Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, pursuant to our Twelve Days of Christmas shows, and pursuant to one of our original design goals for this year's extravaganza ~ that of starting off on the secular foot and ending up on the sacred foot ~ we now change feet. Here for your delectation are two of The Three Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras; Plácido Domingo is on a break) performing Adeste Fideles ("Oh Come, All Ye Faithful", 3:02). And for tonight's flip-side, here are a collection of popular Ukrainian artists performing the Christmas classic Dobry Vechir Tobi (Добрий вечір тобі ~ "Good Evening to You", 5:03).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
I couldn't find English lyrics to Добрий вечір тобі anywhere; instead here are the results from translating the Ukrainian lyrics to English using Google. Almost fifty years ago, I probably could have translated this, but I've lost that skill, so if any SDA LNR readers with their skills still up to scratch can offer a better 16-line translation in the comments, I'd be happy to promote it to the right-hand side of the the following table.
| Добрий вечір тобі, пане господарю, Радуйся, ой радуйся земле, Син Божий народився. Ой у Вифлеємі сталася новина, Радуйся, ой радуйся земле, Син Божий народився. Там Діва Марія породила сина, Радуйся, ой радуйся земле, Син Божий народився. З віщунів пророків у віках прадавніх, Радуйся, ой радуйся земле, Син Божий народився. Він несе спасіння тим серцям, що вірять, Радуйся, ой радуйся земле, Син Божий народився. Син Божий народився! | Good evening to you, Mr. owner, Rejoice, O Rejoice, Son of God was born. Oh Bethlehem was in the news, Rejoice, O Rejoice, Son of God was born. There, the Virgin Mary gave birth to a son; Rejoice, O Rejoice, Son of God was born. Since Vischuniv prophets in the ancient centuries, Rejoice, O Rejoice, Son of God was born. He has the hearts of salvation to those who believe. Rejoice, O Rejoice, Son of God was born. Son of God was born! |
Mark Steyn's latest on Bailout-mania
Steyn said it all !
The perfect gift for your depressed conservative friends ... http://www.sarahcalendar.com/
Robert Fowler was connected to scandal while in the Department of National Defence. I can't remembr the details. Would anyone here remember the scandal story about him in his DND days?
Book Binders
What I Learned About the Great Books & Harry Potter
by John Granger
Harry Potter or “Potter mania” is a counter-cultural phenomenon on several counts, but the most unusual, special, even mind-boggling one may be the fact that Americans, young and old, in groups ranging in size from a handful of people at a local library to hundreds of attendees at FanCons and universities, will travel no little distance and spend time they could be using “more productively” to listen to a lecture about books they have read. These books and the ideas in them are defining a generation’s mental landscape, and, not to exaggerate the effect, shaping an important part of their future.
In an Esquire article entitled “Death by Harry Potter,” Chuck Klosterman, a “talking head” or authority on popular culture, admits that he knows almost nothing about Harry Potter because he has chosen not to read the books or see the movies. He also admits that this choice is hastening the end of his career as a pundit.
More at:
http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=21-10-028-f
Rob, are you thinking of Robert Coates, the Defence Minister who had to resign after leaving secret documents at a strip bar in Germany?
Rob, are you thinking of Robert Coates, the Defence Minister who had to resign after leaving secret documents at a strip bar in Germany?
Coates did not leave documents in a German strip bar. All he did was visit the said strip bar.
Socialism: the biggest scam of all time.
UNO what scheme? Indulgences are worthless; Gaia rejects the sinners' moolaaa. She wants gold.
Maddof's ponzi scheme ate $50 billion; AGW-Kyoto alone ate $100 billion in this casino.
The AGW pyramid/ponzi scheme is bigger than Maddof.
Even the AGW scam pales into a pygmy when compared to the world-wide socialist pyramid scheme.
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"UN suspends carbon-trading auditor
THE validity of the Kyoto Protocol’s $100 billion (£67 billion) carbon-trading scheme has been called into question after the United Nations suspended the world’s largest auditor of clean-energy projects.
Norway’s DNV, which claims to have approved half of the world’s carbon-credit ventures, had its accreditation suspended last month after it was unable to prove that its agents had properly vetted projects that it then approved for the carbon-trading scheme."
http://tinyurl.com/889bsw (timesuk)
"“The Earth has a giant air-conditioning problem,” he said. “I’m proposing to put a thermostat on the planet.”"*
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"Canada marks first weekend of winter with a cold embrace from old man winter.
TORONTO - Eastern Canadians were expecting more snow as winter officially arrived Sunday, while people in Western Canada were in store for more bone-chilling cold. Full Story
-42C windchill in Winnipeg
Toronto faces snow-mageddon, part 2" (canoe)
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*“relatively unknown Maryland scientist” wants to patent the swamp cooler to combat global warming
20 12 2008
This just in, (h/t to Sonicfrog) the swamp cooler is being re-invented as a global warming solution. No mention of what the increased global humidity will do for the planet’s radiative balance. No mention of what the increased humidity would do for night-time low temperatures."
http://tinyurl.com/9htrmo (wattsup)
Here is a blogger doing the job the media wont do on the Obama - Rezko connection. This is the most comprehensive summary of this very shady relationship I have seen so far.
http://www.teamsarah.org/profiles/blog/show?id=2330231%3ABlogPost%3A620130&xgs=1
"In the Arab world the unforgiving crime of President Bush has been his promotion of freedom"*
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"Bush attacker ‘incensed by bullet-riddled Koran’
The Iraqi journalist who last week threw his shoes at President Bush was angered by the behaviour of US soldiers in Iraq" (timesuk)
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*"The shoe must go on
By SALIM MANSUR"
http://tinyurl.com/8bmgx7 (tosun)
CanPress/MSM slathers on the bee-ess; it's a free PR release/promotion for Barf's "book" of financial bee-ess.
CanPress doesn't say Barf is an ex-Liberal MP, thrown on the garbage heap by combative Canadian voters.
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"Turner, who has worn a number of hats in his career, most recently a combative MP,"
(canpress)
(Via SWJ) Sean D. Naylor, Special ops 'surge' sparks debate
Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ plan to deploy three additional combat brigades to Afghanistan by the summer has superseded a contentious debate that pitted the Bush administration’s “war czar” against the special operations hierarchy over a proposed near-term “surge” of spec ops forces to Afghanistan, a Pentagon military official said...
"Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone! Dare to have a purpose firm! Dare to make it known. Many mighty men are lost ..."
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"But in the Soviet Union, they were nails sticking up inviting a thousand hammers to strike them.
Perhaps they wouldn't bend when told to get off the grass; perhaps they would ask too many questions; perhaps they would show other "anti-social" tendencies; perhaps they would simply rub a powerful local boss the wrong way, and be marked for petty vengeance in a system dominated by the rule of men, not the rule of law.
Recall that Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's eight year sentence to hard labour was because he wrote a joke about Josef Stalin's moustache in a letter to a friend."
"Would your personality have sent you to the Gulag?
By Ezra Levant"
http://ezralevant.com/2008/12/would-your-personality-have-se.html
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Russia cannot learn nothing. Da.
>>> This is the Russian MSM dressing up anti-government dissent/protests as an "holiday celebration".
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"Car-tariff protesters beaten in Russia's Far East"
VLADIVOSTOK — Riot police clubbed, kicked and detained dozens of people who gathered at a holiday celebration in Russia's Far East Sunday as hundreds protested across the country over a hike in car import tariffs."
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/21/2235374-police-beat-people-celebrating-holiday-in-russia
I was meaning Robert Fowler the missing diplomat. I remember Esprit De Corp magazine (sp?) running stories about him. He was pretty unpopular with the Brass at DND, I just do not remember the details. I will see what I can dig up. Thanks for your help.
Please pronounce Niger Niger, aka yellow-cake.
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"Whoops—Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Niger. - By Christopher ...
13 Jul 2004 ... Wilson and his wife forgot to tell us about the yellow-cake scandal. ... recommend her husband Joseph Wilson for the mission to Niger. ...
www.slate.com/id/2103795/"
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"DIPLOMATES DISPARUS AU NIGER: LE MYSTERE S'EPAISSIT
BATTLE IN POOR LAND FOR RICHES BENEATH SOIL
RASSEMBLEMENT DEVANT AREVA EN SOUTIEN AU PEUPLE TOUAREG
PAINT BY NUMBERS: PAGING SEMAFO'S BENNY LASALLE
Much ado about nothing, the Ontario government is about to award a $40 billion dollar nuclear reactor contract. It will be nothing less than the single largest government contract ever awarded in Canada. Period. Primary bidders include Canada's own CANDU and France's AREVA. According to one of the articles above, "Areva has been extracting uranium for over 40 years from Touareg territories in Niger. Its intense activity pollutes their lands and waters irreversably". Curiously, the McGuinty government pulled the Cone of Silence down on any public discourse pertaining to this project months ago for reasons that remain unknown, despite a poll earlier this year showing 76% of respondents wanting an open and transparent process. In unrelated matters, Benoit Lasalle, CEO of Semafo in Montreal, runs the only non-Areva mine in Niger, the exact same mine where Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay showed up unannounced and were last seen alive last week."
http://www.bourque.org/
From Iggy:
"Chanukah Message from Michael Ignatieff"
"Chag Sameach."
http://www.liberal.ca/story_15552_e.aspx
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"Top Liberal candidate in Canada accuses Israel of war crimes-News and ... Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff speaking to students while ...
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774584.html"
Not ringing a bell Rob, but if it came from Esprit de Corps magazine I would take whatever the allegation with a dump truck load full of salt.
motor city , reserve extraordinaire. bailing out the big three doesnt even start on the mess.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Dec21/0,4670,MotownBlues,00.html
"It's sinister to link Islam with terrorism: Pranab,":
Kolkata, Dec 21 (PTI) External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said there was a sinister design to link Islam with terrorism.
(Correct. The sinister design by none more sinister than, "I've been made victorious through terror!" - Mohammad).
"There are some scholars who had coined the term Islamic terrorism. Islam is a religion of love and compassion. There is a sinister ploy to link terrorism with Islam," the minister said here at a seminar organised by a city-based trade body.
There may be some socio-economic indicators which may lead to some frustration among some Muslim youths who had gone astray. "These are exceptions," he said.
(Correct. "These are exceptions." Typically the violence is planned and committed by well to do and well educated doctors and engineers)
He described terrorists as the "biggest violators of human rights having no religion or boundary." The minister also strongly endorsed the view of founder president of the trade body Feroze Ali that India was not a 'soft state' and was determined to fight the menace of terrorism.
(Correct. Islam is not a religion. It's a 7th century barbaric political ideology)
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Meanwhile, Sweden burns with the "religion of love and compassion."
http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPWuSDK5MQ
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Why do I get the impression that Islam is losing the battle?
MSM trots out the trusty-rusty old "loom".
Looms are relics of the Dark Ages; looms are perfect for the spinners, wool-gathererers of the MSM.
Loom rhymes with doom.
Auto workers face loom-doom.
Taxpayers face doom-loom.
Our Enemy, The State.
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"Concessions loom for auto workers
The federal and Ontario governments increased the pressure on thousands of auto workers at General Motors, Chrysler, Ford and scores of suppliers yesterday to accept concessions in efforts to keep the reeling automakers alive" (nnw)
On the thread, ""We don't know. We have to wait until Obama tells us...",
Stephen asked: "Curious, where was the vaunted Clinton slime machine? How did THEY miss all of this?"
Here they was: O has nothing to say.
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"Belgrade sentences Clinton for war crimes"
Belgrade sentenced 14 Western leaders to 20 years in prison each on Thursday for war crimes during last year's NATO air strikes and said it would issue arrest warrants.
US President Bill Clinton, Jacques Chirac of France, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and 11 other leaders have been on trial since Monday in the Belgrade District Court. Empty seats in the courtroom were labelled with their names.
"In the name of the people...We sentence...to individual prison terms of 20 years each," presiding judge Veroljub Rakitic said, reading out the 14 names to applause. He said an order was given to issue arrest warrants against them.
The 14 were found guilty as charged for inciting a war of aggression, war crimes against the civilian population, use of banned weapons, attempted murder of President Slobodan Milosevic and the violation of Yugoslavia's territorial integrity.
Milosevic was indicted with four close aides by the International War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia for repressing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo before and during the bombing, in March to June of last year.
The tribunal refused to open an investigation into allegations that NATO leaders were guilty of war crimes in the air campaign that forced Serb forces to withdraw from Kosovo.
"They fired 600 cruise missiles and made 25,119 air sorties during the 78-day aggression, attacking both military and civilian targets, killing and wounding many people and causing mass destruction of property," the charges read.
"During their so-called humanitarian intervention they have killed 546 soldiers and 504 civilians, of whom 88 children... They left behind them devastation in the place of modern factories, bridges, schools," Rakitic said.
The trial began a few days before September 24 elections which the Yugoslav government portrays as a choice between "patriotism and treachery" branding its domestic opponents traitors and NATO lackeys plotting to destroy Serbia.
Accused said to be afraid to appear"
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/8928
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More: When Churchill and England stood and faced down Nazi Adolf, Serbia also stood at the same time against the National Socialists.
The West, under Clinton, Blair, et al, betrayed the Serbs.
"Interior Ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul Karim Khalaf [...] greets me with a big smile. "All Iraqis are Christian today!" he says."
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"Baghdad celebrates first public Christmas amid hope, memories
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- From a distance, it looks like an apparition: a huge multi-colored hot-air balloon floating in the Baghdad sky, bearing a large poster of Jesus Christ. Below it, an Iraqi flag."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/21/iraq.christmas/index.html
"Kenyan government imposes gag order on Obama family
No media contact: 'We are doing this because we want to ensure better flow of information'".
"Gagged: Mama Sarah Obama"
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84172
very important news for greens.
http://barkforpeace.com/
dont step in a vegan dog solid.
cal2,
I wonder if that idiot understands that dogs come from the canine family of animals. Ya know, carnivores?
When was the last time someone saw a wolf pack out grazing?
Barking for piece? This is good sartire.
"Latte Times" is a howler.
Huffpuff has watched Marsha too much:
"It's absolutely a good thing."
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Arianna Huffington: Post hostess (Conversation between two puzzled socialists))
Latte Times ^ | Today | Choire Sicha
Arianna Huffington shuttles between New York, home of the Huffington Post offices, and Los Angeles, where her youngest daughter is in high school...
LATTE: With the rise of the Campbell Brown "No B.S." hour and Rachel Maddow, now TV news is more op-ed page than front page. Is this a good thing?
HuffnStuff: It's absolutely a good thing."
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-conversation21-2008dec21,0,1459208.story
Vituvius, I find Dobry Vechir Tobi to be a really beautiful work and hope someone can provide more information about it: when it was written, by whom, when it is usually performed and in what circumstances, etc. I just listened to it three times in a row.
Vituvius, I find Dobry Vechir Tobi to be a really beautiful work and hope someone can provide more information about it: when it was written, by whom, when it is usually performed and in what circumstances, etc. I just listened to it three times in a row.