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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Gene Kelly performing Singing In The Rain (1952, 4:07).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
A few random links (from Kate)
An all-round nice guy. When he’s not eating babies.
“Kukhris rule”
Free Dominion is giving 50% of their pixel fundraiser proceeds to help Rev. Stephen Boissoin in his appeal. “The prospect of living in a country where an ordained minister is forced by the government to publicly renounce his beliefs is just too frightening!”

We’re getting our regularly scheduled June life-giving rains in Alberta these days. It’s good for the crops, and the water table too, and it washes the magpie crap off my truck. A pretty girl under an umbrella in the rain walked by my office window earlier today. So I actually went out and danced a few happy steps in the rain, just for myself. What’s not to like?

64 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Gracias Vitruvius!! That was one hell of a performance! I actually saw the MGM set to that scene when I was a young lad!! The rain was a sprinkler! But Gene Kelly did touch the hearts of millions. The world is in dire need of another Gene Kelly!

  3. Gracias Vitruvius!! That was one hell of a performance! I actually saw the MGM set to that scene when I was a young lad!! The rain was a sprinkler! But Gene Kelly did touch the hearts of millions. The world is in dire need of another Gene Kelly!

  7. Yo – Keemo Sabee – What are you? Thick!? Click “post” one time – that’s ONE time. Wait. Leftards – sheesh.

  9. TO BOB THE BUTTHEAD!!That wasn’t accidental!! Not so!! I do that for slow learners like yourself who have an IQ that’s lower than their shoe size! After they read it twice, they retain it!!

  11. Hebron deal is a go!
    http://tinyurl.com/6np45l
    “We have all smoked the peace pipe,” Mr. Luquette said. “Premier Williams has said on more than one occasion ‘I want to put the acrimonious relationships and negotiations behind us. We are partners in a world-scale project that is going to mean a lot to the provincial government’.”
    Before then, the oil companies and Mr. Williams were on bad terms as the Premier fought for greater provincial benefit from its resources.
    Mr. Luquette said he has since come to appreciate Mr. Williams’ “unsurpassed” popularity with his constituents.
    I wonder how much Ottawa will get from our oil to spend in Quebec?

  12. DID YOU WATCH THE CBC NEWS REPORT ON THE HORSE abattoir at Neudorf, Sask. (June 10-10:00PM CST.) If all those bleeding hearts don’t want their horses slaughtered, then why don’t they keep them at home, or do them in themselves?? I don’t like seeing horses slaughtered either! However there is a dire need for such places where owners can dispose of their animals. As for the CBC, it’s not the first time an eastern based network travels west to raise hell with our livelihood. You might want to retain that contents of that program the next time you buy a “Made in Ontario” car or truck!! Mine will be “Made outside of Ontario.”

  14. I wonder if former PM Chretien has nightmares about Amena ?
    [“Witness Number Two,” as she was known at the Iraqi High Tribunal, trembled from behind the beige curtain that kept her identity a secret from the Baghdad courtroom. With Saddam and his henchmen on trial for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to the regime’s eight-stage campaign of gas attacks, massacres and mass imprisonment against the Kurds, she spoke of the horrors she had endured. But Amena went a step further than other women who recounted their stories. Although the witness who had testified before her had strongly hinted that she had been sexually assaulted by prison guards during that campaign, Amena was the only woman to rebel against cultural stigma by stating outright to the stunned courtroom that she had been raped and beaten at age 14, in the Baathist regime’s most infamous desert prison.] Macleans
    Thankfully there were those who put a stop to it.
    http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20080604_119407_119407

  15. Is anyone else watching Burn Up on Global?
    Ooohh, I’m so scared. They show glaciers falling into the ocean and Katrina footage.

  17. Wow, a Canadian television station producing a movie encouraging investors to pull out of Canada’s “TAR” sands.
    I wonder will the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, the Liberal Party of Canada and the NDP criticize the Global Networks station like they did when Finance Minister Flahtery said “Their business taxes are the highest in Canada. If Mr. McGuinty thinks that’s good for the manufacturing sector in Ontario, he’s wrong.”
    Flaherty said the policies are doing “long-term” damage to the province’s economy.
    “It discourages investment in the province of Ontario,” he said. “If you’re going to make a new business investment in Canada, and you’re concerned about taxes, the last place you will go is the province of Ontario.”
    Something tells me not likely.

  21. This is David Warren’s Ottawa Citizen column for today. In Canada, first they came for the Christians . . .
    SPREADING SILENCE
    The pen is reputed to be mightier than the sword — and probably is, over the longer stretches of history. Over the shorter stretches, the sword is definitive; or, as the great Leftist, Mao Tse-Tung, expressed it: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” With its monopoly on power, the State is equipped to suppress the truth. And yet the truth will not die, no matter how many people are punished for expressing it. They may die — or be imprisoned, fined, compelled to publicly recant, or otherwise silenced and humiliated — but the truth will survive.
    Yes, this is a statement of my Catholic faith. But it is also a candid reflection on all of the history I have read: that political power passes away, that truths about God and man resurface, that human freedom is never fully extinguished. Much of the history we know may itself be false, owing to the disappearance of evidence over time; and justice in this world may not be availing. Yet in broad outline, a time always comes when we may review the past, freed from the shackles of the past. The chains of history always rust away.
    This is a point worth recalling, as we head into a period in Canada when, owing to malice from an ideological camp, to cowardice on the part of our elected representatives, and to indifference on the part of the people, free speech and freedom of the press will disappear in Canada. Those who deviate from the officially-sanctioned lies of “political correctness” will emigrate, perhaps mostly to USA, or experience that peculiar form of internal exile — of enforced silence — that good men have shared in many times and places.
    My own political education was provided in part by several impressive Czech exiles from Communism, with whom I fell in as a young man. What I learned from them is that under an ideological regime, the best men live in jail, or are assigned to work in tanneries and collieries, where other good men may be found. The worst men live in luxury and power.
    As free speech disappears in Canada, one looks for instance not at the more celebrated cases of Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant, but at the much less publicized fate of e.g. Rev. Stephen Boisson, convicted by an Alberta kangaroo court (“human rights tribunal”) last November for publicly expressing the Christian and Biblical view of homosexuality, on the say-so of an anti-Christian activist from his home town.
    Rev. Boisson has now been ordered to desist from communicating his views on this subject “in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the Internet” so long as he should live. He has been ordered to pay compensation to Darren Lund, the anti-Christian activist in question, and further to make a public recantation of beliefs he still holds.
    Meanwhile, Fr Alphonse de Valk, editor of the magazine Catholic Insight, is being prosecuted by a gay rights activist in Edmonton, for having upheld both sides of the Catholic teaching on homosexuality in the pages of his magazine over more than a decade: that homosexual behaviour is sinful, but that we are nevertheless to love the sinner.
    That case, in which, as ever, all of the expenses of the complainant are met by the taxpayer, will drag on for some time before the inevitable guilty verdict is delivered, and the punishments to Fr de Valk and his colleagues are meted out. While the case drags on, the small magazine, which exists without state subsidies or significant advertising, on the dime of its several thousand loyal Catholic readers, is being driven towards bankruptcy by the cost of maintaining its own legal defence. These are costs they would not be eligible to recover, even if they won at tribunal.
    Fr de Valk has written a lead editorial in the June number of Catholic Insight that should be read not only from the pulpit to every practising Catholic in Canada, but by every concerned Canadian regardless of his religious or political affiliations. It is entitled, “Fascism has come to Canada,” and mentions several other major cases in which Christians have been hauled before the country’s “human rights” tribunals, and ordered to abandon their beliefs, pay out to complainants, stage public recantations, submit to indoctrination, etc. — with little to no media coverage. Alas, there are more cases (they are multiplying quickly), and the “human rights” commissars are not the only source of state persecution.
    Among the spookiest aspects of these cases is the silence over, and indifference to them, on the part of journalists whose predecessors imagined themselves vigilant in the cause of freedom. As I’ve learned first-hand through email, many Canadian journalists today take the view that, “I don’t like these people, therefore I don’t care what happens to them.” It is a view that, at best, is extremely short-sighted.

  23. The Human Rights Commission will come for you.
    Canada is now a prison, a Gulag.
    The end result of National Socialism is now a reality in Canada: First they came for the Jews.
    …-
    “CHRC employee sends private investigator to harass my parents at their home”
    “Now my parents tell me that Vigna has been harassing them at their home.
    Vigna has been sending a private investigator to my parents’ house again and again, demanding to see me. My parents, who are far more polite than I am, keep telling Vigna’s hired tough guy that I don’t live there anymore. I did when I was a teenager. But that was in 1990.
    The last time Vigna’s hired muscle came to my parents’ house, he refused to leave. My parents said he had a Bluetooth phone device in his ear, and seemed to be taking instructions from someone — Vigna himself? — who told him not to go until he had found me. In the end, Vigna’s enforcer must have lost his serenity, too, because he threw some papers down at my parents feet, and stormed off.”
    http://ezralevant.com/2008/06/chrc-employee-sends-private-in.html
    …-
    First They Came for the Jews
    First they came for the Jews
    and I did not speak out
    because I was not a Jew.
    Then they came for the Communists
    and I did not speak out
    because I was not a Communist.
    Then they came for the trade unionists
    and I did not speak out
    because I was not a trade unionist.
    Then they came for me
    and there was no one left
    to speak out for me.
    Pastor Martin Niemöller

  24. Cap and Trade Realities:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080611.RREYNOLDS11/TPStory/Business/columnists
    The Environmental Protection Agency has calculated that a hypothetical U.S. household of two people generates 41,000 pounds of carbon emissions a year. (The U.S. average household size is actually 2.59 people; average family size is actually 3.14 people.) The authorized allowance for two people: 14,506.26 pounds of CO{-2} – 35 per cent of current average emissions.
    This two-person household would still exceed its Obama Mandate allowance by 550 pounds even if they heated their house by natural gas at a cost of no more than $53 (U.S.) a month (based on December, 2007, natural gas prices) and spent less than $50 a month on electricity (based on December, 2007, electricity prices) – and never, ever drove a car. This household could get its emissions down to the authorized allowance by turning its furnace down 10 degrees F (5.6 degrees C) in the winter and setting its air conditioner 10 degrees higher in the summer, by replacing its refrigerators, furnaces and windows and, depending on its precise circumstances, by never, ever flying anywhere.

  25. The above article is actually called:
    Obama’s climate solution: tyranny
    I think the money line is:
    “Holy Marxist mania, Batman. Do we really know what we’re doing?”

  26. another CTV poll going horribly wrong
    Poll Result
    What do you think of the committee hearings into the Bernier affair?
    Legitimate search for answers 2449 votes (33 %)
    Partisan ploy 4945 votes (67 %)
    Total Votes: 7394

  27. Alta. man’s fight for beard heads to human-rights commission
    EDMONTON – Five years after launching a human-rights complaint against oilsands giant Syncrude Canada, a devout Sikh man who refused to shave his beard for work has won the right to have his full case heard.
    A ruling released Tuesday by the Alberta Court of Appeal clears the way for electrician Devinder Wadhwa to have his overdue hearing before the provincial Human Rights and Citizenship Commission…..
    canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=f57892c6-32cd-4217-9729-6f6a1defb2b4

  28. Don’t forget, its not just an “ordined minister”, but a Christian minister. Don’t see any other faiths which who share the same beliefs being called ‘hateful’, do you? Why aren’t the Rabbi’s hateful? Why aren’t Iman’s hateful? Nope, just Christian ministers.

  29. Canada’s “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” is now accepting donations.
    Send your gifts c/o Canada Revenue Agency, Ottawa; Attention Income Tax Honchos.
    Your contributions must be made no later than 30 April, 2009; 30 April, 2010; 30 April, 2011; 30 April, 2012; 30 April, 2013; 30 April, 2014; 30 April, 2015 >>>>
    The endgoal of the fundraising campaign is open-ended.
    Please give generously.
    Kelowna Accord is alive and well.
    Signed, with thanks,
    Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, Jr., ex-Librano$ PM.
    Phil Fontaine, Grand Chief.
    …-
    http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/rqpi/a6-eng.asp

  30. Why is Katrina constantly mentioned when many states and cities have been hit by weather disasters. Notice how after a tornado you see people out helping to clean up. In N.O. you still see people waiting for someone else to do it.
    I do hope that if Obama wins in Nov he can handle a crisis better than the mayor of N.O.

  31. Just found this in the recent “Failed States Index 2007”:
    “The world’s weakest states are also the most religiously intolerant. Countries with a poor freedom of religion score are often most likely to meet their maker.”

  33. Contrast NATO’s pre-emptive action against this youthful prospective suicide bomber with Tzahal’s kid glove treatment of his “Palestinian” counterparts as they are educated to become the most ghoulish of ghazis, the most truculent of takfiris:
    The 14-year-old Afghan suicide bomber
    IDF Prepares for High School Final Examinations Period in the Palestinian Authority
    The IDF and Civil Administration are preparing for the high school final examinations period in the Palestinian Authority by maximizing freedom of movement to Palestinian examinees and educators in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem during the examination and paper-marking period – June 9th to July 15th…
    Security forces in Judea and Samaria were guided to act with utmost sensitivity during the examinations period in order to ensure they are completed successfully…

  34. Two articles from the new Hoover Digest:
    Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Putin’s Flawed Model
    The assertion that Russia has discovered a new kind of capitalism— “market authoritarianism”—is a myth. Putin and company have no idea how to sustain real growth.
    Robert Conquest, The Great Terror at 40
    As his classic work is republished, Robert Conquest reflects on how it threw open the doors of the Gulag’s secrets.
    [P.S. Kukhris DO rule.]

  35. Joe Noory Points out the willful disconnection from reality that progressives wallow in.
    An excerpt:
    ““Whenever I wanted to play in the yard he beat me and asked me to go to the bedroom with him.”
    An eight year old in a forced marriage….

  36. NSERC’s role is to make investments in people, discovery and innovation for the benefit of all Canadians…….
    Prof. Mohamed I. Elmasry
    Research Grants and Contracts Held (Partial List)
    In all the grants and contracts, M.I. Elmasry is the applicant and principal investigator unless otherwise indicated
    http://www.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca/~elmasry/sponsers.html
    The taxpayer dinged twice.

  37. May I recommend an interesting American blog…Flares Into Darkness (yargb.blogspot.com/).
    I found it through Kate’s links to Maggie’s Farm.
    This site provides numerous links to very interesting articles…both political (he’s apparently “gently” pro-Republican) and scientific (he’s apparently a “denier”). I think many will find it an appealing site.

  39. “the house of Not-So-Sober Second thought”
    says we should Talk to the Taliban
    CTV.ca

  40. annie: “Don’t forget, its not just an ‘ordined minister’, but a Christian minister. Don’t see any other faiths which who share the same beliefs being called ‘hateful’, do you? Why aren’t the Rabbi’s hateful? Why aren’t Iman’s hateful? Nope, just Christian ministers.”
    ‘Good point, annie.
    It’s time for all those who fight for freedom to recognize that Christians in Canada are the canaries in the mines. You may not believe in the Christian faith, you may even dislike it, but the truth is, the HRC vigilantes are targeting Christians. Any group could be next.
    It’s actually a badge of honour to be a Christian in these dystopian days. It’s actually a badge of honour that the HRCs are targeting Christianity–and it should tell those who haven’t been very supportive of Christians why that is:
    Christianity, for centuries, has been a very effective gatekeeper against death cults–which Islamofascism and the gay agenda surely are.
    The Achilles heel of up-to-recently Christian Europe and North America is our having cavalierly abandoned our Christian faith, our spiritual memory, which held us in good stead when we were being invaded either by the barbarian hordes, the maurauding Muslims, the jackboot Nazis, or the Godless Communists.
    Now, we are open and vulnerable because the vast majority of our population, apparently, have relegated Christianity to the garbage heap. Thanks, lookout, for David Warren’s prescient article.
    Christians must be doing something right if the HRCs are targeting them. ‘Worth a look-in.

  42. Rev Boisson’s remarks are the standard ones against homosexuality. I’ve countered them before and in a Biblical debate, I could take him.
    He has every right to his thoughts and words. I hope he is appealing the AHRC decision.
    So sayeth the Lesbian from London…

  43. The Toronto 18 (Toronto Star):
    They were supposed to be like the “Mujahideen in Chechnya,” so they followed a simple diet of canned tuna and pita bread.
    Their paintball games were designed to mimic the “battlefield,” so they played games in which they were instructed to kill the non-believers.
    And they wanted to show that they were “serious” so they made a video that was to be sent to “the leadership of Afghanistan” and to imams in Toronto who were “sympathetic” to their cause….
    So, who exactly are these imams? And why haven’t they been arrested, or better, deported?

  44. Where are the Highland Clansmen?
    “‘Muslim base’ discussed, court told”
    (the Press Association)
    Two Muslims supporters of “violent jihad” discussed setting up a secret Islamic state in a remote part of Scotland, a court has heard.
    Away from the prying eyes of the authorities, it would provide a safe haven for those who felt “oppressed”, jurors were told.
    It would also be run according to Sharia law and eventually be used as a base to “discreetly train” for attacks against non-believers.
    ———
    Of course, as the lawyers defending the Toronto 18 say, “Oh, don’t take sedition, treason, mass-murder, rape and pillaging by Islamist “citizens” on your own soil seriously. It’s just a fantasy. That’s all.”

  47. This is socialist Citoyen Dion’s fault. A-Q has launched an investigation into Citoyen’s laxity, er laxness, er wilful laxivity with A-Q’s briefing papers.
    Taliban Jack Layton-NDP will broach this in the HoC in an attempt to besmirch Citoyen.
    …-
    “Secret British docs on al-Qaida found on London train
    LONDON – Two secret government documents about al-Qaida and Iraq were left on a London commuter train, British officials said Wednesday.” (MSM)

  48. Leftist fear-mongers wrong again – No global AIDS pandemic. Oh well, we don’t want to hurt any “identifiable group’s” feelings so it only cost us billions over the last two decades to fund UN programs, national programs, provincial programs…etc
    ==================
    HIV was earlier regarded as a risk to populations everywhere, irrespective of the percentages that practised unsafe sexual behaviour. But experts now believe that outside of sub-Saharan Africa, the disease is largely confined to high-risk groups like men having sex with men, sex workers and their clients.
    […]
    Critics of the global Aids strategy have always cried foul of the vast sums being spent educating people who were not most at risk from the disease when a far bigger impact could be achieved by targeting groups who are more vulnerable.
    Dr de Cock admitted there were “elements of truth” to such criticism. There has been a view that UNAIDS had deliberately exaggerated the size and trend of the projected pandemic, besides hyping the potential for HIV in general populations creating an impression that just about everyone was at risk of AIDS.
    http://tinyurl.com/5z8ql6

  49. Re: Dion’s Residential school apology –
    Did anyone else notice the staged “applause” by Liberal MP’s after just about everything Dion said. So much for the solemnity of the occasion.
    Oh – and positioning Tina Keeper right on camera with Dion – brilliant showmanship don’t you think. Those clips will serve Tina well when she stars in her own CBC (taxpayer) funded movie about residentiao schools.
    Hoot and holler and whistle for Dion who, of course, had Phil Fontaine write his speech for him.

  50. Muslim parents to blame for children turning to extremism
    British Muslim parents are to blame for leaving their children open to the lure of Islamic extremism, according to an influential academic
    Dr Farhan Nizami CBE, a key adviser on Islam to the Prince of Wales, accused British Muslims of failing to make sure their children learn to speak English or supporting them in their education…..
    telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2106757/Muslim-parents-to-blame-for-children-turning-to-extremism.html

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