Awesome album! My brother saw RW play this album in Regina back in the early seventies. After he completed his encore (which was, of course, Catharine Parr) the guy next to him leaned over and said "That guy has potential".

Potential indeed.

Very good album. Rick recently performed the album in its entirety along with material that was left off the original recordings...comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on Oct 5:
http://www.rwcc.com/live.asp#HCDVD

I have a trip planned for eastern Europe later this fall and I'm looking for Canadian flags to put on my backpack so people don't think I'm an American. I suspect the Poles, Czechs, and every other former Communist satellite has lost faith in the U.S. and don't want to think I'm an American. Any help is appreciated.

"I'm looking for Canadian flags to put on my backpack "

Check with Hedy Fry -- she may have some spare tattered ones.

gregg,

I'd suggest asking Justin Trudeau - he seems to know of so many people that are ashamed of wearing them abroad these days...

gregg - America acts tough, America wimps out, don't matter: Everyone always feels the need to stick maple-leaves on their backpacks. Do you think it does any good? Well, maybe.

Now, as a philistine, I associate Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor purely with parody schlock horror films. And I think "32-foot organ pipe" is funny.

Sad, isn't it?

Thanks for rubbing it in, Vitruvius.

I don't think I dislike this Henry VIII stuff, but there's a certain Spinal Tap quality there...

Is there any truth to the rumour that the Liberals are trying to acquire the copyright to the term "Small Dead Animals?"

The most Corrupt regulator, SEC & Black Robe, whitewash GE fraud.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aqVE_JsRxvQ0

And where is GE CEO Immelt tonight? RUSSIA!

Do you think MSM will make the connection?

I heard the most amazing conversation on the radio today and put it into a YouTube video for all to hear. I use the word "amazing" in the sense of how incredulous and dumbfounded I was to learn that some people actually think like that!

The %#!$@ CBC is up to its usual news-slanting tricks tonight with a long disertation on the "shrinking Arctic ice cover", which is now at its third lowest extent since satellite measurements began.

Figures don't lie but, liars sure can figure. The report is based on data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder Colorado. "Third lowest" sounds impressive, but not as impressive as the fact that this year's cover of 5.1 million square kilometres is 580,000 square kilometres greater than at the same time in 2008 and 970,000 square kilometres greater than in 2007. That's a growth of 11% since last year and 19% since 2007! Nevertheless, the CBC shamelessly spouts the canard that ice cover is continuously shrinking.

As a scientist who continuously monitors the great climate debate, I am getting very tired of seeing my tax dollars pissed away on Mothercorp's obsession with "climate catastrophe". A very interesting scientific discourse is continously ignored in order to promote the personal prejudices of faceless producers. (I've lost count of the number of times that the CBC has shown Al Gore's discredited polemic.)

If they really believe that melting Arctic ice is a threat, they should be delighted at the incredibly rapid reversal and joyfully trumpet the good news. No matter what they believe, they should at least have the decency to report unembellished facts without the "spin". The lack of journalistic professionalism is beyond disgusting.

BTW, would a longer Arctic shipping season be all that bad? I spent two years in the high Arctic in 1950-52, i.e. before the Feds Shanghaid some trusting Ungava Inuit up there to "occupy the land". How we would have welcomed an extra month of open water to guarantee that we could be decently provisioned by icebreaker instead of by spring and fall airlifts onto makeshift airstrips.

Melt, dam'it, melt!

Mark Steyn discusses current events with Hugh Hewitt. Steyn makes a good point about how the NY Times and Washington Post pretty much yawn learning that ACORN employees are fully supporting child prostitution.

This weekend ask your favourite Leftist this question: "If someone is supporting child prostitution, what should happen to them?"

Assuming they respond in the light of criminal prosecution then ask them this: "So you then think the book should be thrown at ACORN, right?"

Why do I suspect there'll be lots of humming & hawing?!

Vitruvius!!

I don't understand how your brain works! One night you're showing us the world's largest Diesel engine, the following night you're playing Donald Duck, now you're into Bach. You must have a short attention span with widely varied interests!! Or is is it me that has a one track mind??

Gregg, to a small number with evil intent a Canadian flag merely indicates that you are wealthy and that you are now a target. You will not merit any special favours with them. It's often best not to advertise too loudly.

This is well worth the read.

Mark Steyn: Obama helping Putin restitch Iron Curtain
Scrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar.
By MARK STEYN

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/obama-missile-defense-2572467-nuclear-iran

Globe and Mail, Friday, Rick Salutin column titled "When will we ever learn?"

In the context of of the passing of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, Salutin refers to their song Where Have All The Flowers Gone:
"The song asks why new wars always arise: When will they ever learn?"

Here is the answer: Wars will end when we reject the doctrine that it is right or practical or necessary for men to achieve their goals by means of physical force, and that some sort of "good" can justify it, i.e., when we reject the doctrine that force is a proper or unavoidable part of human existence and human societies. (Ayn Rand, The Roots of War, slightly paraphrased)

I recall another Salutin column earlier this year in which he was pleased to believe that "activist government" is back. Persons who head "activist governments" achieve their goals by means of force, i.e., they're at war with their own citizens. It's Salutin that hasn't learned the proper anti-war and anti-violence lesson.

He comments today that "the first rule of relations between nations or individuals is respect for the right - not necessarily the ability, but the right - of others to run their own lives". The problem here is that violent governments do not respect their own citizens' right to run their own lives, and sometimes outside forces have to set them straight. Using "nations or individuals" together in this context is mischievous because the individual and the nation are frequently at odds.

New York's Sept 11 museum to display hijacker perspective

http://tinyurl.com/nx8ju7

Zog --
You're made out of better stuff than I, to be able to sit through that. I watched that CBC kabuki theatre for about two minutes. Then I had to change the channel in disgust to something more scientifically edifying. OLN had a programme about a team of crack ghost hunters investigating a haunted house, which was more realistic, at least. Of course they're going to keep repeating the party line. They've decided on the narrative a long time ago, and they won't ever deviate. There's a Russian expression, "they will die in those boots".

Too bad we can't rebut or mock this stuff anymore on Desmogblog.com because "the debate is over" -- and they've made damn sure of that.

Surprising me not at all, the Duke got it,

The Hyphen - By John Wayne

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

Content warning for the trolls, there is blatant patriotism in this clip. Known to cause hives in trolls.

A narcissist Liberal Ignatieff wherein “I” spills his “guts”.

1. The Son King: It’s in MoI genes.

“me”, “you”, “I’m, “my”, “son”.

“People often ask me: Why did you run for public office? And the answer is very simple. I’m my father’s son.”*

2. The Sun King:

“I”, “I”, “I’ve”, “I’ve”, “I’ve”.

“I’ve got a bar,” he said. “I make no apologies for attacking his policies; I’ve been attacking his policies vigorously and will continue to do so. But I’ve not attacked his patriotism, I’ve not attacked his family, I’ve not attacked his commitment to Canada.”

“Leader’s gut reaction to ads: Don’t treat Liberals like fools”**

Ignatieff: “End of story.” (Literally: check it out).

*urlm.in/dbbi
**urlm.in/dbbj

Alberta workers flee angry Maritimers

A number of tradespeople from the Alberta-based contractor Integral Energy Service Ltd. were flown to Saint John 10 days ago after being hired by the engineering firm SNC-Lavalin to help complete the Canaport Liquefied Natural Gas plant, belonging to Irving Oil.

Andrew Dawson, the Atlantic Canada rep for the Canadian Office of the Building and Construction Trades Department said the protests are a cry for help.

"We have an abundance of local workers; our government spends millions of dollars training people to be tradesmen," said Dawson, adding he thinks the out-of-province workers were brought in to keep budget costs down.

FROM>
http://www.calgarysun.com:80/news/alberta/2009/09/18/10971616-sun.html

Yeah, sure, they flew these people, all the way from Alberta and put them up in a hotel, people who were experienced experts in installing this technology, just to keep budget costs down.

It sorta looks to me like New Brunswick Union workers expect to soak "Big Oil" above the costs incurred from transporting and housing experienced Alberta techies.

If I was an Alberta worker from SNC-Lavalin, I'd sue the Canadian Office of the Building and Construction Trades Department for violating my Charter Right to job portability.

There are plenty of New Brunswickers working in Alberta.
When Andrew Dawson says, "Our government spends millions of dollars training people to be tradesmen", he should be cognisant of the fact that those millions of dollars are courtesy of the people of Alberta.

The Duke also said, "A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by." There is only one person responsible to keep that code and that is yourself. Kind of like personal responsibility ain't it?

As for St John and it's cry for help, I'd say let the local union boys handle the LNG project. Just make sure they are around when it blows a new cove in the Bay of Fundy. Experience working with that stuff isn't exactly what you get staying at the Holiday Inn Express or read on-line.

Mr Ignatieff's noble lineage:

"Mickey I: How would this play in Rosedale?"

Mark
Ottawa

Has Susan Riley's Ottawa Citizen file been hacked !?

[Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff's sneering denunciation of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's visit to Washington this week as "amateur hour" sounded unappealingly arrogant and unconvincing.

It was also unwise. If anyone is vulnerable to charges of amateurism it is Ignatieff.]

Surprisingly, Chantal Hebert also dumped on Iggy this week.

What gives ? Orders from above? Could it be the Demarais/Strong axis of evil knows Iggy is a dud and have instructed Canadian media to pull the plug sooner rather than later and install Boob puppet strings Rae ?

Another good reason to get out
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/brass+told+rape/2011170/story.html

I hope everybody enjoys this as much as I did.
I was laughing out loud through most of it.

Tim Hawkins doing The Government Can to the tune of The Candy Man Can

I hope everybody enjoys this as much as I did.
I was laughing out loud through most of it.

Tim Hawkins doing The Government Can to the tune of The Candy Man Can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0&feature=player_embedded

Goreacle Report.

Try to imagine a world without Gore, Hansen, Suzuki, Dion, May, Mulroney, et al.

Eugenics, anyone?

>>> "We are certainly not advocating that governments should start telling people how many children they can have," said Mr Bryant, an advocacy manager at the family planning group Marie Stopes International".

Lancet has the scoop on the AGW poop.
...-

"Birth control 'could combat climate change'

CONTRACEPTION advice is crucial to poor countries' battle with climate change, and policy makers are failing their people if they continue to shy away from the issue, a leading family planning expert said.

Leo Bryant, a lead researcher on a World Health Organisation study on population growth and climate change, said the stigma attached to birth control in both developing and developed countries was hindering vital progress.

"We are certainly not advocating that governments should start telling people how many children they can have," said Mr Bryant, an advocacy manager at the family planning group Marie Stopes International, who wrote a commentary in the Lancet medical journal."
urlm.in/dbbv

Update: Islam.
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"Psychiatric Defense Likely In NY Wife Beheading ( Muslim Honor Killing )

A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction.

Muzzammil Hassan, 45, is scheduled to be tried in January on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan. A psychiatric defense would allow jurors to find him guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter, according to Hassan's attorney, who made his plans known during a pretrial conference Friday.

Muzzammil Hassan had been served with divorce papers a week before his wife's body was found stabbed and decapitated at the offices of Bridges TV in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, where the couple also lived.

The Pakistani-born Hassans started the Bridges TV network in 2004, saying they wanted to counter negative stereotypes and media portrayals of Muslims and provide programming for the growing Muslim-American population."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343660/posts

Blizzard discusses 'why the Tory candidate lost' in Toronto. She implies that Hudak could have tried harder, but OLG scandal e-health waste and the Hated Sales tax are all okee-dokee to the Toronto voters.

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/christina_blizzard/2009/09/18/10970336-sun.html

blutech: Blizzard points out All Okee dokee to Toronto voters

That is why when past Fed/Prov Liberals were in positions of power the realigning of ridings Or the addition of ridings in Major Cities such as Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal was so important to Retaining there power base. They have always counted on major cities to keep them in power, Regardless of how much they F***Up.

For the "put 'em in a rights museum" series:

It seems that the new CEO of the Winnipeg "Human Rights" museum has only been on the job a few days and he is already foundering on the shoals of identity politics.

"Stuart Murray's appointment as head of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is coming under fire because he voted against gay rights when he was leader of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative party.

"We must let our voices be heard loud and clear that homophobia cannot be tolerated anywhere, least of all in a national museum on human rights," ex-Winnipegger Daniel Voth wrote in an email blitz to gay people and their heterosexual allies across the country."

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/new-museum-head-under-fire-59833227.html

I think it is safe to predict two outcomes:

1) The museum will become a battle ground for various group identity rights, some of which may conflict, and that real civil rights will be pushed into the background.

2) New appointee Stuart Murray's days as CEO are already numbered, and the number is not a large one.

The Duke also said, "A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by." There is only one person responsible to keep that code and that is yourself. Kind of like personal responsibility ain't it?

As for St John and it's cry for help, I'd say let the local union boys handle the LNG project. Just make sure they are around when it blows a new cove in the Bay of Fundy. Experience working with that stuff isn't exactly what you get staying at the Holiday Inn Express or read on-line.

Victor Davis Hanson's has a superb essay at NRO on the matter of Barack Obama's changing fortunes and the current political scene. Any excerption thereof would be pretty much arbitrarily selected, so read the whole thing.

Great pod cast sites with conservative radio For those who like this medium.

http://radiotime.com/channel/c_57917/Conservative.aspx

Trudeau, Tewksbury among first inductees into Queer Hall of Fame

Former prime minister honoured for his role in decriminalizing homosexuality

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trudeau-tewksbury-among-first-inductees-into-queer-hall-of-fame/article1294418/

Justin’s reaction? “I know that the decriminalization of homosexuality 40 years ago was something that my father was very proud of,” Justin said. “He'd be touched” …

Another inductee called PET his “gay hero.” I wonder what exactly he means by that?

now for years Ive been told that boys and girls are equal. and the feminists have been saying that that atheletes should be paid the same on both sides of the chromosome. now what.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1208227/She-wouldnt-wear-dresses-sounds-like-man-phone-Caster-Semenyas-father-sex-riddle-daughter.html

Another inductee called PET his “gay hero.” I wonder what exactly he means by that?

I had heard 35+ years ago that PET had young male visitors aka Richard Hatfield , source was an RCMP body guard. this was pre- maggie.

Hatfield was closeted and his biggest joy was a doll collection.

cal2, I also heard that PET, apparently, was AC/DC and not just pre-Maggie.

Hmmm ... "gay hero" takes on many different nuances.

Much as I despise what Pierre Trudeau did to the country, there were a few things he got right, and decriminalizing homosexuality was one of them.

Also, I have a lot of respect for Mark Tewksbury. Not only a great athlete, but he did an excellent job of analyzing the swim events last summer at the Beijing Olympics for the CBC (which, incidentally, is practically the only time I tune in to the CBC).

It would be great if you would have the same Bach piece played by Marie Claire Alain.

nv53: "Also, I have a lot of respect for Mark Tewksbury."

All very well. But I hope your respect for Mark Tewksbury is because he's a great athlete not because he's a homosexual athlete.

I'm heartily tired of this "identity" politics. In the new Canada, gay "rights" trump the rights of a huge number of Canadians' freedom of religion and freedom of expression rights: just look at who's taken to the fraudulent HRCs and what the rulings are.

Whatever your views on homosexuality, you're turning a blind eye if you don't recognize how toxic identity politics, so vaunted by the activist gay community, has become.

Pushing one's sexuality, where one puts one's penis, as a reason for being celebrated is sick, IMO.