Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, and your week-end viewing time availability, we have a special feature for you: here is the original two-hour 1939 version, as restored by the Library of Congress, and as starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, of Frank Capra’s
Ladies and gentlemen, you know the circumstantial reasons for our featuring this show tonight, yet there is an overarching consideration that transcends mere circumstance. Yes it is all well and good to go along to get along, up to a point. But the time comes when every honest human must stand his ground, and at a minimum that point has arrived when one is faced with corruption of any form, be it statist, corporatist, theologist, et cetera.
If you believe in heaven then you must prepare to ask yourself what you will say to St. Peter or equivalent when the time comes. And if you don’t then you must prepare to ask yourself what you will say to yourself, your family, friends, and colleagues, when the time comes. You must ask yourself: in my life, have I been an honest human? Have I been honorable? Have I pursued the classic notions of truth, good behaviour, and the golden rule for all citizens, for all humans; or have I looked the other way when I knew better, have I condoned malfeasance to get along, have I pursued fraud for illegitimate personal benefit? This is your life; that is how by history ye shall be known.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“From the Prime Minister’s Web Site (http://www.pm.gc.ca/)
Public events for September 7, 2008
September 5, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
Public event for Prime Minister Stephen Harper for Sunday, September 7th is:
Ottawa
8:05 a.m. – Prime Minister Stephen Harper will leave 24 Sussex en route to Rideau Hall to meet with Governor General Michaëlle Jean to ask her to dissolve the 39th Parliament for an election call October 14th, 2008.
24 Sussex
Ottawa, Ontario”
National Newswatch has this headline/link up; however, the MSMLib Machine report in which it appeared has disappeared.
“Harper appoints top court judge
…breaking his own promise to allow a parliamentary committee to arrive at a shortlist of three candidates”
The MSMLib Machine has changed the story to this*.
*”N.S. judge named to Supreme Court
Janice Tibbetts , Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, September 05, 2008
OTTAWA – On the eve of an election call, the Harper government nominated a Nova Scotia judge Friday to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada, cutting off the work of an advisory panel that had been vetting a list of contenders.”
http://tinyurl.com/5ox6de
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Here is PM Harper:
“Today’s announcement suspends the work of the Supreme Court Selection Panel, which to date has failed to arrive at a short list of recommended candidates. Earlier this week, two scheduled days of consultations by the Supreme Court Selection Panel had to be cancelled because all three Opposition MPs failed to participate. Last month, the first meeting of the Selection Panel considered no substantive business because of Opposition objection to the panel’s composition.”
“PRIME MINISTER HARPER ANNOUNCES NOMINEE FOR SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT
September 5, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson today announced the Honourable Justice Thomas A. Cromwell as the Government’s nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada left by the resignation of the Honourable Mr. Justice Michel Bastarache. Mr. Justice Cromwell currently sits on the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.”
The Prime Minister’s Office – Communications
Dave – yes, the Liberal perspective is elitist; they see themselves as a superior class, who instruct, assist, guide, motivate blah blah, the ignorant peasants….[who also live elsewhere and not in the Leaside/Mt. Pleasant costly homes].
The arrogance of this class is quite astonishing. The weird thing is, they don’t see that they are actually operating in an 18th c system, of an elite upper class (educated) and ignorant lower class – whom they are supposed to guide and look after with their wisdom and through taxes..
They are all employed by the various govts – municipal, provincial, federal…and make a LOT of money.
As an elite class, they reject ‘informing the voter’; that is, they reject providing the voter with factual data about, eg, the Harper govt’s accomplishments. They expect the voter to vote..as he is told. And they feel that the voter is swayed by slick images, by financial bribes, by promises (shades of Obama?).
I disagree. I think that the voter is equal, is someone able to think rationally (not just beer and popcorn). I think that the voter ought to be provided with facts, to enable him to make up his own mind.
So, I hope you are handing out lots of those Information Flyers (there one on the envt, on taxation, on the economy etc..). They’ve been muted down from their original more colourful styles, but it’s important to treat the voter as intelligent and capable of thinking.
People get ‘set’ in their ways; it’s very hard to change; it takes effort and energy. And people who work in the safe haven of a govt job are cocooned from reality. Those jobs are a safe haven – for you can’t be fired no matter how incompetent, your benefits and pensions are enormous, and your isolation from the peasantry is assured…
Good luck.
Vit –
Thanks for that link. By co-incidence, TCM played “Mr. Deeds Comes To Town” the other day. I have always enjoyed Capra’s deep and abiding faith in the American people. Even in the darkest moments of “It’s a Wonderful Life”, Capra still affirmed life.
No wonder the modern nihilists who see babies as “punishment” think Capra’s corny and out of date.
From the article titled “NDP to take aim at PM, shrug off Dion”, at http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/491152
It appears that the master dipper strategy is to imagine that the libs don’t exist and to attack Mr. Harper thus cementing their place as THE opposition thus undercutting the libs.
Seems more than a bit optimistic and circuitous as the logical place to pick up votes is from the libs; why not go after them rather than trying to construct this chimera?
But I do encourage them to try.
I am intrigued by the Dipper strategy of ignoring Liberals and going after Harper — I think it just might work (Well, hopefully not sufficiently to unseat Harper, but enough to replace Liberals as the official opposition.) If they can look strong, they will attract votes. A single good election for them and people begin to think of them as being the alternative to the Conservatives. I much prefer their brand of leftism to that of the Liberals (who will stand for anything that they think will garner votes.) NDP are at least clear about what they stand for, and they are a good counter to the Conservatives if you happen to be on the left. Go Jack Layton!