Good evening, ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Since it's still the weekend and therefore time to dance, tonight we visit Negrocan performing their version of Cada Vez. With these nightclub dance pieces, one typically has to wait a few tens of seconds for the performance to start, such time provided for the DJ to interpolate the mix. In this case things get interesting at about 0:45, and there's a great flute solo from about 4:30 to 5:30 -- it's a fun part to whistle.

video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7094128067359366125

You don't know how close you came to being punted yesterday when I discovered you'd posted a Donna Summer link....

;-)

Ah, come on Kate. Vitruvius has us hooked on his "late nite radio" show. And what's wrong with Donna Summer? I thought she was really good - way back then ;-)

Sorry about that Kate. I least I did pull off the 12(e)(3) shtick.
Ok, I promise, back to Bach, or Thelonius Monk, next time ;-)

Perhaps, until then, in atonement, I can offer Paul Simon and
Willy Nelson performing Graceland (it goes live, wait for it):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuqNUoV9M7s

Disco makes me twitch uncontrollably. Everything else is fine. I've even found myself listening to country on long drives. A sign of age and hearing loss, I suspect.

Point taken, Kate. And I will admit that at the margin I too am confused. For example, is this performance of Romeo by the inimitable Dolly Parton country or discotheque:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5vmPLoip4g

Hey Vit, who could listen to Dolly long enough to make a decision?

Well, far be it for me to say, but I met Dolly
in a bar in Dallas once, and I think she's cool.

I have nothing against Dolly's personality. She probably is a lady, I've seen nothing to the contrary. That said I have some very dear friends that can't sing either. I still respect both them and her. If Dolly can make a good living off the fact that other people think she is a singer, then more power to her. I am of the opinion that only about ten percent of the people who sing should. I don't think she is in that ten percent.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

That said, I think we should all sing more. Angels sing.
Yet it's like we've all become slaves to the big media.
Shut up and listen to our official singing, they say.
Well, not me, I'll sing with Dolly,
and I'll whistle with Negrocan.
And you can't stop me, pace the HRCs.

On that note, I'm going to bed, whistling O Sole Mio:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=99kjFdLFjH4

Best wishes, everyone. Thanks for putting up with me, Kate.

My high school latin of the early '50's is a bit rusty. As an addendum, I meant to say, and should have said "I am of the opinion that only about ten percent of the people who sing PROFFESSIONALLY AND FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF OTHERS should." All others (including me) should be free to vocalize as frequently, and cacophonically as they wish.

I too am going to assume the horizontal position in close proximity to my bride of many years.

G'nite all and sweet dreams. May we all rise on the morrow to continue the struggle.

Do you toke and drive?

http://tinyurl.com/3bcruo

I see stoned people, driving cars, on our streets. I have special training, trust me.

Flaherty broke rules to hire ex-Harris aide:

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/299774

Sharia Police = Canadian Human Rights Commissions.
Left liberal-socialists + Muslim Islamists = Sharia Police.

"shariah must be complied with by anyone residing in Kano”"
Canada = Kano?
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Wednesday, 21 June, 2000,
This is a momentous day in the history of Kano State. It is the day that Sharia is launched
Kano governor, Nigeria. (bbc)
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Tension Mounts in Kano as Govt Enforces Sharia

"The Sharia Police, otherwise called, Hisbah Police, earlier turned down summons by the Kano State Police Command, which had cautioned them about their unconstitutional activities. “We’re operating our duties based on law of the state, and shariah must be complied with by anyone residing in Kano” a top official of the Hisbah said following the police summons.
From Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano, 02.02.2008"
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=102146

Islam.
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"A GIRL of 15 was tricked into a "telephone marriage" ceremony to a Sheffield man with a mental age of five in a ceremony recognised by sharia (Islamic law)."

Family of teen Muslim invited men to rape her
{...]

"During the Islamic ceremony my dad was standing behind me with one hand on my shoulder and with his other hand he had a gun which was pointed at my back so that I didn't say 'no'," Saamiya said.

"To everyone else it looked natural — he was just standing there stroking my shoulder — but just before he had told me that he would shoot me if I didn't go through with it." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/yuf8ab (timesUK)

Dwight McMillan! Kate, thanks for posting that. I remember him from my newspapering time there, which seems like a long time ago. But it wasn't...

More WK. He ran out of spin and is on pure vitriol.

I know ... I know..

Here's a summary

Three letters/articles unfriendly to Levant. Mainly about his days with Day and the slips he made. Then blah blah blah about...horrors an alleged something or other with Chuck somebody..yawn

Of course WK is the hero.

WK:

"Anyway, as you peruse the stories below, you may be moved to ask: does this mean that that dastardly censor Kinsella, and all those like him - those who oppose unrestricted dissemination of hate propaganda and child pornography, as well as reality television shows - are delighted that Ezra is the guy now leading this month's "free speech" parade?

Short answer: yes. Good Lord Almighty, yes, yes, yes. In that regard, would it be unseemly for us to contribute to his salary, as he continues to alienate legions?

Have a safe and warm weekend"

The Alliance's Defiant Levant: In Ottawa
Best source on Ezra: Ezra
Jane Taber
National Post
1335 words
28 March 2002

THE POWER GAME
The meaning of Levant's departure
HUGH WINSOR
635 words
18 May 2001

Who's in charge here: monarch or regents?
EDWARD GREENSPON
904 words
18 May 2001

I thought I would mention to SDA-ers that my complaint to the Law Society of Upper Canada regarding Richard Warman has been received and is in process. The Society has only contacted me by mail and intends further contact as part of their process. Congratulations to the Society for at least looking into the matter.

I came within 20 feet of Dolly, back in the 70s. She was about 30 feet away.

Vitruvius - "angels sing" Billy Graham would argue that they don't. Well, maybe they do but nowhere in the bible does it say that angels sing. I'd take his word for it. He's read it a few times I would think. All that said, I do agree that we should sing more.

And speaking of Donna Summer - man can she sing. "I love to love you baby"

Glenn's question "do you toke and drive"? Reminds me of Chapin's Taxi. "Me, I'm flyin in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned". I go flying so high when I'm stoned." That all seems like a long time ago.

Weston has a moment of lucidity.
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"The Chalk River isodopes

How the heck did so many get so much so wrong for so many years? Ask the Liberals" [...]

"For 13 years, successive Liberal administrations underfunded and mismanaged Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), a federal agency with a history rich in boondoggles, even without outside help." {...]

"Chalk up another one to the great Liberal legacy."
http://tinyurl.com/ywyxct

Whose legacy?

The Librano$ Godfather:
http://tinyurl.com/2xfe2a

Weston has a moment of lucidity.

LOL - you should have signed it Desi Arnaz.

Don't diss Dolly. I'll take her version of "I'll Always Love You" over Whitney Houston's excuse for vocal exercise any day.

Where is the outrage? Human Rights Commissions; SOW; feminists; Louise Arbour; Libby Davies, et al.
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"Bombers 'not willing martyrs'

BAGHDAD -- Senior American military officials produced photographs Saturday they said showed the bodies of two female suicide bombers who a day earlier attacked two popular pet markets, causing Baghdad's deadliest blasts in months.

The photographs showed ..."

"Army Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, the commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad" "showed the classified photographs to a few reporters, including one for The Times, but he declined to release the images "out of respect for the deceased.""
http://tinyurl.com/2owo9g (latimes)

Yeah. No dissing Dolly. She can sing and yodel.

Muleskinner Blues...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P5cOXEEmTk

The Idiot is creating his enemy. Will socialist Chavez follow national socialist Hitler's shining path*? Will Chavez create an "incident"? Will Chavez invade Colombia?
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"Venezuela's military 'on alert' for possible threats from Colombia

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela's military is on alert for possible threats from Colombia."
""We're on alert. The Bolivarian Armed Force (of Venezuela) is on alert," Chavez said"
http://tinyurl.com/2xk7dp (asspress)

*"It was a staged attack on a German radio station near the Polish border by some of Hitler's SS dressed in Polish army uniforms. The station was taken over by the Germans, a few inflamatory slogans were broadcast in Polish, and the attackers disappeared. Hitler then used this fake "attack" as an excuse to invade Poland."
http://tinyurl.com/2o3adn

Kate, forgive a person's ignorance, but just out of curiosity, are you related to Dwight?

No relation.

Regarding how money is spent on Reserves, many of them are so badly managed that the government has to step in with an administrator and take over the business end of things. Sounds to me like this is what should be happening at Peguis First Nation. The First Nations people on those reserves live in abject poverty while the chiefs party it up. Pretty sad but you know it usually is the fault of the white man.

Dolly Parton. In the early 70s, in my first house, we had a tenant who loved and loudly played Dolly Parton. My wife and I, in our supercilious superiority, but to ourselves, mocked him cruelly and mercilessly.
THEN, a decade or so later (Nine to Five) she became, gasp, HIP. I've never quite gotten over it.
Irreversible decline or the pendulum? (swinging like a pendulum do?).

I also mercilssly -- but very definitely to myself -- mocked my old man for his Johnny Cash induced tears.
THEN Cash became HIP -- even with Bob Dylan. Then my very pop-culture-advanced oldest daughter bought, gasp!, Johnny Cash's gruesome, pompous and bathetic last album. I still haven't gotten over it.

Kate's absolutely right about Parton's self-penned version of I Will Always Love You vs. the dental-drill rendition of Whitney Houston.

I bought a couple of the Rick Rubin produced Johnny Cash albums. I like them. And I'm a jazz freak.

A young sax playing fan found Charlie Parker in a diner listening to country on a juke box. He was shocked and asked him why. Bird said, "Have you ever listened to the words?"

Charles Mingus at UCLA (Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus). A great album.

"Does anybody have the moral courage to talk back to this kind of larceny,"

"We know that in dictatorships there is only one emotion that needs to mastered in order turn the people into sheep. FEAR."
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Charles Adler: Canada is becoming a tyranny of politeness
by John Turley-Ewart
Charles Adler

It's a strange country we live in. For all the talk we hear about how brave men fought and died to keep Canada a free country, we sure don't act like a free people. In Toronto there is a problem with violence in schools - more in some than others, more in those with underprivileged than others, more in those with poor black kids than others... and a so called human rights lawyer is charged with doing a very thick report on what the problems are and what the solutions are and as it turns out the problem was Mike Harris, a premier who ran the government of Ontario for six years, and has been out of power for the last six years.

Does anybody really think that the issues Toronto is dealing with on the very important subject of young black boys and young black men doing poorly in school is about Mike Harris? Does anybody have the moral courage to talk back to this kind of larceny, this kind of deceipt, this kind of rhetorical manure? Are we really a free people?
http://tinyurl.com/384fjq (NPblogs)

I came within 20 feet of Dolly, back in the 70s. She was about 30 feet away.

So she turned around?

maz2, I've talked about the PC educational crap for years. Right here. You'll notice how "free" I am: I use a pseudonym, from necessity, unless I want to be without a job.

Re Dolly Parton: I’m an enthusiast of a capella Renaissance choral music, Dixieland, Big Band . . . Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash (now), and lots of other music. I’d always looked down on Dolly Parton—until, a long time ago, I bought my very young daughters a Sesame Street tape.

One of the songs on that tape—very tongue in cheek, cheeky, and very clever—was, in order to teach opposites, Dolly Parton singing “I’m UNDER the Weather OVER You”! We used to belt it out. (I’d even listen to it and sing along enthusiastically when no one was around!) Then I saw “Nine to Five”. I altogether became a Dolly Parton enthusiast and fan. She’s smart, clever, very grounded, and doesn’t take herself seriously. With a big laugh, she openly admits the hair's a WIG: a great lady!

(Vitruvius, could you find "I'm Under the Weather Over You" for our late night listening?)

UK bends over for muzzlims.
Husbands living in a "harem" with multiple wives have been cleared to claim state benefits for all their different partners.

A Muslim man with four spouses - which is permitted under Islamic law - could receive £10,000 a year in income support alone.

He could also be entitled to more generous housing and council tax benefit, to reflect the fact his household needs a bigger property.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512043&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

How many Dolly fans saw her, years ago, on Johnny Carson, where during the conversation he said, I'd give a years pay to look down there,(or under there) and the place broke up.
Just announced on calgary ctv, Premier Stelmach will call a 28 day election tomorrow.
Now I know what to give up for Lent on Ash Wednesday, liberals and ndp. Before Easter Taft will discover that many Albertans are giving up Liberals also. Great if this caught on across Canada.

FROM FOX NEWS WEB SITE

A 15-year-old girl from Pakistan was forced into prostitution in the U.K. by her mother-in-law, The Sunday Times of London reported.

The teen, whose name was not disclosed, arrived in the U.K. expecting to be married to a handsome and successful older man, the paper reported. Instead, she was married to a 40-year-old, unemployed, disabled man with the mental age of a 5-year-old.

The marriage was reportedly not recognized by the British Home Office, but was considered valid under sharia — or Islamic — law.

As if that weren't bad enough, the girl's mother-in-law then decided to take advantage of the teen's youth and good looks by offered her to men looking for sex, The Sunday Times reported.

According to the paper, the family "invited" men to rape her.

The girl eventually escaped her husband's family's home and is now living in a shelter.

Her story is just one of hundreds of cases of abuse highlighted in a recent government report by the U.K.'s Center for Social Cohesion which looks at the growing trend within the Islamic and Asian communities in the U.K.

Well I'll say this for Miss Parton, in the history of SDA Late Nite Radio no other featured artist has drawn this much acclaim. By the way, here's a few of her aphorisms: "My feet are small for the same reason my waist is small - things don't grow in the shade." ~ "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I'm also not blonde." ~ "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap."

I regret to announce that "I'm Under the Weather Over You" does not appear to be available on line. However, here's the Carson / Parton interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_kodMFFXXY and here's her PMS Blues: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14FLQi4h7U

Thanks for the feedback, folks, I've made some notes on
your recommendations for future shows. See you then.

For the record, I'm extremely fond of Dolly Parton. And I'm a huge bluegrass fan especially after the brilliant Cohen brothers' film Oh Brother Wherefore Art Thou..

She's HUGEly talented, no doubt about that. And does not take herself too seriously, and she's utterly guileless -- a rarity today.

Check out Adler's comments on his NP blog. The link can be found at National Newswatch. Hopefully he will video his HRC hearing.

Anybody want a journalism job in Chad?

Internews Network is currently seeking a Resident Journalism Advisor to be based in N’Djamena, Chad and lead a training project in N’Djamena and other locations within Chad. The Resident Advisor would set-up a training center in N’Djamena-Chad, and provide training to local journalists and managers from community radio stations from various locations in the country.

http://www.caj.ca/jobs/

with this going on, better take your flak jacket!
http://tinyurl.com/37xmlm

Arctic sea ice back to it’s previous level, bears safe; film at 11

In the late summer and early fall of 2007, there were a number of alarming media reports about the arctic sea ice melting. Additionally, there were predictions that it would not recover to its previous levels.

But, we have this graph charting the rise and fall of arctic sea ice for the last 365 days, notice that the arctic sea ice is right back where it started at in February 2007.

And here is the satellite sounder derived image showing sea ice extent as of Saturday, Feb 2nd 2007 (right) compared to Feb 2nd, 1980 (left). The color key shows the concentration of sea ice, with deep purple being the most solid ice and reds, yellows. blues showing areas of thinning ice or seawater/ice mix: {...]

Note that the 1980 photo does not show snow cover (in white) as the technology then wasn’t able to resolve it as it does today.
http://tinyurl.com/yv23x6 (whatsup)

This talk of Dolly Parton, and then O Brother, Where Art Thou had me looking for that Parton/Ronstadt/Harris version of "Farther Along". I couldn't find that one, but these girls are almost as good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc6mcKUucaw

Mao Stlong say: Play fol us.
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Storm-hit China calls for 'faith'
[...]

Have you been affected by the cold weather in southern China? Send us your pictures, some of which may be published.
You can send pictures and video to:
yourpics@bbc.co.uk or text them to +44 7725 100 100. If you have a large file you can upload here. Click here to see terms and conditions
At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws.
http://tinyurl.com/3cy5wm (bbc)
Comments:

'Kidney' was last seen hosting an organ pavilion at 2007 Folkfest in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Notice wife is written: "wife"; business: "business"; shocked: shocked.
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'Kidney' Kumar lived a lavish life in Canada

Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the massive kidney racket, had been leading a lavish life while posing as a heart surgeon in Canada and had told his neighbours that he wanted to migrate to the country after winding up his "business" in India.

Kumar, against whom an Interpol red corner notice was issued after his illegal kidney selling network was unearthed, his "wife" Poonam Ameet, and their two sons, 5 and 4, moved into their Brampton home last April and the children attend a local private school, his neighbours said.

Except Kumar, the rest of the family remains barricaded behind security doors at their home, the Toronto Star reported on Sunday. The couple bought the four-bedroom home in the predominantly Indian neighborhood of Bovaird Dr and Airport Rd in April 2007 for $610,000, it said adding the kidney scandal had shocked the quiet neighbourhood. http://tinyurl.com/27y6o3
(hindustantimes)

How many of you use e-bay, I did once. Today my son was trolling around on e-bay and found something, and now I am ill.
In 1966 we bought a new turquoise and white pick-up. Used it for years, and eventually sold it to a friend, to be reconditioned. He sold it to a movie crew shooting around here and it made its way back to hollywood. It was in a couple of movies, the last one Brokeback Mountain. Just sold today on e-bay for 80,000.00 Ouch.
The only reason I saw that movie was to see the truck.

Maz2 ,
while the Norhtern Hemisphere sea ice level has caught up with the level of last year it is still about 700,000 square kilometers shy of the mean for 1979-2000. The Southern Hemisphere is a ahead of the mean for that period by 435,000 square kilometers.
It is the northern Atlantic (barents sea) that is the furthest behind in freeze up. ( -300,000 Kilometers)
La Nina is still holding sway over the pacific and the sea surface temperature is below normal for most of the west coast of North America. The real test for the warmists will be what happens when we hit the fall, the expected time when La Nina's effect is expected to disipate.
I have not heard much from the warmists about how the cold weather and extra snow cover in the three largest countries on this planet will effect global temperature.

Does this sound like a threat?

http://www.warrenkinsella.com/index.php?entry=entry080203-122101

(Warning: this will link to Warren Kinsella's blog)

Vitruvius, many thanks for checking out "I'm Under the Weather Over You" (pretty sophisticated stuff for 4 year olds!). I'll check out the other two samples you've so kindly provided.

Thanks, too, MND, for the fine Dolly Parton quotes. She's nobody's fool!

Of course, Dolly Parton didn't sing, "I'm Under the Weather Over You", which drifted to the top of my memory, lying in bed last night. That's why Vitruvius couldn't find it.

It was a Sesame Street tape and the song was apparently performed by a puppet called Polly Darton! (Maybe the vocals really were sung by Dolly. Who knows? Anyway, it was a hoot!)

...if Dolly Parton was a farmer, she'd be flat busted too...