Good evening, welcome to Wednesday’s Late Nite Radio. Tonight, we present an old folk music standard called She Moved Through The Fair. Commonly believed to be a traditional song, it is in fact a hybrid of sorts: in 1905 Composer and musicologist Herbert Hughes transcribed an old Irish air he’d heard on his travels, and later collaborated with Irish Poet Padraic Colum in writing/arranging the song in its current form.
Here then, without further ado, Anne Briggs performs a lovely, haunting version of She Moved Through The Fair.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
me no dhimmi – thanks for the link, but the judge’s definition of a religious belief as equivalent to a philosophical belief is untenable.
The nature of a religious belief is its immunity to evidential verification; you accept it on faith. The nature of a philosophical belief is its acceptance of evidential or logical verification; you accept it on evidence and reason.
After all, I could declare that I could be a salesman for a global firm but have a belief that ‘the earth is flat’ and refuse to travel for my firm. Since the judge has viewed this as a religious rather than empirical belief – well? I could have a belief that no women should be allowed in the firm. And?
ulianov – as usual, you refuse to acknowledge the truth.
The Liberal-NDP-Bloc Coalition was a legal, signed agreement between the three parties that they would do certain actions. These included taking over the govt without an election. Remember, not one Canadian voted for such a coalition. And, disabling the ability of parliament to call an election for a minimum of 18 months. Because the Bloc signed its agreement to support all confidence Motions. Without reading those Motions. This was the most vicious attack against our democracy in Canadian history.
A ‘coalition’ understood, not as a signed agreement outlining joint actions to be taken aover months, but ONLY one action, a single VOTE in parliament – is not the same thing. After all, if one party agrees with the content of a motion proposed by another party – that’s parliament at work. Not at all similar to the Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition, which denigrated and dismissed parliament to set themselves up in POWER.
You, of course, unless you are totally dimwitted, know this. You are just trying to troll.
Pete, thank you for the link to the Lorrie Goldstein article. It truly is shocking how much tax we all have to pay these days. And where’s it going? To overpaid government paper shufflers.
I took the time to produce two pie-charts of the numbers which you can view here.
Great pic ‘vit’. Something about a voice like that singing an old song brings back memories about when singing was words that you can understand and hear and want to hear again.
Thanks for the link ‘pete’. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090429.wquebec0429/BNStory/politics/home
Very interesting comments and where the news is going to go on that one.
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Are you in favour of a moratorium on hydro?
If you support run of river hydro, please vote NO on a moratorium. Current the ‘No’ side is losing. Do help change that!
Poll here
To Gord Tulk
My dad was a Pontiac dealer in a small town, we sold about 250 new and used cars every year. . All dealer expenses are absorbed by the dealer principle. (Heating, lights, taxes etc.) Once computers came in, it was not uncommon for one dealer to pay $4000 or more for one single program that arrived in a disc or diskette..
Just as an example, the book that was used to show the paint colours and upholsery cost over $500.00. (An ordinary binder with samples glued to pages.) Interest on new units started the moment the new car hit our lot. By the time a car was sold, the company had often collected over $1000 in interest alone. Special tools were sent to us without our permission, we were forced to pay for them. Much of the demise of the GM dealer system of a cannibal attitude towards their dealers!! I know one thing for sure. You can`t sell more cars with less dealers. Could Macdonalds sell more burgers with less outlets? I doubt it–it`s all about numbers.
The reason that GM once dominated the car market is that they had dealers in every town in the nation. Today, they are toast, and by their own hand!
I’m not sure what happened with that link. Here it is: http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_north/campbellrivermirror
By the way, the proposed moratorium of the BC NDP will have real consequences for some people in the province. Here’s an interesting video showing one such group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBo9jyTL_Z8
ldd,
All they say so far is that they searched the house and the car and have declared it wasnt terrorism….whatever….and that the person is a “Dutch national”…which of course means nothing other than he has Dutch citizenship.
They havent released his name or picture yet but have said it is a “he” and that he is 39.
Could be just your everyday crazy, or an anti monarchist
You think it would get more play here, becasue wasnt Queen Beatrix born in Ottawa during the war?
Closing thousands of dealerships will put GM out of business and Anna into a Ford product. When GM cut the Olds brand, nearly all of the dealerships became instead Honda, Hyundai, Subaru, you name it, every derivative POS made.
Now, there is nothing wrong with Ford products, and in fact, we have a Lincoln pick up. But if one has modeled on a specific make, it is wrenching to switch.
What will happen to Corvettes and Cadillacs? Mustangs are nice but they ain’t Corvettes [grammar intended]. I love Lincolns but have owned various models of Cadillacs for over 20 years. It is not the same.
O lOves Iowa.
“Obama declares love for Canada, banishes Bush era | Reuters
19 Feb 2009 … OTTAWA”
“Thank you, President Obama, and may you do even better in your next 100 days.”
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“William Watson: Our Obama opportunity
The more Obama raises U.S. government spending, the better Canada looks to private investors
By William Watson
In his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama favoured us with a visit, said very gracious things about us, made supporting our Afghan mission politically respectable again, offered to help out our economy by buying maple leaf cookies for his daughters and hit approval ratings not seen since Trudeaumania. On the other hand, no sooner had Air Force One landed back in Washington than his Agriculture Department announced new meat-labelling rules that will hit our exporters hard. Still, Mr. Obama has subsequently made clear that his campaign promise to renegotiate NAFTA is no longer operative, which is good for us.
If the President’s direct effect on Canada has been minimal, his sideswipe effects have been substantial and his post-100 Days influence offers up new strategic possibilities for us, including repositioning ourselves as North America’s market-friendlier half.
The sideswipe effects include quasi-nationalization of two car companies, which forced us to follow suit or lose plants to the United States, and his continuation of the Bush policy of mega-bucks for banks, which induced the Bank of Canada to provide comparable loans to our supposedly much healthier banks lest free money for U.S. banks cause them competitive disadvantage.
But if the sideswipes have forced greater intervention here, Mr. Obama’s long-term influence may move in the other direction. You may have been as struck as I was by the graph Jason Clemens and Neils Veldhuis published here yesterday (reproduced above). It shows government expenditure in Canada and the United States over the last 60 years as a share of the two countries’ respective GDPs.”
urlm.in/chif
After the first 100 days, Rasmussen provides us with the ratings.
Obama began with 44% strongly approve and a total of 65% approval.
He began with only 16% strongly disapprove and a total of 30% disapproval.
He’s now at 34% strongly approve and 54% approval, and 32% strongly disapprove and 45% disapproval.
In other words, he’s shrunk to his partisan Democrat base. He’s lost Republicans and is starting to lose independents..at a slower rate.
He’s now in a situation where what he does, specifically, in reaction to situations, will reflect on him alone.
So far, he’s managed, as a Teflon Man, to deflect causality onto Bush. And others. He’s explained the reason for the massive pork stimulus as ‘Bush’s fault’; the reason for ‘torture’ as ‘Bush’. The reason for ‘Europeans not liking us’ as ‘Bush’.
He’s very good at passing the buck. He tried to explain the AIG bonuses as ‘the greed of the wealthy’, ignoring that his own administration wrote in those bonuses. AND, that his definition of ‘wealth’ means that self-made middle class businesses are no longer wanted in America. The middle class, to Obama, are all about ‘greed’.
Any problem – he passes off to someone else. But this has a limited capacity. Eventually, he’s going to have to acknowledge that HIS decisions have results. And that these results might not be welcome.
He’s working now, to deflect the next Tea Parties, as caused by FOX news, and as something he can ignore. But Obama cannot handle rejection, he cannot handle criticism; it stresses him out. It will be interesting to watch him try to stop these Tea Parties…and to try to deflect and divert criticism.
Batb and Merle Underwood: I (EBD) have been doing Wednesdays’ Late Nite Radio shows for a little over six months now. I’m loathe to mention it, in the context of the well-deserved compliments to Vitruvius, but it’s important that he not be blamed for other Wednesday selections such as Urheilu on Ihaana, or for Florence Foster Jenkins’ Der Holle Rache.
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Here is a stunning addtional point from Laurie Goldstein’s article in today’s Toronto Sun. UK here we come as each year the number of public employees increases. Remember most public employees only are employed for 25-30 years then go on their pensions for the rest of their lives, at least another 30 years.
“Then again, for sheer chutzpah, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan recently outdid even Miller.
Asked whether, in light of the fact the number of civil servants in Ontario earning over $100,000 annually shot up 32% last year alone (26% for all public servants), their pay should be frozen, here was Duncan’s response in rejecting the idea: “The public service and the broader public service are now the largest employers. Our restaurants, our small businesses, depend on those public sector salaries.
Public servants
Got that? According to Ontario’s finance minister, all taxpayers, 80% of whom work in the private sector where they are bearing the brunt of this recession, should pay almost half their income in taxes, so as to subsidize continued salary increases for public servants earning over $100,000 annually, many with job security, benefits and pensions about which others can only dream.
Why? So these public servants will have even more money for discretionary spending, so as to toss a few crumbs to the struggling locals.
Duncan, by the way, represents Windsor, devastated by auto sector job losses.
No wonder the rest of the country hates Ontario.”
O’Blackbeard lOves Canada.
When your best friend is your enema.
Da proof*?: wen ya got da proof, it’s da proof, & it’s proven da proof, it’s a proof. (H/T Ad$Cam Chretien)
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“Canada placed on copyright blacklist
The Obama administration added Canada Thursday to a notorious blacklist of countries where Internet piracy flourishes, reflecting a new, tougher line in Washington over the Harper government’s chronic failure to deliver on promises of new copyright laws”
urlm.in/chiq
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*Da Proof:
“Canadians Love Obama! | life as you see it – go snap it!
On this day in history proof that Canadians love Obama.
gosnapit.com/2009/01/21/canadians-love-obama/”
ulianov: “Harper planning a coalition with the seperatists and the socialists.”
Oh yeah, sure. ‘Guess you’re a stranger to democracy ulianov. ‘No surprise there.
Working with the Opposition parties when your party forms the government is called “governing,” though I realize this must be a foreign concept to you who seem to think that undermining a duly elected government — which is what the Librano$, Dippers, and Blocheads tried to do when they signed the coalition document on the dotted line — is a good thing.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his CPC party are in no way forming any kind of coalition with the NDP and the Bloc. THEY. ARE. WORKING. WITH. THEM. FOR. THE. GOOD. OF. ALL. CANADIANS.
IT’S CALLED GOVERNING. ‘Funny you’ve missed that rather important detail.
EBD, sorry for attributing Anne Brigg’s enchanting rendition of “She Moved Through the Fair” to Vitruvius!
I’m usually much more careful about noticing who’s written what. I didn’t sleep all that well last night — and I was only on my first cup of coffee.
Oh heck. Just my bad. :-0
What to do with all those closed-down car dealerships?
Why, turn them into casinos of course.
(that’s where the money is)
Alberta’s Gambling Boom Defies Credit Crunch
No need to apologize, batb. It’s just that, to whatever extent commenters might think Vitruvius has been doing the Wednesdays, he could be left holding the bag for say, the Matti Nikanen post, through no fault of his own. I wouldn’t want to do that to him — although rumor has it he’s going to add to that broad genre tonight. Stay tuned.
Btw, I’m going through sleep hell this last month or so — my Mom’s forgotten my name now, that sort of thing. Do you have any helpful tips for getting to sleep that don’t involve either liquor or weighted rubber mallets? /:>o>
This quote is from Lizzie May in today’s Montreal Gazzette—“”We’re now the party that received more votes than any party in this country’s history that’s failed to win a seat.” Woo hoo,and if the other three parties didn’t run,she would be prime minister.———-http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Green+leader+takes+Tories/1547691/story.html
Rubber mallets or a few strong rum and cokes work pretty well, but ‘too many side effects. You might try saying a few Hail Marys … they work better than counting sheep.
Or, how about putting on an Anne Briggs album? Her voice is mesmerizing and might just do the trick …
My hair just about stood on end….
As a young 14year old or so, I watched a series on tv (CBC back then). 1968-69, I don’t recall the name. The host usually sported a turtleneck. It was a series about humans, and their relationships, mainly the physical kind.Lovers etc, the chemistry, poetry, etcetera.
The theme music, and some lyrics, had been stuck in my head for, well nigh on FORTY years. When I clicked on the Anne Briggs clip, the first two words, told me I at least, the music wasn’t simply a tv jingle.
Thanks for the link, this old English stuff is good to hear. Matty Groves, sung by Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention) is another MAJOR keeper!
Re: “The public service and the broader public service are now the largest employers. Our restaurants, our small businesses, depend on those public sector salaries.”
Isn’t this the same “trickle down” economics that was much derided when right-wingers expressed it?
It really boils down to claiming a multiplier effect of sorts. But the bottom line is that if some people are paid to do nothing productive (which is true of quite a few civil servants, notably those in regulatory agencies), then others are producing more than they are able to consume, and that is an injustice.
The economic recovery will take shape when the public service is no longer the “largest employer”.