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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, we feature a musical tribute to the northeastern states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, which together comprise the region known as New England.
Please don’t feel embarrassed on the performer’s behalf about his evident insecurity; he will surely, over time, lose his stage fright and gain more self-confidence.
Here then, without further ado, painfully-introverted Massachusetts native Jonathan Richman forces himself on stage to sing his self-penned tune I Love New England.
He’ll be fine. Follow his lead and force your Reader Tips onstage in the comments.

45 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. More basketball-sized hail is raining down on the discredited warmeners hockeystick graph. The AGU is finished nailing their section of the coffin.
    At WUWT

  2. As you may have heard we are having a love-fest in Vancouver headed by the Dalai Lama, and including such lefty-dorky types as the physically revolting Bob Geldof, that shameless daughter of Erin, Mary Robinson, early-childhood education experts, feminists ,and a wide assortment of professional peaceniks and other ethereal misfits, including the co-winners of the Nobel Peace prize, the one being an Irishwoman named Betty Williams who is reported in Jay Nordlinger’s story of the Sept.21 edition of the National Review as having said, “I have a very hard time with the word ‘non-violence’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent – Right now, I would love to kill George W. Bush. Imagine (as Lennon said) if someone had said that about B.O.?
    They’d be either in jail, or labelled a racist for the rest of their lives.

  4. http://www.nanosresearch.com/library/polls/POLNAT-S09-T390.pdf
    Interesting Nanos results from early September. In particular, note the third poll question ranking leaders in terms of their ability to “make Parliament function well.”
    Harper cleans up nicely in both the national and regional results. The sole exception is in Quebec (of course), where the four party leaders are in a statistical tie.
    Iggy and the LPC should be sending a gift basket to NDP headquarters this week, thanking them for staving off an election. Also, I suspect that since this poll ran from September 3rd through 11th, with his more recent shenanigans, that Iggy would currently poll lower on this question. IMO.

  5. By the way, EBD, if I want music from or about New England, I’ll settle for Patty Page (or was it Doris Day?) singing about Old Cape Cod, or Moonlight in Vermont. The Richman collection is all yours; but thanks anyway.

  6. Kate, how could you not say anything about the Polanski debacle?
    I, for one, am of the opinion that drugging and having nonconsensual sex with a 13-year-old is an odious criminal offense worthy of imprisonment. I am astonished at those on the Left who are making excuses for Polanski.
    Most revolting of all was Whoopi Goldberg’s statement that this didn’t constitute “rape-rape,” whatever that meant. Second-most-revolting was Woody Allen’s statement of support for Polanski. (Insert tasteless Woody Allen/Soon-Yi joke here.)
    There is a pattern here. Whenever an icon of the Left treats women badly, to the point of criminality, we are told that it’s no big deal. Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton come to mind.

  8. I have a bunch of out takes of Jonathan Richman doing Roadrunner. The final version on record is great but it’s nice to hear some primal acoustic versions. The quality of his song writing transcends any genre/label they tried to stick him with. In music quality usually cuts though all the bullshit or preconceived notions that people have. You just can’t deny talent even if you don’t like the style. There are a lot of people out there who liked Vera Lynne and Muddy Waters. I always found Richman annoying in the ’70’s but there’s a reason so many people covered his stuff. I loved a lot of his songs.

  9. Bio of Alex Martin
    Daughter of Academy Award winner Whoopi Goldberg. Her father is Alvin Martin . Alex had her first child when she was only 14 years old. She is now married and has 3 children. She first appeared as an extra in The Color Purple (1985) with her mom.
    Has two children: Amarah and Jerzey
    maybe Whoopie can explain this on the view.

  10. Idiot Toronto councillor anonymously calls up John Tory’s radio show to defend Mayor David Miller, calls Tory a 3-time loser, lies when asked if she works for the city, and even after being outed maintains she doesn’t work for the city.

  11. Yes, there’s a great deal to love about New England. I certainly love it..deeply.
    There’s the beautiful, incredible terrain. The glorious White Mountains, the winding tree-lined roads, the small towns, the beautiful New England clapboard houses..the smell of wood smoke, and birds, deer, wild turkey, hawks…..everything. Its glories change over four seasons; there’s always some new delight because of those seasons – whether it’s the fall colours and the harvest; the snow and icicles and a White Christmas, the burst of life in spring..and the long hazy summers.
    Then, towards the coast, the Atlantic, so different in style and nature from the Pacific. The beautiful coastal towns.
    The sense of history; that ‘it’; namely The Republic, began here, right here. The town dates..1711, 1712…and earlier. It’s a special part of the USA.

  15. Dennis Miller on O’Reilly questions if the IOC will be accused of racism if they deny ‘the One’the Chicago Olympics??

  16. I thoroughly agree, ET. Well put. New Hampshire and Vermont in particular are, in my own private iconography, about as achingly beautiful as a place can be. Deciduous trees colorfully marking the seasons in beautiful low-mountainous enclaves – you don’t see much of that outside of Europe. The post-colonial history hangs in the air, like a Henry James novel stretched into modern times, and the people are upright, forthright, and sober in their judgement. It’s a very, very beautiful place.
    A close second: the foothills area in Alberta around Sundre/New Norway. A similar, rarely-visited dreamscape.

  17. Et and EBD waxing poetic, whoda thunk it. Pretty good stuff, beautiful memories well up from deep inside … and I’ve never even been there!

  18. Hey Whoopi… Your ancestors weren’t really “slave-slaves” so how about just letting it go already?
    As for Polanski. The rapist should finally “man up” and do his time. My biggest disappointment from Hollywood is that Terry Gilliam signed the petition. I was looking forward to renting a couple of his movies, but I think I’ll pass now.

  19. I spent the summer of 1975 in Springfield Mass. I travelled all over New England, and enjoyed every minute. Not a week goes by that I don’t wish I’d stayed there. It must have been paradise 300 years ago.

  24. tim in vermont, damn it… I wish I hadn’t checked out that link:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wade-norris/climate-change-whole-lot_b_303677.html
    Apparently earthquakes are caused by pollution now?!?
    “The industrialized countries must change their polluting policies and begin to think about their responsibility for the Indonesian earthquake that resulted in 229,866 people lost…”
    The stupidity of it all leaves me speechless. I give up… these people truly suffer from a mental disorder.

  25. The global-warming-causing-earthquakes meme surfaced shortly after the devastating tsunami of 2004. It was rightly dismissed at the time; however, I’m not surprised to see it resurface at that trash site Huffpo.
    If an extinction-event meteor were heading towards the Earth, I’m sure the eco-fascists would come up with some theory to blame man somehow.

  26. Ontario has filed a $50-billion lawsuit against several tobacco companies after passing a law in March that would allow it to do so. The province allegedly wants compensation for all the money that has been spent on smoking-related health care services over several decades. It was unclear from the stories in the Globe and the National Post whether attorney general Chris Bentley said “the province” or “taxpayers” deserved the money. You can bet that actual taxpayers won’t see a penny.
    Undoubtedly the real reason the province wants the money is because it is chronically short of cash due to the high costs of keeping the parasitic bureaucracy functioning and because interventionist economic policies at all levels hinder production of goods and services, thereby diminishing tax revenues. Plus, if tobacco can be outlawed, then the nanny state can swing into full gear and go after any foodstuff it thinks is dangerous or fattening, like ice cream, etc.
    One strong candidate for the most evil decision ever brought down by the Supreme Court of Canada was the 2005 ruling in which it upheld a B. C. anti-smoking act that imposed a retroactive law. The Court decided that a ban on retroactive law was not a “fundamental principle of justice”. In other words, you could do something that is perfectly legal today because there is no law against it, and then the government could pass a law tomorrow making it illegal retroactively, and then prosecute you for it. It is difficult to think of anything that would encourage a government with malevolence on its mind more than this. And it is difficult to think of any ruling that would more likely cause Canadians to become contemptuous of their Supreme Court than this one.
    Former chief justice Antonio Lamer (who had retired by this time) was a bit of a flake, always trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat, to find some arcane legal concept upon which to hang a decision. Usually he was less than convincing, but there was one ruling in which he was on to something — Jorgensen, 1995. It concerned a video store owner charged with (and ultimately acquitted of) selling allegedly “obscene” videos which had already been cleared and deemed not obscene by the provincial Film Review Board. Lamer (writing only for himself, as I recall) came up with “officially induced error of law” in writing a concurring judgment. Might not a person argue that he did X on day Y because there was no law against it at the time, therefore this was an “officially induced error of law”, and win acquittal?

  27. If I was a lawyer with time on my hands I would sue the government for allowing tobacco to be legal when they know its dangerous. They don’t want to ban it, they just want to extort more money from the industry.
    This makes no sense at all, but we don’t really expect that anymore do we?

  28. I don’t agree minuteman.
    The libertaian in me says smoking is a choice.
    I really think the Ontario suit is a farce. Who is the ‘government’ working for?Dalton Mcliar loves these noble gestures, while he continues to lie,tax, and ignore real issues. Instead of tackling waste and real admin problems in all the ministries(Mike Harris, Common Sense Revolution)Dalton plays this kind of publicity stunt.
    It’s a smoke screen, nothing else. pun intended.

  29. Mississauga Matt @ 11:15pm…
    “Idiot Toronto councillor anonymously calls up John Tory’s radio show to defend Mayor David Miller, calls Tory a 3-time loser, lies when asked if she works for the city, and even after being outed maintains she doesn’t work for the city.”
    Matt, what I love is how she also impugned the integrity of CFRB 1010, suggesting live on-air that it has a right-wing bias and that she should be given her own show to balance things out. Just a block west of City Hall is the studios of CP24 News — a television news station where Mayor David Miller has his own show, councilor Adam Vaughan, an ally of the mayor has his own show, and councilor Gord Perks has/had his own show, another ally of the mayor, though I’m not sure if Perks is still on-air. Bussin has made numerous appearances on a lunch hour phone-in show, often times as the only guest. There’s certainly no councilors on the right given their own show at CP24. I wonder, if asked, will Bussin publicly criticize CP24 and how they push Miller’s agenda every chance they get, how they have no balance, and that they should have one of the councilors on the right at Toronto city hall given his/her own show?

  30. “If you go out in the woods today”.
    A Canadian beaver fells the AGW fraud.
    Tree rings ring the death knell of the AGW/Kyoto Fraud.
    “What McIntyre showed is that nothing beneath the stars need be taken on authority.”
    O/T, but conservatives need to know: AGW is a fraud, scam and has been shown so by Canadian Steve McIntyre.
    The scam has been exposed by McIntyre’s Canadian beaver-like persistence and loyalty to true science.
    Bravo and kudos to Canadian Steve McIntyre.
    Veritas odit moras.
    Truth hates delay.
    …-
    “The man who broke the bank
    Steve McIntyre, whose previous careers included mineral exploration and policy analysis for the Canadian government, has been one of the foremost critics “of the temperature record of the past 1000 years and the data quality of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.” His detailed look into the data quality of the so-called Hockey Stick graph (see below) upon which much of the Global Warming thesis has been based, unearthed problems that the National Research Council was tasked by Congress to investigate. They concluded in 2006 that “there were statistical shortcomings in the MBH analysis, but … they were small in effect”.”
    “The most amazing part of this story from my point of view was the way in which a dogged Canadian mathematician, acting practically alone with the help of his trusty readers, forced the establishment back step by step to explain where the conclusions upon which a trillion dollar public policy came from and insisting on reproducing the results. If ever there was a tale of triumph over dauntless odds — almost to the point of comparing it to breaking the bank — this is it. The story of man’s search for the scientific truth is still ongoing. Research doesn’t end with McIntyre. It may still prove to be the case that the Hockey Stick exists, but it must be shown on the basis of the data, not on the strength of “consensus” and public relations campaigns. What McIntyre showed is that nothing beneath the stars need be taken on authority. Whether the truth will set you free is a proposition not all will accept; but at least the search for it will.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/01/the-man-who-broke-the-bank/
    Original post here:
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2009/09/30/if-you-go-out-in-the-woods-today/comment-page-1/#comment-64645

  31. Ruby Dhalla was guest last nite on Tom Clarks Power Play, She states that her proposed bill will help Senior Immigrants live out their years here in Canada with some diginity & Not live them out in Poverty. She disagrees with the numbers($$)that civil servants have stated the bill will cost. She states that they will recieve Are you ready for this $38.00!!
    So tell me how in the Hell is $38. going to help a senior out of Poverty & live with dignity?
    I guess when you only pay your Servants less then Min. Wage that would work! wouldnt it.
    See the vid at Ctv.ca Power Play

  33. Smoking is disgusting and dangerous and should be thoroughly discouraged, but ultimately left to the person to decide.
    The On lawsuit is nothing but institutionalized robbery. I am sure that it will ultimately fail and the taxpayer (read – you and me) will foot the bill.
    The sooner On smartens up and kicks out LPC and NDP, the better for its people. I am not holding my breath.

  35. Karl Rove Evicerates Obama’s Handling of Afghanistan
    Obama Can’t Outsource Afghanistan~by Karl Rove
    sample
    Mr. Obama’s hands-off approach to the war seems to fit his governing style. Over the past year, he outsourced writing the stimulus package to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, washed his hands of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to reinvestigate CIA interrogators, and hasn’t offered a detailed health-care plan.
    FROM:
    http://tinyurl.com/y87vzla

  36. Flashback:
    ** “Kalashnikov*Manufacturer Faces Bankruptcy”.
    Kudos to “Farmer’s daughter”.
    Muslim jihadist dead; no 72 onions for it.
    …-
    “Farmer’s daughter disarms terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47
    An Indian farmer’s daughter disarmed a terrorist leader who broke into her home, attacked him with an axe and shot him dead with his own gun.
    Rukhsana Kausar, 21, was with her parents and brother in Jammu and Kashmir when three gunmen, believed to be Pakistani militants, forced their way in and demanded food and beds for the night.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352524/posts
    “AK-47 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The AK-47 (or Kalashnikov) is a selective fire, gas operated 7.62mm assault rifle developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the 1940s.”
    **http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/012311.html#comments

  37. Early records of industry leaving Canaduh
    In 1846 Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner gave a public demonstration in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island of a new process he had discovered. He heated coal in a retort and distilled from it a clear, thin fluid which he showed made an excellent lamp fuel. He coined the name “Kerosene” for his fuel, a contraction of keroselaion, meaning wax-oil.[8] The cost of extracting kerosene from coal was, however, high. Fortunately, Gesner recalled from his extensive knowledge of New Brunswick’s geology a naturally-occurring asphaltum called Albertite. He was however blocked from using it by the New Brunswick coal conglomerate because they had coal extraction rights for the province and he lost a court case when their experts claimed that Albertite was in fact a form of coal.[9] Gesner subsequently moved to Newton Creek, Long Island, USA, in 1854, where he secured the backing of a group of businessmen. They formed the North American Gas Light Company, to which he assigned his patents. Despite clear priority of discovery, Gesner did not obtain his first kerosene patent until 1854, two years after James Young’s US patent. Gesner’s method of purifying the distillation products appears to have been superior to Young’s, resulting in a cleaner and better smelling fuel. Manufacture of kerosene under the Gesner patents began in New York in 1854 and later in Boston, being distilled from bituminous coal and oil shale

  38. You ain’t seen nothin yet.
    GoreGoogoo:
    “Gore and Google: Pants on Fire
    Earth’s self-anointed global warming czar, Al Gore, has teamed up with his business partners at Google (he’s an Advisory Board member) to make the latest pitch for a planet that is about to burst into a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
    Together they have created an internet video which heralds Google’s entrance into the world of climate forecasting.
    The video champions Google’s new mapping tool which simulates a 3D map of the world predicting the effects of climate change through the year 2100.
    They claim their data is provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to Google, the mapping tool was introduced in partnership with the Danish Government ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Convention in December.
    In otherwords, this is a visual ruse to scare the hell of out of the uninformed masses”
    “Read more at americanthinker.com”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352612/posts

  39. Call the white coats.
    Mad Men Lunatic Moonbats from AGW on the loose.
    …-
    “Olympics-2016 Games could be the last, says Tokyo governor
    Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.
    Tokyo is bidding to host the 2016 summer Olympics with Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid also in the running. The International Olympic Committee will elect the winning candidate during its session on Oct. 2 in the Danish capital.
    “It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind,” Ishihara told reporters at a Tokyo 2016 press event ahead of the vote.
    “Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long.
    “Scientists have said we have passed the point of no return,” said Ishihara.”
    http://www.reuters.com/article/olympicsNews/idUSLU38985020090930

  40. “EnCana plans new oilsands operation in NE Alberta
    CALGARY – EnCana Corp. says it plans to file for regulatory approval for a multibillion-dollar 80,000-120,000 barrels per day in situ oilsands project at Narrows Lake in northeastern Alberta by the second quarter of 2010.
    The project, which could cost as much as $3 billion, may be the first major commercial steam-assisted solvent project in Alberta, although other heavy oil companies such as Imperial Oil are also experimenting with the technology. It would be located near EnCana’s current multi-phase Christina Lake steam project.
    “It will be developed as a stand-alone project, so future phases may have slightly higher capital costs as a result,” said Dave Mudie, vice-president of upstream operations, on a conference call Thursday morning to discuss the company’s oil and refining assets.”
    http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/EnCana+plans+oilsands+operation+Alberta/2055020/story.html

  43. Victor Davis Hanson explains why the Left has found it much more important to be anti-anti-dictator than to be anti-Semitic.
    He also explains why the Left’s environmental crusade is keeping America from becoming energy independent.

  44. bluetech….they look great…..buuuuutttt….now I ibrowz is bicthin that the “C” looks like the conservative’s symbol! Glad the “I” knows what Canuckistanians think is important to our well being.

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