Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation here are Stanley Jordan on guitars, Charnett Moffett on bass, and Tommy Campbell on drums, performing Stanley's Return Expedition composition, which I must say features some skillful work by all three musicians involved (you won't, if you like this sort of stuff, want to miss Charnett's bass solo in part 1, or Tommy's drum solo in part 2):

Part 1 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HOcORgcizE
Part 2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3xz6ZxI0A

I like the 'can Al Gore' idea !

[AccuWeather.com's senior meteorologist and long range expert Joe Bastardi sent the global warming center a copy of his open letter to the 2008 presidential candidates.

[...]

[This is exactly how this should be handled. Mr Obama, can the Al Gore as an advisor on the environment. Mr. McCain, quit succumbing to pressure because you want to look nice or moderate. Both of you, get the people that can give this debate its true merit in front of you.]

[ Within the first 100 days of office, get the top five SCIENTISTS on both sides of the issue in front of you in the oval office and let them argue it out. No cameras, no press, just you, your closest advisors, and the people that are qualified to do this. Have trusted members of both sides of the aisles, but get the politics out of it.]

http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2008/05/an_open_letter_to_the_presiden_1.html

Several good posts and comment threads on oil prices, speculation and food prices from an unusually clued-in economist here:

http://www.econbrowser.com/

Sometimes, one or two gaffs can end a politician's run for the big spot. So how come nine (9) has not already done it ? - in the media's eye, that is.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWZjY2YzZWVkMjdkMDEzMGQ0MjJkNTUyN2FkNmMzYTc=

Vitruvius thank you, as always your taste in music is impeccable - sometimes you find real gems.

Perhaps one day Kate might keep an archived list of your SDA Late Nite Radio play lists so that we can easily peruse it at our leisure. It would be a wonderful reference to have.

Vitruvius I should add that not everyone in the SDA audience might have quite as broad a taste in music as you, but I bet everyone would appreciate at least some of your selections. One more reason for the list.

Stick a fork in the traditional family folks. It's done. Cooked. Finished. No longer. Officially on the endangered species list at this point.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020344/MPs-reject-IVF-right-father-Government-defeats-fresh-challenge-fertility-laws.html

My apologies, TJ, as the SDA LNR archive is a couple months out of date (things have been a bit busy in the lab, so not so much time for the studio), yet, for what it's worth, here is the SDA LNR archive as it so far stands (I'll try to update it soon):

sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/02/sda-lnr-archives.html

The Australians have been going through the same Human Rights / Free Speech thing we've been going through in Canada. Radical Muslims suing pastors over speeches, star chambers, the whole 9 yards. But the big difference there is that the local "conservative" party came out to demand a change in the law.

Here's a quote from a conservative Australian state premier:

“As they are used in practice religious vilification laws can undermine the very freedom they seek to protect freedom of thought, conscience and belief.”

It's a depressing comparison with the Harper government and it's cowardice on this issue.

You can read about it by visiting liberalsforfreespeech.org

Not wishing to upstage Vitruvius, but the news that Donna Summer(I KNOW I KNOW!!) was releasing some new material, well I just had to do a bit of googling.
Found a few funnnn Disco video's.
What a blast!!!!!

May I present:
Boney M Rasputine at :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg
Last "oh those russians is,sadly cutoff.... DAMN!

Headline is wrong.
The real headline is: Alberta, remember TO?
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"Alberta, remember Ontario?"

*"Alberta has clearly taken over as the "it" province of Canada."
http://tinyurl.com/6y8yx8 (tosun)

"westward, look…the land is bright."
(A.C. Clough)

Boob Rae, Mao Stlong's nephew, says it's Leader Citoyen Dion who wants to 'cut and run'.
Boob also says, lay off his uncle Mao Stlong China.
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"Rae follows own path on Afghanistan mission
No option to 'cut and run,' he says. Tories see him as Liberals' voice of reason"
"Though Rae had harsh words for how the Conservative government has handled relations with China,"
http://tinyurl.com/4a2p78 (montgazette)

"It would be even more hilarious if he was an ex-Tory minister but, unfortunately, Hellyer's a Trudeau era Defense Minister, and this is his second appearance at X-Fest." (bcl)

bcl has it wrong: Unfortunately, Hellyer was an ex-Progressive Conservative/Liberal/Canadian Action Party/National Party of Canada loser. Hellyer was also a Pearson loser.
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" Trudeau's Defense Minister: UFOs Have Shot Down American Fighter Planes
Paul Hellyer kicks off the fourth annual Exo-Politics Institutes X-Fest with a blistering speech re exposing the UFO conspiracy." (bcl)

Polar Bears and AGW. The game is afoot:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_re_us/polar_bears_7;_ylt=As7WmFrgLudFaZBA12xjiDX0kPUI

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080521.waccomodation21/BNStory/National/home

It appears that political correctness/fairness may be what kills quebec nationalism in the end...

Fitting right in with Kate's land of foxes scampering about...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3972376.ece

Looks like Britian has declared "fathers" not necessary. I feel more and more obsolete.

on HRCs:
Mark J. Freiman, National Post
Published: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=528492

"Section13(1) is capable of being applied in a way that vindicates equality without compromising freedom of expression. But it does require restrained and cautious application."

Does this mean fire them all - then hire better ones?

Joseph Lieberman, Democrats and Our Enemies

How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity and its purpose?

Beginning in the 1940s, the Democratic Party was forced to confront two of the most dangerous enemies our nation has ever faced: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In response, Democrats under Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy forged and conducted a foreign policy that was principled, internationalist, strong and successful.

(Via CSP) Amir Taheri, Obama to A'jad: Atomic Assist

BUOYED by their modest electoral success last month, critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocative foreign policy were preparing to launch a series of attacks on him in the Islamic Majlis, Iran's ersatz parliament. But then Ahmadinejad got an unexpected boost from Barack Obama...

Looks like the the Nasties in the MSM and no doubt the Opposition are now going to take aim at Vic Toews following a rumour he's being considered for a Judicial appointment in Manitoba. Asking the question concerning such an appointment is one thing but adding the details of his personal life is quite another.
Where does the line get drawn? It seems the rotten lot of them love gossip and we're being subjected to National Inquirer journalism.

National Post (Wed) has an interesting article by Mark Frieman - The Case for Censoring Hate.

A former counsel to the AJC, he is defending Section 13(1) and it is a very smooth spin. He appeals to the "higher purposes" of the section but even he acknowledges that perhaps some changes are warranted.

That this article even appears, suggests that the lobby against 13(1) is gaining significant momentum. Yes, the spin is on, and we must be aware of the arguments that the "for" side are putting forth.

CTV not running the RCMP investigation file on the late news last night is a further indication of what must be very heavy lobbying behind the scenes to kill the HRC issue.

Told ya it was/is all about the OIL.
The socialist Shining Path/New Light of Burma confesses.
One must learn to think like a socialist moonbat.
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"The New Light of Myanmar, a mouthpiece for Myanmar's ruling junta, said that such assistance "comes with strings attached," citing fears that Washington wants to overthrow the country's government and seize its oil."

"Myanmar state media: Aid from U.S. warships rejected"
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5793872.html

An anti-nuclear, Toronto-based, urban-loving, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry might be the last person expected to detail cracks in the science of global warming.

http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/371688

Yaacov ben Moshe, The Worm Turns

I have watched as a group of bloggers- friends and allies of democracy- have been besieged by unprincipled, self aggrandizing, professional litigants who, using the Human Rights Commission, which was meant to be an instrument of help and shelter for the vulnerable has been turned around and made into a weapon to harass honest people into silence and to prosecute those who disagree with Progressive group-think. It is as if they woke up one morning to find the invisible worm nestled into their ears, toward their brains, telling them what not to think- what not to say, forcing them to fight an ominous but valiant struggle against the erosion of free speech in Canada.

"Editorial: Uncovering Democrats' racist past

Did you knowMartin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican? Every civil rights law, beginning in the 1860s through the 1950s and 1960s, was fought against by Democrats? Or the KKK had links to the Democratic Party? Not only are these questions addressed by the National Black Republicans Association (NBRA), but also more surprising facts.

A few months ago, we had the privilege to meet the chairwoman of NBRA, a brave and gusty woman named Frances Rice. "The double standard looms large when Democrats practice racism," says Rice. "Those who search in the Republican Party haystack for the racist needles, ignore the mountain of evidence about racism in the Democrat Party."

Rice does not initially appear to be the type of person who would strike out and dare to challenge a giant, but that's just what this modern day "David" has done. Rice said her organization is working to set the record straight and "wake up" black voters and "shed the light of truth on the racist past and failed socialism of the Democratic Party.""
http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/opinion/ci_9321264

"By the time of the Wegman report more people were starting to ask questions, but the momentum created by the unholy alliance of the IPCC, governments, media, and environmental groups was in full swing. But there is one more component beyond the control of process that the IPCC used to perpetuate the myth of human CO2 causing warming or climate change - the computer models."

"Myth of human CO2 causing warming or climate change
The Unholy Alliance that manufactured Global Warming"
By Dr. Tim Ball
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3151

"A person of sense in 1990 could easily have predicted that s. 13 would soon be used, as it has indeed come to be used, to bully people away from saying what sitting commissioners happen not to want to hear."
"These Justices neglected the sage advice never to make a law that requires intelligence or goodwill on the part of those who administer it."
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"Bad times for free speech
But axing Section 13 of Rights Act would begin to warm up chilly climate
By MARK MERCER"
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1057238.html

ANOTHER CBC SCREWUP!! On the "National," Tuesday May 20-08, they aired a special on "refuse." The place? Toronto dump. The problem? Huge amounts of TV sets that are showing up at landfill sites!! (Keep in mind there are dumps outside of Ontario!!)
Who created a good part of the problem if not CBC-Radio-Canada?? Who were the first to introduce wide screen format forcing us to scrap our good old sqaure pic?? I rest my case.

Good news!

Harper announces changes to Canadian food label laws

Updated Wed. May. 21 2008 3:02 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

The "made in Canada" label is about to become a lot more Canadian, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Wednesday.

Ottawa is introducing new laws so that food products processed in Canada, but made with foreign ingredients, will have to say so on the label, Harper told reporters in Vineland, Ont.

"The truth is, foods marked 'product of Canada' or 'made in Canada' actually may not be very Canadian at all," he said. "Our new guidelines are designed to redefine Canadian food content labels to better reflect the true origins of products in today's global marketplace"

Under current laws, Harper said, it's legal to call a product "made in Canada" if 51 per cent of production costs were incurred here and the final transformation of the product was in Canada.

...Under the new rules, a "product of Canada" label will mean that virtually all of the contents are Canadian in origin.

...He said the announcement would be a boon for Canadian farmers because the country's consumers want homegrown products.

...The accused, a landed immigrant originally from Iran, was found not criminally responsible of assault with a weapon due to mental defect in the March, 2003, stabbing, of a 65-year-old man.

He had also been accused of uttering a death threat and carrying a weapon, a knife and a steel pipe, in 1999, but the charges were dropped.

Last night, the same accused allegedly stabbed a 26-year-old woman three times at Broadview and Danforth avenues.....

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/05/21/riverdale-stabbing-suspect-hospitalized-after-identical-2003-attack.aspx

"Don't Take Our Word For It (MSM blacking-out success in Iraq)

Al Qaeda's most fervent supporters acknowledge that Iraq has turned into a disaster for them. Nibras Kazimi, a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute, reports on a posting at one of al Qaeda's web sites:

A prolific jihadist sympathizer has posted an ‘explosive’ study on one of the main jihadist websites in which he laments the dire situation that the mujaheddin find themselves in Iraq by citing the steep drop in the number of insurgent operations conducted by the various jihadist groups, most notably Al-Qaeda’s 94 percent decline in operational ability over the last 12 months when only a year and half ago Al-Qaeda accounted for 60 percent of all jihadist activity! The author, writing under the pseudonym ‘Dir’a limen wehhed’ [‘A Shield for the Monotheist’], posted his ‘Brief Study on the Consequences of the Division [Among] the [Jihadist] Groups on the Cause of Jihad in Iraq’ on May 12 and it is being displayed by the administration of the Al-Ekhlaas website—one of Al-Qaeda’s chief media outlets—among its more prominent recent posts. He's considered one of Al-Ekhlaas's "esteemed" writers.

The author tallies up and compares the numbers of operations claimed by each insurgent group under four categories: a year and half ago (November 2006), a year ago (May 2007), six months ago (November 2007) and now (May 2008). He demonstrated that while Al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq could claim 334 operations in Nov. 06 and 292 in May 07, their violent output dropped to 25 in Nov. 07 and 16 so far in May 08. Keep in mind that these assessments are based on Al-Qaeda's own numbers.

The author also shows that similar steep drops were exhibited by other jihadist groups.

Someone get the news to the Associated Press, quick!"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019137/posts

Charlie Mac

to answer your question about the Democrats: "Hollywood Style Politics"

Progressives and Democrats have been fooled by Hollywood, MSM and the chattering class into thinking that these aforementioned groups represent the mainstream views and values of America/Canada.

Republicans are not considered "cool" so they do not attempt to appeal to the mainstream pop culture. They have focused on issues like foreign policy, taxes ect... while the progressives/Democrats have focused on vogue issues like gender, race and GW.

This has been a gross miscalculation by the Dem's, they have spent too much time on this fluff and have produced fluffy candidates as a result. Situations like Spitzer in NY and the race card in the primaries have also burst the moral high road bubble that the Dem's have been touting. A large chunk of their supporters (soccer moms) have found out that their own party considers them racists. this hasn't helped either.

Thanks, Play. The questions are actually Sen. Joe Lieberman's. The WSJ piece is derived from this longer speech:

Land That I Love

Read the Comments
I just had a look at the article comparisons between ctv.ca & cbc.ca Re: the PM's annoucement on Made in Canada
Ctv has more info expert comments etc.. & a fairly well cropped pic of the PM
the comments section at the bottom of the article are pretty well congrats to the PM(even if you hate him) for this annoucement, their is the odd slam the PM but thats typical.
Look at CBC.ca very bad pic, cropped poorly & the comments section are overwhelmingly Hate the PM at all cost.

Spengler, The monster and the sausages

Germany's President Horst Koehler has denounced the world financial market as a "monster" using "highly complex financial instruments" to make "massive leveraged investments with minimal capital". Koehler, formerly head of the International Monetary Fund, seems perplexed about the causes of the present crisis, but I can explain them in a way any German can understand. Derivatives are like sausages. You take the low-quality parts of the pig that you don't want to look at while you are eating them, and grind them up into a package that seems more appetizing...

Is Mao Stlong rosing his glip on China?
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"the State Council, the cabinet, threatened officials with punishment if they misused relief funds or supplies."

"A need for a tighter grip and a stronger government response is especially urgent in the smaller, rural communities of quake-shattered Sichuan. Distrust of local officials seen as corrupt and indifferent is already high in such areas across China, causing protests to soar in the past decade."

""This is the traditional way of doing things for the Communist party's propaganda department. They always try to use the information to legitimize the government, and don't try to reflect, summarize experiences or prevent disasters from happening again," said Li Datong, the ousted editor of a once-thoughtful weekly supplement to the China Youth Daily newspaper."

"Chinese leaders grapple with political aftershocks from quake
By William Foreman And Anita Chang, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS"
http://tinyurl.com/4gncv2

"In the next few years, Australia and Canada could become significant CER buyers."

>>>>>Warning to PM Harper: You have been warned, PM Harper.

The United Nations is running the hugest scam in history. It's socialism's humongous Kyoto Fraud-Pyramid Scheme; it's Mao Stlong's scam/fraud/plan to destroy capitalism and Western civilization.
Strong is an avowed Red-Green: socialist goals using capitalist methods, aka One World Government: UN uber alles. The UN's bureaucracy is Strong's SS/Central Planning elite.
The Guardian, a left-wing UK MSM, is reporting this.
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Discredited strategy

Increasing allegations of corruption and profiteering are raising serious questions about the UN-run carbon trading mechanism aimed at cutting pollution and rewarding clean technologies

"The world's biggest carbon offset market, the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM), is run by the UN, administered by the World Bank, and is intended to reduce emissions by rewarding developing countries that invest in clean technologies. In fact, evidence is accumulating that it is increasing greenhouse gas emissions behind the guise of promoting sustainable development. The misguided mechanism is handing out billions of dollars to chemical, coal and oil corporations and the developers of destructive dams - in many cases for projects they would have built anyway.

According to David Victor, a leading carbon trading analyst at Stanford University in the US, as many as two-thirds of the supposed "emission reduction" credits being produced by the CDM from projects in developing countries are not backed by real reductions in pollution. Those pollution cuts that have been generated by the CDM, he argues, have often been achieved at a stunningly high cost: billions of pounds could have been saved by cutting the emissions through international funds, rather than through the CDM's supposedly efficient market mechanism."
http://tinyurl.com/5rpjhr (guardian)

Thanks for the link Charles.

Ditto Play n'

A great read there Charles.

The great population inversion has arrived.

Those in the child rearing years need to get busy in the bedroom so we can all retire in the lifestyle we are accustomed to.

Cheers

all little lies in a row. liberals are lieberals no matter where they be.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/21/trail-of-tall-tales-hillary-clinton/

Liberal MP Hezbollah Coderre has won Lebanon.
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"'The Day Lebanon Died
Investor's Business Daily

Hezbollah members could be seen removing mattresses from their encampments around Beirut after talks in Doha, Qatar, resulted in an agreement that for now promises to end the worst violence to grip Lebanon since its 1975-1990 civil war. This latest round left 67 dead. Hezbollah won.

Under the deal, the Hezbollah-led opposition will have its long-sought veto power in a new Cabinet of national unity. Obtaining this veto power was Hezbollah's key demand that triggered a year-and-a-half-long crisis as Lebanon struggled to select a new head of state to replace the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, who finally left office on Nov. 23.

The standoff began in November 2006, when Hezbollah-led opposition lawmakers — in protest of the Cabinet's refusal to grant them enough seats to ensure their veto power — resigned from the government to prevent the majority needed to select a new president.

It is a victory for the Iranian-created, -financed and -armed terrorist organization that before 9/11 was responsible for killing more Americans — including 241 troops in their Beirut barracks in 1983 — than any other group. It is the stalking horse of Iran's quite-mad president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019461/posts

Bleeding hearts of Canadian Press label US soldier as "war dodger".
He is a deserter. Send him home.
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"American war dodger pleads with Ottawa to rescind deportation order

TORONTO — An American national guardsman who refused to redeploy to Iraq pleaded with the Canadian government on Wednesday to let him stay here now that immigration officials have ordered him to leave within three weeks.

Sgt. Corey Glass, 25, is said to be the first Iraqi war dodger from the U.S. to face imminent deportation from Canada."
http://tinyurl.com/4bh3vm

"Our victory today was a victory for freedom — the freedom to think and to speak one’s mind; the freedom to question what one is told; and the freedom to disbelieve the solemn pronouncements of others when the individual concludes that his reasoning is correct and that the state and the state-run media — and all of the institutions they represent — are wrong."
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"French Court Vindicates Al-Dura Hoax Critic

In a stunning reversal, a French appeals court today dismissed France 2's defamation charges against Philippe Karsenty in the controversial Mohammed al-Dura case.

May 21, 2008 - by Philippe Karsenty

Today a French court ruled that I did not defame France 2 when I said that its news report was a staged hoax. Because I refused to be brainwashed, I was sued for defamation.

Our victory today was a victory for freedom — the freedom to think and to speak one’s mind; the freedom to question what one is told; and the freedom to disbelieve the solemn pronouncements of others when the individual concludes that his reasoning is correct and that the state and the state-run media — and all of the institutions they represent — are wrong.

The al-Dura lie is an assault on our ability to think, to criticize, to evaluate, and finally to reject information — especially the right to reject information on which we base our most cherished assumptions. One of Europe’s most cherished assumptions is that Israel is a vicious Nazi-like entity that deliberately murders Palestinian Arab children. Moreover, polls conducted in Europe have identified Israel as the greatest threat to world peace, greater than Iran and North Korea, Pakistan and Syria. The al-Dura hoax is one of the pillars on which these assumptions rely."
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/french-court-vindicates-al-dura-hoax-critic/

Today on an Edmonton radio channel .I heard my first hate law call by of all groups "Crime Stoppers" Which it appears is now pimping for the CHRC. They even made it plain you would not have to pay & be anonymous if you report a hate crime or someone who "Could " create a hate crime in the future. Monetary rewards. They don't know it yet but there just killed an excellent program or tool of law enforcement. Its the NKVD line now.

What’s next the order of Canada, for the kid who turns in their parents on a hate crime?
This is the Soviet Union & all I despised of its inhumanly sly way of turning its own citizens against each other for gain. The dogma & false charges based on sedition or non soviet behavior.

Despicable!! The Conservatives do nothing. These ads are rank with evil.

For those who want to see the ever expanding" crime Stoppers agenda look here.

http://www.crimestoppers.ab.ca/aboutus.cfm

I haven't been following Crimestoppers or what they are about - just accepting that it is a ways & means of helping out the police in dealing with crimes.

I have to wonder just how long Hate Crimes has been listed (it is now) as one of their areas of operation. What in fact has been gleaned/reported (or even how many times they have made referrals and to whom) by them since it has appeared on their list of areas of operations.

If, in fact, they are, or are seen to be, working on behalf of the AB CHRC, (read giving referrals to the HRC about possible hate crimes) then this is a very negative/dangerous thing. Given the goings on in ON, this bears a shining light.

The problem is - how does one get verification if this is happening or has happened in the past.