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Super easy to listen to this... super fácil de escuchar esto ... gracias Vitruvius

No hay de qué, Marc.

Fine Quality,Australian Government inspected,Imported Third worlder commits murder by setting her husband's "Pee-Pee" on fire!
She ended up burning the house down and nearly killing her 3 kids.

http://tinyurl.com/ylrasvt

Re: Malena:
Thanks Vit!!

Nice music to drive around by, on a rainy night, in a 1966 Chevy Caprice with AM-FM Delco radio and a reverb. I once saw an ad in National Geographic that was advertising the new Chevy Caprice for 66. It said: "The only squeak you'll hear in this new Chevy is the piccolo player on the new AM-FM Delco radio." Now that was using one's imagination.

This is just weird.Religious fruitcake and her compliant husband. ---http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/03/13/13218176.html

Wolves in Alaska are suspected of killing a teacher in an isolated village while she was out jogging.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8565567.stm

... (Palin's) extreme views make her unpalatable to the majority of mainstream Americans. And support for aerial hunting of this or any other species is one of those off-the-wall views.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/09/usnews/whispers/main4431199.shtml

Clocks forward tonight, people. (That's surely a legitimate tip.)

Black Mamba,
Not in Saskatchewan where time stands still. :)

Really? Weird.

Walter, the home of Tommy Douglas has that privilege. ;)

"Long periods of drought, followed by high winds"

A truly excellent rant about the stupidity of economists and central bankers.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/long-periods-drought-%E2%80%A6-followed-high-winds

I thought it was a very silly rant.

We alway know what time it is in Saskatchewan.

Happy Pi day all.

http://tinyurl.com/yjb4x79

Cool. Thanks, ∞².   π is an important part of a balanced life.

Man fined for insulting ex-girlfriend on Facebook

How can you not love this?
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/12/breaking-obama-trades-gibbs-to-canada-for-a-flack-to-be-named-later/

p.s Gibbs is a dork...

Maybe Obama could trade Rahm Emmanuel for catsmeat.

"The Fifth Column

How must it feel to pimp for a slovenly whore, doped and ravaged and destroyed by her abductors, who was once the happiest, most innocent, most beautiful girl in town?

He is Baselitz, a name tuberose, not only acoustically, with dirty connotations. He is Germany’s foremost Modern artist. He is one of those who accepted the thirty pieces of silver and turned them into a heap of gold. He is a well-received guest at the London Royal Academy of Arts, which strikes you as odd since the Brits and the Krauts, never mind what they tell you in Brussels, regard each other warily. He is loved by the country’s foremost gazettes, like the FAZ, or the SZ, or the old pansy ZEIT. He can be found in Tate modern. He owns a Giant Schnauzer with a degree in psychology who handles his castration complex, the foremost source of his creative inspiration. He produces his masterpieces watching Big Brother on TV while reclining on a sofa next to a canvas previously splattered with an undisclosed amount of colours on which he diverts an occasional glance and then arranges artistically by means of an Italian bread roll using his left hand only. Once dry, he signs it with his illustrious name, waits until that one is dry as well, and hangs it up upside-down.

This, the upside-down, has made him famous.

continue reading"
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/

Vit

If only it was righteous indignation. The faux indignation we are subjected to daily, from all quarters, is sickening.

Syncro

I was truly shocked and scared by this story.

"American Linked to Terror Plot Brainwashed 6-Year-Old Son, Family Says"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589203,00.html

My favorite part: ""I talked to Huey on Monday. He said they taught him how to shoot a gun," Christine Mott said. "They taught him how to kick and fight . . . We're Democrats. We won't even buy him a toy gun."

Thanks for the quote, vitruvius. Very true.

A permanent perspective, indignant or supportive, is the antithesis of the act of reason, because it rejects the increase of knowledge.

As such, a permanent perspective moves into a mode of fiction rather than fact; it requires that the holder of this perspective, more and more, reject facts and function only within conceptual generalities which become 'satisfactory mental habits' almost immune to factual realities.

That state, I suggest, is as much the basis of ethnic opinions (see various ME threads on this site) as it is the base for AGW.

ET

I agree...a beginners mind is essential to true evolution.

Syncro

British Govt climate change ads banned for unsubstantiated claims

"-that Britain faces an inevitable increase in storms, floods and heat waves unless greenhouse gas emissions are brought under control.

The ASA has ruled that the claims made in the newspaper adverts were not supported by solid science and has told the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that they should not be published again."

At WUWT - http://tinyurl.com/yf7ev2d
Rub a Dub DRUB

An excellent post on the al queda lawyers and islamism here:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjQ1MmE1ODEzYzZiMDIwZjk3M2Q1YWJhMTAwMTQyMTQ=

a choice graf of a very sobering read:

This, as I argue in a book to be published this spring, is why Islam and the Left collaborate so seamlessly. They don’t agree on all the ends and means. In fact, Islamists don’t agree among themselves about means. But before they can impose their utopias, Islamists and the Left have a common enemy they need to take down: the American constitutional tradition of a society based on individual liberty, in which government is our servant, not our master. It is perfectly obvious that many progressive lawyers are drawn to the jihadist cause because of common views about the need to condemn American policies and radically alter the United States.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.

In a televised speech, Chavez said: “The Internet can’t be something free where anything can be done and said. No, every country has to impose its rules and regulations,”

http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/03/14/venezuelas-chavez-internet-should-be-regulated/#comments
http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2010/03/and-now-toward-end-of-free-internet-in.html#more

Chauvez for UN Director of Internet Notional Capricity?

DINC

Sounds about right.

Syncro

Chavez doesn't understand the nature of thought. The Internet is about thought and the expression of thought. Period.

So, for Chavez to say that the Internet refers to 'where anything can be done' is wrong. No action is carried out on the Internet, unless you consider thought 'something done'.

Can you forbid thoughts? Forbid images in the mind? Forbid their expression?

Certainly, regimes have censored thought in the past but the human mind rebels against such - whether it be a religious edict or a political edict.

What is equally a question is why we humans so constantly try to repress ourselves as people, and why we so constantly try to set up utopias, or what some among us consider utopian (and others consider a slave state).

One man. A Daniel.

A Canadian.

A Canadian named Steve McIntyre, aka St. George, singlehandedly killed the Red-Green AGW dragon.
…-

“The case against the hockey stick

The “hockey stick” temperature graph is a mainstay of global warming science. A new book tells of one man’s efforts to dismantle it—and deserves to win prizes

Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific mistake of immense political weight was perpetrated, defended and camouflaged by a scientific establishment that should now be red with shame. It is a book about principal components, data mining and confidence intervals—subjects that have never before been made thrilling. It is the biography of a graph.

I can remember when I first paid attention to the “hockey stick” graph at a conference in Cambridge. The temperature line trundled along with little change for centuries, then shot through the roof in the 20th century, like the blade of an ice-hockey stick. I had become somewhat of a sceptic about the science of climate change, but here was emphatic proof that the world was much warmer today; and warming much faster than at any time in a thousand years. I resolved to shed my doubts. I assumed that since it had been published in Nature—the Canterbury Cathedral of scientific literature—it was true.

I was not the only one who was impressed.”

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/03/the-case-against-the-hockey-stick/#

http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/03/14/you-should-feel-guilty-about-that-soft-toilet-tissue/#comment-77130

""An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty."--- This describes Ralph Goodale to a T.

Of course "the Internet can't be something free where anything can be done". Should I be free to use the Internet to mount a denial of service attack that disables the operational ability of a fire department or a hospital? Should I be free to use the Internet to engage in a conspiracy to rape and maim your daughter? And if you mean the other kind of free, then again of course it is not free: someone must pay for it.

It is a never-ending subject of fascination to me that there are those who would disparage classic pragmatic libertarians like me, who believe in freedom through responsibility, while they simultaneously engage in libertine and/or anarchistic behaviour demanding freedom from responsibility. If you believe the latter, if you do not agree with the proper regulation and management of utility infrastructure, then I'm sure you would agree that it would perfectly reasonable, next time I catch you on a roadway, for me to ram into your vehicle door with sufficient strength to kill you.

And if you say: nay nay, Vitruvius, we're only talking about freedom of speech here? Fine. Then if I do commit one of the irresponsible offenses outlined in the previous paragraphs, should I be "free" to speak lies about it on the stand under oath? And if I have not committed such an offense, but the prosecution is corrupt, should my lawyer be "free" to speak lies, in collusion with the prosecution, to my detriment?

In a highly civilized society such as Canada, there are a reasonably large number of proscriptions of pure freedom of speech. In the Criminal Code of Canada, the following sections contain various proscriptions against pure free speech: 57(2), 77(g), 78.1(3), 107(1), 128(b), 130(a), 131(1), 134(1), 140(1), 181, 300, 338(1), 361, 362, 363, 364, 366, 370, 371, 372, 377, 378, 380, 381, 382, 386, 390(a), 393(3), 394(1)(b), 400(1), 401(1), 404, 405, 408, 413, 426(1)(b)(iii), 437, and 490.0311. Most of them are quite reasonable.

Look, I don't like Chavez any more than any of you do. But if you let your indignation at his beliefs and behaviours blind you to the nature of responsible freedom and to the reality of a high-quality civilized life-style, then you clearly haven't understood the boxed quote shown near the beginning of this page.

Vitruvius, isn't the key term 'action' and not freedom of expression? And no, I'm not referring to any freedom to shout 'fire' in the cinema.

Even our hate laws refer not to the freedom of expression but to a direct link between the expression and an action that results from those words.

So, if I use the telephone (not the internet) to phone up my X-man to order that he kill Y-man, this is neither an expression of free speech nor a thing to do with the marvels of technical communication. It's a deliberate act on my part for which I must take responsibility.

But, I can, using that same phone and the email, discuss with someone my utopian wishes that this Y-man would walk into a bus some bright day. That's different.

To use the internet to act against the communication systems of a public service is, again, an action and nothing to do with freedom of speech.

Chavez can hardly be referring to these actions, which are all in themselves, criminal, when he is talking about the internet. After all, presumably, actions that disable public services and actions that kill another person, remain criminal acts in the land of Chavez.

So, he must be talking about freedom of thought and expression - at least - that's my assumption.

There are, ET, forms of expression that are legitimately proscribed, including the case I mentioned of lying under oath, the fire in a crowded theater example you provided, and arguably mob incitement, as well as most of the other clauses in the Criminal Code as described above. Again, though, it is not that I am opposed to freedom of speech, indeed, I think that speech should be as free as possible (but not freer than that).

Anyway, that's not what interests me in terms of my response to Marc's comment and the follow-ups including yours. If one wishes to make an effective argument against Chavez, for god's sake one shouldn't choose as one's single short quote one of the very rare cases where the man is literally correct (as illustrated by my previous comment). Read the article, do some research, and make a damning argument with a damning quote or two.

Don't just spew platitudes of righteous indignation.

It has been 6 weeks from the arrival in Caracas of Ramiro Valdes, the former interior minister of Cuba, a man that fought alongside Fidel from the early days of the revolution in 1953, the former director of national electronics (Copextel) in charge of "Cuba's telecom and IT industry" and Politburo member since 1965. He was brought to Venezuela by Hugo to help with the electrical crisis although his expertise in this is best summed up by looking at the advanced state of decline of Cuba's electrical grid... his real expertise is surveillance and repression of the citizenry.
... from his Wiki bio,
"At an international conference on communications in Havana, Valdés defended Cuba's "rational and efficient" use of the Internet but warned that "the wild colt of new technologies can and must be controlled."
... and the man on the left in this foto, (yes, yes I see, how do you become "left of Che"?)
http://www.security-database.com/toolswatch/IMG/jpg/valdes-camilo-che-franqui.jpg
and in these 6 weeks since Valdes' arrival, what has changed? is limiting access to opposition websites part of the plan to decrease electrical consumption? No, that's ridiculous. He wasn't brought in to stop people "shouting fire in a theatre".
He was brought in, because Hugo sees how the use of Twitter helped the opposition's cause in Iran after the recent election there. He was brought in to help control the free exchange of ideas, to help limit the damage all those photos on Flicker, of the "off line" generators in the Guri dam that at one time produced more than half the country's electricity, could have if too many people in Venezuela see them. Information is power and all that...
This is exactly the kind of information that Hugo seeks to keep from "his" country. It isn't to prevent people shouting "fire" in a theatre or to shut down a hospital's internet service. It is all about control and limiting the damage to his image, that he needs to keep hidden. note: the last time I was in a hospital in Anaco Anzoátegui Venezuela, it didn't have any internet service, only phones. (3 years ago)

http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2010/02/murderer-ramiro-valdes-comes-for-18.html

... interesting statement in that box Vίtruvius... Feel free to throw some rocks at me, I can't feel them in the Airdrie Tim's. ;)

That's better ;-)

Another quote to add to my growing collection.

Man fatally pinned at Montreal St. Patrick's Day parade

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100314/montreal_parade_100314/20100314?hub=TopStoriesV2

The CTV reporter, Maya Johnson, calls this accident "ironic" (seeing as the St. Patrick's Day Parade is supposed to be a day of fun and joy) and "a tragedy."

'How about just stupid and unnecessary? The 19-year-old, who was fatally pinned under the float, was a bystander who illegally jumped onto the float and a few blocks later, decided to jump off. Alcohol, apparently, was a factor.

This accident is very sad for the young man's family and friends, but hardly "ironic" or "a tragedy," as it could so easily have been avoided.

Wallyj @ 3:12: ""An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty."--- This describes Ralph Goodale to a T."
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Describes T, too.

Um, no it doesn't, Louise. T comes here solely to poke a subset of the SDA readers in the eye, and he does so completely successfully, playing that audience like a cheap violin. He's having way too much fun making fun of your indignation to be himself indignant. You should learn to ignore him.

Re: Fast time.

We don't use time change in Saskatchewan because we know that after cutting a foot off one end of a yardstick and gluing it on the other end, it's still three feet long. And besides, who wants a yardstick with a crack in it!

You're assuming a linear yardstick, Joe. Time, and notably the passage of human time cycles such as the diurnal one, do not exhibit such linear behaviour. Ergo, there can be legitimate issues relating to the phase shift value between the physical expression of the time of day and the human interpretation thereto. Otherwise, why not just have everyone work at night and sleep during the day?

This has been tormenting me for days, and if I were Vitruvius, I would play it. Unlike most of the songs that get stuck in my head, this is not '80s synth crap. "I get no kick in a plane! Flying too high with some guy in the sky is my idea of nothing to do! But I get a kick..."

I know it's not a "Reader Tip", but listening to it beats eviscerating "T".

Sure it's a Reader Tip. It's a reader providing a tip to the DJ about a cool/neato record said reader thinks the DJ should spin. Thanks for that suggestion, Black Mamba. Billy does a beautiful job in that. I've placed it in the queue, so, one of these days, it will pop up at just the right time. I note, though, that still you could not recommend such a beautiful performance as she puts in here with having to diss some other taste in music. Hmm. De gustibus non disputandum est.

Vitruvius, I love '80s synth music. That's probably why it keeps getting stuck in my head. But having survived days-on-end with "Africa" by Toto lodged in my brain, I've learned the value of auditory palate cleaners.

You survived days on end of Toto?!? Ok, understood, you get a papal dispensation ;-) Also, I probably shouldn't have interpreted your use of the word crap to imply that all synth is crap, but rather as a selector of that subset of synth that is indeed crap. As I've mentioned before, this really is a difficult medium to communicate in, and, in my opinion, the effect of that limitation remains under-appreciated by its ~ now how did Valery put it ~ oh yes, votaries.

Yesterday's excellent post by EBD, "Now, leaving aside the facts, just for a few years...",
concerning the CBC'c coverage of the Jaffer case could be expanded to include CTV. Today's "Question Period" was an hour long attack on the Conservatives which included two segments on this matter. The crown prosecutor should sue both of these "news" organizations for defamation. I do not live in Ontario,but if I knew of a prosecutor that could be swayed because of my conservative connections,I would either call him out on it,or put the knowledge in my back pocket for future need.This public servant ,if you believe CBC and CTV,is a weasel,who should be thrown out on his ass,jobless and scorned by all. Does anyone think that either "news' group will pursue this further? If not,they should be brought up in front of the HRC for their vicious hate-mongering. That will not happen though,this is another drive-by smear that will fade as they start the next one. It is a pity... SUE.THEM.ALL.

Eh, just as long as it's quality '80s synth music.

Mmm... I'd love to respond, Black Mamba, but we're approaching violation of the extended debates rule. Instead, I'm going to head over to tonight's new SDA Late Nite Radio show. Wieniawski's a hell of a palate cleaner in his own right ;-)

Re your most recent comment, Vίtruvius, I was just thinking:

Vίtruvius, Vίtruvius,
Don't be so obtrusivius.

;-)