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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Johnny Hamp & his Kentucky Serenaders performing Keep Your Sunny Side Up!, with Joe Cassidy singing, in 1929 (2:47).

Keep your sunny side up, keep it up,
Hide the side that gets blue.
If you have nine sons in a row,
Start a baseball team,
    they make money you know.
  Keep your funny side up, don’t let up,
Let your laughter come through.
Stand up on your legs,
    be like two fried eggs,
Keep your sunny side up.

 

“The Constitution only gives people the right to
pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
— Benjamin Franklin

 
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Marketing Campaigns Of The Apocalypse

We call him “Clifford Olson” and he’s wonderful with children;

Not one dog bite in Canada has been attributed to a Staffordshire bull terrier in the history of the breed, said Barkey, a leading advocate for rescinding the law as written. She breeds the dog in Quinon, Que., and in several countries outside Canada.
“I’m the only one here today,” she said of the dog’s breeders and competitors.
Because of the Ontario ban, the breed is in decline in Canada, she said. She named the 15-month-old dog “Che,” she said, to give the breed a freedom fighter.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Woody Herman and his orchestra, The Swinging Herd, featuring Bill Chase, Dave Gale, Billy Hunt, Phil Wilson, Henry Southall, Bob Rudolph, Sal Nistico, Jackie Stevens, Bobby Jones, Frank Hittner, Nat Pierce, Chuck Andrus, and Jake Hanna performing Molasses ¤ on Jazz Casual in 1963 (6:30).

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Welcome to Progressia

I recall a Saskatchewan event a number of years ago which involved a canoe race. The teams in the race decided to all finish the race together … so the fastest canoe held up to let all the rest catch up, and they finished the race all in first place.
… or was it all in last place?
Such is the mentality of the new Europe:

Germany’s trade surpluses built on holding down labor costs may be unsustainable for the other countries in the eurozone, France’s finance minister said in an unusually blunt warning to Berlin.
Christine Lagarde said Berlin should consider boosting domestic demand to help deficit countries regain competitiveness and sort out their public finances.
Her comments break a long-standing taboo between the French and German governments about macroeconomic imbalances inside the 16-country bloc which have been dramatically exposed by the Greek debt crisis.
“[Could] those with surpluses do a little something? It takes two to tango,” she said in an interview with the Financial Times. “It cannot just be about enforcing deficit principles.”
“Clearly Germany has done an awfully good job in the last 10 years or so, improving competitiveness, putting very high pressure on its labor costs. When you look at unit labor costs to Germany, they have done a tremendous job in that respect. I’m not sure it is a sustainable model for the long term and for the whole of the group. Clearly we need better convergence.”

But I have a condition

You’ve got to wonder sometimes if this whole “human rights” thing hasn’t gone too far:

A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.

The union, NU’91, is calling the campaign “I Draw The Line Here,” with an advert that features a young woman covering her face with crossed hands.

A more effective advert would show a trio of brawny Dutch-Calvinist nurses advancing with a pillow…

Rampaging gangs of Toyotas rough up the elderly and the bankrupt

Last week a 61-year old named James Sikes, who filed for bankruptcy several years ago, found himself unable to stop his 2008 Toyota Prius as it raced along the highway at over 90 miles per hour. The 911 dispatcher “repeatedly pleaded with Sikes to shift into neutral. He simply refused…..”
Fun fact: the gear shift in the 2008 Toyota Prius is conveniently mounted so that one can shift while keeping both hands on the wheel.

“I thought about” shifting into neutral, Sikes said at a televised press conference the day after the incident. But “I had never played with this kind of a transmission, especially when you’re driving, and I was actually afraid to do that.”

Might there be more going on behind the scenes of this whole “Toyota scandal” than the average MSM-watcher is aware of? Theodore H. Frank, in the Washington Examiner:

We went through this a generation ago with the Audi 5000 and other autos accused of sudden acceleration, and, again, mysterious unknowable car components were supposedly at fault….Back then, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)…found that sudden acceleration was several times more likely among elderly drivers than young drivers…”

We’re seeing the same pattern again today. Initial reports of a problem, followed by dozens of new reports “coming to light” as people seek to blame their earlier accidents on sudden acceleration.

(…)

In the 24 (Toyota) cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89—and I’m leaving out the son whose age wasn’t identified, but whose 94-year-old father died as a passenger.

Hmmm. Clearly, it’s time for a class-action age-discrimination lawsuit against foreign car manufacturer Toyota. Their customers’ lives, after all, “can suddenly become hell-on-wheels.”

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here Rudolf Koelman and the Fremantle Chamber Orchestra performing the third movement, Allegro con Fuoco, of Henryk Wieniawski‘s 1862 Violin Concerto N° 2 ¤ § in D minor, Op.22, with Jessica Gethin conducting, in 2008 (5:48).
“Certitude is not the test of certainty.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Now is the time at SDA when we Juxtapose!

Obama administration publicly dresses down Israel:

“The announcement of the settlements on the very day that the vice president was there was insulting,” (Hillary) said. “I mean, it was just really a very unfortunate and difficult moment for everyone — the United States, our vice president, who had gone to reassert America’s strong support for Israeli security — and I regret deeply that that occurred.”

Meanwhile Palestinians hold a ceremony naming a square after Fatah terrorist:

Despite the Palestinian Authority’s announcement that it had postponed the inauguration of a square in el-Bireh named after Dalal Mughrabi, the Fatah woman who led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in which 37 Israeli civilians and an American photographer were killed, and 71 were wounded, Fatah officials on Thursday evening went ahead with the ceremony.

And in related news, another day in the Islamic world, another rampage against Christians:

Muslims attacked a community center and burned several homes belonging to Coptic Christians in northwestern Egypt over the weekend, injuring 23 people, in a rampage that a local bishop said was incited by a radical Muslim preacher.

What’s a Day Without Climate Nonsense

… in this case though, a sniff of common sense has taken hold:

TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm.
The adverts, commissioned by Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, used the rhymes to suggest that Britain faces an inevitable increase in storms, floods and heat waves unless greenhouse gas emissions are brought under control.
The ASA has ruled that the claims made in the newspaper adverts were not supported by solid science and has told the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that they should not be published again.
It has also referred a television commercial to the broadcast regulator, Ofcom, for potentially breaching a prohibition on political advertising.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Miguel De Caro and the guys performing the tango Malena ¤ (5:01).
“An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels its votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.”
— Valery

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