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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 is Jo Stafford (who passed away a couple months ago, at age 90) performing The Gentleman Is A Dope (1947, 2:45).

Nota Bene: People who are concerned about the Universe ending
when we fire up the LHC later today have nothing to worry about.

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  1. SDA was just mentioned on cbc newsworld highlighting the post ‘childish shots from the conservative party’. At least they ackowledge this site exists.

  4. Wow! Steve Paikin and The Agenda do a Troofer show.
    2 whack job Canadian university professors, one a religious studies prof from McMaster, the other an English and Theatre Studies prof from the U. of Guelph, were patiently but effectively countered by 2 patient American guys.
    And, 72% of the show’s viewers, those that went to TVO.org and voted, believe the U.S. government was responsible. Wow.

  5. Looks like Taliban Jack has a bit of puffin-poo on his shoes tonite! From canoe CanadaVotes column by Murray Brewster:
    Laid-off mill workers tricked into coming to NDP rally in Northern Ontario (Thunder Bay)…hmmm,I guess that halo has slipped a bit tonite eh Jack????

  6. Mississigua Matt,Don’t read too much into this, truthers live for these shows.They e-mail each other to let their people know that they are going to get ‘real’ exposure. Try to imagine a nation wide game of ‘dungeons and dragons’.Some adults get sucked in,but it is mostly children who grew up playing ‘D and D’ because no one would come looking for them when they played ‘hide and go seek’.

  8. Re: Election. Why was Harper so miffed with the pooping puffin? Because he knows he is almost certainly got at least a minority win locked up, and the only chance the Grits have, and even that is a buzzer beater 3 point way outside jump shot
    – is if Canadians feel sorry for Dion, the poor man.
    Harper the bully boy. Here we go again. That’s their only chance and they’ll go for it big time.
    People say elections are like horse races (as in book series Absent Mandate). The book’s original thesis was the media (MSM?) decided what the election issues were and they were off. As a result real issues were discussed through the media’s prism, with deleterious results for democracy.
    The advent of the internet has changed that, IMO. The only relation 21st century elections have to a horserace is that they’re both sport. So, it’s tempting to skewer your opponents, then blame their negativity. Does anyone know who actually started this negative BS?
    I know it’s fun for some, but dissing Dion enhances, (OK minisculy, but Canadian politics are very fickle) his super slim chance of minority victory.
    Why bother? Let’s debate the issues, with it’s daily cut and thrust in an election campaign, where issues actually matter for little while.
    Here’s what I mean (warning-Tory partisan statement).
    Mr Ignatieff criticized Mr Harper proposal to cut the excise tax on diesel fuel, by stating producers would “pocket” the tax decrease. Now, picture two diesel fuel suppliers, but with not reducing their price. How much diesel fuel will the more greedy producer sell?
    Approximately zero. Economics 101. Gas stations can’t do, and neither can producers. (Yes, there are exceptions, like no diesel fuel available for 100 miles, but were taling macro here).
    Ignatieff should know that. His party acknowledges carbon taxes will be passed on to consumers, because they promise reduced taxes elsewhere to compensate. Taxes are simply passed on, one way or the other.
    Polluters pay alright because consumers pay, and they are the polluters. We drive the cars that consume the fuel. Jack Layton can call the tar sands the worst emmitter in the world, but c’mon, is all that oil going to China. And why do we import oil anyway?
    Oh, sorry, got carried away. Anyway, I feel better, thanks for the rant room; talking issues and no chucking puffin s**t!

  9. qwerty1,
    Thanks for bringing this outrageous devilry to my attention. The woman is definitely out to lunch if she thinks being a genuin human being can sway voters. The very thought of it make me ill.
    One of the “View” gang put viewers straight though. She told us all that McCain was just trying to be divisive by picking Palin. Also, we learned that McCain didn’t even vet het, just Googled her and that was good enough. LOL, it was the same woman that tried to convince the Americans that Canada was responsible for 9/11. Real street cred.

  12. Don’t know about you Shamrock, but I feel so good I would like to present another oldie. Nick Lucas 1951
    Watch for the trio of beauties who help Nick finish off the number.

  13. Mr. Nicklin,that is not so outrageous. Paul Martin picked our current GG because he thought she was hot,or the hottest cbc employee on the list. I agree,and I do think she has done well,but the fact that she was’hot’ and made the cbc short list, overrides the FLQ connections.

  15. Mr.V,have you ever taken count of the numbers of youtube viewings before your offerings and then again the next day?

  17. wallyj,
    That was mean to be tongue in cheek. There’s nothing outrageous in what McCain, or more likely his handlers, did in picking Palin. They needed a shot of life in what could have been a dead campaign.
    I suppose our current GG was chosen because she’s “hot.” But, along with the past GG, she is a media darling, for lack of a better word. The media hates Palin because she could upset their darling Obama.
    I didn’t know our GG was connected to the FLQ. Thanks for the info.

  18. Sorry,I misunderstood,sometimes when humour imitates life it is hard to tell the two apart.Her hubby is /was a devout separatist and the two of them are/were part of the intellectually elite that embraced the FLQ and their ideas.Havng said that ,I like the idea of an old white guy choosing a hot brown babe that sleeps with another old white guy to a ‘comfortable position’.

  20. At last I found the story on the Bunny attacking Jimmy Carter. A lot of folks have called me a liar over this event saying it neve happend. Still laughing all these years latter.
    President Jimmy Carter and the “killer rabbit”
    April 20th, 1979
    On a fishing trip in Plains, Georgia, President Carter had an encounter with a “swamp rabbit”. This seemingly trivial event was seized upon by the press and became a sort of Rorschach test of the Carter presidency: reporters and commentators saw in this story whatever they wanted to see in Carter’s administration. Jody Powell, Carter’s press secretary, described the affair in his 1986 book The Other Side of the Story:
    It began late one afternoon in the spring of 1979. The President was sitting with a few of us on the Truman Balcony. He had recently returned from a visit to Plains, and we were talking about homefolks and how the quail were nesting and similar matters of international import.
    Suddenly, for no apparent reason — he was drinking lemonade, as I recall — the President volunteered the information that while fishing in a pond on his farm he had sighted a large animal swimming toward him. Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a rabbit. Not one of your cutesy, Easter Bunny-type rabbits, but one of those big splay-footed things that we called swamp rabbits when I was growing up.
    The animal was clearly in distress, or perhaps berserk. The President confessed to having had limited experience with enraged rabbits. He was unable to reach a definite conclusion about its state of mind. What was obvious, however, was that this large, wet animal, making strange hissing noises and gnashing its teeth, was intent upon climbing into the Presidential boat.
    More here:
    http://www.narsil.org/politics/carter/killer_rabbit.html

  21. Rob Breakenridge says it’s time to make Free Speech an election campaign issue.
    I say so, too.
    BLOGGERS: PLEASE BLOG FOR FREE SPEECH DURING THIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN. It’s time we learn where the party leaders stand on free speech.
    The CBC and other media is following what the bloggers are saying online. You can join the CBC’s Ormiston Online facebook group and let them know that Free Speech is an important issue to you.

  22. Jonathan Kay continues to take the CBC including Ombudsman Vince Carlin and reporter Neil McDonald to task over McDonald’s report, in which he presented as *news* internet rumours that had been debunked well before McDonald mindfully tried to re-float them coast to coast, at taxpayers’ expense, on The National:
    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/09/jonathan-kay-meet-an-ordinary-canadian-who-s-decided-to-take-the-cbc-to-task-for-its-viciously-dishonest-reporting.aspx
    Kay includes series of emails between a citizen who complained about McDonald’s smear, and the CBC’s Ombudsman. Later the Executive Producer of The National responds as well. This bit from the Executive Producer particularly stands out:
    “…by the time of the broadcast some Internet bloggers had decided that the ‘grandmother’ rumours were not true. That may be the case, although others seemed less certain. But (at the time of McDonald’s report), the rumours had gone so far beyond the internet….”
    This from an Executive Producer at The National.

  23. Kay also hammered the CBC and Mallick in today’s column in the Post,
    “Yet Macdonald and Mallick are turning the broadcaster into just another left-wing blog. Why, exactly, should Canadians be paying $1-billion for agitprop they can get from DailyKos.com or Rabble.ca?”

  24. MSM reuse-recycle.
    Idiots. Moonbats. A$$holes.
    …-
    “Holiday wish both baffling and bothersome
    A Rosh Hashanah card from the Harpers has left one man wondering: How do they know I’m Jewish?
    MICHAEL VALPY
    From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
    September 10, 2008 at 3:39 AM EDT”
    http://tinyurl.com/5a8mf5
    …-
    “Many Jews unsettled over Harper holiday greetings
    Puzzled card recipients want to know how PM knew their religion
    Glen McGregor, The Ottawa Citizen
    Published: Monday, October 08, 2007
    When Michelle Kofman found a Rosh Hashanah greeting card from Prime Minister Stephen Harper in her mailbox last month, she was left with one puzzling question: How does he know I’m Jewish?”
    http://tinyurl.com/6lmt5e

  25. Citoyen Dion and Liberal MP say, support drug pushers, criminals.
    *Citoyen Dion say: “is something in which we believe.”
    *Citoyen Dion say, “Without being asked about it, he told the crowd of about 150 students that Canada’s only safe injection site — known as Insite and situated in the Downtown Eastside — *”is something in which we believe.”
    …-
    Rewrite MSM headline:
    Liberal Surrey MP wrote letter “on official House of Commons stationery” in support of drug trafficker.
    Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal …
    …-
    “Surrey MP wrote letter in support of drug trafficker
    Sukh Dhaliwal stated to U.S. judge that Ranjit Cheema seemed rehabilitated
    Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun”
    http://tinyurl.com/5k82ff
    *http://tinyurl.com/5krba9

  26. And for all you PC peoples here……
    HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
    1. She is not a “BABE” or a “CHICK” – She is a
    “BREASTED AMERICAN.”
    2. She is not a “SCREAMER” or a “MOANER” – She is “VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE.”
    3. She is not “EASY” – She is “HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.”
    4. She is not a “DUMB BLONDE” – She is a “LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.”
    5. She has not “BEEN AROUND” – She is a “PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION.”
    6. She is not an “AIRHEAD” – She is “REALITY
    IMPAIRED.”
    7. She does not get “DRUNK” or “TIPSY” –
    She gets “CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED”
    8. She does not have “BREAST IMPLANTS” – She is “MEDICALLY ENHANCED.”
    9. She does not “NAG” you – She becomes “VERBALLY REPETITIVE.”
    10. She is not a “TRAMP” – She is “SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED.”
    11. She does not have “MAJOR LEAGUE HOOTERS” – She is “PECTORALLY SUPERIOR.”
    12 She is not a “TWO-BIT HOOKER” – She is a “LOW COST PROVIDER.”

  28. “Another week, another disgrace at the CBC” by Jonathan Kay in National Post today reminds us what we’re paying for but it also tells us the rot in that place is putting out a very bad image of us as Canadians. After all, they work for us and are disgracing us all.
    We need an apology to us and an apology to Governor Palin. That attack is grounds for litigation.
    Lets demand Mallick be fired NOW. Lets also demand Neil Macdonald be fired NOW, he’s not fit to be a correspondent in Washington from OUR network.
    He must apologize for his outrageous accusation that Governor Palin engaged a massive conspiracy to claim her grandchild as her own.
    These apologies must have a special time alloted on the National news broadcast for all to hear. They must also be printed in all newspapers.
    The wackjobs of the Left do not represent mainstream Canadians.

  30. caught a little CPAC last nite Layton being grilled by reporters in Thunder Bay.
    Reporter’s ask Layton about the rally
    Are the people in the audience asking “scripted” questions, in other words plants from the NDP?.
    Laytoon sidesteps
    Its being said that a local Union sent out Emails to it’s members to come to an important meeting Re: Unemployment Insurance
    Only to discover it’s to see you speak
    Laytoon sidesteps

  31. Further Thunder Bay
    Laytoon is asked his thoughts on the message from the Taliban, Re: our Election & our Troops
    Laytoon is outraged

  32. MSM Motto: National Socialists’r’us. (H/T HRCTs)
    …-
    GOODY TWO SHOES: Media Bias? What Media Bias?
    […]
    CNN got even on the closing day of the GOP convention by using a still shot [http://tinyurl.com/6j3bbf] from Palin’s acceptance speech on its Home Page that makes it appear as though she was giving a “Heil Hitler” salute. So Palin has now joined the club of Repubs and conservatives who have been likened to Nazis.”
    http://tinyurl.com/63h2jz
    …-
    “Lilith News: Quebec artists call Stephen Harper a censorship NAZI
    A couple of people in the crowd also hoisted signs marked with the Nazi swastika and photos of Stephen Harper with a Hitler mustache.”
    …-

  34. Reds Alert$
    National Newswatch is a biassed left-socialist website.
    Links now up to: Kinsellya, O’Malley, Wells, CBC.

  35. Thanks, Vitruvius. You took me on a trip down Memory Lane and reminded me what a fine singer Jo Stafford was–and somewhat underrated, I think. Is she considered “a singer’s singer”? She doesn’t seem to have made it into the Pantheon of Singers like Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, or Ella Fitzgerald.
    That set took me back to watching all these crooners on the black and white TV when I was a teenager. Even though I loved the Beatles, I still loved to watch these schmaltzy, bring on the violins, specials. Those were the days!
    As for Heather Malicious: I don’t think the CBC can fire her because as far as I can tell–I’m open to correction–she’s not a CBC employee. She’s a freelance writer (sic) and sells articles to the CBC, which is why her viewpoint was titled “special to CBC news.”
    So, what’s so “special” about this article and what’s “news” about it? ‘Just another example of the CrapBoldlyCrapping provides cash for life to their friends. Ms. Mallick’s piece should have gone straight into the trash bin.

  36. (Via CSP) Craig Whitlock, In Hunt for Bin Laden, a New Approach
    Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan…

  37. Actually, the schmalzy, bring on the violin, specials I mentioned above I got from a related YouTube video of Stafford and Clooney singing Autumn songs!
    ‘Good thing I don’t go to YouTube very often: It’s addictive and too tempting not to watch all of the related videos. I ended up watching Mandy Patninkin’s Children Will Listen…go figure…

  38. *Citoyen Dion say, “Without being asked about it, he told the crowd of about 150 students that Canada’s only safe injection site — known as Insite and situated in the Downtown Eastside — *”is something in which we believe.”
    maz2
    First they should only be in liberal ridings
    Second they should have one at stoneaway or 24 sussex before any are allowed elsewhere in the country.

  39. Thanks for the link, EBD. I especially liked this part:
    With respect to your treatment of the rumours surrounding Mrs. Palin, Mr. Macdonald’s reports were structured in a manner that would perhaps indicate that there was some legitimacy in the reports, and the tone and manner of the reports were not neutral, but negative. I put before you and the CBC Ombudsman that this is a continuing pattern in Mr. Macdonald’s reports, in which he allows his personal views to enter into the “news” reports that he decides to report on. As a Canadian taxpayer, I own as much of the CBC as any other Canadian, and I do not appreciate Mr. Macdonald’s willingness and ability to use our broadcast network as a platform for his personal views during our NATIONAL news broadcast.
    Mr. Macdonald has developed a history and a track record of embedding his personal biases into his reports, and you should not stand for it, nor act as her personal defender, you should instead be defending me, and millions of Canadians like me, on all ends of the political spectrum, who wish to see some fairness and balance return to the CBC.
    Best regards,
    Adam

  40. Shamrock: “the only chance the Grits have . . . is if Canadians feel sorry for Dion, the poor man.” I think — I HOPE — that even “nice” Canadians . . . even WOMEN . . . would not be so foolish as to vote someone in as leader of the country because they “feel sorry” for them. Yikes. Let me out of the asylum.

  42. National Newswatch is a biassed left-socialist website.
    Links now up to: Kinsellya, O’Malley, Wells, CBC.
    Posted by: maz2 at September 10, 2008 9:08 AM
    The astute reader will also notice a banner ad for Daisy Consulting, which is Kinsella’s PR firm.

  43. LindaL…Canadians have already voted in a Prime Minister because they felt sorry for him.Remember when the Conservative party decided to run an ad showing Chretien speaking mangled english through the side of his face,accompanied with'”would you want this man to be the next Prime Minister”,or something like that.Chretien played it as he should have,not by getting defensive,but by pretending to be sincere,”his not my fault,hi was born like dis”,and gullible Canadians sighed a collective awwww,then turned around and gave the most corrupt Prime Minister this country has ever seen a majority.

  44. Jonathan Tobin, There’s Something About Sarah
    Though one expects Democrats to disagree with the substance of her remarks, the patronizing contempt with which Palin’s candidacy has been regarded must go deeper than simple partisanship.
    Palin’s nomination has reignited the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s, as liberals view her not merely as a representative of the political party they oppose, but as an icon of a culture they regard with snobbish distaste and trepidation.
    These sentiments span the liberal spectrum, and quite notably reside within a Jewish demographic. A portion of whom had heretofore been open to the McCain candidacy. Judging by the reaction she has generated, Palin is well on her way to becoming the evangelical bogeywoman for liberal Jews who view her beliefs as the antithesis to all they hold dear. For them, the Palin phenomenon is a nightmare…

  46. hb:”The astute reader will also notice a banner ad for Daisy Consulting, which is Kinsella’s PR firm.”
    Wre’s da banner? No can see here. Must be blocked somehow. It’s GHarper’s fault.
    …-

  47. Haiti: the sewer of the Caribbean.
    $$$$$$$$$$$$$
    “Recon group heading for Haiti to assess whether disaster team needed
    The Canadian Press – 25 minutes ago
    OTTAWA – A reconnaissance group is en route to Haiti to determine whether the military’s Disaster Assistance Relief Team can play a role in relief efforts after a series of tropical storms.”

  48. Left-socialist Death Watch on the Live Michael Harris show, 580 AM, CFRA, Ottawa.
    You ‘member Mike*? He of the Bush/Harper Derangement Syndrome.
    Caller says (paraphrased): When the Canadian Forces’ deaths in Afghanistan reach 100 this will be a BIG story.
    Furthermore, Caller says Harper is reaching out to the rural Quebec voters.
    Mike says … Click.
    …-
    Warning: Moonbats and Puffins flocking to G-M!
    “Harper ups the Afghanistan ante”
    http://tinyurl.com/5gd44n (g-m)
    Typical comment:
    “Not the Alliance from In my opinion, The Harper Gov’t is totally Incompetent, but excel at whining that it’s ALWAYS somebody else’s fault., Canada writes:
    Poor Harper will now have to endure the “Taliban Harper” taunts from his previously loyal supporters.
    Is there a backroom deal with Layton brewing, or is this another unintended consequence of the pooping puffin?”
    …-
    *”580 CFRA News Talk Radio
    “Michael Harris Live” is the afternoon call in show where people can open their mouths without the host removing any of their teeth.” {This is a dig at Lowell Green.]

  50. Mao Stlong say, No No cledit $$$$$ for Riberars. Go to my Nephews Boob & John Lae, c/o Powel Colpulation for a roan. Chop Chop.
    …-
    “Carbon offsets are a campaign expense?
    Give the Liberals credit. Cash-strapped as they are, they are paying for carbon offsets. I mean, I think carbon offsets are dumb, but the Liberals are walking the walk, as it were.
    But then the Liberals are hoping to get donations to cover the cost of carbon offsets, which they say is a campaign expense.
    Which leads to interesting questions.
    National Direction of the Liberal Party, Greg Fergus, has sent an email to Liberals asking for yet more cash to cover election campaign expenses.
    It is the latest of a stream of such emails. Leader Stephane Dion sent out a plea for more money on September 7, President Doug Ferguson and Deputy Leader Michael Ignatieff each separately on September 8, and Campaign Co-Chair Senator David Smith on September 9.
    The one from Greg Fergus is particularly interesting, since it pleads for money to offset the pollution created by Stephane Dion’s campaign:”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/273089.php
    …-
    “Harper rejects campaign carbon offsets”
    (NP)

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