Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the New York Philharmonic orchestra, featuring Yo-Yo Ma, performing the third movement of Antonín Leopold Dvořák‘s Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104, Kurt Masur conducting (12:44).
And for tonight’s special bonus feature, let’s go sailing at 47.2 knots!
(Update: Pardon my presumption. For the non-nautical, that’s 87.4 km/h.)
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
super cool sailing.
re: sailing at 47.2 knots:
Wow that is quite impressive. Amazing how much energy can be harnessed from wind with good engineering and innovation…oh sorry unless its those “stinkin’ fans” that Kate, in her one way or no way logic, seems to think have no place in the energy solution.
The commies in North Korea have a new fangled noodle for the starving masses:
http://libertyville.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/the-road-to-soylent-green/
Want your children to have a higher GPA? An answer the Left and HRC’s in particular don’t want to hear.
What would really be cool is some of Victor Borge’s playings. Normally he would do comedy skits, but at the same time the man was an unrivaled pianist and if he decide so, he could play amazing pieces at a whim.
…did anyone else see the CBC interview with the president of Georgia? He said something that made chills go down my spine.
He said Russia had more tanks and military might than in Afghanistan and did not ‘appear’ to wanting to stop with Georgia.
Ezekiel 38:4
And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords
Environmentalism Can’t Replace Religion: Ian Plimer
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[A new religion has been invented: Environmentalism. The rise of environmentalism parallels in time and place the decline of Christianity and socialism. This environmental religion is terrified of doubt, scepticism and uncertainty yet claims to be underpinned by science. It is a fundamentalist religion with a fear of nature. It has its own high priests such as Al Gore and a holy writ, such as the IPCC reports. Like many religious followers, few have ever read and understood the holy books from cover to cover.]
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[Like many fundamentalist religions, it attracts believers by announcing apocalyptic calamities unless we change our ways. Its credo is repeated endlessly and a new language has been invented. Logic, contrary data or questioning are not permitted. Heretics are inquisitorially destroyed. It states that now is the most important time in history and people are told that humanity is facing the greatest crisis in the history of time. We must make great sacrifices. Now. This religion uses thinking out of the Judeo-Christian tradition: If the world has been destroyed, then we humans are to blame. ]
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[ This new age religion tries to re-mystify the world, a world that its adherents neither experience nor try to understand.]
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[Environmentalism exacerbates disease and food shortages and destroys economies. It is a highly flawed religion. Its morality and ethics are questionable. When the environmentalists recognise the religious aspects of their stance, then real discussion with other scientists becomes possible. Until then, they are just like the creationists who claim that their stance is scientific when their very foundations are religious and dogmatic.]
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http://icecap.us/index.php
Amen
ron…thanks for the link.
The new religion is complete with confessionals and penance. CBC radio (Ontario today) Last week had an openline discussion on ‘green guilt’
Expert on hand allowed pardons when he deemed it.
Sometimes one just has to outwait the competition and trust that justice will be served, or-r-r-r-r, have some really good timing. 😉
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/HKHolyDiver/?action=view¤t=CapoeiraFighter.flv
Fourty years ago, Ehrlich made a few predictions;
* THE END OF THE WORLD * (cancelled, yet again)
The Real Population Bomb
“So while world population has just about doubled, global hunger will just about have been cut in half.”
“Ehrlich also fretted in The Population Bomb that we were depleting the world oxygen supply by paving terrestrial areas, burning fossil fuels and clearing tropical forests.”
“Atmospheric oxygen has been at 20.94% or 20.95% for thousands of years, amounting to about 150,000 tons of oxygen per capita. Motl estimates that, at most, any atmospheric oxygen drop due to the combustion of fossil fuels might at most be 0.02% a loss that could easily be offset by natural oxygen-producing processes.”
“Ehrlich also warned in The Population Bomb that manmade emissions of carbon dioxide would cause catastrophic global warming. He suggested that a few degrees of heating could melt the polar ice caps and raise sea level by 250 feet even out-fearmongering Al ’20-foot tidal wave’ Gore on his best worst day.”
So what does a guy get for being a fear-mongering, error laden flake ? Ridiculed ? Nope. A hefty fine ? Nope. Jail time ? Nope.
“The Stanford professor is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences and has been honored by the United Nations, MacArthur Foundation, Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund, Ecological Society of America and the American Institute of Biological Sciences to name a few. Worse, he’s still at it.”
Well, at least he didn’t get his gruby hands on a Nobel Peace Prize 🙁
I wonder, how many decades will all the world’s scientist suffer ridicule because of a few Champaign Socialists ?
POP BOMB
http://junkscience.com/ByTheJunkman/20080821.html
Russia’s bomb – depopulation bomb.
[Russia faces demographic disaster] BBC
[Official Russian forecasts, along with those from international organisations like the UN, predict a decline from 146 million to between 80 and 100 million by 2050.] BBC
Just 40 years away !! And many, many countries are/will experience the same.
I am not saying we have to “fix” this, somehow. It’s just the way it is.
But, can you say;
Economic collapse ?
Severe employee shortage ?
Broken pension plans ?
More retirees than contributors ?
(note: could this just be another case of fear-mongering and mankind will, once again, prevail ?)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5056672.stm
Russia’s bomb – depopulation bomb.
Russia faces demographic disaster: BBC
[Official Russian forecasts, along with those from international organisations like the UN, predict a decline from 146 million to between 80 and 100 million by 2050.] BBC
Just 40 years away !! And many, many countries are/will experience the same.
I am not saying we ‘have’ to “fix” this, somehow. It’s just the way it is.
But, can you say;
Economic collapse ?
Severe employee shortage ?
Broken pension plans ?
More retirees than contributors ?
(note: could this just be another case of fear-mongering – and mankind will, once again, prevail ?)
Kelowna ron @ 01:24 AM; This may be the very reason Russia wants conquests. It may not just be a dictator conquering more territory. They may want to preserve their kind as Mohammad and Shaka did.
thank you Mr.V,that was wonderful.
Peggy Pelosi on “meet the press” this morning: I paraphrase, “Natural gas is a cheap and clean alternative to fossil fuels.”
Wow.
johnboy mccain getting an early start in his ronald reagan syndrome affliction:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_investigates_claim_McCain_plagiarized_speech_from_Wikipedia
What about Barack Obama? He today will be real candidate, maybe its time to talk about his dark side…
Do you, Andrius, mean his pandering to the south-Chicago machine for his entire political life, or some other Machiavellian aspect of his messianic charlatan act?
adventures in right wing hypocrisy land:
Back in 2004, conservatives from all corners of the media attacked John Kerry as a “gigolo” who never earned a dime in his life and owed everything to his rich, heiress wife. Well, now that the tables are turned — and a Republican is the one who owes his entire political existence to his rich, heiress wife — is it unfair to use the same line of attack against John McCain? Salon’s Glenn G More..reenwald examined this in a great blog post titled:
The right and men who live off their second wives’ inherited wealth
What’s most notable about John McCain’s confusion over the number of homes he owns isn’t merely that it demonstrates that, after running his campaign based on depicting Barack Obama as an out-of-touch elitist and himself as the all-American Everyman, McCain lives a life that is about as far removed from the Average American as one can get, and has done so for decades. What’s notable is how McCain was able to live that way. McCain himself isn’t actually rich. He just lives off the inherited wealth of his much younger former mistress and now-second-wife — for whom he dumped his older and disfigured first wife — and who then used her family’s money to fund McCain’s political career and keep him living in extreme luxury (after insisting that he sign a prenuptial agreement, which would make McCain the first U.S. President to have one).
etc etc etc . . .
From the Saskatoon Star Phoenix reporting on Dion’s visit to Sask:
Liberal leader blasts PM during Saskatoon visit…blah blah..arts and culture cuts bad..blah blah..but further down in article this gem from the Man Who Would Be Greenest PM Ever,after touring the WAM (We Are Many) festival,featuringdisplays about composting,solar energy,recycling,and other topics of social conciousness,as well as live music and artists workshops,was organized solely by people in their 20’s.
Dion arrived in a Toyota Prius hybrid and later in the day held a town hall mtg about his party’s Green Shift agenda,strolled the displays and carried a compact fluorescent light bulb he received at one booth.
He also signed the WAM pact to promote environmental sustainability.The pact suggests 20 ways individuals can live a cleaner,greener life,but Dion was STUMPED ON ONE OF THE PROCLAMATIONS!!
“What is a car pool?” he asked organizers,who enlightened him.”Oh,that’s good.I’m never alone in my car.”
So,Mr.Green Jeans,signs a proclamation he doesn’t understand..and doesn’t know what CAR POOLING is??? Unreal.
tomax7,
I didn’t see the interview but things are going to get interesting in Georgia.
Two US Navy ships have now arrived with supplies. The third has left port and will arrive this week (this is the command ship of the US 6th fleet). I have no doubt that other ships will be arriving with supplies over the next month (for example an aircraft carrier can carry a lot of aid supplies and I’ve even heard that nuclear subs are very good at carrying aid supplies too).
The US, under the auspices of providing aid, have increased their presence in Georgia and the Black Sea. The Russians now have to deal with an American air force and naval presence that they did not anticipate on and have caved into.
I read Conrad Black’s article in the National Post on Saturday and he stated that conventionally Russia could not withstand an American attack for more that a few weeks because they have less that half the population (and declining) and 1/10 the GDP and an extremely weak military.
One of the strange results of the Iraq and Afghanistan crises is that the US has developed into a monster military machine which no one can stand up to.
I am starting to see a patient but purposeful strategy coming out of Washington.
Mo Hammed say, allah is a paedophile.
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“Publishers ok book on Mohammed’s child wife
Denmark is again ready to exercise its free speech and press principles by releasing a controversial novel about Mohammed’s child wife An American novel about the 6-year-old wife of Mohammed, Aisha, may end up being released in Denmark, after publishing…
An American novel about the 6-year-old wife of Mohammed, Aisha, may end up being released in Denmark, after publishing company Random House dropped its plans to print the book.
Danish publishers association Trykkeselskabet has given its blessing to Sherry Jones’ novel ‘The Jewel of Medina’ to be released in Denmark. Random House pulled out of its contract to publish the book after fear of reprisals from Muslims, and Jones’ agent is looking for buyers.
The novel was brought into the spotlight in the US after Denise Spellman, a professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying the book was ‘much more controversial than the Mohammed drawings from Denmark’. She called any decision to publish the book a ‘declaration of war’ against Muslims.
But Trykkeselskabet indicated that it felt the book needed to be published.
‘Fear or threats should not keep a book from being published,’ association spokeswoman Helle Merete Brix told Nyhedsavisen newspaper. ‘It would be principally and entirely a renewal of all that Denmark has already been through with the Mohammed cartoon affair.'”
http://jp.dk/uknews/article1417184.ece
stillsnoopingaroundafteralltheseyears:
‘right wing hypocrisy land’
‘Back in 2004, conservatives from all corners of the media attacked John Kerry as a “gigolo” who never earned a dime in his life and owed everything to his rich, heiress wife’
That’s got to be the most pathetic lefty post I’ve seen, so far today.
stillsnoopingaroundafteralltheseyears, how about your dishonesty and hypocracy, pumping up some minor and obscure smearing of Kerry as an excuse to post a long nasty personal attack on McCain?
From dinosaur’s link:
“Researchers found that church attendance has as much effect on a teen’s GPA as whether the parents earned a college degree. Students in grades 7 to 12 who went to church weekly also had lower dropout rates and felt more a part of their schools.”
Heh!!
Concerning Russia’s depopulation bomb (ron in kelowna): ‘Has everything to do with their extremely high abortion rate (see thread below on abortion), another thing that going to church would tend to prevent.
In fact, not going to church–or, more accurately, not honouring and owning the faith of our forebears–creates a whole set of problems that are creating dysfunction and social upheaval everywhere.
We can’t even wage war properly because we don’t “feel” there’s anything worth dying for, neither G*d, country, kith, or kin. Since throwing G*d over, we feel entitled and figure that the world owes us. We’ve become monumental takers, with very little concept of what being givers might actually mean.
Soon, there won’t be anyone from whom to take. We’ve aborted them.
Dion asks, “What’s a car pool?”
My question for Mr. Dion: “What’s your gene pool?”
I saw an interview with Sherry Jones on the TV. she said that her novel contains no se x.
I guess we can assume its a very short biography of Mo’s wife. dating only from when she was 6 till she turned 9.
Mao Stlong’s Red Orympics: a Potemkin Village; a facade, a fake; a phony run by phonies.
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“National Post | Mark Spector: Olympic facade couldn’t hide China’s flaws
BEIJING — There are thousands of welds that bond together the steel girders which form the skeleton of the Bird’s Nest. As a body of work, it is truly a magnificent stadium.
Step a little closer though, and you can see some cracks beginning to show in those welds. The eventuality of rust is evident even now, only hours after the flame has gone out over China’s Olympic Games.
We are not suggesting collapse is imminent. But it sets the metaphor for an Olympiad that looked so good from afar, yet surely did not always bear close inspection quite so well.
The world will remember China’s marvelous facilities: the Bird’s Nest, one of the most visually tantalizing stadiums in history; the incredible Water Cube, a building whose walls danced like our Northern Lights every evening; and a passel of stadiums that were wonderfully built and – unlike in Athens – nearly full every night and day.
But what of the people displaced by the Chinese government, forced to relocate to make room for all of these beautiful buildings? Where did they go? And why, when there were government-assigned parks for licensed protest, did so very few of these protests ever actually take place?”
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/08/25/daily-column-monday-august-25th-2008/
“The sun is still on vacation, with no sunspots visible.”
>>>>> “an unusual cold-air mass from Canada will bring lower temperatures,”
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“Up North may see patchy frost tonight (Global NOT warming alert)
Here’s some news you probably hoped you wouldn’t hear for another four months.
The National Weather Service says areas of northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin could see patchy frost this weekend. That’s right, patchy frost in August.
The weather agency says clear skies could allow temperatures to dip into the low to mid-30s late tonight into early Monday.
Meteorologist Roman Berdes says an unusual cold-air mass from Canada will bring lower temperatures, but warmer air from the central Midwest should replace it by Monday.
Berdes says these temperatures are uncommon but not unheard of. He says those areas saw temperatures in the 20s at this point in 2004.
In the Milwaukee area, today’s forecast calls for a high of 75 today and a low tonight of 54.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067492/posts
If this Poll was in another paper What do you think the outcome would be?
“should Young Offenders who have Committed serious crimes be sentenced to lengthy Jail terms”
Toronto Sun Aug25/08
Yes 97%
No 03%
Donna Jacobs has another piece in the Ottawa Citizen about Brian McAdam and the connection between the Canadian government, the Chinese communist gov. and the Chinese Mafia — and of a HUGE coverup as the story began to unfold. The piece comes very close to suggesting that the Chretien government was involved in the cover-up. Given Chretien’s recent publicizing of his “business” dealings in China, there is a high degree of credibility in the suggestion that he (and more broadly the Liberal elite) were involved in the corruption identified by McAdam. I think these revelations have the potential to have an impact on the upcoming (?) federal elections. You can read the article here: http://canadaimmigration.typepad.com/canada_immigration/2008/08/one-mans-china.html
Be sure to enjoy the embedded video: The USS John S. McCain arrives in Sydney to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Great White Fleet — 16 battleships sent around the world by US president Theodore Roosevelt.”
(Via CSP) Cameron Stewart, Menace of the growing red fleet
The slow, steady rise of China as a maritime power is increasingly concentrating the minds of defence planners in Washington and Canberra as they try to gauge its significance and weigh its implications for the region. The latest and most stunning example of China’s expanding naval ambitions in the Pacific is the recent confirmation of a new underground nuclear submarine base near Sanya, on Hainan Island off China’s southern coast…
“Toronto”? TO? TO, aka the “hate speech” centre of the universe?
This will make the CBC/MSM’s headlines.
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“Academics fear speaking freely in Canada
Political scientists worried about ‘legal jeopardy’
A group of U. S. professors launched a campaign this week protesting plans by a prominent political science organization to hold its annual conference in Toronto next year, claiming that Canada’s restrictions on certain forms of speech puts controversial academics at risk of being prosecuted.
Bradley Watson, professor of American and Western political thought at Pennsylvania’s St. Vincent College, said he will present a petition calling for the American Political Science Association (APSA) to re-evaluate its selection of Toronto for its 2009 conference at this year’s annual meeting, taking place over the Labour Day weekend in Boston.
His protest has garnered support from dozens of professors across the United States, including prominent scholars such as Princeton University legal philosopher Robert P. George and Harvard University’s Harvey Mansfield.
“Our belief is that the APSA should choose its sites carefully, with particular regard for questions of freedom of speech and conscience,” Mr. Watson told the National Post by e-mail. “We therefore believe Canada to be a problematic destination.””
http://tinyurl.com/5fqcd7 (NP)
Daniel Pipes, Barack Obama through Muslim Eyes
Lee Smith of the Hudson Institute explains why: “Barack Obama’s father was Muslim and therefore, according to Islamic law, so is the candidate. In spite of the Quranic verses explaining that there is no compulsion in religion, a Muslim child takes the religion of his or her father. … for Muslims around the world, non-American Muslims at any rate, they can only ever see Barack Hussein Obama as a Muslim.” In addition, his school record from Indonesia lists him as a Muslim…
But this excitement also has a dark side – suspicions that Obama is a traitor to his birth religion, an apostate (murtadd) from Islam. Al-Qaeda has prominently featured Obama’s stating “I am not a Muslim” and one analyst, Shireen K. Burki of the University of Mary Washington, sees Obama as “bin Laden’s dream candidate.” Should he become U.S. commander in chief, she believes, Al-Qaeda would likely “exploit his background to argue that an apostate is leading the global war on terror … to galvanize sympathizers into action.”
The uberleft socialist MSM-Guardian-UK goes on the propaganda attack on behalf of:
“Evo Morales, leader of MAS (Movimiento al Socialismo, or, “Movement Toward Socialism”),” (search).
Guardian trots out the usual buzzwords of the classic Marxist-Leninist “class warfare” lexicon:
“the wealthy”; “right-wing rebellion”, etc.
Here is the raceface from the socialist Guardian:
“between the country’s Indian majority and inhabitants of the richer and whiter eastern provinces.”
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“Bolivia split in two as the wealthy aim to defy the Morales revolution
The President’s bid to tilt the nation’s balance of power towards the Indian majority has met with violence from a right-wing rebellion”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/24/bolivia
The reaction to plagiarising Neil Kinnock should have been enough to warn Biden not to channel Gertrude Bell. She was truly an expert on Iraq, but it’s not the 1920s any longer.
Noah Pollak, Biden’s Brilliance
As the New York Times headline helped the Obama campaign point out, Obama’s Pick Adds Foreign Expertise to Ticket: “In Mr. Biden, Mr. Obama selected a six-term senator from Delaware best known for his expertise on foreign affairs.”
The most recent example of that expertise is Biden’s 2006 proposal for dividing Iraq into three cantons and withdrawing American forces…
CBCpravda , All Lieberal ,All the Time
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2008/08/25/dion-saskatoon.html
why dont they put Borat Dions Statements out verbatim?
“Global cooling gains momentum among scientists”
http://deltafarmpress.com/news/robinson-column-0825/
Slowly but surely the tide is changing.
The MSM turns on the blogosphere with the fury of a cornered wombat!
(Via Comment Central) Christian Kerr, What bloggers read in the papers
THE greatest tool for the sharing of ideas or an instrument for reinforcing prejudice? The internet is narrowcasting to narrow minds, with some of the narrowest dwelling in the echo chamber world of the blogs…
Are there Muslim Darwin Awards?
(Via Faith Central) Crocodile eats man who sought its blessing
A CROCODILE killed and ate a 25-year-old man in Bangladesh after he waded into a pond next to a shrine hoping to be blessed by the animal, police say.
Inspector Humayun Kabir said Rubel Sheikh and his mother travelled 50km from their home to visit the Muslim Khan Jahan Ali shrine, where the attack happened…
When it’s all about appearances you just know what will happen.
“The Democrats have embarked on a highly visible effort to make their convention the “greenest” ever. —
—Take the hotel card keys, for example. Instead of the traditional plastic cards, the Sheraton in downtown handed guests Visa-sponsored swipe cards “made from sustainably-harvested wood.” The plan lasted all of a few hours.
By Saturday night, enough guests had reported problems getting into their rooms with the wooden cards that the front desk clerks had abandoned them and switched back to the plastic cards. A clerk said they were now handing out one of each and suggested that the wooden one could kept as a souvenir.”
http://www.nysun.com/national/convention-greening-goes-awry/84520
(Via CSP) Francis Fukuyama, They Can Only Go So Far
Democracy’s only real competitor in the realm of ideas today is radical Islamism. Indeed, one of the world’s most dangerous nation-states today is Iran, run by extremist Shiite mullahs. But as Peter Bergen pointed out in these pages last week, Sunni radicalism has been remarkably ineffective in actually taking control of a nation-state, due to its propensity to devour its own potential supporters. Some disenfranchised Muslims thrill to the rantings of Osama bin Laden or Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the appeal of this kind of medieval Islamism is strictly limited.
In lieu of big ideas, Russia and China are driven by nationalism, which takes quite different forms in each country…
American Banker
25 August 2008
Obama’s New First: Industry Dollar Lead
WASHINGTON – Though Sen. Barack Obama has sharply criticized commercial bankers for their role in the housing crisis, political donations originating from the industry favor him over his rival for the presidency. Through last month bankers have given the Illinois Democrat $1.9 million this election cycle, compared with $1.7 million to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., according to data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The reason for the switch is likely twofold, political analysts said.
“Obama has swamped McCain in fund raising, and so it’s a rare group that hasn’t given more to Obama than McCain,” said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Second, it’s a Democratic year, and you don’t have to be a professional political analyst to see it. That doesn’t mean Obama will beat McCain, but rather that Democrats are dominating at every other level of elections. Business likes to have access to the winners.”
CTV(tass) has it , but CBCpravda does not by policy print positive articles about the Canadian Forces.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080825/vehicle_bomb_080825/20080825?hub=TopStories
no story at pravda yet.
“The Return of Michael Moore
By Kathy Shaidle
Michael Moore is back, but does anyone care?
He’s been keeping a low profile for a while now, but the controversial Oscar-winning filmmaker (Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Sicko) issued his 2008 Election Guide this week. Rolling Stone magazine reprinted some of Moore’s unsolicited advice to his fellow Democrats (whom he refers to as “pathetic” “crazy” “professional losers.”)
As usual with the over-the-top provocateur (whose last hit film was 2004’s Fahrenheit 9/11) Moore’s sarcasm is difficult to distinguish from his serious suggestions. Among other things, Moore dares Barack Obama to “denounce” him and reject his endorsement, for the candidate’s own good.
>>>>> He had better back away not only from me but from anyone and everyone who veers a bit too far to the left of where his advisers have told him is the sweet spot for all those red-state voters. I won’t take it personally. After all, I’m not the guy who married him or baptized his kids. I’m just the idiot who went to the same terrorist, Muslim school of flag-pin desecrators he went to. […]
>>>>> So Barack, by denouncing me, you can help McCain get elected. Because when you denounce me, it’s not really me you’re distancing yourself from — it’s the millions upon millions of people who feel the same way about things as I do. And many of them are the kind of crazy voters who have no problem voting for a Nader just to prove a point.
If his advice seems oddly narcissistic rather than tactically sound or even logical, Moore’s next idea is even more counterintuitive.
Playing self-appointed kingmaker, Moore followed up by suggesting Caroline Kennedy (daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy) as Obama’s running mate, based solely on her famous surname rather than her professional qualifications. Nothing if not startlingly original, Moore contends that an “Obama-Kennedy” ticket would appeal to nostalgic liberals.
>>>>> I cannot think of a more winning ticket than one that reads: OBAMA-KENNEDY.
What Obama needs is a vice presidential candidate who is NOT a professional politician but someone who is well known and beloved by people across the political spectrum.
Jon Keller, author of The Bluest State – which he says “deals at length with baby-boomer political narcissism” — weighed in on Moore’s more recent opinionating, and was puzzled by Moore’s unflattering characterization of his fellow Obama supporters as “beer-swilling, trash-TV-addicted couch potatoes.”
“He offers Obama a fail-safe political solution,” writes Keller, “one that could only have been devised by a totemic member of the ‘me’ generation — drop what you’re doing and embrace… ME.””
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5d8pwr
NEWS: Government bureaucracies micromanage and produce meaningless crap
NOT-NEWS: Bureaucracy micromanages and produces meaningless crap
OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada’s economic research is seriously hampered by underpaid researchers who are stifled by micromanagement and a penchant for examining irrelevant issues….
http://tinyurl.com/66vu8t
Quotes from the review:
“Only two papers [out of 240] produced at the Bank in recent years have been accepted for publication in top-tier field journals, and only a few others are currently under editorial review at such journals.”
” Many of the papers do not address questions of sufficient interest or importance to merit publication. ”
The central bank’s response:
“The Bank has made significant progress in building its research capability over the past four years. Much high-quality work has been published and is in progress, and the Bank’s research reputation is growing.”
CBCpravda , official opposition while Borat Dion is on the road
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/22/f-vp-mallick.html
ATTENTION CANADIAN CONSERVATIVE FANS: It`s time to get to work and win the election before it happens. The Liberals are just finding out that the battle lurks over the horizon, and they are NOT READY. Hit them with all you have!!
Re: “lets go sailing at 42.2knots”
Holy Crap! Is that sailing or flying low? I can only imagine the adrenline rush of crewing on that thing.
hardboiled – that dichotomy between fact and fiction is found not only within the bureaucracies of our banking system, but also in the academic world – which is, after all, as also a govt funded and isolated world – very similar to a bureaucracy.
Canadian academics is equally bereft of innovation and competitive ideas. That’s the nature of living within the safe non-competitive haven of a govt funded job.
A recent Harper Govt study (Jumn 2008) titled Compete to Win, also referred to the ‘weak innovation’ in our economic fields,and the weak productivity,– because Canada rejects risk and competition.
But, we fictionalize these facts and resort to describing ourselves as ‘peaceful, tolerant’ and etc.
By the way, I don’t think that the problem is, as is usual in Liberal thinking – money. The problem isn’t that the researchers are ‘underpaid’.