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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. While Pink Floyd‘s 1969 album, Ummagumma, with its classic Astronomy Domine, was certainly a seminal work in psychedelic rock history, I think it was their Meddle album (a copy of which I purchased in 1971) that cemented their position in the Pantheon. (It wasn’t until after I bought Meddle that I purchased a copy of Ummagumma.) Echoes and San Tropez are two of my three favourite songs from Meddle; tonight, for your delectation, here is a rendition of my other favourite thereto: Pink Floyd performing One Of These Days ¤ § during a concert from their Division Bell Tour, an instance of which I happened to attend on June 28, 1994 (7:02).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Rolling Back Government
Maurice P. McTigue
http://www.waynedaniel.net/images/Document1.pdf
I have a suggestion for SDA: Start a poll with a permalink at the top. Simple question: “What percentage of the Anti-Harper Facebook group (aka proroguing) will show up to rallies on January 23rd?” People can leave their answers via comments.
As for tallying the totals, we can rely on media reports or SDA’ers can agree to go down to the rallies and provide counts (& photos).
How will we know which of the rally attendees were and were not members
of the Facebook group (without which one cannot compute the percentage)?
When I saw that you were featuring a Pink Floyd song I immediately plugged in the headphones because Pink Floyd MUST be played loud.
I remember vividly their early 70’s concert in Saskatoon in a 2,000 seat concert hall when some drunken cowboy in the third balcony started heckling them over some imagined fault. They immediately thereafter began a 20 minute jam played at top volume. [And their setup included Marshall stacks 4 wide to the ceiling on both sides.] They proceeded to investigate just how much feedback could be reasonably encouraged from the 30,000 watts [or whatever] that they had at their disposal. By the third crescendo most of the audience were on their knees, on the floor, with their ears buried in their hands, weeping in pain.
At the conclusion of this ‘song’, the concert continued with no further interruptions from the cheap seats.
Sometimes a band’s gotta do what a band’s gotta do!
Dividing the number of attendees by the Facebook group count would be most revealing.
It would be interesting, now that you put it that way 😉
Of course, that’s assuming that no non-Facebook types will show up in significant numbers (is it?). Or that anyone will show up.
It’s an interesting idea, though. Remember Obama Girl? She never made it to vote in the Primaries.
Vitruvius – a heads-up about the giant nodding pig would have been nice.
From the always intriguing zerohedge.com (and I sincerely encourage any SDA readers interested in how Western economies are being systematically sodomized to visit there regularly):
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/unemployment-rate-really-132
anybody else catch syed soharwardy’s charm offensive?
It wasn’t really a pig, Black Mamba. Bacon, anyone?
I didn’t see you in Pink Floyd’s audience. Just shy?
John McCain:
“President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America.”
Perfect timing. If he’d mentioned that little detail during the last Presidential campaign, he wouldn’t have lost so gracefully…
humph. I didn’t know The B.O. had a nicotine habit.
3w.theonion.com/content/news/obama_tells_nation_hes_going_out
They posted the PC election ad, [ a youtube clip]’ as THE campaign ad that cost the Liberals the election on CalgaryGrit.
Very effective excellent vote getter but I never saw it on TV. Did you?
Their poll, ‘most important event for Canadians’, still has a week to go before results are tallied.
They think a biggie is the Alliance, PC bonding. Hmmm
Discussion is the 2006 PC election victory however.
The Liberals are still examining their plight.
St. Tropez. That’s such a great song, and such a great album. I was a huge Floyd fan.
Here’s another CHRC story
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100107/bc_campus_eviction_100107/20100108/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
Roger Scruton:
… The lesson of postwar Europe is that it is easy to flaunt compassion, but harder to bear the cost of it…..This life of phony compassion is a life of transferred costs. Liberals who wax lyrical on the sufferings of the poor do not, on the whole, give their time and money to helping those less fortunate than themselves. On the contrary, they campaign for the state to assume the burden. The inevitable result of their sentimental approach to suffering is the expansion of the state and the increase in its power both to tax us and to control our lives.
“As the state takes charge of our needs, and relieves people of the burdens that should rightly be theirs — the burdens that come from charity and neighborliness — serious feeling retreats. In place of it comes an aggressive sentimentality that seeks to dominate the public square. I call this sentimentality ‘totalitarian’ since — like totalitarian government — it seeks out opposition and carefully extinguishes it, in all the places where opposition might form. Its goal is to ‘solve’ our social problems, by imposing burdens on responsible citizens, and lifting burdens from the ‘victims,’ who have a ‘right’ to state support…”
It’s a classic; my excerptions are essentially arbitrary. Do read the whole thing.
(h/t ghostofaflea.com, via EMG)
EBD – that is a very interesting article. Doing charitable work makes one feel good. Having the government do charitable work on one’s behalf doesn’t, as invariably the government doesn’t do a great job.
“Doing charitable work makes one feel good. Having the government do charitable work on one’s behalf doesn’t…”
Exactly, and studies have repeatedly and consistently shown that conservatives, *regardless of income level*, are more likely to make charitable donations – which should tell us that the “phony compassion” of “transferred costs” is “flaunted compassion” – loudly self-announced flaunted compassion that is, at it’s root, phony, because it’s at other people’s expense.
Hey, moving on to some light-hearted anti-Semitism on C-Span:
C-Span host: John, good morning for Michael Scheurer.
John: Good morning. I for one am sick and tired of all these Jews coming on C-Span and other stations and pushing us to go to war against our Muslim friends. They’re willing to spend the last drop of American blood and treasure to get their way in the world. They have way too much power in this county. People like Wolfowitz and Fife, and the other neocons that Jewed us into Iraq – and now we’re gonna spend the next sixty years rehabilitating our soldiers – I’m sick and tired of it.
Host: John in, uh, Franklin New York. Any comments?
Michael Scheurer: “Yeah, I think that, of course, American foreign policy is eventually up to the American people…one of the big things we’ve not been able to discuss in this country for the last thirty years is our policy towards the Israelis. Whether we want to be involved in fighting Israel’s wars in the future is something that Americans should be able to talk about. They may vote yes – they may want to see their kids killed in Iraq or Yemen, or somewhere else, to protect Israel…Ultimately, Israel as a country is of no particular worth to the United States…they have no resources we need, their manpower is minimal, their association with us is a negative for the United States. Now, that’s a fact…
Globe and National Post, Thursday.
Defne Bayrak, Turkish wife of the Jordanian doctor who killed several people last week in a suicide bombing, says she’s proud of her ex-husband and calls him a “martyr”.
Ms. Bayrak: F*** you. F*** you and everyone who thinks like you. It’s a shame Islam doesn’t include suttee. I hope wherever you are gets overrun by the Taliban and you have to stay inside forever, without any male to look after you, and so you suffer at length like the women formerly did in Afghanistan when that country was ruled by Muslim fanatics.
Meanwhile, over here in civilization, anyone who wants 72 raisins that badly can find them down at the supermarket.
Airport security
By David Warren
According to an item that appeared yesterday on the BBC website, giving up smoking may sharply increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
On Jan. 7, Supreme Court of Canads Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin celebrated 10 years in her post. Articles about an interview with her appeared in the Globe and National Post on Thursday.
In honour of that ten years, and also of the recent biography of Pierre Trudeau that is up for an award, here’s a list of proposed fixes for some of the errors in the Charter of Rights:
– add a clause stating the fundamental moral principle of a free society, namely that no person has the right to initiate the use of force on any other person
– add a clause stating that the proper function of government is to protect individual rights, and that all court judgments must reflect this
– add a clause stating that government itself must conform to the fundamental moral principle, and only use force to assist with individual self-defense, or in retaliation against those who use it first
– s.1, the “reasonable limits” clause, should reflect the above three points
– add a clause noting that those who violate the rights of others stand to lose some of their own rights
– put the clauses in the correct order, i. e., define the proper hierarchy of rights starting with the right to life
– the rights listed in s.7 are fundamental rights, not “legal rights”
– in s.7, change “principles of fundamental justice” to “due process of law”
– in s.7, add a clause protecting property rights; given the current realities, there should be an exemption for taxes levied by governments that each must re-invoked every five years (in a similar manner to s.33(4))
– in s.7, add freedom of voluntary trade and of contract
– s.2(b) (freedom of expression, of the press and other media of communication) must be respected, with an end to government bodies that violate it, such as the CRTC
– in s.2(b), freedom of expression, speech, etc., must explicitly include the right to utilize one’s own resources in the exercise thereof, and the right not to subsidize (including through taxation or other government revenue) those with whom one disagrees
– in s.1, any reasonable limits on expression or speech will generally involve threats of violence by a speaker
– in s.2(d), freedom of association must be respected, including the right not to associate, which is clearly part of it
– s.3 should include a definition of a “free and fair election”
– in s.3, the right “to be qualified” to run for office should include clear instruction that only nominal obstacles may exist to election candidacy
– in s.6(1), the “mobility rights” clause must be explicitly subordinate to liberty in s.7 (e. g., people in jail outside this country cannot claim the right to enter Canada)
– in s.6(4), scrap the affirmative action clause
– abolish s.15(2), the affirmative action subsection in the equality rights section
– in s.15(1), “equality rights” means that we all have the same rights, that the law must not discriminate between people on non-essential characteristics, and that government officials in the performance of their duties must not do so either; and a list of these characteristics should be added (race and sex obviously included) to prevent “reading in”
– scrap s.27, the clause requiring multicultural “interpretation” of the Charter (the remnants of s.15 should suffice)
– scrap s.28, the male-female equality clause (the remnants of s.15 will cover it)
– in s.23, all parents should have the right to have their children educated in either official language
– in s.24(2), the clause regarding remedies for bringing the administration of justice into disrepute should apply to s.8 and possibly the remainder of ss.7-14
– in s.24, remedies for violations of one’s rights may include compensation (where circumstances warrant) but should rarely entail throwing out good evidence
– in s.33, the scope of the notwithstanding clause should be better defined; it should not apply to s.11(d), the right to a fair trial, for instance
– s.11, the legal rights section should cover not just persons “charged with an offence” but all proceedings in which a person or organization stands to suffer legal penalties imposed by a government body
– in s.11(d), the above point must explicitly apply to the right to a fair trial, which should be defined
– in s.11(d), the right to a fair trial does not potentially infringe on any other rights and can never be overridden
– s.11(g) should be understood to explicitly reject retroactive law, in criminal, civil and any other legal matters
– there should be one justice system, not a hodgepodge collection of real courts, phony tribunals, regulatory agencies, etc.
– in s.16(3), scrap the clause that says government may advance the use of official languages
– replace s.16(2) with a clause that states a province may choose one or more official languages
– the Charter should be recognized to apply to the actions of all individuals, including on behalf of organizations, which include government; in other words, the notion that “the Charter applies to government while human rights codes apply to private individuals” should be repudiated
– contradictory clauses must be resolved by the removal or modification of one or another (referring to the 2005 Gosselin Supreme Court case in which a judge said that one Charter clause cannot be used to invalidate another Charter clause – thus implying they contradict one another, an untenable situation)
EBD – our behaviours are dependent on our environment. I grew up post WWII – so I’m quite familiar through reading and through media as to why Israel is where it is. But that was my exposure.
What do those recently born think? I’m sure their thinking is also guided by their environment
today in history:
Jan 9 2002
The DOJ confirms reports that a criminal investigation of mega-corporation Enron has begun. The Texas energy profiteers gave loads of cash to the Republican party before accounting fraud and insider trading caused thousands of Enron employees to lose their savings and pensions.
why are you right wing zealots so gung-ho about republicans with this kind of thing in the dossier?
Erik, I agree that the thinking of the recently-born is influenced by their environment, but their worldview might not be as as affected by weakly, pathetically elided, prurient anti-Semitism as much as one might fear. Consider the bald and ancient buzz-words on C-Span of both the caller, and of the guest in his response:
The caller states: “I for one am sick and tired of all these Jews…They’re willing to spend spend the last drop of American blood and treasure to get their way in the world…they have way too much power….”
The expert guest replies, as if it’s a generous allowance to some counterargument, that the American people may indeed “want to see their kids killed” to “protect Israel….”
I don’t believe – for what it’s worth – that the recently-born are blind to the motivations of such baldly anti-Semitic ***holes who refer blithely, like it’s some received wisdom that not everyone has yet grokked to, to governments being “Jewed” into particular conflicts.
In terms of a sneaky media and a twiddle-thumbed, sideways-glancing educational system, I take your point, but most people end up being not unreasonable in the long run, so when someone refers definitively to Jews as a sort of negative counterpoint to the putative benificence of “our Muslim friends” in “Iraq and Yemen,” most kids – I’d like to think – are going to absorb the larger, erm, zeitgeist.
hey curious-george, always a pleasure talking (meant sincerely). My leftist friends and I have this discussion repeatedly, and my contention is that aberrant “capitalistic” and “right-wing” behaviour related to GREED is mirrored by left wing behaviour related to GREED
Greed doesn’t equal capitalism, and capitalism is not a perfect overlap with greed.
Hope you had a good Christmas/holiday, and cheers
re. EBD @4:17 – said expert guest is quite a piece of work, or something, anyway. He headed up the CIA Bin Laden Issue Station from 1996-99, where he clearly did a bang up job, and one of his books has been recommended – seriously; I’m inclined to think the quote might be on the dust-jacket – by Osama himself.
The things you learn online, in the wee hours.
One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces. Still a huge Floyd fan. And by the way, which one’s Pink?
MSM is desperate with its pleading: Bring back the Separatist Coalition.
Den Tandt omits to name commieDuceppeBloc.
The neo-Separatist Coalition would be comprised of LiberalsIffy, TalibanJackLayoNDP, Lizard Red-GreenMay, commieDuceppeBloc.
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“Coalition of the wilting
Perhaps it’s time the Liberals, NDP and Greens began thinking about merging.”
http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/editorial/2010/01/09/12401271-sun.html
Al Gore’s Weather, formerly AGW, has mucked up the leftists real good.
Their last refuge is: the weather is not climate change.
The Leftist Guardian’s denial:
“Snow, ice and the bigger picture
The cold snap tells us little about climate change, but if you want something to blame it on, try the Arctic oscillation”
“If this winter tells us anything, it’s that we’ll have to remain on guard for familiar weather risks as well as the evolving ones brought by climate change. Juggling all of these at once will not be an easy task.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/06/snow-ice-climate-change-arctic-oscillation
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“Satellite visualization of December’s deadly cold in Europe and Russia
30 12 2009
Earlier I wrote about the Arctic Oscillation Index going strongly negative in December and what new cold to expect in January. From NASA’s Earth observatory, we have a high resolution temperature anomaly map that provides visualization of the effects. This image was taken while the Copenhagen Climate Conference was in progress.
Deadly Cold Across Europe and Russia”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/30/land-surface-temp/
British police arrested three passengers aboard a Dubai-bound Emirates airliner at London’s Heathrow airport on Friday on suspicion of making a bomb threat, police said. … initial searches had found no actual threat to the flight, indicating that the incident may have been an ill-judged prank. The men, aged 58, 48 and 36, were taken into custody for making verbal threats against the crew before take off …
http://www.reuters.com/article
/idUSLDE60722O20100109?type=marketsNews
COME ON. The world is on high alert concerning airport security, these guys are 58, 48, and 36, and maybe their threats against the crew are “an ill-judged prank”?
What are the police THINKING? OK, OK, I know. Just don’t get me started.
Hatred & bile from the left-liberals.
The leftists latest witch burning:
Her name is Sara!
“she has a gun licence!
The horror; not, from Alaska.
MSM’s putdown: “an unlikely hero”.
Go, Sara Green. Stand with Sara and Newfy seal-hunters.
Will Rex from Newfy speak out on CBC?
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“Debate over seal hunting turns ugly for beauty queen
ST. JOHN’S, NFLD.–She’s 19, has a gun licence and is a beauty queen being hailed as an unlikely hero of Canada’s fading commercial seal hunt.
Sara Green, Miss Newfoundland and Labrador, took to the airwaves Friday in defence of the centuries-old tradition after a gory doctored photo of her was posted online. The picture appeared on an anti-sealing Facebook group page. It alters a photo of Green wearing a loaned sealskin coat during the Santa Claus parade in St. John’s in November.
Green was shocked to see herself sprayed with red and wielding a club over blood-spattered seal carcasses. She called local media outlets to complain.
“It was gruesome. It was unnecessary. … When I saw the photo, of course my jaw dropped,” she said in an interview. “I couldn’t believe it, but it gave me a bigger motivation to stand up for the seal hunt.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/748498–debate-over-seal-hunting-turns-ugly-for-beauty-queen?bn=1
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Here is the female jealousy & hatred/envy from the Catty Camille of the LizardMay Red-Greens:
“Camille Labchuk, a member of the Green Party of Canada’s federal council, said the photo flap is overblown.
“It seems to me that this is more of an opportunity for somebody of limited celebrity to use such a doctored photo as a political hot-button issue – perhaps to further their own career,” she said.”
batb, there was also a story on CBC News about several men removed from a Sunwest flight from Toronto to Cuba…they were asking unusual questions and specific security-related questions.
As with your story, I suspect Muslim-terrorist probing of airline security.
When will the government say “enough is enough”?
nv53 – whew, that’s quite the list. I think that many of your terms are so ambiguous and the articles so contradictory that you’d keep a Supreme Court busy for a century. Just take a few.
nv53: “add a clause stating the fundamental moral principle of a free society, namely that no person has the right to initiate the use of force on any other person”
Hmm. Denies the US Second Amendment. Oh, and what does ‘force’ actually mean? Does this include the police, armed forces? And why is the first user of force the bad guy?
nv53:”add a clause stating that the proper function of government is to protect individual rights, and that all court judgments must reflect this”
Define ‘individual rights’. And aren’t some realities of life not individual but collective
nv53:’add a clause noting that those who violate the rights of others stand to lose some of their own rights”
Completely ambiguous.
nv53:” in s.1, any reasonable limits on expression or speech will generally involve threats of violence by a speaker”
Ambiguous. What about suggestions that IF you don’t agree, THEN, others will be angry with you; or the oceans will rise; or…
And other things – where you say that all parents should have the ‘right’ to have their child educated in either official language. Are you suggesting that IF 5 people in Saskatoon want a French education, that the public should fund a school for this? And doesn’t this contradict your desire to scrap the gov’ts ‘advancing both official languages’?
I agree with getting rid of multiculturalism and Section 15 etc.. And the Charter clauses DO contradict each other..eg., the ‘fundamental rights’ are contradicted by the multicultural rights.
http://tinyurl.com/yj9xe5m
Finally! Muslims Stand Up Against Islamic Terrorism
2010 January 9
tags: Islam, jihad, Muslims, Terrorists, War on Terror
by Nancy Morgan
Ibrahim Al Jahim and Majed Moughni hold a sign that says, “Not In The Name Of Islam” outside Federal Courthouse
Totally absent from the nations headlines, with the exception of Fox News, is a startling and unprecedented development in the war on terror. As the panty bomber got his day in court yesterday, the real story was outside the federal courthouse, where over 100 Muslims actually rallied against Islamic terrorism.
Vitruvius: no mention of “Careful with that Axe, Eugene”?
One of my classmates scared the cleaning lady so much with that song that she would not come out from behind the furnace.
Just rented Into the Storm a HBO-BBC movie about Winston Churchill just after the war and during the war. Brendan Gleeson won an Emmy for best actor for his portrayal of Churchill. Janet McTeer is a compelling Clementine Churchill.
Great production values, as my father used to say (he was a Canadian in the RAF before and during WWII and would have approved of the film, except perhaps of the obligatory mention these days of the horrors of the Dresden bombing). He always regreted that no special medal was ever awarded to those who served in Bomber Command.
Vitruvius:
I was at that concert on first date with now-wife.
A girl across the aisle passed out as the guys came on stage, and woke up as the final encore finished, then started cheering and whooping. What a waste.
Excellent column by steyn in national review:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTE3NTI1MWViMzRjYWI5ODY1OTI0YWNiNWNkOTMxZTg=
a sample from it that demonstrates how steyn is the preeminent columnist of our time:
“On the other hand, if we are now at war, as Obama belatedly concedes, against whom are we warring? “We are at war against al-Qaeda,” says the president.
Really? But what does that mean? Was the previous month’s “isolated extremist” — the Fort Hood killer — part of al-Qaeda? When it came to spiritual advice, he turned to the same Yemeni-based American-born imam as the Pantybomber, but he didn’t have a fully paid-up membership card. Nor did young Umar Farouk, come to that. Granted the general over-credentialization of American life, the notion that it doesn’t count as terrorism unless you’re a member of Local #437 of the Amalgamated Union of Isolated Extremists seems perverse and reductive. What did the Pantybomber have a membership card in? Well, he was president of the Islamic Society of University College, London. Kafeel Ahmed, who died after driving a burning jeep into the concourse of Glasgow Airport, had been president of the Islamic Society of Queen’s University, Belfast. Yassin Nassari, serving three years in jail for terrorism, was president of the Islamic Society of the University of Westminster. Waheed Arafat Khan, arrested in the 2006 Heathrow terror plots that led to Americans having to put their liquids and gels in those little plastic bags, was president of the Islamic Society of London Metropolitan University.”
Thanks for the link to Mark Steyn’s article in which he lists a very interesting group:
All of the following were the president of the Islamic Society of their respective universities:
* the Pantybomber (University College, London)
* Kafeel Ahmed (deceased after driving a burning jeep into the concourse of Glasgow Airport, Queen’s University, Belfast)
* Yassin Nassari (serving three years in jail for terrorism, the University of Westminster)
* Waheed Arafat Khan (arrested in the 2006 Heathrow terror plots, London Metropolitan University)
I’m thinking the CIA, FBI, MI5, MI6, CSIS, etc. should be keeping a very close eye on the presidents of the Islamic Society at every Western university.
Duh.
Sublime. I’m going to buy Meddle for my Ipod upon your suggestion. PFlyod were so good.
curious george at January 9, 2010 4:04 AM
“Almost two decades before President Barack Obama made “cap-and-trade” for carbon dioxide emissions a household term, an obscure company called Enron — a natural-gas pipeline company that had become a big-time trader in energy commodities — had figured out how to make millions in a cap-and-trade program for sulphur dioxide emissions, thanks to changes in the U.S. government’s Clean Air Act. To the delight of shareholders, Enron’s stock price rose rapidly as it became the major trader in the U.S. government’s $20-billion a year emissions commodity market.
Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, keen to engineer an encore, saw his opportunity when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were inaugurated as president and vice-president in 1993. To capitalize on Al Gore’s interest in global warming, Enron immediately embarked on a massive lobbying effort to develop a trading system for carbon dioxide, working both the Clinton administration and Congress. Political contributions and Enron-funded analyses flowed freely, all geared to demonstrating a looming global catastrophe if carbon dioxide emissions weren’t curbed. An Enron-funded study that dismissed the notion that calamity could come of global warming, meanwhile, was quietly buried.
To magnify the leverage of their political lobbying, Enron also worked the environmental groups. Between 1994 and 1996, the Enron Foundation donated $1-million to the Nature Conservancy and its Climate Change Project, a leading force for global warming reform, while Lay and other individuals associated with Enron donated $1.5-million to environmental groups seeking international controls on carbon dioxide.”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/29/lawrence-solomon-enron-s-other-secret.aspx
A follow-up on the swine flu fraud.
A pox on the perpetrators: Big Pharma and Big Government.
$$$ “Sales of H1N1 vaccines have been a windfall for drugmakers since mid-2009 due to government orders.”
The marriage of Big Business with Big Government = corporate fascism, a brother of socialism.
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“Britain joins others in curbing flu vaccine supply
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain became the latest country to tackle a surplus of swine flu vaccines on Friday, as health authorities across Europe grapple with oversupply due to low demand, leaving drug company sales uncertain.”
“Sales of H1N1 vaccines have been a windfall for drugmakers since mid-2009 due to government orders. Glaxo was expected to be the single biggest beneficiary with anticipated sales of $3.5 billion, according to industry analysts.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6073MM20100108
This should make the news every time someone brings up the Detainee BS. The liberals were informed that the Afghans had a thing for torture. They knew it,but in their zeal to poke George Bush in the eye ,they went ahead anyways.—http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2009/12/torture-in-afghanistan-liberals-knew.html
Looks like Rex Murphy got sacked because of his opinions on climategate:
http://www.mediastyle.ca/2010/01/rex-murphy-pushed-to-the-post/
Pink Floyd, Living proof of the fine line between genius, and insanity. Their older stuff, with Syd Barrett, was incredible.
A friend of mine bought Ummagumma, on 8 track. We hopped into his ’69 Ford Cortina, and headed out for an adventure. We listened for about 10 minutes, with no one saying a word. My friend rolled down his window, pulled out the tape, and tossed it out the window.
I’ve never stopped listening to Pink Floyd, except for The Final Cut. That album is dangerous.
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
Be Careful With That Axe.. Vit.
Axe=guitar, right?
One of the best concerts that I have ever seen in Canada ,Pink Floyd,at Ivor Wynne stadium,way back in 1975. The show consisted of Dark Side of the Moon,Wish You Were Here,in their entirety,and for the encore,Echoes.Outdoors,on a hot sunny day,it doesn’t get much better.
Re: “Greed doesn’t equal capitalism, and capitalism is not a perfect overlap with greed.”
True. Actually, capitalism helps restrain greed. Since capitalism mandates voluntary relations between persons, anyone who asks too much in exchange for his own products will find no takers. Only when government intervention manipulates the values of items can the greedy who know how to take advantage operate with impunity. We know from the ongoing economic meltdown that was caused by government interference in the mortgage market what the consequences can be, and the takers here weren’t necessarily greedy, just ordinary people tricked into signing up for a “bargain” that wasn’t.