Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio show, here is Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE, as Cecil Scott Forrester‘s indomitable Admiral of the Fleet and 1st Baron Horatio Hornblower, GCB, in Disguised As a French Ship (1952, MP3, 5 MB, 21:48), with a tip of the tricorne to Her Majesty’s Canadian Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Mr. Stephen Harper, PC. Godspeed, sir.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
A Christmas classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WCXnlFWaIY
Happy holidays everyone!
The Victoria NDP office looked busy this evening. It looked like Denis Savois was there but I’m not sure.
Harper should let the opposition vote him down. Then he walks over and has tea with the Governor General. She gives him another election.
If Harper for one moment doubts the GG will obey his wish after the non-confidence motion, Harper should request that the Queen dismisses the GG and replaces her with an individual who will follow the orders of the Prime Minister.
I don’t think the PM has that authority under the constitution. Also, we must not forget that the GG’s husband is a separatist folks. I’m thinking she’ll give the go-ahead for this thing.
No need for the battery cables.
Indian Forces Kill Last Gunmen In Mumbai
[ “There were three terrorists, we have killed them,” said J.K. Dutt, director general of India’s elite National Security Guard commando unit.] AP
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_india_shooting;_ylt=ArF.OQ.HpRumShnRhHnvQIus0NUE
Supposedly, Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ will be made into a movie. Might be interesting if they do it right.
“Essentially, generations immediately after a major crisis event (stock market crash, civil war, world war) will be unwilling to live through such events again and will be risk-adverse. Generations after them may well be aware of previous crisis events, but will be more risk seeking as they have not been exposed to the crisis themselves. Xenakis states this allows to predict future crises events by analysing the current generation’s outlooks.”
Yup, it’s nerdy and basically about social engineering, but in the magical future.
Clever analogy, Vitruvius. Indeed, there are a number of interesting parallels.
Onward, PMSH.
I’m glad you liked that, Exetaz. I particularly liked “I don’t respect an Admiral who’s no seaman”, “MV […] that’s worth remembering”, “If they don’t fire soon we’ll be too close under their guns to reach us”, “Throw the guns down the cliff […] wreck the battery if you can”, “Lift them, I can see the dust on the cliff, you’re thirty feet too low”, “They’ve hit the launch ~ no, she was nearly swamped, but not hit”, “They’ve blown the magazine, sir, that’s the end of the battery at Lancir”, “Of course, they’ll have greater cause for annoyance before very long”, “… each division assembling for its particular duty …”, “Remember men, cold steel: if any man fires before I do, I’ll shoot him with my own hand”, “Your neck, sir, it’s covered in blood ~ It’s nothing, there’s no time to waste: go on”, “Save yourself congratulations, there’s still time for boats to come from shore with reinforcements”, “A pity, but if they chose to die I couldn’t prevent them”, and “I’d like some coffee, and grog for all hands”.
Holy shakedown Batman!!! Just saw on CTV that the NDP will get one-third of the seats including ‘trade and industry’ in a new cabinet and the Bloc will support the coalition if Quebec gets more money.Also,Ignatieff is the likely choice to lead the pack of thieves.WTF,we are facing a bloodless coup,so far.This is getting seriously strange.
Thakyou for the good wishes to our Honorable Prime Minister, Vitruvius, – ‘a tip of the tricorne to Her Majesty’s Canadian Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Mr. Stephen Harper, PC. Godspeed, sir’ – Our Prime Minister has my Blessings also.
Has anyone else noticed the run on the pundits slamming Harper over this? Incredible. Just went to NNW and just about puked on the laptop. Our media are truly disgusting. You would think this is a good deal for Canada by the way the media are cheering this one on.
I hope PMSH has something else up his sleeve as this is looking like it is a done deal.
john: “I don’t think the PM has that authority under the constitution. Also, we must not forget that the GG’s husband is a separatist folks. I’m thinking she’ll give the go-ahead for this thing.”
From the CTV Website last night:
Experts doubtful a coalition gov’t would work
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081128/coalitions_past_081128/20081128?hub=TopStories
Barry Cooper, a political science professor at the University of Calgary, … says the NDP and Liberals are just too far apart on issues for their MPs to agree on a working alignment.
Cooper says it doesn’t matter that party elders are behind the coalition talk. …
“The Governor General has to be convinced that this coalition is real,” he said, noting the party’s MPs won’t necessarily listen to Broadbent or Chretien. …
… “If she thinks it’s [a Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition] doable, she is in deep doo doo.”
[end quote]
There’s no way this “coalition is real.” It’s a palace coup; it can’t stand–with the treasonous Bloc propping it up? The Bloc Quebecois wants to tear Canada apart, for G*d’s sake.
I’ve known for awhile that Canada is a country existing only down Alice’s Rabbit Hole, but this is getting curioser and curioser … no, crazier and crazier.
The only good thing coming out of this is the exposure of the extent to which our Opposition parties are willing to go to overthrow a duly elected Conservative government. The Left in Canada is so entitled–and has become so used to slurping at the public trough–that they think their petulant threat of a coalition is what Canadians want.
I’ll demonstrate in the streets if the Opposition parties bring down Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s democratically elected government over a measely $1.95 per Canadian voter and if the GG sanctions such a coalition.
This, actually, is war. It’s democracy against an entrenched, entitled, sucking-at-the-public-teat, socialist left. Canadians have been held hostage by these money vaccumers for far too long.
Enough is enough. Give ’em hell, PMSH!!
I find it very hard to believe that there are Liberal MP’s that are going to tolerate a Coalition with the NDP & I hope some of the centre Lib MP’s say No to this Deal & say Yes to the PM & cross the floor to save the Country & put a stop to this Disaster of Disaster’s.
BTW i heard on the News this morning that part of the deal with the Bloc is that NO Fed. Employee in Quebec will speak English at all it will be “VerBoten”, French Only.
“Cold snap fails to cool protagonists of global warming
EUROPE is shivering through an extreme cold snap. One of the coldest winters in the US in more than 100 years is toppling meteorological records by the dozen, and the Arctic ice is expanding. Even Australia has been experiencing unseasonable snow.
But the stories about global warming have not stopped, not for a second.
In May last year, The Sydney Morning Herald breathlessly reported that climate change had reduced the Southern Ocean’s ability to soak up carbon dioxide, claiming that as a result global warming would accelerate even faster than previously thought.
The story was picked up and repeated in a number of different journals around the region.
But this week the CSIRO suggested the exact opposite. “The new study suggests that Southern Ocean currents, and therefore the Southern Ocean’s ability to soak up carbon dioxide, have not changed in recent decades,” it said. This time the story got no coverage in the SMH, and was run on the ABC’s website as evidence the Southern Ocean was adapting to climate change.
CSIRO oceanographer Stuart Rintoul, a co-author of the study, said it did not disprove global warming and he did not believe its lack of an alarmist tone was responsible for the poor coverage.
But the story is being pointed out as an example of media bias on global warming.”
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24723425-11949,00.html
I hope that they (Conservatives) will not mind, I just found this link and I thought that it was important to post link and contents to SDA.
By the way, that is one impressive picture of OUR Prime Minister Harper and his beautiful family!
mycampaign.conservative.ca
“Opposition lacks mandate to take power
November 28, 2008
A Conservative mandate to take action on the economy Or a Liberal back-room deal to preserve entitlements
Fellow Conservatives:
On October 14, Canadians gave our Conservative government a fresh mandate to continue with our plan to take action on the economy.
We are injecting billions of stimulus in the Canadian economy by cutting taxes, investing in infrastructure and strengthening the banking system. Our first concern is to protect peoples’ jobs and savings, but the Opposition parties are interested only in power and entitlements.
The Liberals, NDP and Bloc want to use your tax dollars to pay for political party staff, polls and advertising – without the hard work of actually raising donations from individual supporters. They want to replace the elected government with a backroom deal, just to preserve a $17 million subsidy.
We believe in elections – in the principle that voters pick the government. But after receiving its lowest ever vote share, the Liberals want to seize power with only an endorsement from only the socialists and the separatists.
To sum up, the Liberals are throwing out the principle of seeking a mandate from the people, in a raw grab for power and entitlements.
As Conservatives, we believe that elections matter and we will continue taking action to strengthen Canada’s economy.
Sincerely,
Doug Finley”
Everybody can relax, the coalition isn’t going to happen. GG won’t touch this – unless of course there is signed agreement/coalition of at least two years, guaranteed no election, along with a credible plan presented, by all three parties.
Duceppe will agree to this? The biggest SOB in parliament. No chance. The Grits and Dippers will have to back off lest they risk another general election, where they will get slaughtered.
BTW, combining pop vote, but not seats of those two parties is logical fallacy. They ran in last election as two parties, not as a coalition. If they had, Tories would have majority right now.
Here’s a fascinating nugget for ET, offered in the hope that it will also interest others who follow events in Afghanistan.
(Via SWC) At Ghosts of Alexander Afghanistan campaign blog:
Alef-Shah Zadran, Socio-Economic and Legal-Political Processes in a Pashtun Village, Southeastern Afghanistan
Ph.D. dissertation, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo (1977)
This dissertation is based upon anthropological field-work carried out from September 1975 to September 1976 in the Pashtun village of Almara in the southern foothills of the Suleiman range in southeastern Afghanistan. The village, with a population of 1010, is situated about 25 kilometers west of the Durand Line, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The villagers are all Muslims of the Suni sect and all members of the community speak one language, Pashto.
This study is a “focused ethnography” of a people which have never received anthropological investigation. Legal and political anthropologists have paid limited attention to conflict and conflict settlement particularly among the people under study and their neighbouring communities and nations. This dissertation is therefore designed to fill the gap. The central theme of this work is conflict resolution through indigenous legal tradition. External legal systems such as Islamic sharia’ and fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and Western laws which are being currently enforced in the country in general and within the village in particular, are explored and explained. The effects of these external legal traditions on the native tsali (customary laws) are explained. As the data from the village indicate, the more the external legal tradition is utilized the more intensive is internal conflict…
[The full text, divided into 6 PDF files, is available here. Many thanks to Christian Bleuer at Australian National University.]
Ah, I love Horatio Hornblower, the Aubrey/Maturin novels, heck, even the Kydd series from Julian Stockwin — if it’s RN-based from the Napoleonic era, count me in.
Google ‘Gerald Celente’ and his predictions.
Or check out http://www.prisonplanet.com/financial-disaster-will-lead-to-civil-disorder-
Appears a Citibank secret memo has become ‘not-secret’.
Of course there are some people that say all of this world turmoil is just due to the fact that the sun had a recent solar retrograde motion episode.
Sounds good to me.
The PM has the power to remove the GG based off the GG serving at the pleasure of the Queen. There is no constitutional roadblock forcing the GG to serve a five year term.
batb..Ahem. I just hope you or hubby has a gun handy.We are all going to need one if this coup d’etat goes through. FREE THE WEST
The “the global climate crisis” has been interrupted by AlMohammed.
“”Due to circumstances far beyond our control,”.
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“Live Earth India Cancelled
NEW DELHI — Live Earth India, a high-profile Mumbai-based event aimed at heightening awareness of climate change, has been cancelled after a series terrorist attacks rocked the city.
“Due to circumstances far beyond our control, we are saddened to announce that Live Earth India has been cancelled,” said an emailed statement from Live Earth founder Kevin Wall, the office of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, & Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The hotly-awaited concert had been scheduled for December 7 and was set to feature performances by local and western artists as well as speeches on what Live Earth calls, “the global climate crisis.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140043/posts
Message for Taliban Jack Layton (NDP):
Taliban Haji Yakub was a cross-dresser.
Headline should read: Taliban in dress, 88 other Muslim Islamist murderers killed in Afghanistan.
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“Taliban in dress, 52 others killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Gunbattles and airstrikes by NATO and Afghan troops killed 53 militants in Afghanistan, including a wanted Taliban commander who tried to hide from soldiers under a woman’s burqa, officials said Saturday.
The U.S. forces targeting the commander surrounded a house Friday in Ghazni province and ordered everyone inside to leave, a military statement said.
Six women and 12 children left the building, but while soldiers were questioning the women they discovered one was actually a man dressed in a burqa, the traditional all-encompassing dress that most Afghan women wear. The man, later identified as the targeted commander Haji Yakub, tried to attack the soldiers and was killed, the military said.
Yakub allegedly directed roadside bomb and suicide attacks against Afghanistan’s government and coalition forces in Ghazni, according to the statement. Three other militants were killed in the operation, it said.
Meanwhile, Afghan and coalition forces killed 33 militants when their patrol came under attack in southern Helmand province Friday, a military statement said. The troops responded to the attack with gunfire and air support, it said.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140020/posts
Their’s nothing O can’t done do>
It’s Black Friday(sic) in Maine USA.
As Parrish said, Black Fridays beat cuts to the arts.
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“Canadians arrive in Maine by the busload for Black Friday
BREWER, Maine – It wasn’t just Mainers who were shopping at stores Friday in search of bargains.
Canadians also got into the shopping mood, arriving by the busload and in cars for the traditional start of Christmas shopping season on Black Friday.” (canoe)
Geert Wilders: “I hate consensus. I like confrontation. I am not a consensus politician.”
Kudos to Geert Wilders.
Consensus is the shining path of socialism, the unity of the collective, the railroad cattle-car journey to the gas ovens.
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“‘Our Culture Is Better’ [Geert Wilders]
By his own description, Geert Wilders is not a typical Dutch politician. “We are a country of consensus,” he tells me on a recent Saturday morning at his midtown Manhattan hotel. “I hate consensus. I like confrontation. I am not a consensus politician. . . . This is something that is really very un-Dutch.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140101/posts
Justthinkin: “batb..Ahem. I just hope you or hubby has a gun handy.We are all going to need one if this coup d’etat goes through. FREE THE WEST”
I guess I should clarify what I mean by “this is war.” I don’t own a gun, my husband doesn’t own a gun, and no one that I know–as far as I know–owns a gun. I wasn’t thinking of war in the sense of taking up arms, but war in the sense that this attempt to usurp the governing of Canada by the duly elected CPC on the part of the Librano$, Dipper$, and Blockhead$ is war on our democracy. I’d take to the streets to protest if the coalition threatened by the other parties were to materialize.
It’s funny or, more accurately, ironic that the four parties who lost accuse Prime Minister Stephen Harper, ad nauseum, of being a bully. It’s they who are bullies. Where was the indignation in the HOC and the MSM when Jean Chretien brought in the $1.95 “election tax” on Canadians?
All PMSH is doing is bringing some sanity and MORE democracy to Canadians. Why should we have to support parties whose adherents won’t financially support them, especially in times of economic uncertainty? That’s not the role of the electorate. Our role is to choose to whom we send money, not be coerced into financially supporting parties with whom we not only disagree but discern are taking Canada and Canadians in the wrong direction.
The howling and threats of the Opposition parties when PMSH attempts to right the wrong done to Canadians by Jean Chretien’s craven and arbitrary measure reveals their bankruptcy–not only monetarily but both morally and ethically. They are using bully tactics to make the CPC back down when, in fact, what the CPC has proposed is going to save the Canadian taxpayers $30,000,000/year.
Wouldn’t you think the other parties would be all for this if they actually had the good of Canadians at heart?
Of course, we know they don’t. The other four parties have brazenly been sucking at the public teat for a very long time and feel entitled to their entitlements. Their move to form a coalition government has absolutely nothing to do with more democracy for Canadians or “economic stimulus packages” for overtaxed Canadians.
It’s sole purpose is to be an “economic stimulus” for the coalition’s members, as per usual with socialists who are convinced that “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, too.”
NO THANKS.
“Mumbai photographer: I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back
Jerome Taylor talks to the photographer whose picture went around the world”
“Mr D’Souza had already seen two gunmen calmly stroll across the station concourse shooting both civilians and policemen, many of whom, he said, were armed but did not fire back.”
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6jawv5
“And When They Came For The Gun Owners…
During the 2008 Democratic primary debate in Philadelphia, April 16, 2008, here is how Barack Obama responded to a question pertaining to the right to keep and bear arms (emphasis added):
Q: Is the D.C. law prohibiting ownership of handguns consistent with an individual’s right to bear arms?
A: As a general principle, I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right, in the same way that we have a right to private property but local governments can establish zoning ordinances that determine how you can use it.
Q: But do you still favor the registration & licensing of guns?
A: I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that criminals don’t have guns in their hands. We can make certain that those who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. We can trace guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets.
Based on news reports from The New York Times and Politico, it’s quite possible that Obama intends for the federal government to “constrain the exercise of that right.” From the The Times:
Want a top job in the Obama administration? Only pack rats need apply, preferably those not packing controversy. [snip] Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun.
Politico digs a bit deeper:
Obama’s transition team declined to go into detail on why they included the question, suggesting only that it was done to ensure potential appointees were in line with gun laws. “The intent of the gun question is to determine legal permitting,” said one transition aide. But even some Democrats and transition experts are baffled by the inclusion of the question. Tucked in at the end of the questionnaire and listed under “Miscellaneous,” it reads: “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140155/posts
Seeing the world through a dipper’s eyes…
Found a really interesting take on the Queen’s University “conversation cops” issue, by NDP poster boy and lefty blogger KenonCanPolitics.
http://kencan7.blogspot.com/2008/11/political-correctness-and-speech-police.html
Ken’s insightful analysis:
“I am glad that there are none of these Orwellian right think right speak clown cops on the Internet. Apparently the idea is to turn the universities into civil non-threatening space where the universities can carry on with their growing links to the commercial military-industrial complex without being worried about any unrest of any kind. Just keep your studious nose to the grindstone and ignore the smell of corruption and the removal of any heated debate about taboo subjects. The taboos will spread like cancer cells.”
WTF!????
And right below this drivel, Ken has posted a CP report on the Queen’s announcement. Fascinating how the lefty mind can read a news article, filter and process the information, and come up with a completely insane alternate version of reality. In Ken’s case, methinks the hemp suspenders are a little too tight. And a little too much acid.
November 19, 2008
University hires conversation cops
Student employees to tackle “offensive language”By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Kingston, Ont — Students who make politically incorrect comments at Ontario’s Queen’s University can expect a lecture, whether they’re in or out of class.
The Kingston university has hired student facilitators to step in if they overhear students making homophobic or racial slurs, remarks bashing women or other offensive language.
The dean of student affairs at Queen’s says if students are making offensive comments loud enough for others to hear, it’s not a private conversation anymore.
Jason Laker says the facilitators use a respectful, non-confrontational approach.
But Angela Hickman, who edits a campus newspaper, says having such a program could stifle public discussion.