Author: Kate

Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our ongoing exploration of their works (previously: Vicious Games, Desire, The Rhythm Divine, Of Course I’m Lying, & Lost Again), here are Dieter Meier and Boris Blank, as the Swiss band Yello, with guest Billy Mackenzie, performing Capri Calling ¤ from their Baby album, in 1991 (audio, 2:52).

It’s the time,
Of April snows.
And how it shows,
In Hannah’s eyes.

Calling she’s calling,
Calling each midnight.
Take me to new heights,
Falling I’m falling.

A secret power,
Sweet with surprises.
Leaves no disguises,
When you feel pure.

  It’s the time,
Of April snows.
And how it shows,
In Hannah’s eyes.

Time and she’s calling,
A pool of thought.
I sometimes call,
In Hannah’s eyes.

I hear her calling,
Calling she’s calling.
I hear her calling,
In Hannah’s eyes.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

Globe&Mail, March 30Hillary Clinton has taken issue with Canada’s signature G8 initiative on maternal mortality, arguing that any effort to improve the health of mothers in poor countries must include access to abortion.
FNC, March 21stToday, the President announced that he will be issuing an executive order after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion.
You’d think the giant brains in Canadian journalism might have picked up on that. Of couse, it’s not what they pay them for.

What’s The Big Deal About Guergis?

Montreal Gazette;

The minister of state for the status of women has been in hot water this week over admissions from two of her staff that they wrote a series of letters to media outlets praising and defending their boss without identifying themselves as employees.

Doesn’t this fall under new kind of politicsTM?

We just received this Letter to the Editor submitted by a Tennessee resident. It’s deadwood spam; turf mail. Google various parts of it and you’ll get the White House Web site, AARP, the American Chronicle, Democratic Women of Clifton and my.barackobama.com. Oh, and you’ll also get marketingofcampaignemails.blogspot.com.

h/t

With Enemies Like These

Who needs friends?

The sales spike by Toyota is a big “F*** You” to the media that once had the power to destroy the reputation of anyone they chose, either out of spite or simply as collateral damage in their desire to sell newspapers or air time via sensationalism.

I think the better explanation may be found in the mainstream media sales declines. They just don’t reach that many eyeballs anymore.

Reader Tips

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Roy Buchanan (a pioneer of the Telecaster sound, with his pinch harmonics technique) and Albert Collins (with his additions thereto of minor tunings and sustained attacks), and the band (of whom which I lack further information, my apologies), performing Further On Down The Road ¤ (8:31) in some unknown space & time. It is neat, I think, to be able to hear these guys workin’ together, in light of their rôles in the now classical evolution of music through the era of its introduction to the electronic dimension.

“Gospel, that’s how I first got into black music.”
— Roy Buchanan

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

Richard Albert… a graduate of Yale, Oxford, and Harvard, is an Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School, where he specializes in constitutional law and democratic theory. He writes about constitutional politics, the separation of powers, the role of courts in liberal democracy, and religion in public life.
Richard Albert“But for the moment, if anyone can articulate a good reason why Supreme Court appointees should not be bilingual, I would be curious to hear it.”

The World Is Being Run By Crazy People

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
GuardianA Conservative-run council has defended its decision to pursue legal action against a pet shop owner who was prosecuted for selling a goldfish to a child.
Globe&Mail“We’re just starting out with seven [million million electronvolts] Tuesday and Wednesday. When we run at 14 million million electronvolts, we’ll recreate the universe as it was in this little teeny region of the collision..”

Reader Tips

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) Late Nite Radio.
Every note of music, every voice that ever stirred the air prior to advent of the earliest sound-recording technology is gone forever. No one will ever hear Chopin playing his nocturnes, or an ancient Greek bard singing of the exploits of the gods as he strums his lyre, or hear the ringing voice of an 18th century Scottish balladeer. Because of a unique confluence of particular circumstances, though, tonight’s featured performer moves the line back – just a bit – and provides a tantalizing window into the pre-recording era sounds of mid-19th century American music.
David Harrison Macon was born in 1870 in Tennessee, the son of a distiller and former Confederate civil war captain. When he was 12 his father purchased Nashville’s Broadway Hotel, a famous hub for an assortment traveling minstrels and vaudevillians, where Macon would soak up hundreds of songs and lyrics and styles from older performers, some of whom had been playing their songs continuously since well before the civil war. After his father was stabbed to death the hotel was sold, and Macon began his 30-some year career as a muleskinner. Hauling goods between the towns of Woodbury and Murfreesboro, he always had his banjo with him as he sung to his mules and entertained passersby. By the time the voluble, musically deft and wisecracking Macon entered an early studio for the first time when he was in his mid-fifties, he was a real-life character, first and foremost; his recordings weren’t carefully-scripted studio creations but rather a documentation, replete with foot stomps and shouts and hollers, of a lifelong entertainer whose sensibility and music had been forged in an earlier era.
This wisecracking, entertaining, human-jukebox known professionally as Uncle Dave Macon takes us as close as we will ever get to hearing the sounds, styles and mannerisms of the US civil war-era music. In this 1926 recording mash up of “A-Monday Was My Courtin’ Day” and the 1844 song “Old Grey Goose”, he avows with a wink that he won’t get drunk no more Way Down The Old Plank Road.
You are invited, as always, to provide your Reader Tips in the comments.

Between The First American Prime Minister In Waiting

… and the diplomatic gift horse formerly known as “Bill’s wife”, Stephen Harper may come to look back at this week as one of his best ever.

“Whether it comes to our role in Afghanistan, our sovereignty over our Arctic or ultimately our foreign aid priorities, it is Canada and Canadians who will make Canadian decisions,”

Forty years of Liberal cultivated anti-Americanism finally put to good use.

“…mentioned by exactly zero mainstream media outlets.”

At Zerohedge;

On March 18, with very little pomp and circumstance, president Obama passed the most recent stimulus act, the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act […] if anyone had read it, the act would have been known as the Capital Controls Act, as one of the lesser, but infinitely more important provisions on page 27, known as Offset Provisions – Subtitle A—Foreign Account Tax Compliance, institutes just that.
In brief, the Provision requires that foreign banks not only withhold 30% of all outgoing capital flows (likely remitting the collection promptly back to the US Treasury) but also disclose the full details of non-exempt account-holders to the US and the IRS. And should this provision be deemed illegal by a given foreign nation’s domestic laws (think Switzerland), well the foreign financial institution is required to close the account. It’s the law. If you thought you could move your capital to the non-sequestration safety of non-US financial institutions, sorry you lose – the law now says so. Capital Controls are now here and are now fully enforced by the law.

The Sound Of Settled Science

NYT stumbles upon a well known scientific phenomenon;

A study released on Monday by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.”
More than a quarter of the weathercasters in the survey agreed with the statement “Global warming is a scam,” the researchers found.
The split between climate scientists and meteorologists is gaining attention in political and academic circles because polls show that public skepticism about global warming is increasing, and weather forecasters — especially those on television — dominate communications channels to the public. A study released this year by researchers at Yale and George Mason found that 56 percent of Americans trusted weathercasters to tell them about global warming far more than they trusted other news media or public figures like former Vice President Al Gore or Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate.
[…]
Several well-known forecasters — including John Coleman in San Diego and Anthony Watts, a retired Chico, Calif., weatherman who now has a popular blog — have been vociferous in their critiques of global warming.

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