Yay!!! ... someone to talk to again!

Sad news - Lorne Saxberg of the CBC dies while snorkling on vacation.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/07/saxberg-obit.html

More evidence of the MSMs downward spiral.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

The weight and value of sites like this one, increases daily. TG

Not to mention checking out your recent posts.

Well, all I can say, Kate, is that this makes my life complete again. It was almost like the neighbourhood Starbucks (a block away) was undergoing renovations. It was that hard.

Tony:

With the advent of an interactive internet why would one bother with newsprint when the speed of the internet is far superior? I would fully expect this trend to continue.

Moreover, for all those eviromentalists, less trees consumed in the making of newspapers means more trees recycling CO2 into oxygen and a happier world. Who says technology is always environmentally unfriendly?

Lastly, if there a more trees we will have less small dead animals. Hat tip to Kate!!

Balance folks, you just have to look for it!!

Thank god you are back....'made my day'
I really missed reading ALL the news and comments

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Interview, February 2006

Here’s a fascinating interview with Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali, on Norway’s NRK television in February 2006, talking about her film Submission, Theo Van Gogh, her views on Islam, the Danish cartoons, and her need for constant protection from Islamic threats of death. The clip starts with a short segment in Norwegian, then switches to English for the interview. (Hat tip: Sugiero.)

UPDATE at 5/7/06 9:41:22 pm:

And remember, she is speaking at Harvard on May 9.

UPDATE at 5/7/06 9:59:26 pm:

If you have trouble playing the video, make sure you have the latest version of the free Macromedia Flash Player. +

Clip/interview here:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Welcome back,I've definitely missed my favorite source of conservative pablum....Now only if we could incapacitate the MSM spin machine for a spell...

Having to re-enter the Email address seems an effective spam filter, or is that just the result of my previous incompete Email entry..
See if it does it again. TG

Nope. It is working normally now. TG

Welcome back Comments!
My days will once again be complete. Something was missing and I just couldn't put my finger on it. It was my daily fix at SDA. It is always good to get your take on things Kate but like you said, it was missing 60% content. Thanks much and have a great Day!
Daniel

And they now open in a new tab, MUCH easier to read than a small popup window.

Albertan Technophile, when you encounter comments in a pop up window, hit F11 and it will change to full screen.

Great. Now that Kate's site is back up, it's back to not getting any work done! I had quite a few productive days when things weren't working here!

Well, sure, Kate:
Just as you get everything up and running, you are taking a weekend off to go and show off with your little guys.
Im not sure i can handle two hits in a row, its going to be tough.
I want to wish you the best of luck though, and some pictures would be appreciated.

I found the comment popups before to be hard to deal with since if I closed the main tab, sometimes I couldn't find an easy link back to the story I was commenting on.

Not a dog show this time - I'm giving a seminar. So my competition has a better chance of beating me.

Perhaps these seminars aren't in my best interest, come to think of it....

Georgev, sweet tip! Thanks buddy.

Sorry Kate, bad assuption on my part.
Good luck anyway, im sure youll wow them.
Guess that means no pics huh? lol

CP, aka communist press, has an icon for youse:

"The silver-haired political activist", aka

Jean le Baptiste/John the Baptist. You recall the story: John/Jean was the herald of Jhsms.

Where/when will the resurrection of Rene Levesque take place?

Trois Rivieres? Pont de Neuf Separatists? The Big"O"? Chateau de Harper-Merde? The Year of the Blue Snow? 24 Juin/June? St. Jean-Baptiste? Order the Cinquante/50. Bah, oui. +

May 8, 2006

Sovereigntist hopes march through Quebec will rekindle pride in cause

By ROSS MAROWITS

MONTREAL (CP) - A 60-year-old psychologist is hoping to rekindle sovereigntist pride by conducting a 47-day trek across Quebec to honour the movement's brightest star, Rene Levesque.

Jean-Marc Labreche plans to carry his Fleur-de-lis-tipped wooden staff through some 84 municipalities before raising the Quebec flag on the June 24 Fete nationale holiday at Levesque's birthplace in New Carlisle in eastern Quebec.

"We want to awaken the pride of Quebecers and bring them together with the goal of affirming Quebec's independence at this crucial moment in our history," Labreche told a news conference Monday.

The silver-haired political activist was to leave Montreal on Tuesday morning for a 1,250-kilometre walk - about 26 kilometres daily. +
http://www.voy.com/178771/9303.html

Is Gag* listening to the testimony; the gags are coming off. Gag might go gaga. Are the enforcers being prepped? Blood may flow.

Quote: "...described how ad executives nearly drooled..." Librano$ drooling... pig$ at the trough courtesy Ad$cam Chretien/Martin, et al. +

Guite raises name of top crook

Poster: "of top crook"

MONTREAL -- Chuck Guite invoked the name of ex-prime minister Jean Chretien on Monday during the former bureaucrat's first serious chance to defend himself on sponsorship fraud charges.

On his first day questioning Crown witnesses at his trial, Guite introduced the possibility of political influence over the sponsorship contracts that left him facing fraud charges.

Guite used his first witness to raise the name of Jacques Corriveau, a former Liberal and close associate of Chretien whose influence, according to testimony, could virtually guarantee an ad firm would win contracts.

Former lobbyist Alain Renaud, who worked for advertising firm Groupaction Inc. in the 1990s to help drum up government business, described how ad executives nearly drooled when Corriveau became involved.

Guite had introduced Renaud to Corriveau as "someone very important to your business,'' Renaud testified.

Later, Guite asked Renaud about Corriveau's relationship to Chretien.

"They were very, very close and everyone knew it,'' Renaud said. "Everyone knew you didn't have one without the other.'' +
http://www.voy.com/178771/9410.htm
*Alfonso.

maz2, will you please start your own blog. I know it's been suggested before, but you dig up some cool stuff that needs to be discussed.

Fraud, come back! Fraud could explain "aggressive spam filters"; their aggressive roots; their bots' hatred/obsessions; their links to moonbattery. If you have not read Scruton before, climb outta your PJ's.... (Try Harold Bloom also).

Sometimes a birthday is just a birthday. But Prof. Freud’s will never be so simple... Anthony Daniels ... Roger Scruton ... Frank Cioffi ... Harold Bloom
http://www.artsandlettersdaily.com/

Sigmund Fraud
On the 150th birthday of Sigmund Freud, Roger Scruton explains why Freud's improbable theories still dominate the way we think about our minds

Roger Scruton
The Spectator

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Freud was born 150 years ago today, on May 6, 1856, the same year that Richard Wagner finished work on his opera Die Walkure, a work that dramatizes all the themes, from dreams to incest, that were to fascinate Freud.
There is no doubt in my mind that it was Wagner, not Freud, who got things right...

http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13277.12

Essay here a must read for conservatives; even left liberals may read & learn (sic).

Why I became a conservative
by Roger Scruton

http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/feb03/burke.h

(BTW, George, what's the pay like over there?)