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Tonight we jump back in time to 1966 to enjoy this 2-hour pilot for the revival of the Dragnet TV series. Unlike the earlier run in the 1950’s, this version was in colour. As circumstances have it, this was never seen on TV until early 1969.
Your leading edge or historical reader tips are most welcome, as always, in the comments.

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  5. Perhaps this is not the place to post this question but here goes. I don’t understand the CPC signing the trade agreement with China. I do not by any stretch agree with Moonbat Mulcair, but there are enough negatives in my thoughts to turn such an agreement down.
    1. Strategically, should we allow an aggressive state run (Military Government)to operate and possibly dominate our resource sector and likely the shipping of same?
    2. Will I and my children be able to invest in our own resource sector in future?
    3. Will Canadians be welcomed to work in our own resource sector? Such foreign companies have used intimidation methods (injury)in the past.
    4. Will the modus operandi of these companies remain business oriented or will it be political when strategically necessary?
    5. No agreement is worth the paper written on when signed by a bunch of thugs. History has proven this out again and again.
    Maybe someone can tell me where I’m going wrong.

  6. peterj @11:26 – “Even the Indians see through her.”
    Well, her skin colour is practically transparent 🙂

  7. // Elizabeth Warren’s never-ending “fauxcahontas” problem //
    This smacks of desperation. She has the knowledge & guts to really give consumer protection some heft.
    And they know they can’t deal with her on the issues — the debates showed that.
    So revisiting this old discounted drivel is all they have got.
    Elizabeth Warren — Jefferson lecture 6/11/2007
    The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net

  8. I remember watching Dragnet 1966 a couple of times on the late show when I was a kid.
    This version was well-mastered, but it’s missing its slightly lurid “This is the city” opening sequence. (IIRC, it wasn’t included on the first pressings of the second season ’60-era Dragnet DVDs.) It can be found here.
    It cuts off right at the stop sign that begins the better quality (almost) full-length clip that Robert linked to above.

  9. Do you have any regard for Mahatma Gandhi as a thinker? Do you respect him as a serious moral philosopher? Allow me to take that away from you. I just came across this quote from an “open letter to the British people” dated July 3rd, 1940:
    “Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans. I want you to fight Nazism without arms… Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.”
    Thanks for the advice, jerk.

  10. Re: Dragnet.
    Thanks–but after 50 years of cop shows–I`ll concentrate on the polls, next Tuesday and the election.

  12. gunney99 you are correct on all points. The government needs to think very carefully about what it is doing.

  13. Sure are a lot of people talking about a Romney Landslide!! Other than it would be great, what do you think of that?

  15. Well, now it’s confirmed: The Probe and Fail is good oply for its obits page. Today, they wrote their own.
    Today’s editorial: Despite flaws, Obama is the better candidate to lead real recovery
    … The United States’ presidential election is fundamentally about one issue: the economy. The question for U.S. voters is, Who can best reduce public spending and lead a robust recovery? … If re-elected, Mr. Obama must help shift the emphasis from government stimulus to a private-sector-led phase of growth. … In spite of his own merits, Mr. Romney’s program has unsettling elements of adventurism. Mr. Obama has his flaws, too, but, with his steady hand [?], he has the better chance of enabling and leading a real recovery of the economy of the United States.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/despite-flaws-obama-is-the-better-candidate-to-lead-real-recovery/article4870036/
    How can the guy who in the past four years has fast forwarded the U.S.’s decline in every portfolio, “lead real recovery”? Who’s program has “unsettling elements of adventurism”? For the past four years, the Obamanation’s been riding a bucking bronco of socialist redistribution at home and leading from behind in his foreign policy, whereas Romney has a tried and true record of turning failed companies around.
    The G&M editorial board are magical-thinker, Obamabot dummies.

  17. Perhaps the Probe and Fail would like to deal with some of these issues in Victor Davis Hanson’s article, Obama, the Virtual Challenger: Making no attempt to defend his record, he talks of what he “would” do in a second term:
    Re the “new civility” touted by Oblahblah: “If Obama should win, he will, after the election, return to his sermons about negative advertising and promulgate his fables on bipartisanship. But for now, the crudity continues: Romney is a bullsh**ter. Take ‘revenge’ by voting against Romney — reminding us that ‘get in their face’ and ‘bring a gun to a knife fight’ were characteristic, not aberrant. A gross ad is aired, comparing a vote for Obama with one’s first attempt at sexual intercourse. Child choruses sing of Romney the villain, the polluter, the monster. David Axelrod says that for the middle class, Paul Ryan’s proposed budget is ‘like a choice between a punch to the nose and a knee to the groin.’ In an ad produced by Michael Moore, nursing-home dwellers talk of burning down America and punching Mitt Romney in the groin, replete with the usual four-letter words. Obama is supposedly oblivious to all this, as he counts on its stirring up his base. Indeed, no doubt he has already written his victory speech for November 7 — ‘It’s time to stop this negative infighting. There is no red, no blue America.’ Blah, blah, blah . . .”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/332481/obama-virtual-challenger-victor-davis-hanson

  18. Gunny 99 – you are exactly right on this one. I am a conservative supporter, but they are completely wrong on this.
    There have been several news stories lately about chinese espionage in Canada. One contended that espionage basically destroyed Nortel. We are warned by our own government to take the necessary steps to protect ourselves from cyber attacks by chinese state players. Yet at the same time we bend over backwards to trade with China. Why are we so eager to trade with people who we know are trying to screw us?
    People in the natural resources community say we need the investment to fully exploit the resource. To which I reply, no we don’t. Its not like its going somewhere. Its not gone if it doesn’t all get exploited tomorrow. In fact the longer we have it fore the more valuable it will be.
    I have personally lost money on resource stocks as a result of this issue, and I still don’t think we should in effect sell the farm to a company that has a two million man army to back them up when they don’t get their own way.

  21. So the hope & flail supports Obama eh?
    Not surprising for an outfit that also thinks Dulton was the bestest Premier Ontario ever had.

  25. Re: the G&M Obama endorsement
    I’m pretty sure they endorsed carter over Reagan too…
    Smug ignorant simpletons.

  27. To those who question the China trade issue: I just do not know enough about the subject to comment intelligently, but I too have serious misgivings. I think we are all owed a great deal more information. China has a very poor track record when it comes to, well, everything. Without much more detail I cannot support the initiative.

  28. I have been watching the Dragnet series on Netflix as a cultural anthropology experience. Unlike some other series of the time, such as Mission: Impossible that are dated but still surprisingly good drama, Dragnet was cliched even at the time. It is still fascinating to watch what was in 1969 a show built on essentially liberal ideas (distaste for private gun ownership, the need for government to look out the disadvantaged, contempt for racism, support for public schools as a method of helping the poor to move up) feel positively reactionary compared to what calls itself liberalism today. It is strong on support for drug laws, clearly hostile to divorce because of the damage it does to kids, and the few references to homosexuality would startle many social conservatives today for how strongly negative they are.

  29. Remember Stockton, California?

    “I’ve never seen this many homicides in such a short time span,” Officer Joe Silva told the Record. “Our detectives have worked around the clock since Saturday.”
    The city of 290,000 filed for bankruptcy during the summer after being devastated by the real estate collapse and fiscal mismanagement. The city has laid off police, firefighters and other city workers to reduce payroll costs so it can pay pensions and debt. The city’s attempt to shed some pension obligations is seen as a test case.

  30. Two things, maybe three. Max posted about Stockton. I live there, what happened was forseen and discussed by some local pols for years. Just like in the rest of California those voices were ignored or dismissed by “thoughtfull right thinking” people as reactionary and/or racist. Too bad for the current stakeholders. And a lot of the surge in murders is because the Mexican drug cartels are taking over the business in Stockton. They deal very effectively with the locals who have had the business to themselves for years.
    The Dragnet episode is based on the true story of serial killer Harvey Glatman. Google him. He was the first California serial killer to become a media celebrity. Harvey’s timing was off because he was executed for his crimes. Had he offended a few years later he’d either be sitting in front of a flatscreen or checking out the law library in San Quentin. Or dead from natural causes.

  31. Don’t care about this cultural anthropology shit.
    I watched Dragnet as a kid because I just liked it.

  32. WWII: Red vs Black; a political war.
    WWII was a brotherly war-to-the-death: National Socialism’s Adolf vs communism’s Joseph.
    Socialism’s internecine war:
    “The concept was that this was a people’s war. “The Red Army was a political army,” says historian Hellbeck.”
    …-
    “Revisiting Stalingrad”
    “An Inside Look at World War II’s Bloodiest Battle”
    “A German historian has published a collection of unusually candid interviews with members of the Red Army that provides the first precise account of the battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of ordinary soldiers. They show that this chapter in history deserves a reappraisal.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/frank-interviews-with-red-army-soldiers-shed-new-light-on-stalingard-a-863229.html
    See also Photo Gallery.

  33. “It’s Global Warming, Stupid”
    …-
    “Storm Threatens Sandy-Devastated Northeast With Cold Rain”
    “… and even snow this week across much of the U.S. East Coast that was hit by Hurricane Sandy last week,”.
    “The cold from the new storm may boost energy demand as people turn up thermostats to heat homes and businesses.”
    “Across the Northeast, the storm may contribute to keeping temperatures 5 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit below normal, said Matt Rogers, president of Commodity Weather Group LLC in Bethesda, Maryland.”
    “Gaines said the best chance for snow in the mid-Atlantic would be in the Poconos. The weather service also says snow is possible through upstate New York and northern New England with little accumulation.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/storm-threatens-sandy-devastated-northeast-with-chilling-rain.html

  35. 300,000 > 30,000.
    Watch for the “unprecedented” cuts to the US armed forces (but not the Marines) as of 01/01/2013.
    …-
    “The Turn Away From Europe”
    “Josef Joffe — November 2012”
    “It almost goes unnoticed that the United States is closing a long chapter in its Atlantic history. For 70 years, since the landing in Normandy, America was literally a power-in-Europe, with a vast military presence stretching from Naples to Narvik and from Portugal to Germany. At its peak, the entire force, Navy and Air Force included, numbered 300,000. The Army topped out at 217,000. At the end of this year, the ground troops will have dwindled to 30,000. A massive support structure of American grand strategy is being dismantled. Why is no one weeping or gnashing teeth?
    That would have been the response in decades past. From the Korean War onward, when the United States deployed hundreds of thousands to the peninsula, Europeans perpetually nourished a nightmare that the United States, abutting both the Atlantic and Pacific, would abandon them in favor of Asia. To reassure them, the Eisenhower administration dispatched six divisions to the Continent after 1950, promising to keep them there for as long as it took to build up NATO and win the Cold War. This permanent expeditionary force, fortified by thousands of tactical nuclear weapons, held steady for a half century, and even grew when the Soviets ratcheted up the pressure. Yet the angst was ever-simmering, stoked by perennial Senate resolutions demanding a drawdown. And it would roil whenever America’s attention shifted to other locales.
    It threatened to bubble over during the Vietnam War, when the United States deployed a half-million men to Indochina. It frothed again as the Middle East became a focus, first during the Six-Day and Yom Kippur Wars, then after the triumph of Khomeinism in Iran. Almost from the start, the terrifying possibility of “rebalancing,” as the idea of redeploying American military assets is now called, was never far from the minds of European geopolitickers.
    Still, throughout it all, Europe remained at the center of American foreign policy. The U.S. commitment, shrinking only slowly, survived the fall of the Berlin Wall and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now, the wolf is at the door.”
    https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/turn-away-from-europe/

  36. Sgt Friday got a promotion before the end of the old Dragnet TV series… but lost it when the series returned.

  37. “Ontario Green Energy Failure”
    “Update
    This comment by ‘gregorypspeers’ on the same National Post page made me chuckle:
    I used to vote conservative, then I changed to liberal, even voted for Jack the one time. I guess I am wishy-washy. Dalton and the Liberals however topped the list of my biggest disappointment when it comes to political parties. yes even more than Harper. I bought into the green energy fiasco, watched in horror as they squandered billions on E-heath and gas plants. With Harper I knew what to expect and nothing he does surprises me. I can at the least respect that. Dalton on the other hand cut to the bone like the feeling you get when you find your best friend in bed with your wife.
    Oh the betrayal! Another lemming wakes up and smells the gas stink.”
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2012/11/05/ontario-green-energy-failure/#comments

  38. “Hurricane Sandy Alters Calculus of Climate Change”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/hurricane-sandy-alters-calculus-of-climate-change.html
    …-
    “An Inconvenient Truth: Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies along Sandy’s Track Haven’t Warmed in 70+ Years”
    “I was visiting family in the Northeast U.S. when Sandy came ashore, so I was without power for most of last week. Since my return home, I’ve been catching up with all of the nonsense surrounding Hurricane/Extratropical Storm/Hybrid Storm Sandy. There have been hundreds of articles and blog posts that include references to climate change, global warming, and the warming oceans and their assumed impacts on Sandy. Yet no one has bothered to plot the long-term sea surface temperature anomalies for Sandy’s track. So we’ve had lots of baseless claims. Will the authors of those posts and articles feel foolish when they discover sea surface temperatures for Sandy’s path haven’t warmed in 70+ years? For those reading this post, who have access to the authors of those articles or the blog posts, feel free to leave them a link or two to this post.
    The most absurd claim was made by Brian Reynolds…”.
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/05/an-inconvenient-truth-sea-surface-temperature-anomalies-along-sandys-track-havent-warmed-in-70-years/#more-73817

  40. Of da Liberals & its $tash.
    H/T Liberal Ad$cam Paul MartinJr, da $100 million dollar man.
    …-
    “‘It’s a non-partisan issue’: Liberal Senator wants Harper’s help to hunt down Canadians hiding cash in overseas tax havens”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
    …-
    “Auditor general questions foundation funding”
    “Last Updated: Tuesday, February 15, 2005”
    “Martin helped establish foundations
    The 15 foundations were set up while Prime Minister Paul Martin was finance minister to promote science, education, technology and research. They include the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada Health Infoway, Genome Canada, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and the Millennium Scholarship Foundation.
    The government argues foundations are more efficient at making those kinds of long-term investments.
    But Fraser’s finding that many of them can’t spend the money they have been given is sure to raise political hackles.
    Opposition MPs have often accused Martin of trying to hide the size of budget surpluses rather than spend them on delivering programs. Last year’s surplus was projected to be $1.9 billion, for example, but came in at $9.1 billion instead.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2005/02/15/foundations-auditor-report050215.html

  41. Thanks Max. It’s not as bad as the media makes it out to be. And oh those Delta evening breezes. It’s November and the slider is open.

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