Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Reader Tips and SDA Late Nite Radio. One of the problems with a tour de force performance like last night’s SDA Late Nite Radio Classics is: what does one do for an encore? I mean, one’s just used up one’s best material (by definition); what now? Yet it remains the case that there was a notable intensity to all of yesterday’s selections, thus an alternative for tonight is a notably mellow selection. So here, for your delectation, are Mugsy Spanier & His Ragtime Band performing Relaxin’ At The Touro in 1939.
Also, after last night’s show, listener Eeyore wrote in to request due coverage for bagpipes. They’re always on the list, Eeyore. For now you may wish to check out some of the bagpipe links previously available at Small Dead Animals.
More importantly than all that, note that Mr. Andrew Coyne plans to be live-blogging the BCHRT inquisition against Maclean’s magazine and Mr. Mark Steyn starting at about 09:30 PDT today.
Your Reader Tips are of course, as always, welcome in the comments.

One way to help solve the ‘food crisis’ ? More CO2.
[In light of these several findings, it can be appreciated that the civilizations of the past, which could not have existed without agriculture, were largely made possible by the increase in the air’s CO2 content that accompanied deglaciation, and that the peoples of the earth today are likewise indebted to this phenomenon, as well as the additional 100 ppm of CO2 the atmosphere has subsequently acquired.
Rising CO2 has served both us and the rest of the biosphere well in the past; and it will do the same in the future … unless we turn and fight against it.] CO2 Science
http://co2science.org/articles/V11/N22/EDIT.php
Thanks, Vitruvius! I just love Dixieland and used to own a couple of Muggsy Spanier discs, like 50 years ago. The Youtube site also had a Dutch street parade band playing on the Queen’s birthday in 2007 that brings back memories.
You might want to check out the Dutch Swing College Band which got together on May 5, 1945 (liberation day in Holland) and is still going strong. I used to attend some of their live concerts. Check out their website and you can also download their latest CD’s via iTunes.
What now? Try
Johnny Horton The Battle Of New Orleans 1959 Best Video
youtube.com/watch?v=_4Q47i4zGBs
Is the site based in Hawaii now?
Ahh, Johnny Horton. Thanks for the reminder, Ural. We’ve got a ca. ’70 greatest hits LP of his here in the SDA LNR studios. I must say, though, that my favourite of his is North to Alaska.
Or
Battle of New Orleans
youtube.com/watch?v=OWkOeK5AmI8
Ahh, Johnny Horton. Thanks for the reminder, Ural. We’ve got a ca. ’70 greatest hits LP of his here in the studio. I must say, though, that my favourite of his is North to Alaska: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7qZ3HsGccA
China bans plastic bags!
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080601/BC_China_Bans_Bags_080601/20080601/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome
My fave Johnny Horton stuff is his rockabilly country, like Honky Tonk Man.
And, as for bagpipes, I say less is more. And none is best. Unless it’s a funeral. Of a bagpiper. On the other side of the globe.
Cheers!
Vitruvius,
Got into Johnny Horton when I was working at the Last Chance Gas Station in Winterburn … now Edmonton. It was a couple miles west of the CFRN station (CTV at the time I think) on Hwy 16.
Child labor now, I think. The owner also raced at Westwind Oval … about 3 minutes cross country … got in free … even got paid to mix mashed potatoes into the burgers before the races.
Back then you actually had to play the records … sometimes with a roll of dimes, quarters etc taped to the arm. 8-track was a few years away.
“BCHRT inquisition”! I love it. I don’t understand why the name isn’t used more often. Or have I just been missing it?
Inquisition is an interesting word. I hummed
& hawed about using it, but answers.com says:
While the common 3(a) interpretation is not appropriate
here, the 3(b) interpretation notably is, so I went with it.
Bruce,
great comment at the link. Well said and waaayy funny.
If that indeed was you.
Back to 1959 and an odd but clean working mix of music men with CBC host Fred Davis.
Here you will find a very young Moe Kauffman, yet most noteworthy is West Coast clarinet ace, Lance Harrison who I thought looked like King George VI.
Lance and his band were playing at a club in West Vancouver years ago and wanted out of the *contract*. With straight faces, he and the band played a set filled with sour notes. They were soon able to move on.
Notice that while there is a big gathering of players, the mix never gets muddy. Good arranging and the music stays true and clear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPcFkc5I1M#
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the French government intercedes.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4034908.ece
one for TG
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361306,00.html
looks like neil has gone commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRmcB5i7kjE
I don’t want to sound stupid, however yesterday, you gave out the Canadian Cancer Society’s IP address. Why are you spying on the CCS??
Thank goodness, the dreadful Kady O’Malley’s been replaced by Andrew Coyne for the live blog of Mark Steyn’s Star Chamber appearance. At the Lemire iterrogation, she was both ignorant of the issues and the gravitas of the situation: maddeningly frivolous as well. I’m quite sure that Mr. Coyne is more than equal to the task.
And definition a) for “inqusition” seems most apt, with a minor change in wording: “Inquisition: A tribunal . . . held [by] an agency of the state . . . and directed at the suppression of heresy.”
As we all know, today’s politically correct, “progressive” world can easily compete with the Roman Catholic Church re outlawed opinion. And at least the Church’s prosecutors were learned men (who were, BTW, responsible for far fewer deaths than was Queen Elizabeth’s purge of Catholics in England), versus the HRC buffoons who persecute law abiding Canadian citizens who have the audacity to hurt, inadvertently or not, the hyper sensitive feelings of certain other citizens.
Kyrie eleison. And, go, Mark, go!
Next to be investigated: David Suzuki Foundation?
Thiessen: “”I am turning human greed into philanthropic work, and I make no apologies about that. People will buy this, make this donation to Banyan Tree, where they never would have made a donation before, because of the structure that gave them a tax break.””
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“Donors owe millions after revenue agency investigates foundation”
A Toronto-based charitable foundation that gave out $208 million in tax receipts over the past six years was called a “sham” by the Canada Revenue Agency, tossing recipient charities into disarray and forcing donors to pay back close to $100 million to the government.
What’s more, the Banyan Tree Foundation offered many of its clients loans to increase their donations, so donors are also on the hook for tens of millions in loans to a company now owned by Banyan Tree president Robert Thiessen.”
http://tinyurl.com/6kt6mh (cbc)
Meanwhile, the Glob-Pail runneth over with this:
“Harper’s Quebec dilemma
Globe and Mail – 4 hours ago
The Couillard-Bernier affair is more damaging than a standard political scandal:”
Voters in Quebec pay no attention to Glob-Pail’s scandal.
Glob-Pail’s headline rewritten:
Dion’s Quebec dilemma.
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Liberals fall to fourth place in Quebec
News Services
Published: Monday, June 02, 2008
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals have slipped to a shaky fourth place in Quebec, a new poll indicates.
A CROP survey in La Presse showed the Liberals trailing the Bloc Quebecois, the Conservatives and now even the NDP.
The Liberals also trail the Conservatives in Montreal, which had been considered the their stronghold.
“Nothing is working for Stephane Dion’s Liberals in Quebec,” La Presse commented.
Quebec has nearly a quarter of the 308 seats in the Commons and is key to any party’s hopes to win a majority in the next federal election.”
http://tinyurl.com/6dp9on (province)
“”Nothing is working for Stephane Dion’s Liberals in Quebec,” La Presse commented.”
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“Liberals fall to fourth place in Quebec
News Services
Published: Monday, June 02, 2008
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals have slipped to a shaky fourth place in Quebec, a new poll indicates.
A CROP survey in La Presse showed the Liberals trailing the Bloc Quebecois, the Conservatives and now even the NDP.
The Liberals also trail the Conservatives in Montreal, which had been considered the their stronghold.”
http://tinyurl.com/6dp9on (province)
“When there is a real crisis – not just dog poo or over-loaded wheelie bins – the solution always follows the same formula: take more power away from the people.”
A partial BanTally in McGuinty’s socialist Ontario: Ban tobacco, Ban clotheslines, Ban backyard pesticides/herbicides, Ban guns, Ban cell phones in vehicles, Ban this/Ban that, etc.
The socialists are the TallyBan.
The socialists are using the Soviet tactic; banning our freedoms one slice at a time.
Albert Camus in his novel, The Plague/La Peste, was prescient. Camus foresaw the Plague of Socialism.
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“The death throes of 20th-century ideology
The idea that the state is the only repository of civic virtue and moral authority has come to a dead end
Question one: what happens when you leave rubbish outside people’s homes for two weeks? The planet stops overheating and life on earth is saved? Nope. But you do get lots of well-fed rats and flies happily paddling around the households of suburban Britain.
Apparently, the Government has been sitting on research which made the startling discovery that failing to empty rubbish bins every week produces a rise in disease-carrying rodents and insects. Who, one wonders, actually commissioned this project? Have we not known since the Middle Ages that festering piles of discarded food attract vermin? Why, in heaven’s name, are we arguing about this?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024637/posts
Angry’s diagnosis:
“Maybe those who insist the people in the media are out to get the Conservatives are not entirely paranoid.”
That’s a relief. You are not entirely paranoid; just partially paranoid.
Hello, Angry. Wake up, Angry.
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“CTV alters emotional-laden headline”
“Conservative Environment Minister John Baird has some issues with the proposed Ontario-Quebec cap-and-trade system. But did he really sneer?
The news staff at CTV thought so at 1:47pm today. Thirteen minutes later the news staff thought otherwise.
Maybe those who insist the people in the media are out to get the Conservatives are not entirely paranoid.
Consider this change in headlines regarding Conservative Environment Minister John Baird’s reaction to a Ontario-Quebec cap-and-trade system:”
“Yes, the CTV headline changed from “sneers” to “dismisses”.”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/265609.php
How long you should live according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation….
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/tv-network-tells-kids-when-their-carbon-footprint-says-they-should-die/
RAND Corporation, Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead
Findings from an International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007
This volume compiles 11 of the papers presented at the conference (PDF only):
Peter Viggo Jakobsen, U.S. Interests and Stakes in Afghanistan: In for the Long Haul or Gone Tomorrow?
Michael Rubin, Understanding Iranian Strategy in Afghanistan
Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Afghanistan and the Boomerang Effect
Ali Alfoneh, Hokumat Versus Yaghistan: The Historical Challenge of State/Tribe Conflict to State Building in Afghanistan
Angel Rabasa, The Tribal Structure of Waziristan: Implications for Counterterrorism Policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Pavel K. Baev, Sad Wisdom of Hindsight: Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan (1979–1989)
Cheryl Benard, The Next Afghanistan
Samina Ahmed, Are We Learning? Military Engagement: The Taliban, Past and Present
Ali Jalali, Afghanistan: Prospects for Nation Building
Peter Dahl Thruelsen, How to Create a Success for the Afghan National Security Forces
Obaid Younossi and Khalid Nadiri, Afghanistan at the Crossroads
Anyone else watch full of himself Dale Goldhawk on CPAC last evening? What a Liberal loaded panel he chose to slag Harper and the Conservatives. He can deny it but he’d be lying.
It’s supposed to be a call in show but it’s mostly a gab fest among HIMSELF and his chosen guests. Callers have got to be on hold most of the show and most never get on, tried many times.
Last night’s performance was blatantly galling, not a shred of balance, just a slag fest against everything Conservative.
All knowing Lawrence Martin,well known, long time Liberal Hack implied the Dion Liberals are not going to sit on their hands any longer. Let’s have at it Dion!
Music in psychological warfare:
Alex Ross, Futility Music
In Errol Morris’s documentary “Standard Operating Procedure‚” an American soldier talks about employing music as a means of breaking down the resistance of enemy combatants during interrogations. They can withstand “Hip Hop Hooray” and “Enter Sandman‚” he says, but not country music. Most audiences will laugh at the line, but may check themselves mid-chuckle, wondering what it means that Americans are deploying their favorite music as a way of tormenting people of another culture…
Spengler, Tin-opener theology from Turkey
For months we have read news reports of an Islamic reform stemming from the University of Ankara’s theology department. A widely-cited February 28 report by Robert Pigott, the BBC’s religion correspondent, claimed that Ankara would “fashion a new Islam” along “revolutionary” lines. In less flamboyant tone, the story resurfaced in the June 8 issue of Newsweek under the headline, “The New Face of Islam”.
This is the triumph of hope over fact-checking…
Remember when you was young and your parrents encourage you to stay in school,get an education and work hard and you’ll get ahead. Its all bullshit.
Lies my parents told me
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/052908dnmetvaledictorian.3b254412.html
Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year. In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school’s history.
Seems with the return of PMSH this latest ‘faux scandal’ has totally dropped off the radar.I have watched ctv/cbc news channels all am,and there has been not one mention..no frequent on the hill reports fr.Rosemary Barton,Bonner,Fife etc,no Lib mp’s feigning outrage.Can it be they are all about to be embarrassed by their stupidity (again)? All is very strangely quiet.
Looks like we will need a tribute to Bo Diddly tonite Vit.Word just now that he has passed.
And yeah Liz,I watched that partisan puke-fest last nite on Goldhawk.That was about one of the worst.BTW,did you catch Talk Politics prior to Goldhawk?Tarek Fatah was on,and had quite a good chat about the Libs.,the lead up to the Dion win,and anti-semetism in Lib party.Quite interesting.
I, for one, will be praying the rosary, beseeching Mother Mary, in Her wisdom, to smite those who oppose Mark Steyn. We owe him an unpayable debt, for his courageous willingness to sell his book in spite of the overwhelming evidence that to do so would make him some money.
Lawrence Solomon, The Deniers: Our Spotless Sun
You probably haven’t heard much of Solar Cycle 24, the current cycle that our sun has entered, and I hope you don’t. If Solar Cycle 24 becomes a household term, your lifestyle could be taking a dramatic turn for the worse. That of your children and their children could fare worse still, say some scientists, because Solar Cycle 24 could mark a time of profound long-term change in the climate. As put by geophysicist Philip Chapman, a former NASA astronaut-scientist and former president of the National Space Society, “It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age.”
How to get America off foreign oil dependancy and solve a lot of other problems too ?
The DRILL HERE. DRILL NOW. PAY LESS. petition
http://www.americansolutions.com/actioncenter/petitions/?Guid=54ec6e43-75a8-445b-aa7b-346a1e096659
A High Arctic Toungue Lashing;
[Nellie Cournoyea, president of the Inuvialuit Regional Corp., criticized the WWF for what she described as interfering in northern affairs.
“The Inuvialuit are sick and tired of having their future economic well-being blindsided by southern-based environmental organizations that poke their self-righteous noses into someone else’s backyard without either having the decency to consult with the people that live there or offer any realistic alternatives to their economic challenges,” Ms. Cournoyea said.]Globe Investor
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/GAM.20080602.RARCTIC02/GIStory/
MSM is not biased folks. They’re just taking a rest before going after Dion, Ignatieff and others for contravening Canada Elections Act by not repaying debt by tomorow. More likely they will spin that an extension is entirely reasonable except for that inconvenient regulation that allow them only in most exigent (death, embezzlement) circumstances.
I’m not holding my breath though.
Considering that many think global warming can only be halted by reducing CO2 output, and considering that
[As put by geophysicist Philip Chapman, a former NASA astronaut-scientist and former president of the National Space Society, “It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age.”]
and considering that
[The sun, of late, is remarkably free of eruptions: It has lost its spots. By this point in the solar cycle, sunspots would ordinarily have been present in goodly numbers. Today’s spotlessness — what alarms Dr. Chapman and others — may be an anomaly of some kind, and the sun may soon revert to form. But if it doesn’t – and with each passing day, the speculation in the scientific community grows that it will not – we could be entering a new epoch that few would welcome.]
and considering that
[Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.”]
And so, if our sun throws us a curve ball, will we, especially in Canada, have to use more fossil fuels, to produce more CO2, in order to keep from freezing and starving to death ?
Especially when one also considers that enhanced CO2 promotes plant (food) growth .
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/05/31/the-deniers-our-spotless-sun.aspx
http://homeharvest.com/carbondioxideenrichment.htm
What is socialist Citoyen Dion’s immigration policy?
“our party will vote against Bill C-50.”
(lib.caca)
Translation: cut’n’run.
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“Tories appear set to survive confidence vote”
“A government defeat on any of the votes would bring down Prime Minister Stephen Harper, but the Liberals are not ready yet to fight an election.”
(g-m)
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Sorry, my bad, Torstar gives objective view of political landscape, courtesy of Goodale and Turner:
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/435222
Afraid to face scandal (Bernier=immigration bill al la globe and snail), Tories set to prorogue parliament until, gasp, Nov. Anything to avoid surviving another confidence vote, eh?
They don’t actually believe their own press, do they? It’s really quite pathetic to watch the death rattle of the MSM coincide with that of the neo liberal egalitarianists. They’re not going to go down without a fight, so get set for sneer smearing (oh, sorry, it was Baird who sneered about keeping mother earth safe from humanity).
Grits haven’t figured out nobody is listening to their ranting, in or out of the House. They’ve got some explaining to do on Tuesday, so here comes the reargard action v.v. “being afraid to face the music.” Grits may have some comfort in their big city base keeping them nominally close in support; but they seem to know that their leader will likely shrink their vote on the hustings. That is why their vision for the country is to smear and abstain, loathing what Harperism is doing to Canada, sure that Canadians don’t think “approve” of them – yet turning down every chance to force Tories to face the electorate.
It sucks to be Grit right now, deprived of their entitled place at the taxpayer teat, and no real prospects for power.
Also deals with Hizbullah, Hamas and other Iranian proxies:
Lt.-Gen (ret.) Moshe Yaalon, Dr. Dore Gold, et al., Iran’s Race for Regional Supremacy: Strategic Implications for the Middle East
http://www.jcpa.org/text/iran2-june08.pdf
Dr. Aharon Yaffe, Selective Targeting: Risks and Prospects
This buzz [of a UAV] has become, in the past few years, the worst psychological nightmare for terror organizations, but it is not the only one. Israeli security forces have other means in store – to be described in the following article -, which have brought about the assassination of over 400 terrorists from the air, land and, in some cases, the sea…
On the lighter side of things: I was watching question period and Dion started talking in french with english being translated by a woman. My 5 year old grand daughter said: He looks like a boy but sounds like a girl! Out of the mouth of babes!
Hey Liz thanks for the Dion not going to sit on his ass anymore comment re: Goldhawk
I was going elate something to that too, i thought the same on the Pukefest as Sammy called it.
Anyone else take Note that Not much out of the MSM Re: Dion’s Liberals ratings in the latest Quebec Crop poll If he goes any lower he will stike oil.
Hey Liz thanks for the Dion not going to sit on his ass anymore comment re: Goldhawk
I was going elate something to that too, i thought the same on the Pukefest as Sammy called it.
Anyone else take Note that Not much out of the MSM Re: Dion’s Liberals ratings in the latest Quebec Crop poll If he goes any lower he will stike oil.
Re “Battle of New Orleans” – Does anyone know where there is a copy of Mike Darrow’s 1959 hit “The Battle of Queenston Heights”? (A battle in 1812 in which the Brits and the local Canadian militia completely humbled the invading Americans, much like the earlier “battle” at Fort Detroit, which surrendered without a fight to a vastly inferior, but obviously very scary, British force).
Anyway, the song was issued as a novelty by a popular Toronto radio station, CHUM, as a direct response to Horton’s “New Orleans”. Darrow was a DJ at the station, and the song was written by another CHUM personality, Garry Ferrier and backed by other station DJ’s, (the Chums).
I was just 9 at the time but I remember it fondly for poking the prideful Yanks in the eye. It was also quite well done and actually made the charts here, selling very nicely all around the Toronto area.
I got what info I have from:
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia
Conservatives are more honest than liberals:
http://www.examiner.com/a-1419425~Peter_Schweizer__Conservatives_more_honest_than_liberals_.html
Of course, we knew that already…
“The headline may seem like a trick question — even a dangerous one — to ask during an election year. And notice, please, that I didn’t ask whether certain politicians are more honest than others. (Politicians are a different species altogether.) Yet there is a striking gap between the manner in which liberals and conservatives address the issue of honesty.
Consider these results:”
…read it all
by: cal2 at June 2, 2008 1:51
foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361306,00.html
** looks like neil has gone commercial. **
Priceless!! The song is excellent though.
Guess Neil was thinking *Big Car*. . . not the same as these U.K. guys.
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**LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Automotive Powertrain Company of the Year Award is presented to Reva Electric Car Company (RECC) for demonstrating excellence in sales volumes, superior market penetration and high levels of customer satisfaction within the electric vehicle (EV) industry. In 2007, on average one REVA electric car was sold per day in the United Kingdom.
RECC is the world’s best selling developer and manufacturer of electric cars and a pioneer of EV technologies. It is the first company to break through the price-performance barrier with an EV, the first to successfully commercialise EVs and, the first to volume sell EVs with AC motor drives.
**Technology leadership has enabled RECC to break the price-performance barrier and consistently develop and commercialise new mobility solutions,** notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Anjan Hemanth Kumar. **In 2007, RECC achieved milestones in terms of battery and electric motor technology.**
Research and development on lithium ion batteries reached new heights when RECC successfully tested and evaluated lithium ion batteries for the REVA quadricycle. The newly developed lithium ion batteries provide a driving range of more than 140 kilometers compared to 60-80 km from the existing lead acid battery pack.
tinyurl.com/5nghy6
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by: cal2 at June 2, 2008 1:51
foxnews.com/story/0,2933,361306,00.html
** looks like neil has gone commercial. **
Priceless!! The song is excellent though.
Guess Neil was thinking *Big Car*. . . not the same as these U.K. guys.
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**LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Automotive Powertrain Company of the Year Award is presented to Reva Electric Car Company (RECC) for demonstrating excellence in sales volumes, superior market penetration and high levels of customer satisfaction within the electric vehicle (EV) industry. In 2007, on average one REVA electric car was sold per day in the United Kingdom.
RECC is the world’s best selling developer and manufacturer of electric cars and a pioneer of EV technologies. It is the first company to break through the price-performance barrier with an EV, the first to successfully commercialise EVs and, the first to volume sell EVs with AC motor drives.
**Technology leadership has enabled RECC to break the price-performance barrier and consistently develop and commercialise new mobility solutions,** notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Anjan Hemanth Kumar. **In 2007, RECC achieved milestones in terms of battery and electric motor technology.**
Research and development on lithium ion batteries reached new heights when RECC successfully tested and evaluated lithium ion batteries for the REVA quadricycle. The newly developed lithium ion batteries provide a driving range of more than 140 kilometers compared to 60-80 km from the existing lead acid battery pack.
tinyurl.com/5nghy6
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Taliban Olivia Chow-NDP fronts/votes for the Muslim Al-Qaeda/Taliban murderers. Where’s Taliban Jack Layton-NDP? Hiding behind the curtains.
Socialist Citoyen Dion will not cut’n’run on this vote for the Taliban.
The resolution is non-binding. MSM is outraged.
Send the deserters back to face a US military court.
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“Commons to vote on offering haven to U.S. military deserters
By John Ward, THE CANADIAN PRESS”
“The motion, brought in by Toronto New Democrat MP Olivia Chow, has the support of all three opposition parties and should pass handily.
But it’s a non-binding resolution and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, which wants to deport these people, is free to ignore it and likely will do so.”
“Commons to vote on Offering Haven to U.S. Military Deserters” — cnews.canoe.ca
The House of Commons to vote tuesday urging the Government to allow deserters & their families to stay in Canada as permament residents.
The motion was brought in by Toronto NDP MP Olivia Chow & has the support of all 3 Opposition parties, It is a non-binding resolution. The Government, Immigration Dept & Courts all agree that the deserters are not refugees, They face Prosecution not Persecution.
Has anyone ver given any thought to having a web site that would specialize in publishing letters to the editor that have been refused by the Star-Phoenix, Leader-Post etc?? Why are the letters being refuses?? Easy!! They go against “Liberal” thinking!!