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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are B. B. King, James Toney (love the Hammond, James), Mose Thomas, Lee Gatling, and Sonny Freeman performing Part I ¤ and II ¤ on Ralph Gleason‘s Jazz Casual show, in 1968. I particularly like their version of The Jungle, which begins at 05:55 into part one…

I work hard everyday,
From Monday through Friday night.
And the wages that they pay me,
I swear they’re very light.

They take out a little for the State,
And a little more for Uncle Sam.
How can I ever catch up,
And get myself out of this jam?

I’m gonna move to the jungle,
Way out in the woods.
Because the way things are here now,
I tell ya’ I ain’t doin’ myself no good.

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

32 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Nobody does tone like BB King. I’ve seen him several times over the last 38 years and it’s always a treat. He deceptive as well because he like to play small phrases for the most part but he can play long and fast lines like any rock star when he chooses to. If you ever get to see him play acoustic you realize just how much hard work he puts into every note. He just makes it sound easy.

  2. Did I hear that Harrison Ford once delivered an award for Roman Polanski because they are friends and Polanski couldn’t go the the States to receive it? I would never have thought that Ford would support that kind of conduct in anyone. Should have known he was just another affected Hollywood Jerk. Don’t get me wrong the girl may have been precocious as hell, but try remembering how bright you were at 13. It seems that most of the artistic crowd want to see this creep get away with it. Thus Hollywood sinks into the filthy mire it’s founded on.

  3. Thanks Vitruvius. That was great jazz alright!!
    Tonight–I feel like the guy who wrote the words to “Jungle.” This AM–I go to the Post Offfice, I’m having a good day. I get a letter from my Credit Union, a place that I’ve been dealing with for some 15 years. I’m not the kind of guy that ever borrows money, outside of a small line of credit that I have with my chequing account. I deal there but for one reason, I know everybody by their first name.
    The letter, (that incidentally has me as a citizen of another province,) says that I have to pay up my line of credit pronto, “or else.” No notice, no phone call nothing. In the 15 years I’ve been there, I’ve never had a problem, not a single letter or phone call.
    The CU used to have a policy where we had to clear the line of credit once a year, now it’s once a month. In any event, if I’m O/D’n, I’m the one who has to pay the tab on the interest.
    Is this a new form of business policy where old customers are abused to send fear into the younger ones who don’t pay their tab?? A modern day “crucifixion?” Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I (we) can retaliate against this type of treatment?? It is a “Jungle” out there.

  4. Thoughtless journalism, from Bill Schiller in the Star.
    Monday: China keeps an iron grip on dissidents.
    Sunday: China regards its journalists as propagandists.
    Saturday: The Chinese owe a debt to Chang Kuo-tao, once a rival to Mao Tse-tung, but who was exiled and died in Toronto in 1979. “Chang Kuo-tao was prepared to kill for power”, says Jung Chang, co-author of Mao: The Unknown Story. Meanwhile, “the Chinese” prepare to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the revolution, on Oct. 1
    Mao Tse-tung murdered tens of millions. Chang Kuo-tao was prepared to kill for power. So why exactly do the Chinese owe a debt to him or anyone else associated with the Communist Party of China? Why would the people be celebrating the advent of the communist murderers?

  6. (PDF warning) David J. Kilcullen, Terrain, Tribes, and Terrorists: Pakistan, 2006-2008
    “The two main factors for you will be the terrain and the tribes. You have to know their game and learn to play it, which means you first have to understand their environment,” Professor Akbar Ahmed told me in May 2006. In the field, with military and civilian teams and local people in locations across Afghanistan and Pakistan at various times through the next three years, the wisdom of Professor Ahmed’s insight came home to me again and again. The fact is that the terrain and the tribes drive ninety percent of what happens on the Frontier, while the third factor, which accounts for the other ten percent, is the presence of transnational terrorists and our reaction to them…

  7. Jeffrey A. Dressler, Securing Helmand: Understanding and Responding to the Enemy
    Southern Afghanistan is ground-zero for the Taliban insurgency, and this is especially evident in Helmand province. Helmand is notorious, if not for the flourishing narcotics trade, then for the Taliban insurgency that dominates large swaths of territory. The coalition’s lack of sufficient resources and a clear strategy has resulted in an overstretched force incapable of maintaining the initiative against a determined, organized and well entrenched enemy.
    Although the situation in Helmand is serious, a coherent, sufficiently-resourced strategy that focuses on the proven principles of counterinsurgency can reverse the course of the war in one of Afghanistan’s most menacing provinces. Indeed, the hard-fought security gains in the province over the 2009 summer months have helped to establish the necessary preconditions for efforts going forward. Yet, a discussion of the way forward in Helmand necessitates a clearer understanding of the enemy, the terrain, and past failures of coalition efforts…

  11. POLANSKI JOKE
    Q: Have you heard the real reason why Roman Polanski is being brought back to America by the U.S. Government?
    A: Obama and ACORN plan to appoint him as their Underage Prostitution Czar.

  12. Cal, thanks for posting that. It’s important for all of us to glimpse into the lunatic asylum once in a while. In Canada, only on the CBC News site would one see an alleged journalist positing logic & wisdom to the idiotic rambling of the Dictator of Libya. And then to top it off, we see an endless stream of Rabid Leftists ACTUALLY AGREEING with him!!!
    The real tragedy is that all of these morons are your designated vote-cancelers! 🙁

  13. Debra Winger was on the news from Switzerland, pleading with the powers-that-be to drop extradition proceedings for Roman Polanski. And we know where the power-that-is gets his votes and money from, don’t we? Rumour has it that Deb and Roman were planning on going shop-lifting after the show.

  14. Liberal Dionky’s “joke”:
    “The car goes by, and bam, the dog. Now go to sleep.”
    Dion must be laughing, and laughing, and laughing and …
    …-
    “Liberals who were deft enough to hold office for 13 years are now so inept they could wander in the political wasteland for the foreseeable future.”
    Travers:
    “Liberals fail elementary political test”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/702397

  15. Anyone see CBC National last nite?
    Whenever there is major Liberal problems i always flip to CBC to see their UnBias(sarc.)take on Coderre’s Resignation, But low & behold Nothing on Coderre.
    A long piece on the PM’s announcement’s in NB, & a examination on how & where, In other words a slag, critical piece But low & behold Nothing Nothing on Coderre.
    Unless I missed it & it was shown later in the Newscast i had enough shut it off & went to bed.
    So Anyone, Anyone, see anything on the CBC Re: Coderre?

  16. another mussi looking for a payoff. sent her younger sister with her passport and the idea that she could get her into canada. then would claim she lost her passport and come back herself.
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/09/28/lawsuit-mohamud.html
    now in the great unfairness of it all she hires a pack of ambulance chasers.( or is it passport chasers) and sues us. not the government us.
    she will be doing the Jackie Tran for the next 10 years with our paid lawyers and a legal system for immigrants that seems to be the Gordian knot.
    another one for ellesmere island along with the Khadrs.

  18. bryanr — I noticed the same thing, but did not watch the full show. I had to dig quite deeply on the Web site to see any mention of the Coderre story. Someone has been told to bury it, and bury it they did. As I said the other day, I hope Iggy’s and Hall-Findlay’s promise to get rid of party advertising at taxpayers expense extends to the CBC.

  19. Anyone heard about this — seems to be a nasty bit of business about fresh water sales in BC — with lots of apparent Liberal corruption and (surprise, surprise) not much media coverage: http://www.waterwarcrimes.com/ This is also the case with Basi-Verk . . . a non-story as far as the media is concerned.

  21. (Via Danger Room) Jeremy Hsu, Video: Lockheed’s Amazing Monocopter Drone Takes Flight
    Drones based on maple seed pods might act as portable scouts for soldiers
    The SAMARAI system from Lockheed Martin takes its name from the samara seedlings that fly off of trees. Original plans called for a seed pod-sized drone that could somehow send back stable streaming video and deliver a 2-gram payload. Funding for the system supposedly dropped out after a phase 1 DARPA contract, but now here’s this recent video of a larger test prototype with a 30-inch wing span…

  23. Interesting turn of events on the poor lady who was wrongfully imprisoned in Kenya. Looks like egg on the face of the Red Star.
    “Then, on Monday, information began to emerge that suggested the case wasn’t quite as cut and dried as the Star would have us believe. The federal government filed documents detailing the reasons Canadian officials in Nairobi had doubted Mohamud’s claims. Referring to the documents, the CBC reported:
    Mohamud gave wrong information and contradictory answers in three separate interviews. She said she was a student at Humber College, studying fashion design, then denied it in another interview, saying she was thinking of going to school, but at a different college
    She said she’d lived in Toronto for 10 years but couldn’t name Lake Ontario, couldn’t explain the acronym for the Toronto Transit Commission, TTC, even though she said she took it to work; didn’t know what ATS meant, though she said she worked at a company of that name; couldn’t name the prime minister or the previous prime minister and couldn’t say how she obtained her driver’s licence.
    The CBC reported the documents also allege she gave a wrong date for her son’s birthday; couldn’t give details of his birth; gave the wrong date for her marriage (missing it by 10 years); was six or seven centimetres shorter than her drivers licence indicated; had a noticeably thinner face than her passport photo indicated; and her signature didn’t match. Canadian officials suspected Mohamud’s younger sister might be trying to masquerade as her sister to gain entry to Canada.”
    Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/09/29/forget-the-evidence-the-star-stands-by-its-victim.aspx#ixzz0SWc8idOx

  24. Isn’t Mohamud threatening to sue the Canadian government for $2.5 million? These facts should make a swift end to that nonsense. And what about the guy detained in Somalia, was it?, who’s suing the Canadian Government — aka US, ALL CANADIANS — for $27 million???
    ‘Nice gig/scam if you can get it.
    ENOUGH, ALREADY.
    These folks should be on-their-knees-kiss-the-ground grateful that they live in Canada and forget suing a country that’s been (maybe too) good to them. There should be regulations outlawing this kind of biting-the-hand-that-feeds-them antics, as it seems all too easy to come to Canada, return to their country of origin — maybe under false pretenses — then, get into trouble, bellyache about the delays getting back here, and sue the Canadian government for whatever supposed multi-culti-bigotry/sob story (sic) their lawyer can come up with.
    Uh-uh. No more of this, please.

  25. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I (we) can retaliate against this type of treatment?? It is a “Jungle” out there.
    Posted by: Joe Citizen at September 28, 2009 11:26 PM
    This is euphamistically called a ‘margin call’ – or something similar.
    Check your paperwork – it is likely that they can call on it whenever they want.
    And yeah – it’s banking. They are completely bloodless, so I wouldn’t take it personally.

  27. >>> Liberal Ignatieff’s left party is in a crisis; “self-destructing at such a rate that the very swiftness of its collapse threatens to be a catastrophe in its own right.”.
    >>> “the left is in real crisis, facing not a temporary electoral setback in Europe but an existential crisis; that it is self-destructing at such a rate that the very swiftness of its collapse threatens to be a catastrophe in its own right.”
    “The second derivative
    The New York Times has a nightmare. “A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Socialism’s slow collapse.” And yet the denial continues. Socialism’s weakness is all because those damned right wing parties have learned how to be human from the Left. An NYT source says that the Left has been weakened by its very success:
    Europe’s conservatives, says Michel Winock, a historian at the Paris Institut d’Études Politiques, “have adapted themselves to modernity.” When Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Germany’s Angela Merkel condemn the excesses of the “Anglo-Saxon model” of capitalism while praising the protective power of the state, they are using Socialist ideas that have become mainstream, he said.
    It is not that the left is irrelevant — it often represents the only viable opposition to established governments, and so benefits, as in the United States, from the normal cycle of electoral politics.
    But Robert Smith at American Thinker believes that the left is in real crisis, facing not a temporary electoral setback in Europe but an existential crisis; that it is self-destructing at such a rate that the very swiftness of its collapse threatens to be a catastrophe in its own right.
    Less than a year into his presidency, Barack Obama’s world grows bleaker. Liberalism’s world is bleaker. At home and abroad, liberalism, as advanced by the President, is failing. Are we witnessing the beginnings of another historic event, loosely comparable to the fall of communism twenty years ago? Now the fall of liberalism? … Overseas, the nation’s enemies, who only a short time ago feared us, now scheme to overtly or surreptitiously challenge us. Our allies in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, some of whom resent our power, must confront an ugly question: What happens in a world absent sufficient projections of American power?
    (more…)”
    http://www.pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/

  28. Hard to believe,but yes,Woody Allen has signed the petition to set Polanski free. Woody is rumoured to have said, “It’s not like they were related “.

  31. Those are their official membership pins of the “Great Canadian Socialist Pooh-Bah Club”, Question; a.k.a. “the Order of Canada”.

  32. And in the words of Mandy Rice-Davies: (as it concerns Woody Allen) ” Well, he would, wouldn’t he”?

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