Tonight’s Tips music selection is a follow up to this oddly touching video in which performers and music industry insiders at the CMA awards expressed their support and affection for beleaguered country wildman Hank Williams Jr., who had recently been fired from Monday Night Football for making some highly unflattering on-air remarks about Obama. From 1991, here’s the five-time CMA Entertainer of the Year (along with Clint Black in a brief musical cameo) singing Hotel Whiskey.
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OWS: The journey from evil to feral.
For the doubters on the other thread. Come on over to the country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=j-_Ze0J9cHg
Hank’s dad was a favourite in the late 40s on our battery operated radio. Too bad he had to leave early.
This is from a few weeks ago, but here’s an AP report, published in Haaretz, updating the current status of Helen Thomas, the former White House correspondent who stepped down from her job after she said Israeli Jews should “go home” to “Poland, Germany, and everywhere else.”
Guess who she blames:
“They distorted my remarks, which they obviously have to do for their own propaganda purposes, otherwise people might wonder why they continue to take Palestinian land.” (emph. mine)
The AP article, remarkably, follows the above quote with this:
Yeah, she might have been referring to Tongans, or Thais, or Argentinians…
For “the world still has too many reporters” file, this ridiculous article about deleted comments on Stephen Harper’s Facebook page. Apparently the Ottawa Citizen has nothing better to do than to monitor the PM’s Facebook page to see if comments get deleted.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Facebook+comments+prime+minister+staff+doesn+want/5697813/story.html
EBD
With all due respect, the spam filter has been a bitch lately. If this is related to my own behaviour/comments then I stand to be corrected, if not, there is a larger problem.
Which is it? Just aski’n…
[Syncro: it’s nothing to do with your behaviour/comments; I just checked and your name isn’t tagged in any way – you’re fine. If you’ve been getting the “your comment is being held” (etc) page, then something – some word, part of a link – is getting caught (automatically) in the filter. It can be as innocuous as an “&” buried in a URL, or the word “online”, or…there’s a whole bunch of things. Happens to me frequently, too. – EBD]
In a surprise move at the UN, the Israeli delegation backs a motion to declare Iran a world heritage site, then generously offers to place it under glass.
Thanks for the clarification EBD…appreciated.
“I said to Hank Williams, how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
Oh, a hundred floors above me in the Tower of Song.”
(Contains my all-time favorite Cohen lyric: “All the bridges are burning that we might have crossed, and I feel so close to everything that we’ve lost; we’ll never, we’ll never have to lose it again.”
SDA commenter ET featured in this Sun News video of Ocuppy Toronto.
Is there such a thing, in a liberal democracy, as a *pre-emptive* mass arrest?
Yup:
“More than 170 members of the right-wing English Defence League (EDL) have been arrested near an Armistice Day ceremony in central London amid fears they were trying to target anti-capitalists camped in the city.
“Scotland Yard said the group were detained ‘to prevent a breach of the peace’ at a pub near the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
“A police source said it was believed the group were heading towards the anti-capitalist ‘Occupy’ protest camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral, set up last month after being inspired by the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement.”
Do you think the British police would ever arrest and detain 170 Muslims who had done nothing wrong out of “fears” that they might disrupt, say, an Armistice Day ceremony?
Cool, ET’s a real person! That d-bag at 1:25 was funny.
Black Mamba
Was that you stage right?
My alltime favorite Lenard Cohen lyrics would be as follows:
Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it’s something in between, I guess
it’s CLOSING TIME
Applies many ways, many times….
Thanks for that, Mississauga Matt (11;59). ET’s expression at around 00:58 seconds when she’s being lectured by that loon is worth a thousand words.
Good straightforward, civic journalisticatin’ by Warmington, too.
It would be nice if ET came to visit more often.
Libyan mercenaries arrive in Gaza with Grad multiple rocket launchers
Fifty Libyan Muslim Brotherhood mercenaries arrived in the Gaza Strip from Tripoli last month – in time to take part in the Jihad Islami’s last missile offensive against Israel starting Oct. 29, debkafile’s military sources report. They arrived at the wheels of minivans on which were mounted the new Grad multiple rocket-launchers which Palestinian terrorists fired for the first time last month. These mobile rocket-launchers were last seen on the Libyan battlefield in use against Muammar Qaddafi’s army.
http://debka.com/
Had a chance to watch a few minutes of morning ‘news’ for the first time in a long time before going to the cemetery.
Good Morning America i think it was had “Battle of the celebrity trailers”(it was about the size of trailers celebrities have on movie shoots), and something about a chicken…
“Reversal of Fortune”
“Despite the Happy Days Are Here Again stories in the press, a dark economic cloud hangs over most of the world. There is real uncertainty in the air. Most everybody knows that a big lifestyle change can be just an email away and wonder if … As one fictional character put it, “the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air” But the same character added, “things will go as they will; and there is no need to hurry to meet them.”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/11/12/reversal-of-fortune/#more-18635
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“China’s Economy Goes From Boom To Bust”
“Global Crisis: The news these days is filled with stories about the euro zone economies and their ongoing crisis. But another, potentially bigger and even more important crisis is brewing — this one in China.
Amid seemingly endless stories about the Chinese Miracle and how China’s soaring economy is about to overtake the U.S. comes news that suggests the death of America as No. 1 may be exaggerated — and, in fact, may be dead wrong.
Indeed, China’s economy may be on the cusp of a major growth reversal.
The cause: China’s imploding real estate market. Since late summer, Chinese home prices have tumbled, partly a result of Chinese government policies intended to keep the economy from overheating.”
http://news.investors.com/Article/590968/201111081835/Chinas-Miracle-Next-Big-Bust-.htm
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
Oliver and Mao: Dilty Oir not Tal Sands.
“On the oil sands our interests are aligned. China wants to diversify its sources of oil and we want to diversify our markets.”
*Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae’s uncle Maurice Strong, c/o Red China.
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“China keen market for oil sands, Oliver says”
Canada is counting on China to be a key investor in Alberta’s oil sands projects and a big customer for crude that would flow through a proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is half-way through his visit to China to drum up customers for the country’s forestry and oil sectors.
And he told reporters in a conference call from Shanghai Wednesday that he’s spent a lot of time talking about increased Chinese investment in Alberta’s growing oil sands.
“On the oil sands our interests are aligned. China wants to diversify its sources of oil and we want to diversify our markets.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2806356/posts
Socialism’s natural end results include:
Desertification and suicide.
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“Occupy protester dies from self-inflicted gunshot”
“They said witness accounts indicated the gunshot was self-inflicted, but stopped short of directly labeling it a suicide.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/11/11/18955151.html
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“A Symptom of the Crisis”
“Greeks Vexed By Growing Crime”
“With a struggling economy, massive austerity measures and increasing uncertainty, crime is surging in parts of Greece. This has sparked a boom for some in the private security business. Greek officials are considering plans to make the streets of Athens safer.”
“A few steps from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, where visitors gawk at statues of Zeus and other ancient treasures of antiquity, a man crouches under a tree, wraps a rubber band around his arm and shoots up heroin.
Nearby, dirty streets are congested with drug sellers and buyers. Athenians say that cases of drug trafficking, prostitution, murder, thefts, burglaries, petty crime and illegal immigration have all increased as the Greek economy contracts.
Locals say they are seeing more signs of societal strain, with unemployment having risen to 16.3 percent in the second quarter — up from 12 percent a year ago. Graffiti and shuttered store fronts speckle the winding downtown streets of Athens. Stray dogs and cats, some discarded by families unable to feed them, roam neighborhoods. With refuse workers often on strike these days, it is not uncommon for garbage to pile up on the streets, providing a feast for stray animals. Meanwhile, an uptick in muggings and armed robberies of even gated homes in Athens suburbs has proven deeply unsettling for Greece’s middle and upper classes.
“The city’s historic centre and other major areas are suffering desertification, all manner of criminal activity and manifestations of violence, insecurity, lawlessness, the impoverishment of significant numbers of people — both native inhabitants and foreign nationals, illegal prostitution and illegal drug trading,” the Athens City Council said in a statement.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,796733,00.html
S for Suicide.
M for Mohammedanism and Blatchford’s mea culpa*:
“They had wanted so bloody little.” “I found there were tears streaming down my face.”
No mention that these murderers are Mohammedans.
H/T PET Cemetery.
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“Civilization Or Not? The West Must Decide”
“The horrible truth is that our passivity is a form a suicide, both individually and culturally. And the alternative to Western Civilization, at this point in time, is no civilization at all.”
“Yet the majority of Westerners sit silently. Too worried about giving offense to realize they’ve just been offended, and that their most fundamental of rights—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.—are being attacked at this very moment.”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4864
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CB’s mea culpa:
“Christie Blatchford: These young women are worth fighting for”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/11/11/christie-blatchford-these-young-women-are-worth-fighting-for/
“According to OPP radio transmissions the following just occurred in Caledonia.
Armed robbery of the local KFC whereby the OPP brought in dogs to track down the robber. The dogs lead them to DCE (Douglas Creek Estate – home of the ongoing occupation) whereby the OPP were meet by a Native man who told them they could not enter the subdivision – as always the OPP stopped and call off the dogs and left. The OPP are driving up and down the local streets but refuse to enter DCE to get the armed robber.”
Our wonderful police in action again. As we see in the Occupation Toronto site police do not venture into that illegal occupation also.
Every time IMHO our police forces are challenged by an organized group, minority, native, whatever they back down and each time they undermine our respect and reliance on their support for us. The London Ontario police action in shutting down the occupation in their city seems to be an rarity.
Nice to see ET is as feisty in person as she is on Kate’s blog.
It after 9:30 Saturday morning, and yet I can find no coverage as to whether Regina police have moved in to clear the park yet.
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
Latest reports show a range of 6.8 > 8.3. Expected to rise.
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“Hawaii Has it All: Surf, Sun, and Snow..Again??”
http://www.accuweather.com/
“B.C. battered by hail, rain and snow”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/12/b-c-battered-by-hail-rain-and-snow/
Socialism’s Misery Index.
“A so-called baseline scenario is based on the expectation that the situation does not get too bad.”
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“Worst-Case Scenarios”
“Berlin Prepares for Possible Greek Exit from Euro Zone”
“The German government has been simulating a range of scenarios to prepare for a possible exit of Greece from the euro zone. Under a worst-worst-case scenario, the country could descend into a vicious circle of misery that could last decades.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,797399,00.html
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“Greece turns to Iran for oil”
“(Reuters) – Greece is relying on Iran for most of its oil as traders pull the plug on supplies and banks refuse to provide financing for fear that Athens will default on its debt.
Traders said Greece has turned to Iran as the supplier of last resort despite rising pressure from Washington and Brussels to stifle trade as part of a campaign against Tehran’s nuclear program.
The near paralysis of oil dealings with Greece, which has four refineries, shows how trade in Europe could stall due to a breakdown in trust caused by the euro zone debt crisis, which is threatening to spread to further countries.
“Companies like us cannot deal with them. There is too much risk. Maybe independent traders are more geared up for that,” said a trader with a major international oil company.
“Our finance department just refuses to deal with them. Not that they didn’t pay. It is just a precaution,” said a trader with a major trading house.
“We couldn’t find any bank willing to finance us. No bank wants to finance a deal for them. We missed some good opportunities there,” said a third trader.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2806442/posts
Every human problem brings with it its own solution. In the case of the “occupy” morons, it’s called ‘Darwin’.
It’s a herd that could do with a good deal of thinning.