Obscure and delightful, Vitruvius.

I'm glad you liked that, Exetaz. I was wandering through my vinyl archives here in the SDA LNR studio looking for inspiration, last week, when I remembered that the last time I checked, See See the Sun was still not available on YouTube. So I checked again and now it is, thus tonight's show (although technically this is from the re-release, not from the original '73 vinyl we have here). It's also interesting, perhaps, to note that when I prepared this show last week, Mr. Koopman was still alive. Checking just now on the links supra, I see where apparently he has passed away last Monday, or as Mr. Borge often notes, "... and then he died".

The state of Dubai, 100% owner of Dubai World, which owns (among other things) 77% of DP World, a ports operator which had, after taking over Britain's P&O, assumed management rights to a number of US ports, including New York and New Jersey, has asked for a restructuring of Dubai World's approximately $59 billion (US) in debt.

The ports deal was eventually scuttled by the US congress, and the management contracts were sold to a division of AIG. However, this restructuring represents the largest sovereign default since Argentina in the 1970's. More at the always amusing "zerohedge.com"

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/what-dubai-says-about-capitalism-not-much

Here's an excerpt:

It has been no secret for the last many years that the legal system in Dubai, despite its western appearance and facade of impartiality, is entirely arbitrary and capricious. For years Dubai has touted the benefits of its "moderate" and "western" legal system to attract foreign white collar workers (primarily from the UK), a judicial sell-side pitch that belied the jurisdiction's naked favoritism for the local Emirati caste and the fact that a thick layer of Anglo-Saxon foundation in fact just powdered a bulbous Islamic judicial system.

Embarrassing moonbat...

http://www.breitbart.tv/comedy-show-host-tricks-palin-into-analyzing-canadian-health-care/

CBCpravda after 5 days , skews the headline.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/11/26/climate-change-hack.html

Mr. Harper, Tear down this corp!

To: The Rt Hon Prime Minister S. Harper:

Please invite Steve McIntyre to accompany you to the Copenhagen Summit as a Canadian Special Representative.

The world needs Mr. McIntyre at Copenhagen.

Thank you.

I just got back from an informal get together for Vancouver Centre Conservative Party of Canada candidate, Rachel Greenfeld: http://www.rachelgreenfeld.com

She's a very nice lady. I'm going to volunteer for her campaign.

For those of you not aware, the incumbent MP is Liberal Hedy Fry, who I've long considered to be an absolute embarrassment to my riding, my city, & my province. Still, it's going to be an uphill battle to unseat her but at least I can say I helped the effort to try!

Go for it Robert. It would be nice to get rid of the "cross burning lady".

Hot Cross Hedy

the worse of the worst.

Thanks, Ken. I actually have an aunt & uncle up in Prince George, where Fry's smear was directed, so I took it VERY personally.

I think Rachel is a great candidate for the Tories, perhaps because she, on the surface, doesn't appear to be someone who would run for them.

I believe there are 5 female PC candidates in Metro Vancouver running in the next election. That's a pretty large number and lo & behold, didn't come about from any sort of quota system.

I've never before volunteered in a political campaign so it should be interesting!!

The Toronto Star doesn't seem interested in ClimateGate but they're convinced that Global Warming is causing a cat population explosion in Toronto: http://www.thestar.com/article/190006

(Insert your exploding cat joke here ;-)

Does Brad Wall plan to replace Rod Gantefoer as Saskatchewan's Finance Minister with Health Minister Don McMorris during January's cabinet shuffle?

Given Gantefoer's multi-miilion dollar miscalculations, the media-friendly McMorris might be just what Wall wishes for.

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM, 12a-2a PT: Environmental consultant Tim Ball discusses 'Climate Gate,' a coordinated effort to hide information about global warming.

Live audio stream: http://player.streamtheworld.com/?CALLSIGN=CJOBAM

That should also be in the CJOB audio vault, 2 am and 3 am hours 2009-11-27.

http://www.cjob.com/other/audiovault.html

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy :)~

Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing

November 25, 2009 (LPAC)—Not since Henry Kissinger fled a team of LaRouche organizers, in the back of a delivery truck in New York City's Central Park in the early 1980s, has an obese fascist moved so fast to escape an angry crowd, as Al Gore did today in Chicago. Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called "We Are Change," as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and banging on the car. Midwest LYM organizers, who were also on the scene to confront the global warming swindler, provided an eyewitness account of Fat Albert's flight of fear.

Make no mistake about it. This little encounter is typical of the kinds of things going on all over the country, as the fascists who brought you the near-destruction of the United States and an onrushing global Dark Age, are no longer walking the streets, smug in the belief that they are literally getting away with murder. The mass strike dynamic is playing out in thousands of ways, every day, and the recent revelations about the "smoking gun" emails from the East Anglia University global warming propaganda center, have made Al Gore's life a little more miserable.

As Percy Shelley wrote in "The Mask of Anarchy," "We are many, they are few."

http://www.larouchepac.com/node/12520

Mr. Universal Love & Positivity, Deepak Chopra, doesn't seem to believe this mantra applies re his feelings toward Sarah Palin: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/sarah-palin-fooling-none_b_367364.html

Behind the veil of every Leftist is a hypocrite!

Google has censored the M4GW clip by removing it from the list of most popular youtube videos. This is a blatant act of censorship that is not going to go unnoticed. Take a look at the most popular list in any category and there is a glaring lack of the M4GW clip. Only question is how to get back at Google besides switching to Bing.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-will-challenge-ignatieff-with-hst-ultimatum/article1379397/

yet another piece of political brilliance by the CP and Stephen Harper. Be sure and read it as this one is particularly sweet.

Stephen Harper is getting a little too cozy with the central Canada crowd. The HST, once in, will never be turfed out, no matter which lying bastard you listen to. For a brief history on that train of thought, read up on the GST, which while touted as of great benefit and a money saver and seven other degrees of wonderful, became nothing more or less than the greatest Cash Cow that Ottawa ever got their hands on. They've managed to pee it all away by ratcheting government spending upwards year after year, and now that the well is more or less dry (half a trillion units of dry, as of last Sunday) they're scheming to take it up a notch with the HST. Let's not be fooled by the little political games they invent to distract us from their real purpose.

breaking loose in the MSM

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017977/climategate-the-scandal-spreads-the-plot-thickens-the-shame-deepens/

What a country we live in. The CRTC says Al-Jazerra is okay but Fox news is not. WTF

From one of North America's greatest poets (another one being Leonard Cohen) comes "Christmas from the Heart," Bob Dylan's latest album. All proceeds " ... go to to charities for the homeless and hungry in the United States, Britain and 80 poor countries.

"Asked why he picked those organizations, Dylan told the interviewer: 'They get food straight to the people. No military organization, no bureaucracy, no governments to deal with.'

"The exclusive interview appeared in The Big Issue magazine in Britain and similar street papers in North America."

Later in the interview, Dylan says, "I am a true believer," though he doesn't elaborate. 'Ever the mystery man.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091126/entertainment/centertainment_us_dylan_christmas

correction to above post: Dylan's album is called "Christmas in the Heart."

AGW: The Road to Erewhon*.

Harvard: Liberal Iffy Ignatieff and O's Harvard Crimson: Red-Green Magical Mann-Holdren Fraud.
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"What was so blasphemous about their paper?"

"A Blast From the Past

A Harvard Crimson article from 2003 described what fate befell two Harvard scientists who dared to challenge Global Warming.

A study by two Harvard researchers quietly published last January in a small research journal has set off a political storm that has led to debate on the senate floor and internal wrangling at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The study, co-authored by two scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, concluded that the 20th century has been neither the warmest century of the past millennium nor the one with the most extreme weather.

The two scientists were subsequently excoriated in the strongest terms by Michael Mann and John Holdren, now Barack Obama’s science czar. The Crimson describes the reception they got."

"What was so blasphemous about their paper?"

>>> "Cambridge, MA – A review of more than 200 climate studies led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has determined that the 20th century is neither the warmest century nor the century with the most extreme weather of the past 1000 years. The review also confirmed that the Medieval Warm Period of 800 to 1300 A.D. and the Little Ice Age of 1300 to 1900 A.D. were worldwide phenomena not limited to the European and North American continents. While 20th century temperatures are much higher than in the Little Ice Age period, many parts of the world show the medieval warmth to be greater than that of the 20th century."

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/11/26/a-blast-from-the-past-3/#comments
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WUWT?

>>> "Mann has a new paper: he apparently discovers the Medieval Warm Period"

>>> "I’ll provide this one showing Mann’s previous work where the Medieval Warm Period doesn’t much show up at all:"

http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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*Erewhon - Google Books Result
by Samuel Butler - 2002 - Fiction - 192 pages
Erewhon (an anagram for "nowhere") is a faraway land where machinery is forbidden, sickness is a punishable crime, and criminals receive compassionate medical ...
books.google.ca/books?isbn=0486420485

Unabomber & Mao Stlong's Manifesto: Red-Green.

*The Road to Erewhon:
"a faraway land where machinery is forbidden".

File this under More pavilions at Folkfest:

Remember when an arsonist attacked that Buddhist temple in Scarborough just about at the same time that the Tamils went down to defeat? Well it's been torched again.

Obama's "Christian" grandmother in Mecca for Hajj

(via Five Feet of (Fabulous) Fury, our very own Kath y Shaidle)

Mississauga Matt - Very, very interesting post, this man at best comes from a very strange family, is it any wonder that he acts strange? I'm not sure who he is, and I think - neither does he. Perhaps he is still "finding himself"?

Topper - I get Fox News on my Bell service. I have to pay extra for it but I get it. In fact, value for my buck - its the cheapest thing on my service because I watch it 90% of the time I spend in front of my TV.

If you are not getting Fox don't blame the CRTC - blame your service provider.

Another story about the dinosaur that BBC is becoming.

BBC's paleo-news site finally runs a real scoop story on Climategate's Michael Mann
By Gerald Warner

……..Yet the paleo-news outlet that is the BBC pursues business as usual. Turmoil in Australian and New Zealand politics, with climate research in New Zealand now being similarly exposed, Congressional investigations of Climategate in the United States – all that has passed by the BBC. The big news about Michael Mann is his investigations into ocean coral. (“Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”)…….

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100018066/bbcs-paleo-news-site-finally-runs-a-real-scoop-story-on-climategates-michael-mann/

An excellent article on the Global Warming nonsense in today's National Post:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/26/skewed-science.aspx

It sorts through and explains why the research methodology used by the Global Warming crowd makes no sense.

Dennis,you beat me to it (article in National Post). It's excellent.

On a completely different topic (but relating to CBC's belated and pathetic report on the CRU emails) there was a pop up survey on the CBC site today asking for my "help" to make their service better. Normally I ignore such things, but today I thought I would give it a go, hoping they really were asking for my opinion and help. After persisting for 20 minutes on idiotic questions about how often I listened to pod casts and how often I expected to 10 years from now, and other nonsensical questions, I realized I would never get a chance to comment on the quality of the reporting--which is the main question that concerns me. I don't care if they list the most read stories of the day in black or blue. I care about the stories themselves.

it is illegal for christians to visit Mecca.

The comments on 'I miss Al Gore' post not working, so I'll post it here:

Vacationing in Antarctic is probably off the list of to do things, as -86°+6°=-80°C, still a bit too chilling by my standards.

As for the sea levels rising, the only question I have is what is the average elevation of Somalia and how much materials is required to build a fense 6m tall around it?

Al Gore will be OK! On the FT.com site lies an Op-Ed that shows he will be fine in his new career and quest for a possible second Nobel.

Al Gore - Economist!

The Comments are the best! A Must Read.

www.illiquidassets.net (have a post with a link to the article) Mr Gore, When you are in the middle of a Shit Storm Keep your Mouth Shut!

Tonight on Coast to Coast AM, 12a-2a PT: Environmental consultant Tim Ball discusses 'Climate Gate,' a coordinated effort to hide information about global warming.

Live audio stream: http://player.streamtheworld.com/?CALLSIGN=CJOBAM

I was listening to this last night, Tim Ball or at least their organization is a local (calgary)outfit.
I didnt know it at the time but was wondering why he knew so much about Suzuki's lies and kept refering to CBC editing the news.

http://www.friendsofscience.org/

I should have recognized that western canadian city accent. not the one that Ed Stelmach has , that's clearly kitchen table farm around Bruderhiem , Radwater or Wa set te naw (waskatenaw) or east ta Emmuntun

Remember when American soldiers would rather braze a can of ham and lima beans from their C-rats to the feed side of an M60 than feed on it themselves?

Greg Jaffe, Holiday in Afghanistan

On Thanksgiving, the Marines in southern Afghanistan still walked patrols and fired artillery rounds, but almost everyone slowed their pace a bit.

At the larger U.S. bases in Afghanistan, workers from Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka dished out turkey, ham, stuffing and six kinds of pie to Marines. In more remote spots such as Golestan, troops made do with prepackaged meals and whatever they could find in the local market -- potatoes, onions, carrots and fresh-baked bread. A few days earlier they had bought and slaughtered a goat.

"We got some country boys in this platoon," said Lt. Daniel Nagourney, a military policeman at the base...

Yes, I know it's only Friday:

Sam Cooke, Another Saturday Night

Solidarity For Never! Solidarity For Never!

The Supreme Court of Canada says Wal-Mart was entitled to close a store in Quebec in 2005 just as employees were about to unionize.
. . .

During the Supreme Court hearings early this year, the company denied it fired its employees because they had just formed a union.

The company said they were let go simply because the store was shutting down.

But workers at the outlet said the two events were related.

Poland okays forcible castration for pedophiles

I've finally come to the conclusion that Bill Good's program on CKNW in Vancouver is a comedy show, full of satire.

Don't believe me? Then explain this.

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” - George Washington

The fine art of paramilitary euphemism
By Colby Cosh - Friday, November 27, 2009 - 0 Comments

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is to be applauded for a marginal victory in the seemingly endless fight against homegrown Winter Olympics totalitarianism. But make no mistake: it is a very marginal win, at best. The Vancouver police purchased the American Technology Corp.’s LRAD-500X acoustic beam generator, supposedly for use as a loudhailer at public gatherings and protests. Both the police and American Technology object to media references to the device as a “sound gun”, a “sonic cannon”, or a non-lethal weapon. But it has been used that way in the field, and the VPD has effectively conceded the point by agreeing, under BCCLA pressure, to disable a device setting that allows the LRAD to generate “powerful deterrent tones… to influence behaviour.”

That quoted description, mind you, doesn’t come from critics of the device: it comes from the vendor’s own data sheet. In other words, the LRAD’s ability to cause pain and temporary deafness is a selling point. Devices in this class were developed after the attack on the USS Cole, which should really settle the question whether their essential purpose is to communicate with crowds or to cause intolerable agony to human targets. American Technology offers an attached “laser dazzler” as an option with the LRAD, and the data sheet specifies that it “enhances public safety measures without exposing nearby personnel or peripheral bystanders to excessive audio levels,” suggesting that the whole idea is to expose only the people you’re aiming at to excessive audio levels.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/27/the-fine-art-of-paramilitary-euphemism/

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll laugh some more. Listen to 2 MSM dinosaurs chew the fat and yet be in complete denial about the realities of their profession:

http://www.corusradio.com/Shared/AudioVault/CKNWAMaudioVault.asp?VaultDate=20091127&VaultTime=11&mysubmit=Listen (beginning at 6:00)

Here's the guest:
http://www.journalism.ubc.ca/faculty/donna_logan

Hey Kate. How about a refresher post on uncle Mo?

Government Motors 1975

I'm old enough to know better, but I had not realized (or forgotten) that Margaret Thatcher, after making an impregnable case for NOT continuing with the subsidies to British Leyland, had come to conclude that "political realities must be faced" and continued them for years. Something to keep in mind for us impatient Can-Cons.

OTOH I find myself slipping into a kind of libertarian/anarcho-capitalist idealism when I think: how about taking a honourable approach, explaining stuff to be public, doing the right thing, and being comfortable with being voted out of office? Is the long run improved by taking such cynical expediences.

Teaser: one union, 500+ strikes in a single year??!!

Is the long run improved by taking such cynical expediences
Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at November 27, 2009 3:09 PM

Of course it is, because then words from 'leaders' begin again to have meaning when spoken. Promises are kept, and the differences then become stark.

As it is now, there isn't alot of difference, which disenfranchises the majority of people. What's left is the partisans, the converted. The more earnest and committed your partisans, the bette the vote turns up.

Look at the PC's in Alberta - where a turnip was elected with a runaway majority, by less than 40% of the populace.

Great thoughts man. All it takes is one leader to begin the change.

Have you all seen this: http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2735

Proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth

In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended several countries for human rights reasons. Now, campaigners, politicians and scientists have proposed suspending Canada because of its climate policy.

Should we create a Facebook group daring them to do it?!?

Where all on Acid these days without even dropping it. I guess if we kill useless people they will be grateful.

U-M Research Shows Chronically Ill Patients Might Be Happier if They Give Up Hope

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS37923+02-Nov-2009+PRN20091102