| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Grace Jones (one of our favourite contraltos) performing Walking in the Rain ¤ § in 1981 (4:21). |
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“Holiday Inn, operator of over 4,000 hotels worldwide, will begin to offer a free five-minute “human bed warming service” at it’s London Kensington hotel throughout next week.”
At the top of his game.
Take Manhattan, but first take the Hamptons, where symptoms are readily apprehended, just as the pulse at the wrist is a telltale of the heart. Mere multimillionaires cannot afford anymore to go where within living memory actual people made a living from the farms, clam beds, and sword-fishing grounds. Now the potato fields are covered with houses that look like the headquarters of Martian expeditionary forces, ice-cream factories, vacuum cleaners on stilts, the Seagram building on its side, or shingled New England cottages monstrously swollen into something you might see after eating a magic mushroom. In simple and quiet towns that once deferred to the majesty of the ocean, the streets are now clogged with a kabuki theater of Range Rovers and $35,000 handbags.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
National Enquirer, December 2007 – JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!
Mainstream Media, January 2010 – JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL!
 Closure of Detention Facilities at Guantánamo. The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of this order. If any individuals covered by this order remain in detention at Guantánamo at the time of closure of those detention facilities, they shall be returned to their home country, released, transferred to a third country, or transferred to another United States detention facility in a manner consistent with law and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States. |
“In some places, there are codes, there are images… You know, there are pickup trucks, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.” – Howard Fineman, senior editor of Newsweek
h/t TimR
I placed his name in the headline so that should you run across it in the future, you’ll be cautioned that the content you’re about to read may be unreliable;
A couple of weeks ago, a few of us in the blogosphere were e-mailed by a journalist in Kabul who was looking to do some research for a story he was writing about military vehicles and IED deaths in Afghanistan. The thesis he ran by all of us was that “non-US coalition partners (Canada included) are taking casualities because they simply are not driving vehicles that are effective against the IED.”
We tried to gently turn his head from that over-simplistic notion. And at the time, I naively thought we were doing a decent job of it.
Day’s “research” was prompted by…. oh, I’ll let you figure it out.
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Jack Webb and Johnny Carson performing their Copper Clapper Caper ¤ sketch, in 1968 (2:49). |
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Here’s a story that leaves me conflicted. On one hand, this politely worded complaint is completely justified, given the circumstances;
Le Devoir reports that some 20 Canadian journalists camped out on the grounds of our Embassy in Port-au-Prince — which is being protected by members of the Canadian Forces — have been asked by staff to leave as soon as possible. […] “The priority for our diplomats is to help those in greatest need… those who’ve been affected by the earthquake… Water and food will be given to everyone… and the journalists can stay, but if they can find some other place, it would be greatly appreciated.”
But on the other, opportunities for the Earth to open up and swallow the lot of them don’t come along that often, either.
What ACORN giveth, the Tea Party taketh away…
Marc Thiessen is the author of Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack , about which he wrote for us here. As White House speechwriter for George Bush, Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was assigned the task of writing Bush’s September 2006 speech explaining the CIA’s interrogation program and why Congress should authorize it. Few men in a position to address the subject knowledgeably in public know more about these CIA operations than Thiessen.
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Yesterday Thiessen clashed with Amanpour and Sands on CNN. During the segment Thiessen confronted Amanpour with her wild misstatements about the CIA interrogations and disputed Sands’s assertion regarding the inefficacy of the techniques in issue. I don’t think Amanpour will be having Thiessen back any time soon.
The last chance to save the planet from bursting into flame safely behind us…
The timetable to reach a global deal to tackle climate change lay in tatters on Wednesday after the United Nations waived the first deadline of the process laid out at last month’s fractious Copenhagen summit.
Nations agreed then to declare their emissions reduction targets by the end of this month. Developed countries would state their intended cuts by 2020: developing countries would outline how they would curb emissions growth.
But Yvo de Boer, the UN’s senior climate change official, admitted the deadline had in effect been shelved.
“By [the end of] January, countries will have the opportunity to . . . indicate if they want to be associated with the accord,” he said. “[Governments could] indicate by the deadline, or they can also indicate later.”
“You could describe it as a soft deadline,” Mr de Boer said.
“Soft”, like footsteps in the snow….
And not courthouses.
Zakaria Amara, 23, the group’s ringleader, pleaded guilty on Oct. 8. A police informant described him as being a “time bomb waiting to go off” and having a “total indifference to innocent life.” He was sentenced this week to life in prison, but will be eligible for parole in six years.
Saad Gaya, 21, a McMaster University student, pleaded guilty on Sep. 28. The group’s ringleaders selected Gaya to drive one of the bomb-laden trucks to its target. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison this week, but will be eligible for parole in 3½ years.
Ali Mohamed Dirie, 26, a Somali-Canadian, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to smuggling guns for the terrorist group. While in prison, Dirie “took an active role in recruiting other inmates to adopt extreme jihadi beliefs,” the Crown prosecutor said during his trial.
Saad Khalid, 23, was the first of the group to plead guilty. The Saudi-born Khalid was sentenced to 14 years but could be released on parole in just more than two years because of seven years’ credit given for time served. Khalid bought electrical components and recruited another person into the group. Crown prosecutors say they willl appeal his sentence.
Nishanthan Yogakrishnan, 18 at the time of his arrest, is a Sri Lankan convert to Islam. He was convicted last September and sentenced to 30 months, but credited for time served and released on parole. Yogakrishnan was first person found guilty under anti-terrorism legislation passed by Parliament in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
Amin Durrani, 23, was sentenced yesterday to 7½ years in prison but will be released today on strict parole, having been given extra credit for time already served in custody.
RELEASED
The following have signed peace bonds in which they agreed to undergo rehabilitation and stay out of trouble, and in exchange the Crown agreed not to proceed with their prosecution:
– A father in his mid-40s, described as a spiritual leader to some of the accused.
– A recent university graduate, described by a lawyer as a model citizen.
– A young university student.
– A man originally charged with importing firearms for the group.
– Three young offenders released in February 2007.
Or the Toronto Star.
Always helpful;
And, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, I think that it is time for Mrs. Clinton to start gearing up for a run for the White House in 2012. I firmly believe that she is. I think the Clintons are waiting out there.
They are watching this. They are watching a lackadaisical failure response to the earthquake in Haiti. They are watching this election result. They’ve been loyal. They’ve been spouting the Obama talking points all over the place. Hillary has dutifully gone wherever she’s been told to go by Obama. Now we had a referendum on Obama; his approval numbers are plunging. No issue he supports enjoys majority support of the American people. Mrs. Clinton, start gearing up for 2012. Her loss was narrow! Operation Chaos (orchestrated by me and executed by many of you) kept her in that race longer than she otherwise would have been. But Obama has failed miserably in record time. And my gal Hillary, who so many of you voted for in the Democrat primary, could be well poised to springboard back into the race in 2012.
I hope she’s pondering it. Nobody could have ever expected (except me) this big and this fast a failure on the part of the president of the United States. But I have no doubts because I know, and knew, that his policies were going to take us right where we are. So make no mistake about it: Even without my urging, Hillary Clinton is salivating and Bill Clinton is salivating because (doing Bill Clinton impression), “A few years ago, that guy would’ve been getting us coffee. In a couple more years, that guy can get us coffee. Maybe three.”
Growing legs: “Disappeared” – The Case Of The Vanishing Thermometers
In case you missed that: “Just 1 thermometer remains for everything north of latitude 65N – that station is Eureka.”
Richard Foote takes note at the National Post.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio.
Anyone fortunate enough to have seen the late Ray Condo in a small club setting can attest to what a great live performer he was. His studio recordings never managed to fully capture either his mischievous joy or the whip-crack energy of his live performances, but tonight’s selected album cut comes close to doing that, thanks in part to a nicely-done video comprised of footage shot by his drummer on a 1994 European tour. Here it is: the title track from Ray Condo & His Hard Rock Goners’ 1994 Album Come On.
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Now is the time at SDA when we juxapose!
Fox News, December 20090 – White House Christmas Decor Featuring Mao Zedong Comes Under Fire
Washington Times, January 2010 – The White House National Security Council recently directed U.S. spy agencies to lower the priority placed on intelligence collection for China amid opposition to the policy change from senior intelligence leaders…
Update – a better point in the comments.
The IPCC never asked, but that did not stop the IPCC from making up an answer for me.
h/t Don B.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Dwain Lingenfelter, Jan.12th – “I want to be very clear that I’m referring to (Wall) and his team of cabinet — but mainly the premier because he’s the leader — as a loser, but no one else.”
RCMP, Jan.19th – …. have charged a man who volunteered in the provincial NDP leadership campaign of Dwain Lingenfelter in connection with irregular memberships sold by the campaign.
