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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 are Imagination performing Just an Illusion (1982, 6:26).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Update: Prompted by a comment from Exetaz, hereunder, and in light of what SDA LNR has become, here for your delectation is our new official: SDA Late Nite Radio Theme Song 😉

58 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Al & Moh say, Mao Stlong out.
    …-
    “UAE Bans Chinese Dairy Products
    “ABU DHABI — The General Secretariat of UAE Municipalities, Public Health and Environment Affairs has issued a decree banning entry of all kinds of Chinese dairy products into the country. Copies of the decree have been sent to all municipalities.”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/4mouxp

  3. “BBC investigated after peer says climate change programme was biased ‘one-sided polemic’
    “The BBC is being investigated by television watchdogs after a leading climate change sceptic claimed his views were deliberately misrepresented.
    Lord Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, says he was made to look like a ‘potty peer’ on a TV programme that ‘was a one-sided polemic for the new religion of global warming’.
    Earth: The Climate Wars, which was broadcast on BBC 2, was billed as a definitive guide to the history of global warming, including arguments for and against.
    During the series, Dr Iain Stewart, a geologist, interviewed leading climate change sceptics, including Lord Monckton. But the peer complained to Ofcom that the broadcast had been unfairly edited.”
    http://tinyurl.com/3g7ehg (dailymail)

  5. Fresh off yesterday’s Grit talking points article, CP comes up with another doozie:
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080922/election2008_harper_BC_080922/20080928?s_name=election2008
    Notwithstanding Tory arguments about obstruction (we all know Senate and Committees were beacons of accomodation), they’ve kept barely half their promises. Well, this is unacceptable to Canadians right?
    Which Canadians you ask. Well these Canadians: Duff Conacher, Democracy Watch (expected, they think every Canadian government are totalitarians); Michael McBean, Canadian Health Coalition; Martha Friendly, Childare Resource & Research Unit; and David Coles, Communications and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Yep, there’s a cross section of Canada – more like a sliver.
    CP apologizes for not providing context of statistics for previous Liberal governments. When they find a Liberal promise that was actually kept, CP will issue an addendum.
    Of course, no need to check Bloc, NDP and Green party.

  6. CHARLES JOHNSON, of Little Green Footballs fame, is being hoisted by his own petard. He, in many cases, unreasonably picks fights with others attempting to expose Islam with insulting remarks, ad hominem and innuendo. Further, he is cannibalizing his own readership with his continuing malicious war against anybody who doesn’t hold the same views on evolution as he does.
    Anyhow, he’s just picked a battle that he will lose. And I hope, badly:
    From Dr. Andrew Bostom:
    “Confronting a Mendacious Bully”
    Anna Julia Cooper (d. 1964, at age 105), the pioneering black American scholar and educator: “Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.”
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    Charles Johnson doth protest too much. For months I have endured in silence his distressingly stupid and vicious calumnies and threats — private, as well as public — against colleagues and friends — brave, decent souls who, unlike Johnson, are serious scholars, authors, and journalists, investigating the burgeoning threat of violent and non-violent jihadism/ Islamization in Europe.
    When Johnson put my dear friend — the perspicacious writer and journalist Diana West — in his crosshairs, I was compelled to break my silence. Following Johnson’s e-mail threat to another close friend — the brilliant scholar and author Robert Spencer — after Raymond Ibrahim (editor/translator of The Al Qaeda Reader) simply blogged a favorable discussion (subsequently removed by Spencer, pace Johnson’s threat!) of Diana West’s September 18, 2008 Town Hall.com column at the Jihad Watch/Dhimmi Watch website — I noticed that National Review Online had a featured link (on 9/19/08) to the same West column.
    As a rather gentle rebuke of Johnson’s bullying (not to mention months of his indiscriminate, irresponsible, and just plain idiotic spraying of charges of “Fascism”), I sent “CJ” an e-mail link to the NRO featured posting of West’s September 18, 2008 essay with the subject line heading, “Lookie!-NRO ‘Fascists’ have featured a link to Diana West’s ‘We are losing Europe to Islam.’“ A week later, when Diana’s follow-up column was also a featured link at NRO (9/26/08), I again forwarded the NRO link with a similar subject heading. And the next day (9/27/08) when social critic Roger Kimball (of The New Criterion, and Pajamas Media) had a lengthy, favorable discussion of West’s 9/26/08 column, I sent another e-mail with the subject line title, “Oh No! ‘Fascist’ Roger Kimball on Cologne and ‘Fascist’ Diana West.”
    Johnson responded to this latter e-mail accusing me (on the basis of the three rather innocuous e-mails above, sent during a week) of “stalking” him!
    – – – – – – – – –
    I wrote back in admittedly (albeit deservedly) caustic language highlighting the hypocrisy of Johnson’s attacks on those he perceived (see Anna Julia Cooper’s observation about a bully’s “pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey”) as vulnerable — independent writers and thinkers such as West and Spencer — while lacking the guts to similarly attack well-established conservative icons such as NRO, or Roger Kimball who had endorsed West’s writings (NRO twice, in successive weeks) on the Islamization of Europe.
    Johnson then proceeded to blog the comments (below) at his website, which included a “threat” to publish my e-mails to him. Johnson’s warped characterization of my correspondence, and idle threats to “expose” those e-mails reveal his mendacity and prototypical bully cowardice. The e-mails are included below, preceded by Johnson’s public comments at his blog.
    There follow the comments and the full email exchange between both parties. Pay a visit Andy’s blog to read the whole thing.
    You’ll notice that one of the things Charles said was: “The only thing you’re achieving is to make yourself look like a fool.”
    I’ll leave it to our readers (and for posterity) to examine the evidence for themselves and decide who is a fool and a cowardly bully, and who is a fine scholar and a man of integrity.
    Your call.
    ———–
    ‘You don’t have to call me Johnson’ loses. And at least this reader won’t be recommending or visiting his blog anymore.

  8. I enjoyed the story by Bill Whittle discussing his kidney stone experience; not so much for its application to the Wall Street bail out, as in comparison to my own experience with kidney stones a few months ago.
    By that comparison, what Bill Whittle should be celebrating is the fact that he didn’t have to submit to Canadian style health care.
    By his account, it seems he was admitted into a hospital almost immediately, catheritized shortly after, given painkillers within an hour, and received tests within about 4 hours.
    Lucky guy. If he was a Canadian, his experience may have been more like my own:
    It’s thursday, and you are waiting in the walk-in clinic in excruciating pain.(you aren’t like to have your own family doctor, this is Canada, remember) You keep looking at the number the receptionist gave you and wonder how long before they call “#61”. More than two hours go by before you are seen by a doctor.
    Get a shot of painkillers, (and Whittle is not exaggerating the pain) about an hour later.
    Have the walk-in clinic doctor send you across town to the hospital emergency because, to quote: “It’s taking too long for you to pass this stone, you need to get treatment right away.”
    Arrive at the emergency ward, with medical orders in hand. Then start to wait. And wait. And wait. You wait for over 10 hours in emergency. No doctor, no tests, no treatment and no admission.
    It is now in the wee hours of Friday morning. Finally you see a doctor. She says: “Look it’s 1:30 a.m. in the morning. We can’t do anything for you at this time: go home and give us a call in the morning to set up a scan.”
    You spend most of the day Friday getting the scan and waiting for results. Saturday, you finally get the surgery, and the stone is removed.
    Recently a man died after more than 30 hours waiting for care in a Canadian hospital emergency department. There are lots of ideas about what went wrong, but there is something uniquely Canadian about the expectation that it is normal for people in emergency to have to wait hours before being assessed or seeing a doctor.

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