Good evening, EBD here. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
During the 1972 Munich Olympics a group of terrorists from Lebanon, Syria and Jordan entered the Athlete's Village under cover of darkness; less than twenty-four hours later, 11 Israeli athletes were dead. I bring this up for a reason: I'm guessing that a lot of SDA commenters of a certain age remember how our schoolmates, teachers, friends, neighbours, and our journalists, were uniformly heartsick and appalled at the unjustifiable and inhuman brutality.
A lot has changed in the intervening 37 years. If a similar incident were to occur now, legions of people, including journalists, would launch into a discussion on the matter of Israel and in so doing obviate, almost incidentally, the matter of the volitional and moral agency of those who murdered the innocent athletes. This approach, which endlessly rationalizes inhuman brutality, typically flies under the banner of enlightenment and compassion. As Daniel Pearl's father Judea wrote in the WSJ:
"Somehow barbarism, often cloaked in the language or 'resistance,' has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words 'war on terror' cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil. I believe it all started with well-meaning analysts, who in their zeal to find creative solutions to terror decided that terror is not a real enemy, but a tactic." (emph. mine)
Tonight's musical selection, written by Noel Coward, and banned by the BBC, is a dark satire on the rationalizations of the British anti-war movement. WWII was still raging at the time the song was released in 1943 but, since the Battle of Britain had ended, Cowards' naive, earnest character was moved to declare with disarming blitheness and no small measure of self-congratulation that "the war is over," and to advocate for forgiveness and warm relations with their newfound would-be friends.
Coward could not possibly have known the extent to which the voices he satirically appropriated would later become mainstream, or that his topical, contemporary song was a harbinger of things to come.
Here it is, then: Noel Coward singing Don't Let's Be Beastly To the Germans.
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You found it! On YouTube! Absolutely brilliant, EBD. Thanks.
It would seem that all the comments from WK's "apology" video have been disappeared and comments turned off.
Wornout wouldn't do something like that would it?
YES!!
Noel Coward hits the nail on the head -- so charmingly, so elegantly, so brilliantly, so succinctly. As my cousin in England puts it, "no wonder this song is seldom heard these days." If anyone wrote this in Canada circa now, they'd be in front of the CHRC PRONTO.
Noel Coward, Sir, take a bow.
Apparently, because of this song, Hitler put Noel Coward on his hit list.
Noel Coward was no coward: he often said things one wasn't supposed to--but with such wit and elan!
Thanks, EBD.
As a descendant of the "Beastly Huns" I feel so much more at home now! THX Noel COWARD!
The irony of the song juxtaposed with his last name is truly delightful.
Or as they say in german:
"Ihr seid Alle zum schiessen!"
Translation:
You should all be shot.
( a colloquiallism in german which suggests: You are all hilarious!)
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"
Obama oct 2007 ;
"...I will not weaponize space..."
Jan 2009 ;
USA launches LARGEST EVER rocket launcher CARRYING LARGEST EVER MILITARY SPYING SATELLITE.
Who knows what Obama really means when he says something?
have any of you heard that only a few days ago the USA has launched its largest rocket booster ever - the Delta IV - into space and it was carrying a MILITARY SPYING SATELLITE?
And all this at an estimated cost of about 1.5 Billions?
I heard this on Canadian television, so I googled it and it is true.
Before I give you the URL here are Obama's words again,
"...I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems..."
Barack Obama
22 October 22, 2007
Now here is the url to the Delta IV and LARGEST EVER MILITARY SPYING SATELLITE,
http://www.universetoday.com/200...-florida-skies/
Oh and if you have not heard about it is because the main stream media did not want you to think Obama was weaponizing space even though he is, just like they did not want you to know Obama approves of Rendition.
The main stream media is
- as always - covering dear leader Hussein Obama's butt and - as always - fooling the gullible leftist worshipers.
On the up side Dear leader Hussein Obama seems to understand the USA needs to spy on bad guys...
So I guess it is not all bad...
I'm glad Noel's a hit. I've been hoping against hope that someone would locate, and post to YouTube, a similarly prescient song -- "What's Going To Happen To The Tots" -- which presages the current self-pleasuring societal dissipation that leaves children's well-being a secondary consideration. Like "Don't Let's Be Beastly," it combines a blithe, jaunty tone with dark humour.
In one of the denouement-esque spoken bridges near the end of the song he drolls...
The police had to send a squad car
When daddy got fried on vodka
and tied a tweed coat
'round mummy's throat
in several sailor's knots...
(In his accent, "squad car" and "vodka" rhyme perfectly.) And then in the final verse he sings, over a jaunty, vigorously woozy orchestra:
Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye my darlings
Try not to fret and wet your cots
One day you'll clench your tiny fists
And murder your psychiatrists
What's, what's, what's going to happen...
...then, after a timpani shot, he speaks somberly, quietly, sans music:
...to the tots?
Hans: LOL. Glad to arouse your "latent sense of Hun."
Cheers!
Sorry, EBD. I have What's Going to Happen to the Tots on CD, but not on You-Tube. I can picture Coward singing it, though: in white evening jacket, standing beside a grand piano, with martini in hand ...
I've seen that performance too, BATB. Does anyone know the date it was recorded? It must be out of or just about out of copyright now. I couldn't even find the lyrics on Google. That sounds like something we might be to fix.
Yes,the acceptance of horrendous acts of inhumanity have become acceptable.Somehow or other,many have lost their way. A full belly makes one complacent about reality...Tosay,I brought the story about the B.C. man that was convicted of decapitating his 2 year old daughter,to a group of lefties. Immediately,I was told about the atrocities of Bush against the Iraq people. I didn't mention religion,because I didn't know,but I did solidify my position as an uncaring person. Rational thought processes are disappearing,it is a pity.
Vitruvius: 'Looks like "What's Going to Happen to the Tots" was written in 1955. Check this out:
http://www.noelcoward.net/ncmiindex/w.html#tots2
I'm not convinced that rational thought processes are disappearing, Wally, because I'm not (yet, perhaps) convinced that what we're seeing isn't just a hightened awareness, due to the huge increase in available data we've found since about '96, of the general lack of rational thought within our species, in which case, pity though it may be in some sense, it remains an open question as to how serious the problem is.
After all, we've gotten this far.
On the other hand, we all know a little bit more now,
& as you know, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
RFK Junior has gone off the deep end:
"Hog farmers bigger threat than Osama."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=87998
I do think that rational thought is quickly disappearing amongst the general population as it pertains to the difference between right and wrong. Evil is not being recognized and called out. This quiet acceptance of violence and hate,which was not allowed back in my dark ages(early 50's) is now being shirked by the 'I'm alright,you need to be enlightened' schlock that has been drilled into us. The general population compartentalizes evil... It cannot thrive ,if we love and accept each other... Bullshit,it will thrive and reproduce like a germ in a petri dish,unless someone stops it. Cheers.
I meant 'compartmentalize'. Anyways,Mr. Vitruvius,I have access to about 3,000 old 78's. If that intrigues you ,contact me somehow or other.
"The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda."
-- Noël Coward
Another ideologically loaded staffing selection by Obama.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020401.html
Another ideologically loaded staffing selection by Obama.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020401.html
Another classic is "Could you please oblige us with a Bren Gun", a pretty good summary of life in the army in the 1990s.
Banged this out about a year ago in honour of Taliban Jack Layton when was babbling about entering into talks with the enemy. Now that rumours are circulating that The One down south is considering the same thing, I suppose it's timely again.
(Lots of overlap with the original, of course; it's damned hard to even adapt Coward's brilliant pose, and of course impossible to improve on it.)
*****
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to Al Qaeda
- to be sung by Jack Layton and the NDP Chorus in a quivering falsetto
(with sincerest apologies to Noel Coward)
Don't let's be beastly to Al Qaeda
Now we've definitely got them on the run -
Let us treat them very kindly as we would a valued friend;
We might send them out Jack Layton as a form of lease and lend,
Let's be sweet to them, and day by day repeat to them
“Decapitation’s worse than drinking rum”;
Let's let them go old school again, and occupy Kabul again -
But don't let's be beastly to the scum!
(Refrain 1)
We must be kind
And with an open mind
We must endeavour to find a way -
To let the buggers know that when the war is over
They are not the ones who'll have to pay;
We must be sweet -
And tactful and discreet
And when they've suffered defeat
We mustn't let them feel upset, or ever get
The feeling that we're cross with them or hate them,
Our future policy must be to reinstate them.
Don't let's be beastly to Jihadists
When our victory is ultimately won,
It was just those nasty Imams who persuaded them to fight
And their piercing ululation’s really far worse than their bite;
Let's be meek to them, and turn the other cheek to them
And greet them like a long-lost bosom chum;
Let's give them tanks and bombs and guns, and let them go back to killing nuns,
But don't let's be beastly to the scum!
(Refrain 2)
We must be just-
And win their love and trust
And in addition we must be wise -
And get the world together in a great, big happy hug;
That would be a wonderful surprise.
For many years -
They've been in floods of tears
Because the poor little dears
Have been so wronged and only longed
To cheat the world,
Deplete the world,
And beat the world to blazes;
This is the moment when we ought to sing their praises.
So don't let's be beastly to the Mullahs
For you can't deprive a gangster of his gun
(Though they've been a little naughty unto Christians, gays and Jews
And I guess when they hang a young girl from a crane, it really isn’t news);
Let's be free with them, and share the CBC with them,
We can’t afford to let them get all glum;
Let's soften their defeat again – let’s pack up and retreat again -
But don't let's be beastly to the scum!
Don't let's be beastly to the Saudis,
All those sweet Wahhabis basking in the Sun;
Let us buy their bloody oil and give them everything they need
For their peaceable intentions can be always guaranteed.
Let us bow to them, and cheerfully kowtow to them;
At self-detonation they’ll never be outdone;
Let's let them feel they're swell again, and bomb us all to hell again,
But don't let's be beastly to the scum!
Don’t let’s be beastly to Bin Laden
Resting nicely in the silence of the grave;
I realize he’s been a rather naughty little knave
And that’s why he’s decomposing in some Tora Bora cave;
Let’s forgive the pr**k, and mock no more his tiny d**k,
Which the Air Force went and blew to kingdom come…
Let’s say our last goodbyes to him – and then apologize to him –
But don’t let’s be beastly to the scum!
Oh ...so this is what that age of Aquarius thingee is that they were singing about!
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Title "We only employ workers born under specific star signs, says insurance company"
....from the article
"The company is, however, sticking to its guns and a spokesman explained that the move was based on statistical research rather than superstition.
'A statistical study indicated that almost all of our best employees across Austria have one of the five star signs.
'We only decided to continue with that system and hire the best workers,' the spokesman said."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1135643/We-employ-workers-born-specific-star-signs-says-insurance-company.html
"A lot has changed in the intervening 37 years. If a similar incident were to occur now, legions of people, including journalists, would launch into a discussion on the matter of Israel and in so doing obviate, almost incidentally, the matter of the volitional and moral agency of those who murdered the innocent athletes."
Absolutely spot on with that observation EBD!
The lack of media and political outrage over a similar Jihadi massacre today is an indication of how far the poison of Islamo-fascist apologia and its enabler malignant cultural marxism, has coursed through the veins of western moral standards.
"MP Proposes to give passengers cash for Airline Delays"
Brent Jang
G&M 02/05/09
*Consumers could collect $500. An Hour if airlines leave them stranded on the Tarmac...
*Tickets would be advertised with "All In" prices that incl. taxes & surcharges accodring to a Passenger Bill of Rights to be introduced by an NDP MP next wk.
*The threat of focing carriers to pay Hundreds of dollars to each passenger should vastly reduce the instances where planes are stuck in limbo at airports across Canada, Winnipeg NDP MP Jim Maloway said in an interview wednesday.
Roundup: STOPIGGY at NNW.
Recall Dionky, experts/observers say.
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"Goldstein: So, how great is Michael Ignatieff, exactly? And how lucky are we to have such a wonderful, worldly, warm, witty and wise man as the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in these troubled times?"
"The three-line wimp
MACPHERSON: Ignatieff weakened his Quebec MPs by allowing N.L. MPs to break party ranks. To Michael Ignatieff, Quebec is merely a nation; it's the province of Newfoundland and Labrador that really has the special status."
"Bowing to Williams will come back to haunt Ignatieff
Yaffe: Danny Williams should be formulating NATO strategy to defeat the Taliban."
"Newfoundland Dilemma
CH: ‘Free pass’wise move. IS MICHAEL IGNATIEFF a push-over?"
The Numbers racket: socialism's hoaxes.
Fake-but-Accurate, the Mann "hockey stick graph", the Lancet study, etc.; all are products of the demi-savants of socialism.
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"Pollsters Accuse Researcher of Violating Ethics Rules in Iraqi Civilian Death Count
The Executive Council of the American Association for Public Opinion Research says a Johns Hopkins University professor refused to cooperate with a probe into how he came up with a 2006 claim that nearly 655,000 Iraqis died because of the U.S.-led war.
WASHINGTON -- A prominent group of polling researchers has accused the lead author of a 2006 study suggesting massive civilian deaths in Iraq of violating the polling profession's codes and ethics."
"The widely publicized study headed by Burnham contended that nearly 655,000 Iraqis had died because of the U.S.-led invasion and war in Iraq.
"When asked to provide several basic facts about this research, Burnham refused,"
urlm.in/bpjb (fox)
(Via SWJ) Drew Brown, Canada sends helos, drones to back up troops in Afghanistan
Canada has boosted its forces in southern Afghanistan with a new contingent of helicopters and drones, a move that senior military officers say will reduce the number of ground convoys used to supply remote bases and better protect soldiers against Taliban fighters...
The new aircraft include six Chinook cargo helicopters, eight Griffon escort helicopters and four Heron unmanned aerial vehicles...
Finally, they are starting to reject that infamous Lancet 'study' claiming hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives were lost because of the Iraqi War.
When anyone, myself included, questioned the methodology and/or the statistical base, we were criticized as ignorant biased 'neocons'.
But the criticism was justified; the authors had no reliable data gathering methods; they relied on hearsay and speculation. The numbers in their data base were essentially non-existent not only because their gathering of these numbers was guess-wor, but their 'degree of confidence' or range of possible deaths was too large.
It was like saying - well, if you buy a lottery ticket, you'll win anything from zero to 2 million; the average of that is one million, so..wow..if you buy this ticket, you'll win 1 million!
It was a terrible study, accepted as truth by the anti-Bush league.
Amusing juxtaposition of headlines in an RSS feed this morning:
Obama Caps Executive Salaries for Bailed-Out Firms at $500G
Panetta Discloses $700G in Speaking, Consulting Fees, Including From Troubled Financial Firms
The auto bailout money (Americans tax dollars) is heading to Latin America...
GM is investing in Brazil
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=12396&ArticleId=320909
ET....while we sometimes disagree...you are bang on on this one.How can anyone in their sane mind,accept these "statistics" as fact? Where are all the bodies? Cripes.If you believe this guy,then we are just in Afghanistan,fighting an empty country! So who keeps planting the mines on the sides of the roads,that are killing and maiming our solidiers and our allies?
P.W. Singer, Military Robots and the Laws of War
Nor is it surprising that now analysts are writing off high-tech warfare altogether in the wake of Afghanistan and Iraq. Insurgents armed with crude conventional weapons have proven frequently able to flummox their well-equipped American foes. Many observers increasingly seem to believe that if irregular warfare is likely to be the future of armed conflict, advanced technologies have no great role.
These “all or nothing” attitudes are each incorrect. High technology is not a silver bullet solution to insurgencies, but that doesn’t mean that technology doesn’t matter in these fights. In fact, far from proving the uselessness of advanced technology in modern warfare, Afghanistan and Iraq have for the first time proved the value of a technology that will truly revolutionize warfare—robotics...
Washington State passed I-1000.
Courtney S. Campbell, Ten Years of "Death with Dignity"
The Oregon Death with Dignity Act (ODDA), which permits physicians to write a prescription for lethal drugs to qualified terminally ill patients, has been in effect for a little over a decade. It has, from October 1997 to the present, been the only such statute in the United States permitting what is variously called “physician-assisted suicide,” “physician aid in dying,” or “death with dignity” (the statute refers to the procedure as the ending of life in a “humane and dignified manner”). However, in the November 2008 election, citizens in the state of Washington will have an opportunity to vote on ballot initiative I-1000, a measure that is essentially the same as the Oregon statute. The advocacy group promoting I-1000 has drawn on features of the Oregon experience to indicate that the Oregon law is “very safe and effective” and that “aid in dying is working.” To weigh the claims made by supporters and opponents of the proposed Washington state initiative, we ought to carefully examine the first decade of Oregon’s experience with physician-assisted suicide...
RFK should not complain about Pork Producers on a full stomach. The guy probably fried himself while in University. Or suffered brain damage while underwater in his Uncle's car.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/04/video-rfk-says-hog-producers-more-dangerous-than-osama-bin-laden/
EBD, thanks for this, very moving and funny at the same time.
""These kind of crises - 1873, 1929, 2008 - they don't come around that often, and they force people to think in a new way," he said in an interview yesterday. "Now, you've got to say, 'what are we going to do?' "
...-
"Economic crisis: The shakeup Canadians need?
Report on Ontario's prosperity urges a transition to a new creative economy from the dying industrial age"
urlm.in/bpjv
>>> "The account makes no mention of grief counsellors.*"
...-
"*A modest proposal for curing a whiny nation"
http://www.katewerk.com/modestproposal.html
The Latte Left in Ontario's heartland didn't care because they think their paychecks and pensions will keep rolling in no matter what.
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[ The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment put forward by Republican Senator John McCain to strip the "Buy American" provision from the huge U.S. stimulus bill while agreeing to soften the language that had given rise to concerns of pending trade wars.
McCain's amendment had stated that the "utilization of funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this act shall not be subject to any 'Buy American' requirement." It was voted down 65 to 31 on Wednesday night.] CBC
Lattes; Does 85% of Canada's exports going to the USA mean nothing to you ?
Why, for two years, did the CBC and others fawn all over Obama while put-downs on McCain happened hourly. (Nose, spite face thing ?)
[ Earlier in the day, McCain had said that he felt the protectionist language was "ignoring the lessons of history."
"We can’t have this kind of protectionism. It hasn’t worked in the past. It won’t work now," he said.] CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/04/obama-protectionism.html
"Before Russia passed a law outlawing mass demonstrations of hate"
"hate" = protest, dissidence.
Sound familiar? Quid nunc?
What's new, pussyKat?
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"An American Priest at the End of the Earth
In the early 20th century the Russian Far East boasted a thriving Catholic population. The land was populated, in addition to Russians, by Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, and other ethnic Catholics who had built thriving schools, hospitals, and beautiful churches. In 1917 all that changed. The Bolshevik Revolution effectively dismantled the Catholic Church -- and all of Christianity and religion for that matter -- in this area.
Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the Russian Far East became a showplace of the new Communist era: a land without churches in a country that had vanquished God. All Catholic churches were confiscated by the Soviet government. Those not razed by Communist dynamite were transformed for profane purposes: to be used, for example, as a horse barn, a movie theater, a night club, a venereal disease clinic.
According to KGB statistics, between 1917 and 1937 an estimated 200,000 clergy and religious were executed in Russia, their bodies thrown into mass graves. Further, the Catholic cemeteries dotted by cross-tipped tombstones were destroyed, the sacred ground over the graves turned into amusement parks in the heart of the city centers, the dead trodden upon by new generations of Soviet-reared children. This was all part of the strict Communist regimen of desecration that succeeded in weaning future generations away from that which put them in the presence of God."
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0703-rose
Lorrie Goldstein certainly is NOT taken in by the Media's agenda driven hype.
[ Plus, Ignatieff "has been called impossibly handsome," "women delight in his company" and "his eloquence shames lesser men."
Now, you may be wondering, given his vague, motherhood and often contradictory musings since becoming (unelected) Liberal leader, how Ignatieff specifically proposes to revive our economy, as opposed to repeating -- ad nauseam -- that he'll let us know when Harper gets it wrong enough to force an election.
But not to worry. Until then, it's good to know from our media -- ad nauseam -- that Ignatieff is sexy. After all, given the recession, gutting of our manufacturing sector and rising unemployment, that's what's important ... Obviously.] LG
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2009/02/05/8270306-sun.html
Belgian boy saluting Canadian troops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMzHlkB-Yg
(h/t ghostofaflea.com)
Free at last, free at last, Senator Mike Duffy free to speak at last.
More, Senator; with humour.
Mike poses a Groucho Marx question/answer.
"“Do honourable senators know what happens when two politicians climb into bed together?
"One of them comes out on top and I am afraid that when one is in bed with Danny Williams he will come out on top and I would hate to see where that will leave P.E.I. in the end.’’
More? Who is Da Bully?
Hint-hum along with Mike: Oh, Danny Boy.
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"Senator unapologetic for comments about premiers"
urlm.in/bpjz
NYSlimes remainders O and a free mug shOt.
A sure sign of the times?
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"Dinosaur Media NY Times Discounts Obama Inauguration Commemorative Book
The New York Times ^ | February 5, 2009 | NY Times"
Received the following text in an email to me as I am a NY Times subscriber (have two dogs and it is absolutely the best newsprint to use):
We are very pleased to offer New York Times home delivery subscribers unique commemoratives honoring our 44th president — all at an exclusive 15% discount.
You'll also receive free with your order a classic photo of Barack Obama taken for The New York Times."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178999/posts
Last major Nazi found pretending to be a muslim in Cairo. Nobody noticed the difference.
There are too many jokes here, not all of them legal...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.d8ca94e96902bbb661aa0a25338b31a3.81&show_article=1
Warren Kinsella:
"Michael Ignatieff has donated through the Laurier Club in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Both Michael and his wife, Zsuzsanna Zsohar, have donated the maximum amount to the Michael Ignatieff campaign in 2009. And, in 2007, Zsuzsanna donated $1,000 to Michael’s riding and $1,000 to the Liberal Party."
Stephen Taylor responds:
First of all, the Laurier Club doesn’t mean anything in a legal sense to Elections Canada. To Liberals, it’s the max donor club. To Elections Canada, it could be called the “First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence… Club” and it would have the same legal standing. Anyway, donations to the “Laurier Club” are in fact donations to the Liberal Party. And, according to Elections Canada, Michael Ignatieff has donated $0 in 2008. So, either Michael Ignatieff has given $0, or he’s made his donations off-book (you say he’s given the max amount), or you’re mistaken and he’s given as many normal political donors do, with a $50 cheque here and a $75 cheque there." (emph. mine)
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2009/02/warren-kinsella-misfires/
I noticed this morning that the weather was a lot milder than it has been for a few days. I now conclude that the cold weather must have settled in Hell. Because an opinion piece in this morning's Winnipeg Free Press demonstrates that a former NDP cabinet minister in Manitoba is now way more conservative than Steve Harper or Jim Flaherty,
"The difficulty with the Keynesians I have seen in action is that they follow their principles with only half the equation. They are always willing to spend because, no matter how good things are, they can always be better. I have yet to see them identify the good times when taxation should be imposed to prepare for leaner years.
What we are now witnessing in Canada and the United States is Keynesian economics run wild. In answer to the economic collapse, these two North American governments are engaging in massive spending programs. Not only are they not raising taxes to pay for these programs, they are reducing taxes at the same time, thus guaranteeing an increase in the operating deficit, with the inevitable and consequential increase in the public debt.
When the public debt is increased, the cost of financing this debt is automatically added to the operating budget, aggravating the problems.
There are no sound economic or fiscal principles on which these courses of action can be justified. No government has ever successfully spent itself out of a recession without imposing taxation to pay for its expenditures."
Sid Green, former NDP Cabinet Minister
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/keynesian_principles_have_been_misapplied_for_3000_years39131292.html
Socialist socialists rob/plunder/steal at all times/everywhere.
Socialism has had no new/original ideas since Pharoah Rameses I (circa 1200 BC) perfected his Pyramid Scheme.
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"Obama artist Shepard Fairey sued for the audacity of 'Hope'
"The Los Angeles street artist who created the most iconic political image of the year - Barack Obama, simply drawn in red, white and blue, staring pensively skywards above the word 'Hope' - is being sued for breach of copyright.
Shepard Fairey has never denied that he based the image on a photograph of the future President taken by Mannie Garcia, while he was on assignment for the Associated Press (AP) at the National Press Club in New York in April 2006.
Unfortunately, claims AP, Fairey failed to ask permission for "borrowing" the photo."
urlm.in/bpke
B'gosh and b'gorra, a little musical humour on Barry O'Bama. I doubt they understand the homonymous humour potential with names like Falmouth Kearney (say that quickly), Moneygall, and Blarney, O'Leary, Offaly... (close your eyes as you say them)
"Now let's see Barak do Riverdance?" "He's as Irish as bacon?" Not sure what his Muslim relatives would have to say about that.
"The Barack Obama Irish song.
Moneygall is a small village in County Offaly , Ireland . It has a population of approximately 300 people, has a Roman Catholic church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a police station and two pubs.
President-elect of the United States Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, emigrated from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County , Indiana . Kearney 's father had been the village shoemaker, then a wealthy skilled trade.
http://www.oneeyedparrot.org/obama.html
I'M sorry ET Your comments are usually well thought out, however, I question your assumption that the average of 0 and 2,000,000. is 1,000,000.
Divide, subtract, multiply or add 0 to 2,000,000. Or attempt to find the mean (average) is an equation, 0 in the equation does not yield 1,000,000 as the mean.
I'M sorry ET Your comments are usually well thought out, however, I question your assumption that the average of 0 and 2,000,000. is 1,000,000.
Divide, subtract, multiply or add 0 to 2,000,000. Or attempt to find the mean (average) is an equation, 0 in the equation does not yield 1,000,000 as the mean. You perhaps suggest it to be a halfway point.
mike w - very funny. You are absolutely right; it ought to be a range from 1 to 2 million. But you know what I meant. Thanks for keeping me on my statistical toes.