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Vit

Donovan truly was a gift from a flower to a garden...sniff..

Syncro

Great choice Vit. Just looked him up on Wickipedia.Still running the cash register on his songs. I wonder where those girls are that I listened to him with.

Unfortunatly my first exposure to this song was the late 80`s Dairy Bureau of Canada`s TV ads, so I can`t help myself in signing along using the wrong lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL1aCg2zrQ4

Has anyone noticed that the Muslim groups are not applying for intervenor status on the B.C. polygamy law court case. Why should they? They know it will not apply to them.

"Her she's not my wife, she's my cousin. That wedding photo must just be photoshopped."

How many honour killings in Ontario in recent memory? Seven. How many at Bountiful. Zero. But than again they don't behead cartoonists either.

My son learned to sing this song at age 2.

A bit O.T., but related to how the CBC picks and chooses who it defends and who it doesn't. And there's a reference here to the war in Afghanistan.

You'll notice that the CBC has a pattern.

Liberals criticize Conservatives------>Liberal shills at the CBC carry the party's line of attack----->Both pile on the Conservatives.

Conservatives criticize Liberals----->

It's almost like the CBC uses a template of sorts on how to attack Conservatives and to provide damage control for the Liberals.... to wit:

When Iffy opened last fall's session of parliament, this was his very first question....

"Mr Speaker, last week, behind closed doors, the Prime Minister stated that if there were an election, he would like to teach Canadians a lesson. Those are his own words. After four years of failure, after a record deficit, a record unemployment rate and a record bankruptcy rate, does he really feel he is in a position to teach Canadians a lesson?"
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&DocId=4098683#SOB-2857433

PMSH, of course, was referring to the Coalition, not Canadians as Iffy stated in the HoC, where he was immune from libel and slander laws. In the post QP analysis, McDiarmid or Barton (can't remember which), both of whom display on a daily basis a compulsive need to correct Conservatives when they sense even in the slightest that the Liberals are being maligned or that a specific Liberal MP has been, yes, "misquoted" or taken out of context in some way, offered no clarification in their analysis of the first question Iffy asked, focusing exclusively on the deficit/unemployment/bankruptcy aspects of the Liberal leader's opening salvo, allowing his gross misrepresentation of what PMSH actually said to stand as truth.

But when the Conservatives pounced on McCallum last week for suggesting that our soldiers were war criminals and did so LIVE on the CBC, it was quick to dispense with taxpayer-funded damage control services for the LPC, rushing to the Toronto MP's defence, dismissing the Conservatives' attacks as part of the Tories' "talking points" on the matter.

"Did a former Liberal defence minister "openly accuse" Canadian soldiers of committing war crimes, as today's government talking point claims he did?" The CBC dismisses the story as partisan talking points by the Conservatives, doing so not once, not twice, but three times.
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/01/the-wc-puddledid-mccallum-step-in-it.html

Scramble to check the tape to save a Liberal, but allow the Liberal leader to say that PMSH was threatening Canadians when a tape in their possession shows he wasn't.

A combination of bias and omissions.... this is the CBC way of doing things.

FIRE. THEM. ALL.

Correction...

The third line was supposed to read...

Conservatives criticize Liberals----->

PMSH gave a very important speech in Davis today:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/a-statesman-debuts-in-davos-as-harper-defines-his-global-doctrine/article1448577/

the report itself is flawed (typical g&m pap) - see a copy of my comments below:

"This is not the first foreign affairs keynote that PMSH has delivered since he became PM. He gave an equally if not more important speech in the first month or so after he was elected when he flew to afstan and crawled out of the belly of a herc in a bomber jacket and asserted Canada's desire to be a middle power militarily (or renewed it - Canada used to be one before the Trudeau liberals began dismantling the military and then persued a stronger UN and NGO role both of which have failed miserably).

The Davos speech outlines the CP's desire for Canada to become an economic middle power in a world where sovereign nations control their economies - not EU-type organizations (which are now failing) or UN-sponsored enviro controls that are awash with corruption and are toothless tigers (as everything the UN touches is).

Contrary to some of the comments above, many nations favour this (it is not surprising that France the primary creator of the EU and it's biggest beneficiary and a nation that has far more power in the UN than it deserves, would oppose it) including many in China.

Canada and canadians have the opportunity to craft a template for other nations to follow especially now that the US is in the hands of an alinskyite socialist. PMSH's timing could not be better - he has a very attentive audience."

Brought back grat memeories! Thanks Vit!

Jon -- not OT at all. I just posted a response re the CBC's biased reporting based on a comment in the previous Reader's Tips. The gist was that they are so negative all the time -- I think they do a disservice to Canadians.

I rarely turn on CBC radio on but almost invariably when I do I just get this sinking feeling -- I can virtually feel my energy level sink (Temonti, especially). They are not just anti-Conservative (a problem they do not acknowledge), they are so lugubrious.

I think it would be useful to have an occasional thread focused on the CBC -- and why it has alienated so many Conservatives.

Makes you wonder if the CBC bought two Governor-Generalships by become the voice of the Liberal Party. I didn't pay much attention to Canadian politics 15 years and more ago. How biased was the CBC in the early '90's? Anyone recall?

The disgusting antics of the CBC are starting to really Pi$$ me off. They're on the taxpayer payroll and they're acting like they are the private Propaganda Arm of the Liberal Party....or is the Liberal Party the Political Arm of the CBC.

No matter how you look at it, they are connected and that's not a good thing.

That's a tip?

I don't advocate pieing, but this was funny.
Only in Newfoundland.

Dang SDH you beat me to it.

There are many reasons that Newfs are my favourite people. This just ads another reason!

Did the PETA morons really think that the locals were just gonna lie back and take their crap?

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1164896.html

"Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen

The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

The IPCC’s report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.

Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error last week after coming under media pressure. He told The Times on January 22 that he had only known about the error for a few days. He said: “I became aware of this when it was reported in the media about ten days ago. Before that, it was really not made known. Nobody brought it to my attention. There were statements, but we never looked at this 2035 number.”

Asked whether he had deliberately kept silent about the error to avoid embarrassment at Copenhagen, he said: “That’s ridiculous. It never came to my attention before the Copenhagen summit. It wasn’t in the public sphere.”"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece
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*More here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/

The "Face" of AGW has melted away.
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"The folks predicting climate change apocalypse seem to have fallen curiously mute

So, whatever happened to Copenhagen?

Rex Murphy, National Post"

"More followed Climategate, as all now know, not least the monstrous claims about the Himalyan glaciers (purported to be ready to melt away in 2035!). This is why the Copenhagen Conference for all its extravagant hype and buildup simply disappeared from the press and the public mind on the instant of its conclusion. Because, via Climategate, the world caught the first real glimpse of how politicized and manipulated this "greatest issue of our time" had been allowed to become. Saw as well how the sacred impartiality of science, and the great authority of peer review, had been suborned for something as political in its way as the average day's outing in Question Period.

No one's really talking about the failure of Copenhagen now because the ostensible threat to humanity was shown to be shrouded in hype. Al Gore and his crew simply don't have now what we used to call "the face" to deliver another grand and imperiously moralizing lecture to the world and its carbon-consuming innocents after the travesty revealed in Climategate and the clutter of revelations that followed it."

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2501876&p=2

Come on people, it should have been a meat pie; specifically seal meat pie!

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2010/01/29/12667956-cp.html

http://bigjournalism.com/category/msnbc/

Don't back down, Senator Judd Greg! Way to go!

Voodoo Haiti.
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"Comment
Wyclef-Jean

We are not doomed. Haiti may be the poorest nation in the West, but it is the richest in culture
More..."
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"Haitians forget troubles with cockfighting

Wretched earthquake survivors turn to national pastime to inject a little passion and excitement into lives of hardship"
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/

Andrew Klavan on The Culture: "Culture in America is an enchanted place where the Conservative facts of life are magically transformed into liberal fantasies, in movies, tv shows, novels, and even comedy routines."

It's a must-see, with a particularly insightful commentary on the dreadful, full-of-lies, Avatar (yes, I've seen it).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90SdmjuCAqw

h/t Kathy Shaidle

Hugo Chavez creates a peaceful, prosperous democracy based on pure socialist principals.

http://www.therealcuba.com/

Mass Effect 2 for Game of the Year!!!

Reason?

You get to round house a reporter.......

;)

See Stephen Taylor
Members of Parliment & the concept of work

*Take Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis who is "Not on Vacation" despite the bleatings of his fellow caucas.....
He is in India currently "Not Working" on the work surrounding the case of Parminder Singh Saini, a convicted terrorist who was deported from Canada. He is also in India for other MP related matters...

*IMO: What is with the Liberal Facination with convicted death row convicts, Known Terrorist, Known Terrorist groups Etc.....
Just what is the appeal? are the Liberals banking on Donations from these groups in order to finance a possible election.

Another observation on the workings of government supplied wormmongers.
Climategate: NOAA and NASA Complicit in Data Manipulation
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-noaa-and-nasa-complicit-in-data-manipulation/

Linked to by Instapundit.

Warmmongers sounds much better

Prepare for global cooling!!

http://www.flixxy.com/snow-vehicle-concept.htm

There was an article posted here a little bit ago about the 'myth' of the g-spot. It seems that the British scientists have got it wrong.The French have found it.---http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7095849/French-correct-British-scientists-G-spot-does-exist.html

Google map satellite shots of Port au Prince are post quake. They are high resolution shots that show extensive rubble, another interesting look at the mess down there.

I see that because I stated I didn't like Donovan my comment was yanked. I don't know if Vit was making reference to me when he said 'That's a tip?', so in the spirit of this being a reader tips threat (and we can't all agree with the music selection put forth by the guest blogger), this just in....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece

But I guess this is old news now.

Your comment was unpublished, Eskimo, because Kate
has said, over and over again: this is not a chat room.
Your comment started a chat, so that sub-set went out.

Go back and read the first comment to this thread Vit. It was in agreement with you. It's still there. As well as a comment of a two year old liking you song choice. I'm not one to piss and moan and YES this is Kate's site and her rules, just try to be consistant in policing things, otherwise you come across as thin skinned. And as I said, Donovan (and John Lennon) were, in my opinion, over rated. If Donovan floats your point, all the power to you. I don't like him.

This just in....GW Bush visits Obama, coutesy of Fox:

http://www.foxnews.com/

Hey Vit, never mind. I'm probably taking this too personal!

Cheers.

Well, if you insist, Eskimo, then speaking on a point of order, I'm not crazy about Donovan either. But SDA Late Nite Radio is about more than simply you or me: the audience of listeners here is larger than that. My job, as Small Dead Animal's house DJ, is to serve that audience while introducing the daily Reader Tips entry. Therefore, I keep two partially overlapping lists of songs: one for those I like, and one for those I think SDA LNR listeners might like. I spin tunes from the second list.

Meanwhile, the first five comments on last night's selection just said they liked the tune: no debate, no chat. It was only when you jumped in and made a big deal about your personal dislike for said selection, and dislike for other unrelated musicians, that the debate was triggered and others started chatting, a debate which surely is extraneous to a Reader Tips entry. So that's why I trimmed the tree at the point where your comment branched off. My apologies; I'm just trying to keep a lid on the stew by occasionally gassing off unessential pressure buildup. Thanks for understanding ~ perhaps now we should let this go.

Oops,we did it again, The glacier melt is getting stranger and stranger;---http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-climate-change-panel-based-claims-on-student-dissertation-and-magazine-article.html

Thanks Vit, nice that we could settle this over a 'virtual beer'! I'll shut up now till I can find something relevant to post!