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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, here is the 12″ club mix of Stardust performing Music Sounds Better with You (1998, 6:41), which some have called the greatest house song ever. Do try to keep it under 115 dBc please, think of your neighbours đ
From the Paradise Garage image link above: “No liquor was served, and the club was not open to the general public. Unlike other clubs of its time, the Paradise Garage was focused on dancing rather than social interaction”. This was, of course, a fascinating development for those Aspergian who enjoy certain kinds of spatio- temporally and logico- mathematically structured music, such as Bach and Mozart, and who like to dance to it, or at least to simplified- for- dance derivatives thereof; just rather alone, not socially.
But let’s be honest, 115 dBc clean and with headroom is difficult to impossible for an individual to achieve (you’re talkin’ tens of kilowatts of amplifier output stage power for a decently sized acousitc space), so basically you need to get a bunch of people to dance alone together to cover the engineering costs. Umm, where was I? Oh yes…
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
interesting column at the G&M on Ontario wanting to be more assertive within Canada. apparently the writer thinks – as do many of the commenters – that ontario has been getting the short end of things pretty much since confederation.
Curiuosly there is only cursory mention of the century of trade barriers that forced the rest of Canada to buy Ontario and Quebec products and nothing about the Crow the CWB, the NEB, the bank act that created only 6 charter 1 banks, etc.
Some of the commentors are going so far as to agrue that ontario separate. I have one response: “go ahead, make my day”.
I’m doing this via an iPhone which prevents me from cutting and pasting the link. I discovered it via national newswatch.
http://tinyurl.com/6zfok7
Here’s the article Gord is referring to.
“Hanging over all this is the feeling in Ontario that the 1988 U.S. free-trade pact broke the bargain of Confederation in which Canadians bought their manufactured goods from Ontario in return for a recycling of some of its wealth through programs such as equalization.”
This paragraph pretty much sums up how ON elitist Liberal politicians and business leaders view the ROC.
Read the article and skim through the comments if you can, quite telling indeed.
This is a little sample of some of our Western Canadian culture that is being kept alive through the efforts of dedicated people. The Broom Dance Wait for the credits. This was produced in Vancouver.
SpaceX tests all nine engines on the Falcon 9
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/08/full_up_falcon.html
Third SpaceX Falcon-1 launch ends in loss of rocket:
http://feedspace.blogspot.com/2008/08/space-video-of-day-080802.html
It’s OK to start your Xmas shopping. This may be the last stand for Santa, though.
Expert “NSIDC senior research scientist Mark Serreze” affirms his faith in Santa Claus, for one more year.
“the North Pole is still covered in ice.”
“”So Santa Claus is safe for this year,” Serreze said. “But he better start looking for some brand new real estate.””
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Headline:
“For second year in a row, melt may open Northwest Passage
Santa’s home safe, though, for now”
http://www.adn.com/front/story/482543.html
“Christian files rights complaint over blasphemous TV stunt
A B.C. man has filed a human rights complaint alleging religious discrimination after a TV comedian flew a plane pulling a “Jesus sucks” banner over Toronto.”
http://tinyurl.com/6lnntk
The “B.C. man”, the complainant, will lose his case.
The HRC will cite this as da proof: Jesus sucked.
Madonna and Child
http://tinyurl.com/5mtdyk
Artemisia Gentileschi
c.1609
This will be the first case lost by a Canadian complainant at an HRC tribunal.
Canadians $ucked by Librano$. Again.
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“Godfrey’s long $100,000 goodbye
In November 2007, Liberal Member of Parliament John Godfrey announced he would resign his seat effective July 1, to become headmaster at a French school in Toronto.
In the case of Godfrey, even if we assume he has worked hard over the December-June period — and earned about $88,000 in salary over that time, not including benefits and pension time — we note he did not resign as of July 1; he instead decided to remain as an MP until August 1.
As for why, recall last week’s announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper of three by-elections in September, two in Quebec and one in Ontario, but not one for Godfrey’s Ontario riding of Don Valley West.
We suspect the later departure date despite Godfrey’s full-time employment at a Toronto school, might be related to a desire on the part of the cash-strapped Liberals to avoid having to fight four byelections in September.”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5j4kaw
The natural end result of PET’s multiculturalism: hyphenated Canadians, to wit,
“boisterous Trinidadian-Canadian”.
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“A million celebrate Caribana'”
“”This is all part of the fun,” said the boisterous Trinidadian-Canadian, who said she had danced in a mas, or masquerade, most of her life.
My mother says I’m a Carnival baby â that means she (conceived) me in Carnival time,” she laughed.”
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/471853
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It’s your fault! >>>>
Read this!
“There is a widely held belief in the Caribbean that recent crime troubles can be tied directly to the activities of deportees who have learnt criminal behaviour in the developed countries,â”
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“Paradise Lost: the Caribbeanâs shocking secret
Marie Colvin
At St Johnâs airport in Antigua, visitors walk across the tarmac to a tiny salmon-pink terminal where a steel band and a cup of rum punch greet them before they reach the immigration desk.
Ramshackle houses and green hills overlooking a turquoise sea reinforce the tourist fantasy of sun, sand and safety. But last week the idyll collided with the darker reality for residents of Antigua and other Caribbean islands when Catherine and Benjamin Mullany, both 31, were shot as dawn rose over their honeymoon bungalow.
Catherine was killed instantly; Benjamin arrived home in Britain yesterday via air ambulance with a bullet in his head and a broken leg. Doctors in Antigua said they believed he was brain dead but Cynlais and Marilyn Mullany, his parents, are thought to want a second opinion from British medics.
The brutality of the crime, and the fact that the victims were a photogenic young British couple, focused attention on what locals have long known but the tourist industry has preferred to cover up.
Violent crime and the gun culture that accompanies it are spiralling out of control â not just in Antigua and Barbuda, a tiny nation of 176 square miles, but right across the Caribbean.
One of the main reasons for the escalation in violence, according to residents and police sources, is the enforced return of emigrant criminals.
âEach year the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada deport thousands of people convicted of various crimes to their countries of citizenship in the Caribbean. There is a widely held belief in the Caribbean that recent crime troubles can be tied directly to the activities of deportees who have learnt criminal behaviour in the developed countries,â said a report issued last year by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank.”
http://tinyurl.com/5qw3rt (times)
It’s your fault*! You learn them crime and then send them back to their home islands where they commit crime. It’s your fault, whitey.
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“Caribana Parade gives Toronto Caribbean flavour
CTV.ca – 10 hours ago
A part of Toronto took on a little Caribbean flavour Saturday as the annual Caribana Parade snaked its way along the city’s waterfront.”
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“Paradise Lost: the Caribbeanâs shocking secret”
“The brutality of the crime, and the fact that the victims were a photogenic young British couple, focused attention on what locals have long known but the tourist industry has preferred to cover up.
Violent crime and the gun culture that accompanies it are spiralling out of control â not just in Antigua and Barbuda, a tiny nation of 176 square miles, but right across the Caribbean.”
*”There is a widely held belief in the Caribbean that recent crime troubles can be tied directly to the activities of deportees who have learnt criminal behaviour in the developed countries,â said a report issued last year by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank.”
http://tinyurl.com/6zc4zx (times)
Reported in the New York Times this morning:
H.I.V. Study Finds Rate 40% Higher Than Estimated
The United States has significantly underreported the number of new H.I.V. infections occurring each year, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/health/03aids.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1217765554-6QMitSGJ7+CYMC8EQKVC7w&oref=slogin
âThe findings confirm that H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, has its greatest effect among gay and bisexual men of all races (53 percent of all new infections) and among African-American men and women,â a finding that is âunacceptableâ according to the CDCâs director, Dr. Julie Gerberding, and other AIDS experts.
âIn an editorialâŚThe Lancet, an internationally prestigious journal published in London, severely criticized the disease centers for failing to release the information [which has been known since October 2007] and said, âU.S. efforts to prevent H.I.V. have failed dismally.ââ
One wonders how an agency such as the CDC could have so badly miscalculated the incidence of H.I.V. in the U.S. population (one wonders how Canada is doing in this regard?). Would it/could it have anything to do with preserving âprotectedâ and âvisibleâ minoritiesâ sensibilities?
Surely, the time is long past for misplaced sensitivities to cloud accurate reporting of an epidemic for which decisive steps need to be taken in order to prevent its spread.
Re the “Jesus Sucks” controversy: as an observant Christian, Iâm offended by the banner, but, what else is new? Jesus can take it and so can I. In fact, those most hurt by this prank are the bigots who get a kick out of it: Lord, have mercy.
Charles Lewisâs National Post article is the way to respond to this juvenile prank.
On the other hand, legitimizing the HRCs in any way is a very bad idea. What if these weasels âruleâ on what Canadians are âallowedâ to say about Christianity and Christians? Help! Itâs none of their bloody business: these fascists have no jurisdiction to make such a decision. Anyone who might want them to do soâSkoreyko?âis sadly mistaken: we need to delegitimize these kangaroo courts, not give the bloodsuckers any more illegitimate authority or taxpayersâ hard earned $$.
Now I have seen everything.
Yesterday, my wife took me along with her to the local IKEA (in Montreal). As we pull into the parking lot and start driving around looking for an open spot, I notice that several of the spaces that used to be reserved for handicapped people have been changed:
No longer are these spots reserved for people with physical disabilities…they’re now reserved for hybrid vehicles. Furthermore, the reserved hybrid spots are closer to the building than the handicapped spaces next to them.
So, in another fine example of attempted social engineering, hybrid drivers now get the best parking spaces – even better than those reserved for the disabled.
Has anyone else seen this in their cities?
Taliban Jack Layton-NDP is sending flowers.
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“Al-Qaida says 4 leaders killed in Afghanistan
CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida has posted a statement on the Internet saying four of its Afghanistan commanders have been killed, including an explosives expert wanted by the U.S.”
(asspress)
Hey, someone’s using my nic.
That post at 9:42 a.m. was not mine. And by the way, faux-batb, I am not the mother of “several teens.”
Lay off, you moron. Use your own name over which to make incendiary statements. Nice try, trying to tar and feather me as a racist.
Mr. W****n, are you anywhere in the vicinity?
You have the Dalai Lama in front of you for an interview. Of all the questions you might think of asking him, how high on the list would be the question the CBC Sunday news thought to ask him – what do you think of homosexual relations?
“Climate hysterics v heretics in an age of unreason
IT has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the US. First, NASA had to correct its earlier claim that the hottest year on record in the contiguous US had been 1998, which seemed to prove that global warming was on the march. It was actually 1934. Then it turned out the world’s oceans have been growing steadily cooler, not hotter, since 2003. Meanwhile, the winter of 2007 was the coldest in the US in decades, after Al Gore warned us that we were about to see the end of winter as we know it.
In a May issue of Nature, evidence about falling global temperatures forced German climatologists to conclude that the transformation of our planet into a permanent sauna is taking a decade-long hiatus, at least. Then this month came former greenhouse gas alarmist David Evans’s article in The Australian, stating that since 1999 evidence has been accumulating that man-made carbon emissions can’t be the cause of global warming. By now that evidence, Evans said, has become pretty conclusive.
Yet believers in man-made global warming demand more and more money to combat climate change and still more drastic changes in our economic output and lifestyle.
The reason is that precisely that they are believers, not scientists. No amount of empirical evidence will overturn what has become not a scientific theory but a form of religion.
But what kind of religion? More than 200 years ago, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume put his finger on the process. His essay, Of Superstition and Enthusiasm, describes how even in civilised societies the mind of man is subject to certain unaccountable terrors and apprehensions when real worries are missing.
As these enemies are entirely invisible and unknown, like today’s greenhouse gases, people try to propitiate them by ceremonies, observations, mortifications, sacrifices such as Earth Day and banning plastic bags and petrol-driven lawnmowers.
Fear and ignorance, Hume concludes, are the true source of superstition. They lead a blind and terrified public to embrace any practice, however absurd or frivolous, which either folly or knavery recommends.
The knaves today, of course, are the would-be high priests of the global warming orthodoxy, with former US vice-president Gore as their supreme pontiff.”
http://tinyurl.com/5784×2 (australian)
Our Enemy, the State.
“a unique law”? “suspicions”?
The rats have surfaced.
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“Unique law lets police seize guns before a crime is committed
HARTFORD — Using a unique state law, police in Connecticut have disarmed dozens of gun owners based on suspicions that they might harm themselves or others.
The state’s gun seizure law is considered the first and only law in the country that allows the confiscation of a gun before the owner commits an act of violence. Police and state prosecutors can obtain seizure warrants based on concerns about someone’s intentions.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055757/posts
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“New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock
New Yorkers have been in the throes of sticker shock since this spring when the Big Apple became the first city in the country to implement a law forcing chain restaurants to post the calorie count of each food in the same size and font as the price. Restaurants have not exhausted their legal challenges, but the city will start fining violators up to $2,000 beginning Friday, say officials with the cityâs Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055748/posts
Mao Stlong say, no glumbling. Glumblers go to Laogai*.
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“Chinese grumble about the Olympics, but quietly
By ANITA CHANG â 35 minutes ago
SHIJIAZHUANG, China (AP) â From the desktop computer at the foot of his bed, Zhang Heng dares to complain about the Beijing Olympics.
The 24-year-old blogger tells of having to sign a “civilized behavior pledge” and verify to a neighborhood committee that he is a legal resident of his building. At the Web site company where he works, everyone had to show a clean police record, because the Olympic torch route passed by the office last week.
While many Chinese are excited about the Olympics, which begin Friday, the games have also touched off a fair amount of grumbling. Most of it is quiet, though, because the government is quick to clamp down on protest.”
http://tinyurl.com/6ztglw (asspress)
*Laogai
http://www.laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=1880
“The LRF estimates that since the inception of the Laogai, between 40 to 50 million people have been imprisoned. Almost everyone in China is related to someone or has known someone who has been forced to serve a lengthy sentence in the confines of the Laogai.”
I appreciate batb’s light touch re the moron who impersonated her. (After years of reading her posts, I thought something was fishy.)
However, identity theft, especially when it involves defamation, is a very serious matter.
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary’s definition of defamation is, “the OFFENCE [emphasis mine] of bringing a person into undeserved disrepute by making false statements; libel, slander.â
So, in effect, the individual impersonating batb has committed an offence.
I believe that Kateâsorry for the added burden this implies, but this is no jokeâshould ban this individual (and any other who impersonates another) from the SDA forum, not only for breaking the law (in spirit, if not, in fact, due to batbâs pseudonym), but for breaking the trust of those of us who post in good faith.
Thanks, lookout, for articulating the seriousness of someone posting a comment under my name. It’s identity theft.
Just a small joke, snicker, snicker, to the person who did it, but a major pain in the a** for the person whose nic has been misappropriated.
Clap if you think batb–that would be me!–should be the only commenter using this nic!! đ
batb – CLAP!
Coming home today I saw a dead rat in the laneway by a popular restaurant in the area. Thinking of small dead animals I logged on to SDA to see that another rat had presumed to post under the name of batb … I have a particular affection for dishonoured bats.
Using the name of another to post one’s comments is lower than the street rats. I think that Kate should search out this rat and make him roadkill … a VERY small dead animal.
Tenebris
Re: link to the essay on sexual utopias (two days ago).
False conclusions, provocative and valuable observations. Good starting point to discussion on the role of the family within society in times of shifting perception on human sexuality. After French Revolution there was no way back to Monarchy, so it may be with monogamy, even the author sounds like a recently divorced fellow:))
Comments are also interesting:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/08/why-the-falling.html#comments
I’ve done a little research on the fake batb comment originally posted at 9:42 above, as a result of which I have unpublished that comment and will be sending in a few hours a detailed report to Kate for further investigation.
Because of the level of administrative permissions I have in the SDA Movable Type administration interface, I am only able to search in entries created by me, so usually just Reader Tips. Doing so I found that the real batb always posts from the same IP address in the same city, and always has the same value for some other data.
In searching for the fake batb by IP address, I only found two comments, the 9:42 item in this entry, and a previous comment in a Reader Tips entry a few weeks ago that was (supposedly) made by a known commenter here at SDA. That IP address is listed as originating in a second city (not the real batb city).
Said known commenter usually posts from a constant IP address in a third city; there are multiple Reader Tips comments from that IP address, all by said known commenter and all with the same other data (which is not the same as the real batb’s other data).
However, as I only have two data points I don’t consider this conclusive yet. For example, it’s possible both comments from the second city are fakes created in an elaborate multi-week attempt to discredit said known commenter. Given the information in the other data I think this may be likely, although it is possible said known commenter is playing three levels deep in an attempt to throw others off their trail. But I don’t want to say more here as I don’t want to expose any details that would allow the fake commenter to generate better fakes.
“Russian Nobel laureate Solzhenitsyn has died: reports” (reuters)
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The One Man feared by Stalin.
Sent into the Soviet Gulag by Stalin, Solzhenitsyn outlived both Stalin and the Gulag.
Alexsandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Rest in Peace.
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Vitruvius, thank you for jumping on the batb fakery and exposing it for what it is.
I think anyone who posts under a consistent name deserves similar treatment, there has been some people commenting for years under 1 name and to have it appear they have suddenly taken to drink is not ok.
well if they have taken to drink ok… but you know what I meant.
Multiple news outlets are reporting that Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died near Moscow, aged 89.
bbc has a decent obit.
Well done, Vitruvius!
Like Ezra, Mark, Kate, Kathy, etc. and the HRCs, this is for all of us.
Thanks.
Worth a read: Breaking down the American Psyche as it pertains to Bush Derangement Syndrome.
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/05/the_wrong_lessons_of_iraq.html
h/t Violent Acres.
Batb, someone nicked my nic last year so I added a ‘1’ to the end of my non-original nic but I was not offended by what the other qwerty was writing.
My reader tip:
An American Carol
A new movie coming out October 3. I laughed out load 5 times just reading the article. I look forward to the release.
Thanks lookout, darknight, JBS, marc in calgary, and Vitruvius for your understanding of what’s going on. It feels like being violated when someone else posts a comment in your name.
qwerty1: I shouldn’t have to post as batb1, seeing as batb is MY moniker. YOU shouldn’t have to post as qwerty1, even if the comment made in your name didn’t offend you. Someone has used your name, period, under which to make a comment at someone’s blog and that’s not right. You’re too Canadian!! đ
Vitruvius, I’m grateful for all of the work you’ve gone to in order to identify the faux-batb. Many thanks. I hope you get to the bottom of this AND of the other comment this particular poster has made in some other blogger’s name.
I’m old enough to remember when someone’s word was their bond–a concept I still think is important and binding. If our word or something said in our name isn’t binding then we’re in trouble.
Well, qwerty is a pretty weak pseudonym, it’s a very common anonymity. Batb is already pretty unique, there may be other batb’s, but not ’round these parts. Even qwerty1 is more unique, more than, say qwertyuiop.
In the early days of SDA, I commented as Tony. Soon there were three Tony’s! So I did some research and submitted my top three choices to a few of my best friends for feedback, and eventually settled on Vitruvius. It’s very unique, yet not perfectly unique, and it is related to me personally, but not uniquely, which is just what you want in an anonymous pseudonym.
Anyway, I don’t really care if people use their real names or not, as least not in political blog comments, because even if I know their real name, I don’t know them, I only know their comments. Except in cases where we know other commenters out of band, we are only dealing here with abstractions of people, not with real people.
But it is important to me that people use consistent names, real or otherwise. I mean, fine, so I’m interlocuting with abstractions: at least let me interlocute with the consistently same abstractions. Otherwise you’ve got bupkis only, already.
Finally, while I would like to write more about what I have discovered about the fake batb comment, and have since reported at length to Kate, that would be stupid at this point, so I won’t.
batb… “someone’s word is there bond’ WOW you must be old. I thought that was a thing of the past, glad it still exists with some of us.
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Rob C: “WOW you must be old. I thought that was a thing of the past, glad it still exists with some of us.”
I AM old!! And I’m grateful to have been brought up in a time when someone’s word was their bond. When I promise to do something, I do it, or my concscience bothers me UNTIL I do it.
(Which reminds me. I’ve got to ask that friend over for a meal… đ