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Reader Tips

Reader Tips 47 Comments

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) SDA Late Nite Radio.
Recently there’s been a bit of a behind-the-scenes scandal at the LNR studios: one particular commenter, Loretta, claims that another commenter – let’s call her “Carol” – has been boasting about having an affair with Loretta’s husband. A rather steamed Loretta writes, via email,

“She’s absolutely full of it. When my husband picks up trash, he puts it in a garbage can. And that’s what Carol looks like to me – pitiful trash. If she comes anywhere near me I swear I’m going to grab her by the hair and lift her off of the ground.”

“I’m not saying my husband is a saint – ’cause he ain’t – and that he won’t flirt with other women. What I am saying is that if Carol doesn’t back off I’m going to show her what a real woman is. She thinks she’s hot stuff? Well, if she’s got the guts, she should say to my face all this stuff she’s been saying to other people.”

“She’s been boasting about this supposed mutual attraction between her and my husband; well, mark my word, if she doesn’t shut up she’s going to find herself on a one-way trip to Fist City.”

I felt it was in the interests of public safety to publish the warning. Now, leave me out of it.
The thread is open for your Reader Tips.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 19 Comments

You mean that big, glowing ball in the sky can actually affect the climate?

When the Sun’s magnetic output is low, winters in Europe tend to be cooler than average – whereas higher output corresponds to warmer winters. That is the conclusion of a new study by physicists in the UK and Germany that looked at the relationship between winter temperatures in England and the strength of the Sun’s magnetic emissions over the last 350 years. The group predicts that, global warming notwithstanding, Europe is likely to continue to experience cold winters for many years to come.

Those wacky physicists!
h/t Don

Dear Asteroid,

Media 83 Comments

So, I’m working away here, catching up on non-blog projects as bits and pieces of the Helen Guergis scandal de jour trickle out of the radio.
I think it was the word “miscarriage” that caught my attention.
I once thought I knew how to recognize a political scandal – an American president lying under oath; operatives diverting public funds into party coffers; a cyclist killed in a pique of road rage.
As it turns out, a scandal can be brought forth into existence through the singular act of a political reporter speculating before a camera while using the word “unclear”.
This presents a dilemma for me, as a blogger.
I have emails in my inbox, opened but unmentioned. Lots of them. Rumours, allegations, “word on the street” stuff.
A recent word on the streeter pertains to a Liberal member of parliament’s rumoured relationship with a well-known CTV personality.
That’s pretty juicy stuff, I suppose – we’d all recognize the names. But, it’s all I have – a couple of emails. It might not be true. If it’s proven to be true, it’s still sort of personal.
And that’s the dilemma. I don’t know what to do with that. So, when I don’t know what to do with a story that involves unsubstanciated claims about the personal affairs of others, I turn to our betters in mainstream journalism and ask myself, “What would Bob Fife do?”

” Yes, Lloyd, while there’s no indication that the parties in question have done anything illegal, it could raise conflict of interest questions in the minds of some, and prove embarrassing to the network.”
“Thanks Bob – we’ll be watching for that one.”

Maybe I could simply find a few quotes by respected CTV speculationists and replace the names they use with the names given to me and attach the word “unclear”.
With a question mark for good measure?

‘Maybe Mickey I. can’t pronounce “Guergis”‘/Mr Zsohar Upperdate

The Tolerant Left 32 Comments

‘…One wonders whether the oh-so-progressive and feminist Toronto Star (or any other media outlet) will look askance at the Mickster’s referring to a female politician as a “missus“.
…
Upperdate: Only Don Martin in the National Post seems to have noticed Ms Guergis’ relegation to missus:

…Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff now refers to Helena Guergis as “Mrs. Jaffer,” a cheap tactic to smear a woman who goes by her maiden name. Perhaps Conservatives should refer to Mr. Ignatieff as Mr. Zsohar, given that his wife Zsuzsanna goes by the name on her birth certificate, but having met her I’d say her name would link to a character improvement…’

“Renewable Energy” And “Scam”

Alternative Subsidy 36 Comments

Not just synonyms anymore!

After press reports, it was established during inspections that several solar power plants were generating current and feeding it into the net at night. To simulate a larger installation capacity, the operators connected diesel generators.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said one industry expert to the newspaper “El Mundo”, which brought the scandal to light. If solar systems apparently produce current in the dark, will be noticed sooner or later. However, if electricity generators were connected during daytime, the swindle would hardly be noticed.

Meanwhile, if a giant fan falls into the sea, and no one can pay for the the splash….
h/t jcl and Ron in Kelowna

Gained In Translation

What He Said 62 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose! – Revisited…

The rate of unilingualism among francophones is 58 per cent. Among anglophones, it was 90.6 per cent. Among allophones, 87.9 per cent.
Thus, according to the conventional wisdom as enunciated by Graham Fraser, the overwhelming majority of Canadians should never be considered for any of Canada’s top jobs.

h/t John D.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

Alternative Subsidy 39 Comments

More people have been killed by Oregon’s windmills than died at Three Mile Island;

Today, 20 percent of America’s electricity, and 69 percent of its carbon-free generation of electricity, is from nuclear plants. But it has been 30 years since America began construction on a new nuclear reactor.
France gets 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear power; China is starting construction of a new reactor every three months. Meanwhile, America, which pioneered nuclear power, is squandering money on wind power, which provides 1.3 percent of the nation’s electricity: it is slurping up $30 billion of tax breaks and other subsidies amounting to $18.82 per megawatt-hour, 25 times as much per megawatt-hour as the combined subsidies for all other forms of electricity production.
Wind power involves gargantuan “energy sprawl.” To produce 20 percent of America’s power by wind, which the Obama administration dreamily proposes, would require 186,000 tall turbines—40 stories tall, their flashing lights can be seen for 20 miles—covering an area the size of West Virginia. The amount of electricity that would be produced by wind turbines extending the entire 2,178 miles of the Appalachian Trail can be produced by four reactors occupying four square miles of land.

Amen.
h/t Eric Anderson

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 41 Comments
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello performing Billy Strayhorn‘s Take The ‘A’ Train ¤ §, in 1966 (9:50).

“The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
— Bertrand Russell

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