Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Luciano Pavarotti performing Il Duca di Mantova‘s (the cynical Duke of Mantua’s) canzone, La Donna È Mobile (the Woman is Fickle), in the 1983 movie version of Giuseppe Verdi‘s 1851 opera Rigoletto (2:50).
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Moh vs Al? Al vs Moh?
The tribes of Islam are bloodying each other.
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“The gloves are off in Pakistan
KARACHI – Pakistani authorities have compared Saturday evening’s devastating truck suicide attack on the Marriott Hotel in the capital Islamabad to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
In terms of its psychological effect, the blast, which killed more than 80 people, injured hundreds and burnt out the hotel, has traumatized the nation, and, like 9/11, marks the beginning of a new battle: this time not the “war on terror”, but the war by terrorists.”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JI23Df01.html
Maybe earlier Ron, only 7000 to go at 2227 Atlantic.
Bourque asks: “What’s Jack smoking here?”
That’s Taliban Jack Layton (NDPot)?
http://www.freedomsite.org/ara/pictures/ara-lay4.jpg
Caroline Glick, Our World: Your abortions or your lives!
American Jews have good reason to be ashamed and angry today. As Iran moves into the final stages of its nuclear weapons development program – nuclear weapons which it will use to destroy the State of Israel, endanger Jews around the world and cow the United States of America – Democratic American Jewish leaders decided that putting Sen. Barack Obama in the White House is more important than protecting the lives of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world.
On Monday, the New York Sun published the speech that Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would have delivered at that day’s rally outside UN headquarters in New York against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and against Iran’s plan to destroy Israel. She would have delivered it, if she hadn’t been disinvited…
for those who have followed the goings on @ ezralevant.com which is currently inactive, the blogger Ezra being on furlough, this from the october/november Walrus pg 57:
today competing essentialist visions tend to drown out more reasoned voices. mohamed elmasry, chair and president of the conservative canadian islamic congress has ripped into some moderates using the rustiest of canards: “self-hating muslims secretly (or not so secretly) despise their own religion and curse the day their parents gave them muslim names. yet most lack the courage to change either name or faith” he writes. “instead they try to accommodate their ambivalence by being very selective or even minimal in their islamic practices”[a common tactic; accuse the opposition of achieving the exact opposite of their desired intent].
elmasry’s excesses are often matched by those who oppose him, most notably tarek fatah former head of the liberal muslim canadian congress. . . . an act that would cut short heated discussion of who is a muslim, but also deliver a body blow to free speech.
[next is mention of the misguided osgoode hall whiners and soharwardy’s meddling] . . . . the unintended result: Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn, two minor-league provocateurs, were recast as free speech icons.
[ya, well Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra, Gretsky, and several hundred other legendary sports figures were also in the ‘minor-leagues’ at some point in their career]