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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is Ross Dolan, private investigator, performing the Laura Shields Case episode of I Deal In Crime (1946, 30:45, MP3, 7MB).

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  2. Bright white triangles flying over Surrey, B.C. A UFO zig-zags high above a lower mainland neighbourhood. More than 40 UFO sightings in all, “resulting in the area being dubbed the Surrey-Delta Corridor.” All this and much more, in a piece by Surrey Now journalist Tom Zytaruk. Yes, that Tom Zytaruk. Tom “just the facts” Zytaruk.
    http://www.rense.com/ufo3/majufo.htm
    Today, also from Surrey Now, more Tom Zytaruk, at Canada’s balanced — *cough cough* — news aggregator, National Newswatch: Tom “I won’t hand over the tape” Zytaruk says an attack on his credibility is an attack on democracy. So, just to make sure we’re clear on this, if Zytaruk writes a bunch of UFO-crap journalism, say, which causes you to realize that he’s just a fat feckless goofball who’s recently been used as a political pawn, you’re attacking democracy. And that’s a big no-no.
    In a not entirely unrelated story, from the NYT: “The 60’s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire”. Read the article — it’s honestly looking good, by the numbers. There might end up being fewer “Department of UFO studies” and that sort of thing, but I’m sure we can live with that.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/arts/03camp.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5124&en=2c75fd242f0cd192&ex=1372824000&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

  3. Zytaruk’s statements were indeed brilliantly self-defeating,
    EBD; if not before, certainly by now he as no credibility.
    And as for the 65-year olds starting to enter the decline of their influence, so it is that the 55-year olds are starting to enter the peak of their influence. Oh wait, that’s me! (Obligatory disclaimer: I’m speaking, of course, from a Gaussian perspective, not as a judgment of individuals.)

  5. The cat’s out of the bag!
    Former mayor, now Liberal M.P. for Thunderbay, Ken Boshkoff said today, “The ‘shift’ will transfer wealth from rich to poor, from the oil patch to the rest of the country”
    Calling it a ‘Green Anti-Poverty Plan’, he went on to say that, “The Liberal Party’s Green Shift announced on June 19th marked the most aggressive anti-poverty program in 40 years.”
    His blogging on ‘Forum Liberalis’ is likely to get him into the same hot water that Garth Turner recently experienced.
    We all KNOW that the Green Shaft is really about income redistribution – robbing western Peters to pay the much more numerous eastern Pauls, but they’re not supposed to say so publically.
    Give points for honesty. Deduct points for stupidity.
    http://forum.liberal.ca/en/forums/p/1067/4033.aspx

  7. I’m speaking, of course, from a Gaussian perspective, not as a judgment of individuals
    Vit, you win for neat math references. Those who truly know a subject can explain it in 100 words or less. Care to try Gaussian?

  8. Pascal said, PiperPaul, “If I had enough time, I could write less”, so how ’bout if I try the following 177 words: Most people are middling at most things. Some people are exceptionally good at some things, and some people are exceptionally bad at some things. Probabilistically, the frequency of the instantaneous (rather than cumulative) accomplishment level of a particular skill across all humans as a function of age tends to follow, at least in the first approximation, a Gaussian distribution, which is roughly a synonym in this context for a Normal distribution, which is roughly a synonym in this context for a Bell curve, although in practice there are often found other interesting forms such as bi-modal distributions. Yet it remains the case that for every such frequency distribution there will be some older people who remain more skilled in influence than would be normally measured for their age, as there will be some younger people who become more skilled earlier than normally measured for their age. So it’s not particularly about, as I said, constraints on any individual, rather it is a generalized over-arching abstraction of the passage of time and its relationship to the human experience.

  10. So you are exceptionally good at the skill of liking shiny things. I certainly admit that I like some shiny things too. The questions remain, (a) have you noticed any change, not that it need be monotonic, in your said skill with the passage of time, and (b) do you think that when abstracted across the temporal combinatoric population, any potential such variance is likely to be normally or at least diminishing-tail distributed, or not?

  12. Ouch, Vit. That is hard on the head at this hour of the day.
    Boshkoff’s comments about the “most aggressive anti-poverty program” is surprising only in that he is calling it what it really is. The problem is that the eastern voters (Ont & Que) will still vote Lieberal for reasons only God knows.
    disclaimer: My ma, bless her soul, is one of those Lieberal lemmings. If she wasn’t too old, she would make an excellent senator.

  13. Mao Stlong’s Clean Air Photo Gallery.
    Thick Soup of Smog goody, goody.
    …-
    “Ahead of the Olympics, air pollution in Beijing is a major concern. The city has put a number of anti-pollution measures in place, but so far the effect has been minimal.”
    “Still, a thick soup of smog often hangs over Beijing. As of July 15, dozens of factories will be forced to cease production for the duration of the Olympics and the Paralympics immediately following. Production will resume at the end of September.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,,33225,00.html

  14. George Jonas: “Anyway, you take the authorities’ word if you like. I’m not adventurous enough for that. As a timid soul, I’ll play it safe and try figuring things out for myself.”
    …-
    “Don’t be bullied by the men in robes”
    […]
    “Thinking for oneself was safer.
    Electing not to think for oneself, letting the authorities do one’s thinking, is a human right. I’d never blame anyone for exercising his or her inalienable right to take the government’s word — any branch of government’s, including the judiciary’s –for anything.
    But acquiescing uncritically in the last word of duly constituted authorities means acquiescing uncritically in a miscarriage of justice.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044350/posts

  15. Re: Sowahardy’s apology. It is not mentioned on the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada’s website. That is the one that the man himself heads up. So who was sowahardy speaking to with his ‘apology’. I would say the media and the dhimmi’s.Business as usual for the rest.

  16. Libsocialist Citoyen Dion say,
    *”…Insite and situated in the Downtown Eastside — “is something in which we believe.”
    …-
    “Sick of watching people die
    Just ask the police and doctors on the front line – harm reduction doesn’t work
    VANCOUVER — Sergeant Mark Steinkampf knows every back alley in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He greets the regulars by name and doesn’t miss much. On street patrol one balmy evening, he spots a new face – a young, attractive woman on a bicycle. He motions her to stop.
    “I can see that crack pipe in your bra there,” he says. He pulls it out and dangles it in the air. “You’re under arrest. Let me read you your rights.” He drops the crack pipe and crushes it beneath his shoe.
    The woman doesn’t have drugs on her. If she’s smart, she’ll get out of here fast and he’ll never see her again. If she’s not, her prospects aren’t good. A year from now, she’ll likely be ravaged by drugs and infections, turning tricks to get the money for a fix. If she’s very unlucky, she’ll wind up like another girl, whose body was found by a dumpster, stuffed into a plastic bag like so much garbage.
    Vancouver is famous for its innovative approaches to drug treatment.”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/57tk6f
    (*http://preview.tinyurl.com/5krba9)

  17. Fannie’s and Freddie’s ability to pay their debts depends in turn on their ability to collect from retail mortgage lenders. And with those lenders dropping dead like roses in a heat wave, collection suddenly looks very much in doubt.
    The two institutions have long been run not by bankers but by retired political figures, predominantly Democrats. From 1991 to 1998, Fannie Mae was headed by James Johnson, a longtime aide to former Democratic vice president Walter Mondale. Johnson’s successor, Franklin Raines, had served as budget director to Bill Clinton. Jamie Gorelick, vice chair of Fannie Mae from 1998 to 2003, served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.
    These figures have paid themselves impressive private-sector salaries. Johnson earned US$21-million in just his last year at Fannie Mae. Raines earned US$90-million for five years’ work at Fannie Mae. Gorelick got US$26-million.
    As so often happens with large scandals, the cost will fall on everyone except the responsible parties. In 2006, federal regulators sued Franklin Raines and two other Fannie Mae executives to recover US$115-million of compensation. The case was settled for US$3-million, plus the surrender of some (now probably valueless) stock options and other contingent benefits. The US$3-million was paid from Fannie Mae’s
    own insurance.
    And at the polls this November, the voters will likely exact a political price for the debacle from John McCain and the Republicans — even though the party most tainted by the failure ought to have been the Democrats. Indeed, James Johnson until recently chaired Barack Obama’s vice presidential selection committee.
    Frum .

  19. I watched the pilot broadcast of “Flashpoint”.
    It’s proof positive that if they really try hard, CTV (with the help of CBS)can be almost as bad as CBC. What drivel!?

  22. What’s with this lite dusting of SNOW in the Okanagan this week?
    It’s July 13 2008, the middle of summer!
    Oh rite, its caused by global warming because we know that everything is caused by global warming nowadays.
    You guys in BC need to stoke up the wood stoves or we’ll soon be in another ice age.

  23. The odour/smog from the Ordure of Canada grows/rises.
    …-
    “8th Canadian to Return Order of Canada Because of Morgentaler Award”
    [……..]
    Former Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick Gilbert Finn
    Monsignor A.J. Goski
    Madonna House foundress Catherine Doherty
    Father Lucien Larre
    Frank Chauvin
    Three anonymous recipients
    Important contact information can be found here:”
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071118.html

  25. EBD: I agree with your political sentiments, but to disparage people because of a belief in UFO’s is (I think) uncalled for. I don’t think it has any relevance to the current issue regarding the authenticity of the tape.

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