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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is Brian Donlevey in the role of Steve Mitchell in the Lefty & Sam episode of the Dangerous Assignment radio show (1950, 28:26).

While I don’t intend to add a daily cheese function to SDA LNR, in the comments on last night’s cheese selections (which is an occasional feature here at SDA LNR, where we once learned that Charles MacDonald actually likes Tomme de Savoie), ET mentioned her favourite cheese, and due to what my browser history list now shows in retrospect was an erroneous search query, I mistakenly suggested or at least could have been interpreted to have suggested that said cheese couldn’t be found via the normal Interwebothique search facilities. To correct that we have here tonight the second of two nights in a row of tonight’s cheese selections: Delice de Bourgogne, courtesy of ET, and Explorateur, a recommendation thereto that I have for her. De gustibus non disputandum est!

Delice de Bourgogne
   Explorateur

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

46 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Maybe you should post Monty Python’s “Cheese Shop” sketch…

  2. I like Tomme de Savoie, too, but I really like the others from the region: Beaufort and the goat cheeses from there.

  3. I like Tomme de Savoie, too, but I really like the others from the region: Beaufort and the goat cheeses from there.

  4. Yes (sniff, sigh) vitruvius, I did indeed conclude that you thought that ‘my cheese’ did not exist. I even, myself, had to go check its label to assure myself of its name and that both it, and I, together, co-existed in a reasonably similar space and time.
    Many thanks for the suggestion of ‘Explorateur’. I’d missed that; I’ll try it right away; I’m sure the St. Lawrence Market here will have it. I sometimes switch to ‘Chaource’ if they don’t have the Delice.
    John – I think vitruvius provided us with the Monty Python Cheese sketch some time ago. Yes, it’s a great one.

  5. Wondering how many of the media showed that photo of Harper and his daughter with the surprise birthday flamingos on his lawn. A great funny, touching picture. I only saw it in the National Post.

  6. Where losing the war. Just another decision not to decide.
    Judge should decide whether veils allowed in court: ruling
    Shannon Kari, National Post
    Published: Friday, May 01, 2009
    More On This Story
    Justice ‘cannot be veiled’
    Appeal of right to testify in veil bogs down in legal wrangling
    Woman’s right to testify in veil a religious freedom?
    Canada’s medieval rights commissions
    Ontario Superior Court of Justice
    TORONTO — An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled there is no blanket right of a Muslim woman to wear a veil while testifying in court.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1554139

  8. Nicola…the Toronto Sun had the picture.I thought it was pretty cool of his staff to do that…they know he has a sense of humour.

  9. cheese i know..so any questions just ask…
    cheese is akin to perfume to a connoiseur…and the secret to delectation of cheeses is very rude but obvious to the experienced mind…
    if you were to ask i just might tell you why and what you’re feeling…

  11. Okay John, why and what am I feeling when I sniff Limburger? Old dirty socks is what I come up with.

  12. [ Click on the chart above (and then click “Play”) to see an amazing video chart from Gapminder showing year-by-year values for: a) life expectancy and b) real GDP per capita from 1800 to 2007 in various countries around the world. For example, in 1800 life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was 39 years and per-capita real GDP was $1,343, compared to 40 years and $2,280 in the UK, and 25 years and $467 in India.
    By 2007, life expectancy in the U.S. was 78 years and per-capita GDP was $42,952. For the UK, it was 79 years and $33,203 and for India 65 years and $2,452.] CARPE DIEM
    Watch how Communism fared and the hit Japan took after WWII and how Kuwait boomed after Aramco got things going in the ME.
    http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=map$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=f;st=f;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=6;ti=2007$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=const$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=const$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL_n5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_s;sma=49;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=i239_r,,,,,,;i119_r,,,,,,
    Doubt if that HTML will get by the filter, heh.

  13. I’d been troubled by the lack of a conservative candidate in my BC riding, for the upcoming provincial election, UNTIL I read about the Independent, William Mewhort. I didn’t want to throw my vote away on a leftist party, and the top three ARE liberals or socialists, so I’m casting my ballot for the common sense candidate, even though I’ve never met him. His concerns sound just like mine.
    http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_north/campbellrivermirror/news/43378902.html
    I refuse to vote for carbon taxing fools or the NDP or Greens who’ve never seen a problem that didn’t have, in their view, a big gov’t solution.
    Bill Mewhort sounds sensible and there are far too few practical people in the political arena.

  15. It did !! Kate’s really got sda hummin in a lot of ways these days !

  16. Fossil Fuels Depletion
    Y2K
    SARS
    Global Warming
    Alien Crop Circles
    Peak Oil
    Swinny Flu
    [ WSJ/CADDO PARISH, La. — A massive natural-gas discovery here in northern Louisiana heralds a big shift in the nation’s energy landscape. After an era of declining production, the U.S. is now swimming in natural gas.
    Even conservative estimates suggest the Louisiana discovery — known as the Haynesville Shale, for the dense rock formation that contains the gas — could hold some 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That’s the equivalent of 33 billion barrels of oil, or 18 years’ worth of current U.S. oil production. Some industry executives think the field could be several times that size.
    Huge new fields also have been found in Texas, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. One industry-backed study estimates the U.S. has more than 2,200 trillion cubic feet of gas waiting to be pumped, enough to satisfy nearly 100 years of current U.S. natural-gas demand.
    The discoveries have spurred energy experts and policy makers to start looking to natural gas in their pursuit of a wide range of goals: easing the impact of energy-price spikes, reducing dependence on foreign oil, lowering “greenhouse gas” emissions and speeding the transition to renewable fuels.]
    Soooo, hey, Kyoto Worshipers – can we all start living again ?
    [ Just three years ago, the conventional wisdom was that U.S. natural-gas production was facing permanent decline. U.S. policy makers were resigned to the idea that the country would have to rely more on foreign imports to supply the fuel that heats half of American homes, generates one-fifth of the nation’s electricity, and is a key component in plastics, chemicals and fertilizer.
    But new technologies and a drilling boom have helped production rise 11% in the past two years. Now there’s a glut, which has driven prices down to a six-year low and prompted producers to temporarily cut back drilling and search for new demand.] wsj
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124104549891270585.html

  18. sysk “what am I feeling when I sniff Limburger? Old dirty socks is what I come up with.” == yes, the smell is a bit off-putting, but the taste is great!

  21. Here’s a story that caught my eye in the Globe today (p. A12):
    The controversy over changes to Alberta’s human rights act heated up with critics charging it will give children a “get-out-of-class-free card” and undermine public education.
    Critics say the act would enshrine parental rights into Alberta law and allow them to pull their children out of public school whenever topics came up that might violate religious beliefs.
    Liberal MLA Harry Chase said it’s either a deliberate attempt to undermine Alberta’s public education system or a thoughtless unintended consequence of social conservatism.
    Premier Ed Stelmach said the province has long had a policy that parents could exempt their children from lessons if those teachings went against their religion.
    He said it merely puts into the human rights act what is already in practice.
    (That’s the article in full)
    It sounds like the only thing being “undermined” here is indoctrination. Or maybe some Muslim parents didn’t want their kids to take classes where they were supposed to tolerate homosexuals. Who knows, these days?

  22. I guess Kraft American cheese on white bread, washed down with a cold beer, is so pedestrian as to be out of the question? 🙂

  24. Monty Hall:
    Mr. Mohammed, behind door number one we have water boarding or behind door number two we have!
    “The footage shows Afghan .. Mohammed Shah Poor lying tied up and screaming on the desert floor as sand is shoveled into his mouth.. struck repeatedly with a plank with a protruding nail… salt is rubbed into his wounds…. an electric cattle prod reportedly is used on the private parts …Near the end of the tape, Mr Poor is made to lie onto the ground and the… drives over him repeatedly, with the sound of what appears to be breaking bones audible on the tape.
    …. a police investigation found that “all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department”.
    Gee Monty, that’s a tough one.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8027500.stm

  25. The end game reaches a climax for Iggy’s allies.
    Watch for a PR* from Iggy.
    …-
    ““Ruthless, dedicated Tamil leader faces final assault
    Mr. Prabhakaran has always said he will die fighting for a Tamil homeland, and if he cannot or will not fight, then comrades have orders to shoot him, douse his body with gasoline and set it alight””
    urlm.in/chmd
    (PR = propaganda)

  26. “Peter Foster: The Dark Lord
    Sir Nicholas Stern says there will be ‘no powerful carbon policemen.’ Don’t bet on it
    It was once said of Maurice Strong, the Canadian envirocrat who masterminded the current United Nations-centred climate change policy mess, that you wouldn’t pick him out of a crowd of two. If the other person were Nicholas Stern, Chairman Mo might have a shot.
    Lord Stern, who was at the Economic Club of Toronto yesterday peddling his new book, The Global Deal, has other things in common with Mr. Strong besides bureaucratic blandness. These include apocalyptic environmental visions, a burning desire to help developing countries, preferably by bashing the rich ones, a belief that those with alternative views should be silenced and a quasi-religious faith in big — and I mean really big — government.”
    urlm.in/chsl

  27. oh there’s a couple of us that could pick Mo Slong from a crowd… 😉

  29. Public LivesEyes reporting privately from the IggyLibfestLaughIn Canvouver.
    A triboot for JohnWho?
    …-
    Hallelujah John’s a Bum. John is as confused now as he was in 1984*.
    John Who was there. John with Iona: been there, bummed that*: “Our private lives were private,(sic)”
    “John Turner, the former Liberal leader and prime minister, turns 80 next month. He is frail and walks bent over with a slightly tentative gait as he uses a cane.”
    >>> John Who said: “The media are busybodies, too involved in a politician’s private life. “[This is more] prevalent now than it was in my day, thank God. Our private lives were private, and we had a good community with members of the House of Commons right across the floor, and the press and media stayed out of it.” He received rousing applause.”
    http://tinyurl.com/d7w3t
    (lottsa libgoodies by Giggles)
    …-
    John Who in his salad days?dazed:
    *”Reminds me of the time, a number of years ago (1984), when the then-Prime
    Minister of Canada, John Turner, patted a former cabinet minister
    (female), Iona Campagnola, on the bum at a public event. It lost him a lot
    of votes. He tried to excuse it by saying he was a physical person — mano
    a mano etc. — and that got him nowhere.”
    urlm.in/chst
    Herewith a triboot for John:
    “Hallelujah I’m a Bum Oh, why don’t I work like other men do? How the hell can I work when the skies are so blue? cho: Hallelujah! I’m a bum, Hallelujah bum again …”
    (traditionaliberal)

  31. fromage comme la parfum a besoin ca scent d’une femme qui se neglige..

  33. Juxtapose !
    [ A flu expert said he sees no reason to believe the virus is particularly lethal. And a federal scientist said the germ’s genetic makeup lacks some traits seen in the deadly 1918 flu pandemic strain and the more recent killer bird flu.]
    [ In Mexico, where swine flu has killed at least 16 people ..]
    Sixteen !!?? The drug cartels kill that many every hour !!
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzz357patY4-QaJFvo9O95zMM_EQD97TT2000
    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/22/us/BORDER.html

  34. fromage comme la parfum a besoin ca scent d’une femme qui se neglige..
    Ah, oui; c’est vrai… aussi, ce parfum est comme de quelqu’un des petes…

  37. Put a stake in Dion…he just keeps coming back.
    He touted a carbon tax at the lib. convention and later ,they adopt the possibility as part of their agenda.
    “A resolution directing a future Liberal government to fight climate change by “establishing a carbon tax, a cap and trade system, or a combination of both” was approved by the majority of delegates after little debate.”
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/Back+future+Liberals+carbon/1557950/story.html

  38. Most cheeses are made with starter bacteria from the Lactococci, Lactobacilli, or Streptococci families. Propionibacter shermani produces carbon dioxide gas bubbles during aging, giving cheeses like Emmental and Jarlsberg its holes. Penicillium roqueforti or Penicillium glaucum are used to produce blue-veined cheeses like Stilton, and to create the surface bloom on cheeses like Brie.

    And now for the purpose of this comment: Brevibacterium is a genus of bacteria of the order Actinomycetales. They are Gram-positive soil organisms. It is the sole genus in the family Brevibacteriaceae. Brevibacterium linens is ubiquitously present on the human skin, where it causes foot odor. The same bacterium is also employed to ferment cheeses such as Limburger, Munster, Port-du-Salut, and Appenzeller.

  39. Watch the Polls
    Rick S beat me to it
    But i can’t beleive the Liberals voted in favor of a Resolution for a Carbon Tax, After Ignatieffs Foot in Mouth 2wks ago when he stated in Favor of raising Taxes their was movement in the polls.
    How will Ignatieff explain this one, Afterall he could’nt react quick enough to say Thats Not What he Meant
    Btw: While in Vancouver do you think Ignatieff will find out what time zone he is in?
    He thinks their are only 4 in Canada He even states it in his new book.

  40. just so….mind though I was referring to the pheremonal/aphrodisiacal properties of a fully developed cheese…
    the activities of a civet cat in heat and a woman dabbing chanel behind her ear are merely geographical in intent….

  42. Daniel, interesting editorial by Rex Murphy. Thank you for posting it. One thing that he doesn’t touch upon however is what has quickly become the key ingredient for Obama & co. to do WHATEVER they want: The vast majority of the MSM refusing to criticize, or even just mildly question, ANYTHING that the Administration is doing.
    I have absolutely no reason to compare Obama with Hitler or Stalin BUT I do wonder if there are some parallels with the MSM today and the press in Germany & Russia respectively when those two aforementioned tyrants took over.
    May I offer a prediction? The Obama Administration doesn’t appear to like even the mildest form of dissent so I do believe that over the rest of this year we are going to witness underhanded attempts to try to curtail both Fox News and conservative talk radio. It won’t be done directly of course but through their legions of brown shirts …. ummmm, I meant “3rd Party Loyalists”.

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