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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).
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ET, I was making suggestions, not hard-and-fast rules re the Charter, so there may be a little ambiguity here and there and some fine-tuning would surely be required (a lot more than they gave the actual document). But there’s nothing much that’s contradictory.
ET: “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?”
It doesn’t deny the second amendment (which is interpreted differently by different people, of course). The police and armed forces, as arms of government, have the right to use force on people in some circumstances — (as I stated) to aid in self-defense of individuals or in retaliation for the previous use of force.
And I’m surprised you ask “why is the first user of force the bad guy?” Otherwise, the person engaging in self-defense would be the bad guy, which is an appalling thought and an attack on civilized co-existence.
ET: “Define ‘individual rights’. And aren’t some realities of life not individual but collective”
And you accuse me of being ambiguous?
Individual rights are restraints on the behaviour of others so that each individual can live his life in accordance with his own rational judgment. Many human activities involve people working collectively, but individuals can choose to join or not. You can find a much fuller explanation in the works of Ayn Rand.
ET: “Completely ambiguous” (referring to noting that those who violate the rights of others stand to lose some of their own rights).
Well, those who pay a fine lose some of the right to their property, those who are put in jail lose their right to liberty, those who undergo capital punishment (if we still had it) lose their right to life. It seems fairly straightforward to me.
ET: “What about suggestions that IF you don’t agree, THEN, others will be angry with you; or the oceans will rise; or…”
These are edge situations that would not arise frequently, and they’re not that difficult to sort out anyway.
ET: “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’?”
No, it doesn’t contradict. I should have added the stock “where numbers warrant” clause though, so five people would be unlikely to suffice (I think the Supreme Court has even said so).
Actually, I don’t believe in public education at all. My comments here were a kind of a stopgap suggestion while we still have it. It’s impossible to spend tax dollars in a way that enables everyone to take equally to what they gave. And the five Saskatoon francophones would be on the short end in this example. Better to let everyone look after their own kids’ education and not have to pay the taxes for it.
dp – Axe = Axe. the song is several minutes of increasingly menacing music, followed by the words “careful with that axe, Eugene”, followed by some terrified screaming. I tell you, this 17 year old found it irresistible at the time. Now, not so much.
Perfect timing. If he’d [McCain] mentioned that little detail during the last Presidential campaign, he wouldn’t have lost so gracefully…
Posted by: EBD at January 9, 2010 12:36 AM
Bingo. Exactly what I thought when I saw the story on ?Drudge?. During the campaign I went nuts wondering why the guy was so timid. At one point I even wondered if he was throwing the fight. I believe McCain, as much as the MSM, is to blame for the election disaster.
Question: Why so forceful now? Is his seat at risk?
Term limits, er, LIMIT please. One.
Side 1 of Ummagumma is my favourite side of Pink Floyd, and Astronomy Domine is the better of the two tracks.