Life of Obama meme at LGF comments. Hilarious!
h/t neo
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show and Gunney99’s request for more rhythm and melody on SDA LNR, here are Allan Sherman, Dean Martin, and Vic Damone performing A Medley of Songs on the Dean Martin Show in 1965 (6:31).
Update: Pursuant to our previous footage, here at SDA LNR, of l’Hydroptère, the current fastest sailboat in the world (47.2 knots, 87.4 km/h), I have found some additional footage. While the former is more majestic and is a great overview, the latter, and I say this speaking as an old Tornado sailor, more accurately reflects the feel on the boat, in my opinion.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
In the Grip of the Greenie Monster
There isn’t a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn’t have a second job, for when there is no wind. ~ Johnny Ball
Few people at the moment realise quite what is at stake, as the ROC “contribution” is not identified on consumer bills and is currently less than £400 million a year. But, as each mast is erected to disfigure the countryside, the costs will ratchet up until we are all paying this incredible sum of £6 billion a year for the privilege.
And, such is the grip of the greenie monster that is driving this insanity, even when people have expressed a clear rejection of a development, the officials plan to go ahead regardless. And to think we once lived in a democracy.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Word of Biden’s selection came too late for the evening network newscasts, many late local TV news shows and the deadlines of several East Coast newspapers. While all the media were able to catch up with the story on their websites, a paper like the Wall Street Journal had no VP story on its front page; papers like the New York Times had to run weasel-worded articles about how it might be Biden or someone else, and papers like Newsday and the Cleveland Plain Dealer urged readers to visit their websites to get the latest news.
With all due credit to ABC for the late-night Biden scoop, its inability to do much with the story demonstrates how lame the mainstream media can look in a situation like this.
A fine way to treat your friends!
The Captain Dispenses His Caring Advice for the Ladies
These are meant to be taken in jest. ie-satire. ie-don’t forward them to leftists.
Cats do NOT = Boyfriends
and
“No, you may not have some of my wine.”
O-Bama-Berg
Day By Day
If you enjoy cartoon blogger (and occasional SDA commentor) Chris Muir ‘s work, here’s how you can help him stay in business.
Y2Kyoto: Cooler Heads Prevail
“As promised, the Republican platform subcommittee on energy took up the global-warming section of the 2008 draft about an hour ago. Long story short: It’s now a very different document. I’ll have more after I’ve had a chance to talk to some of the participants in the debate. To give you an idea of how drastically the document changed, consider the first amendment the subcommittee took up, which passed:
The section was titled, “Global Warming and Environmental Protection.” Now it’s just, “Environmental Protection.””
Obamolympia
Is there nothing that Zeusama can’t do?
Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington’s Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party’s nomination for president.
He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor. […]
Once Obama speaks, confetti will rain down on him and fireworks will be fired off from locations around the stadium wall.
On The Road Again
‘Tis the season, and as much as I love blogging, it doesn’t pay the bills or show the dogs.
So, while i’m stateside, the guest bloggers will be entertaining you except for those occasions when I pop in to check on the place or have a scheduled post come up. (Note – sometimes these posts refuse comments for a time, so if you get an error message, that’s why. Eventually someone will notice and fix it.)
Behave yourselves, don’t feed the trolls and have a safe Labour Day weekend when it rolls round. I should be back sometime late Tuesday.
Live Coverage Continues From The Democratic National Convention
Obama Bin Biden
“Can the Obama campaign fail to have noticed this little branding problem?”
They will soon.
Reader Tips
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 are Ziggy Elman and his Orchestra performing Bublitschki (1938, 3:01).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
And She Represents The Right Wing Of The Democratic Party
Selected excerpts from HRC’s speech at the DNC tonight…
I am honored to be here tonight. A proud mother. A proud Democrat. A proud American. And a proud supporter of Barack Obama.
I notice she didn’t say anything about being a proud wife…
I ran for President to renew the promise of America. To rebuild the middle class and sustain the American Dream, to provide the opportunity to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford the gas and groceries and still have a little left over each month. To promote a clean energy economy that will create millions of green collar jobs. To create a health care system that is universal, high quality, and affordable so that parents no longer have to choose between care for themselves or their children or be stuck in dead end jobs simply to keep their insurance.
Why, after eight years as the first lady, was this universal health care thing not done during the Clinton presidency? What am I missing?
To create a world class education system and make college affordable again.
Harvard University… The most elite community college in the world.
To fight for an America defined by deep and meaningful equality – from civil rights to labor rights, from women’s rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization to providing help for the most important job there is: caring for our families. To help every child live up to his or her God-given potential.
That unionization thing isn’t working all that well for those UAW fellas.
To bring fiscal sanity back to Washington and make our government an instrument of the public good, not of private plunder.
The public good, as defined by whom?
We need a President who understands that we can’t solve the problems of global warming by giving windfall profits to the oil companies while ignoring opportunities to invest in new technologies that will build a green economy.
How exactly is the GWB doing that now? By NOT nationalizing the oil companies? I like the green economy thing. Right out of the NDP playbook. It worked for the.. never mind.
He’ll transform our energy agenda by creating millions of green jobs and building a new, clean energy future. He’ll make sure that middle class families get the tax relief they deserve. And I can’t wait to watch Barack Obama sign a health care plan into law that covers every single American.
What exactly is a “green job” and who creates it? And at what cost? As for the health care plan, good luck with that, BHO.
Now, John McCain is my colleague and my friend. He has served our country with honor and courage. But we don’t need four more years . . . of the last eight years. More economic stagnation …and less affordable health care. More high gas prices …and less alternative energy. More jobs getting shipped overseas …and fewer jobs created here. More skyrocketing debt …home foreclosures …and mounting bills that are crushing our middle class families. More war . . . less diplomacy. More of a government where the privileged come first …and everyone else comes last. John McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound. John McCain doesn’t think that 47 million people without health insurance is a crisis. John McCain wants to privatize Social Security. And in 2008, he still thinks it’s okay when women don’t earn equal pay for equal work.
Remind again. How did GWB create all those bad things in the economy? And when did McCain think it OK for women not to earn equal pay for equal work? I missed that handout.
Now the one thing HRC did not mention is that she thought BHO would be the best person for the job of President, or that he would make a well qualified Commander-In-Chief. That was noticably absent.
HRC played her part to help unite the Democrats, but she didn’t make any extra effort.
I think she’s waiting for 2012. Or for the USSR to rise again…
Where’s the O-Bump
DNC Love-in Day 2 … bump in the polls:
Jim Still Wears His Ring
The Arts Are An Industry
It’s time they grew up and started acting like one;
I’m a prairie photographer who maintains his own Web site (neutralhillsstills.ca) and tracks referral traffic to it. In the past several years I’m lucky if I’ve seen more than 4 unique visitors come to me from the recently deceased culture.ca. In the same period I’ve had many thousands of visitors sent to me from photoblog tracking sites like photoblogs.org and Canadian Weblogs such as smalldeadanimals.com (the latter generating many hundreds of dollars in print sales). Neither of these two sites receive any government funding, yet they’re consistently among my top referrers. Culture.ca won’t be missed, except perhaps by those who drew a salary from it.
Michael Totten In Georgia
The Truth About Russia in Georgia;
Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.
Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn’t start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war.
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“A key tool that the Soviet Union used to keep its empire together,” Worms said to me, “was pitting ethnic groups against one another. They did this extremely skillfully in the sense that they never generated ethnic wars within their own territory. But when the Soviet Union collapsed it became an essential Russian policy to weaken the states on its periphery by activating the ethnic fuses they planted.
Journalism that blows the MSM out of the water – again.
“Hooray for Jamaica”
“There is a great deal of goodwill, love, brotherhood in the air. Hooray for Jamaica. Jamaicans were riveted to their television sets and I am hoping from my vantage point here in Barbados that this would have made a difference to the astronomical crime rate in Jamaica.
Now that the Olympic games are over I suspect that Jamaicans will have a lot of free time on their hands. And the old saying is “The Devil finds work for idle hands”. I suspect that Jamaicans will return to their national pastime with relish. That is, murdering each other in large numbers.“
h/t Maz2
McCain May Not Know How Many Homes He Owns…
…but what’s Barack’s excuse for not know what city he’s in? He begins speaking at 1:30 of the clip.
Before that, we get to endure Keith “Bathtub Boy” Olbermann’s emotional erection of how he thinks Michelle Obama’s speech went.
Does anyone one else find it peculiar that his daughter asks her father what city he was in after Barry said he was in St. Louis?