55 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  4. Jimmy Giuffre’s classic! Can anyone name the “Four Brothers” (hint, they were in the front row of that “herd”)?

  5. I like Vitruvius. He is nice. He plays good music. When I grow up, I want to play good music, just like Vitruvius. I like Woody Herman. Woody Herman plays good music. I hope everyone likes Woody Herman, because if they don’t, Vitruvius will get angry and a lot of people will be punished. I also like Billy walker. Billy Walker is a good singer. But when I talk about Billy Walker, Vitruvius gets angry. Then everyone gets angry. So I will not talk about Billy Walker any longer.
    The End.
    PS: I also like Charlie Walker. Charlie and Billy are not related.
    (Hope that wasn’t too deep to understand!!)

  9. A judge in Canada gets it right! US ‘deserter’ sent back to US to face the music!See link to story at Nat.Newswatch…then the comments at G&M.Oh the weeping and wailing and ashamed to be Canadian cries begin! GOOD ON YA JUDGE!!!

  10. AP Photographer embedded with the Taliban not only photographs the murder of two women at the hands of the Taliban . . . but also records it on video.
    “It’s official: the AP has now replaced al Jazeera as the official outlet for terrorist snuff videos.”
    http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/193294.php
    *contains graphic photos & video

  12. Bringing ass-hattery to a new level, ladies and gentlemen, I present Lone Ranger.
    Take a bow, Mr. Bum-on-Head.

  13. Correct, Porter, Jimmy Giuffre composed “Four Brothers” for Woody Herman’s big band in 1947, Herman’s Second Herd (the First Herd band generally being considered to be the 1944-46 grouping). And if I’m not very much mistaken, Porter, the names you are looking for, in left to right order as we see them from the audience in that 1963 version, are: Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward, Serge Chaloff, and Stan Getz. Sorry I couldn’t find a version earlier than that one, if you find one please let us know.

  15. For the record, Lone Ranger, your comment above to the effect that “when I talk about Billy Walker, Vitruvius gets angry”, fails the test of veracity. Firstly, because I don’t get angry, it’s a waste of energy, and secondly and more importantly because I took a swipe at you yesterday not for recommending this Billy Walker you keep alluding to, but rather because you failed to provide a link to any of Mr. Walker’s works in your recommendation.
    Indeed, instead, you literally asked thousands of SDA readers to take the time to “go on Youtube” and search for your favourite themselves, rather than just taking a moment to support SDA and the readers here by providing us with a link (as was also literally the case with a particular Hank Williams tune you recommended here on July 9 ~ I don’t take swipes at first offences šŸ˜‰
    Other than that, folks, if one looks at all Lone Ranger’s comments here at SDA so far this year (why yes, I can push a button to create a single HTML page ~ from the SDA comments database I keep ~ with all the comments by any commenter here so far this year, why do you ask šŸ˜‰ Lone Ranger seems to me to be a pretty regular sort of guy. So to be clear, don’t y’all go jumpin’ on him just ’cause he has not yet figured out what I was complaining about.
    After all, as I mentioned to Texas Canuck later in that discussion yesterday, if it’s that hard to understand my point, I probably didn’t explain myself well enough. Perhaps this comment will help clarify matters.
    Well, it’s 6AM and probably time to call it another night here at le club chez SDA Late Nite Radio, so on that note, ‘night all, best wishes, and as always, thanks to our lovely and gracious hostess, Miss Kate. Please don’t forget to tip your waitress & the doorman on your way out.

  17. I always thought the lone ranger was a tough guy who rode the range chasing bad guys. You’re nothing but a sissy boy.

  20. And speaking of sissy boys (what a brilliant segue), the videos of Canada’s snowflake terrorist, Khadr being interrogated. Of course the Mop & Pail are using objective reporting language such as “captures righteous indignation” and “may prove hard to watch”. All I saw was a woose being interrogated. Big deal, it was just like a “Law & Order” rerun with bad sound.
    Of course they are trying to pin this on PM SH even though this happened on someone else’s watch. Facts are immaterial when compared to the tear jerking factor.

  21. Next? If this Muslim murderer is freed in Canada, “an apology and a $20 million compensation award on behalf of all Canadians” will be next.
    Mo & Allah & friends are salivating/jubilating at this.
    The future looks bright for the lawyers involved.
    The Mop & Pail/MSM are preparing/propaganding the golden path for the heist.
    The teary video should do the trick for the “Canadian teenager”.
    After this payout, with its precedent, a righteous and indignant ButtCrack Karl Schreiber will sue for an apology/payout.
    …-
    “Omar Khadr: The interrogation
    Video captures righteous indignation. Wrenching tapes of CSIS agents questioning the Canadian teenager at Guantanamo Bay provide the public its first glimpse of an interview inside the U.S. military jail.” (nnw)

  23. Worth reading, despite the offensive “understandable historical reasons” comment:
    Ann Marlowe, It’s Not Rocket Science!
    The British press seems to begin with the presumption that the Afghanistan war is a lost cause ā€“ partly for understandable historical reasons. Americans ā€“ or at least the Americans you encounter in Afghanistan ā€“ tend to be more optimistic. Certainly US Navy Commander Dave Adams, 41, exuded confidence when he told me about his twelve months as the commander of the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) in Khost Province…
    ā€œItā€™s presence plus projects,ā€ Adams explains. ā€œAfghanistan is winnable if you get off the FOBs (Forward Operating Bases) and live with the people, in the district centers.ā€

  24. Can someone tell me what Bobbie Fife is watching?He just stated on ctv,that this is the first time we have seen outright torture on tv! Huh? I watched the tape,where is the torture Bob?He then places the blame squarely on PMSH,and that it’s PMSH’s fault that the tape was even released,and will further damage Can/US relations.Bobbie…maybe you should be talking to Bill Graham,Chretien,Martin????

  26. Today’s (and tomorrow’s), TV viewing:
    CPAC
    Elections Canada and “In-out” issue in committee.

  27. another poll going wrong or right depending on your point of view.
    [Star Poll]
    thestar.com Poll
    Should Canada do more to bring Omar Khadr home?
    Yes 602 39%
    No 848 55%
    Don’t know 84 5%

  28. Omar Khadr: I prefer the tender appelation child soldier. And whaddabout that uniform eh?

  29. Dean Godson, The hidden face of political Islamism: It is increasingly hard to draw a line between the agendas of the violent and non-violent
    Who says that Islamists can’t learn a trick or two from the West when they have to? Take a glance at the glossy brochure of Islam Expo – billed as Europe’s ā€œbiggest Islamic cultural festivalā€ – which ended at Olympia yesterday…
    But behind the cultural soft power of Islam Expo, there is political hard power, and some of it comes in quite raw, unpalatable forms. The organisers gave floor space in the exhibition section to the genocidal regime in Sudan (festooned with pictures of happy-looking black Africans) and to the ā€œCultural Sectionā€ of the Iranian Embassy (representing an aspirant genocidal regime) and the Algerian junta (no spring picnic on human rights)…

  30. Thomas Donnelly, The War We’re In
    IT’S REASSURING TO HEAR Sen. Barack Obama, a man who based his presidential bid on the supposed inevitability of defeat in Iraq, recognize the success of the surge, which he also predicted was bound to fail. But his New York Times op-ed today betrays a strategic understanding that is more deeply disturbing; it’s not just his “Plan for Iraq” that’s worrisome, but his plan for America in the world…

  32. Actually, Obama is starting to make sense. He is right that Afghanistan must be dealt with, and his proposal to send 20,000 troops there is an excellent idea, though too little but not too late. The border with Pakistan must be sealed off. Failing that, and also admitting we don’t care about the Afghan people, we should withdraw, and have a force that has a primary mission, not support of larger one, to be rapid reaction force which proactively and brutally snuffs out any terrorist organization, anywhere. Then they go back home again.
    The MSM is instead strongly hinting we should just leave, because well we just can’t win (which they never define). That would be good for world peace, right? That would be good for the Afghan, Pakistani and other Arab peoples, right? Wrong.

  33. Another Ann Marlowe piece, via SWJ:
    Madrassas Built With Your taxes
    THE US Army’s combination of development with counterinsurgency in Af ghanistan is admirable in all but one regard: We’re building mosques and madrassas, too…
    These villagers are living just as they did before Islam came to Afghanistan – 1,200 years ago. In the madrassa, they’re only learning to chant the Koran – not how to read it, much less think about it.
    And the mosque is a social center for men only. In most of Afghanistan, women don’t worship in mosques, period – most mosques there don’t even have a section where they could. So we’re building “community centers” that half the community can’t enter…

  34. Uh oh. The polls in Quebec aren’t quite as good for the Cons as they were a few months ago. Can you say ‘Hide your wallet!”?
    “A Strategic Counsel poll in June said only 16 per cent of Quebec respondents would vote for the Tories, down from 25 per cent in the 2006 election. This June sample has an error margin of 6.3 per cent, but Quebec’s Tory support has dropped in the past two polls from 27 per cent in April.”
    Naw – it won’t help, even if you could. The government will use the force of law (Income Tax Act) to compel you to give cash for them to buy votes in targeted regions. You simple Canadian, don’t have a choice. Bow to your federal government, and live in gratitude….
    “Since taking office in 2006, the Tories have demonstrated a newfound comfort with writing cheques for business. In 2006, the Harper government refashioned the much-criticized Technology Partnerships Canada fund into a new corporate subsidy pot aimed at the Quebec-centred aerospace and defence industry with $900-million of funding over five years.”
    Don’t think about it, it is easier that way. When you forget about the gun registry, the Wheat Board, the various HRC’s, the single largest increase in public spending in the nation’s history, a metastasizing civil service, half-baked copyright reform, the ongoing injustice in Caledoina, and unequal political representation (http://tinyurl.com/5koaup), you’ll never have to consider that the Cons are as conservative as a Liberal in power.
    And cognitive dissonance will keep it’s grubby hands off of your brain, enabling a happier, worry free state of mind. Bliss and peace dear ‘conservatives’.
    http://tinyurl.com/6mtk9s

  35. Guilt?
    Wash your carbon black sins away with Mao’s Chinee Soap. Don’t be burdened by your guilt. Buy your indulgences/cap’n’trade flom Mao Stlong; flee your guilt away.
    Mao Stlong say, indurgences goody, goody.
    …-
    “But perhaps the main way that environmentalism undermines the culture of freedom is by its ceaseless promotion of guilt. In the environmentalist era, we are no longer really free citizens, so much as potential polluters. We are continually told ā€“ by government, by commentators, by radical activists ā€“ that everything we do, from wearing disposable nappies to using deodorant to allowing ourselves to be cremated, is harmful to our surroundings.”
    “Greens are the enemies of liberty
    Environmentalists want to curb our freedom far more than the government’s anti-terrorist laws ever will”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/5b7tbj

  37. Mo & Al say, We told you we’d bury youse infooldel dhimmis for ‘the common good’.
    …-
    “Archbishop of Canterbury: ‘Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims’
    Christian doctrine is offensive to Muslims, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today.”
    “His acknowledgement of Christian faults came in a highly conciliatory letter to Islamic leaders calling for an alliance between the two faiths for ‘the common good’.”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/6lmp8w

  38. Roman Catholic readers may find this interesting:
    Mary Eberstadt, The Vindication of Humanae Vitae
    That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is not exactly news. Even in the benighted precincts of believers, where information from the outside world is known to travel exceedingly slowly, everybody grasps that this is one doctrine the world loves to hate…
    To many people, both today and when the encyclical was promulgated on July 25, 1968, the notion simply defies understanding…

  39. More on the Stones.
    “Get you Alert! Hey, You at the monitor. Look up; look way up. They’re coming to get you.
    As Bob Zimmerman squeaked: “Like a rolling stone.”
    “This will come and get you in your home,” said Tom Brikowski”.
    Get on yer knees, you carbon sinners; Repent! Pray to Gaia and her Profits for succour.
    Here’s the dogma: “proving yet again that climate change is a really dangerous experiment we’re performing on the world.””
    However, once you have paid for your indulgences, you can carbon sin some more. Repeat daily to ward off “a really dangerous experiment”.
    “Most climate-change experts are not yet aware of the kidney stone connection, but probably would not be surprised.”
    …-
    “”This will come and get you in your home,” said Tom Brikowski, lead researcher and an associate professor of geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. “It will make life just uncomfortable enough that maybe people will slow down and think what they’re doing to the climate.””
    “”While this is a serious effect, it’s not devastating,” said Dr. Brikowski. “It’s an additional inconvenience proving yet again that climate change is a really dangerous experiment we’re performing on the world.””
    “Health: OUCH: KIDNEY STONES
    Global warming to hit nether regions”
    http://tinyurl.com/68jymq (slop-pail)

  42. Canadian Patriots! Read Jack’s and weep for your country; a dying country in a wilderness of dry bones; a wilderness of political correctness, multiculturalism, and the rest of the liberal-left’s agenda.
    …-
    “Jack: ā€œCanadian Official Secrets!ā€”
    […]
    “Long ago now I was security cleared to ā€œCosmic Top Secretā€ for a Defence Ministers conference. For many years I held a ā€œTop Secretā€ clearance and I am hear to tell you that this is not a fools game played by idiots. I saw files that I still cannot talk about based on my ā€need to knowā€. I could tell you about Ipperwash if I were free to do so but Iā€™m not. I could tell you a lot more but but I am ā€œfrozenā€. I could add that that my civilian police experience is much the same and there are scerets that I can never reveal because of an oath I took. I take it seriously and the ā€œsecretsā€ will remain secrets because they are harmful to our way of life if they get out.”
    […]
    “Hereā€™s what may happen next.
    The CIA may decide that Canada cannot be trusted with a secret. The Mossad may feel the same way. MI6 no doubt already has it all figured out as well as the French, Germans and ā€œyesā€ā€¦the Russians. All of these people were passing secrets until this story broke. Ask yourself now if they will continue to do so when you consider that a civilian ā€œno nothingā€ judge decided to change the game because of ā€œpoliticsā€. Ask yourself about the chances of a secret being passed on to CSIS that might save your life in the days ahead but the intelligence agency involved didnā€™t trust Canada and so kept the information to themselves.
    ā€œCanā€™t happenā€ you say.
    Good luck with that one.
    As a boss of Mossad watching what is happening with Khadr I would shut it all down until I was certain that the Canadian media and courts had been locked out.
    Completely.
    Some things are not meant to become public knowledge. The Khadr situation serves to emphasize my point but there are more serious concerns, like your life. Unfortunately Canada cannot ā€œnowā€ guarantee that said secrets will never become public because of the Khadr decision and as a result CSIS is in full lockdown by foreign intelligence agencies.
    You can take ā€œthatā€ to the bank and you can take something else to the bank. Canada cannot be trusted with an ā€œofficial secretā€ simply because of disclosure laws, lawyers and and judges who put ā€œrightsā€ ahead of national security.
    Watch CTV and learn.”
    http://tinyurl.com/553p84 (jacks)

  44. For those ardent SDA readers who may not think we live in a socialist backwater….what about that $4.2 billion skimmed from the recent bandwidth auction…? (http://tinyurl.com/6nshua)
    …”Minister of Industry Jim Prentice has been non-committal about what the government plans to do with the windfall from the auction, which will also result in new cellphone providers sprouting up in the next year or two. In a House of Commons question period last month, he said he would like to wait until the auction ends before discussing what to do with the money. Some companies have already been ordered to spend on rural broadband by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Companies such as Bell and Telus had since 2002 been prevented from cutting their phone rates in big cities so that cable providers such as Rogers and Shaw could earn a foothold in the home phone market. The CRTC instead ordered that overpayment by urban customers go into a deferral account, which by the beginning of this year amounted to about $650 million. The regulator in January ordered the phone companies to spend about $300 million of that pot on rural broadband, and to return the rest to their urban customers.
    Follow the politicians as they jockey with the bureaucrats as they fight to get a piece of you….you, who pays the highest data rates on phones….in the WORLD. And the 3rd highest rates in the world, thank you very much.
    Guess all those bureaucrats and politicians have mouths to feed too huh? And they needs cars. And vacations. Everyone needs vacations. Oh, and televisions. And home computers. And a fully indexed pension for life. Oh, and a cottage…
    http://tinyurl.com/54q5uc
    Note that, if you are in an ‘urban’ area, you are overpaying for your phone service, because, it’s uncompetitive. But, rather than allow competition, the bureaucrats divert it to a honeypot, naturally, to alleviate underspending in other areas – presumably rural areas. But, ahem, what’s going to happen to that $300 million? Or the $4.2 billion?
    Guess we’ll have to wait until the failed Indian Industry lawyer and all around lightweight Prentice gets around to it.
    And to think that this government has the balls to call itself ‘conservative’.

  45. To Vitruvious. It’s about time someone tells you off!! Hats off to the ranger!!!!

  47. The African black Muslims use “child soldiers”.
    Moon is worried.
    …-
    “Reports of Darfur rebels using children worrying-UN”
    Moon: “”I am particularly concerned by reports of child soldiers among the JEM combatants in Omdurman, in clear violation of international law,” Ban said.”
    http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN15352514.html

  48. The shrinks claim: “climate change delusion, a previously unreported phenomenon”.
    “Previously unreported”?
    The shrinks better ‘fess up on that claim.
    Guess these shrinks have not heard of Canadian Libsocialist Citoyen Dion,surely a prima facie case of CCD. Citoyen Dion has “had visions of apocalyptic events.” Pitiful.
    …-
    “Climate Change Delusion, It Ends At 2012 And Brownā€™s Plan
    IN the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of Melbourneā€™s Royal Childrenā€™s Hospital note:
    We describe a patient with climate change delusion, a previously unreported phenomenon. A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Childrenā€™s Hospital Melbourne with an 8 month history of depressed moodā€¦ He also ā€¦had visions of apocalyptic eventsā€¦
    The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of ā€˜millions of peopleā€™ through exhaustion of water supplies. He quoted ā€˜internet researchā€™ to substantiate this. The patient described that ā€˜I feel guilty about itā€™, had attempted to stop drinkingā€¦ He was unable to acknowledge that the belief was unreasonable when challenged.
    Well, the world will end in four years:
    Two years ago, Patrick Geryl, then 51, quit his job as a laboratory worker for a French oil company. Heā€™d saved up just enough money to last him until December 2012. After that, he thought, he wouldnā€™t need it anyway.”
    http://www.anorak.co.uk/global-warming/185486.html
    …-
    “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink: climate change delusion
    DOI: 10.1080/00048670701881603
    Publication Frequency: 12 issues per year
    Published in: journal Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 42, Issue 4 April 2008 , page 350
    Subjects: Mental Health; Mental Health Research; Psychiatry;
    Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)
    Article Requests: Order Reprints : Request Permissions”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ryoz6

  49. Viacom backs off YouTube user details demands:
    http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/
    “We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users’ viewing histories and we will not be providing that information,” said a statement on the YouTube blog.

  50. I just watched a news clip on Calgary7 news that was questioning why this fellow who brutally assaulted two women,raping one,in Banff a couple days ago was out on the streets. I would surmise that it is the same reason that the Muckler fellow who stomped,beat,and raped a woman,into a coma still, a couple of years ago in Banff was out on the streets. And why the fellow Watcheson that sliced,diced,killed and raped a woman in Calgary this January was out on the streets. They all had extensive records of violence towards women. They also have one other thing in common,that very likely allowed them to escape just punishment. Anyone want to take a wild guess?

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