Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, and Jim Vaughn performing Rock Me Baby:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OXrmxDp44

Speaking of great guitar picking, here's two of my favorites, both featuring the incredible Brian Setzer.

Sleepwalk:

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

Mystery Train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggN-HKq3FG8

Welcome back, Kate.

Welcome back M'dear. Hope the trip was a success.

Regards,
Pat

Take some extra vitamin C or Echinacea or some such preventative. Aircraft on long flights like that are cesspools of germs.

Really appreciate you Kate. SDA must be a real pain to keep up the high standard you have set. Way to go

Welcome back Kate.

Snuggle into that bed, there is nothing like your own bed!

Glad to have you back.

The Republicans, who got smoked in another election, have apparently realized something is wrong with their party:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403611.html?hpid=topnews

"House Republicans turned on themselves yesterday after a third straight loss of a GOP-held House seat in special elections this year left both parties contemplating widespread Democratic gains in November.

In huddles, closed-door meetings and hastily arranged conference calls, some Republicans demanded the head of their political chief, while others decried their leadership as out of touch with the political catastrophe they face....

"...Even Republican strategists were downcast about their prospects for the fall.

'These races were not in New Jersey or New England, where Republican erosion has taken place over the last decade. They were in the heart of the Bible Belt, the social conservative core of our coalition,' Rep. Tom Davis (Va.) fretted in a 20-page memorandum given to House Republican leaders yesterday and provided to The Washington Post.

'Members and pundits, waiting for Democrats to fumble the ball so that soft Republicans and Independents will snap back to the GOP, fail to understand the deep seeded antipathy toward the President, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas, the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party.'

Republicans from across the ideological spectrum of their party said yesterday that they understand the need to change course. But they disagreed on what change is necessary."

Thank God. I'm glad you were safe in China.

Prolific vitriolic blabber mouth and all around asshole Mark Holland is crying foul because a parliamentary committee hasn't agreed to fork over money for his legal services. He thinks he can slander people, get sued and no big deal, we'll pay for it?

If he and jerks like him don't have to pay out of pocket, why bother to sue them, they have nothing to lose, the onus is reversed and we can expect more of the same.

Mark Holland . . . isn't he the Liberal moron who went on TV and said the Liberals would take over the Alberta Oil Patch in Order to meet Kyoto obligations ?

Apparently CBC is not anti-American enough for them,

A couple months ago Avi Lewis quit CBC to join Al Jazeera

And now former CBC editor in chief Tony Burma joins Al Jazzeera...

read the rest here

Hey, Joe! When's payday?
Another poll gone wrong.
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"Green urinal efforts raise a stink"

"Those things depend on p--- going in one end and being pushed up the other. They've found out that p--- doesn't flow uphill. It ain't moving. It's sitting there."

"Earth-friendly urinals are on their way out of Winnipeg's downtown police headquarters, after officers held their noses over their failures."
http://tinyurl.com/59kzz2 (winnsun)

"fail to understand the deep seeded antipathy toward the President, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas, the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party."

Yeah, how about actually living up to "small guvmint, accountability, & fiscal responsibility" and actually, you know, acting out their ealier promises. Jerks.

What is Citoyen Dion's policy on Islamist murder today?
Citoyen Dion: Canadians are the same as Islamist murdering terrorists.

""I think that Mr. Jason Kenney, as usual, provoked a colleague of mine who has not a lot of experience in the heat of the parliamentary debate. But on the substance of the issue, Gen. Dallaire is right. Mr. Khadr should be back in Canada. All the other countries have done that," Dion told reporters." (TORedStar)

[Liberal senator] "Dallaire says he never meant to equate Canada with terrorists" (canpress)

[Liberal senator] "Dallaire blasts handling of Khadr case" (canpress)

[Liberal Citoyen] "Dion backs [Liberal senator] Dallaire on Khadr case" (TORedStar)

Maybe Marky Mark could round up some change rooting around in the garbage.He seems to be good at that! He IS one of the most petulant,whiny,spoiled brat politicians I have ever seen.

"The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party."

"Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act."

"Our nation’s top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it." [...]

"# Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
# Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
# Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922."
http://tinyurl.com/5vd67a (democrathistory)

Glad your back safe! You were missed.

Breaking news today.

http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php

A journalist has named three locations in Syria where Saddam's WMD cache is stored.

This confirms an account by one of Iraq's air force generals, who wrote a book about the WMD transfers.

May 14 2008, Daily Mail UK,

Iraqi insurgents use eight-year-old girl as suicide bomber

An eight-year-old girl was strapped with remote-controlled explosives and used as a human bomb by Iraqi insurgents in a blast that killed an Iraqi commander earlier today.

... ... ...

The fact many liberals equate that kind of horror with what our soldiers are doing only shows how neurotic and irrational many liberals are.

OIL FOOD A very interesting article for anyone interested, well worth the read.

Google -- Niels Jensen food for thought

Hey Kate, welcome back!

I go to Korea now and then, and I always find that the jet lag is 10 times worse coming back than going. I don't know if it's in the head or if there's a physiological reason for it, but I find that getting really hammered helps. 'Course, that's my answer to everything.

Single malt scotch; is there any problem it can't make go away for a little while?

The HRCs win another one and freedoms take another hit.

See five feet of fury

Burlington restaurant owner "settles" after deciding he couldn't finance the cost of fighting what was apparently a frivolous complaint that reportedly has cost him tens of thousands already with the prospect of many thousands more to go to hearing.

June 2-6 in BC looms large

Melanie Phillips, The Obsession

The Guardian’s hatred of Israel and the Jews truly is a fathomless — and unfathomable — well. The last few days around Israel’s 60th anniversary have seen a further escalation of its obsessive verbal pogrom...

Leon Aron, Putinism

Throughout Russia's history, the weakness of institutions and laws has ensured that the successor regimes rarely, if ever, turn out as intended by the previous ruler. Instead of continuity, the national tradition of highly personalized government often produces a very different political organism ostensibly from the same institutional framework. Yet with former president Vladimir Putin's staying on as a kind of regent-prime minister to the dauphin-president Dmitri Medvedev, at least for the next few years, the ideology, priorities, and policies of the Putin Kremlin--what might be called Putinism--are almost certain to inform and guide the Medvedev administration. Part I of this Outlook discusses the components of the new Russian authoritarianism, and parts II and III examine the elements of "Russia, Inc."--the corporatist state that Putin has built--and the factors that may affect Russia's economic performance, stability, and foreign policy in the future.

Jason L. Riley, Keep the Immigrants, Deport the Multiculturalists

If American culture is under assault today, it's not from immigrants who aren't assimilating but from liberal elites who reject the concept of assimilation. For multiculturalists, and particularly those in the academy, assimilation is a dirty word. A values-neutral belief system is embraced by some to avoid having to judge one culture as superior or inferior to another. Others reject the assimilationist paradigm outright on the grounds that the U.S. hasn't always lived up to its ideals. America slaughtered Indians and enslaved blacks, goes the argument, and this wicked history means we have no right to impose a value system on others.

"Carbon tax plan risky, Dion warned"
"Liberal leader told by his caucus that sales job for the greenhouse gas proposal has been abysmal"
(TORed Star)
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Herle Alert! Pep Talk from Herle! Citoyen Dion is a loser.

"So much attention has been paid to the weaknesses of Dion as a leader that his strengths have been forgotten. This is as much his fault as anybody's. He needs to believe in the value of his strengths and not be afraid to acknowledge his weaknesses. He has few conventional opposition leader skills. He is not compelling on the attack. He is not deeply versed in the arts of politics and campaigns. He is not an effective orator in English."
"David Herle, a former pollster and national campaign co-chair for the Liberal Party of Canada," (TORedStar)

If you want to read the stretch of the year, check out "Yes, they can win an election" at National Newswatch.

David Herle of the Red Star twists himself into pretzels explaining how Stephane Dion is not what he appears to be and how the Liberals, although they would lose to the real PC Party, could defeat the Harper Conservatives.

It's quite a hoot.

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good news for all you guys who were thinking of slicing off your johnson...
and trying to turn yourself into a vague approximation of a woman.

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latest editorial cartoon:

the cruise ship 'liberal party' is fast sinking with its stern doing a titanic; dion cries 'quick! levy a carbon tax!'

Most egregious of the gasoline taxes, which make up an average of 28% of the pump price, is the "deficit elimination tax" the Conservatives railed against in opposition. The 1.5¢-per-litre increase was introduced in 1995 to target the fiscal deficit, but is still in place a decade after the budget was balanced. As the Canadian Taxpayers Federation noted, since then, this blatant gouge has raised $6-billion for the federal government

Mr. Harper claims the government has done its bit by cutting the GST by two points, but even my wobbly arithmetic can figure out that this is, at most, only half of the price-cut commitment he made before the past election.

At least someone in the MSM thinks to look at what a political party does in words, versus actions.

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=da511653-f1cf-405a-a0a0-6e8649eef3bf

"Taxpayers need an independent, non-partisan assessment of whether they're getting good value for money from the $500-million OAIS program and similar subsidy programs aimed at other industries, totalling $1 billion more."

While Goldstein makes sense in his column, it's a good show of Trawnna centric thought. The federal Conservatives currently shovel $20 billion PER YEAR of taxpayer money in direct and indirect subsidies to business. Who are really welfare cases posing as businessmen.

How 'conservative' is that? Sounds Librano to me.

http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/2008/05/15/5569776-sun.html

I'd have to agree with the idea that Mr. Khadr's BODY, should be back in Canada.

I can live with that...

Margaret Wente in G&M takes on OHRC and Commissar Hall's latest stupidity - via SteynOnline.com

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"Racism played a role in the harassment and assault of Asian-Canadian anglers," declared chief commissioner Barbara Hall. She is right. But that's not the whole story. For years, illegal poachers have been a problem in some Ontario lakeshore towns. Some poachers are Chinese, sometimes operating in large groups in the middle of the night. Despite repeated complaints, Ministry of Natural Resources staff have failed to deal with the problem... "Some Asian people aren't respecting the law when it comes to fishing," said Raymond Zee, head of the Toronto Chinese Anglers Association, last fall. "In my own opinion, this does not have anything to do with racism."

http://www.steynonline.com/content/blogsection/14/128/

Highest bidder
By Paul Wells

We tease Le Devoir because we love it. You had to read that paper’s Alec Castonguay this morning to begin to understand the true extent of the Harper government’s clapped-together, carefully-obscured, clumsily-exercised plan to rebuild the Roman legions on Canadian soil. I refer, of course, to the 20-year, $30-billion defence plan, which the Globe is calling a $50-billion defence plan and which Le Devoir explains — I believe credibly— is actually a $96-billion defence plan. Details after the jump.

“The ‘Canada First’ strategy of the Department of National Defence calls for new spending of $96 billion over 20 years, which is three times what Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on Monday in Halifax. The five largest military procurement projects alone will incur costs reaching $45 to $50 billion,” Alec writes. [...]

After laying out the math in a way that seems to me impeccable, Castonguay writes: “Why was this amount not made public Monday? The office of the Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, did not return Le Devoir’s call yesterday. The military officers present at the technical briefing were not able to explain this ‘confusion’ on the amounts.

“Tuesday, a defence industry source had told Le Devoir that a sum close to $100 billion had been annexed to the real Canada First document, which will not be made public because it is judged to be too precise and controversial.”

And indeed, the prime minister’s Monday Halifax speech, which our friends at The Torch tell us went online last night at 9 p.m., contains no estimate of costs whatsoever. Neither does the background document. As for whatever Peter MacKay said after Stephen Harper said “Now I will call on Minister MacKay to give some of the details,” last night Canada’s military community was still waiting to see a transcript.

My best guess for the secrecy and the fourth-rate, Keystone Kops execution is that the whole strategy was written by Wajid Khan.

Boy oh boy. It's ughly kemo sabay. Ughly, Tonto.
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"Obama apologizes for calling [female] reporter 'sweetie'
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS"
http://tinyurl.com/6k6rgt

Highest bidder
By Paul Wells

We tease Le Devoir because we love it. You had to read that paper’s Alec Castonguay this morning to begin to understand the true extent of the Harper government’s clapped-together, carefully-obscured, clumsily-exercised plan to rebuild the Roman legions on Canadian soil. I refer, of course, to the 20-year, $30-billion defence plan, which the Globe is calling a $50-billion defence plan and which Le Devoir explains — I believe credibly— is actually a $96-billion defence plan. Details after the jump.

“The ‘Canada First’ strategy of the Department of National Defence calls for new spending of $96 billion over 20 years, which is three times what Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on Monday in Halifax. The five largest military procurement projects alone will incur costs reaching $45 to $50 billion,” Alec writes. [...]

After laying out the math in a way that seems to me impeccable, Castonguay writes: “Why was this amount not made public Monday? The office of the Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, did not return Le Devoir’s call yesterday. The military officers present at the technical briefing were not able to explain this ‘confusion’ on the amounts.

“Tuesday, a defence industry source had told Le Devoir that a sum close to $100 billion had been annexed to the real Canada First document, which will not be made public because it is judged to be too precise and controversial.”

And indeed, the prime minister’s Monday Halifax speech, which our friends at The Torch tell us went online last night at 9 p.m., contains no estimate of costs whatsoever. Neither does the background document. As for whatever Peter MacKay said after Stephen Harper said “Now I will call on Minister MacKay to give some of the details,” last night Canada’s military community was still waiting to see a transcript.

My best guess for the secrecy and the fourth-rate, Keystone Kops execution is that the whole strategy was written by Wajid Khan.

Liberals support Islamist terrorist murder.
Liberal MP/leader Citoyen Dion agrees with Liberal Senator Dallaire.
Liberals say, Canadians are terrorists.
What is leader Boob Rae's opinion? STOPIGGY's opinion? Hezbollah Coderre's opinion?
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"Canada, U.S. acting just as bad as al-Qaida, says ex-general

OTTAWA — Canada and the United States have sunk to the moral equivalent of terrorists in their handling of a young Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay, says Liberal senator and ex-general Romeo Dallaire."

Citoyen Dion: ""I would express that in my own way. I would say that Canada should do like the other countries and ask the government of the United States to bring this Canadian home to be prosecuted in Canada.""
http://tinyurl.com/55cxms (canpress)

Melanie Phillips, The Dispatches Scandal

The public apology and libel damages awarded to Channel Four’s Dispatches programme over Undercover Mosque, its investigation showing Islamic preachers in UK mosques preaching jihad and calling for the murder of non-believers, amount to much more than merely a victory for the programme and a complete vindication of its integrity. For the people who are having to pay the six-figure damages and costs are the West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service...

A consumer watchdog Email . .

Dear Tony,

Gas prices are already high, but what if you got charged twice as much and then had to wait for a refund after every fill up?

When you pay at the pump with your debit card, additional money in your checking account may get frozen for days leaving you at risk for bounced checks and other headaches.

We think this is outrageous. So we’d like to know if you’ve had cash in your checking account frozen--they call it a *hold*--after making a gas purchase at the pump.

Take a minute to fill out our survey on your experience using your debit card at the gas station. The more information we have, the better we can tackle the problem.

Even if you’re pumping only a few dollars of gas, up to $100 may be frozen in your checking account. They claim they need such large holds because they don’t know how much gas you’ll pump when they pre-authorize the charge.

But here’s the rub -- your money is sometimes off limits to you for up to three days without your knowledge, leaving you at-risk of bouncing checks or unable to access your cash.

If there is a need to put a hold on your funds, it should be for 5 or 10 minutes, not 72 hours. The gas companies and banks know almost immediately how much you pumped, so why freeze your money for days? It’s your money, not theirs.

If you have ever experienced this, we have a few questions for you, and your answers can help us campaign effectively for your right to your own money.
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I never use a debit card, but for those who do, this is one more *twist* to be aware of = TG

Perhaps better than tying helium balloons to a lawnchair:

Swiss Man Flies With Own Wings

Dressed in a white flight suit, wearing a white helmet and strapped to his black device, Rossy was dropped from an airplane 2,348 meters above the Earth. He first unfolded the rigid, eight-foot wings strapped to his back, then fired up four tiny jet engines originally intended to power model aircraft...

Posted by: TG at May 15, 2008 1:00 PM

Interesting twist, but certainly not original.

Used to be law that cheques had to clear within 10 business days of presentation to bank for payment. Before that, no statute existed. Now, I believe it is 7 business days.

Financial institutions can clear payments much much faster, and since the mid-80's, technology has improved this even more. Why so long then?

When a bank has a claim on another bank's 'cash', they post it to a temporary clearing account. Consider that payments are large and numerous enough, these values waiting for clearing can be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, which, can be pushed out the door in overnight/multi-day money markets. Interest in these is extremely small, but when the cash invested is that large, one can be staring at $20k per day in revenue.

That only originates, because the banks drag their butts, and stretch the time to clear. Hey, what's the rush bub?

You also see this game with cable companies, who bill - sometimes aggressively - for the upcoming month's service - before it has been delivered. I do know that Shaw in Calgary has a trader that invests in short-term deposits and commercial paper with cash collected, but not yet required to be paid. So, they are making interest - off of nothing more than consumer ignorance.

I don't pay for a pizza this week, that I am going to eat next week. And neither should you. Perhaps consider what you are paying for and when.

Kinsella says no to Carbon Tax
national newswatch

Lucy Alert.

With this barf from Lucy, the gig is up for Citoyen Dion. It's over, it's over for Citoyen.
Lucy has been reading SDA, again.

"[.]: "I'm saying no to a carbon tax now""

"It reinforces the impression that federal Libs are utterly disconnected from the day-to-day lives of real Canadians" (nnw)

Kinsella goes back to 90's with that old Liberal ploy:

"I'm not saying no to a carbon tax. I'm saying no to a carbon tax now. "

Like surprises? Elect a Liberal.

"But of course we now know that it’s when Harper is out of sight that he is most dangerous"

Inkwell Wells says so. It's true, too.
But, read the rest of the story.

The above is a segue/hook for the reader to slurp the rest of the no-sense from Wells.
In fact, Herr von 'Arper spends his secret time in his Berghof just below the Wolfsschanze to the right of Jasper planning his push to the east for lebensraum. (jacks)
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More Garf Alert. Garf is binocular.
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"This is a picture of the reporter, Melanie Cummings, the person who Garth Turner characterized as a young man."

"Turner invited her to the meeting, had noticed that the reporter was "young", but didn't notice that the reporter was a woman, stating instead that this "young reporter" was "close enough in his coverage" so that Garth Turner decided against "correcting him"."
"Accurately quoting Garth Turner"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/262562.php

Reader tip. Shhhhhht. Quiet, Kate is sleeping. She's obviously been "shaken" in China. As Jerry Lee Lewis once said, "There's a whole lot of shakin goin on!!" Welcome back to God's country!!

"Dion say's Canadians willing to accept Carbon Tax"
ctv.ca/national Newswatch

There he goes again speaking on behalf of Canadians, Here's a novel Idea Mr Dion.
Vote the Government down, Lets have an Election and see if OverTaxed Canadians are as willing to accept a Carbon Tax as you think.

Seriously, I heard this on Bloor West this afternoon.

I walked past a panhandler sitting on the sidewalk with his dog. The panhandler was eating a pizza slice with the dog looking on. He slapped the dog on the muzzle and said sternly: "no begging".

Afghanistan: Islam.

"Burqa bomber kills 12"
"Poppy team suicide blast kills 19"
http://tinyurl.com/5b43yg (news24)
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Canada: Islam's socialist allies.

[Liberal]"Dallaire blasts Ottawa, U.S. over handling of Khadr case

Liberal senator says allowing Guantanamo trial puts governments on the same level as terrorists"

Liberal Citoyen Dion agrees: ""I would express that in my own way."
http://tinyurl.com/5zmxk7 (RedStar)

is this a blog or a f*&^*&^ video forum. We have utube...deep six the G..da.n videos!

WELCOME BACK KATE!!!!!

hardboiled at 1:15 PM

Thanks for that. It rings so true.

I can see now that the longer our *In Limbo* money sits in their daily money trader wash, the more interest they make.

That likely explains why the TD caused delayed delivery of a share deal years ago. Never stepped in that bank since.

Shaw does indeed bill forward aggressively, but I pay them for services rendered, not services promised. = TG

Bourque headline:
"82% Insist Dion Crazy as a Bed Bug"
Agreed? Mais, oui.
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"Dion says Canadians willing to accept carbon tax
Toronto Star"
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"THE DION TAX
Would Dion's Carbon Tax Save The Planet ?

Yes, we Canadians can save the world (300) 13%

No, he's crazy as a bed bug (1916) 82%

I don't know, tough call (117) 5%

Total Votes: 2333" (bourque)

TG they charge for services not rendered. that's a stick in my craw and don't even talk about carbon tax

Sorry about the filesize (about 3.25MB) of this excerpt from Skeptic magazine:

http://www.canadacomments.com/captures/journalist_bites_reality_excerpt.pdf

I'm not a regular reader of the magazine, but this issue caught my eye because of the computer-generated photo of polar bears standing on mini icebergs on the cover.

The issue also contains articles on AGW.