Terrific. Thanks. Carson has a lot of cojones to sing with those guys and I'd forgotten how funny Dean Martin could be.

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dropped plans to attend an international nuclear summit in Washington next week..."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100408/world/mideast_israel_nuclear

Not sure if he really didn't want to go or if it's in response to the Obama administration's visa refusal for Israeli nuclear workers:

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/04/unreal-obama-administration-refuses-visas-to-all-israeli-nuclear-workers.html

Dig the spitoon, must have been non-smoking.

For those handicapping the selection of the new Governor General, the new Lieutenant Governor in Alberta was just named: Donald Ethel, a retired military guy.
Does his selection improve or decrease the odds for Lewis MacKenzie as GG? Who knows.
http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/ethell.cfm

God knows(!/?)

Thanks, Vitruvius, for that quote, which segues nicely into this reader tip:

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1af21fbf-e188-440d-8615-8c2deaae096b

Most of the "facts" in the New York Times March 25 article on Pope Benedict XVI have been proven false -- "Falsehood upon falsehood -- four errors in the first paragraph" -- and the NYT reporter, Laurie Goodstein, has had to rewrite her article, which appears on page 6, not on the front page, where her false accusations against Pope Benedict appeared.

As Fr. Raymond DeSouza, the author of today's National Post article, asks, are Goodstein and the New York Times' "guilty of egregiously shoddy reporting -- or worse -- on a story of global implications"?

Here is a tip for all the greentards ...lol. we just got dumped on here in calgary with a pile of snow and now it is remarkably cold go figure!!

Paul in calgary

paul at April 8, 2010 11:07 PM,

First snow storm I have ever seen with lightning.
Knocked the power out at my place in the north.

Yeah i know the power went out here in the north east at my place as well ....funny ...with lightning as well i live in a basemnet sweet and my window is under a deck lol ..so i missed the light show ....but saw the snow casue my roomate up stairs toldm e so i went to make sure my windows were closed on my car ...lol would not have made a difference anyway casue i went out after the storm lol.

Paul in calgary

Mt Washington, near Courtenay, Vancouver Island just went over 7 meters of snow last night. Major snowstorm in the BC interior cause havoc on the Coquihalla Hwy as well. Love this climate warming global change or whatever it is that they call it now. mike

There's a general election coming up in Britain on May 6th.

The Brit newspaper "The Telegraph" has an online survey with a bunch of questions which will help readers decide which party to vote for according to the answers one gives.

Just for a laugh I did the survey and I ended up with a 76% score for the BNP! LOL!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7541285/How-should-I-vote-in-the-General-Election-2010.html

It's been suggested (citation needed) that the character Sherlock Holmes is a portrait of a thoroughgoing cerebral (as distict from somatic) narcissist; that is to say, among other things, that he sees himself as a "thinking machine".

My point being that the quote above may be an example of his undervaluing instinct.

They posting a comment at the CBC machete story:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/04/06/hate-crime.html#socialcomments

I think they just want it to go away.
I've posted about ten, not one has come through in the last 24 hours.
No posts = no interest so they can whack the story off the website.

Analyzing apothegms is a mugs game, Black Mamba. That's why, if you refer to the photograph of the equipment we have newly acquired in order to deploy this feature, you will notice the Danger sign. That said, I think that Holmes certainly valued instinct highly, indeed, one could easily argue that he had a finely developed instinct, in areas for which he had a finely developed instinct. It is, I think, more a matter that when one has not said finely developed instinct in such field, or even then that there is not sufficient information for said instinct to kick in, that it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data, because, insensibly, one then begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

I'm a mug, I love it :-) Anyway, that's surely why you put them up there, Vitruvius.

If you can't read this, please apply.

"Hospital has staff from 70 countries as nurses who don't even understand 'nil by mouth' forced to take English lessons"

http://tinyurl.com/ya35f2j

Were you a mug, Black Mamba, I would have written "mug's game".
For surely, one can play a foolish game without being oneself a mug!
As we both just have, in the "arousing laughter" sense of foolish ;-)

RE: Carson. Peter Lawford wasn't there!! The rat pack were the best known group in the US at that time. Most of it was ad-lib.
Re: The transmitter. I can just hear the 60 cycle buzz and the odour of ozone in the air.

For people don't think its not like the 30s amain today in another Anti-Semitic explosion? Look again! Than ask yourself why Islamists rioted over Cartoons, when you see these that are much worse. Ones which no one mentions or says a peep about.

Cartoons from the Arab World

http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm

Here's a satellite image of the storm that's hit Alberta and
Saskatchewan. As the lyrics of our 2010-04-03 SDA Late
Nite Radio show sang: It's the time, of April snows.

Black Mamba - instinct is only viable as a 'twitch-to-think-about-this-surprising-thing' if one first observes that same surprise as a factual reality.

Yes, Vitruvius, I observed that Danger sign but was unsure whether it referred to the equipment, the spitoon, all the people who worked there, or the individual who sat regularly in that spot. Many hypotheses about limited data observations.

Al-Isadora Duncan.
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"Muslim woman strangled by her burkha in freak go-kart accident

A Muslim woman has died after her burkha became caught in a go-kart she was driving.

The 24-year-old woman, who has not yet been named, died a terrifying death today when a fluttering part of her burkha became caught in the wheels of a go-kart she was driving near the town of Port Stephens, north of Sydney.

The Muslim clothing the woman was wearing flew back as she sped around the track and part of it became entangled in the go-kart's wheels.

She was strangled in a second and crashed the vehicle.

Despite the efforts of paramedics who rushed to her aid, the neck and throat injuries she suffered were so severe that doctors were unable to revive her when she arrived at the John Hunter Hospital in the New South Wales city of Newcastle.

The young woman was riding the go-kart at a popular recreational area known as Bob's Farm, which offers rides of up to 15 minutes at a time.

Her death is being likened to that of American dancer Isadora Duncan, acknowledged as being the creator of modern dance, and who was famous for the flowing silk carves she liked to wear."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2489609/posts

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has
data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit
theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
-- Sherlock Holmes

Sounds like the epitaph for the Climate Scientologists.

A good way to shut up armchair quarterbacks.

Here's Krauthammer on Obama's new defensive strategy for the US.

http://article.nationalreview.com/430831/nuclear-posturing-obama-style/charles-krauthammer

Essentially, Obama is saying that IF you attack the US with a WMD that is non-nuclear and IF you, yourself, have complied with the non-proliferation treaty (but you may, yourself, have such weapons) ..THEN, the US will not retaliate with its own WMD (nuclear).

What this means is that - it's OK to attack the US or indeed, any small nation that has considered itself protected by the US. As long as your WMD are non-nuclear.

It doesn't make sense. I'm trying my Sherlock Holmes tactic; I'm observing the data of Obama's speeches. But there doesn't seem to be any rational underlying hypothesis for the actions in his speeches.

Does he think that IF the US cuts back on nuclear weapons THEN all other nations will copy him..sorry, Him? Is his malignant narcissism the theoretical underpinning for his actions? If X cuts back on Y, then why should the rest of the world copy X?

Is there some non-psychological strategic plan that we animal farm community members are missing out on? If so, what is it?

Everyone ends up confused, and nostalgic of what then. -funny rumbling

One of these pictures will make you smile.

http://theberry.com/2009/11/17/oh-yeah-this-is-totally-normal/

Helena Guergis has resigned.

http://www.thestar.com/breakingnews/article/792861--helena-guergis-resigns-amid-scandal

Michael Radu, The Islamist Ghost Haunting Europe

At the same time that Europe is suffering an extreme loss of national identity the Islamic world, aware of its general backwardness but in denial of the local roots of that backwardness, seeks scapegoats abroad, and solutions in a return to the mythical “pure” Islam of the Prophet’s times. While these factors are obvious in the case of Muslims born in Europe, they are even more acutely felt by Third World immigrants. For the latter, the identity vacuum of Europe’s metropolises adds to the double cultural shock of entry from a rural into a post-industrial world and from a conservative and structured moral universe into postmodern moral relativism and anarchic individualism....

Lest We Forget.

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"Thousands pay respects at Vimy Ridge commemoration

OTTAWA -- Thousands of Canadians flocked to the capital on Friday to pay their respects at the Vimy Ridge commemoration, a ceremony that comes less than two months after the death of this country's last remaining First World War veteran.

John Babcock died at age 109 in Spokane, Wash., where he settled after moving to the U.S. after the war. While the Ontario-born Mr. Babcock didn't want a formal state funeral, he agreed before his death that Canada ought to commemorate the contribution of all those who served in that war.

The 93rd anniversary of the pivotal Battle of Vimy Ridge, usually a low-key event, was thus a grander affair this year."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2782889
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"93 years ago, the battle of Vimy Ridge began

The Royal Canadian Legion produces over 18 million poppies each November for people to wear on their collars -- a symbol of remembrance for our soldiers who have died in combat -- and yet when it comes to remembering key victories such as the one at Vimy Ridge in 1917, fewer than one in 10 Canadians do so.

The Vimy Foundation, however, is determined to change this statistic. Founded in 2004, after a signpost for the memorial was removed from a nearby highway in France (it has since been resurrected), the organization is devoted to raising awareness about this seminal event in Canadian history. Part of its campaign includes offering scholarships to high school students, organizing youth trips to the memorial site and distributing Vimy pins, which they hope will become April's poppy."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2781124#ixzz0kccuxIMO

Liberal Iffy’s O’Harvard buddy loses again.

Bravo TEA Party.

“Stupak feels heat, gets out of kitchen; Michigan Democrat retires after caving in Obamacare vote and facing sure mid-term defeat”

http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/

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“Rep. Bart Stupak Announces His Retirement After Health Care Controversy”

“Obama called Stupak on Wednesday to talk him out of retiring, Fox News learned.”

“On Friday, the Tea Party Express credited its influence for “defeating” Stupak.

“The surprising announcement that Congressman Bart Stupak is abandoning his campaign for reelection shows the power of the tea party movement,” the group’s political director, Bryan Shroyer, said in a statement.

“Stupak was no longer able to hide his betrayal of conservative principles because the tea party movement was determined to educate the voters in the district,” he said.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/09/rep-bart-stupak-retire/

ET @8:05 - you mean that instintive impulses - call them intuition - need to be considered as data? Or am I just confused again?

3w.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/04/09/guergis-leaving-cabinet.html

hey babe. bad publicity better than none at all, right?

and what do the kneejerk neocons have to say about this exemplar of the right wing?

We accept it and move on,though the very young occasionally resort to name-calling.

O'smoking Muslim.

"He [Barry Soetero, aka Barack Obama] was registered as a Muslim, based on his stepfather's faith."

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"An old school registry at Asisi records how, under the name "Barry Soetoro," he entered first grade at the start of the school year on Jan. 1, 1968. He was registered as a Muslim, based on his stepfather's faith."

"Catholic school in Indonesia seeks recognition for its role in Obama's life

JAKARTA, INDONESIA -- Long shadowed in the United States by dark rumors that he attended a radical Muslim school while growing up in Indonesia, President Obama faces pressure from some old school pals to finally come clean about the past."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040805858.html

Speedy: "One of these pictures will make you smile."

Which one?!!!

O’grovels: “The New Neutralism”.

Grovel is an ugly word:

“to lie or crawl with the face downward and the body prostrate, esp. in abject humility, fear, etc.”
(dict.com)
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“The New Neutralism: US and EU Abandon Swiss In Conflict With Libya

From the desk of Paul Belien on Fri, 2010-04-09 05:52

March was a good month for Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. He received high-profile apologies from both the United States and the European Union. The apologies were at the expense of Switzerland, the country against which Gaddafi has officially declared “holy war.” Switzerland has a tradition of neutralism in international conflicts, but could not avoid a nasty conflict with Libya. Trying to remain “neutral” in the Swiss-Libyan conflict, the US and the EU grovel before the Libyan despot.

continue reading”

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/04/09/the-ends-and-the-means/#comment-102798

Here's a good tip..

Contract government work? Check on who gets it.

[Quote]

“The site performs web scraping to capture information from government sites about contracts awarded to various contractors. This is, officially, publicly reported information.

It is, however, displayed and stored on hundreds of disparate government sites in various forms, and this hinders the search and use of the information should anyone need it,” she wrote.

Disclosed.ca

“Now . . . the process of contract awarding became more transparent as disclosed.ca allows the public to better identify regular recipients of government contracts.” [/Quote]

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Toomy Douglas' revenge.
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"Regina office tower evacuated due to winds
CBC.ca - ‎2 hours ago‎

Eleventh Avenue, a major Regina downtown thoroughfare, which is usually teeming with pedestrians and traffic, was home only to blowing wind and a couple of police vehicles Friday.

WIND STORM: Regina's SGI building evacuated, trees toppled, semis overturned Vancouver Sun
Wind and Snow Close Roads, Clear Buildings, Topple Trees 650 CKOM News Talk Radio"
(googoonews)