Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Ben Pollack and his Californians performing Waitin’ For Katie (1927, 3:00).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
The IDF just published this video on their YouTube site.
Got a little chuckle out of this:
Warren Kinsella entitles one of his posts:
“IGNATIEFF A SELL-OUT?”
followed by this comment:
“…as in, sold out. As in, waiting list.
Let the good folks at the Chronicle Herald explain, via National Newswatch (natch):”
and in the body of the text from the newspaper article it says: The 200 free tickets for event, which will be held at Neptune Theatre, have all been snapped up and there is a wait list. … ”
That’s FREE TICKETS. How do you “Sell out” of FREE Tickets?
And this is in Halifax – arguably the most left-wing city in the country and he has to give away tickets meanwhile his party is submerged in debt…
That’s Warren for you – spinning like a bald Bridgestone in 6 inches of snow.
Gord Turk: Did you notice that there were only 200 tickets available?
Lessee dumping 200 free tickets in the Liberal friendly Halifax equals a landslide majority for prince Iggy. Way to fundraise Iggy better make sure that Harper doesn’t cut off the taxpayer funding or you’ll be renting a Cessna 150 with a bent propeller for the next election campaign.
Lorne Calvert used taxpayers money to bring in Al Gore to tell the people of Saskatchewan that the earth is getting hotter. Yes, 250,000 thousand dollars of taxpayers money to tell us here in Sask. a bunch of B.S. On the brighter side of things, Environment Canada is predicting Jan, Feb, and March Temps. in Sask. to be colder than normal. WAY TO GO LORNE YOU LOSER.
Speaking of K – expect another CHRC suit – against the CBC. Any time now … 4,3,2, …
[ But this year’s edition, featuring gags on the assassination of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, prison rape, a battered wife, black criminality and anglo inbreeding seems to have gone far over the line, even by Quebec’s forgiving standards.] G&M
{ Mr. Morissette and Ms. Cloutier, who recently appeared in Royal Canadian Mint ads, denied any racism in the sketches, saying the gags were meant to highlight the stupidity of the buffoonish characters. They also said it’s impossible to create satire for all tastes.] G&M
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090106.wbyebye07/BNStory/Entertainment/home
Layoffs at Winnipeg Free Press..story at Nat.Newswatch.Also,read story there about Radio Canada’s big New Years show,’Funny or racist?’Your tax dollars being squandered on garbage..I mean ‘arts’ in Quebec!
BBC suggest we should be afraid. Very afraid.
[ The results suggest the Milky Way is roughly the same size as Andromeda, the largest galaxy in our local group.]
[ What is more, it is moving 15% faster than earlier predictions.]
[ The greater mass means that future collisions with nearby galaxies could happen sooner than thought, according to the researchers.] BBC
Yup, insinuating that the Mother Of All Collisions is a real and present danger. The Beeb waits until the very last line (if one reads that far) to put readers at ease.
[ That higher mass makes for a higher gravitational pull, suggesting that collisions with Andromeda and other nearby galaxies may happen much sooner than thought – but still billions of years in the future. ]BBC
Whew !! That’s better odds than Al Gore’s 5 years or Suzuki’s 10.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7813635.stm
Sammy, regarding those layoffs.
I believe the Freep is in the process of buying a big fancy laser printer. Maybe this has something to do with it, as many press jobs will be eliminated(more automated) and they will start printing the Brandon Sun there as well.
Diversity is uni-versity = one-versity = unity = liberal fascism.
“Dictating to us: Barack Obama loves telling us how to live”
“Micro-managing: Hillary Clinton envisages state intervention after all births”
“Tony Blair’s so-called ‘Third Way’ was a manfestation of the cult of unity”
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“Beware the liberal fascists – the leaders who aim to ‘save’ us by controlling everything we do
By Jonah Goldberg”
Hallelujah! The Bush nightmare is over. The dark night of American fascism is giving way to the dawn of hope, the Age of Obama. The forces of truth will once again prevail and the crypto-Nazis will be banished to their caves.
That pretty much captures a large segment of current liberal conventional wisdom on both sides of the Atlantic.
Over the course of his presidency, President George W. Bush and his supporters have been called fascists and Nazis thousands of times in books, articles, documentaries and by legions of poster-wielding ‘progressive’ youths with open-toed shoes and closed minds.
Of course, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. For more than 70 years the Left has hurled the F-word at anyone who gets in its way – Stalin invented this tactic to de-legitimise socialist opponents, including Leon Trotsky, assassinated for leading a ‘fascist coup’.”
http://tinyurl.com/9c9cgm (dailymail
Denmark asks Jews not to enroll their children in school. Wonder why?
“Schools caught up in Palestinian conflict”
(the Copenhagen Post)
A number of school administrators have come forth in recent days to confirm that they recommend Jewish children should not enrol at their schools.
According to school administrators, law enforcement officials and social workers, the on-going conflict in Gaza has led to heightened tensions between Jews and Arabs – particularly Palestinians – here in Denmark.
And although few headmasters of schools have faced the situation, most of those at schools with a high percentage of children of Arab descent say they try to prevent Jewish parents from enrolling their children there.
On Monday, headmaster Olav Nielsen of Humlehave School in Odense publicly admitted he would refuse Jewish parents’ wish to place their child at his school.
The comments were made following an incident last week in which two Israeli citizen’s were shot and wounded at a city shopping centre. Police believe the incident was a reaction to the Gaza conflict.
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I see a growing list of savage hate, racism and death that comes with Muslim immigration. Does anybody know one measly benefit?
Israel’s Basketball Team shares the love in Turkey. (I don’t think Hitler’s Olympics were as full of hate as this):
“Terror in Turkey for Bnei Hasharon team”
(the Jerusalem Post)
Moments before the tip-off of the Israeli team’s Eurocup encounter against Turk Telekom some 3,000 Turkish fans shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ and, by some accounts, ‘death to the Jews’ in protest against the IDF’s actions in Gaza.
Other fans threw bottles at the Israeli players and stormed the court, forcing the Israelis to flee for the dressing rooms.
The players and staff were only able to leave for their hotel thanks to a massive police escort after being stranded for two long hours in the locker room.
Bnei Hasharon chairman Eldad Akunis described the terrifying moments.
“We arrived at the arena under heavy security. There were 1,500 policemen in the arena, 500 of them in plain clothes. The fans waved Palestinian flags and shouted abuse towards Israel,” Akunis said.
“As the game was set to begin they stormed the court and we raced towards the dressing rooms. Our players are in shock and all we want at the moment is to return back home.”
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Yup. All those ‘moderate’ Muslims in ‘European’ Turkey. Democracy sure does change Islam.
It’s George & Dick & Karl’s fault. Stephen had a hand in it, too.
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“Front-door fracas spoils Obama’s first day at work”
“Outgoing … the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms, Terrance Gainer, left, escorts Barack Obama’s successor as senator for Illinois, Roland Burris, from the House.
Photo: AFP”
http://tinyurl.com/7q3av3 (aunews)
Windsor NDP MP panders for votes
Windsor West NDP Brian Masse attended a rally organized by local Palestinian and Muslim communities last Saturday. From reports in the Windsor Star, his comments were a big hit:
Rally laments Gaza bloodshed
Local leaders, activists and politicians, including CAW Local 444 president Rick Laporte, MP Brian Masse (NDP Windsor West) and city councillors Ron Jones and Caroline Postma, spoke at the rally, offering their condolences to those who’ve lost loved ones in the latest bloodshed.
Jones said he came to the rally not as a representative of city council or the mayor, but as a “brother” of the people in Gaza. “I come with a heart filled with grief,” he said.
Masse called on the Canadian government to put pressure on Israel to end the violence in Gaza, criticizing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s response to the crisis as the crowd applauded and responded with chants of “Shame, shame.”
I wonder how much applause Brian would have received if he had read the official NDP statement to the protest participants.
New Democrat statement on the situation in the Middle East:”
http://tinyurl.com/92habv
bluebloggingsoapbox
Achtung: Herr Goreacle’s Footprint.
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“Germany Sinks into Spectacular Deep Freeze
Temperatures in Germany fell as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius on Monday night and the weather is expected to remain Arctic for several days. The country is covered in a spectacular sheet of snow and ice.”
“The cold snap has hit much of Europe”
http://tinyurl.com/835zwe (spiegel)
Spengler, Suicide by Israel
A policeman’s nightmare is the prospective suicide who forces the constable to shoot in self-defense. No matter how justified the killing, others always will wonder whether the shooter had an opportunity to avoid a fatal outcome.
Peoples commit suicide as much as do individuals. The geopolitical cognate of “suicide by policeman” is Hamas’ attempted suicide by Israel. Israel’s objective is to eliminate Hamas rule. There are only two ways to do that: destroy Hamas’ international support, or make its rule in Gaza insupportable…
Interesting piece in Embassy Magazine, an interview with our very own tinfoil hat and moon juice drinker Louise Arbour.
Revealing and insightful – one gets to see a person disconnected from reality: truly lost in space.
Or rather lost in that peculiar world of UN bureaucracies and budgets. Where dogma and the ‘mission’ cancel reason and understanding. Leftist lies are everywhere throughout the interview, importantly the omission that governments, armed militias, and military control human rights in nations.
And yet Ms. Arbour breezes past that obvious fact, in search of ‘gotcha’ journalism with human rights observers in the ‘field’. Media is the weapon – not facts nor context. This radical leftist has absorbed a mantra that the ends justify means: that despite all of their memos and Acts and Conventions and Laws and Declarations, nobody is really reading them all, and rushing to build Commissions and lawyerly sounding bureaucracies. Since Ms. Arbour herself lives in the enlightened 28th century, any means of inciting emotion and fervour is appropriate – even if it means apologizing for and sitting down for talks with Kim-Jong Il or Robert Mugabe. It’s saying “The end is worth the means, you silly people just need to be educated and enlightened.”
And if that means using the media’s prime operating state of peddling emotion to induce reaction, so be it.
Facts and context be damned.
“Ms. Arbour posits that the UN Human Rights Council could specialize in lesser-known chronic human rights violations, while leaving the top issues of the day to the UN’s more powerful bodies.”
A good encapsulation of this thinking. When you’ve got bureaucracies to build, they’ll eventually end up metastasizing like the cancer on society they truly are.
Outstanding:
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Iran’s Hamas Strategy
Radical Shiites back radical Sunnis with the aim of destabilizing the Middle East.
Anyone who knows anything about the Middle East knows that Sunni and Shiite radicals don’t work together — er, except when they do. Proof that the conventional wisdom is badly wrong is on offer in Gaza, where the manifest destiny of the Islamic Republic of Iran is now unfolding. Tehran has been aiding Hamas for years with the aim of radicalizing politics across the entire Arab Middle East. Now Israel’s response to thousands of Hamas rocket provocations appears to be doing just that…
(Via MESH) Situation Map: Gaza Crisis
Updated to 5 January 2009. Click on the map where you wish to see more detail.
Philip S. Meilinger, New principles for new war
Now can we meet the new challenges of global terrorism and defend ourselves with the least cost in blood and treasure? We need to identify the nature of the present environment and how our military should be structured to operate within it. We must then revise our doctrine and teach these new ideas to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines so they can internalize them before a crisis occurs.
One of the basics for such an educational rebirth is to understand the principles of war. Unfortunately, these principles — formulated nearly a century ago and enshrined in our doctrine — are outdated, insufficient and misleading in a modern era dominated by air and space assets, real-time intelligence, speed-of-light command-and-control systems, and ubiquitous multimedia news sources. Simply put: The old principles of war won’t work in an age calling for new ways of fighting, not just more efficient ways of fighting the old way. Reliance on the old principles of war will have us looking backward and fighting the last war — and doing that badly — rather than looking forward to fight the next…
I’ve followed the career of Louise Arbour in recent years. She always reminds me of Jimmy Carter taking another path in life. But both have very strange outlooks on life.
“Sub-Driver” said:
“These effects of global warming are getting worse. /s”
“UK Cold Snap Sees Sea Freeze Over
6:37pm UK, Wednesday January 07, 2009 Britain’s cold snap has seen temperatures drop so drastically that the sea off the south coast has frozen over.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160395/posts
Now this is free market thinking.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090106/AUTOS_hyundai_return_090106/20090106?s_name=Autos
No whining and crying for tax payer money, just good ideas and solutions to existing market conditions.
A look at the map provided by Charles MacDonald (11:24 a.m.) got me thinking. I have heard repeatedly that Gaza City is “one of the most densely populated places in the world”.Well,after looking at the map I decided to check up on this. I found a list of the top 125 cities ranked by pop.density. Gaza City is at #,don’t know,because the city did not make the list of top 125.I think someone has been lying to us.—http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/largest-cities-density-125.html
Further to my above post;Mumbai is # 1 on the list. For those with very short memories,or depend on the MSM for their news,that is the city where a couple hundred people were murdered,some even mutilated before execution,by people with a religious idealogy very similar to the ‘civilians’ of Gaza City.
If their outlooks were benign, I would not be concerned.
It’s certainly the case that extremists like Arbour cannot abide by living and letting live. By this I don’t suggest that improvement of governance and advancing the human condition aren’t worthy – indeed required – to be performed.
But these extremists don’t reflect upon the relative well-being of nations, and seek to raise the tide of all – but instead morally calculate – and apply selective reasoning.
If their outlooks were benign, I would not be concerned.
It’s certainly the case that extremists like Arbour cannot abide by living and letting live. By this I don’t suggest that improvement of governance and advancing the human condition aren’t worthy – indeed demanded – to be acted for and sought by citizenry.
But these extreme leftists don’t reflect upon the relative well-being of nations, and certainly don’t seek to raise the tide of all – but instead morally calculate by applying selective reasoning. Some commentators in here lately have suggested leftism – the activist branch of statism – is a mental condition of some large measure. While not in disagreement, my posit is different.
Leftism seeks the outward, and not the self. Parables within Communism – the beehive, the worker, the combined effort of many weak makes strong – overtly dismisses the construct of the self. Whether for sustenance, determination, or achievement, the left rejects the individual’s role in any of those – and demands the person to be part of the collective. Income redistribution, personal responsibility, and collective monopoly’s exist for the sole purpose of praying to the god of modern secular liberalism: egalitarianism.
Thus the selective reasoning of extremists like Arbour. Mugabe’s policies that have led to starvation and misery are not a function of the policies – they are a function of the West’s wealth. Kim-Jong Il’s mad isolationism and paranoia is no more than simply a reaction to a vicious and warmongering world. With the recent concept of ‘proportionality’ coming up within the Gaza conflict, that certainly applies. That is, the West’s recently historical suppression and moral rejection of gays becomes equivalent to that of China’s brutal suppression of Tibetan nationalists. And can rationalize expansion of ‘human rights’ into areas Arbour advocates: culture, economics, and social rights – whatever they mean.
At the bottom of it is the rejection of the individual, to do good, bad, or nothing at all. The grand irony of it: suppressing the uniqueness and individuality of man by equalizing outcomes instead of opportunity, inevitably results in forcefully removing what I consider to be the most base human ‘right’ of all: Freedom.
And these morally equivalent asshats just don’t get it.
Victor Davis Hanson, Phony War: Afghanistan and the Democrats
Most Americans in 2003 thought that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were complementary theaters in the wider war on radical Islamic terrorism and the authoritarian Middle East regimes that aided and abetted it. The anti-Iraq War left agreed that the two fronts were connected—but in an antithetical, rather than a symbiotic, way. For them, the illegitimate, unilateral war in Iraq came at the expense of the lawful multilateral struggle in Afghanistan. Yet a brief review of the two wars not only suggests that such a view is mistaken, but also that it is disingenuous—especially the trope of damning the American effort in Iraq by claiming that, in addition to its other moral and strategic deficits, it caused us to “take our eye off” Afghanistan…
H.R. McMaster, The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy
This debate between what a recent Atlantic Monthly essay termed “Conservatives” and “Crusaders” has generated plenty of heat and noise, as well as its share of rancor. But there is a third side in the debate, against which both camps and have aligned in a rare instance of agreement. Just as many historians score Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and other architects of America’s intervention in Vietnam for having slighted the human and psychological dimensions of war and for having refused to pay due respect to the complex Vietnamese Communist strategy of Dau Tranh—a strategy that employed a “mosaic” of shifting political and military actions—a critique of American military policy in Iraq has emerged that levels a similar charge. It faults those who initially devised military policy in Iraq for having revived the Vietnam-era conceit that the United States had discovered the secret of using violence with minimal uncertainty and a high degree of efficiency: the mere demonstration of American military prowess, policymakers argued at the outset of both conflicts, would be sufficient to alter the behavior of the enemy. This flawed assumption had similar effects in each case; America dramatically underestimated the complexity of war and the level of effort and time required to achieve its wartime objectives…
wallyj – the Gaza strip is one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. Population density is evaluated by population per sq. km.
Gaza is 360 sq.km. The population is approximately 1,500,000, which means that the density is approximately 4,166 per sq km. This puts the Gaza Strip the 6th most densely populated in the world, after Macau 28.6 sq km, Monaco 1.95 sqkm, Hong Kong 1,099, Singapore 699 and Gibraltar at 6 sq km.
Most of the people in the Gaza strip live in Gaza city metropolitan area (1.4 millon).
Now to become a Canadian citizen all you have to do is fly into our airspace and have your child. We really are the sucker nation of the world.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1151614
Paging Himmler’s “Heather Doom” ladies: Would you show/tell Warnock’s “utilitarian bioethics”?
Ja. Das ist when/how der jungen frauen …..
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“Doctors Who Refuse Assisted Suicide “Genuinely Wicked” says UK Bioethics “Philosopher Queen”
LONDON, January 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking to a group in Belfast last night, Mary Baroness Warnock, a leading voice in British bioethics, said that doctors who refuse to cooperate in assisted suicide are “genuinely wicked.”
Following a theme of previous comments in which she said that the elderly and people with dementia have a “duty to die,” Warnock said, “There are doctors, we know, who don’t pay any attention [to a patient’s desire for suicide].
“But that seems to me a genuinely wicked thing to do – to disregard what somebody had quite explicitly said, that he wants to die – not to be resuscitated in certain circumstances and in certain circumstances to be helped to commit suicide.
“I believe that if someone is diagnosed as having the beginnings of Alzheimer’s or dementia, at that stage it is a positive duty that doctors should talk to them about what will happen when the moment comes where they reach steep decline.”
Warnock, as Britain’s leading voice for the most extreme position of utilitarian bioethics, has pressed for the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide and for the use of embryonic human beings for experimental research. In November last year, she said that there is an “absolute moral obligation” to conduct embryonic stem cell research, and that a scientist who chose not to conduct it would be “failing in their moral duty.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160451/posts
On Oprah a few minutes ago (Montreal time) a priest ( Ed Bacon if I’m not mistaken ) said,
” Being gay is a gift from God “
Even Oprah seemed a bit confused by this “statement” …
ET; according to the site I visited,there is at least 50 cities with a higher population density than the Gaza Strip.The density statistics are another manipulation of statistics to mislead.However,I do think that the residents of the Gaza area are among the world’s densest.
wally, the variables in the statistics aren’t just two, i.e., population per sq km.
They include another variable; land area. And the value of the Land Area that this table is focused on is LARGE size.
So, the variables are ‘ large size of land area’; population in that land area; density per sq km.
You won’t find Gaza in this table because the land area of the whole Gaza strip is very small, only 360 km. The land area the table that you are looking at is for ‘megacities’ – eg, Tokyo has 7,000 sq km.
Other tables refer to population but not to density.
So, I think that the statistical evaluation of Gaza as one of the top ten most densely populated areas is factually correct.
Peak Rice* fuels tensions, say rice oil economists.
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“Oil tumbles 12%, most in seven years
Oil futures tumbled 12%, the most in more than seven years, after a U.S. government report showed a bigger-than-expected increase in supplies of crude oil, gasoline and distillate fuel as demand dropped.” (nnw)
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*”NYT: April 1, 2008 – “Rice crisis fuels tensions – Shortages, rising prices for staple sparks fears of civil unrest…”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/010412.html#comments
“States of emergency declared across Europe over gas
Governments across Europe declared states of emergency and ordered factories to close as Russia cut all gas supplies through Ukraine yesterday in their worsening dispute over unpaid bills.”
“amid a cold snap across the Continent,”
“trees were felled to keep home fires burning”
“Despite temperatures as low as minus 27C and the threat of heating cuts to millions of households, Moscow said that it had no choice but to cease supplies”
“Slovakia’s Government followed Bulgaria by announcing that it may have to restart a mothballed Soviet-era nuclear power plant.”
http://tinyurl.com/98x95h (timesuk)
Gordon G. Chang, China, Sponsor of Hamas Terrorism
“Countries that pay for the rockets hitting Israel should be the recipients of Israel’s response,” writes Dan Hogan, a reader commenting on Bret Stephens’s latest column. Of course, Hogan is referring to Iran. But should we stop with the Islamic Republic?
Iran purchased the 122mm rockets that hit Israel. We know this because Tehran’s version of the same 122mm weapon does not have sufficient range to hit the Israeli areas that came under bombardment last month. And where did the mullahs buy these longer-range instruments of destruction? That would be the People’s Republic of China.
Beijing always says it is a responsible arms manufacturer and cannot control where its weapons are used. Is that so? If you wanted to give the Chinese the benefit of every doubt–you shouldn’t, but that’s another story–you could argue they could not have known that Pakistani terrorists would choose to use China’s specialized blue grenades, manufactured by state-owned Norinco, in the November attacks in Mumbai.
But you can’t make the same argument about the rockets manufactured by China’s state-owned Sichuan Aerospace Industry Corp. And why not? The Chinese have been deeply involved in Iran’s use of the weapons it has purchased from them…