s article:
Michael Nazir-Ali, Breaking Faith with Britain
Christianity is central to British identity, but its marginalisation has created a moral vacuum which radical Islam threatens to fill.
The rapid fragmentation of society, the emergence of isolated communities with only tenuous links to their wider context, and the impact of home-grown terrorism have all led even hard-bitten, pragmatist politicians to ask questions about “Britishness”: what is at the core of British identity; how can it be reclaimed, passed on and owned by more and more people?
That psychotic murderer forfeited its “rights”.
This judge should be de-benched.
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“Interview could threaten Bernardo’s rights: judge
A judge who will decide if a jailhouse video interview with Paul Bernardo can be released to the public says he’s worried about the killer’s rights.”
(nnw)
“That was the very model that Harper objected to when he was in opposition. “They promoted transparency. Well, when the court settles in, the last thing you need is transparency because transparency brings all sorts of problems.”
Hardly news. But on the whole, a pretty reasoned take on the shift in governance in Canada over the past 30 years…
“Savoie says the solution is to define – and limit – the powers of the prime minister, cabinet and public service within the Constitution. He admits the government is not likely to make the first move. People who do hold the power have little interest in changing the status quo. It’s going to have to come from somewhere else.”
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/432680
I guess I’m officially old and un-cool.I just cannot get the whole cbc fascination and saturation this wk.over Sex and the City movie.Can someone here help??? Or should I just shrivel up with humiliation.
India’s Gujjar caste fight for a downgrade
Thousands of members of one of India’s lowest castes besieged the capital today, blocking roads and railways to press their unorthodox demand — to be downgraded to an even lower social status.
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It was the second time in less than a year that the Gujjars have brought much of northern India to a standstill in an attempt to gain greater access to government jobs and university places under the world’s largest affirmative action programme.
Coming soon — An Inconvenient Truth: The Opera.
Will the suitably rotund Al Gore take a role as the Prophet of Doom? Perhaps personifying the Greenland icecap is better suited to his immensity.
“CBC.ca is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working to restore the site to normal as quickly as possible. Until then we are providing this scaled-back version of the site, featuring today’s top news stories. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
I feel so cut-off. Deprived of oxygen, nay, of life itself. It’s getting dark, dimmer, dimmr, dmm…
“We are working to restore the site to normal as quickly as possible.”
Normal????
Today has been declared a ‘national day of action’ by the native leaders. I think they did this on pretty short notice,as the usual day of action is late June. Then again the ‘social assistance’ cheques were issued yesterday,why not have a day of action today? Now slow down,before you jump all over my ‘racist’ass ,I suggest you look up when most if not all pow-wows are scheduled along with most if not all ‘days of action’. Coincidence?????
CP reports the Rhetoric Of Jack Layton like it’s actually based in fact…
The Biggest Theft in Canadian History?
Right Jack giving Us Our Money Back is Theft!
I do not recall you saying anything about the LIberals stealing it in the first place.
a.k.a. A possible path out of the darkness
From:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080529/Palestinian_tech_080529/20080529?hub=SciTech
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Hunched over their laptops, Palestinian software engineers are working on a program that makes desktop computers accessible from anywhere.
But the real breakthrough they are working toward is the possibility that the fledgling Palestinian high-tech industry could one day drive the territories’ sluggish economy — fueled by an abundance of college graduates and not as limited by constraints of the Mideast conflict.
One challenge Palestinians face is an apparent reluctance by foreign firms to form business partnerships with them, but Israeli software entrepreneur Zvi Schreiber is trying to break that mold.
rest on link
Ron in Kelowna – my Dad always called the Kyota thingie kayotee after the pancake mix called “a howling success” Dad always said Kayotee was a ‘howling mess’. Dad was a farmer/rancher and he had absolutely no use for gument know it alls who professed to know what producers were up against. If the gument was ‘for’ something and promoting it, Dad made fun of it and demeaned anyone who tried to preach the rhetoric in his presence with a scathing sarcasm that could nail a snake at 100 yards.
Dad would love the Wily Coyote comparison and would endorse it by repeating it often – esp to the Sazookey/Goracle types. I will do my bit for Dad as he has now passed over the Great Divide. I can hear him chuckling though, as I write this.
Lorrie and many sda posters have been too intelligent for the Kyotee thingie from it’s fairytale inception. Kate has done a SPACTACULAR job of calling the cult followers every time they created another blanket statement.
Bravo Lorrie, Kate and sda readers and posters. This is the new intellectual epicentre of Canada – not east, not west, just the best.
Update: SewerGate.
From Ottawa, Ontario, the capital city of Canada.
Where is the investigation by the Province of Ontario? The Liberal Premier of Ontario is Dalton McGuinty whose home riding is in Ottawa.
In addition, one of McGuinty’s brothers, Liberal MP David McGuinty, is Liberal Citoyen Dion’s Environment critic. David McGuinty’s riding is also in Ottawa.
Is Liberal Premier McGuinty fearful of his own “Walkerton”?
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“Feds to Investigate Sewage Leak
Yet another investigation is expected, looking into the raw sewage leak into the Ottawa River in August, 2006.
CFRA News has learned that federal Environment Minister John Baird has now launched an investigation, looking into potential violations of the Fisheries Act.
The spill went unreported to the public until last week.”
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=57197
dueling losers.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080529/dion_blair_080529/20080529?hub=SciTech
but admittedly ,one of the more eloquant speakers paired with a welll ……..
“genocide disguised as environmentalism”
“By far the most humans — mostly women and children — have been sacrificed in the mistaken belief that the use of any amount of the pesticide DDT would harm the environment. As a result, the preventable disease malaria has continued to decimate Africa.”
“Sacrifices to the Climate Gods
Beware Lieberman-Warner.
By Roy Spencer
It is well-established that the ancient Mayan, Aztec, Incan, and Toltec peoples offered human sacrifices, probably in the belief that such rituals would placate the gods who were in charge of nature; for instance, to help bring life-giving rains to their crops.
Although we shudder at the thought of such barbaric practices, I believe that we have unwittingly reinstituted human sacrifice in modern times. But while the list of justifications has grown immensely, our new rituals are still performed in the name of avoiding the wrath of the gods of nature.
Our environmental protection practices have already caused the deaths of millions of people, mainly in poor African countries. By far the most humans — mostly women and children — have been sacrificed in the mistaken belief that the use of any amount of the pesticide DDT would harm the environment. As a result, the preventable disease malaria has continued to decimate Africa.
Only recently has this genocide disguised as environmentalism been partly reversed through the reinstituted practice of twice-yearly DDT treatments of the entryways to homes. While most environmentalists continue to insist that there is no connection between international bans on DDT and human deaths, such protestations really are like denying that the Holocaust ever happened.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023111/posts
Anyone looking for a few chuckles is invited to visit “The National Protrusion”. The guy is an equal opportunity satirist – he gives it to everybody! Bush, Clinton, McCain, Obama – he doesn’t care.
Sample: Hillary Clinton: “I will hunt down Bin-Laden and kill him with my bare hands”.
http://thenationalprotrusion.com/
Al Gore in an opera?
As Archie Bunker used to describe it:
“A bunch of commie pinkos leapin’ around in their panty hose.”
Oh wait…that was ballet…oh my God, the image is too much to bear!
CBC NATIONAL (May 28-08-10:30 PM CST) REPORT ON HOBBEMA, ALBERTA. The CBC ran a special report on the reserve that saw the drive by shooting of an innocent baby back in April-08. The baby lived! What a mess?? And to think they criticized the Residential School System!! Who will they blame now?? Care to comment??
*Conservative MP Rob Anders was on the mark. CBC is off the air, er ‘net.
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“Africa: Continent Now Facing Black Apartheid”
http://allafrica.com/stories/200805280330.html
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*PM blasts MP for blocking Mandela honour
The MP, Rob Anders, shouted “no” Wednesday when the Speaker asked if everyone agreed with the motion.”
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2001/06/07/mandela_mp010607.html
“Note: CBC.ca is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working to restore the site to normal as quickly as possible. Until then we are providing this scaled-back version of the site, featuring today’s top news stories. We apologize for any inconvenience.”
Have you watched the interview with Julie Couillard on Canoe.TV?? She is as innocent as a new born babe!! Why did the CBC and CTV not elaborate on the interview?? Opps, forgot, that wouldn’t serve the Liberal cause now would it??
http://tinyurl.com/5qcogh
Iraq wants its middle eastern neighbours to write off 60 billion in debt.Saudi Arabia owns 25 billion and Kuwait is the other big holder.
I have no doubt the kindness and generosity of the muslim nations will shine through and all will be forgiven.
Yo Kate, you are part of the mainstream now!
http://tinyurl.com/5epqty
Ms. Page, and another BlogHer co-founder, Jory Des Jardins, agreed that the last finding is significant for all media.
“I think other media have to be conscious that this is also entertainment. It’s replacing other forms of news gathering, which has newspapers and magazines scared, but it’s also [replacing] all of entertainment, which should have TV and movie [companies] scared,” Ms. Page said.
“Fifteen Government of Alberta employees are working on my case”
http://tinyurl.com/6xtwgh
Go count ’em.
maz2
Wondering about south Africa?
http://www.manews.org/0105sawarning.html
Scandale du jour, week, month, year, millennium.
Socialists Blair & Citoyen Dion met in an air conditioned hotel room, in TO, in Canada.
Look what was atop the agenda: BigFoot. Scandalous.
The 2 amigos froze-out the MSM hacks. Bullies.
Scandalous goings-on between the socialists. Oui, oui.
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“Blair, Dion meet to discuss climate change
TORONTO – Climate change was atop the agenda at a meeting Thursday between former British prime minister Tony Blair and Liberal Leader Stephane Dion.
The two met at a Toronto hotel, but wouldn’t take any questions from reporters.” (canpress)
Shawn, thank you for the link. Indeed.
The post above re Conservative Rob Anders and his “No” is revealing. One conservative yelling No can derail the socialists’ agenda; for a while. Then the socialists start climbing up another ladder of human corpses to their Utopia; the tens of millions of human corpses they scramble over below them means nothing to them; the socialists have no memory; thus, no conscience. See lberia.
Speak out.
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Quote:
“Faced with revolution in the streets, strikes, civil unrest and the sheer terror and murder practiced by Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC), the white government simply capitulated in order to achieve “peace.””(ibid)
Rewrite headline: US is taking over TO, Bell Canada, and Teachers.
Aunty-American* has swallowed a bottle of prozac.
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Canada: Teachers hire airline CEO
The Ottawa Citizen
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has hired former US Airways Group Inc. chief executive Rakesh Gangwal as a senior adviser to its $17-billion private-equity unit. Mr. Gangwal will seek and evaluate transactions for Teachers’ Private Capital in the technology and business-services industries, the pension fund manager said. He will be based in the New York area. Ontario Teachers’ is Canada’s third-largest pension manager, overseeing assets of $108.5 billion. The fund is leading what would be the world’s biggest buyout, the proposed $52-billion purchase of BCE Inc.”
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*Ex-Lib MP Parrish: those “bdfgdmxs”.