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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our regular jazz show, which has been rescheduled to Wednesday this week due to to the Olympics, here are Johnny Griffin, Wes Montgomery, Ronnie Ross, Hans Koller, et al performing Last of the Wine, in Hamburg (1965, 7:40).

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

Johnny Griffin, who passed away on July 25, aged 80, was a tenor saxophonist with a virtuoso technique and a reputation for breakneck speed who played with some of the biggest names in jazz during a career which lasted more than six decades. He was best-known, perhaps, for his work with two of the most harmonically demanding figures of the modernist school: his fellow saxophonist John Coltrane and the pianist Thelonious Monk.

31 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. New book from Edgar K. Browning Stealing from Each Other
    “If you are not responsible for yourself you are a slave”
    “Professor Browning has done everyone a favor by taking his 20 years of teaching economics to Texas A&M students and translating his course work into an easily digestable book. Be forewarned if you have high blood pressure the information presented may cause you to blow a gasket. Professor Browning uses facts not emotional arguments to show, that the welfare system, which is nothing more then taking from the haves and giving to those who politicians believe are the have nots in the United States, can’t be justified, and costs America more then it delivers. A GREAT read. I highly recommend this book. Once you’re done pass it on so that another person can have their eyes opened to the reality of redistribution of wealth and how it’s causing us to lose our freedom”

  4. Who and the hell runs National Newswatch !?
    They linked to a vid of Kinsella interviewing a fish !! I kid you not.
    Don’t bother – it is worse than pathetic.
    Anyhow, old wk got vey few comments and nearly all of those we’re AGAINST wk’s political leanings. The man needs help.
    Those at NNW know that Kate has ten times the volume and ten times the quality. So what gives ? Canadian Media bias ? Naw, this isn’t the USSR.

  6. I saw that at National Newswatch.
    is it a national newswatch joke? ’cause I didn’t get it.

  8. Marc and Ron, I stopped going to National Newswatch when they linked to Big City Lib.
    National news?
    Nuh-uh. Toronto Star, Big City Lib…
    Say no more.

  9. German nudist jailed after not paying fines
    …But Siegfried is determined to fight for his nudist rights….
    …Siegfried explains: “We don’t need clothes, don’t have to do laundry, save time and are helping the environment. The skin can breathe better. It makes me stronger.”….
    tinyurl.com/5bptyf
    ….Now guards have given him a single cell where he can sit out his sentence without clothes…
    ananova.com/news/story/sm_2974365.html

  11. The HRC/HRT kangaroo courts would be 100% secret if this is acted upon.
    Is this what the Commissioner means? Is the MSM skewing her words?
    Is this Canada’s version of Dragons & Dungeons?
    …-
    “However, she said, the most obvious solution is to obscure the identities of individuals whose cases are the subject of evidence or rulings by tribunals – such as the Human Rights Tribunal.”
    …-
    “PRIVACY COMMISSIONER
    Online tribunal evidence leaves citizens’ data open to abuse”
    http://tinyurl.com/5weo65 (g-m)

  12. We knew it would happen, the Liberal version of a goon squad come to the rescue of their former leader the Shawinigan Mauler, attacking Kenney for telling the truth.
    Bob Rae, Liberal Foreign Policy critic and brother of John Rae of Power Corps is calling it “guttersnipe politics”. Yeah, they got stung with the truth and they’re smarting and well deserved.
    It’s been pointed out that rarely, if ever, a former Prime Minister makes public judgment on a
    successor. This issue of relations with China is close to Chretien and his China cabal for their own personal gain so he arrogantly spewed his venom. To hell with the lot of them, give them more and make it sting.

  13. How is the Liberal Party any different from PETA and the family from the Westboro Baptist Church any different? They are not.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080821.RECALLOTTAWA21/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/
    They are shamelessly using a death for political purposes. This document was barely news in July (except as an embarrassing leak!) but now the opposition are demanding answers or it’ll be worse than a ‘small town butcher accidentally killing off a few of his neighbors’.

  14. The president, with no acknowledgement then of Mr. McCain’s arguments, would adopt the senator’s plan. Democrats who predicted the failure of what they mockingly called “the McCain surge” would fall silent when the 20,000-troop increase led to a dramatic reduction of violence, falling to a low of just 11 troops killed in July.
    “They don’t call it that anymore,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said, smiling in triumph.
    The South Carolina Republican, an early convert to the McCain cause who observed much of the senator’s backdoor efforts, is unabashed in his praise for his longtime friend, blinking back a tear as he recalls trips he took to Iraq with his colleague.
    “Without John McCain, there would never have been the surge,” he said emphatically.
    http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/21/mccain-turns-bush-on-iraq-war-surge/

  15. Heads up-
    CTS-TV Michael Coren Show at 8pm Eastern, repeated tomorrow at noon.
    One-on-one with Stephane Dion

  16. Will Dion bring along his communications Bozo, you-know-who, to help with the tough questions?

  17. (Via CSP) Also appears on Real Clear Politics sub nom. The Bush Era in Perspective.
    Robert Kagan, The September 12 Paradigm: America, the World, and George W. Bush
    The world does not look today the way most anticipated it would after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Great-power competition was supposed to give way to an era of geoeconomics. Ideological competition between democracy and autocracy was supposed to end with the “end of history.” Few expected that the United States’ unprecedented power would face so many challenges, not only from rising powers but also from old and close allies. How much of this fate was in the stars, and how much in Americans themselves? And what, if anything, can the United States do about it now?
    Hard as it may be to recall, the United States’ problems with the world — or, rather, the world’s problems with the United States — started before George W. Bush took office…

  18. Ali Alfoneh, Ahmadinejad versus the Clergy
    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken advantage of Iranian millenarianism in a well-orchestrated power play to bypass the established clergy. While Ahmadinejad’s populism is unlikely to ignite a messianic revolt against the clerical establishment, its manifestations–most notably leaks about the clergy’s involvement in economic corruption–will weaken their authority and allow the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to consolidate further control over the power structures of the Islamic Republic.
    A wave of millenarianism is sweeping over Iranian society. Amid social and economic unease, and with eschatological anticipation high, many Iranians interpret even the most mundane matters as signs of the realization of Shia prophecies of the end of the world and the imminent emergence of the Hidden Imam, often called the Imam of the Era in Persian-language sources. Communicated through both the Internet and mobile phones, millenarian rumors have mobilized the masses and occasionally led to riots…

  19. “AP photo of school register reveals “Barry Soetoro” (yup, Barry ‘O’) as muslim Indonesian”
    (israelinsider.com)
    A 2007 Associated Press photograph, suppressed until now, shows the school register of the child who is today known as Barack Hussein Obama but was officially listed then as Barry Soetoro, whose citizenship was listed as “Indonesian” and whose religion was listed as “Islam.” The visual evidence starkly contradicts the Obama campaign’s claim that he was not a Muslim and confirms that he is a national of at least one other country.
    Well, there you go. He’s either a Muslim, or an apostate.

  20. A genuine moderate Canadian Muslim speaks. And he’s right:
    “Why can’t we fight the Taliban at home?”
    August 21, 2008
    TAHIR ASLAM GORA
    THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR
    “We are looking for a solution from people who are a cause of this problem.” Such were the remarks delivered by Tarek Fatah, a progressive Muslim activist, in a recent Muslim community outreach event organized by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in co-operation with Peel Regional Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
    The event was aimed at addressing the radicalization of Muslim youth. Some prominent imams and Muslim student leaders commented on the situation, and a group of progressive Muslims from Canadian Muslim Congress was also there to counter the radical thoughts.
    Questions come to mind at times like this, such as: Do such events help in eradicating radicalization? I don’t think so, because we don’t have clear laws to handle Islamists’ extremist ideologies.
    That’s why we haven’t taken any action against a man and his fellows who suggested that Muslims should attack Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil. We haven’t taken any action against many Islamists in Canada who openly support the Taliban and, despite being Canadians themselves, show their hatred to Canada because of its western values.
    …
    On the other hand, Islamists in Canada seem pretty smart. They have infiltrated political parties, they are taking shelter from our feel-good media and human rights groups. They are taking positions in government offices, intelligence institutions and campuses.
    …
    So far the Canadian government hasn’t taken any steps to press Islamists to tolerate the values of a free society. Rather, Islamists are pushing Canadians to tolerate their extreme hateful ideologies.
    http://www.thespec.com/Opinions/article/422500
    “They have infiltrated political parties” – I wonder what parties he’s referring to?

  21. The future of Pakistan?
    “What Islam Wants: Islam’s Diabolical Plan According to Pakistan’s Jamat-e-Islami Party.”
    JAMAT WILL BRING SLAVERY BACK TO PAKISTAN Arabians own slaves. Though Allah says that the slaves should be treated in a nice manner, he did not advocate the abolition of slavery. If slavery is bad as considered in today’s world, Allah certainly would have said that slavery is wrong. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) also said that the slaves should be treated in a good manner and the slaves should be released often. But if there is no slavery, how can anyone release slaves? Hence the re-introduction of slavery in Pakistan is one of the future plans of the Jamaat.
    ALL CAPTURED HINDUS WILL BE MADE SLAVES
    All the captured Hindu Indians and Srilankans will be made slaves to work for Pakistani Muslims. Every God-abiding Pakistani Muslim will get slaves once we conquer India. All the slaves who embrace Islam will be set free. Slavery is Islamic. Jamaat is the only political party, which does not voice any opposition to the slavery in Pakistan.
    Lots more plans: http://www.islam-watch.org/JihadiUmmah/What-Islam-Wants-Nabiullah-Khan.htm

  23. Evgeny Morozov, The Kremlin’s Virtual Army
    But sophomoric pranks and cyberattacks were only the first shots of a much wider on[snip] war in which Russian bloggers willingly enlisted as the Kremlin’s grass-roots army. For Russian netizens, “unconventional” cyberwarfare—winning the hearts and minds of the West—became more important than crashing another server in Tbilisi. Managing information seemed all the more urgent as there were virtually no images from the first and the most controversial element in the whole war—the Georgian invasion of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia—and the destruction that, were one to believe the Kremlin’s account, followed shortly thereafter…

  24. Shanea Watkins and James Sherk, Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers
    1. U.S. military service disproportionately attracts enlisted personnel and officers who do not come from disadvantaged backgrounds…
    2. Members of the all-volunteer military are sig­nificantly more likely to come from high-income neighborhoods than from low-income neighborhoods…
    3. American soldiers are more educated than their peers…
    4. Contrary to conventional wisdom, minorities are not overrepresented in military service…

  26. Mao Stlong say, hackel dilty lat. Computel expelt dilty lat, too.
    …-
    “Report: Hacker Uncovers Proof Chinese Gymnast Is Underage
    A determined U.S. computer expert has delved into cached pages on the Internet to unearth Chinese official documents showing a gymnast who took gold in the uneven bars competition, edging the U.S.’s Nastia Liukin, may indeed be underage.”
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407803,00.html

  28. Looks like the National Post is trying to put sizzle and spin on their stories. I just saw and read: “40-year-old aircraft will have to keep flying in arctic until at least 2015”.
    Talk about a tempest in a tea pot, a 40 year old aircraft in the north is considered new. The north has 1930 – 40 vintage aircraft operating up there on a regular basis. The DHC-6 Twin Otter is a valued aircraft up in that neck of the woods.
    The fact that the military are putting a lower priority on replacing their fleet of CC138s could have more to do with the fact that the Twin Otter line will be starting up again at Viking aircraft in BC than anything else. The American army has already placed an order for three.
    The Canadian Forces could have also kept the three Twin Otters they sold back in ’95 to ease up the number of hours flown but then Mr Crouton needed the monies to buy himself a pair of new executive jets.

  29. A favourable assessment of the situation in Iraq — from the New York Times**:
    (Via Contentions) Dexter Filkins, Exiting Iraq, Petraeus Says Gains Are Fragile
    …General Petraeus is preparing to leave Iraq a remarkably safer place than it was when he arrived. Violence has plummeted from its apocalyptic peaks, Iraqi leaders are asserting themselves, and streets that once seemed dead are flourishing with life. The worst, for now, has been averted.
    And so in the general’s exhaustion comes the glimmer of hope, and also a caveat: Iraq has indeed stepped back from self-destruction, General Petraeus said, but the gains are tenuous and unlikely to survive without an American effort that outlasts his tenure…
    **Or read substantial excerpts from the article at Contentions: Peter Wehner, Petraeus Looks Back

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