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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) SDA Late Nite Radio.
Recently there’s been a bit of a behind-the-scenes scandal at the LNR studios: one particular commenter, Loretta, claims that another commenter – let’s call her “Carol” – has been boasting about having an affair with Loretta’s husband. A rather steamed Loretta writes, via email,

“She’s absolutely full of it. When my husband picks up trash, he puts it in a garbage can. And that’s what Carol looks like to me – pitiful trash. If she comes anywhere near me I swear I’m going to grab her by the hair and lift her off of the ground.”

“I’m not saying my husband is a saint – ’cause he ain’t – and that he won’t flirt with other women. What I am saying is that if Carol doesn’t back off I’m going to show her what a real woman is. She thinks she’s hot stuff? Well, if she’s got the guts, she should say to my face all this stuff she’s been saying to other people.”

“She’s been boasting about this supposed mutual attraction between her and my husband; well, mark my word, if she doesn’t shut up she’s going to find herself on a one-way trip to Fist City.”

I felt it was in the interests of public safety to publish the warning. Now, leave me out of it.
The thread is open for your Reader Tips.

47 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. David Cameron, the Tory candidate for PM in Britain’s upcoming general election:
    “We’ve got to stop treating adults like children and children like adults. We’ve got to end this culture of entitlement and build a new culture of responsibility. As a great American President once said: “ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” So, ask what you can do for your country – and yes, for your family and for your community too. So this is the change we offer. Not just from one set of politicians to another……from one set of policies to another…it is a change from one political philosophy to another. From one that says progress will come from state control to a belief that it will come through social responsibility. From one that thinks politicians have all the answers to one that trusts in the wisdom of people. Everything in this manifesto is built on these beliefs – on this philosophy.”

  2. not being at one with country music, although quite a bit of it is to my liking, I actually read the entire preamble thinking I’d completely missed something REAL BIG. uff, but thanks for that EBD.

  5. Da Jews:
    “Monsignor Giacomo Babini, the Bishop Emeritus of Grossetto, was quoted by the Italian Roman Catholic website Pontifex as saying he believed a ‘Zionist attack’ was behind the criticism of the Pope, given that it was ‘powerful and refined’ in nature.
    (…)
    “Bishop Babini, 81, said Jews ‘do not want the Church, they are its natural enemies’. He added: ‘Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are deicides [God killers].’
    “He was quoted as saying that Hitler was ‘not just mad’ but had exploited German anger over the excesses of German Jews who in the 1930s had throttled the German economy.”

  6. EBD,
    Following your theme. One simple policy or philosophy that can lead to an improved quality of life for everyone is simply to deliver more than expected.
    A tire firm here in BC does that in spades and you are always happy with their work. The unexpected extras can make your day.
    I made the error of mentioning their name in the last ‘tips’ and the comment got chopped. They are a privately held company. There are no shares one can buy. So nothing personal to gain.
    Too bad the examples were lost.
    More businesses with the ‘do more than expected’ philosophy would be a welcome lift for everyone.
    Ask not what your customer can do for you. Do more for your customer than they would ever expect.
    It’s also a smart practice. The firm is expanding and doing very well. Government agencies like the RCMP do business there, I’ve noticed.

  7. I don’t know, TonyG, what was my theme?
    Paul Krugman in the New York Times:
    “I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. But a few days later, it doesn’t seem quite as entertaining — and not just because of the wave of vandalism and threats aimed at Democratic lawmakers. For if you care about America’s future, you can’t be happy as extremists take full control of one of our two great political parties.”
    Warning: swallow whatever you have in your mouth before you read this next bit:
    “To find anything like what we’re seeing now you have to go back to the last time a Democrat was president..”

  8. I loved Loretta Lynn; had many of her albums, still do love her; but you guessed that, didn’t you EBD?

  11. I had a hunch, larben. |:>)>
    From the caring, sharing left files, Radio host Thom Hartmann explains to Mathew Vadum why leftist incitement to violence is A-OK:
    “Your right-wing crazies are incited to violence based on fear and hate of people because of whom they are, because they’re gay, because they’re Catholic, because they’re Jewish, because they’re black, because they’re Hispanic. And our left-wing crazies are incited to violence because they’re trying to create a better world. They’re trying to save the environment in the case of the eco-terrorists. They’re trying to end the Vietnam War in the case of the Weather Underground. They’re trying to bring about civil rights in the case of the Symbionese Liberation Army and some of the other black terrorist groups that were operating in the 1970s.”

  13. The opposite philosophy to ‘Ask not what ect.’ is be greedy and grab all you can get.
    That has played out in Mexico. The vast drug industry budget is more than 12 Billion$ while the expanded military budget to fight it tops out at 4 Billion$.
    When oil reserves give out in eight years the economy in Mexico will be a drugs based economy.
    Ciudad Juarez city is now an actual ‘killing fields’ where thousands are raped, kidnapped for ransom, be-headed, and machine gunned .
    You like NAFTA? NAFTA factories pay workers $45 to $70 per WEEK. Turnover is heavy as no one can live on those wages.
    Young male workers join the drug business. the pay is better. One third and more of the military desert the force for the drug trade. The pay is better.
    Like Afghanistan the young people and the orphans are without school or parents and have become feral or ‘wild’.
    This ‘freedom’ is spreading. This is the freedom to grab all you can get and become very wealthy.
    Chuck Bowden [respected author / journalist], documents all this and much more in his book..Murder City.
    nationbooks.org/book/203/Murder City
    He was just interviewed on ‘As It Happens’
    cbc.ca/asithappens/
    If the silly CBC has not loaded the audio yet, you can get more from NPR..
    npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125427225
    This is their [Quote]. The drug industry makes $30 billion to $50 billion a year and is second only to petroleum among Mexico’s lucrative exports.[/Quote]
    Caution… Holiday in Pt. Isabelle Texas or Ojai California…NOT Mexico.
    This is authentic and very gripping. Don’t miss it.
    BTW. The only way to reverse this is to sell recreational drugs in government liquor stores. Bowden sees that. I see that. Why don’t you?

  14. Bourque and Fox are reporting that Larry King is getting divorced from his 7th and current wife. He has the distinction of having been married 8 times – twice to one of them (will the guy never learn?).
    Bourque is reporting that his current wife is divorcing him because he had an affair with her sister. Gives new meaning to the term “relative humitidy”.
    I wonder………..will Larry have himself as a guest to discuss all the sordit details.

  15. “will Larry have himself as a guest to discuss all the sordit details”.
    What and drive his ratings even lower?????

  16. Yes! Larry King, 103, is on the market! Back off, ladies, or it’s Fist City time!
    I would post a link, but my links keep getting caught in the filter. Which is not fair, because they are always good links. 🙁

  17. Hey Joe – just maybe Larry took the drastic step of banging his sis-in-law in order to make his ratings go up.
    Give the guy marks for creativity.

  19. Black Mamba, your links are always appreciated. The problem was the word “online”, as in “timesonline.com.” Any live-linking of the word “online” gets caught in the filter 100% of the time. In this case I’ve already fixed the non-working link at 10:24pm that you corrected for me (thanks) so there’s no need to release the comment, but rest assured that I do check the spam filter periodically on my Wednesday LNRs; if your other comments/links get caught up, I will see them, and I will publish them.
    Phyllis Schlafly:
    “Having already co-opted the executive and legislative branches of government for his fundamental transformation, Obama now wants to use the judiciary, too. The retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens gives him this opportunity.
    “On Jan. 18, 2001, on Public Radio WBEZ-FM, Chicago, Obama complained that the Earl Warren Court ‘wasn’t that radical’ because ‘it didn’t break free from the essential constraints placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. … The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and serve more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.’
    “Calling for the Supreme Court to participate in the ‘redistribution of wealth’ is shockingly revolutionary. Any judicial nominee who agrees with Obama’s theory should be rejected.
    “Obama’s game plan to ‘fundamentally transform’ America is based on both Saul Alinsky’s modus operandi for community organizing and on the Cloward-Piven spending strategy.”
    The whole thing here.

  21. “Help us! We can’t stop gossiping and baselessly speculating! Call the cops!”
    Don Martin:
    “In the court of public opinion, they’re already convicted as a cursed coupling. But with anonymous whispers, innuendo, gossip and grassy knoll conspiracies fanning the Helena Guergis-Rahim Jaffer scandal into a parliamentary preoccupation without end, it’s time for police intervention.
    “The cops need to cough up some actual facts. Now.”

  23. Thanks for choosing Loretta Lynn EBD. She has always been one of my favorite country singers; she epitomizes country: open, real and charming in the way that no Shrillery type bulldog could ever hope to be – her words (from her songs) make me, as a woman, feel powerful and positive.

  24. Well the Volcano in Iceland did blow. The ash has disrupted flights in Scotland and more.
    [Quote]
    The ash has also disrupted operations at London Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, where at least 150 flights were canceled. Another 138 flights have been canceled at Britain’s second-busiest terminal of London Gatwick..[/Quote]
    ajc.com/news/nation-world/ash-from-icelands-volcano-463763.html
    Volcanic ash normally cools the hemisphere.
    Maybe the Goracle can get us back on the track to warming again…eh?

  25. Yahoo provides some raw video…
    news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/ap_on_re_eu/eu_iceland_volcano
    [Quote]
    Scientists said the eruption under the ice cap was 10 to 20 times more powerful than one last month, and carried a much greater risk of widespread flooding.
    “This is a very much more violent eruption, because it’s interacting with ice and water,” said Andy Russell, an expert in glacial flooding at the University of Newcastle in northern England. “It becomes much more explosive, instead of a nice lava flow oozing out of the ground.”
    [/Quote]

  26. Very clever EBD – you had me going. I was wondering how I manged to miss something like that:)
    Revnant Dream – So much for “If you’ve got it, flaunt it” Nudist beaches are not what they are cracked up to be either! Thank you for reminding my why I did not get implants.
    002 – my guess is it will be holding more than a hand.
    Black Mamba – look forward to your links and comments.
    Signed the petition – that is two now – they should merge them.

  27. To all our SDA readers south of the border, Happy Tax Deadline Day. Actually, that would be condolences as this return will probably hurt less than the future ones.

  30. Al’s AGW: But …… but …. butttt…. a kick in Gaia’s Iceland Ash Pit Volcano but … but….
    “But they added that the phenomenon only affected a limited region and would not alter the overall global warming trend.”
    …-
    Low solar activity link to cold UK winters
    Satellite image showing the British Isles covered in snow (Image: NASA)
    A period of low solar activity could lead to more cold winters in the UK
    The ‘Big Freeze’ explained
    The UK and continental Europe could be gripped by more frequent cold winters in the future as a result of low solar activity, say researchers.
    They identified a link between fewer sunspots and atmospheric conditions that “block” warm, westerly winds reaching Europe during winter months.
    But they added that the phenomenon only affected a limited region and would not alter the overall global warming trend.”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8615789.stm
    (H/T WUWT?)
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/14/lockwood-demonstrates-link-between-low-sun-and-low-temps/#comments

  32. A’sGW: Move to ASH Power. Free. Air Miles. Time Tested. Hurry. Sale ends in 1823.
    “the previous eruption, in December 1821, lasted until January 1823.”
    …-
    “Volcano ash chaos: previous eruption ‘lasted more than a year’
    The previous eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, whose ash cloud has shut down airspace over Britain, lasted for more than a year, according to an expert.
    The Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted for the first time in 200 years on March 20, in a dramatic display that sent fountains of lava spewing into the air.
    All flights to British airspace have been suspended after ash caused by the eruption forced air traffic controllers to restrict take-offs and landings.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7593716/Volcano-ash-chaos-previous-eruption-lasted-more-than-a-year.html

  34. “Closeted and aging Klansmen. Gap-toothed hillbillies and incestuous bayou-dwellers. Barely literate and self-absorbed red-state hicks. These are the images that the left-wing pundits of coastal enclaves and lower-tier cable television news have convinced themselves to be the ‘real America.’ It isn’t an America they can respect, but then, no recognizable iteration of America could be. We all wish it was otherwise, but the disdain is palpable in print, online, on television, and over the airwaves (though judging by ratings, few are cognizant of the latter two).”

  35. CBC is not a defamer.
    …-
    “Online posters land Halifax newspaper in trouble
    An alternative weekly newspaper in Halifax has been ordered to release information about seven anonymous online posters.
    Two fire officials claim they were defamed last April through comments that were posted to a story on the online version of The Coast, about allegations of racism within the Halifax regional fire service, CBC News reports.
    On Wednesday, a Halifax court ordered the newspaper to hand over information they had about the identities of the seven posters, including login information and IP addresses.
    The Coast editor Kyle Shaw said he would follow the court’s orders.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2010/04/14/13581931-qmi.html

  36. An old joke, from a compilation by William Novak and Moshe Waldoks:
    Mrs. Krasnov, feeling sorry for a schnorrer who appeared at her door, invited him in and gave him a substantial meal: chicken, kugel , wine, and two kinds of bread: black bread and challah.
    The schnorrer devoured everything he was given except the black bread. ‘The challah was wonderful,’ he said. ‘Do you have any more?’
    ‘My dear man,’ said Mrs. Krasnov, ‘we have plenty of black bread, but challah is very expensive.’
    ‘I know,’ said the schnorrer. ‘But believe me, lady, it’s worth it!’
    Half of Americans say, “Higher taxes? Believe me, lady, it’s worth it!”:
    1. “About 47 percent (of American households) will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability. That’s according to projections by the Tax Policy Center, a Washington research organization.”
    2. “For the second straight year, slightly less than half of Americans say the amount of federal income tax they have to pay is too high, while almost as many say the amount they pay in taxes is about right.”
    Funny how that works. Here’s what the question amounts to, effectively, for half of those polled:
    “Your neighbours are paying a substantial federal income tax which funds programs, credits, deductions, and exemptions for your family. You pay absolutely no federal income tax. Would you say that the amount of federal income tax you pay is too high, too low, or just about right?”

  37. From Tim Black’s essay A queer attack on personal conscience:
    “From the perspective of a fearful elite, we simply cannot be trusted to act according to our conscience….This elite fear of the ‘conscience’ of the masses – reined in by legislation, from hate speech to equality laws – marks a strange reversal, particularly on the part of those who think of themselves as liberal. After all freedom of conscience, especially with regards to something as personal as religion, has been a staple of the liberal tradition. As the philosopher John Stuart Mill warned, too often legislators occupy themselves ‘in inquiring what things society ought to like or dislike, [rather] than in questioning whether its likings or dislikings should be a law to individuals’. Underpinning Mill’s liberalism is the belief that an individual ought to be able to determine how best to live his own life. Morality, for Mill, is not something to be forced on to individuals from without; it is something to be arrived at through one’s own reason. The choices we make are, in short, a matter for our conscience.
    “The problem here is that where thinkers in the liberal, Enlightenment tradition saw morality largely as a practical capacity of the reasoning individual, today’s political class, estranged from any discernable public, suspect the individual of being incapable of reasoning. We are seen instead as impulsive and irrational.”

  38. Mao Stlong’s AGW Repolt: Al’sGW (AGW) is off to Iceland with Soozyuki.
    Gleetings flom China, comlades; say Hi! to Moi nephew, Boob Lae, Canada’s “Liberal leader”.
    …-
    “Cold May Worsen Toll in China Quake”
    “frigid temperatures threatened to claim hundreds more who remained missing,”.
    “Attention began turning to the scores of thousands who survived the 7.1-magnitude quake, in western China’s rural Qinghai Province, only to be left without heat or shelter in weather marked by high winds, sleet and below-freezing cold.”
    “Zou Ming, the disaster relief director at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said the relief efforts would ensure that “it is not possible for anyone to freeze to death.””
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/world/asia/16quake.html

  39. EBD, your link explains how modern liberals think.
    ” ..suspect the individual of being incapable of reasoning. We are seen instead as impulsive and irrational. ”
    ‘Father knows best’ has been replaced by latte-liberals know best.
    Some of the dumbest people I know are so called Intellectuals?

  41. Chris Stirewalt, Political Editor of the Washington Examiner:
    “After Barack Obama’s election, Democrats assumed that the American people were battered, bruised and ready for a morphine drip of European-style socialism. Republicans, shocked by their stunning reversals, figured the Democrats were right and started looking for technocrats of their own.”
    (….)
    “Just 18 months ago the leaders of both parties were quite sure that Obama would be the popular, transformative president he aspires to be. The Republicans who emerged from the wreckage of November were certain to look a lot more like Charlie Crist and Mitt Romney than Marco Rubio and Ron Paul.
    “But Crist’s embrace of Obamanomics seems to have utterly destroyed his chances at a Senate seat that was once his for the taking. Romney, considered a near lock for the 2012 Republican nomination, has seen his candidacy badly damaged by a populist revolt against the passage of a national health care plan that looks like the one he designed for Massachusetts.”
    Regarding the initial assessments/characterizations of the Tea Parties, versus the emerging reality:
    “This year, the political parties and the press will not be caught off guard. Republican politicians will address tea party rallies, Democrats will denounce the supposed puppeteers of the movement and the press will look for hate speech.
    “But few will glean the real meaning of the protests or the booming support for Ron and Rand Paul.
    “It’s not about the Pauls themselves or the guys with the ‘Don’t tread on me’ flags. It’s about the people at home who might not be willing to march in the park or join the next Paul money bomb, but who don’t blame the folks who do.
    “Libertarian sentiment has finally gone mainstream.”

  42. AGW not mentioned. Shcuks. (Lifted from Al Gore’s Weather bolg (AGW) Comments.)
    Thordarson poopoos Gaia.
    He’s an “expert”: “Dr. Thor Thordarson, an expert on Icelandic volcanoes,”
    Is he on the volcano? Under the Volcano*?
    …-
    “While ash belching from the volcano is the immediate concern, the levels of sulphur dioxide and other corrosive gases that the eruption releases will create a long-term effect on the climate, Thordarson said.
    “Right now, it’s too small for that. It’s not climatically significant at this stage. If it dies out soon, I don’t think we will see any impact on the atmosphere.”
    But if the eruption changes and produces a lava dome at the summit that then collapses into an explosion, the impact could be much more significant, he said.”
    “Volcano eruptions in Iceland could last for years”
    http://www.thestar.com/worldwide/article/795721–eruptions-could-continue-for-years?bn=1
    (H/T Malcom Lowry)

  45. Al’s GW (AGW) is AWOL. Sorry.
    …-
    “Icelandic volcano eruption intensifies
    By Omar Valdimarsson Omar Valdimarsson – 39 mins ago
    REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A volcanic eruption in Iceland, which has thrown up a 6-km (3.7 mile) high plume of ash and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, has grown more intense, an expert said on Thursday.
    The eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier continued to spew large amounts of ash and smoke into the air and showed no signs of abating after 40 hours of activity, said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland.
    “The seismographs are showing that since this morning the intensity of the eruption seems to be growing,” he said.”
    http://urlm.in/ellg

  46. EBD, I did check it out and it’s hilarious, especially the old-trying-to-look-young-bag Nancy Pelosi being knocked over by a bunch of tea bags.
    ‘Wish it was that easy.

  47. My MP, Rod Bruinooge, introduced a private member’s bill today on coercion to have an abortion. Full disclosure: I’m pro-life and for me this bill really means little because most of the coercive techniques are already covered under different statutes.
    All that aside, though, the comments at the G&M and the Winnipeg Free Press are particularly vitriolic and hateful toward conservatives. (Note to lefties: I don’t seek to silence these people; on the contrary, I seek to shine a light on their hatred and have the world see what they really are.)
    Globe and Mail article
    Winnipeg Free Press article
    Now can we please have an adult conversation in this country about abortion?

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