Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for you delectation, we have the Count Basie Orchestra performing Corner Pocket in 1962:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4-ZBQ_UYgM

SDA LNR Archive: tinyurl.com/26tb25

You have to view this insane "news" report to believe it:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=77713&videoChannel=1

It's business time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU&feature=related

Kate...if it's just starting get the Vit C and echinacea in asap,and often, and gargle with saline.

This NAFTA crap is crap. We don't owe an oath of silence to any polital party in the US. If any campaign is so silly as to mouth off about private positions which AFFECT Canada, I want to hear about it.

1000 mg of vitamin C every day. Strange but apparently effective: put Vicks on your feet at bedtime and wear socks to avoid night time coughing.
This has thumbs up from my staff who didn't miss work.

Prince Philip plays a blinder again.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/03/07/nbelly107.xml

It's women's day at left-wing blog, Canadian Cynic and they're celebrating in the usual fashion by attacking right-wing women and insulting their appearance. Very classy.

Thanks Vitruvius, great stuff. Only saw the Count's band once. They were in Saskatoon, but it was after he started playing celestial piano. They were good, but not the same without him.

Polly has a really good point. This NAFTA business does affect Canada and for our elected officials and their staff to keep this quiet would have been wrong for all reasons and certainly would not have been in keeping with the spirit of a transparent government.

The real point here is: if Obama had been telling the truth instead of lying to his potential constituents, he wouldn't have gotten into such hot water.

Its not our fault he's a liar.

If the Nafta thing was about McCain or a Republican, nothing would have come of it. But because it was about Hussein bin Obama, well the media crawls all over the thing. Then Hitlery beats his ass in a primary, and it's Canada's fault the ahole lost. Yeah right. Canada is such a big player in US politics. This is another smokescreen from the left to smear Harper. Same as the Cadman non story, the schreiber non story, and on and on...

The whole NAFTA thing is pure crap, much ado about nothing beyond master of platitudes, Obama.

'Don't have one speck of sympathy for David Akin, IMO he'd delight in making trouble for the Conservatives. He's just one of the cabal. There needs to be a purge in the media across the board.
There are some who are worse, like Neil MacDonald. They've taken on the job of meddling in politics to make trouble where they can.

The bifurcated mind of Goldstein.
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Goldstein says:

"Shovelling 'global warming'
No one has the right to call you a 'climate denier' for expressing your views on climate change"
Lorrie Goldstein
http://tinyurl.com/yv23g2

Goldstein repeats the Suzuki-Red-Green bjhhdfrt:

"HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT
Finally, there are many things we can all do to help the environment and lower our reliance on fossil fuels, good ideas regardless of your views on global warming.

Don't buy a bigger house than you need. Don't drive a more powerful car (or buy more cars) than you need. Cut down on flying. Vacation closer to home. Take public transit more often. When possible, buy domestic instead of foreign produce and manufactured goods. Eat less meat, more fruits and vegetables. Reduce, reuse, recycle.""

criticism of Israel:

from The Wall Street Journal: Israel's No-win Strategy

online.wsj.com/article/SB120494577501721717.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

"Governments here -- behemoths whose budgets consume about a half the nation's $160 billion GDP -- are generally dysfunctional. They are hamstrung by constant internal squabbles and Byzantine bureaucracies. As became evident as early as the 1973 Yom Kippur War, their dysfunction has infected the Israeli defense establishment. In that year, a totally surprised Israeli cabinet and military leadership reacted with confusion and ineptness that almost led to the country's ruin. The recent Winograd Commission of Inquiry report on the Second Lebanon War indicates that these faults are endemic to the over-centralized yet disorganized Israeli system of governance.

...Israeli governments have done little to stop the massive rearmament of Hamas in Gaza with Iranian weapons, bought with Saudi money and transported into Gaza with the connivance of Egypt. Israel did not even press its great ally, the U.S., to lean on Egypt and put an end to this flagrant violation of its peace agreement with Israel -- a peace agreement for which Egypt is rewarded by billions in U.S. aid."

Newspapers exist to sell advertising, mostly for vehicles, real estate and foreign holidays. Newsprint is a large consumer of pulp which is an energy intensive, forest destroying, polluting process. Ergo, do not buy newspapers and you will really help save the Earth.

agw believers, save us all, kill yourselves.

Czar (tsar): authority > tyrant > tyranny.
Climate change > global warming > Red-Green fascist/socialist tyranny.
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Climate czar, Lord Adair Turner, says take off your tie to cut CO2
http://tinyurl.com/3ah9yf (times UK)
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Ontario, Canada:

"Climate change czar named

Hugh MacLeod's job will be to make sure the government's environmental plans - from banning conventional light bulbs to phasing out coal-fired power plants - are carried out.

MacLeod has already started setting up Ontario's Climate Change Secretariat but the government had been planning to announce it on March 29 - when people around the world turn off lights for Earth Hour to symbolize their commitment to protecting the environment."
http://tinyurl.com/3docpa

Dead on langmann, just tell the truth. No one has a good enough memory to continually lie and Obama, while the lesser of two lefties should not have led the voters on in the first place. Most voters are stupid followers, Witness the voting in of lieberals like Turdeau/ Cretin and the fact that anyone would vote for the puffin janitor. This proves that not all votes are worth the same, idiots voted in Turdeau starting our slide to 50 percent taxation, tell your children when they get their paycheck why there is so much taken off for taxes, it is thanks to stupid voters that don't study candidates philosophies and where they were educated.

For those who haven't seen it, Pat Condell's latest classic. Less funny but more biting and on-on-money than usual.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=30a_1204991129

On the whole Naftagate affair,I had wondered on earlier post about the role the media/reporters had to play in this trumped up 'scandal.' IF it was so very serious..as cbc,Libs,Dippers like to point out,why was it put out there in heat of election?I feel no sympathy for Aiken,or any other so-called reporters whose main objective has been to do or say anything they can to slag PMSH,or the Cons.gov't.On cbc Sunday,the always critical Carole tried to get Tom Brokaw to join in on what a terrible thing this was,and to her chagrin,and my delight,he stated,"voters,as opposed to the chattering classes..like you and I,are more worried about $4/gal gas,and losing their homes,than NAFTA.It is blowing over in the US" I don't think Carole liked that,so the lovely Delacourt had to come on in the next segment to denigrate,scoff,at the Cons.and the 'mess' they are in.She openly smirked about how PMSH will have to go to beg the Senate to defeat this new Lib.bill.

So let me get this straight

Brodie makes an offhand comment about CLINTON

Somehow that gets translated by the media into OBAMA

OBAMA's campaign takes it on the chin because he has been caught in a lie

And somehow it is the goverment of Stephen Harper that is to blame??

Sigh...

Just speculating but I believe that if it had been John McCain who was involved in such duplicity that our MSM would have been all over him. If it had been McCain talking out of both sides of his mouth, that would have been the story. The unknown person who leaked such a memo would be known as a brave whistleblower defying a controlling gov't hiding facts from Canadians. The Liberals and their comrades in the press would have proclaimed McCain a liar and come to the defence of Canada and the Nafta agreement.

An amusing and plausible theory as to the "thinking" processese of liberals who, perhaps, don't so much suffer from a form of mental illness as a anthropological snydrome: envy appeasement/deflection.

WHY DEMOCRATS CANNOT DEFEND AMERICA

A good place to start understanding why Democrats cannot defend America is the Amazon jungle. There is a tribe in the Amazon called the Yanomamo. When a Yanomamo woman gives birth, she tearfully proclaims her child to be ugly.

In a loud mortified lament that the entire tribe can hear, she asks why the gods have cursed her with such a pathetically repulsive infant. She does this in order to ward off the envious black magic of the Evil Eye, the Mal Ojo, that would be directed at her by her fellow tribespeople if they thought she was happy and her baby was beautiful.

So she is afraid to be happy, because of the fear of being envied by her fellow villagers.

From now on, whenever you think of a Liberal Democrat, I want you to think of that Yanomamo woman in the Amazon. For it is that primitive jungle fear that makes a Liberal.

"the words of MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen:
"Controlling Carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon you control life.""

"As I hopped on the train headed for home, it struck me -- I may well have just left the only place on Earth where walked, however briefly, more sane-thinkers on the subject than not.
The chill the thought sent up my spine is not completely gone."

NY Climate Conference: Journey to the Center of Warming Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/3cbyry (mark sheppard)

Alberta Girl,

It doesn't have to make any sense to the press gallery. As long as they can collectively claim the PMO is to blame, there is justification.

Akin/CTV/Hurst all have to explain how they got from a Hillary story to an Obama only story.

Brodie is far too intelligent a guy to have gottent the candidate wrong.

Something BIG doesn't add up!

Either way, the delay in clearing the air is in and of itself journalistic incompetence. Hurst should be forced to resign.

Let him defend his job.

CTV is engaged in political interference, not the PMO and the press gallery knows it.

Where is Andrew Coyne on this? Is he now in goosestep with the ppg party?

me no dhimmi - I'd be cautious of Yanomano tales; they aren't always reliable. But, the idea of angry spirits, particularly those of the recently dead, is common among some groups. It helps to enforce an important social value: sharing.

There's a well-known story of Richard Lee, an anthropologist with the Dobe !Kung in the Kalahari (the ! represents a 'clicking sound'). Their economy is based on sharing all hunted and gathered goods.
So, Lee decided to offer up a fat ox for a Xmas feast; they like fat meat. He went out, bought one, and showed them how fat it was, how good it would taste when roasted, etc.

They mocked him; they denigrated his inability to tell good from bad meat. Endless putdowns. Finally, Xmas day, the roast was ready and the meat was indeed, fat, juicy, perfect.

Lee asked them - but why did you mock me, you knew it was a good choice of meat, why did you make fun of me?

Answer: Arrogance. They had to reduce his arroagance in thinking he was better than anyone else.
You see, in their culture, with an economy based on the necessity of close bonds, relying on each other, sharing food - you cannot allow a situation to develop where one person thinks they are better, wiser, stronger than another. All are equal.

Hunkered down..currently at 51 cm. of snow this storm.

Chuckled at the typo in the following article in today's Toronto Sun -

"It's All Over Expect Crying"

http://www.torontosun.com/Sports/Hockey/2008/03/09/4952021-sun.html

Yes, it's about the Make Believes (Ok, so my team has to pull up its laces).Does anyone remember the concern last season by CBC Sports when the MBs didn't make the playoffs and the Ceeb was worried about lost revenue? Apparently, they floated an idea of a parallel playoff series of "losers" to Commissioner Bettman who,it seemed, showed some interest.
Will that balloon resurface?

PS: Talk about "expect crying", didja catch Cherry and his goalie rant?

CTV QP this am,must be old stone face Oliver,and Giggles way of getting back at the Cons.Whole show so far,has been slam Cons.At top of show tho,Derek Burney,one of the NAFTA negotiators,and former amb.to US,kinda ate craig for lunch!He states 'I do not regard this as serious.we need to stop flagellating ourselves..there is NO reason to keep this up'Craig keeps pushing for some negative.doesn't get it.Lets move over to Giggles,and the spin on naftagate/Emersons comments.Jane cuts off Pierre Polievrre repeatedly,but that spunky little devil gets few good digs in!Taber then over to Cadmangate,more anti-Cons..getting rabid,and Joe Comartin says Libs and Bloc have gone way over the top.Jane throws in comment..'it looks suspicious!'
Craig trots out former Cons.candidate Mark Warner,who surprise surprise,now supports Bob Rae.Now doing Sask.proud,your new Prem.Wall,re NAFTA.Craig looking for negativity on anything/everything,asks Wall about the talk in Washington,clarifies for the rapt audience,that Wall IS a Harper fan!Can that fool be more transparently Harper hateful?
Over to the media pundits to discuss,as Craig says a bad week for the Cons.Wait Craig,could you at least throw in the no-show Libs?Dion's own motion that Libs didn't bother to support?The completely non-partisan Weston(yeah right),and Campion-Smith fr.Tor Star.Oliver feels PMSH has lost all control on the latest motion by Libs,should fall??
Whole show was slag PMSH,Cons.Non-partisan?PUTRID!

Iberia...those guys are funny. Good one!

ET:
Thanks for that. Most interesting! In fact, I was thinking about you when I read and posted that and almost included a postscript alert for you.

If you haven't read the piece, it highlights Ted Kennedy and also rich Hollywood types. Ted's guilt is quite understandable, that of the Hollywood set, less so, for if they truly understood free markets they would have nothing at all to feel guilty about [their customers are under no coercion].

I gather that the Japanese have a similar thing, eh? I once heard a Yo Yo Ma interview in which he decried that cultural phenomenon using the analogy of the nail sticking up that needed to be hammered down flush. And he was quite emotional about it, as I recall.

We're not at war and affirmative action works!

"MI5 targets four Met police officers 'working as Al Qaeda Spies,'" from the Daily Mail:

Four police officers in Britain's top force are reportedly under close secret service surveillance after being identified as Al Qaeda spies, it emerged today.

MI5 are said to have homed in on the the “sleeper” agents passing secrets from Scotland Yard to the terror group only in recent weeks.

The suspected spies are believed to have used methods similar to those employed by the IRA in the 1970s as they infiltrated the police and the Army in Northern Ireland.

All four are understood to be Asians living in London and are feared to have links both with Islamic extremists in Britain and worldwide terror groups - including al-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

MI5 chiefs reportedly believe the suspected moles have been planted as sleepers - agents under deep cover - to keep al-Qaeda informed of anti-terror raids planned by London's Metropolitan Police.

They are said to fear the four could have already accessed sensitive information about secret operations to root out terror cells planning further attacks in the UK.

MSM, rule of thumb:

innuendo trumps facts, when the innuendo is directed at conservatives.

So very real damaging facts like the libs failing to show up for a vote on the most important legislation a government can put forth,

pale in comparison,

to unproven bare allegations, even when those allegations lack a logical foundation (million dollar life insurnace policy for dying men).

MSM - Harper conservative mischief makers, and Liberal government malfeasance enablers.

CTV's QP was a joke. They expect Canadians to willing suspend their disbelief in CTV's shoddy reporting over the NAFTA-gate issue.

Talk about smug bs'ers, Taber and Oliver should get acting awards.

No mention ot the CTV Akin conflict of journalistic interest. Amazing how networks can overlook their own shortcomings.

Fire Hurst!

Even the NY Times has acknowleged this conference -- neutral opinion coverage. Perhaps some sanity on the whole Kyoto/ Maurice Strong/ Hansen thing is coming to light.

NEW YORK CONFERENCE HEARS HARD-HITTING SPEECH FROM HEAD OF STATE OF CZECH REPUBLIC
"Global warming" debate is not about climatology - it's about freedom: The President of the Czech Republic, Hon Vaclav Klaus makes some startling revelations in a penetrating speech to the International Conference on Climate Change in New York City.

SIGN UP TO MANHATTAN DECLARATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE; JOIN ICSC
For people interested in the outcome of the International Conference on Climate Change, New York City, 2-4 March 2008:

1. Copy of Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change

2. Form to sign to endorse Declaration

3. Form of application to join ICSC.

http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/

Killings cannot dim Israel's respect for life
By Ron Prosor
http://tinyurl.com/ywotna
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First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

As we might expect, Roman Catholic Archbishop's statement about politicians who vote for pro choice abortion being refused communion. Not a whisper from the ranters about the RELIGIOUS RIGHT.
WHY NOT?

3,000 women a year forced into marriage in UK, study finds.*

Is it my take on the talking big heads or have they added turbos to their constant anger and rage toward the Conservatives? They are past the point where intervention would be ordered were it a street person ranting like Weston. Martin. Oliver and Taber, This is becomming very serious when hate gets to this point it could send some whaco over the edge, I hope these losers realize that there are still some in this country who can't afford a computer and must, to read news, buy newspapars, poor people, if they are stupid enough to believe these msm losers.

Sinkiang (to use the old spelling) or "Kashgaria" at one time separated from the Chinese Empire and operated under British tutelage.

China foils attempted terror attack on flight

China foiled a bid to cause an air disaster on a passenger jet en route to Beijing and the plane made a safe emergency landing, an official said on Sunday, in what state media called an attempted terrorist attack.

The China Southern flight originated in Urumqi, capital of the restive far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, where militant Uighurs have agitated for an independent "East Turkestan"...

Xinjiang is home to 8 million Muslim Uighurs, many of whom resent the growing presence and economic grip of Han Chinese. The oil-rich region borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

A senior Chinese official has warned that Uighurs -- a Turkic, largely Islamic people who share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia -- were plotting attacks on the Beijing Olympics.

Invitation to liberals and democrats visiting this blogsite. . .

An easy and gripping video to make you an instant expert on what*s coming next. Fear not!

Everyone, including our politicos needs to listen through Pat Condell*s short video.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=30a_1204991129

It gives us all a clear place to start thinking from, while clearing away old cobwebs.

Like spring cleaning, it*s great! = TG

Thanks: BalzingCatFur.blogspot.com
Lori at 10:11 above

MSM's political correctness on display.
Were the "protesters" Muslims?
MSM uses the words: "protesters", "Demonstrators"; no mention that they are Indians.
MSM/CanPress are craven cowards. The identity of the "protesters" is a pertinent/relevant fact; MSM ignores this.

More pc from the TO Police: "With police standing by,"
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Protesters go inside Toronto church to raise awareness about residential schools
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
http://tinyurl.com/23lre8

A report from the Other CSIS (PDF warning):

Clark A. Murdock, The Department of Defense and the Nuclear Mission of the 21st Century

Nuclear weapons are unique in their capacity to inflict massive amounts of damage almost instantaneously... In an era of suicide bombers, ideologically driven non-state actors will employ nuclear weapons if they can get them—al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has said it was a “sacred duty” to seek nuclear weapons25—and the civilized world must do everything it can to prevent non-state actors from acquiring nuclear weapons, to disrupt or preempt any nuclear use by non-state actors and to deny non-state actors any benefits they may gain from their use of nuclear weapons. But the so-far-unbroken track record of successful nuclear deterrence in the affairs of nation-states will not be replicated against non-state nuclear threats. Not only do many non-state actors lack things of value that can be threatened by nuclear retaliation, some might actually invite nuclear attacks (in the case of deterrence failure) because that would serve their disruptive, messianic purposes...

I second Charles* comment above.

Why must the West make Nukes off limits to Bin Laden, al Qeada or the Taliban?

Blackmail! Their common modus operandi.

What do you do if as Toronto mayor, you get a call that says give us X or we vaporize all from Bloor to Burlington / Hamilton?

=TG

Man is wolf to wolf
by John Derbyshire
(A review of "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau".)

"Here, in fact, are all the intellectual pathologies that have attached themselves to the modern environmental movement like barnacles to the hide of an elderly whale."

"“Beyond words like ecology, environment, and pollution there is a simple question: Do we want to live or die?”"

"The leap from the social to the ecological, from our injustice to each other to the insults we inflict on the natural world—from, as it were, “man is wolf to man” to “man is wolf to wolf”—seems to come very readily to writers of the multicultural-left tendency. The palm here must go to Alice Walker:

Some of us have become used to thinking that woman is the nigger of the world, that a person of color is the nigger of the world, that a poor person is the nigger of the world. But, in truth, Earth itself has become the nigger of the world."
http://tinyurl.com/3abqjz (new criterion)

Not exactly news, but it's nice to see that The Sunday Times isn't whitewashing it:

Hamas wages Iran’s proxy war on Israel

The Hamas commander, however, confirmed for the first time that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been training its men in Tehran for more than two years and is currently honing the skills of 150 fighters...

Hamas had been sending fighters to Iran for training in both field tactics and weapons technology since Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza strip of Palestinian territory in 2005. Others go to Syria for more basic training.

De facto segregation of Australian schools: the not-so-distant future in Canada as well?

Anna Patty, White flight leaves system segregated by race

WHITE students are fleeing public schools, leaving behind those of Aboriginal and Middle Eastern origin, a secret report by high school principals reveals...

Not only have some public schools lost enrolments; they have become racially segregated. In pockets of rural and remote NSW, Aboriginal students fill public schools and white students attend Catholic and other private schools in the same town.

Around Sydney, the parents of some Anglo-European students are avoiding what they perceive as predominantly Lebanese, Muslim and Asian schools...

Amy Yee, India may have solved cheap energy question

Unlike biofuels made from crops such as soybeans and maize, jatropha... is inedible, grows on non-arable land and needs little water or care. “It has good potential, no doubt about it,” says Suhas Wani, principal scientist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, near Hyderabad...

‘You just sort of did it’
Former [Liberal} MHA Walter Noel doesn’t expect expense claim revelations to impact bid for federal seat
http://www.theindependent.ca/article.asp?id=1117

Walter's teeth/specs and someone's nasal passages are the draw here. Ughly.

Citoyen Dion say: Vote for Xmas: "currently the federal Liberal candidate for St. John’s North,".
Noel has been inducted into the Librano$ Wall of Shame.

Since the global warming alarmists are planning a world-wide demonstration on March 29 to call attention to global warming (like anyone is unaware) I would like to suggest a counter-demonstration.

I suggest, as a protest against global warming lunacy, that all those concerned about increasing government actions against "climate change" put all their lights on for one hour at the same time, starting at 8 PM, March 29. Indoor lights, outdoor lights, even Christmas lights if they're still up.

What do you think Kate? Would you consider making a big promotion of this on your blog?

I wouldn't participate in that dirtman...it would cost me extra on my hydro bill.And we already 'cut back' enough.
Not very altruistic I know, but my greatest motivation for reducing,reusing and recycling is the money factor.
The composting saves me bucks on fertiliser too.

Dirtman,

Those are my motivations too.

Give me a car that runs on batteries or compessed air, like the taxis in paris. . .

A wood stove that keeps my hydro bill to $20 a month.

Let me invest in lithium enterprise for capital gains and let me vote for clean Coal-gen retrofits; a promising Canadian manufacturing and employment opportunity.

Global warming is for those so full of themselves they will never do anything useful.

Proof? Dr. Fruitfly and AliGoracle, for example. = TG

dirtman - I'm not participating in any groupism. Certainly I'm not turning off my lights because some group tells me to. Nor will I turn them on. I'm the one in charge of my use of various energy sources.

Charles..."solved cheap energy..."

I have some magic beans for sale.

Sigh.

C'mon kids,get watching CPAC.Goldhawk asking about media 'spin' and who do you trust?? Susan Riley on (Harper-hater)Git yer e-mails,ph.calls in..time to trash the cbc!

Climatologist taking `perverse’ pleasure in brutal winter
Posted on 09 March 2008 by Jack('s Newswatch)

Note: Some background…

“Environment Canadas (a government department) senior climatologist, David Phillips is a global warming skeptic. Though many of his colleagues claim that mans warming of the planet leads to more destructive weather, Phillips says there is no proof of such a link. “The point Ive argued about with my colleagues is all the weather weve seen in recent history cant be blamed on global warming,” said Phillips. “There is no scientific evidence to suggest that the ice storm in Ontario last year or the Red River flood in Manitoba were direct results of what were doing to the atmosphere.”

Phillips doesnt discount the possibility that mans influence on the atmosphere may lead to more extreme weather, but the evidence doesnt show it. Phillips blames much of the erroneous perception on the advent of “storm porn,” the medias overreaction to natural disasters. The perception of more extreme weather, says Phillips, may have more to do with increasing media coverage than actual changes.

Phillips argues that population growth is blame for perceived increases in natural disasters. “Weathers doing a bigger number of people,” says Phillips. “That doesnt make the weather more extreme. Its just that were bigger targets now. Were getting in the way of the weather” (The Edmonton Sun, November 14, 1999).”
http://tinyurl.com/yrtvo7
Vocabulary Builder: "storm porn".

The show "Da Vinci's Inquest" is on local US TV - This is one show I want to like. Unfortunately, the description of the episode reads, in part: "...investigation goes nowhere."

It stuck me, this points out the difference between American and Canadian psyches via crime-drama action TV shows!

Doesn't this embody the Canadian Spirit: endless amounts of angst due to politically correct concerns, compulsive understatement, and indecisive micro-management due to overbearing authority?

Just a thought.

I watched a bit of Question Period today-- I don't usually, but I was at the gym and that was what was on. -- If there was ever anything to inspire me NEVER to choose to turn this program on at home today's episode was it. I felt it was a bit of end-to-end Conservative bashing. It's fine to criticize Conservatives, but to go on -- and on and on and on -- about items that have already passed their best-before date is a bit much. I thought the the interview regarding the Cadman issue was pathetic, primarily because -- there is nothing new here. It was a rehash of last week's news. It uninteresting and stale to just keep on about things (as Tabor did) when there is no new information. What exactly is the point? Well, I guess Conservative bashing is the point -- I understand -- and accept -- that this is an item that Liberals would latch on to and not let go, but media should be a bit more saavy about what kinds of things are likely to catch the interest of the general public. (Unfortunately, this might take a bit of effort on the journalists' part.) Endless repetition of non-events is not going to do it. They've lost me.

LindaL,

Yes, saw that also and it was just as you say. Maybe if we invite alJazeera into our TV mix, they could do a more balanced job of it. /sarc = TG