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  1. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is, in my opinion, the best freely available excerpt from Mike Oldfield‘s original performance of Tubular Bells in 1973 (there is no video, just close your eyes and listen, which happens to be a generically good idea when it comes to non-beerhall music):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8l5fthffiE
    You want variations on a theme? You got it. Guaranteed 😉

  4. Jason Cherniak’s Liblogs is now hosting blogs by 9-11 Truthers. A few weeks ago Cherniak demanded that the blogging tories remove SDA from their list because he was upset by a post’s title. He said that if SDA wasn’t removed then “they have no right complaining when we hold them all responsible for helping to advertise her rantings, ravings and lunacies.”
    Which I guess means he’s giving everyone else carte blanche to lay the ravings of 9-11 Truthers on the Liblogs and Cherniak. So smear away: http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/cherniak-supports-9-11-truthers/

  5. ““The Real China and the Olympics” – Letter by Teng Biao & Hu Jia'”
    “When you come to the Olympic Games in Beijing, you will see skyscrapers, spacious streets, modern stadiums and enthusiastic people. You will see the truth, but not the whole truth, just as you see only the tip of an iceberg. You may not know that the flowers, smiles, harmony and prosperity are built on a base of grievances, tears, imprisonment, torture and blood.
    We are going to tell you the truth about China. We believe that for anyone who wishes to avoid a disgraceful Olympics, knowing the truth is the first step. Fang Zheng, an excellent athlete who holds two national records for the discus throw at China’s Special Sport Games, has been deprived of the opportunity to participate in the 2008 Paralympics because he has become a living testimony to the June 4, 1989 massacre. That morning, in Tiananmen Square, his legs were crushed by a tank while he was rescuing a fellow student. In April 2007, the Ministry of Public Security issued an internal document secretly strengthening a political investigation which resulted in forbidding Olympics participation by 43 types of people from 11 different categories, including dissidents, human rights defenders, media workers, and religious participants. The Chinese police never made the document known to either the Chinese public or the international community.”
    “China still practices literary inquisition and holds the world record for detaining journalists and writers, as many as several hundred since 1989 according to incomplete statistics. As of this writing, 35 Chinese journalists and 51 writers are still in prison. Over 90 percent were arrested or tried after Beijing’s successful bid for the Olympics in July 2001.”
    http://hujiajinyan.wordpress.com/petitions/the-real-china-and-the-olympics/

  6. MJD: “Mad journalism disease”: contagious, virile; BDS/HDS is a variant. Afflicts hacks, aka fifeitis, oliveromy, taberasty, donmartinichy, boagism, etc. Carriers/hosts include CBC/CTV/GlobeMedia, AssPress, etc.
    Simon Jenkins Law: “close proximity to large sums of money drives men mad.”
    The “experts” were in charge.
    …-
    “There is no crisis. Buying your own home is a luxury, not a right”
    The only victims are those encouraged by ministers to take on debts they could not afford”
    “I cannot believe it. Worst crisis since second world war. Banks to “lose” £500 billion. House prices to plummet by a third. Great depression threatened. Really? I recall from my economics lesson a different and no less potent phenomenon: mad journalism disease.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6hrjz9 (times)

  7. A nice tribute to a Canadian regiment — I also recommend their album highly.
    Robert Messenger, O Canada
    Last weekend, I happened on a recording of the Scottish traditional “The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie” played by the Pipes and Drums of the 48th Highland regiment. It’s a catchy tune and, though I couldn’t recall the last time I’d heard it, the words of the chorus popped into my head–thanks undoubtedly to my repeatedly playing a copy of the Black Watch’s bestselling Scotch on the Rocks album back in the 1970s.
    I had a sudden curiosity about the 48th Highlanders, a Canadian regiment. For many years, the best Canadian pipe band was the 78th Fraser Highlanders (the first non-Scottish band to win the World Pipe Band Championships, in 1987). But the name is merely honorary. The 78th was disbanded in 1763 after the Seven Years’ War. It was revived in 1967, not as a military unit but as a bit of costume history for the Montreal tourist trade during the Expo. I wondered if the 48th Highlanders still bore arms…

  8. The natural end result of PET-Big Bertha Justice Wilson’s multiculturalism: Sikh murderers beatified as saints.
    “People attending” = Sikhs & others condoning murder.
    …-
    “Sikh assassins of Gandhi defended as ‘martyrs’
    SURREY, B.C. – People attending a parade to celebrate Vaisakhi, the most important date in the Sikh calendar, defended placards honouring the assassins of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and a retired Indian army general as free speech on Saturday.
    Written across the top of the posters were the words: “We salute our great martyrs.”
    Many attendees felt it was an opportunity to honour men who they said had fought against what they called Sikh oppression by the Indian government.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/3ggybh (canwest)

  11. Find the words: “human rights groups say”?
    The obligatory bow/curtsey to the “human rights groups”.
    …-
    “From despot’s PR man to Surrey salesman
    Christopher Michael talks to Jean-Baptiste Kim, a former spokesman for Kim Jong-Il’s tyranny in Pyongyang, who grasped the truth about the regime
    When he talks about North Korea, Jean-Baptiste Kim still looks wistful. ‘They treated me like a prince,’ he says. ‘Sometimes I wish I could go back.’ He can’t. If he did his life would be in serious danger, because for 11 years Kim was a spokesperson for the Kim Jong-Il government. For 11 years, he was a public defender of a despotic regime that, human rights groups say, tortures its citizens, denies them freedom of information and incarcerates many of them in gulag-style prison camps; a regime that is responsible for the famine that looks set to sweep North Korea this year. But on New Year’s Day 2007, Jean-Baptiste Kim resigned his job and he is now (and will remain) a mobile phone salesman in New Malden, Surrey.
    Jean-Baptiste Kim was once such a good PR man for the North Korean government that he even told the Guardian that it was ‘a joke’ that Kim Jong-Il has not yet won the Nobel Peace Prize. That was before he came face to face with some of the horrible realities of his beloved ‘fatherland’. ‘Now I’m just an ordinary guy in New Malden,’ he says, though perhaps not every ordinary New Malden guy has seven locks on his office door.
    Kim’s story begins back in South Korea where he grew up under difficult circumstances. His father was a pro-democracy activist (South Korea only started becoming democratic in the 1980s), and was often incarcerated by various autocratic regimes for political agitation. ‘Life was miserable for us,’ Kim recalls. ‘My dad was always hiding or in prison. We were watched by the police 24 hours a day and the teachers beat me because I didn’t have money to pay for school. My hate grew for South Korea.’
    So at 18, Kim fled to France where he joined the Foreign Legion despite knowing only one French word —‘Oui!’ — and over the next decade he trained, learned French, and saw active duty near Zagreb in Croatia. Then one day in 1996, after he’d returned to Paris, Kim was approached by a North Korean diplomat. The man’s name was Oon Yung. Kim calls meeting Oon Yung the most important experience of his life. The way Oon Yung set about grooming Kim to be a PR man for Kim Jong-Il was frighteningly professional. ‘He became my father,’ Kim says. ‘He talked like a father, he took care of me just like a father. Everything he told me, I believed. Everything he asked me to do, I did.’”
    http://tinyurl.com/3t3s7q (spectator)

  12. From Yahoo news,
    … … …
    Alicia Keys talks about her conspiracy theories
    Fri Apr 11, 10:18 PM ET
    There’s another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: “`Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.”
    Keys, 27, said she’s read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck “to symbolize strength, power and killing ’em dead,” according to an interview in the magazine’s May issue, on newsstands Tuesday.
    Another of her theories: That the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled “by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing.”
    Keys’ AK-47 jewelry came as a surprise to her mother, who is quoted as telling Blender: “She wears what? That doesn’t sound like Alicia.” Keys’ publicist, Theola Borden, said Keys was on vacation and unavailable for comment.
    Though she’s known for her romantic tunes, she told Blender that she wants to write more political songs. If black leaders such as the late Black Panther Huey Newton “had the outlets our musicians have today, it’d be global. I have to figure out a way to do it myself,” she said.
    The multiplatinum songstress behind the hits “Fallin'” and “No One” most recently had success with her latest CD, “As I Am,” which sold millions.
    … … …

  13. Email from the CBSC:
    Dear Mr. (Johann),
    The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has received your correspondence concerning on-air comments by Rob Fife broadcast on CTV Network on April 3, 2008.
    By copy of this email, we are asking CTV Network to respond to the concerns you have raised and to hold a copy of the logger tape of the broadcast which concerned you. This is always the first step taken by the CBSC in pursuing a complaint. You should know that broadcasters who are members of the CBSC take their responsibility to respond to audience concerns very seriously. The dialogue between broadcasters and members of their audience is a cornerstone of the CBSC’s complaints resolution process. Concerns are often resolved satisfactorily through this dialogue phase. We hope that the response you will receive from CTV Network within the next 21 days will resolve the issues you have raised to your satisfaction. If, however, after you have received and carefully considered the broadcaster’s response you remain concerned, you may request a Ruling by a CBSC Panel by filing the form available on our website at http://www.cbsc.ca/english/complaint/rulingrequest.php You should do so within 14 days of receiving the broadcaster’s response. More information on the CBSC complaints process is available on our website in the FAQ section ( http://www.cbsc.ca/english/faqs/index.php ).
    The CBSC is a national voluntary self-regulatory organization created by Canada’s private broadcasters to deal with complaints made by viewers or listeners about programs which they have seen or heard broadcast on a member station. The CBSC administers four industry codes, namely a code of ethics, a code concerning television violence, a code concerning sex-role stereotyping and a code of journalistic ethics, which set out the guidelines for television and radio programming.
    Sincerely,
    (name)
    CBSC Correspondence Officer

  14. Betcha “it” was all about the oil.
    …-
    “The Feith Connection
    Douglas Feith has been much maligned by Iraq war opponents. In advance of his book release last Tuesday, 60 Minutes ran an interview with Feith, one of the architects of the Iraq War, last Sunday. I was at a weekend festival and missed it; but thanks to the wonders of the internet as well as CBS 60 Minutes now making their video archives embeddable, here is the interview: […]
    “This is the only time that I can recall 60 Minutes conducting a book-release interview that was not by an anti-Administration author or by someone who appears to be a Bush critic.
    I certainly don’t believe, however, that 60 Minutes conducted the interview to allow Feith to “set the record straight” and dispel media myths. It’s more like, “let’s watch the hawkish neocon hang himself as he tries to rationalize away the debacle that is the Iraq invasion and occupation”.”
    http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/04/13/the-feith-connection/
    …-
    35 Firms OK’d to Bid on Iraq Oil Deals
    Iraq Qualifies 35 International Oil Companies to Bid for Future Oil and Gas Contracts
    AMMAN (AP) — Thirty-five international oil companies have qualified to bid for future oil and gas contracts to develop one of the world’s largest oil fields, an Iraqi oil ministry statement said Sunday.
    “The total number of the companies and consortia that participated in the prequalification process was 120 from various nationalities,” said the ministry’s petroleum contracts and licensing office.
    The office listed 35 companies that it said were qualified. They include, among others, BP PLC, Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Lukoil Holdings, China National Petroleum Corp., Edison International SpA and Eni SpA.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000992/posts

  15. I also received the same letter from the CSBC.
    I’m not holding my breath awaiting a reply from CTV.

  18. This sounds just like the CBC Ombudsman’s response. So and So will respond and you may ask for the ombudsman to review the matter if you’re not satisfied with the adjudication by So and So.
    I’m never satisfied with So and So’s ludicrous justifications: like at the HRCs, the lefties are always right. Then the ombudsman usually piles on the patently false bromides–we really care and we follow our fairness policies to the “T”, yada, yada, yada.
    The press councils also act in much the same way.
    I have little hope that the CSBC will be any different. However, as Fife was caught, red handed (but so is CBC), they might have to revise their pro-forma, “We’re OK. You’re not” script.
    It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out.

  20. *
    Stephen Harper’s secret conspiracy against Rappers exposed…
    If “popular culture”… particularly as expressed by hyper-hormonal teenagers…
    were really any sort of all-around measure of societal worthiness… wouldn’t
    there be a few more folks from the general population walkin’ around with
    baggy, fallin’ down trou’ and their hats on backwards?
    *

  23. Ed-Pub has it all; in B&W and “color” in the net. There is also “a dual reality”.
    …-
    “a net of nearly 300 fewer journalists of color than worked in newsrooms this time last year,”
    “ASNE Survey: Over Last Year, Dailies Shrank Their Newsrooms By Biggest Margin In Three Decades”
    http://tinyurl.com/5wfm9d

  27. Ya know, anybody watching shows like Goldhawk Live on CPAC Sunday nights have to be scratching their heads if they have one. That guy sure has a bulging ego.
    He gathers up two or three like minded hacks to banter with and mostly bash or laugh about the Harper Conservatives. It’s a bit of a tee-hee sneer-in. That despite it’s supposed to be a call-in show, he rarely gets time for calls by the time he gets “opinions” from his chosen hacks.
    Tonight we were served the great political knowledge of some twit called Kady O’Malley and another Harper disser called Greg Weston.
    For most of such shows it’s all about Liberals and when would be the best time for them to bring down the government. All Liberals, all the time.
    The Conservatives are merely care taking until the Liberals are READY in the minds of these biased
    pea brained assholes.
    If the electorate is half as dumb as the MSM assumes, we are in deep trouble.

  28. To Liz J
    Both the CBC and the MSM are based in Toronto. Toronto would elect a fence post as long as it’s a Liberal fence post. So what do you expect

  30. Another example of “zero tolerance” public school insanity.
    As Steyn notes, if you can’t declare a sex offender “by the ripe old age of six”, then you’re losing too much time.
    *sigh* It’s practically as bad up here, regrettably
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

  31. Liz J: ‘Caught a few minutes of Goldhawk myself last night–during the hockey game commercials–and as soon as I saw Kady O’Malley’s bleached-blonde helmet, I said to my husband, “What’s SHE doing here?” Remember: She’s the bimbo who live-blogged the CHRC hearing last month and made a complete botch of it: ‘didn’t seem to know what the issues were, ‘couldn’t keep the names straight, and kept wondering when the next food break was…?
    Greg Weston’s always been a Harper-bashing member of the oh-so-entitled MSM. We watched Goldhawk for about 30 seconds, after which I implored my husband to hit the channel surfer: PLEASE.
    Canada badly needs a William F. Buckley or SOMEONE on the airwaves who’s fair and balanced, but the MSM cards are stacked against any such political commentator.
    It’s nothing short of a miracle that the CPC are ‘holding their own’ in the polls, seeing as the MSM “pundits” are beating them down at every opportunity–and then have the temerity to gloat that “the CPC and the LPC are neck-in-neck, with the CPC just not able to rise to the kind of popularity that would give them a majority.”
    Quel pays.

  32. Liz J and BTDT, I watched some of that Goldhawk thingie last night also, missed the last half. I was not shocked at the obvious Puffin padding; I know the msm twisted groupies are slavering for a return to the good old Puffin daze of kick backs, cocktail parties and the good life of a free yee haaa wheeling government supporter (writer, broahcaster) in the la,la Liberano land of free tax payers $$ for everybody in the ‘in Puffin’ crowd. Pathetic bimbo’s IMO. Oh dear, I suppose I should be changing that word, I would be hauled up in court if any of those fools knew ‘that’ song with ‘that’ word in it!
    We do live ‘in interesting times’. The ‘panel’ sounded like a lynching gang of thugs..don’t they know that? The venom was obvious and fanatical – I don’t think it will ‘sell’ but these are ‘desperate times’ for those fools; for that reason, these are interesting times for the rest of us.

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