Vitruvius, none of the links to Hello Birdy's ensemble for tonight are functioning on my Mac with Safari 3.2.1... maybe I'll watch some more of Mr. Python and his french friends... I think it's that I don't have anything to open a ".ram" file.
but if it's just me, ok.

This is a source you hardly hear from anymore. An interesting take on America from the Bears point of view. Like most posts on articles I make its just a point of view. Not mine necessarily.Adults make thier own minds up in my opinion. This is a fun one.

American capitalism gone with a whimper
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/

I don't have the program to open it either. But as a kind of offbeat B'day present I shall give science tatoos.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/

Get this: *two million* people downloaded the podcast of Mark Steyn's hugely entertaining turn as guest DJ at Brass Balls Radio.

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2009-05-31-0002/

Here's hoping he makes at least a semi-regular occurrence of it.

Panetta doesn't read SDA*.
Panetta said: "At least one person's unimpressed". Yup.
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"Clarkson unimpressed with Jean's seal-eating gesture

By Alexander Panetta – 7 hours ago

IQALUIT, Nunavut — At least one person's unimpressed by all the fuss over the seal-skinning adventures of Michaelle Jean: her predecessor as Governor General."
urlm.in/cnrs

*GG: Haitian Voodoo Priestess.

BTW, I can't open tonight's show either.

Done deal dead:

"White House: General Motors to file for bankruptcy"

One pointed hypothetical: if GM had had a temporary antitrust exemption, would its engineeers have been quicker to learn from the Japanese?

Two random comments:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FM71j6-VkNE/SiCqIW-YquI/AAAAAAAAC74/VadNNCt_erE/s1600-h/DIF+Balance+Reserve+Ratio.jpg

The above link points to a chart showing how the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (the people who pay you if your bank goes bust), has had its reserves and its ratio of reserves to liabilities plummet over the last three years. (Kate, will we ever be able to post charts here? Saves a lot of time for everyone.)

Second, watching the (rather boring so far) Stanley Cup finals, I've noticed large numbers of empty seats at the Joe Louis. Tough times in Detroit, indeed.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25550073-5017996,00.html

APAN'S increasingly frantic efforts to lead the world in green technology have put it on a collision course with the ambitions of China and dragged both government and industry into the murky realm of large-scale mineral smuggling.

The robust international trade in illegally mined, quota-busting rare-earth metals highlights China's near monopoly on the raw materials for environmental technology - a 95 per cent dominance of world supply that is likely to become more widely noticed as China tightens its grip.

John Bender has dug into Sonia Sotomayor's judging record, and has unearthed ample facts to confirm earlier suspicions:

"Sotomayor is hostile to civil rights"

maz2 Clarkson would only be impressed if a really good wine served by ballet dancers in underwear were involved at five times the price. This GG has impressed me although I had my doubts at first.

Many thanks, vitruvius, for being our resident DJ, and for the eclectic tastes in music and mind that you provide for us.

Maz et al,

I think there's more to this latest Alexander Panetta story than meets the eye. A couple of points:

1. I listened to most of the 2 hours of Rex Murphy's Cross Country Checkup on CBC Radio 1 today. He was asking for whether people supported the GG or not. Everyone but one person was an adamant supporter of Mme. Jean. And keep in mind who their core audience is: Left and Further Left. I was shocked, in a good way, by the tremendous support for her.

2. On the same show more than a few people suggested that this was a media contrived story. What precisely they meant by this, I do not know, but at the very least one could construe that the story was slanted unfairly.

3. I just read Alexander Panetta's latest story on the same, the one that you referred to earlier. The headline reads, "Clarkson unimpressed with Jean's seal-eating", which was extracted from the first paragraph: "At least one person's unimpressed by all the fuss over the seal-skinning adventures of Michaelle Jean: her predecessor as Governor General."

The word "unimpressed" has several meanings but when presented without any further explanation, most reasonable people would conclude that Adrienne Clarkson was "not impressed" or "not approving" of it. Yet read the story all the way through, and that's NOT AT ALL what she said or meant.

4. I assume that this Alexander Panetta is the same one with whom Kate got in a fight with a few years ago? If so, it seems that Panetta's tradition of highly biased, inaccurate reporting continues.

Sad. And pathetic.

Don't know why we're worried about Sotomayor in the US. Here, the Supreme Court of Canada voted 5/2 that it is not too serious for a 58 year old woman from North Van, who made $100.000 per with her in-house grow op. They didn't make her pay the same in fines, and said she shouldn't lose her house
as "proceeds of crime". Hell, I'm not even sure that she'll have a criminal record. As usual, the paper failed to report which judges disagreed.

The Conservatives are getting heat from the Libranos for running a $50 billion deficit. Is it not time that we demand Harper slash the budget in order to bring the deficit down. He should start by selling the CBC and then....?

tomax7 re: rare earth minerals
It's been reported that significant quantities of rare-earth minerals have been discovered in northern Saskatchewan over the last couple of years, and feasibility studies are underway to look at the prospects of developing these mining properties. It is a well known fact that China is the world's main producer and as such has a virtual momopoly on these rare-earth minerals, and thus an alternate supply would hold great value.

A bedtime peace by your favorite cowboy singer.
**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtJz_Wm-gG0&feature=related** (Copy within the **)

MORE CBC HYPOCRISY!

Today (May 31-09) a well know Kansas doctor was shot by a 51 year old assailant.

Dr. George Tiller was a provider of late term abortions. He was shot while serving as an usher at a church in Kansas. he had previous been shot by extremists.

My comment on CBC.CA was: "What do call the crime where a murderer shoots another murdurer. I call it justice!"

Needless to say my comment wasn't published. Yet all "pro-abortionists had their comments published!! Your Canadian federal tax dollars at work!!

Perhaps the CBC didn't publish your comment because you're a moron? Something to think about.

"Perhaps the CBC didn't publish your comment because you're a moron? Something to think about."

WHY is he a moron?

Inquirung minds want to know.

Horny Toad

Obama World Amusement Park:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cmuir/2009/05/31/amusement-park/

That link eventually leads to the Day by Day cartoon site, by Chris Muir, BATB, at which there is a higher resolution version of the artwork, and which I bookmarked a couple years ago, I highly recommend, and I read daily. Of course, like most of you, Chris happens to be suffering from OATTS right now, but this too shall come to pass away.

EBD,
The true "morons" are those hundreds of graduating UWO students who gave Henry Morgentaler a standing ovation after a convocation address where he claimed that he was preventing another 'holocaust' by killing the unborn. Not a peep out of the typical media about that outrageous comment.

Do you have a link for that? I mean, I realize that when it comes to this topic, the debaters thereto have long since given up on any sense of denotational semanitcs, but that one does seem particularly unparseable.

"By fighting for reproductive freedom, and making it possible, I have made a contribution to a safer and more caring society where people have a greater opportunity to realize their full potential," he said, shortly after receiving his honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Western Ontario in London.

"Well-loved children grow into adults who do not build concentration camps, do not rape and do not murder," said Morgentaler, 82, who himself survived a Nazi death camp.

The CBC link to the story no longer works:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/16/morgentaler050616.html

Is Your Cleaning Lady a Rootless Cosmopolitan*?

The question was recently asked here: Is Iggy a cosmopolitan*?

Gagnon says yes, Iggy is a cosmopolitan; but, is Iggy a rootless cosmopolitan? Yes.

The previous Liberal leader, Citoyen Dion, was also a rootless cosmopolitan.

Liberals love rootless cosmopolitans.

Rcs are "citizens of the world".

You are a parochial with your gut-hatred of cosmopolitans.

Do you "viscerally resent" Iggy the "worldly" cosmopolitan?

Gagnon knows: >>>> "My cleaning lady bought a house in her native village in Portugal. When she goes there for holidays, she feels somewhat resented by childhood friends."
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Lysiane Gagnon:
"Tory ads play on parochial spite

Many people viscerally resent those who are cosmopolitan and worldly"
urlm.in/cnsk
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*Rootless cosmopolitanism may describe my experience of Jewishness, but its hardly exclusive to Jews:

It applies equally to most of the people I love and respect from every corner of the planet who see themselves as citizens of the world, their identities defined by multiple affinities formed in their movement through the spaces between cultures, their instincts including a disdain for racism and cultural (and geopolitical) arrogance, and a tendency to understand and respond to events through a global prism, rather than via the ties of blood and soil. Whether they were raised Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or atheist; whether their origins are Jewish, Indian, English, Scottish, Irish, German, Chilean, Persian, Basque, Israeli, Palestinian, Australian, Serb, Libyan, Midwestern or what have you, they are always most at home among people of similar heart and spirit."
http://tonykaron.com/what-is-rootless-cosmopolitan/

"Tiller: ABC Cites Anonymous Tweets, Sawyer Gets Choked Up
FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Has ABC established a new journalistic standard: henceforth, is it OK to cite anonymous internet posts to demonstrate public opinion on an issue?

During its segment on the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, ABC News reporter cited two inflammatory–and anonymous–Tweets. Later, at the conclusion of her interview of two associates of the late Dr. Tiller, Diane Sawyer seemed to choke up.

ABC News reporter Jeffrey Kofman was on the scene in Wichita, Kansas.

View video here.

(Excerpt) Read more at finkelblog.com ..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262032/posts

Rootless cosmopolitan? Who? Where?

Islam is a safe haven for its rootless cosmopolitans.
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"Trial looms for Georgia Tech jihadi

ATLANTA (AP) — Armed with a handheld video camera, a Georgia university student drove with a friend in April 2005 to Washington, D.C., and captured scenes of the Capitol, the Pentagon and other locations. Investigators say Syed Haris Ahmed, now 24, wasn't a tourist but a wannabe terrorist who wanted to send the videos of potential terror targets to an overseas contact. He was attending the Georgia Institute of Technology at the time.

The charges, along with an allegation that Ahmed went to Pakistan and tried to join a terrorism group a few months later, are central to a federal terrorism case against him that is set to begin Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262002/posts

MSM headline and story doesn't use "Liberal".

Is the MSM referring to Liberal MP, ex-minister, Librano$ Hezbollah Coderre*?

""He [Coderre] also says he has seen a UFO".
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MSM Headline:
"Former minister a true believer in UFOs"

"He also says he has seen a UFO and, like those Indians of 500 years ago who saw something on the horizon, he knows it's a hard sell. But he's trying."
urlm.in/cnsy
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*Le Politico: Space case Denis Coderre claims UFO sighting!
1 Jun 2007 ... Space case Denis Coderre claims UFO sighting! Awesome. He MUST have been kidnapped, and they tinkered with his modesty and inherent human ...
lepolitico.blogspot.com/2007/06/space-case-denis-coderre-claims-ufo.html

Re: .ram files

The basic Real Player is a free download from the Real Audio site. It's well worth getting it, if only to enjoy Vitruvius' offerings.

I always thought the Unitied Church were firmly in this camp.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1650066

what was the old joke, taking out the pulpit and putting in a fruit stand.

Stephen Taylor has a list up of Other's that have used the term "Tar Baby" including some from this year, But look who is on the list None other then The Toronto Star's Chantel Hebert!.
I know this posting on Taylor was from a few days ago But some of us do take a day away.

Melanie Phillips, The Modern Heresy of True Science

Every so often, a book is published which, it is instantly clear, is the definitive last word on the subject. Such a book has just appeared on the global lunacy of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). In his devastating study Heaven and Earth. Global Warming: The Missing Science (Quartet) Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide and previously Professor of Earth Sciences at the Universities of Melbourne and, in the UK, Newcastle systematically shreds the theory and the hallucinatory propaganda industry it has spawned. There is simply nothing left of it when he has finished – and he does so from the perspective of real science which the theory has so shockingly betrayed.

Having painstakingly out the actual scientific facts and evidence involved in the study of climate, he concludes his book with a sustained peroration of fury and contempt at the way such scientific evidence has been dismissed in a breathtaking campaign of ‘cognitive dissonance’. As he says, there is not one shred of actual scientific evidence to sustain the claim of AGW, which rests in its entirety upon charlatanry, fraud, ignorance and ideology...

Andrew Klavan on modern culture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC6MnwknfmU

Gives a primer to the college-graduating on why conservatives may not be evil and why Obama may be killing them (and Liberty) with kindness.

Look at who will be dismantling GM:

"Mr. Deese’s role is unusual for someone who is neither a formally trained economist nor a business school graduate, and who never spent much time flipping through the endless studies about the future of the American and Japanese auto industries."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/business/01deese.html?_r=2&ref=politics

A car company owned by three governments and a union - what could go wrong?

"Layton say's he wont force a summer Election"
ctv.ca may31/2009

Horny Toad and anslem, my comment about Jack Frosst's comment was *not* about which side of the abortion debate he or anyone else is on. It's just that anyone who posts a comment at Kate's -- or anywhere else -- that openly advocates or cheers on the murder of abortion doctors or clinic staff has a few disconnected wires.

And, as if more evidence is needed, he complained that the CBC didn't let his comment through because he is pro-life. That's like someone attempting to post a comment openly advocating for the murder of Liberal functionaries, and then complaining, "needless to say, my comment wasn't published. Yet all pro-Liberals had their comments published!! Your Canadian federal tax dollars at work!!"

Either Mongo isn't very good at connecting the dots or he's murderously, excitedly, opportunistically disingenuous. People like him do seriously damage to the pro-life cause.

"Why is he a moron?"

I don't know -- his umbilical cord was knotted around his neck during gestation?

Regarding the heinous murdering of an abortion doctor, the part that bothers me about the comments on the G&M and CBC is that, despite the representative of the pro-life group denouncing the act, the pile-on has begun and the moonbats are saying that Christians are murderers. Now, had the act not been denounced, they could have pointed to the deafening silence (like the usual deafening silence after honour killings) but that wasn't the case. It was just an opportunity for them to spew their anti-Christian bigotry. As a Christian, I take tremendous offense to that and will call them on it every time.

ATTENTION CONSERVATIVES:

The CBC (CBC.Ca) has been toying with a 1.2% lead for the Liberals this AM. They are predicting "A Liberal minority" if we went to the polls today.

I worked in a newspaper many years ago. We never predicted the outcome of a federal election without a 5% lead. The normal margin of error is 2%!

" A car company owned by three governments and a union ..." Wait, I think I've heard this joke. /rimshot

well stated EBD. and maybe something else regarding the rule of law and all that..
Real Player? I didn;t even know that;s still around. thanks Charles MacDonald

www.real.com

"“He struggled, and then he gave up,”".
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Ronald Takaki, a Scholar on Ethnicity (multiculturalism), Dies at 70

Ronald Takaki, who made it his life’s work to rewrite American history to include Asian-Americans and other ethnic groups excluded from traditional accounts and who helped start the first doctoral program in ethnic studies in the United States, died Tuesday in his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 70.

The cause was suicide, said his son Troy. He battled multiple sclerosis for years. “He struggled, and then he gave up,” his son said."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262348/posts

How is it that the Prime Minister is Honoured with an award on sunday nite at the CJC & No one Knows about it? & It is buried at the end of the article on CTV.ca
Is the reason because it is Harper or because it was from the Canadian Jewish Congress?

Iggy whines fearfully: I hope not, I hope not; it can’t be over, over, ov……

Go home, Iggy.
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“GDP data shows Canada over worst of crisis - PM

OTTAWA, June 1 (Reuters) - Although Canada’s latest gross domestic product figures are bad, they were better than expected and show the economy is over the worst of the crisis, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.

Statistics Canada said the economy shrank by 5.4 percent in the first quarter of the year. The decline was not as bad as the 6.6 percent drop expected by analysts.

“We do anticipate that this was the worst quarter, the first quarter of this year … The worst is behind us, we will have better quarters going forward. That’s our very strong sense at this point,” Harper told Toronto radio station CFRB.

Saying there was “reason for optimism”, Harper cautioned there would be further job losses and said Ottawa was ready to take more steps if necessary to help the unemployed.

Opposition parties are demanding Ottawa make it easier for the jobless to claim benefits and some legislators have mused about defeating the Conservative government over the issue, although an election any time soon seems unlikely.

“The country needs an election like a hole in the end. Nobody wants an election. It is not good. It is not in the interests of the country at a time where our economy is so challenged,” said Harper.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/economicNews/idUSN0134978420090601
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“Recession officially here, but worst may be over”
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/643506

bryanr asked: "Is the reason because it is Harper or because it was from the Canadian Jewish Congress?"

cal2 has renamed CBC to Pravda.

The reason(s) are here:

"I understood then that a massive shift had taken place from objective news reporting to interpretative and advocacy journalism.".
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"The Plan for Government-Funded Socialist Media
Accuracy In Media ^ | JUNE 1, 2009 | CLIFF KINCAID

Forty years ago Reed Irvine started Accuracy in Media because he understood that the media were trying to undermine the war effort in Vietnam. Later, he formed Accuracy in Academia, realizing that the seeds of the media problem rested in the colleges and universities.

Reed gave me my first job out of college, in 1978, after I had completed an internship at Stan Evans' National Journalism Center.

Back in the 1970s, I learned what journalism was all about when I studied from Curtis MacDougall's classic textbook, Interpretative Reporting. I understood then that a massive shift had taken place from objective news reporting to interpretative and advocacy journalism. Curtis MacDougall and his textbook trained several generations of journalists, and we are seeing the results

MacDougall taught at Northwestern University, where he was a journalism educator and political activist. He ran on the Communist-controlled Progressive Party ticket. His son, Kent, also a journalist, came out as a Marxist, after working at the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal, and he then became a professor at the University of California at Berkeley."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262384/posts