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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing It don’t Mean a Thing if You ain’t Got the Swing (starting at 2:43) and a couple other tunes (8:19).

Mr. Ellington’s piano in the first tune, Mood Indigo, is engaging and delightful. The lead sax in the third tune I also find interesting; I’m not sure I’ve ever quite heard a sax played that way, almost more like a clarinet. Sorry about the lack of provenance on this one, but when it’s this good provenance goes out the window.

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

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  2. Over at NationalNewswatch there is a link to Lizzie’s May’s most recent ramblings. Last week she blamed the NDP for the conservative win because they were too partisan and did not tell their supporters to vote stategically,while saying that she did not support strategic voting. This week she is laying the blame for the Green party’s dismal performance in the election on the…….drum roll……the green party.It has nothing to do with her,it is that damn party that she leads.Pass the thorazine,please…Can it get any better? Oh yeah,her communications guru has left the party to take a position with an animal rights group.I boldly predict that she will be invited to the next election debate,but only if she appears via closed-circuit TV,another first for Canada’s enviro-‘mental’ leader.Hopefully the networks won’t show her gnawing at her restraints.

  6. Gore pushes Kyoto.
    Democrats push off shore drilling ban.
    USA has to cough up big $$s for foreign oil.
    Oil price spikes, gas hits $4 dollars, US economy tanks.
    Bush lifts drilling ban, oil price tanks, gas drops under $2 bucks.
    BO says he may reinstate drill ban.
    Gas goes back to $4 ?? Economy retanks ? (If it had recovered)
    The most powerful man in the world, from Oak Lake Manitoba is happy.
    [Jeff Rubin, Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets, in a recent report, is now saying that the current recession is caused by high oil prices. Defaulting mortgages are only a symptom of the high oil prices. We should be blaming the underlying cause–higher oil prices–rather than the symptom. These higher oil prices caused Japan and the Eurozone to enter into a recession even before the most recent financial problems hit. Higher oil prices started four of the last five world recessions; we shouldn’t be too surprised if they started this one also.]Oil Drum

  8. World uses 87 million barrels of oil a day.
    Recently, oil was $100 a barrel more expensive (at peak)
    About a $3 TRILLION !! dollar higher energy bill (annual basis)
    Most of that is transferred from G8 economies to 2nd & 3rd world economies.
    G8 people wondering why things don’t look so good.
    Could the whole Sub Prime thing be a ruse ? Media driven ?

  9. This op-ed should be printed in every Bush-bashing, Obama-loving newspaper in the world. Hmm, are there any that aren’t?
    “So to everyone overseas I say: thanks for your applause for our new president. I’m glad you all feel that America “is back.” If you want Obama to succeed, though, don’t just show us the love, show us the money. Show us the troops. Show us the diplomatic effort. Show us the economic partnership. Show us something more than a fresh smile. Because freedom is not free and your excuse for doing less than you could is leaving town in January.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09friedman.html?hp

  11. AGW Corruption by GISS, aka NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies.
    Director: Dr. James E. Hansen.
    “September data has been replicated as October data, artificially raising the October temperature many degrees.”
    …-
    “GISS Releases (Suspect) October 2008 Data
    10 11 2008
    by John Goetz
    October 2008 “warmest” October on record (according to GISS)
    2005 temperature revised upward
    Update: Thanks to an email from John S. – a patron of climateaudit.org – we have learned that the Russian data in NOAA’s GHCN v2.mean dataset is corrupted. For most (if not all) stations in Russia, the September data has been replicated as October data, artificially raising the October temperature many degrees. The data from NOAA is used by GISS to calculate the global temperature. Thus the record-setting anomaly for October 2008 is invalid and we await the highly-publicised corrections from NOAA and GISS.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/

  12. Jay Currie has picked up on the AGW Corruption.
    …-
    “Oh the Wheels on the Bus are Falling Off, Falling Off
    Update: Thanks to an email from John S. – a patron of climateaudit.org – we have learned that the Russian data in NOAA’s GHCN v2.mean dataset is corrupted. For most (if not all) stations in Russia, the September data has been replicated as October data, artificially raising the October temperature many degrees. The data from NOAA is used by GISS to calculate the global temperature. Thus the record-setting anomaly for October 2008 is invalid and we await the highly-publicised corrections from NOAA and GISS. watts up with that
    Looks like Gore’s favorite “climate scientist” has taken September temps and called them October.
    Ooopsie.”
    http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/oh-the-wheels-on-the-bus-are-falling-off-falling-off/
    …-
    >>>>> MSM has trumpeted the “news”.
    Will MSM trumpet the Hansen/NASA/GISS correction, if/when it comes?
    “Dave (02:48:16) :
    Here in Western Europe, it’s already in the newspapers today: “October 2008 is warmest October month ever according to NASA temperatures””
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/10/giss-releases-october-2008-data/#comments

  13. The State is plotting to steal more money/taxes from you. The MSM is complicit in the “plot”.
    It’s dressed/painted as “economic rescue”.
    Our Enemy, The State*.
    …-
    “Premiers, PM plot economic rescue Toronto Star”
    …-
    *Our Enemy, The State by Albert J. Nock, Introduction
    Our Enemy the State by Albert J. Nock – His Classic Critique Distinguishing ‘ Government’ from the ‘State’, — Introduction.
    http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html

  14. (Via SWJ) Canadace Rondeaux, For Pakistan’s Tribesmen, A Difficult, Deadly Choice
    …As the army’s efforts to stamp out the insurgency in the rugged areas along the border with Afghanistan have faltered, Pakistani officials have turned to tribal militias to make up ground in an increasingly complex conflict.
    But, so far at least, the tribal militias have been no panacea. Instead, the use of the militias, known as lashkars, has set off a debate over whether such a strategy will contribute to a civil war in the northwest that could engulf all of Pakistan. Yet some tribal leaders say they have little choice but to fight their brothers, cousins and neighbors: The Pakistani military, they say, has threatened to bomb their villages if they do not battle the Taliban…

  15. (Via SWJ) Anthony Loyd, Captured battle plan shows strength and training of Taleban forces
    The map tells a war story of its own. Sketched by a Taleban commander, it is of a stretch of territory fought over in Bajaur between the Pakistani Army and the insurgents. The ground has been neatly divided into specific areas of responsibility for different Taleban units.
    Weapons caches, assembly areas and rendezvous points have been carefully marked and coded. This is not the work of a renegade gunman resistant to central authority; it is the assessment of a skilled and experienced fighter, and begins to explain how more than 400 Pakistani soldiers have been killed or wounded since August in Bajaur, the tribal district agency that is said to be the haunt of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri…

  16. Ontario and Quebec push speedy train link
    Richard Brennan Ottawa Bureau
    OTTAWA–Ontario and Quebec say the federal government should back a multi-billion-dollar high-speed train link from Windsor to Quebec City to create jobs and a lasting legacy for a country struggling with hard economic times.
    “It’s more than just an infrastructure project. It’s visionary in nature,” Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday. “I’m hoping that we can turn this (economic) crisis into an opportunity to actually act as a catalyst to move this project along,” he told reporters….”
    So, not a single high speed rail line on earth has come in on budget, nor generated the revenue as forecast. But hey, let’s get gub’mint to fund it.
    So that Bombardier and similar welfare cases can actually justify the millions they are paying their lobbyists – who stroke the gub’mint.
    Great racket there. Shame the Cons aren’t throwing them out on their face. But the Cons ain’t conservative now – are they?
    “….Both McGuinty and Charest raised the long-discussed project with Harper, who said he would wait to see the results of the latest study to be commissioned….”
    http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/534489

  17. “Today, we are able to provide NASA with up-to-date weather reports confirming that October in Russia is colder than September.”
    >>>>> “October in Russia is colder than September.”
    …-
    “Did Napoleon Use Hansen’s Temperature Data?
    by Steve McIntyre on November 10th, 2008
    It’s colder in Russia in October than in September, as Napoleon found out to his cost in 1812.
    Sitting in the ashes of a ruined city without having received the Russian capitulation, and facing a Russian maneuver forcing him out of Moscow, Napoleon started his long retreat by the middle of October.
    Flash forward almost 200 years later. NASA has just reported record warmth in October throughout Russia, with many sites experiencing similar temperatures in October as in September – perhaps the sort of situation that Napoleon had hoped for (not similar as anomalies, but similar in actual temperatures in deg C.).”
    “Let’s consider the opposite situation. Suppose that March temperatures had been inadvertently carried forward into April, yielding a massive cold anomaly in Russia. One feels that Hansen would have been all over the opposite error like a dog on a bone – he would have been his own bulldog.
    In any event, we here at Climate Audit are always eager to assist NASA. On earlier occasions, we helped identify the lost city of Wellington, New Zealand, where NASA has been unable to locate climate records for nearly 30 years. Today, we are able to provide NASA with up-to-date weather reports confirming that October in Russia is colder than September. Verhojansk temperatures are conveniently online here and temperatures are currently a nippy -18 deg C. You’re welcome, Jim.”
    http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=4318

  18. Witness and Friends
    Remembering Whittaker Chambers on the centennial of his birth.
    By William F. Buckley Jr.
    EDITOR’S NOTE: This appeared in the August 6, 2001, issue of National Review.
    Editor’s Note: The White House convened a full house (140 guests) at the Executive Office Building on July 9, 2001, to recall Whittaker Chambers. Chambers’s son was present and brought in to display the Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Chambers by President Reagan in 1984. Also displayed, borrowed from the Library of Congress, was a copy of a “pumpkin paper” on which the case against Alger Hiss turned. A bizarre feature of the memorial event was that the White House excluded the press, so that the event had an aspect of a memorial ceremony in the catacombs. The speakers were introduced by presidential assistant Tim Goeglein. They were William F. Buckley Jr., Sam Tanenhaus (author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography), Robert Novak, and Ralph de Toledano (co-author of Seeds of Treason: The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy, author of Notes from the Underground: The Whittaker Chambers — Ralph de Toledano Letters). Herewith WFB’s speech, recalling a friendship with Mr. Chambers.
    We were to meet at the National Gallery here in Washington, and I had been waiting for him at the specified corner. I spotted him far down the corridor. It could only have been he, or Alfred Hitchcock. The Sunday before, he had asked me to come down that day, the 8th of June. We had lunch. He had asked me to keep the evening free. “You’ve guessed what’s up, haven’t you?” he asked, his face wreathed in smiles.
    “I haven’t the least idea.”
    “John!” he said proudly. His son would be married that afternoon, and I was to go to the wedding and the reception.
    As he stepped into the elevator that evening, after the ceremony, I saw him framed by the door, his hand and Esther’s clutched together, posing while his son-in-law popped a camera in his face-a grim reminder of all those flashbulbs ten years before. I never saw him again. He died a month later, on July 9, 1961, forty years ago, exactly. Free at last.
    I first met Chambers in 1954.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/2001200511220837.asp

  19. O’s quagmire: O conned its voters.
    O’s Quagmire Day Five.
    O is not yet president; but, its O’s Quagmire.
    …-
    “Obama’s Mixed Signals For Pakistan and India
    At only five days into his transition period, Barack Obama may have already made several mistakes in his relations with the countries of India and Pakistan that could cloud his relationship with two of the most powerful and influential nations in that part of the world.
    Obama’s first odd move was to appoint Google financial adviser Sonal Shah to his transition team. Shah, a well-known 40-year-old economist and Indian American, is controversial in Pakistan for having links to a Hindu nationalist political party as well as a few other extremist groups based in India.
    As soon as Obama brought Shah onto his team, tongues in Pakistan began to wag about the “controversial” economist for her connection to VHP-America. The Pakistani news service Daily Times pointed to connections between VHP and a group suspected of sponsoring riots that targeted Muslims and Christians in Gujarat, India…
    Read the rest at Publiusforum.com…”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130020/posts

  20. Betrayal seems like such a large word for it, as opposed to ‘mismanaged’ or ‘bungled’ or…..’taken for granted’
    “…But this being the land of the reliable Conservative voter, he grumbled then, “they (Consevatives) don’t care.”
    Albertans, who had taken up with gusto the prospect of claiming a jewel of their own in the national cultural treasure — Edmonton had two bids to build a private gallery, Calgary one; the only other was Ottawa’s — remain at least bewildered, if not betrayed.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=948770&p=1

  21. I hesitate to comment on any of hardboiled’s comments since he has settled into a hardened, concrete deadmindset of relentless anger against Harper and the Conservatives.
    But, that said, I agree with his rejection of a high speed rail link between Windsor and Quebec City. Not because it’s highspeed; I’m all in favour of such technology. It’s the links I question.
    What’s in Quebec City other than a greedy grasping hand? Are there any investors, any national or international institutions, any industry? No.
    Same with Windsor. I can see highspeed rail links between Toronto and the West. And certainly, IN the West. How about linking Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Regina? Now, that might have some results. I can see linking Montreal and Toronto.
    But Quebec City? Windsor?

  23. Goreacle’s footprint is a thwarter.
    …-
    “Cold front could thwart NASA’s 1st space shuttle launch since May
    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An approaching cold front could thwart NASA’s plans to launch space shuttle Endeavour on Friday on a flight to the International Space Station.
    The front was moving across the central part of the country Tuesday and was expected to bring rain and thick clouds to the launch site by week’s end.”

  25. Spengler, A Pyrrhic propaganda victory in Rome?
    On the face of it, Pope Benedict XVI seems to have handed an enormous propaganda victory to the Muslim scholars who met with Catholic leaders in Rome on November 4-7…
    After the fall of communism, the greatest barrier to freedom is the absence of religious liberty in the Muslim world. Free people everywhere have a profound interest in the outcome of the Church’s encounter with the Muslim scholars. Is it possible that the meager concessions offered by the Muslim side to the Western notion of freedom may have something like an “Helsinki” effect?

  27. From Anthony Watts: The “funeral”? What’supwiththat? “competitive lying”.
    The AGW Funeral; AGW is no longer a trainwreck.
    …-
    “Update 2: The faulty results have been (mostly) backed out of the GISS website. The rest should be done following the federal holiday. GISS says they will update the analysis once they confirm with NOAA that the software problems have been corrected. I also removed the subtitles since the GISS data no longer reflects October as being the warmest ever.”
    Commenter:
    “David Archibald (00:33:34) :
    Climate science on the warmer side has degenerated to competitive lying. There’s hundreds of millions of dollars of grant money at stake. Hansen saw Willis fiddling with the XBT data to remove the recent cold trend, and knew he had to make a big move to show his new political masters that he still had what it takes. There is no way that carrying over selected stations could have been accidental. It doesn’t matter that he got found out, the important thing is that he made the effort to tell a big one. That is what will please them and it shows that he can still be relied upon.
    This is a link to Willis’ XBT story: http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/2008/11/correcting-ocean-cooling-nasa-changes-data-to-fit-the-models/
    It is like living in the old Soviet Union. NASA is preparing us for a change of history. Does it really take that much effort to process the Argo data? I think we need Spencer and/or Christy to take on the oceans as well. It should be possible to get monthly updates on ocean heat content.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/10/giss-releases-october-2008-data/

  28. charles macdonald – I’m not quite sure of the point of your Spengler post.
    My own view is that the greatest barrier to freedom in the Muslim countries is not the absence of freedom of religion but the rejection of the individual as having any worth and the rejection of the individual’s capacity for reason.
    This rejection of reason in the affairs of men, of course means that science is impossible. So is democracy. The reliance instead on ‘the text’ and an elite Set (the imams) who ‘own’ the text means that thought, analysis, critical thinking, questions, debate etc, are impossible. You have a society of the braindead, ie, a cult, a mob.
    That’s what Benedict was talking about in the Regensburg lecture, (an analysis of using both Reason and Faith) ..a lecture which was in my view, a magnificent work of analysis – and it is strange to read in the Spengler artice, nothing but disdain for that speech.

  31. Down with Lynch, Q.C., and her CHRC.
    “The contamination of Remembrance Day by this ghastly woman is disgusting even by her standards.”
    Go, Mark Steyn.
    …-
    “Remembrance . . . and Usurpation [Mark Steyn]
    One of the consistent tactics of the post-modern transnational utopian left is to co-opt the national inheritance to undermine that inheritance. On this 90th anniversary of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, Jennifer Lynch, Queen’s Counsel, the hack bureaucrat who presides over my tormentors at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, decided to gatecrash the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Ottawa. Or as she puts it:
    This year, for the first time, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has the honour of laying a wreath at the National Remembrance Day Ceremony. The wreath will be placed by Chief Commissioner Jennifer Lynch, Q.C, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
    Well, fine. If you want to commemorate the 60th anniversary of that, why don’t you push off and organize your own ceremony? But that’s not what Remembrance Day is about – in Ottawa, London or even in the tiny colonial backwater of Grand Turk (where I was yesterday, as the locals made their preparations). November 11th is a day to honor the sacrifice of soldiers of the Queen who fought for their country in brutal bloody wars Commissioner Lynch’s self-serving press release can’t even be bothered to mention, as Ezra Levant notes.
    This is one of the signature techniques of the left: The co-option of historical memory. You still have the same outward dress — the cenotaph, the dignitaries, the poppies, the old stooped veterans — but the meaning of the event is hijacked and inverted. The contamination of Remembrance Day by this ghastly woman is disgusting even by her standards.
    By the way, Canada’s pseudo-“human rights” bureaucracies are in sustained systemic breach of key aspects of the UN Declaration, including the right to the presumption of innocence and the right to due process. Having been on the receiving end of Commissioner Lynch’s “human rights” for the best part of a year, I regard her as, at best, an ahistorical nitwit unfit for public office. But, if she’s so eager to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the UN declaration, why doesn’t she get her own thug bureaucracy to comply with it?”
    http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTJmM2UxMmY1N2UyY2I3N2JjOGVlNTFhOWEwMjIwODg=

  32. ET, Spengler is a great admirer of the Roman Catholic Church (which he describes as the “indispensable institution of Western civilization”), Benedict XVI, and the Regensburg lecture. It is backpedalling from the principles of Regensburg — i.e., taking an unduly conciliatory approach to Islam on a false doctrinal basis — that draws his contempt.

  33. A Pledge to remember
    http://tinyurl.com/5se4t3 (Meeker on Media @ St. John’s Telegram)
    Geoff Meeker has the Diefenbaker pledge up and a story whereby he started a movement in 2005….
    “And I have tried to do my part to remember our veterans; not just on Remembrance Day, but every day of the year. In 2005, I spearheaded the launch of a national campaign to bring back the Canadian Pledge.
    You can be forgiven for having never heard of it. Our campaign was not successful!
    We were getting some good publicity and had just started working on third party support when we hit our first roadblock. It was big, and one I had seen coming from the outset.
    We were counting on the support of the Royal Canadian Legion, at the national level, and at the grass roots, through its many branches across the country. However, according to Stewart, the Legion refused to endorse the pledge because of its reference to “God,” saying it would offend atheists and many multicultural groups.
    I already had similar feedback from individuals, especially the talk radio callers, that the “God” reference was inappropriate. I felt the same way, and decided it was time to break the news to Ron – that the line should be amended to read, “Free to worship in my own way,” which is far more inclusive.
    Great read that Geoff is, IMO, on his blog Meeker on Media over at the Telegram. Check it out and real name is required if commenting.

  34. Follow the Goreacle’s mukunlucky-footprints to the back entrance of the CBC’s HQ in TO.
    As Rusty says, look down, way down for more on Gore’s Current*.
    *”Current’s plans for an initial public offering are on hold, employees have told CNET News. The company filed for an IPO in January.”
    Betcha Current will go into bankruptcy.
    The CBC has some explaining to do.
    Your tax dollars are flowing into Gore’s pockets.
    Fire. Them. All.
    …-
    “CBC partners with Gore to bring Current TV to Canada
    10 Nov 2008 … Current TV, the interactive television network with one-third of its content created by media-savvy viewers, is coming to Canada.
    http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2008/11/10/current-tv.html”
    …-
    *”Layoffs hit Al Gore’s Current Media
    “There have been layoffs at Current Media, the cable network co-founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
    A source close to Current told CNET News on Tuesday that 20 percent of the staff has been cut, and that some of the layoffs will take place now and others in January. Current had announced less than a day ago that it had partnered with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to bring its network to Canada.”
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10094101-36.html

  35. Martha Hall-Findlay has announced she will not seek the lib leadership again. Guess the Liberal party isn’t quite as women friendly as they like to make out. She likely saw the writing on the wall with Rae, his nemesis Iggy and possibly someone called Dominic LeBlanc to be the kingmaker.

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