Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday Night edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Our theme tonight is the triumph of the individual over regulation, in the context of sports.
In ski-jumping, minute aerodynamic forces can easily make the difference between being an adored gold medalist who will be plied with free food and beverage for the rest of his life or a trivial, forgotten figure who has to pay for his own drinks. A few years ago the International Ski Federation realized that a particular type of person -- short-ish, wide-ribbed when viewed from the front but thin from the side, and with a faraway look in the eyes -- had an unfair advantage in the sport, and decided to handicap such skiers by making them use shorter skis in an attempt to even out any aerodynamic advantage.
The problem is that "tall jumpers tried to lose weight in order to use the advantages of the longer ski. The ski federation reacted by implementing the body mass index (BMI) as a gauge," in part because "the skinny bodies of jumpers, along with the presumption of anorexia, were tarnishing the image of the sport, which in the past had always been symbolic of strength and masculinity."
Finnish ski-jumping hero Matti Nykanen, who won four Olympic gold medals and nine world championship medals, is widely considered the greatest ski-jumper in history. Standing 5'10'' tall and weighing 119 pounds, he is fortunate to have competed before such BMI handicapping, inasmuch as he has since managed to parlay his famous jumping exploits into a second career as a rampaging, frequently-arrested Finnish national drinking hero and singer. Tonight, for your listening pleasure, we present Matti Nykanen, pictured with his fourth and fifth wife, performing his soaring paean to the benefits of participation in sports, Urheilu On Ihanaa.
The thread is open for your Reader Tips.
Kate
The have a video at Atlas Shugs that mentions you and Charles of LGF.
Kate posted it already, september fortytwo:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011210.html
just below the Reader Tips.
Oops!
"(Sitara) Achakzai, a prominent women's rights activist and Kandahar Provincial Council member, was one of the leaders of a nation-wide women's strike that coincided with International Women's Day last month.
Lauryn Oates of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, and my co-founder with the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee: "(In the Taliban statement) they used the words that she was involved in 'bad things' without elaborating on what exactly that meant. I think we can assume it just meant that she was a woman who worked outside her home and she was involved in politics with the government that they are opposing. So she was a worthy target for that reason."
http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2009/04/sitara-achakzai-is-dead.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090415.wafghanlaw0415/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
Just to add to the above posting...we need to continue fighting terrorism in Afghanistan, but I think our enemy might be a whole lot bigger than we first reckoned...thoughts anyone?
Charles Adler and John Gormley were on fire today, discussing Saskatoon mistakenly adopting Vancouver's failed drug policies. I've provided pertinent links here.
I think that the local feminists should raise a brigade, somewhat along the lines of the International Brigades that fought for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Perhaps they could call it the Emily Murphy Brigade. After suitable training they could go over to Afghanistan and put their lives on the line in the fight for womens' rights in that country. I suspect that they would scare the hell out of the Taliban, and at least they would be putting their money where their mouths are, so to speak.
Lorne Gunter: Gun registry a $2-billion placebo
Comment
Lorne Gunter, National Post
Published: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1496907
Kate, The New York Times is stealing your lines !!
DINOSAUR AT THE GATE op-ed by Maureen Dowd, NYT
[..]
[ The 53-year-old Schmidt is soft-spoken, exuding the calm knowingness of a therapist as he explains why privacy is passé and why passé newspapers are not going to pry more money out of Google to save themselves.
The therapist tone works with me because my profession is in a meltdown. Firms, like Google here and Craigslist in San Francisco, have hijacked journalism, making us feel about as modern as the Tyrannosaurus rex model that sits on the Google campus.]
Meltdown ? You bet.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid infringement evident there, also.
[ “Johnny Carson smoked, and for 30 years he was never pictured smoking a cigarette,” Schmidt says. “Today that would be impossible.”]
[ “It’s fair to say that there will be no heroes,” Schmidt says. “Heroism requires understanding the person in the absolute best light. I’m not sure this is good. What was Barack Obama like in elementary school? ‘Oh, yeah, here’s a picture of him picking his nose. God, he’s no longer a hero.’ ”]
Ouch !!
Why do the Media bosses want to commit suicide ?? Why do most journalist keep on producing a damaged product ?
Do they not get it ? Like the pathetic CNN "Reporter" at the Tea Party today trying to make the news instead of reporting it.
Pravda was never this bad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/opinion/15dowd.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
My husband and I went to London, ON on Monday to hear Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant and Salim Mansur talk about the Canadian human rights commissions.
For anyone who wasn't able to attend but would like to hear what was said, my husband videotaped the event and so far we have all three speeches up at my blog (Part 1 has Kathy & Part 2 has Salim and Ezra). They're all excellent.
The Q&A will be in Part 3, which we hope to have up tomorrow.
AS critical as I can be of the CBC, the series "Ideas" is one of the best things on radio.
Tonight's broadcast "Chasing a Mirage" is a brilliant history and critique of Islam and well worth listening to.
www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/chasing-a-mirage/index.html
OK,something is weird. I read the prologue,followed the links,even watched the youtube.Now there are a few things going through my mind. The first is WTF,this Matt guy is very (diplomatically) different. The second is,"I really want to know your dealer". Cheers.
Matti:
Selemardin sud gren pitkolain et siekka ne kuna Filppula osaa lo tardos. Ei nes oiken dar truukannin! Vituaa do pan va kuusela, Matti? Oiye kres!
For a little smile if you haven't seen it all ready...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBepgH00GM
Lorne Gunter: Gun registry a $2-billion placebo
~Revnant Dream at April 15, 2009 11:21 PM
It's sad but typical of the mouthpieces for the CPC that they quote such nonsense.
The Gun registry cost us taxpayers that much before the CPC even took power in 'o4.
The real question is: How much is it NOW that they haven't stopped funding it?
I've been attacked by a journalist! At least someone claiming to be a journalist. Look at first comment left here and laugh. Laugh very loudly.
Perhaps he's a laid off CBC employee?
This is just too funny lol.
Song of the Olga groped-man [Mark Steyn]
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGI5Zjc5MTk3MGZlMjJjYzRiOTg5YWQxNGU4NTU1NjY=
Lorrie Goldstein is paraphrasing you today in the Sun Kate,
"To paraphrase Kate McMillan at smalldeadanimals.com, when Liberal B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and David Suzuki fight with NDP Leader Carole James over whether carbon taxes or cap-and-trade will save the planet, you're supposed to pray for an asteroid, not pick a favourite."
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/04/16/9127811-sun.html
The more we lowly citizen journalists cover it, the more the Big Media will come under increasing pressure to actually do their job and report the real news that they refuse to...
So I'm dropping the link to my post about the massive protests in America against the Obama socialist regime:
Massive Anti-Obama-Regime Protests Rock America
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/04/massive-anti-obama-regime-protests-rock.html
Plenty of cool pictures there and at the links provided.
Makes me proud of my American "Silent Majority No More" friends! :)
"The polar bears will be fine."
-- Freeman Dyson
I commend the NYT for printing this...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?_r=2&hp
Flip Flop's are In Season
"Ignatieff on Defensive over Tax Hike Comment"
toronto star April 16/2009
"Ignatieff clarifies Tax-Hike remark"
globe & mail april 16/2009
*conservatives pounce on Liberals honesty
*Ignatieff says it was hypothetical question
*but lets flip this this deficit is stephen harpers deficit, its not Mine, its his deficit
*Remarks reminiscent of Walter Mondales pledge during the US 1984 presidential election when he said he would raise levies to deal with Red Ink, He lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide.
*In a note circulated to causcas members that this is a desperate attempt by the conservatives to change the channel.
IMO: was it Not the Liberals insisting to Spend More?
IMO: Its Stephen Harpers fault the Worlds Economy is in a Downswing?
IMO: Was it Not Ignatieff that helped draw up the "Carbon Tax" But backed away when Dion started to get pumbled over that?
"German Officer who Helped “The Pianist” Recognized as Righteous
(IsraelNN.com) The German officer made famous in Roman Polanski’s 2002 film “The Pianist” has been posthumously recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. So reports the April 2009 edition of Yad Vashem Jerusalem quarterly magazine.
Wilhelm Hosenfeld was drafted into the Wermacht shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He was stationed in Poland; from July 1940 he was based in Warsaw. Hosenfeld spent most of the war as a sports and culture officer, and during the Warsaw Uprising, in the summer of 1944, he was involved in interrogating prisoners.
After the war, Hosenfeld was arrested and tried by the Soviets. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence was commuted to 25 years, but Hosenfeld died in a Soviet prison in 1952."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229509/posts
Liberal Infactuation with Communist Countries Continue & look who is leading the Charge.
"Chretian betting on Resort-Casino in Vietnam"
Globe & Mail April 16/2009
China is buying commodities, such as copper, at rates that exceed production forecasts. Building up inventories of base metals...
"Lorrie Goldstein is paraphrasing you today in the Sun Kate. etc, etc,"
Posted by: AtlanticJim at April 16, 2009 6:22 AM
Hey, AtlanticJim,
I have just advised Lorrie Golstein to put Kate on the Sun Media payroll and a circulation rise overnight.
Let's see if he pays attention.
Today's Phantom fascism update:
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2009/04/todays-american-fascism-update.html
Contained within is a partial answer to Ron in Kelona's question: "Why do the Media bosses want to commit suicide ?? Why do most journalist keep on producing a damaged product?"
Because they are being TOLD to that's why, and today we finally have a smoking gun to prove it. CNBC brass and talent got called on the carpet by the boss of General Electric because they were "bashing Obama" too much.
Suck on that, trolls.
"Civil Rights Are Black Rights
by David Yeagley · April 15, 2009 · 1 Comment ·
Civil rights were created for black people. Civil rights as a concept, as a legal activist movement, was designed for the benefit of the American Negro. No other “minority” was involved initially, and all subsequent minority involvement is peripheral.
Civil rights, as a black social movement, is designed to deny civil rights of all non-black people. This is the outcome. It was not an unintended consequence. It was the design from the beginning.
The apogée of civil rights is expressed in the Homeland Security intelligence assessment of the Right, issued by Janet Napolitano, April 7, 2009, (exposed in some conservative media beginning April 14). This document contains specific application of the Negro theme to the major impetus and legal motivation of the “right wing” assessment."
http://www.badeagle.com/
Every channel on shaw here in Vancouver did NOT even mention the multi protests yesterday on there morning "News" show.
Why am I not surprised?
So much for honesty.
Geert Wilders is planning on making a sequel to "Fitna":
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090416/entertainment/netherlands_anti_islam_film
"Geert Wilders said in an interview published Thursday in a Dutch newspaper that the film will likely come out next year.
"He said it will not be a copy of 'Fitna,' the film he released on the Internet last year that coupled images of terrorist attacks with verses from the Qur'an, the Islamic holy book."
Bondpapers
Excellent roundup on Danny Williams and his equalization shell game by Ed Hollett @ Bond Papers. Gimmie your lunch money Dork! and Manley Ponders Rot, third entry down.
Liberal MP, Glen Pearson, is a liar.
Here is the Big Lie:
"Jean Chretien followed up by making the South African icon [Mandela] an honourary Canadian citizen."
The Big Lie is here:
"Canada's reputation at stake"
urlm.in/ccop
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The proof of Liberal Pearson's Big Lie here: To paraphrase Liberal ex-PM Ad$Scam Chretien: da proof is da proof and when you have da proof it's a good proof and it's proven it's a proof ....
"PM blasts MP for blocking Mandela honour
"Prime Minister Jean Chrétien called an Alberta Alliance MP "stupid" Thursday for preventing the House of Commons from making Nelson Mandela an honorary Canadian citizen.
The MP, Rob Anders, shouted "no" Wednesday when the Speaker asked if everyone agreed with the motion."
urlm.in/ccoq (cbc)
O'Narcissist and BO and "I", "me", "mine", "me", "I've", "I", "I", "I" >>>>>
...-
""I decided not to bring Bo today,"".
"he stepped on my economic speech".
""I know".
"I've brought some friends of mine who sent me here".
"I guess,"
"I think".
"I'll let".
"I think".
"President Obama Heralds Tax Cuts While Gibbs Tweaks Tea Party Protestors"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230911/posts
Canada's Very Own RINO
David Frum
"Obama administration sticks with ban on Arar"
"A senior diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Ottawa told Canadian reporters that Arar is not welcome in the country."
urlm.in/ccpr
O says, "I" am not a R"I"NO; nor, have "I" ever been a R"I"NO. George was right.
… and, now,….. over to Boob (Hi! I’m Mao Stlong’s nephew) Rae.
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“Bob Rae on Michael Ignatieff
In a wide-ranging, three-part interview with The Real News Network Senior Editor Paul Jay, (www.therealnews.com), Bob Rae, Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic and former Premier of Ontario, discusses the Liberal Party leadership crisis in the waning days of 2008 and his views about his new leader, Michael Ignatieff.
In the first segment of the interview released April 16 on TheRealNews.com , Mr. Rae asserts that the executive of the Liberal Party left him no choice but withdraw from the leadership race or face a destructive fight.
In the second segment of the interview, to be released on April 17, Rae is asked if he thinks the collapse of the effort to create a coalition government was a lost opportunity for change in Canadian politics.
In the third segment of the interview to be released on April 18, Rae is asked his opinion on Ignatieff’s thesis of “imperialism light” and his leader’s public defense of the Iraq war.”
“Rae on Ignatieff Pt.1
Bob Rae speaks on how he lost the Canadian Liberal leadership race and his new leader Michael Ignatieff.”
urlm.in/ccpw
"CBC News revamp geared to 24-hour coverage
But news departments also face $7M cut"
(cbcpravda)
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Fire. Cut. Them. All.
Re: "I decided not to bring Bo today", and "he stepped on my economic speech"
Does this translate to "The dog ate my homework"?
A Tribute to Pierre van Paassen.
"... they insisted on being men before social beings."
"Their rule was to cultivate their own gardens."
"They were individualists."
"They were content to be human."
"They did not lament when death came, nor were
they afraid of life."
...-
"Days of Our Years".
"When we moved from Paris to the village of Bourg-en-Foret in 1929,
we soon discovered that we had done more than change our residence.
It was like another world.
As a fog sometimes lingers over a swamp long after the sun is up, so the past still seemed to linger in Bourg-en-Foret. True, the elementary gods had not failed to work their havoc; most of the houses were decrepit; their roofs sagged and the doors hung crooked; the rains of centuries had
completely obliterated the features of the sculptured saints in the portal of the church, but life had remained untouched by the tumult with which the modern metropolis seeks to hide its secret anguish.
Those peasants amongst whom we lived for almost ten years were poor in worldly goods; they
had no automobiles or radios, but neither did they envy those who had them.
Thoughts of tomorrow did not torture them. They did not lament when death came, nor were
they afraid of life. And yet they had a remarkably clear conception of the problem of our
time and did not hesitate to take definite stands when occasion demanded it.
Their rule was to cultivate their own gardens.
I think that the serenity of their existence, which often evoked the envy of strangers who
watched them, resided in the fact that they insisted on being men before social beings.
They were individualists.
They were content to be human.
Thus they had retained something of that fundamental dignity which is the sole condition
of human happiness because it is both our physiological norm and the law of nature."
"Days Of Our Years"
Pierre van Paassen
1903-1938
http://www.pierre-van-paassen.com/index.php?section=1
A Tribute to Pierre van Paassen.
"... they insisted on being men before social beings."
"Their rule was to cultivate their own gardens."
"They were individualists."
"They were content to be human."
"They did not lament when death came, nor were
they afraid of life."
...-
"Days of Our Years".
"When we moved from Paris to the village of Bourg-en-Foret in 1929,
we soon discovered that we had done more than change our residence.
It was like another world.
As a fog sometimes lingers over a swamp long after the sun is up, so the past still seemed to linger in Bourg-en-Foret. True, the elementary gods had not failed to work their havoc; most of the houses were decrepit; their roofs sagged and the doors hung crooked; the rains of centuries had
completely obliterated the features of the sculptured saints in the portal of the church, but life had remained untouched by the tumult with which the modern metropolis seeks to hide its secret anguish.
Those peasants amongst whom we lived for almost ten years were poor in worldly goods; they
had no automobiles or radios, but neither did they envy those who had them.
Thoughts of tomorrow did not torture them. They did not lament when death came, nor were
they afraid of life. And yet they had a remarkably clear conception of the problem of our
time and did not hesitate to take definite stands when occasion demanded it.
Their rule was to cultivate their own gardens.
I think that the serenity of their existence, which often evoked the envy of strangers who
watched them, resided in the fact that they insisted on being men before social beings.
They were individualists.
They were content to be human.
Thus they had retained something of that fundamental dignity which is the sole condition
of human happiness because it is both our physiological norm and the law of nature."
"Days Of Our Years"
Pierre van Paassen
1903-1938
http://www.pierre-van-paassen.com/index.php?section=1