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”.
Posted by: new at July 4, 2008 12:06 AM
I would include Salim Mansur.
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/about_interviews_Mansur.php
Colby Cosh: On the bong:
“If I had the sole and undivided power to select the Order of Canada, Dr. Henry Morgentaler would get through the door easily. Indeed, we might have to create a whole new class of the Order just for him…he exemplifies a species of civil and moral courage more usually associated with names like Patrick Henry or Nelson Mandela.”
Who takes this mouth mullet seriously?
On the Morgentaler bit, a petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Morgentaler/index.html
another poll gone horribly wrong…
2008-07-03
Has the last session of parliament made you lose faith in the Tories?
Yes. I want a new party in power. 12%
No. They’re still the best party around. 62%
I never had faith in the Tories. 26%
Total Votes for this Question: 3421
My congratulations to the US on this, their independence day.
Think about what their ideals of freedom, and individual rights and the rule of law and constitution mean – the majority of great inventions and innovations have come from the US.
Their independence day statement, their constitution and amendments, remain among the great documents of human thought and purpose.
Yea, Leslie. I was just about to post the link for the petition to rescind Morgentaler’s (aka Morgen-dollar’s) Order of Canada. You beat me to it.
Good on ya’!
‘Have just sent a bunch of personal Happy July 4th messages to friends and family in the U.S. of A.–the freest and most generous country in the world today.
God bless America!
Happy 4th of July to all of our American friends!
Hope you have a safe holiday and your troops as well.
I would also like to thank “letters” @ 9:12 am for the link to the open letter to Gordon Campbell, Premier of BC.
Roger Kimball, Thoughts on July 4, America, and multiculturalism
The multiculturalists claim to be fostering a progressive cultural cosmopolitanism distinguished by superior sensitivity to the downtrodden and dispossessed. In fact, they encourage an orgy of self-flagellating liberal guilt as impotent as it is insatiable. The “sensitivity” of the multiculturalist is an index not of moral refinement but of moral vacuousness.
Multiculturalism is a moral intoxicant; its thrill centers around the emotion of superior virtue; its hangover subsists on a diet of ignorance and blighted “good intentions.” Wherever the imperatives of multiculturalism have touched the curriculum, they have left broad swaths of anti-Western attitudinizing competing for attention with quite astonishing historical blindness. Courses on minorities, women’s issues, the Third World proliferate; the teaching of mainstream history slides into oblivion…
For your weekend reading pleasure (or otherwise):
Lt. Col. Gian P. Gentile, A (Slightly) Better War: A Narrative and Its Defects
The U.S. Army’s new strategy in Iraq—launched in February 2007, along with a surge of 25,000 additional American troops—qualifies neither as particularly new nor even as a strategy. Better to call it, instead, an enhanced reliance on tactics and operational concepts previously in use. Or, put less charitably, an over-hyped shift in emphasis that, on the one hand, will not necessarily yield an American victory in Iraq but, on the other, might well leave the United States Army crippled in future wars.
http://www.zenit.org/article-23090?l=english
Wise words from Thomas Collins, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto, regarding the awarding of Canada’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada, to Henry Morgentaler:
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A community’s worth is measured by the way it treats the most vulnerable and no one is more vulnerable than in the first nine months of life’s journey.
No person may presume to judge the soul of Henry Morgentaler,but it cannot be denied that the effect of his life’s work has been a deadly assault upon the most helpless among us.
[This appointment honors] a medical man who has brought not healing, but the destruction of the defenseless and immeasurable grief. This award must not stand.
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Archbishop Collins has asked that this prayer be said this Sunday at every Mass in the Toronto Archdiocese:
“That the scourge of abortion be lifted from our land, that those who promote it may be brought to a change of heart, that all who are tempted to abortion may be lovingly helped to protect the precious gift of life, and that all who have experienced an abortion may be comforted with the healing gift of love.”
MSM smear job underway against BC priest who vowed to return his OofC… WOW this guy is pure evil !!
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A B.C. priest who is returning his Order of Canada because the same award was given to Dr. Henry Morgentaler has a controversial past of his own.
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Larre was awarded the Order of Canada in 1983 for founding the Bosco Homes for emotionally disturbed and addicted adolescents. He was later convicted of assault and administering a noxious substance, but pardoned for those crimes in 1997.
He said the assault charge stemmed from an incident in 1974, when he slapped a 19-year-old woman trying to have an affair with a 14-year-old boy under his care. The other change came from an incident when he and a nurse told three teenagers to consume various unidentified vitamins, sugar pills and placebos in an effort to teach them about drugs.
Warren Kinsella: Comically inept Nazi hunter wannabe by day, Western Standard columnist by night.
http://westernstandard.ca/website/article.php?id=2810
Now do you people believe me that it is, and always was, a crypto-Liberal publication?
Happy Birthday to the greatest country on earth.
God Bless AMERICA.
Wish I was there.
Further to my post of 8:55 a.m. (July 4):
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080702.wmorgentaler0702/BNStory/National/home
GOVERNMENT MEMBERS, Privy Council Clerk Kevin Lynch and Deputy Heritage Minister Judith LaRocque, of the nine-member committee which awarded the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler OPPOSED IT.
Gruesomely ironic was the rest of the committee’s “concerns about Dr. Morgentaler’s health” seeing as he has recently suffered a stroke and the OC is never awarded posthumously.
So, what about the committee’s concern for “the health” of the millions of aborted babies who will never be in a position to receive either the OC or any other kind of award in their non-existing lifetimes? No first, second, or third prizes in the kindergarten 50-yard dash, no academic prizes, no swimming, baseball, basketball, or soccer cups proudly sitting on a shelf in their bedrooms…
This misplaced “concern” for the health of Henry Morgentaler suggests a misshapen and macabre logic on the part of the rah-rah committee members who insisted on the awarding of Canada’s highest civilian honour to a man who has deprived countless future citizens of their good health.
Dystopian Deranged Dominion, indeed.
FYI:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08070312.html
Morgentaler Order of Canada Protest Set for July 9 in Ottawa
Campaign Life Coalition is organizing a demonstration for concerned Canadian citizens to protest the awarding of the Order of Canada to abortionist Henry Morgentaler and to seek its revocation.
WHERE: Rideau Hall – official residence of the Governor General of Canada
WHEN: Wednesday July 9, 2008 from 11:00am to 2:00pm.
CONTACT: Paul Lauzon clcottawa@rogers.com 613-729-0379
The best thing that ever happened to Canada was coming into being next door to the United States.
Stay free, stay strong; some of us need the example.
Have a glorious 4th!
For the More Pavilions at Folk Fest file
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A former Toronto man who had joined Somalia’s fundamentalist insurgents was shot dead by Ethiopian troops after he was surrounded and refused to surrender, rebel sources said Thursday.
The sources, who did not want to be identified because they did not have permission to speak, confirmed that Canadian Abdullahi Ali Afrah was killed on Tuesday during an attack on Ethiopian troops.
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The sources described Mr. Afrah as an active member of the Shabab, which is a designated terrorist group in the United States and which serves as the militia of the Islamic Courts Union, a Taliban-like fundamentalist group.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=630201
batb: “Dystopian Deranged Dominion, indeed.”
Indeed, indeed. A dominion that had kept its moral perspective would see the situation as it really is. The Canadian holocaust now numbers about three million innocent souls and Morgentaler is its epitome, and its single biggest practitioner. Those people on that committee who selected him to be honoured should start praying now for their own salvation.
Hey Kate,
Home from India with some interesting pictures of the oil industry there. Was going to have you do a piece on it but thought releasing it on AGWN might get it in front of the eyes of those back east quicker.
Steve did a great job with the commentary and I think many will get the message. I would appreciate if you would link to the story, though.
http://stevejanke.com/archives/267909.php
We need people to see this to understand why the largest populations of the world need to address the pollution issues as well. We can’t be expected to do all the heavy lifting ourselves.
Crocodile Dundee vs The State.
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“Stroppy Paul Hogan battles tax office ‘bastards'”
“A DEFIANT Paul Hogan had a typically plain-spoken and blunt message for the Australian Taxation Office yesterday: “Come and get me, you miserable bastards.””
http://preview.tinyurl.com/63yr9k