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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Louis Armstrong singing Dixie Music Man (1947, 3:29). The last four seconds of this video are interesting too, in a meta-musical sense.

Shortly before his death, Satchmo said, “I think I had a beautiful life. I didn’t wish for anything that I couldn’t get and I got pretty near everything I wanted because I worked for it”. We’ll be visiting Mr. Armstrong’s great works again here at SDA LNR, as we have before; he is surely an artist to be celebrated.

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

87 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Apology
    I’m from Mars.
    I don’t have rights to Earth.
    I came here as 3rd nation.
    I want to be no 1
    And I want to tell the people I pay for ….the bread I’m paying for, will be the last one!
    God bless you!

  5. “How thoughtful of them”(SDA TM)part 2….
    “The Paris-based OECD, which represents 30 of the world’s richest countries, yesterday urged Ottawa and Alberta to create asset funds with stringent rules to direct energy wealth into foreign investment.”
    http://tinyurl.com/4jwx8l

  6. Here is another example of the state abusing its power. Police in Ontario have laid over 5,000 charges for street racing. The new legislation allows police to seize the person’s car on the spot, have it towed away and impounded for one week (with the owner being charged for both). All of this happens of course without any trial.
    1,080 of the above cases have gone through the courts – only 325 of those charged have been convicted of street racing, the other 70% have either had charges reduced to speeding or have had charges withdrawn or stayed. Notwithstanding this, the drivers are still out of pocket a thousand or more dollars for towing and impounding fees. Kind of like having the execution before the trial.
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/06/09/street-racing.html
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/06/10/street-racing.html

  7. Ottawa to unveil controversial copyright bill
    http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080611.wcopyright0611/BNStory/Business/home
    Isn’t this a really bad idea? Why is the CPC picking this battle to fight, rather than all the far more important battles that we have to deal with.
    It’s a huge vote loser, and permanently tars the CPC as being the “anti-open internet” party. Right or wrong I don’t know, but I know that for every Canadian who knows or cares about Ezra Levant, there will be 100 who will be mighty POed with any legislation that interferes with their free use of the Internet.
    Stupid!

  8. Vitruvius did I miss a post at SDA, why do I feel like I didn’t prey to Toronto 5 times today?
    Tnx for the link I’ve notched it up 3 times so far.

  10. From your Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper:
    “The government now recognizes that the consequences of the Indian residential schools policy were profoundly negative and that this policy has had a lasting and damaging impact on aboriginal culture, heritage and language.
    “While some former students have spoken positively about their experiences at residential schools, these stories are far overshadowed by tragic accounts of the emotional, physical and sexual abuse and neglect of helpless children, and their separation from powerless families and communities.
    “The legacy of Indian residential schools has contributed to social problems that continue to exist in many communities today.
    […]
    “Therefore, on behalf of the government of Canada and all Canadians, I stand before you, in this chamber so central to our life as a country, to apologize to aboriginal peoples for Canada’s role in the Indian residential schools system.
    “To the approximately 80,000 living former students, and all family members and communities, the government of Canada now recognizes that it was wrong to forcibly remove children from their homes and we apologize for having done this.
    “We now recognize that it was wrong to separate children from rich and vibrant cultures and traditions, that it created a void in many lives and communities, and we apologize for having done this.
    “We now recognize that, in separating children from their families, we undermined the ability of many to adequately parent their own children and sowed the seeds for generations to follow, and we apologize for having done this.
    “We now recognize that, far too often, these institutions gave rise to abuse or neglect and were inadequately controlled, and we apologize for failing to protect you.
    […]
    “The burden is properly ours as a government, and as a country.
    “There is no place in Canada for the attitudes that inspired the Indian residential schools system to ever again prevail.
    “You have been working on recovering from this experience for a long time and in a very real sense, we are now joining you on this journey.
    “The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly.”

  11. Thanks Vitruvius. It’s been raining since it last snowed here in Calgary and I’m feeling blue. Dixie Music Man fixed me up!

  12. The thing is, QE, politics is not about logic,
    it is about out-politicing your opponents. It’s
    not for me to say, yet I think that Mr. Harper
    may be playing a deeper game than some think.
    Whether or not it will work is another question.

  13. Vitruvius… the Mercury recordings of Sachmo are just the best. The one he did with Ella is like sitting in the same room with them. It’s mono, but, it’s just the best.
    So much music, so little time… (sigh)

  15. Don’t send your kids to school brandishing Swastikas
    http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/440948
    Now I don’t think she should have done this but the government taking her kids away!!
    We have Islamofacists calling for the deaths of Jews and they want to take away this womans kids. PC Government hypocrites – if your listening your social engineering is not working.

  16. I’m glad to hear that about Dixie Music Man, Boots. By the way, in case you missed last night’s SDA LNR, and because it’s directly relevant to your recent blues as you reported, don’t forget to check out Mr. Gene Kelly’s Singing in the Rain. Also, a quick point, I was not, or at least I was not trying to be cynical about politics, it is what it is. And on that note, good night everyone, best wishes, and as always, thanks to our lovely hostess Miss Kate.

  17. The Georgia Guidestones from Wik. were erected in 1979. Obviously SDA and the Western Standard find them offensive but not the Canada Free Press in 2005. Why has no one removed these stones if they are offensive? Who owns the land they are on? Will someone come forward to claim ownership if they are taken down?

  18. Then there was the trumpet player who was up on stage with his fly undone. A little old lady got up from the audience and walked up to the edge of the stage and said: “Sir, do you know your fly is undone.” “No” he says. “But if you can whistle it, I can try and play it !!”

  20. thank you Vit for the link to that beautiful song. What a wonderful world…if only I could share his optimism. *sigh*

  21. The Senate’s national security and defence committee…said in a report that Ottawa should “allow Canadian forces soldiers and Canadian government officials operating in Kandahar to talk with members of the Taliban movement if communication encourages disarmament and/or ensures the security of development projects within the province.”
    (From the Calgary Herald)
    See…more people are coming to realize that this is only way to resolve the problem in Afghanistan. Ha. And you guys mockingly called me “Taliban Jack”. Just shows how dumb you are!

  27. Lib McGuinty’s words are typical bhjjkfpt from socialists.
    McGuinty and his ilk would shut down freedom of speech. McGuinty and his ilk cannot face the fact that Indians are wards/dependents of the State.
    Repeal/abolish the Indian Act.
    …-
    “Liberal MP David McGuinty said he was “shocked” to hear Poilievre would make such comments.
    “He seems to imply aboriginals don’t have work ethic and don’t have independence,” McGuinty said. “These were judgmental and stereotypical remarks about aboriginal Canadians and these are the exact kinds of stereotypes today was about expunging.””
    (ottawasun)

  28. Vitruvius: “…yet I think that Mr. Harper may be playing a deeper game than some think.”
    Agreed. I think any time a politician does anything, at least some sliver of their brain is actively computing the ramifications of said act on their popular support. Call me cynical.
    That said, what bothers me is that when the Liberals pander to a ‘special interest group,’ it’s ‘creating dependent ethnic voting blocs,’ but when the Conservatives do it, then it’s either out of genuine compassion or mere ‘politicking.’ That seems a pretty clear double standard to me.

  29. Enter stage left:
    Dalton McGuinty, a brother of David McGuinty.
    Liberal Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty pushes child pornography into your face.
    McGuinty pushes child porn and you pay the State to subsidize his porn.
    Dalton McGuinty: pornmonger.
    The highest official in Ontario pushes pornography.
    McGuinty should be investigated.
    …-
    “Premier defends funding for film on sex lives of ‘Young People. . . ‘
    The Canadian Press – 4 hours ago
    TORONTO – Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is defending the use of tax credits to help fund a controversial new movie about the sex lives of young Canadians.”

  31. “When I was a young lefty I went on marches in London for a free Rhodesia. Guess who was the hero of the hour? We clapped him, and shouted for him to take Rhodesia and be it’s saviour – MUGAARBEEE!!!
    How wrong we were.”
    This comment from the article on the opposition leader’s wife’s murder is so typical of young leftists. Most never change their views even when faced with the results of their stupidity unlike this person. Witness Hollywood still trying to make a hero out of that butcher Che Guevara. Phone call for Jimmah Caartehhh…

  32. Police need Judge to pack their lunch:
    GM of Canada Ltd. reveals in court documents that the company asked Durham regional police repeatedly (Warning: TOR Star link)during the last week for assistance so staff could go to work at headquarters where union members have a set up the blockade in protest of next year’s closing of a nearby truck plant.
    But police chief Mike Ewles told GM in a letter that the force didn’t want to trigger a confrontation through intervention and advised the auto maker to seek a court injunction, which the company is pursuing today.

  33. Today is Carbon Belch Day. Your day to show your respect for environmentalists by producing as much carbon as is humanly possible. Burn some garbage, have a candelight barbecue, or just do donuts in your hummer. Every little bit helps.

  34. More instructions from our superiors:
    “Malaysian president Abdullah Badawi calls for British Muslims to live under sharia law”
    (telegraph.co.uk)
    Muslim extremism in Britain will grow unless the Government and society learn to understand Islam, Malaysia’s prime minister has warned.
    Abdullah Badawi claimed that the legacy of Britain’s imperial past has hampered its ability to appreciate its Islamic population.
    In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the prime minister urged Gordon Brown to allow the country’s Muslims to live under sharia law, but also said that they must prove their worth to society.
    His comments are set to fuel the debate over the role of Islam in Britain following the Church of England’s attack on the Government for already giving more attention to Muslims than Christians.
    ———–
    See? If sovereign western countries just did what Muslim countries demanded, everybody would get along just fine.

  35. What’s the fuss? They’re just teaching straight from the holy Islamic trilogy.
    McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation released Wednesday.
    Other passages in the school’s textbooks state that “the Jews conspired against Islam and its people” and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed “polytheists.”

  36. From the religion blogs of The Times:
    Ruth Gledhill, Seven in ten marriages ‘forced’
    More than seven in ten marriages involving an English citizen and a spouse born in Asia could have an element of ‘force or coercion’ about them, according to document published today that contains some of the strongest language used by community leaders to date. The Muslim Arbitration Tribunal claims that forced marriages reflect a ‘crisis that has loomed within the Muslim community without being noticed or dealt with for the past two decades.’ The tribunal, founded last year and based in Nuneaton near Coventry, says the official figures of 300 forced marriages a year represent the tip of the iceberg…
    Libby Purves, Alberta pastor banned from speaking on homosexuality

  37. Laura Vanderkam, Choosing Wisely: Can “libertarian paternalism” make the world a better place?
    In classical economics, human beings are rational actors. We make choices that maximize our utility—that is, that make us happier, wealthier, or whatever we desire most. Averaged over all of society, the invisible hand of these rational choices should make everyone better off.
    It’s a good theory. Unfortunately, as University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and others have demonstrated in the relatively new field of behavioral economics, most human beings bear little resemblance to these rational actors… So they advocate a different approach, which they call “libertarian paternalism.” It’s a clunker of a name, but a fascinating concept: in general, people should be free to do what they like and to opt out of arrangements that they don’t like. However, because many situations require us to choose, it’s legitimate for “choice architects” (those who set the ground rules for a situation) to make it easier for people to make choices that will leave them better off—“as judged by themselves”…

  38. Mehdi Khalaji, Ahmadinezhad Deflects Critcism with Attacks on Clerics
    In late May, an official close to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad publicly accused more than forty high-ranking government officials — including some of the country’s most powerful clerics — of economic corruption. These unprecedented revelations may signal the start of a significant power struggle inside the Iranian government, one likely to intensify between now and the May 2009 presidential election…
    Ahmadinezhad has outraged Iran’s clerics more directly by claiming that the Hidden Imam (the Shiite messiah) guides him in running the country. Such a suggestion undermines the cleric’s fatwas and their role in government. In addition, if one believes that this messiah is behind all government actions, then Ahmadinezhad does not have to take responsibility for the regime’s failures and faults…

  40. An interesting story about hacking….phones!
    Less than two months after celebrating his 18th birthday, a blind, East Boston-based phone hacker has been arrested for paying a Sunday afternoon visit to the Verizon security officer who’d been chasing him.
    While the circumstances are bizarre, Weigman’s arrest comes as little surprise. As we reported last February, the FBI has been investigating the hacker since he was 15-years-old, at times courting him as an informant.
    Weigman is widely considered one of the best active phone hackers alive
    http://tinyurl.com/6avw32


  41. NYT commenters     of liberal and conservative persuasion react to the recent “The U.S. is out of step on free speech with other countries” article with virtually unanimous support for the First Amendment. Warning: do not read these comments if your initials are W.K. and you are a member of the Canadian liberal intelligentsia who believes you can draw the line between your own hateful speech and that of the great unwashed.

  42. Posted by: cal2 at June 12, 2008 11:22 AM
    If you are curious – or at the least interested – the impending changes will impact your life daily. From recording (tivo) time-shifted television, to transferring music/shows onto your iPod, or even converting old VHS tapes to DVD – this legislation has been drafted without any significant input from outside of Hollywood and silicon valley.
    Spend some time on Geist’s site – he is non-partisan, but critical of the legislation for good – and clearly explained reasons.
    http://www.michaelgeist.ca
    Then send a note to Prentice to stop crawling around in your wallet.

  43. From the Financial Post….
    Prentice’s DMCA…….”would require Internet service providers to police the content that travels over their network….ISPs could be required to filter pirated digital files and reveal the identities of customers suspected of infringing on copyrighted material.”
    That sound of silence is big brother legally obligated to do deep packet inspection of everything you send.
    How nice of the Conservatives to save the Liberals/NDP the time and effort of having to draft laws that remove freedom, encourage spying on Canadians, and toss harsh and dis-proportionate (and unbounded) penalties on those who DARE to contravene them.
    Please inform yourself.

  44. More from the socialist hole of Zimbabwe.
    Socialists in Zimbabwe morph into Stalinist/Maoist despots.
    The natural end result of socialism: kangaroo courts.
    “Mugabe critic on treason charge
    BBC News – 1 hour ago
    The secretary general of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, will be charged with treason, police say.”

  45. US economy swoons “at twice the rate economists forecast.” It’s a twofer. It’s him’s* fault.
    …-
    “June 12 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks climbed as banks rebounded from a five-year low and consumer shares rallied on retail sales that rose at twice the rate economists forecast.”
    (*Him’s = UKnowWho)

  46. Irwin Daisy at June 12, 2008 10:43 AM . . .
    Promts this response, . .
    A criminal would conceal his auto license plate and hide his identity, [face], with a balaklava.
    Britain, an open and free society, has everything to lose if they listen to Malaysia’s prime minister Abdullah Badawi.
    HE urged Gordon Brown to allow the country’s Muslims to live under sharia law, but also said that they must prove their worth to society.
    No! Ban Sharia law in the UK. Freedom lives under ONE law and equality for all.
    Ban the Buhrka. Security lives under an open faced society where business and banking rely upon clear identity to function with minimum deception and fraud.
    Prime minister Abdullah Badawi has a 400 million Muslim voter bloc to keep happy if ever wants to be reelected.
    His advice is bound to have a certain *slant*. = TG
    Malaysian pm Abdullah Badawi; [ Quote ],
    ** Muslim extremism in Britain will grow unless the Government and society learn to understand Islam, Malaysia’s prime minister has warned.
    Abdullah Badawi claimed that the legacy of Britain’s imperial past has hampered its ability to appreciate its Islamic population. **

  47. A salute to Ezra Levant:
    “*the heart and soul of the unending human adventure: freedom of enquiry, freedom of controversy, freedom of criticism, and the vote.”
    …-
    “I feel like a dashing rogue
    By Ezra Levant on June 12, 2008 9:31 AM | Permalink | Comment (1) | Trackback
    Well, it’s been about an hour since I committed the hate crime of republishing Rev. Stephen Boissoin’s illegal letter to the Red Deer Advocate.
    So far nothing has happened to me. Ed Stelmach’s local Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice obviously hasn’t noticed yet. I haven’t seen any stern-looking Young Pioneers patrolling my streets wearing “hate crime” whistles around their necks. (I should call over to my parents’ place to make sure Giacomo Vigna hasn’t sent his hired goons over again.)
    The 15-man team prosecuting me for publishing the Danish cartoons hasn’t noticed, either. Then again, a year into their investigation, they still hadn’t actually read the offending article.
    But I have noticed a bit of a change. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror — I think I’ve lost ten pounds! There’s less grey in my hair — well, not really, but it looks sexier.
    I feel like a dashing rogue, like the Scarlet Pimpernel. Now I know why men ride motorcycles; now I know how it must feel to sport a moustache, to wear a tattoo (and not just the Chinese pictograph for ginger beef, but a tough one, a home-made one, that says “mom”).
    There’s something ineffable about being a free man, about saying what you want, about not being afraid of what someone else thinks.
    It feels pretty good.”
    http://ezralevant.com/
    …-
    A salute to Ezra Levant:
    “Communism is a degraded version of the Western message. It retains its ambition to conquer nature, to improve the lot of the humble, but it sacrifices what was and must remain the heart and soul of the unending human adventure: freedom of enquiry, freedom of controversy, freedom of criticism, and the vote.”
    Raymond Aron
    http://tinyurl.com/5ec64b

  48. Ooops,
    That should read;
    **Ban the Buhrka. Security lives under an open faced society where business , banking and the voter*s booth rely upon clear identity to function with minimum deception and fraud. **
    Remember – The voter*s Booth. [ especially in Surrey BC ]= TG

  49. The Islamic plot defined in one sentence:
    Quran 33:27, “And He made you heirs of their lands, their houses, and their goods, and of a land which ye had not frequented (Before). And Allah has power over all things.”

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