In light of recent events, I wonder if Mark Steyn might be humming this one to himself:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u96COiazRS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B04--XmZiE&feature=related

A huge talent that hails from Texas a little 'speak easy' music from 1899 in a send up of American love for Canada we have the Maple Leaf Rag.

Enjoy.

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht
Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

"Objection! ... Sustained!"

"Objection! ... Sustained!"

Video from the Vancouver Witch Trial (the quoted portion begins at about 4:45).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVjn4B_agag

According, EBD, to Steyn's Song of the Week ~ tinyurl.com/49yjq9 ~ at least as of last Monday he was probably humming Cuddle Up A Little Closer by Karl Hoschna and Otto Harbach, and Shine On, Harvest Moon by Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

Perhaps next Monday's SSOTW will give us a clue to what he's humming now. In case I forget, if you remember, please check out steynonline.com + Arts & Culture + Steyn's Song of the Week next Monday and let us know here in the reader tips what happens.

By the way, according to the SDA LNR archives, last February 6 we featured Leon Redbone's version of Shine on Harvest Moon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yki0xD7VSlo

But the Media have been claiming it is an American subprime problem ??

Seems that many Americans will be able to buy more affordable houses - thanks partly to banks in Europe :)

[European banks harder hit by credit crunch
By Gillian Tett in London

Published: June 5 2008

European banks have now suffered considerably more losses because of the credit crunch than their US rivals, even though the turmoil was first triggered by problems in the US subprime mortgage market.

Of the $387bn in credit losses that global banks have reported since the start of 2007, $200bn was suffered by European groups and $166bn by US banks, according to data from the Institute of International Finance, a Washington-based banking group.] FT

New corporate policy at Sobeys Ontario grocery stores is to ask all purchasers of tobacco products for I.D. They then enter your birthdate into the computer at the cash register.
They just lost me as a customer.

Ah; virtruvius I've come up with a little Canadiana.
Dang if the BCHRT can pin this on me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPDi9DzihrE

http://tinyurl.com/3thagp

Some of the comment over at the G&M

Honesty is the best Policy from Canada writes:
Mark Steyn is bigot used by the Asper family (owners of Macleans)
to spread fear and hate against Muslims

The Aspers make no secret of their support for Israel

and

Monzer Saleh from windsor, Ontario, Canada
writes: this is hilarious. Maclean's lawyers go off on a tangent irrelevent to the case and when they are put in their place people are now defending them. As for the judges not being judges well that's the way our system works folks you can't have it both ways. (LOL) I hope macleans does lose for what it's worth they must employ the crappiest writers i've ever come across in my dentists office.

and

Jim Roth from Victoria, Canada writes: There is a climate of prejudice and, in some cases, hatred directed against Muslims.

Some of the posts right here would have been edited out if they had been directed against other ethnic groups. This illustrates how pervasive the prejudice has become.

I don't expect any improvement from the hate-mongers themselves - but better people (the vast majority of Canadians) need to stand up to them and stand up for all our fellow men, regardless of race or religion

It's only early yet!

Hank Snow gives us something to think about on this 6th OF JUNE Anniversary.
~http://tinyurl.com/6g6dha~

A little show trial music

Frank Zappa Flakes

Didn't mean it literally, Vitruvius.

Waitress does the current yuppie look-at-me thing which is to shave head to raise money for cancer, and gets fired:

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080605/cancer_fired_080605/20080605/?hub=TorontoNewHome

Ontario Labour Relations Board suggests she could file a *** Human Rights Complaint ***.

Socialist Citoyen Dion's abortion policy pledge:

""I want to give my word to all the women of Canada that the Liberal Party of Canada is against to reopen woman's right to decide as a debate," the Liberal leader pledged."
(canpress)

Here is another link for the "Not waiting for the Asteroid" series:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/80074-newspaper-industry-summer-2008-the-smell-of-burning-furniture

I haven't seen this kind of news, have you? Apparently, we're winning in Afghanistan.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/frontline/2062440/Afghanistan's-Taliban-insurgents-'on-brink-of-defeat'.html

I haven't seen this kind of news, have you? Apparently, we're winning in Afghanistan.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/frontline/2062440/Afghanistan's-Taliban-insurgents-'on-brink-of-defeat'.html

Sorry for so many posts, but here's another "Asteroid" candidate...this time about Michael Crichton's 1993 prediction about "Mediasaurus" (Mediasauri?).

http://www.slate.com/id/2192382/

Breaking just now..GM slams door on Buzz.Wait for the even more ramped up blame PMSh/Flaherty.

Turkey Steers into a Dangerous Identity Crisis

Turkey's highest court in Ankara ruled on Thursday that a law passed by Erdogan's government easing the ban on headscarves at universities was unconstitutional. The ruling is a precursor to a dramatic confrontation likely to emerge in the coming months between Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AKP party and the country's secularist forces, led by the powerful military.

Men! Single and looking? Australia may be the place:

Robert Skeffington, Man Drought

Australia's new government recently sparked a lively public debate when it signaled its intention to substantially increase immigration. The chatter has focused on what kind of immigrant Australia needs, and where they should come from.

That all misses a vital point, though. What Australia needs now more than anything is a few (more) good men...

A shocking abuse of freedom of speech

SIGN IN A STORE WINDOW

'WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 ALQAEDA TERRORISTS THAN WITH ONE SINGLE Canadian SOLDIER!'

This sign was prominently displayed in the window of a business in Ontario

And you are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement.

However, we are a society which holds
Freedom of Speech as perhaps our greatest liberty. And, after all, it is only a sign.

You may ask 'what kind of business would dare post such a sign ?.'

Answer: A Funeral Home (Who said morticians had no sense of humour?)
You gotta love it!!! God Bless Canada

This morning on CBC's the Current, they had a lengthy section specifically on the HRC case in BC and HRC's in general. I believe a tipping point is reached when the socialist CBC does a program that is not very supportive of HRC's. A few thoughts.
1) Andrew Coyne spoke from his point of view blogging direct from the HRC case in BC. He was clear and informative but he sounds frustrated. I really hope that Andrew isn't letting this stuff get to him. He is a respected voice of reason and if he wants his voice to resonate he cannot come across as irritated by the whole event. (Although that's exactly what it does to any individual who believes in freedom of speech. Who thought that Canada would actually legitimize this kind of stuff.)
2) Barbara Hall the Chief Commissioner of the Ontario HRC was also on defending the organization. Hall almost seemed to distancing herself from the process. Making it clear that the case was turned down in Ontario because it was outside of the mandate for OHRC. She seems to be trying very hard to overcome her obviously poorly chosen words when the OHRC dismissed a complaint by the Canadian Islamic Congress against Maclean's Magazine.
3)Alan Borovoy from the Canadian Civil Liberty Union was also very clear concerning the CCLU's opppostion to the attempt to limit free speech.
4) This segment was not originally part of the publised lineup for the show. I wonder if the CBC finally recognized that it's relative silence on the entire issue was completely irresponsible.

MSM has forced a business, Nathaniel's restaurant, to close.
This is Ontario in the year 2008.
The power/influence of the mainstream media {MSM) is overwhelming.
Who will rally around the business owner?
The public is the loser here.
The fundraiser is named, "Cops for Cancer". Why are "Cops" for cancer?
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"Public rallies around waitress
Owen Sound Sun Times - 2 hours ago
Nathaniel's restaurant was closed Thursday evening, the day the upscale Owen Sound eatery made headlines and newscasts across the country after waitress Stacey Fearnall was laid off for shaving her head in a Cops for Cancer fundraiser."

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

This brought tears to my eyes - laughing.

Good catch there Jim O.

But CBC recognizing irresponsibility ...??
May they think they can spin it to smear conservatives?

http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/06/05/btc-stephane-dion-vows-imminent-election/#more-1727

Darn weather!!! If I remember right, the last excuse was a snow storm. Now it's going to be too sunny. What kind of weather does a Liberal require for an election?

Simon Henderson, Energy in Danger: Iran, Oil, and the West

Every day, nearly 40 percent of the world's internationally traded oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz -- a narrow channel over which Iran holds distinct military advantages. Given that the global economy is predicted to become even more dependent on Middle Eastern energy supplies in the coming decades, Iran's potentially critical influence on the flow of these supplies must be addressed. How might Tehran exert this influence in the event of a confrontation? And what can the international community do to avoid such scenarios?

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/download.php?file=PolicyFocus83.pdf

http://tinyurl.com/5x356h

The Hells Angels biker associate who was married to Julie Couillard for nearly two years has emerged from a decade in hiding in the witness protection program to give a rare insider's portrait of the woman to whom he was married.

Posted by: maz2 at June 6, 2008 11:12 AM

What kind of moron gives a few months off to a worker for getting a haircut? The moron who owns Nathaniel's. If he aren't bright enough to figure it out, the market will.

Charles MacDonald at 11:46 AM

** Simon Henderson, Energy in Danger: Iran, Oil, and the West **

The price of oil swings on emotion and fear.

All that is required to push up the cost of oil is a little Iranian gun-boat rush in the straight of Hormuz.

Silly in a way, because the real bottleneck is refining capacity not oil supply. = TG

"OTTAWA - A skirmish has been raging for days over the online Wikipedia biography of Industry Minister Jim Prentice, with anonymous government workers airbrushing out controversial details or buffing Prentice's image, while others just as quickly revised the revisions."

Jimbo's a lightweight - and needs all of the buffing and polishing he can get. Too bad it is the swivel servants doing laundry - on your dime.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2008/06/05/5785791-cp.html

TWO EVENTS ARE HURTING US (Conservatives) BADLY!!
CHUCK CADMAN (Liberal-CBC creation-unresolved) and the raid on our party headquarters. (Liberal-CBC inspired-unresloved.) Get out there and let them Liberals have it!!

ON A PER SOLDIER KILL RATIO---the Canadians were the tops!! Sadly, many WW11 documentaries, books films etc. have us Canucks listed as "British" troops.
We still kick ass, just look at some fo the raids we've performed in Afghanistan. Sadly, the Canadian TV networks don't telecast war footage. You need to go to a site such as Military.Com. Too many Liberals at the head of the Canadian networks!

The Islamization of Holland, Stage II:

(From Gateway Pundit)

10 Muslim youths dragged Dutch gay model Mike
Du Pree from a catwalk in the Netherlands during a show. They beat him and
broke his nose.

A second model who tried to help was also attacked.

Martin Bosma, gay issues spokesman of the Dutch Party of Freedom (PVV), said as
much:

This shows how strong the Islamic gaybashers feel they are. Even at
daylight, on Queen’s Day, in the heart of Amsterdam, they strike . . . .

Geert Wilders talks about Fitna: (excerpts)

Let me give you one other telling example of cultural relativism in the Netherlands: there is no Dutch flag present in the Dutch parliament, but we do have the Koran. It is right there on the desk of our Madam Speaker! It is a topsy-turvy world. Let us get rid of the Koran and bring in our national flag!

(Unbelievable)

Peter Hammond explains which rights and freedoms get lost as Islam gains in influence in a society.

Hammond describes and predicts the following process.

When the Muslim population is about five percent, as is the case in some Western European countries, Muslims will exercise a disproportionate influence on society. With the percentage of Muslims rising slightly, they will demand that they do not have to comply as such with all the legislation of the country involved, and will demand that in certain areas sharia must be implemented. When the number of Muslims reaches ten percent of the population, massive lawlessness will develop amongst them, with discrimination by the original population as an excuse, witness the riots in the Paris banlieues. Non-Muslims who utter criticisms of Islam will be threatened at this stage. From forty percent upwards – such as is the case in Bosnia and Lebanon – there will be terror. From eighty percent upwards, the state itself will take care of the cleansing, according to Hammond.

…

Some may ask, is the Netherlands still a free country? It is not free when the Minister of Foreign Affairs calls on a film-maker not to show a film. It is not free when a democratically chosen people’s representative runs the risk of being politically persecuted. It is not free when the Minister of Justice announces more stringent measures against blasphemy. It is not free when an opinion poll reveals that many citizens do not dare to speak out in public about Islam, immigration and similar issues. It is not free when a cartoonist is arrested by ten policemen for producing drawings. It is not free when an art photographer has to go into hiding in London for producing art photographs. It is not free when Muslims complain about construction workers because they wear short trousers in the blistering sun. It is not free when paintings depicting partially nude women are removed from a Dutch town hall because of Muslim complaints. The Dutch government did not only capitulate to Islam, but its behaviour could even be seen as betrayal of our culture.

I am afraid that the Netherlands is becoming less and less a country of freedom and increasingly a country of fear under the guise of tolerance. And I am convinced that this problem arises not only in the Netherlands, but in the whole of Europe, and indeed in the whole of the Western world.

The political elites governing Western countries are themselves governed by fear. Fear of facing the truth. Fear of letting go the still prevalent ideology of cultural relativism. Fear of fighting for freedom of speech, particularly when the message expresses an inconvenient truth or is delivered by somebody with a critical or satirical view of Islam. Our freedom is being bargained away.

SORRY!! THAT LAST COMMENT WAS MEANT FOR D-DAY VIDEO!!

The great carbon bazaar

Evidence of serious flaws in the multi-billion dollar global market for carbon credits has been uncovered by a BBC World Service investigation.

The credits are generated by a United Nations-run scheme called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

The mechanism gives firms in developing countries financial incentives to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

But in some cases, carbon credits are paid to projects that would have been realised without external funding.

The BBC World Service investigation found examples of projects in India where this appeared to be the case.

Arguably, this defeats the whole point of the CDM scheme, set up under the Kyoto climate change protocol, as these projects are getting money for nothing.

The findings reinforce doubts that the CDM is leading to real emission cuts, which is not good news for the effort to combat climate change.

And in one case a company is earning truly staggering sums of money from the carbon credits it is receiving - perhaps as much as $500m (£250m) over a period of 10 years - for a project it says it would have carried out without the incentive of the CDM.

more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7436263.stm

Who thinks Kady's got too much time on her hands?

http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/06/06/memories-of-rideau-club-catered-dinners-past/

Sirhan Sirhan is recognized as the first Muslim terrorist on American soil.

"It was in some ways the beginning of Islamic terrorism in America. It was the first shot. A lot of us didn't recognize it at the time."

Apparently, this writer has never heard of Jefferson and John Adams response to Muslim terror and slavery. Or, "To the shores of Tripoli..." Oh well.

(from the Boston Globe)

WASHINGTON - The shooting of Robert F. Kennedy is widely remembered as part
of the wrenching domestic turbulence of the 1960s. But some scholars are
beginning to see it as something quite different yet no less significant:
America's first taste of the political violence of the Middle East.

Sirhan Sirhan, the young Palestinian-American who shot Kennedy, made
the attack on the first anniversary of the Six-Day War in Israel. In his private
writings, he had demonstrated anger over Kennedy's positions favoring Israel
over the Palestinian cause.

"I thought of it as an act of violence motivated by hatred of Israel
and of anybody who supported Israel," said Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law
professor who had worked on Kennedy's campaign as a volunteer adviser on
gun-control policy. "It was in some ways the beginning of Islamic
terrorism in America. It was the first shot. A lot of us didn't recognize it at
the time."

"After 84 years it's time to bury Vladimir Lenin, says Mikhail Gorbachev"
http://tinyurl.com/6ewvrm (times)

Here's Vlad in his salad days:

""Let them shoot on the spot every tenth man guilty of idleness." - V. I. Lenin ... "Merciless war against these kulaks! Death to them!" - V. I. Lenin ..." (marxwords)

Soviet communism-socialism murdered more humans than German National Socialism (nazis).

Lester Brown's vision: "New World Order".
Chilling words from BEIJING, China, June 4, 2008. Words used many times before by tyrannical socialist despots. Can you name three, in addition to VL, JS, AH, MAO, PP, RM ...

Mao Stlong say, Lestel's my boy.
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"Food Scarcity 'Creating New World Order'

Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world, says the founder of the Earth Policy Institute.

Recent manifestations of national food insecurity like export restrictions imposed by some grain-producing countries are the troublesome portents of an "entirely new chapter in the book of food security," Lester Brown told foreign correspondents in Beijing on Tuesday.

"We are in the midst of the most severe food crisis in the world's history," Brown said. "This is not your mother's food shortage...but a chronically tight food situation, a serious and long-term problem.''"
http://tinyurl.com/5co8g3 (IPS)

Dr. Herman delivered this month's Bradley Lecture on the same subject (webcast as yet unavailable).

Imperial Bedfellows

Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman
Bantam. 681 pp. $30.00

There are many books on Gandhi and Churchill. But as far as I am aware, until now there has been no attempt to integrate the two men’s histories. This is understandable. People who want books on Gandhi do not usually have a high opinion of Churchill, and vice-versa. Yet, as Herman shows, their lives were in many ways part of a larger fabric, an entire world that in terms of historical epochs has disappeared but recently...

Cops for cancer Waitress-- said this morning that she did not want this to get out of hand like it has.
the calls to the open line show this morning & noon have pretty well cooked the Eateries bacon, people that called in & said that they were patrons Said they would not return, Others said they would never go now. I have never been in this restaurant so cannot comment on the food or the service. Owen Sound has had many a restaurant come & go, In fact when a new one opens the comment is usually, Thats all we need Another Restaurant.

Bourque headline:

"GM TELLS BUZZ TO CAW OFF".
OOps, c/p wrong. Correction.
Headline reads:
"GM TELLS CAW TO BUZZ OFF".
Tha's better.
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http://tinyurl.com/5d34bw (ctv)

"He encouraged [CAW] members to show up again over the weekend."

First commenter Mike said:
"Buzz just seems to find new ways of proving that he's a dinosaur."

Special report: South of the equator, Ford and GM prosper

Ford's most advanced assembly plant.......operates in rural Brazil

http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189

$40 per hour + benefits for unskilled labour make people fight very hard to keep them. And the profitability of the companies be damned - unless you can hook on to the taxpayers teat.

Thank you politicians, for delaying the inevitable, pissing away millions in subsidies, only to get to the end of the movie anyhow.

CBCpravda All Liberal All the Time

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2008/06/06/coderre-verner-themesong.html

I thought Coderre would like something on a more middle eastern cadence. he marches with them does he not

Plan would compel retailers to offer public washrooms
MATTHEW CAMPBELL
From Friday's Globe and Mail
June 6, 2008 at 5:10 AM EDT

New major retail locations in Toronto could be required by law to provide publicly accessible washrooms if a local politician gets his way.City Councillor Howard Moscoe is spearheading an effort to incorporate public washrooms into municipal licensing requirements for large stores, supermarkets and pharmacies....

Councillor Peter Milczyn (Ward 5, Etobicoke-Lakeshore), a member of the committee that advanced the proposal, said he is nonetheless wary of mandating that "thou shalt provide a public washroom .... I don't think this is another area in which the city needs to regulate and legislate."

Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong (Ward 35, Don Valley East), isn't certain the city needs more public facilities at all. "In 14 years as a councillor, I've never received a complaint" about their availability, he said. "I think it's a little excessive."

But perhaps the last place Mr. Moscoe should look for support is among the city's retail employees.

As Bettina Hirschvogel, a worker at the Fresh & Wild grocery store on Spadina Avenue, put it, washrooms would "mean extra work for us ... we'd have to clean them all the time."

"Hints of 'time before Big Bang'"

A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7440217.stm
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Was "the time before the Big Bang" without form? Was it void? Was it dark?

"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." (Genesis 1-3)
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I read a report from an investing service that suggests the corn crop in the US Midwest is late going in, due to excessive rains, and as a result, will be later and smaller to harvest (and in danger from an early frost).

I ask the members of the farming community at SDA if this mirrors their experience so far this year, or is it just fear-mongering from someone trying to promote his "advisory" service?

New corporate policy at Sobeys Ontario grocery stores is to ask all purchasers of tobacco products for I.D. They then enter your birthdate into the computer at the cash register.

Mac's has something similar; there's a robotic voice that reminds the clerk to ask for ID.

This photo was taken in Calgary:

http://opti-grab.ca/images/tobacco_photo_id.jpg

"We ID for tobacco sales if you look under 40."

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,2283921,00.html

"Guy like him should shut his face."