Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here courtesy of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project are the Peerless Orchestra performing Ma Rag Time Baby in 1899 (2:19, MP3, 2.1MB).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Son of Hamas Leader Turns Back on Islam and Embraces Christianity
As I read this story on Fox, I could not help thinking about Canada’s HRCs and the Chapters/Indigo thread. Imagine how the following would go over.
JONATHAN HUNT: What specific event or events began to change your mind about Islam?
MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF: When I was 18 years old, and I was arrested by the Israelis and was in an Israeli jail under the Israeli administration, Hamas had control of its members inside the jail and I saw their torture; (they were) torturing people in a very, very bad way.
JONATHAN HUNT: Hamas members torturing other Hamas members?
MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF: Hamas leaders! Hamas leaders that we see on TV now, and big leaders, responsible for torturing their own members. They didn’t torture me, but that was a shock for me, to see them torturing people: putting needles under their nails, burning their bodies. And they killed lots of them.
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JONATHAN HUNT: Do they want to destroy Christianity?
MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF: Islam destroyed Christianity from the beginning and Muslims don’t recognize that they stabbed Christianity (in) its heart when they said that Jesus wasn’t killed on the cross. They think that they honor him in this way.
Basically, any Christians understand that this way, (but Muslims) tell Jesus, okay, we don’t care, you didn’t die for us. Someone sacrificed his life for you, (but) you tell him, okay, you didn’t do it!
This is what Muslims are doing basically. But they don’t understand that this is the most important part of Christianity: the cross!
So, they are ignorant, they don’t know what they are doing and it explains what an evil idea it is behind this Islam.
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JONATHAN HUNT: You talk about the good Muslims, like your father, yet you still now renounce the faith of your father. Could you have not been a good Muslim?
MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF: Now, here’s the reality: after I studied Christianity — which I had a big misunderstanding about, because I studied about Christianity from Islam, which is, there is nothing true about Christianity when you study it from Islam, and that was the only source.
When I studied the Bible carefully verse by verse, I made sure that that was the book of God, the word of God for sure, so I started to see things in a different way, which was difficult for me, to say Islam is wrong.
Islam is my father. I grew up for (one) father — 22 years for that father — and another father came to me and told me, ‘I’m sorry, I’m your father.’ And I was like, ‘What are you talking about? Like, I have my own father, and it’s Islam!’ And the father of Christianity told me, ‘No, I’m your father. I was in jail, and this (Islam) is not your father.’
So basically this is what happened. It’s not easy to believe this (Islam) is not your father anymore. So I had to study Islam again from a different point of view to figure out all the mistakes, the huge mistakes and its effects, not only on Muslims — (of) which I hated the values … I didn’t like all those traditions that make people’s lives more difficult — but its effects also on humanity. On humanity! People killing each other (in) the name of God.
So definitely I started to figure out the problem is Islam, not the Muslims and those people — I can’t hate them because God loved them from the beginning. And God doesn’t create junk. God created good people that he loved, but they’re sick, they have the wrong idea. I don’t hate those people anymore but I feel very sorry for them and the only way for them to be changed (is) by knowing the word of God and the real way to him.
More to add to Brent’s comment:
Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef:
“You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have peace with Hamas. Islam, as the ideology that guides them, will not allow them to achieve a peace agreement with the Jews. They believe that tradition says that the Prophet Mohammed fought against the Jews and that therefore they must continue to fight them to the death. They have to take revenge against anyone who did not agree to accept the Prophet Mohammed, like the Jews who are seen in the Koran as monkeys and the sons of pigs. They speak in terms of historical rights that were taken from them. In the view of Hamas, peace with Israel contradicts sharia and the Koran, and the Jews have no right to remain in Palestine.”
Clear enough.
Anyone catch Rutherford today?link to story at Alberta Aardvark(cross posted at AGWN) on Dave’s interview with Hedy (crosses burning as we speak) Fry,and her attempt to explain ‘the Green Shift’ It is must read hilarity.I especially loved the comment at AA blog.a poster asked “if the green shaft was in place when Hedy had the crosses burning in Prince George,would the tax be on the people burning the cross,or the people who made the cross?’
Sammy, it’s obvious these leftys have never run a business nor understand it. Their presumption that no one will mark up costs is infantile at best.
If Muslim change back ward to christinay
they called tehm ” Mortad”
which is big sin.
Mosab Hassan Yousef 11:34 pm on Aug 12 said by
Brent is not look Muslim to me
do not confuesd yourself
teh guy Mosba lost his father and his father was muslim and most likely those peope are under influce of too muchstatelit of arab and
also so many palastinain I met in Canada are not really Muslim act and not can be easy call tehm
restriced muslim
their childrena is not always represnt their old generation nad even know too much about islam
msot mother as soon as lost husband protect thier son not involve in any mor epolict or go to any mosque their chidlerne are grwo not understand Islam because of tehir situaiton their family of remaing always sacre to loose the son too not let him go among Mulaim know Islam details
this guy not know what he is tlaking about
what do your expect in war zone and poor situtian of Palatinain they can not grow or know like normal people never had right to freedom
A groys gesheft zol er hobn mit shroyre (Haye), vus er hot,
zol men bay im nit fregn, un vos men fregt zol er nisht hobn.
What may be a good feature on SDA might be “Counting the Misses”. Since oil is sitting at $113 a barrel … how about the guys that were saying $200.
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say, while we’re doing “peace among men” jokes…
somebody wanna wend their way through the smoke
and burned-out cars… and give france a slap?
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Never mind “Counting the Misses”, already, what about “Counting the Misseders”, or as Zsa Zsa Gabor once said, “How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?” (Yeah, yeah, my apologies to those who don’t like multi-level puns.)
Humor aside Vitruvius. We have a ton of “experts” predicting just about everything, wrong. Why not have a scorecard?
Is it time virtruvius, for some old time fiddlin? How about the beautiful Westphalia Waltz
So sorry Vitruvius, spelled you wrong. My spell checker doesn’t work with Vitruvius. What does it mean?
While your thinking about it, here’s Joe Stafford and Gordon MaCrae with a duet: Whispering Hope
Cherniak urges us to “stick to principle in foreign affairs” vis-a-vis Georgia — and like the true Liberal he is, he concludes, “I think we need to avoid taking sides.”
His blog’s daily reading for me… You can’t make this stuff up.
12: 47 am
vitruvius
little sound strang man
his name look like Greek or Italian background
know spanich
then he wrote look lik German
his song look like English
you must be mix generation man
but who care about you
I did not get a word of you
excetp; A… Haye…hot…
he other words sound drinking men use mix language of french -german- Greek togeher
translation if you say nice about me
and do not translate if you said nasty thing.
I know Vitru you must be 99 years old man
who loved old song and he is not funny in most of time
but counting woman in their number of their master and/or husband that is funny though you siad
I do agree, Ural, I was just having some fun formulating the proposition a different way. Indeed, the operative word in my formulation was had, in the dictionary sense of “being deceived or taken advantage of”.
We keep being had by shysters who keep missing (Miss-ing, or sometimes missedering, Mr.-ing, depending on their chromosomal allocations of course) their marks in their ceaseless barrage of fear-mongering predictions.
The worst offenders are the biggest: we are being had by big government shysters, we are being had by big business shysters, we are being had by big labour shysters, we are being had by big religion shysters, we are being had by big art shysters, we are being had by big science shysters, we are being had by big medicine shysters, we are being had by big media shysters, &c.
Why is this? Because big is synonymous with bureaucracy, and bureaucracy is always more concerned with the bureaucracy than it is with the bureau. They claim otherwise all while promulgating fear they know to be fradulent, ergo they are shysters.
So maybe, I guess I’m sayin’, we should be counting being had, especially being had big.
(Oh and look, Haye doesn’t get it. How lovely 😉
That was quite good considering when it was made. Thank you,Mr V. BTW,do you collect old 78’s perchance?
I too thought, Wallyj, that that was pretty good for 1899. The CPDP‘s oldest Edison cylinder is (if memory serves) 1894, but you can barely hear through a cloud of noise what signal they managed to salvage from that one. Anyway, that’s what our Tuesday night vintage show is about, though: taking a listen to various parts of the first 50 or so years of recorded music and the spoken word.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Gunney99, was a Roman engineer and proto-architect, often referred to as “the father of architecture”, who wrote De Architectura (On Architecture), ca. 15 BC. My father practiced architecture, and taught me some, and then I went through engineering, and into software, and then software engineering, and now in the industry what I do is known as “principal software architect” for the projects I am responsible for. Yeah, yeah, it’s title inflation. Still, those are the words that are now used. So, when I was looking for a web-o-pseudonym after there came to be too many Tonys ’round these parts, I thought that Vitruvius would be a good one for me.
G’night folks; and as always, thanks for SDA, Kate.
It’s About Money, Stupid!
You know it’s a money-making scheme when those who promote the “environmental” agenda stand to profit massively, like this big oil billionaire and Nancy Pelosi.
You know they see it as a risky venture when they expect the taxpayers of California to accept ten billion additional dollars in debt to pay for it, rather than investing their own money.
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-about-money-stupid.html
MSM’s headline is pure misleading bhjjdfmt. There was no “compromise”.
Bloc says: “we decided unanimously to accept the present composition,”.
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MPs reach compromise on vetting of Supreme Court nominees
By Jim Brown, THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – An all-party committee of MPs has decided to press ahead with its job of vetting potential nominees for the Supreme Court – despite opposition worries about the presence on the panel of two Conservative cabinet ministers.
“In the end, we decided unanimously to accept the present composition,” Bloc Quebecois MP Real Menard said”
http://tinyurl.com/6rzcy6
Not Dan Rathel Syndlome, say Mao Stlong.
Mao say, all rip-synching Fake but Acculate.
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“Olympic bosses defend faked ceremony song
BEIJING (AFP) — Olympic organisers on Wednesday defended a decision to fake a key part of the Games opening ceremony, as China enforced a media blackout on the lip-synching controversy.
Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke became a celebrity in China after she “sang” a patriotic ballad in front of 91,000 people and a television audience of over one billion during last week’s spectacular show.
But it later emerged the real voice belonged to chubby seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was deemed not attractive enough to go on stage, and that the switch was ordered by a politburo member of China’s ruling Communist party.
Wang Wei, vice president of the Beijing Olympic organising committee, said an artistic decision was made by the producers of the ceremony and that he did not believe it was unethical.
“I do not see there is anything wrong with it,” he said.
International Olympic Committee executive director Gilbert Felli also defended the use of a more photogenic double, comparing it to an athlete taking part in Olympic qualification and then being dropped for the main event.”
http://tinyurl.com/5wxxyx (afp)
How exactly does the CP expect people to take them seriously wrt articles they write about the Canadian military, when they are incapable of getting something as simple as the rank system correct? If they can’t figure out the difference between an officer and a Petty Officer, should anyone spend much time considering their articles about what it is we do?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/08/12/ot-computer-080812.html
And speaking of Olympic insanity, when did ping-pong become an olympic sport?
Anyone want to offer a suggestion as to Olympic sports than shouldn’t be?
#1 – pingpong (table tennis)
#2 – badminton
#3 – softball
#4 – Photoshop and Milli Vanilli
The list is long Tex. Can start with EVERY sport that has ANY kind of judging of performance involved. Goodbye gymnastics, boxing, figure skating, diving, synchronized swimming, judo, karate.
If you cannot physically measure it or in the case of team sports, score a goal/run/basket etc, then turf it.
There may be some Liberals from the past sticking their oars back in to try to keep the sinking boat afloat. Notably in the Ottawa area riding of Nepean/Carleton. David Pratt has decided to seek the Liberal nomination in John Baird’s riding, thinking he can unseat our Environment Minister. This is not the riding in which Pratt lives, apparently his riding has already chosen a candidate.
We remember Pratt as a Defence Minister. He was notable for his statement about not needing a large delegation to return the body of the unknown soldier because it wouldn’t weigh much.
Nothing like politics for Liberals, they keep returning to the trough.
Read Lorrie Goldstein’s August 13 column in the Toronto Sun:
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2008/08/12/6429881.php
in which he gives a lot of pertinent information to the public about the Propane explosion on Sunday that Toronto councillor/s and politicians have kept from us.
‘Looks like a massive screwup by provincial and municipal politicians with the left hand not knowing–or caring–what the right hand is doing. The usual in this burg and province. Miller and McGunity: Tweedle Dumber and Tweedle Dumbest.
We were treated yesterday to a non-news story on the CBC, in which Moro…er, Mayor Miller’s only statement was to the effect that many of the residents were able to go back home and…wait for it…many weren’t.
Thanks, David. That’s all we needed to know, right?
And we continue to have maz2’s juvenile and ignorant sneers against the Chinese, with his endless name-calling that they can’t pronounce the letter ‘r’.
Hey maz2, you aren’t the brightest eight-year old in the recess yard, yelling at those Chinese kids over there.
maz2 – do you know the Chinese for the number two? It’s pronounced ‘ar’. That’s right. Just like the letter ‘R’ which you ignorantly claim they can’t pronounce.
How about the Chinese for man? It’s ‘ren’. Humanity is ‘renlei’. Gosh, the two sounds ‘r’ and ‘l’ in one word and gosh, they don’t mix them up. Gosh, maz2, you don’t know anything about their language (or them), do you?
Don’t let facts bother you, maz2. Your need to put down and sneer at others, dominates the truth.
Photography as a Weapon
By Errol Morris
You have your fear, which might become reality;
and then you have Godzilla, who is reality.
— from the movie “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”
As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had been faked. Later, many of those same papers published a Whitman’s sampler of retractions and apologies. For me it raised a series of questions about images.[1] Do they provide illustration of a text or an idea of evidence of some underlying reality or both? And if they are evidence, don’t we have to know that the evidence is reliable, that it can be trusted?
[…]
Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor and an expert on digital photography, has published a number of journal articles and a recent Scientific American article on digital photographic fraud. He seemed to be a good person to start with. If a photograph has been tampered with, he’s the person to analyze how the tampering has been done. I wanted to discuss with him the issue of the Iranian photograph starting with the issue of why we trust photographs in the first place.
HANY FARID: The short answer is: I don’t know. The longer answer is: if you look at the neurological level, what’s happening in our brain, roughly 30 to 50 percent of our brain is doing visual processing. It’s just processing the visual imagery that comes in, and if you think about it in terms of bandwidth, there is a remarkable amount of information entering into our eyes and being processed by the brain. Now, the brain samples like a video camera, but 30 frames a second, high resolution, massive amounts of information. Vision is a pretty unique sense for the brain. It’s incredibly powerful and is very valuable from an evolutionary point of view. So it’s not surprising that it has an emotional effect on us. The Vietnam War, the war abroad and the war at home, has been reduced to a few iconic images — the Napalm girl, the girl at Kent State. What seems to emerge from major events and eras are one or two images that effectively embody the emotion and rage, the happiness and anger. The whole thing somehow is enfolded in there. The brain is just very good at processing visual imageries and bringing in memories associated with images.
ERROL MORRIS: But text is often brought in visually as well.
HANY FARID: Sure, but”
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/photography-as-a-weapon/index.html
Regarding Sammy’s post at (August 13, 2008 12:08 AM) featuring Hedy Fry and the Lib “loaves & fishes” Green Shift program.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Hedy was on a massively confused toot and contradicted everything she said, along with the statements of all other Libs.
It is a masterpiece of illogic that you should not miss; it’s right up there with the best of Monty Python. Transcript and the actual radio program is on the AGWN site.
“Photography as a Weapon” here:
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/08/12/PH2008081203383.jpg
“USDA Raises Corn-Crop Estimate as Plants Recover From Flooding”
“Increased supplies of corn are good news for big users such as Poet LLC, the largest U.S. ethanol processor, and Tyson Foods Inc., the largest meat producer, which buys the grain for feed.”
http://tinyurl.com/55qq9v (bloomberg)
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Ecclesiastes: “To everything there is a season, a time to sow and a time to reap;”
steve janke has the text up RE: Hedy Fry explaining to Dave Rutherford “The Green Shaft”
How do these people get elected?
Firepersons are now asking for police escort as they go about their business in Montreal North after the vandalizing and attacks that took place Sunday night. Many of the cars that were destroyed belonged to firemen and women (they were parked near Firestation 18 that was wrecked). A medical attendant was hit on the head and three policeman were injured (one shot in the leg). A number of shops were also looted.
Spengler in the Asia Times offers the opinion that “the West has no vital interests in Georgia.” Part I of the refutation:
Melik Kaylan, Welcome Back To the Great Game
Between Russia and Iran, in the lower Caucasus, sits a small wedge of independent soil — namely, the soil of Azerbaijan and Georgia combined. Through those two countries runs the immensely important Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which delivers precious oil circuitously from Azerbaijan to Turkey and out to the world. This is important not just because of the actual oil being delivered free of interference from Russia and Iran and the Middle East, but also for symbolic reasons. It says to the world that if any former Moscow colonies wish to sell their wares to the West directly, they have a right to do so, and the West will support that right. According to Georgian authorities, Russian warplanes have tried to demolish the Georgian leg of that pipeline several times in the last days. Their message cannot be clearer.
Besides their own pipeline, Georgia and Azerbaijan offer a fragile strategic conduit between the West and the “stans” of Central Asia — including Afghanistan — an area that the Soviets once controlled in toto. We should remember that an isolated Central Asia means an isolated Afghanistan. Look at the countries surrounding Afghanistan — all former Soviet colonies, then Iran, then Pakistan…
A time to sow and a time to reap.
If this deluge in the Enchanted Forest east of Edmonton doesn’t stop soon there will be no reaping.
Ya and this after half the crops have been burned from virtually no rain for the last 2 months.
We’re at 3.6 inches and it’s still coming down.
And I only have the Ark half built. Damn!
“There is no debt so surely met
As wet to dry and dry to wet.”
And Part II:
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., Job One for #44
One particularly unreliable energy supplier is Russia whose murderous aggression in the Caucasus nation of Georgia is not just about toppling a democratic government allied with the United States and the West. It is also designed to consolidate the Kremlin’s control over oil flows to Europe by seizing the one pipeline from the petroleum-rich Caspian not currently in its grasp or that of Islamofascist Iran.
Moscow has already demonstrated its serial willingness to use energy as a coercive weapon. Europe’s acquiescence to the Russian rape of Georgia is an ominous indicator – both of the prospects for freedom-loving, but relatively weak, nations who look to the West for security and of the risks of energy dependence…
Finally something useful from NYT (registration required):
(Via SWJ) John Markoff, Before the Gunfire, Cyberattacks
Weeks before bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace.
Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks in Lexington noticed a stream of data directed at Georgian government sites containing the message: “win+love+in+Rusia.”
Other Internet experts in the United States said the attacks against Georgia’s Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests — known as distributed denial of service, or D.D.O.S., attacks — that overloaded and effectively shut down Georgian servers…
Who was Wendell Willkie? In 68 years, people will be asking, “Who was B. Hussein Obama?”
Stephen H. Webb, The Return of Wendell Willkie
If you pass through the arched entrance to Elwood High school, you will read a slogan from [Wendell Willkie’s] campaign: “The Hope of Our Country.” Elwood students today can be excused for assuming the slogan refers to public education, not to a forgotten public figure—one whose rapid rise from nowhere resembles no other politician more than Barack Obama…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDSuZl0Onas&eurl=http://ibloga.blogspot.com/
There is no future. We are doomed.
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allah gets a “two-fer”… infidel and uppity-female.
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Ezra has another Hooman Rights complaint lodged against him…for publishing his blog!!
http://ezralevant.com/
The Canadian casualty count in Afghanistan would have been must lower if we had some decent helecopters. I don’t understand why the Conservatives don’t make more of this.
This is what Don Martin has to say in the National Post today: “(The unwritten tragedy is how Canada owned these helicopters before they were sold by the Liberals without replacements being ordered. Had they been retained, it is likely many lives might have been saved.)”
The Canadian casualty count in Afghanistan would have been must lower if we had some decent helecopters. I don’t understand why the Conservatives don’t make more of this.
This is what Don Martin has to say in the National Post today: “(The unwritten tragedy is how Canada owned these helicopters before they were sold by the Liberals without replacements being ordered. Had they been retained, it is likely many lives might have been saved.)”
US Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman ordered to leave Canada. Start the countdown clock to September 23.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/13/us-deportation.html
Ronald Bailey, Fighting Big Solar
…a conflict is brewing between the energy and conservation wings of the environmentalist movement. Why? Because solar plants take up a lot of space. In addition, new power lines will have to be built to transmit the renewable power to growing desert and coastal cities. This means trade-offs. Some desert acreage will have to be sacrificed in order to produce energy…
The War in the Caucasus: An Initial Assessment
13 August 2008
Panelists:
Leon Aron, AEI
Frederick W. Kagan, AEI
Lt. Col. Bob Hamilton, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, U.S. Army (Retired)
The first material from the event has been posted (under “Related Material”), namely Frederick Kagan’s PowerPoint presentation (nice maps). With any luck, audio and video will be available soon.
Nicola, the Chinooks were sold by Mulroney; but, they did so, as I understand it, because they had acquired medium/tactical lift capability with the EH 101 purchase which, as we know, Chretien cancelled.
So, essentially Martin is right that the previous Grit government deprived military of lift capability, but they can’t be technically blamed for selling Chinooks.
Telling the Canadian public soldiers are dying because they don’t have the right equipment is not good for their morale. Maybe that’s why they’re not making too much of this; perhaps they are keeping their powder dry until next election.
Grits have no credility on military front anyway, so no need to belabour that reality. Maybe there are too many other silly Grit issues (Green Shaft, failure to pay back stolen money, afraid to show up for confidence votes) for them to focus on helicopters.
Anyone else find the ‘page’ at CTV incredibly tilting left?
http://www.ctv.ca/politics
Say it loud and say it over and over, the Liberals gutted and deprived the Military for decades.
It’s going to be a long haul to get it back to where it should be in a Sovereign Nation.
Dion’s carbon tax shafting scheme will insure the Conservatives will have power to continue to beef up our military and give them state of the art tools to do the jobs we expect them to do.
It is a masterpiece of illogic that you should not miss; it’s right up there with the best of Monty Python.
[PiperPaul smacks forehead and runs nekkid from the tub – Eureka!]
Some people have been treating Monty Python as instructional, not as parody and cautionary tales! That explains a lot, n’est ce pas?