Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation & pursuant to our regularly scheduled Wednesday night comedy feature, here is the inimitable Mr. Charlie Callas performing his famous Shooting sketch (5:10).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
For those of you keeping score at home, note how Charlie, who was also a professional drummer (here he is performing the finale of the Grand Canyon Suite with the Hamilton Symphony Orchestra, 2:21), interacts with the band in this sketch.
On the other hand, if you do not like Mr. Callas, be calm, do not panic, barring unforeseen circumstances tomorrow night there will be another show, perhaps you will like that one better. On the other other hand, if you do like Mr. Callas, here he is on Johnny Carson’s show in 1971 (6:18), and on the Dean Martin roast of Don Rickles (3:36).
It was only a matter of time.
See Edmonton Journal (Monday) – Alberta’s Language Law struck down.
On the basis of an AB traffic ticket and that the ticketee was denied a trial in French on demand (2003), the finding was in favor of the ticketee. The 1988 Language Law of AB (holding that trials will be heard in English) was struck down.
Perhaps now, people will come to realize the significance of the passing of Bill S-3 into Law S-3 and then into an amendment of the Offical Languages Act (2005). This was enabled and made possible by the opposition MP’s sitting in the house in 2004/05 . It was a bill very quietly initiated in the Senate, very quietly floated through the House of Commons, and given all party approval just days before the last election. The price of an attempt at power that will never be undone – regardless of who governs from Central Canada.
For about what – 3% to 4% of the francophone population of Alberta – it is not difficult to guess what the ramifications of all of this are likely to be.
Meanwhile, Law 101 stands in Quebec (the Language Law) and John C. extols the virtue of French being the language of Quebec. It’s O.K. to force Bilingualism on the ROC but not in PQ.
Another one of the breaking announcements coming forth on or about Canada Day that is anything but about Canadian unity.
Remember the one ’bout the green BullFrog who jumped up onto the green lilypad? He looked around his pond and croaked: I’m so happy, I could sfdt!
Download ‘Lilypad’ for next Earth Day screensaver/wallpaper. Make your day; visit the Daily Mail site; it’s Free.
It’s a ripoff of Noah’s Ark. For Mao Stlong’s Gaia Ark/’Lilypad’ with a recumbent, porcine, frogged Paul Martin, Jr., go here*.
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“Pictured: The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees
An architect has come up with an innovative answer to rising sea levels – a city that floats around the world.
The self-contained ‘Lilypad’ city will be home to around 50,000 ‘climate refugees’ from the worst hit areas – including London.
Latest research predicts that sea levels could rise by up to 88cm – nearly 3ft – by the year 2100, putting many islands in the Pacific Ocean in danger.”
http://tinyurl.com/5fhcnq
(dailymail)
*http://fathersforlife.org/images/polintroughs.jpg
oops, my bad
The Edmonton Journal Reference to the Language Law should read Thursday, not Monday.
The stars come out at night in Montreal.
Hers a “strong female candidate with high media visibility.” Strong female? Weightlifter?
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“Yet another star candidate to NDP?
Thursday, 03 July 2008
Montreal’s CBC Radio Noon host Anne Lagace-Dowson, is rumoured to be the NDP’s star candidate for the Westmount-Ville Marie by-election…. (NNW)
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At babblee:
Commenter Martin Dufresne says,
“It feels a bit bizarre to know that – for the NDP – Quebec local elections are being prepared in secrecy, with some Westerners being more in the know than we hapless Montrealers are.
But then Wstmount(sic) has always been in a world of its own…”
WARNING. The Regina Leader Post and the Star Phoenix offer a feature named “Sound Off.” Those individuals who read the online edition can send in comments on certain stories that are featured every day.
A WORD OF WARNING! When you commnet on this site, the LP or the SP don`t require you to enter an e-mail address. Thus anyone can pick up your pen name and use it against your own previous comments. Unlike SDS, the editor has no ways of tracing the author of the comments. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
PS: That should read SDA–not SDS!!
“Plan C
Amir Taheri describe’s al-Qaeda’s “Plan C” in an article in the New York Post. Plan A, based on Osama Bin Laden’s assessment of the President Clinton’s reaction to the Blackhawk Down incident was that one short and sharp rap would send America tumbling down. But that didn’t work so well and so Plan B, advanced by Ayman al-Zawahiri, called for seizing power in various Islamic countries, such as Iraq. But since that didn’t turn out very successfully either, al Qaeda’s chief theoretician, Sheik Abu-Bakar Naji, has come up with a new and surefire scheme.”
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“What a sad belief system. What pathetic villains. There is nothing that differentiates them from all the punks in history except the imagined distinction of their appearance and phraseology. The darkness they worship is ancient. But there too from the first was the light; and life will prevail against death, though hell may bar the way.”
http://tinyurl.com/6k9dku (belmont)
(Via Contentions) Christopher Hitchens, Believe Me, It’s Torture
What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it.