PEI singer-songwriter Gene MacLellan wrote the 1971 pop-gospel hit Put Your Hand in The Hand, among many other songs, but he is most famous as the composer of Anne Murray's international #1 hit Snowbird. The uptempo arrangement of Murray's radio-friendly hit, with its catchy orchestral flourish before the choruses, was (like MacLellan's own recording) somewhat at odds with what has been described as "the greatest suicide note ever written"; tonight, we listen to a lovely, reimagined interpretation of the song, delivered in a style and tempo that does a better job of drawing out the meaning of the melancholy lyric: here's Catherine MacLellan -- Gene's daughter -- in a live performance of Snowbird.
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Nota Bene:
"Despite all the ambitious efforts to reduce everything from skyscraper construction to a human breath to a number and to impose penalties accordingly so as to nudge the offenders away from their carbon crimes, the real criminals fly off someplace warm by the thousands to discuss the need to use less fuel and be more energy efficient. The resort conferences are only a drop in the ocean of government which is swiftly flooding everything in sight."
-- Sultan Knish (Daniel Greenfield)
Is Obama just "Too brainy to be president?"
No, really, that's the title.
Rex Murphy on citizen of France, Thomas Mulcair.
It's not that I normally wouldn't believe you, Black Mamba, but I had to click on the link just to confirm.
You were right. That actually is the title.
The real world scares the crap out of liberals, the scientific proof.
In a guest post at Dollar Vigilante, a fellow named Menno Troyer looks at events in Europe with what could be considered either schadenfreude-tinted glasses or 20/3 vision:
The whole thing here.
http://freemarketamerica.org/if-i-wanted-america-to-fail/
They played just enough of this on Adler that I had to look up the web sight and check it out for myself.
Kinda hits the nail on the head.
"Britain's coldest May in more than 300 years…"
It's a warm cold.
Jeez, after selling most of my furniture and reserving a spot on the mountain top I now find out the world will not end Dec.21 of this year. Still at least 7000 years to go and there's the possibility I may be too old and frail to celebrate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18018343
Via American Digest, an interview with -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Excerpt:
More here.
Good coverage of the March For Life in Ottawa today.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2012/05/10/19743951.html (Sun vids included)
Also covered on Sun News TV and net.
Brave Mr. Giggles:
Naw, he's courage personified - you can tell just by looking at him.
The CBC's greatest wish should be that Rex Murphy NEVER leave the Mother Ship - otherwise the reason(s) for their existence would be unimaginably reduced.
He seems to be the lone voice of reason in that vast wilderness.
Can't we talk CTV or Global into luring this guy into their employ?
// I told a few colleagues of mine that I was going to write about this song, about how sad it really is and most had no idea it was a sad song. //
That's me. Thanks, EBD. I think I'll save that version by Gene's daughter.
much is being made of Romney's "bullying" some 40 years ago...but what of 'bama's claims to have 'bullied a girl because she was black' ? or was she just a composite ? or is he the composite ? it reallyh doesn't matter, because the media will never mention it....
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/10/audio-obama-describes-bullying-female-classmate-because-she-was-black/
Rudyard Kipling interviews Mark Twain.
“He said: ‘Suppose a man has written a book that will live for ever?’“I said: ‘Neither you nor I will ever live to see that man, but we’ll assume it. What then?’
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30250943/Rudyard-Kipling-s-Mark-Twain-Interview
WOW, EBD, a hat-trick tonite with the Knish, Hans-Hermann Hoppe and that LOVELY Snowbird by Catherine MacLellan. Imagine how hard that must have been for her!
Thank you!
HHH is today, I believe, the reigning austro-libertarian who has inherited the mantle from the great and dangerous anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard.
I read his Democracy: The God That Failed: interesting, but curiously he thought a monarchy would be better, which you have to admit is "out there". Also, his little book The Private Production of Defense, I've mentioned on a couple occasions. Rothbard and HHH basically believed not in a limited government but in NO government at all because in their view, it's impossible to limit government.
...nice one Mamba...
Today after the markets closed, JP Morgan called an emergency investor conference call to announce that it was caught holding short credit default swaps. These are the same toxic assets that almost brought AIG down in 2008, if not for a last minute govt bailout. JPM has lost $2billon in the last 6 weeks, with about another estimated billion in the coming weeks (minus income from CDS premiums). They say they will not buy back the short positions but will take the hit as it comes. However, this will bring down the share price of the entire US banking sector tomorrow. As I write, Asian markets are pulling back. The question is whether the sell-off will continue or not.
So far JPM is saying that it was a lone rogue trader and that this is not systemic as 2008 was. Interestingly, the traders on the floor have snickered about a "London Whale" over the last weeks who was 'shorting' these assets to everyone and who apparently had access to very deep pockets (likely fired now). Now that JPM is publicly exposed, you can expect the vultures in the credit markets to pick the bones clean. As such, others who are over exposed will likely be made public as the market corrects, as it did in 2008.
I happened to be on the right side of this news as I was shorting the US banking sector. However, it seems that there was a trader that bought 13,000 put options on JPM today before markets closed set to expire Friday. This insanely risky trade, as it turns out, will net the trader about $2.6 million in profit in one day (and likely an SEC investigation).
Disclosure: I'm short gold, US banks, energy stocks. Also, this story is still breaking and facts are still emerging.
Menno Troyer, we might get the gulags if "the masses prevail in their demands for more destructive government policies".
It would be great if Hans Herman Hoppe's thoughts were translated into reality.
Love that Rex Murphy, as he sure tells it like it is. Mulcair is a believer in class warfare.
Re: Snowbird
Great song that brings back memories of driving my 68 Chevy pickup on back roads, shooting gophers and sipping on a Calgary that was bottled in a "stubby."
Re: Snowbird
I'd much rather listen to the Anne Murray version. Most of the downbeat versions sound like the singer just took four Valium tabs. Elvis and Bing recorded versions that make me want to take the Valium.
Former Navy Seal tunes Obama in.
http://moonbattery.com/?p=11507
h/t Maggies Farm
Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay was clearly at a loss Thursday as he sought a way out of the crisis that has affected his city worst of all. He said police alone cannot restore the peace, and he urged parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters to talk to “our young people.” The message: “No cause, however legitimate, can justify criminal acts that imperil public safety and social peace.”
It is time, he said, that Montrealers “take back our city.” Unfortunately, things have reached such a sorry state that a chat around the kitchen table is unlikely to do the trick.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/10/graeme-hamilton-in-quebec-student-strike-where-theres-smoke-theres-silence/
Hey, Monsieur Mayor, don't ya' know, their ain't no kitchen/family table anymore? 'Hasn't been one for years, since the feminazis outlawed June-Cleaver moms and mandated that women get out of the kitchen to wield financial power in the brave new world of liberation and equality.
No one's minding the kids. They don't sit at the kitchen table anymore. And, they don't listen to parents, grandparents, brothers or sisters, especially if they're delivering a common-sense, law-and-order message.
No safe place in Ont. now.
http://quixoteslaststand.com/2012/05/11/bruce-peninsula-prime-for-turbines/
It's open season on rural Ontarians.
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
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"Why China’s slowdown is ‘scarily reminiscent’ of 2007"
"That soft landing for the Chinese economy that everyone keeps talking about? It’s turning into a bumpy one.
The latest round of economic data out this week shows that while inflation slowed last month, to 3.4 per cent year on year, so did everything else. Retail sales are softening, industrial output is slowing and the country’s trade surplus has widened after both imports and exports came in lower than expected, the result of a collision of the euro zone crisis weakening demand for Chinese exports, and tough property market measures at home eroding domestic confidence."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/why-chinas-slowdown-is-scarily-reminiscent-of-2007/article2429665/
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"China's Young, Burly Shipyards Sinking Fast"
"An industry that expanded rapidly along the Yangtze River encounters rough going as orders plummet"
"(Beijing)–There's plenty of water but the gold is disappearing along a strip of the Yangtze River that China's shipbuilders call the "golden waterway."
A dramatic slowdown for the industry has reversed the fortunes of companies such as Jiangsu Jiuzhou Shipyard Co. Ltd., one of many yards that sprang up during a short-lived bull market for big ships such as oil tankers and container carriers.
"We haven't received a new order in 2012, and we had only four orders for ships last year," company Chairman Chen Junfu told Caixin.
Indeed, as of April only two oil tankers were being built at the 20-hectare shipyard that opened in 2007. Nearby, some golden waterway shipyards have already gone bankrupt."
http://english.caixin.com/2012-05-10/100388707.html
*Liberal leader Bob Rae's uncle Mo Strong, c/o Red China.
no..he's a professional...a professional quisling.
Clinton: "O’s an ‘amateur'"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/bill_blockbuster_an_amateur_XJHYdaV5LT1vpr5I39IKrN
...Bill Clinton insisted he had “no relationship” with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush.
Obama, Bill Clinton said, “doesn’t know how to be president” and is “incompetent.”...
Of "The Illusion of Statistics" & More.
"Guénon sees history as a descent from Form (or Quality) toward Matter (or Quantity)".
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"The Canadian economy is creating new jobs, but the labour force is also rising, says StatsCan."
"Economy adds 58,200 jobs, but labour force rise pushes jobless rate to 7.3%"
http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Economy+adds+jobs+labour+force+rise+pushes+jobless+rate/6605436/story.html
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"The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times"
"René Guénon"
"Guénon bases his critique on ‘abstract’ principles, but his examples are satisfyingly concrete. His chapter ‘The Degeneration of Coinage’ could easily be updated to include the transformation of money into a web of electronically-stored information, while in its treatment of the occult dangers of metallurgy ‘The Significance of Metallurgy’ points directly to our own well-founded fear of such man-made elements as plutonium. And his ‘Fissures in the Great Wall’ gives solid metaphysical grounding to our twentieth-century century demonology, including the UFO phenomenon. The Reign of Quantity presents a vision of the End Times that in no way contradicts traditional eschatologies, but is one key to their deeper meaning. Guénon sees history as a descent from Form (or Quality) toward Matter (or Quantity); but after the Reign of Quantity—modern materialism and the ‘rise of the masses’—Guénon predicts a reign of ‘inverted quality’ just before the end of the age: the triumph of the ‘counter-initiation’, the kingdom of Antichrist. This text is considered the magnum opus among Guénon’s texts of civilizational criticism, as is Symbols of Sacred Science among his studies on symbols and cosmology, and Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta among his more purely metaphysical works."
"Table of Contents
Introduction—Quality and Quantity—Materia Signata Quantitate—Measure and Manifestation—Spatial Quantity and Qualified Space—The Qualitative Determinations of Time—The Principle of Individuation—Uniformity against Unity —Ancient Crafts and Modern Industry—The Twofold Significance of Anonymity—The Illusion of Statistics" ...
http://www.sophiaperennis.com/books/eschatology/the-reign-of-quantity-and-the-signs-of-the-times/
So it seems the US military know very well what they are really dealing with in Islam, and has made a point of instructing their officers accordingly.
Or they were, until a fifth-columnist leaked the details of the course taught about Islam at the US Defense Department's Joint Forces Staff College to the liberal press.
The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a "total war" against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of "Hiroshima" to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the "civilian population wherever necessary."
...the officer who delivered the lectures, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, still maintains his position at the Norfolk, Virginia college, pending an investigation.
Naturally, the investigation is not concerned with discovering the identity of the fifth-columnist. The course has been cancelled and military instruction materials on Islam are being scrubbed of anything objectionable to Muslims by order of the White House.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/total-war-islam/all/1
PS It pleased the Lord to grant the Jews and the Christians the knowledge of the force with which He created the universe---precisely, I'm convinced, for purposes like this. Christian nations now have a nuclear arsenal large enough to permanently neutralize the Islamic threat to Christian civilization in a matter of hours. Israel has a large arsenal of its own, and they know better than anyone that there will know no peace until the last son of Amalek is dead. All they need now is a little courage.
I'm glad at least that there at least some Christian soldiers left who have seen what needs to be done and are not lacking in courage.
What are they waiting for?
for once, 'bama hits the nail square on the head...
the people don't like seeing democrats in Washington either, but that'll change soon enough.
sounds like he's pretty much resigned to losing when you listen to him too...
Obama: “I’m President And People Are Frustrated And Don’t Like What They See In Washington"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQl6XDIDNV8
Do you know ANYBODY like Obama?? Does he have ANYTHING in common with an average American?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/do-you-know-anybody-like-obama-becks-latest-expose-could-go-down-in-history/
"Why the euro is doomed to fall apart: it was an incredibly stupid idea in the first place"
"Yes, of course, we all know, the euro is the bright new dawn, the vital step in stopping Germany from invading France. Again. No one seems to have noticed it that they managed it last time and having experienced the place seem to have no desire at all to go back. So this might not be a problem that needs a solution.
However, let's look behind the political posturing and ask ourselves whether, in economic terms, the euro was a sensible idea."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/timworstall/100017007/why-the-euro-is-doomed-to-fall-apart-it-was-an-incredibly-stupid-idea-in-the-first-place/
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"Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi's Pan-Europa
as the Elusive "Object of Longing""
"The Austro-Hungarian intellectual Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972) saw the end of World War I as the ideal time to finally create the centuries-old "object of longing," i.e., a peaceful, united Europe (Coudenhove-Kalergi, Pan Europe 8). In doing so, he inspired a large additional body of literature and a movement for a unified Europe which exists, albeit in a much-reduced role, down to the present day."
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/59.2/articles/villanueva.asp
‘Pierre Poutine’ mystery deepens as billing records cast doubt on robocall culprits'
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/11/pierre-poutine-mystery-deepens-as-billing-records-cast-doubt-on-robocall-culprits/
EC and the media party still have nothing.
Caught in the filter earlier.
The Nation may not be for sale, but our politicians ARE,and they will sell off our resources,and sell out our citizens, for the sake of expediency.
- dmorris (on another thread)
Too true. Again, the single biggest take-away from Efraim Karsh's book on Islamic Imperialism is the importance of domestic elite (civic and religious) collusion with the conquerors.
Check out Sultan Knish's piece on France and its sell out to Qatar.
More Gene, for those who leave home to work out west in "the Patch":
The Call.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQKcd_mAEBs
"The environmental movement is losing momentum".
"and how the pope can help."
"SPIEGEL ONLINE: Yet when it comes to issues on a grand scale, you haven't been as successful. Hazardous projects for energy production such as fracking or deepwater oil drilling are increasing. The global output of CO2 has continued to rise."
"Naidoo: Unfortunately, it is true: We are winning important strategic battles. But we are losing the planet."
...-
"Interview with Greenpeace Head Kumi Naidoo 'We Are Losing the Planet'"
"Greenpeace is searching for new strategies to combat climate change."
"The environmental movement is losing momentum and governments around the world are ignoring their responsibility for slowing climate change. Greenpeace head Kumi Naidoo, however, remains optimistic. In an interview, he explains his new vision for a sustainable world -- and how the pope can help."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/greenpeace-head-naidoo-and-the-new-strategy-against-climate-change-a-832709.html
"...what has been described as "the greatest suicide note ever written"
Here's the greatest suicide song ever ever...=)
Suicide Song - Loudon Wainwright III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nIdg-CTQk
I really appreciate your musical offerings, EBD, but I've got to say that Catherine MacLellan's rendition of Snowbird, never a favourite of mine, is limp and lacking in vitality, though the harmonies and guitar playing are nice.
Anne Murray's version has a lot of zip to it but, musically, IMHO, it's boring and predictable. It's schlocky.
OK, OK, I know it's a Canadian classic but that doesn't mean I have to like it. I'll take Leonard Cohen's The Future any day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaxvBsyigM
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it's overturned
the order of the soul ...
Cohen's got his finger on the pulse of this "brave" new world.
you know, there might be a song in this...I like the chorus.
Beach Boys Singer: 'Obama's a Socialist A-Hole'
http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/11/beach-boys-singer-bruce-johnston-barack-obama-socialist-ahole/
Americans will be "f**ked" if Barack Obama gets re-elected ... this according to Beach Boys singer Bruce Johnston.
Bruce was signing autographs for fans in New York yesterday when the conversation turned political.
"Obama's an a**hole, "Johnston says ... adding, "Unless you're interested in never having any money and being socialized."
But Johnston was an equal opportunity disser -- saying, "And who's the Republican a**hole?"
"Our guy isn't any good."
He continued, "You got Reagan and Tip O'Neill ... those are the last two good guys."
"Wait 'til Obama doesnt have to try anymore," Bruce added ... "you're f**ked."
More cuts to the left-liberal arts.
Neutering the watch 'rats.
More, please.
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"Federal watchdogs to reduce operations due to budget cuts"
"The watchdog agencies that oversee the federal government's operations have not been spared from sweeping cuts in this year's budget."
"The Office of the Auditor General is cutting about 60 jobs, or about 10 per cent of its staff as it slices $6.7 million from its approximately $100 million budget over the next three years."
"Other agencies affected include Elections Canada, the privacy commissioner and the information commissioner."
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Federal+watchdogs+reduce+operations+budget+cuts/6608607/story.html
"Then the drought really hit.
It rained and rained and rained.
Every single Thursday afternoon since Maundy Thursday (six weeks ago) it has rained relentlessly, and I began to realise that “drought” meant something different to Southern Water than it did to me."
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"Goaded to madness by the rain-filled drought"
"The drought would be better named as the inability of England’s water companies to capture what falls down in torrents from the sky."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/drought/9260299/Goaded-to-madness-by-the-rain-filled-drought.html