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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson performing Ring of Fire (2:24).

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

Update: Oh, zot. I was head down over the lab bench in the shop and just popped up to post Reader Tips, and I didn’t notice, ’till commenters reminder me, that tonight’s show date coincides with the celebration of Independence Day by our good neighbours to the south. With my belated apologies, I offer our best wishes from here in the SDA LNR studio to the citizens of the United States of America. As Yukon Gold notes in the comments, “Better neighbours we couldn’t ask for”.

71 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. A very happy Independence Day to the citizens of the 2nd greatest country of the world. Better neighbours we couldn’t ask for. Grill some meat, drink some beer, and set off some explosives.

  4. are they hoping in ctv with new pool that canadians are so stupied? haaaa tories loosing?
    are the fools? made in canada?
    or cuba?

  5. Who are Canada’s most important progressive Muslims?
    Tarek Fatah,
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Fatah
    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/06/10/tarek-fateh-islamists-who-have-a-problem-with-free-speech-should-leave.aspx
    Irshad Manji
    http://www.irshadmanji.com/about-irshad
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87MTxUfJv-E
    Rahim Jaffer
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Rahim+Jaffer
    Khalil Z. Shariff
    http://www.zenithconference.org/keynote

  6. A happy 4th of July to ouur American cousins. May your children be strong & a pox on liberals or neo-cons.
    Keep the light of free speech burning, to many of us our being are being shipwrecked by our own stupidity.
    God Bless & keep you.
    P.S. Keep you from multiculturalism as well.

  11. So are we dropping the first case from the debate, Drained
    Brain, or is the exercise purpose the conflation of the two?

  12. Excellent choice, Vit. If you want to catch a fantastic performance of that song live, check out a band called Freedom Train. They hail from Burlington, ON but play many venues in southeast Ontario. http://www.freedomtrain.ca

  13. “So are we dropping the first case from the debate, Drained
    Brain, or is the exercise purpose the conflation of the two?”
    I believe Kate’s purpose for this thread is to allow readers to provide tips, Vesuvius.
    That’s all I’m doing.

  15. Avery interesting exchange.
    We’re All Children Now?
    An adolescent culture.
    An NRO Q&A
    ‘Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, childhood was a phase, adolescence did not exist and adulthood was the fulfillment of youth’s promise. No more,” Diana West writes in her book, The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. West is worried that “eternal youth” is “fatal” and recently took questions from National Review Online editor Kathryn Lopez.
    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmE5NDZiOGRjMmY4OGVlODFiNmQ5ZjczYjEzM2RlZjA=

  16. Ah. Fair enough, Drained Brain. Yet comments thereto
    too. Sorry if I sounded petulant, I was actually curious.
    The problems you allude to are important & not trivial.

  17. Did the Globe poll on Morgantaler getting the OC go ‘Terribly wrong?’ I went looking for the results but the poll seems to have been yanked, at least it isn’t in their recent poll list.
    Happy birthday Yanks.

  18. “Ah. Fair enough, Drained Brain. Yet comments thereto
    too. Sorry if I sounded petulant, I was actually curious.
    The problems you allude to are important & not trivial.”
    No worries…
    “Happy 4th, guys. That’s a football-related celebration, right?”
    Good one! As one with a foot (as well as relatives) planted on both sides of the border, let me suggest during these final few minutes (in my time zone) between July 1 and July 4 that it would be at least as valuable for all to concentrate on the values many of us hold in common as well as on the differences.


    The Queen     set a fine example Sept 12, 2001.

  19. CBC’er turns down Al Jazeera career, intends to run for the federal NDP instead. Same thing only different,eh.
    http://tinyurl.com/63m6ch
    Anne Lagacé-Dowson was granted a leave of absence without pay from her hosting duties on the CBC’s province wide call-in show, Radio Noon.
    The Westmount riding (in Montreal) was left vacant after Liberal MP Lucienne Robillard retired earlier this year.
    The Liberals plan to run former astronaut Mark Garneau. Montreal labour lawyer Guy Dufort is the Conservative candidate. Claude Genest is running for the Green Party.
    Our tax dollars at work.

  20. “Think human-induced climate change is junk science? Well, if you choose to read only certain national newspapers and magazines and listen only to certain popular commentators on television or radio, you’ll never have to change your mind. And so it goes.
    The challenge today is that there is a huge volume of information out there, much of it biased or deliberately distorted. As I think about my grandson, his hopes and dreams and the immense issues my generation has bequeathed him, I realize what he and all young people need most are the tools of skepticism, critical thinking, the ability to assess the credibility of sources, and the humility to realize we all possess beliefs and values that must constantly be reexamined.”
    David Susuki
    http://www.canada.com/cowichanvalleycitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=3228296c-bc95-4505-bf04-0e5a6c4b828c&p=2

  21. William Epps Cormack In search of the Red Indian Year of 1822
    http://tinyurl.com/5cf38n
    November 29th. — Cape Ray. — Having slept the previous night in the winter house of one of the families at Little Cod Roy river, we to-day walked round Cape Ray, here leaving the French Shore and entering upon American Newfoundland, or that division of the coast on which the Americans have a right of fishing and of drying their fish. On the shore north of Cape Ray lay several wrecks of ships and their cargoes of timber…
    December 5th. — Port au Basque, the nearest harbour to Cape Ray on the East, about twelve miles distant therefrom, we reached by boat from the Barasway. It had a fine open entrance, and good anchorage, and is sufficiently capacious for any number of ships to ride in safety. The rendezvous for fishing vessels, small craft and boats, is a long narrow passage, immediately adjoining the west side of the harbour, formed by a chain of Islands which lie close along the coast, and is called Channel.
    December 13th. — Having passed the night at Cingserf river, we set off again with a fair wind; touch at and pass through amongst the Burgeo Islands. Here is a sheltered roadstead with good anchorage. In the evening we reached the Rameo Islands, the east extremity of that portion of the Newfoundland coast at which the Americans have a right of fishing and of curing fish. There are only two resident families here. The Americans have, by the treaty of Ghent, a right of fishing and curing their fish in common with British subjects, on the coast between Cape Ray and the Rameo Islands, an extent of about seventy-five miles.
    Happy 4th of July my American cousins!

  22. Just an IDLE thought. In the past three elections,part of the hidden agenda of the neo-cons,according to media and the left was a Harper-led gov’t would take away a woman’s right to choose. Now under a Harper-led gov’t Mortengaler is recieving the order of Canada.Hmm,something is not right here. Another IDLE thought,when you realize that the media and your favourite party has been lying to you for years,what is the best thing to have in the garage? A hybrid or a hummer? Don’t you feel like a HOSEr now?

  23. God Bless America, the country that does more for the rest of the world than the rest of the world combined.

  24. Just an IDLE thought. Liberals are hyping up the troops with their green shaft plan. Liberal appointed G.G. awards Morgentaler, Doctor Abortion himself, an OofC. Everyone knows the socially conservative members of our society disagree, sometimes vocally, with the liberal use of abortion in our society. Great strategy Libs. Offend a large invisible minority in an extreme way, then launch into election mode. Hope for a rift in the Conservative party. Hype the “hidden agenda” fear tactics to rally the entire loony left. Greens abandon the green, far lefts abandon the NDP to battle the EEEVIILLLL NEOCONS and save women’s “right” to abortion, save the planet from EEEVIIIILLLLL CO2. Another IDLE thought….Canadian Liberal voters have got to be the most gullible fools this world has ever seen!

  26. Happy BDay to my borthers in arms south of the border. I managed to find a shirt with both flags on it from the Persian excursion I did four years ago with the USN to wear today.
    I am sure it will annoy someone at work, so it is all good!

  28. Citoyen Dion say, We are not screwing ‘Green Shift’. How you say shaft?
    Liberals expropriate/steal/shaft a company name. It’s “OK”, say bully Citoyen. It’s socialism in action. It’s the natural end result of socialism.
    Socialist-Liberals-Dion say, What’s yours is ours. So, screw off.
    …-
    “Dion defends ‘Green Shift’ slogan as legal battle heats up”
    Liberal leader Stéphane Dion says he doesn’t think the Green Shift environmental company is being hurt by his party’s use of the same name for its carbon tax policy and “it will be OK.””
    “Liberal party officials were still reviewing Green Shift’s cease-and-desist letter, a spokesman said yesterday. On Wednesday, in his first public comments over the dispute, Mr. Dion said, “I don’t think we’re hurting them at all.””
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/6rnrtz

  29. Depression? The MSM is in denial.
    …-
    “Hardly a Depression [John Stossel Alert]
    ‘It’s been described as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. And it brings with it grave dangers for all American families,” said Martin Bashir on “Nightline.” “Recession looms …”
    On the “Today” show June 20, David Faber referred to “the recession … these tough economic times.” Yet that very day first-quarter gross domestic product was revised upward again to 1%.
    America is not in recession, and who knows — maybe we’ll be less likely to have one if my compatriots would just chill. A recession is defined as two quarters of negative economic growth. We haven’t even had one quarter of negative growth.
    Yes, growth has slowed, and many people are suffering because of falling home prices and higher food and energy prices. These are real problems, but watching TV, you’d think we were in a recession so severe it must be compared to the Great Depression.
    Maybe I was just watching at the wrong times and just catching some outliers? No. A study by the Business and Media Institute found that ABC, CBS, and NBC regularly “hyped similarities to the Great Depression.”
    BMI took a novel approach. It compared the economic news coverage by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post between October 28 and November 3, 1929, around the time of the stock market crash, with the coverage by ABC, CBS, and NBC between March 13 and 19 of this year.
    “The difference between how the 1929 and 2008 media handled a crisis was profound — with modern journalists hyping every event.” Today’s coverage is much more alarmist. In 2008, few reporters pointed out “the differences between today’s economy and the nation’s darkest economic years, or bothered to note that America is not in a depression.””
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/69hl58

  30. “How To Blog Like A Moonbat, Module One.
    […]
    “This concludes THB Moonbat Writing Tutorial, M1. Please step away from your keyboard and go take your medications. Look for Module 2 in the near future. Thank you and good luck.”
    [Sorry, mea culpa! Forgot your asssignment!]
    “Assignment:
    Why is Alan Dershowitz such a racist, zionist piece of sh*t? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from what you have read, studied, or experienced.”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/5hdrpb

  31. I fly the Stars and Stripes at my desk all year ’round (I work for the U.S. division of a large Canadian firm), and believe me, it drives many of my co-workers batty. All great fun!

  32. Incredible revealing story in Thursday’s New York Times (I bought the paper for the story about McCain’s shake-up of his campaign staff)about Liberal Professors Retiring. There is a chart at the bottom of page A18 about the percentages of self-described Liberal (60’s radicals), Moderate (Liberal) and Conservative professors in American universities according to which department they are teaching. Even in computer science and engineering, most of the profs are Liberal.
    The article puts forward the thesis that more moderates are being hired as the Liberals retire – but since the Liberals (60’s radicals) are doing the hiring, I find this hard to believe.
    By the way the new study cited at the end of the story was done by Neil Gross of the University of British Columbia and Solon Simmons of George Mason University. A similar study of Canadian profs would be interesting.

  34. Is Dion really that dense? He and his party are being sued on two different fronts and he’s ignoring both?
    As for Morgentaler being awarded the O of C, surely someone as controversial, who offends so many people for what he practiced, is being used by the Leftists to flaunt and push their agenda. It seems wrong that a Judge of the Supreme Court such as Beverley McLachlin would be on the committee which decides who merits the award. Aren’t Judges supposed to be impartial? The committee was not unanimous on the Morgentaler award, unusual in itself.
    It’s very suspicious that this award would be given when we have a Conservative government which the Left like to play as anti pro choice. There are some political games being played and it’s coming from the highest level IMHO.
    Morgentaler is being used?

  35. This may be old news but the June 7 ed. of The Economist has a nice take on Saskatchewan and its blossoming prospects given its resources etc.
    Funny start to the article: In Saskatchewan it’s so flat you can watch your dog run away for hours. 🙂
    And in classic Economist-style, the article wrapped up by suggesting that the runaway dog may soon be bumping into people.

  36. pete @ 4:01 a.m., July 4:
    I think you’ve got it.
    It’s not the CPC government that awarded Morgentaler the OC. The optics look that way, and I’m sure it was designed by Beverly McLaughlin and other lib-lefties/Librano$ to embarrass and compromise PM Stephen Harper and his party: PMSH and the CPC are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
    To say nothing is to get them in hot water with their conservative base (‘only, I’m not playing that game) and to object to Morgen-dollar’s receiving this honour is to raise the ire of the pro-abortion, feminist hordes, with the MSM LOUDLY chiming in: ‘See, there is a hidden agenda. ‘See, the CPC would curtail a woman’s right to choose (sic), blah, blah, blah.
    I’m not going along with the divide and conquer stuff concocted by the left, with their cheerleaders in the MSM just waiting to broadcast their lies and innuendos.
    Vis a vis, PMSH keeping mum on the HRCs, my take on it is that he more or less has to, otherwise he and his party will be accused of taking away Canadians’ freedoms and human rights (sic). I suspect he’s closely monitoring what’s going on, and as some of our mighty warriors in the blogosphere are doing battle and winning, he’s holding fire FOR NOW. He’s in a minority government situation and has to be as cunning as a fox.
    My advice to conservatives is to not fall for the agenda of the lib-left, understanding that politics is “the art of the possible” and that in a minority government situation, PMSH’s feet are to the fire every day. The left and their flying monkey squads in the MSM are just waiting for him to misstep and then, they’re in for the kill.
    PMSH is holding fire and keeping his powder dry, which must take monumental restraint in the face of the plethora of provocations from the lib-left idiots and provocateurs and their MSM cheering section. I’ve decided that I’m going to hold fire too, waiting for a CPC majority. IF THEN, PMSH and his party continue in their silence on issues that are undermining the fundamental foundations of our democracy, then I’ll give ’em Hell…

  38. The human rights racket pays better than being the Prime Minister of the UK.
    “Estate agents say that the Blairs – who are believed to have mortgaged themselves to the hilt to acquire their five-bedroom Bayswater home – would be lucky to get the £3.65m they paid … in 2004…. I was the person who had to support it,” says Mrs Blair of that period, alluding to her role as the main earner of the pair thanks to income earned as a leading human rights QC.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6q43rw

  39. Mississauga Matt. I did that too when I worked as a silly servant. Flew a small US flag with a comparable Israeli flag alongside it.
    You can imagine the merde I got into with all those leftie government types.
    Held my ground though and they remained there until retirement.

  40. In a way I support Morgentaler receiving the OC. I despise him with a passion for what he has done to all the innocent lives he has taken. I used to respect the OC but in the long run it may be for the betterment of Canada. The leftist elitists that comprise the ruling class of Canada are proving themselves more and more to be out of touch with the average Canadian.
    This strengthens Harper’s mandate to clean house. Let queen Bev dream on. In a few years she will be gone and with the judicial review process Harper brought in for the last supreme her ilk may never again attain such power.

  41. I would be remiss if I didn’t send my salutations to those south of the border considering my “handle”. My years in Texas were some of the most enjoyable times of my life.
    So, to the freest country in the world:
    Happy 4th of July, y’all.

  42. Since the doctrinaire Left is determined to celebrate Morgentaler, what is the best alternative? Renaming an airport in his honour is out, since that’s a tribute reserved for homosexual paedophiles.
    A friend suggested Dr. Henry Morgentaler Elementary School. The capital cost is minimal, easily within the means of even the poorest socialised school division: just hang a sign at the entrance to the nearest cemetery. Or adopt the gold-plated, Britannia Hospital solution: build an elaborate, state-of-the-art facility for all the children who aren’t there to use it, and keep the classrooms empty. After all, real children have illnesses, behavioural issues and learning disabilities to introduce imperfections into the school board’s statistics. It’s so much better to have a school of (figmentary) perfect, planned and “wanted” children whose performance is excellent.

  43. A big American thank you to all my Canadian friends here who wished us a happy Independence Day.
    Yukon Gold –
    We couldn’t ask for better neighbors, either. And I’m glad that you feel that we’re only the second-greatest country in the world. You should feel that your country is the greatest, just as I feel that mine is.

  44. (Via Israpundit) Diana West, Geert Wilders: Prisoner of Islam
    Having run the polite-but-grim gauntlet of Dutch government security to gain access to Geert Wilders, I finally understood what the 24-hour security requirements of the man’s continued existence really mean: To make the survival of Western-style liberty in the Netherlands his political cause, this Dutch parliamentarian has to live under high-tech lock and key.
    This stunning paradox, with no end in sight, illustrates how far political freedom in the West has already eroded…

  45. Students’ insults upset spy
    ….Mubin Shaikh, 32, received a conditional discharge — which means he’ll have no criminal record for vowing to “chop the legs off” the school girls in an Etobicoke neighbourhood last April.
    Crown attorney Laurie Gonet said the two Grade 7 students were returning from lunch to the Kane Senior Middle School when they became involved in an argument with Shaikh.
    The 32-year-old Shaikh received more than $300,000 from the RCMP to infiltrate the alleged Toronto-area terror conspiracy…….
    torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/07/04/pf-6061636.html

  46. The Edmonton Journal (Friday) continues on with the AB Language Law being stuck down.
    Two options presented in this piece are to appeal to the supreme court (huge time delay and the decision is a no-brainer) or let the translations begin (of all provincial laws, etc., etc, etc). Wow. Wouldn’t this be a shot in the arm for the translation industry based in PQ – not to mention the overloading of courts, more wasted billions of dollars, and entrenching the minority rule of not only Canada but also AB.
    MB caved and started the translation rather than deal with it. NB is the only other officially bilingual province.
    It seems that AB is the next target. All of the AB federal MP’s who were in opposition in 2004/05 who were part of the all-party consent to allow Bill S-3 to pass into Law (2005) without a proper public airing have to stand up and be counted for allowing this situation to develop. PMSH has to wear this one (leader of the opposition at the time) – and it may well come back to haunt at the next federal election.
    A third option is to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause of the Charter – just as PQ invoked this clause to protect their own language law, Law 101.
    A simple $54 traffic ticket written in English has the potential to enshrine official bilingualism in AB for perpetuity along with opening up the entire situation to minority rule in perpetuity. This will be no different from the minority rule of Canada from Central Canada. Are we going to meekly roll over on this issue?
    I want a binding provincial referendum on the use of the Notwithstanding Clause by the AB Gov’t to protect the AB Language Law (1988) – now.
    Premier Ed’s e mail is premier@gov.ab.ca and mine has already gone.

  47. Thank you much for your kind words. It means a great deal coming from the citizens of a nation as fine as Canada.
    And you may want to take a look at this small celebration of Canada Day (or, if you prefer, Dominion Day) here in a suburb of Seattle. In any case, let me thank you again for what your troops are doing in Afghanistan.

  50. Caroline Glick, Anatomy of a massacre
    Government and police spokesmen would have us believe that the carnage in Jerusalem on Wednesday was unavoidable. Husam Taysir Dwayat, the convicted rapist, burglar and drug dealer turned jihadist who mowed down innocent people with his bulldozer on Jaffa Road was not suspected of links to terrorist organizations. The sociopathic, violent criminal who had “returned” to Islam over the past month raised no red flags. There was nothing to be done. No one is to blame.
    If the protestations of the government and the police that nothing could have prevented Dwayat from using his bulldozer to murder three people sound familiar, it is because they are…

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