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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show, here is Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff, performing his Stand Up Comedy routine on the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special in 1984, hosted by Rodney Dangerfield (6:31).

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  3. This election leaves me hanging, I just can’t get excited or up for anything. Pass the Sighalis, I think I have electile dysfunction.

  4. This is the way the Liberals would like to ‘manage’ Canadian economy “…..the Liberals will take Alberta’s resources…” and the CBC’s news manufacturing.
    http://communities.canada.com/calgaryherald/blogs/corbellareport/default.aspx
    And this is rather curious where the publication Canadian Business on Line is giving instruction to the ‘the citizens’ group’ on where to meet to protest against Rove speaking in Calagary.
    http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/cnw/article.jsp?content=20080922_134502_2_cnw_cnw#adSkip

  6. Vitruvius, were you on the radio today with a call in comment on the “Rutherford” show? In a previous post a few days ago you used the very seldom used word “grok”, which means to agree sympathetically or share empathy with someone. The articulate caller to the Rutherford show also used the term “grok” which caused David to enquire as to the meaning of the word. Good call Vitruvius, by the way.

  8. Re grok: It’s a useful concept, isn’t it. Use of the term usually betrays a youth at least partially misspent (?) in reading the fine science fiction of Robert A. Heinlein.

  9. Cue the “In Soviet Russia…” jokes.
    Thanks for the reminder of Rodney, he’s one of my comedy heroes.

  11. Regarding gun control:
    I recently “bagged” my first deer. I’d never been hunting before, but my brother-in-law talked me into it, and I have to admit that it was a really enjoyable experience. The fact that the meat was amazing helps even more.
    My issue is that now I think I want to hunt more often, and am looking into purchasing a rifle. Currently “borrowing” my brother’s. Shhh, don’t tell anyone.
    Anyway, I cannot believe the hoops and bureaucractic red-tape that one has to go through to purchase a hunting rifle. I’m not asking to buy an AK-47, I just want a fairly simple rifle. I’ve never been one to worry too much one way or the other about gun control, as I never thought I would be purchasing a gun.
    People who own guns will know what I am talking about. People who don’t should go look at what is required of someone to enable them to own a gun. The gov. reserves the right to question my neighbours about my mental stability??? This is just nuts. I’ve never had any run ins with the police, other than that open-liquor ticket when I was 18 and stupid, yet I am treated like a criminal who must prove his worth to society before I can be granted the privelege of maybe being allowed to buy a gun.
    that’s my little rant. 🙂

  12. Well, speaking as one who never particularly groked science fiction, Exetaz (I’m pretty much a pulp fiction sorta guy myself), I picked up the jargonistic version of grok through my 37 years of immersion in the computing science, software development, and hacker traditions (in the old sense of the word hacker).

    On the matter of the In Soviet Russia jokes, PiperPaul, while I do think Mr. Smirnoff’s sketch is humorous in its own right, it would be incorrect to say that I do not also appreciate the relationship between his 0:50 to 2:00 shtick in the sketch, about the censorship of the Department of Jokes, to the current threats posed by humorless bureausclerotic apparatchiki in Canada’s and the rest of our species’ human-rights ambulance-chasing industry.

    And further to Mr. Rodney Dangerfield, PiperPaul, who’s appearance on Mr. Carson’s Tonight Show we previous covered here at Small Dead Animals, I do agree he was a classic. One of my favourites of his is: “My mother is over eighty years old and she still doesn’t need glasses. She drinks right from the bottle”. (And Heinlein’s grok did also mean drink in Martian 😉 Because remember, as Oscar Wilde said, “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you”.

  13. http://tinyurl.com/3kl6tq
    Liberals shift focus to “living for another day, insiders lose hope of forming govt”… Jane Taber of Globe and Mail inserts shiv into Dion and twists, with a wry,lipstick laden grin on her face.
    Dion say “Ignore them.”
    Too late Dion. Ye shall be known by the scars you bear. This election loss will by forever tied to you. John Turner is raising a glass somewhere, the yoke has lifted.
    A blindly, devoted and self described brillant, Dion Liberal supporter groans… “diane marie from calgary, Canada writes: I agree. The Globe and Mail has turned toxic and I am considering cancelling my subscription, which I’ve held for many years. I can read on line for free. There are three weeks left in the election and we have to read this crap.”

  14. Hey, the pulp fiction links are great. I didn’t know this stuff was available for online reading. Thanks, Vitruvius!

  15. I’m glad you liked my pulp fiction essay, Exetaz. Interestingly, perhaps, to obtain an original copy of Black Mask magazine these days would set one back on the order of $5,000, and yet right here in the Interwebothique are a dozen of Mr. Hammet’s short stories therefrom (as linked to in my essay), including one of my favourites, Death On Pine Street (1924). Also, in the short novel category, from said essay, Ed Lacy’s Blonde Bait is one of my favourites. Lastly, also from said essay, you may find my selected Perry Mason book covers interesting.

  16. ScottInRMH,
    I doubt that you would have much support by gun owners. As a gun owner and a hunter, I have no problem (at least now) with checks on people that want to acquire firearms – going back a lotta years we needed nothing to buy guns … then the FAC (OK by me). I do oppose the registry.
    BTW: Most people get into hunting with a borrowed rifle.

  17. Ici le cold cuts. How many you wan?
    …-
    “Conservatives courting the ADQ vote with cuts to the arts
    Rather than hurting the Tories, support for Harper went up after the cuts”
    “”I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people, you know, at a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers, claiming their subsidies aren’t high enough when they know those subsidies have actually gone up, I’m not sure that’s something that resonates with ordinary people.””
    http://tinyurl.com/52mm9d (montgaz)

  18. “Stephen LeDrew, […] was president of the Liberal Party of
    Canada from 1998 to 2003.”
    Make that: Ledrew was president of the notorious Librano$ from 1998 to 2003.
    This was the years of the Ad$Cam Gang fronted by Ad$Cam Chretien, MartinJr, Citoyen Dion, Gagliano, et al.
    Ledrew, tell Canadians where your Librano$ stashed the $40,000,000,000+ your gang stole from Canadians.
    …-
    “Stephen LeDrew: Liberals need a near-death experience for the good of their health”
    http://tinyurl.com/4m3d9m (NP)

  19. Did anyone else hear Dion say in a ‘speech’ yesterday we must stop Harper for the safety of our children? Whatever the context, it was a poor choice of words.

  20. Did anyone else hear Dion say in a ‘speech’ yesterday we must stop Harper for the safety of our children?

    The ones who weren’t aborted right? Or the stay at home moms who should force their children into daycare.

  21. Stephen LeDrew seems to have it right on his Liberals except the near death experience is unfolding right now. Dion’s response, that LeDrew is wrong is a clear indication they’re in denial.
    LeDrew is not inside the Party now so he has a perspective from the outside as a former insider.
    Looks like he doesn’t want to be part of the mess he and his cohorts created in the period he was an insider. Who want’s to take responsibility for cleaning up such a political quagmire of scams, boondoggles and such goodies? Never those who took part in it, they cut and run and are the darlings of the media like Chretien.
    Better to stay clear of the fan and come out Mr. Clean which is what people like Manley and others are doing.

  23. thestar.com Poll this morning 0915
    Which federal party do you think is running the most effective campaign?
    Conservatives 415 54%
    Greens 103 13%
    Liberals 86 11%
    New Democrats 158 20%

  24. You Know Its Going Bad When all you can Play to is High School Students
    On Duffy last nite he noted that Dion is doing alot appearances at High School’s, Because he can’t get anyone out to their rallies & the only reason students are going to his speaches is because it’s either Attend or Stay in the Classroom & study.

  26. (Via SWJ) Glenn Zorpette, Countering IEDs
    Billions of dollars spent on defeating improvised explosive devices are beginning to show what technology can and cannot do for the evolving struggle.

  27. (Via SWJ) Pamela Constable, As Crime Increases in Kabul, So Does Nostalgia for Taliban
    While Taliban insurgents stage increasing attacks in the Afghan countryside, equally fast-expanding violent crime — kidnappings, carjackings, drug-related killings and highway robberies — is plaguing the capital of 5 million and the vital truck and bus routes that connect the country’s major cities. It is making some Afghans nostalgic for the low-crime days before 2001, when the Taliban sternly ruled most of the country.
    Today’s problem, which experts say is intertwined with widespread official corruption, opium trafficking and the get-rich-quick boom of postwar aid and reconstruction, is threatening to destroy public confidence in the government of President Hamid Karzai and drive away what little investment the desperately poor country is attracting…

  29. “Or, as Bill Ayers famously said, “Bring the Revolution home; kill your parents.””
    “A psychopath is a person without conscience; someone who constantly breaks the moral rules of the community. Saul Alinsky was a “community organizer” who found a career that fit that personality disorder. In the Orwellian upside-down world of the Left, community organizers disorganize communities. That is the meaning of revolution, to overturn whatever exists today in the raw pursuit of one’s own power.”
    “Barack Obama and Alinsky’s Rules for Psychopaths”
    “… the community organizer … must first rub raw the resentments of the people; fan the latent hostilities to the point of overt expression.’
    — Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals”
    “THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT — An analysis of the Alinsky Model.”
    — Hillary Clinton, BA Honors Thesis, Wellesley College, 1969.
    “(Barack) Obama worked in the organizing tradition of Saul Alinsky, who made Chicago the birthplace of modern community organizing….”
    — The Nation”
    http://tinyurl.com/4mxl2o (americanthinker)

  30. Watched Radio-Canada’s news last night. Each item was carefully crafted to shaft the Conservatives.
    On and on about the cuts to arts. They forget for example about the new wing of the Montreal Museum of Arts that Canadian taxpayers are largely paying for.
    A long item about bilingualism in federal services across Canada. Their main point was that some poor postal employee in Kingston Ontario doesn’t speak French that well. Funny thing was their survey showed that they got good service in French in Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax at the post office! Also in Ottawa airport you might have to go through two or three employees until you get perfect French. Yawn…
    By the way how come the Conference Board of Canada keeps coming out with reports in the middle of election campaigns that reflect badly on the Conservatives?

  33. The Dionky Model: Two Nutty Professors.
    La Green Shaft: “”It’s so simple,” she said. “We take the personal income tax and we put that on pollution. Period.””
    But, as MSM says,
    “Janine Krieber is the kind of woman who wears her passion on the sleeve of her red jacket.”
    Mrs. Dion is La Passionara? Yuckkky.
    …-
    “Dion’s wife passionate campaigner
    Grit leader’s portrayal in media is inaccurate, Krieber tells gathering”
    http://tinyurl.com/3oukza (saskstar)
    Bon mots:
    “”Keep people ignorant and you will reign,” she said.”
    “”It’s a tax on emissions,” she said. “The guy who will pay the tax is the guy who will burn the oil, not the guy who will produce the oil,” she said.”

  37. Desperation reigns supreme among the Liberals and the salivating Dipper Jack.
    We have to wonder about some of the tactics being used like “vote swapping” to keep the choice of the majority from forming government. This is beyond stupid, it’s corrupt, something you’d expect in a Banana Republic.
    It’s also a warning to the people to run from these parties who engage in such a thing. It’s clear from this also the only party fit to govern is the Conservative Party under the only straight arrow in the Country, Stephen Harper.
    The others are total bone heads and would ruin this country.

  39. So when is this “leader’s” debate? I think I might try and see how long I can watch before nausea causes me to switch to the weather channel.
    Speaking of cable channels, how long have shows about the pron industry, coming out, S&M for beginners and other crap been Canadian cable? I happened to be surfing the channels last Friday night and tuned into much more than I bargained for. And this wasn’t on the sex channel or out tv either. I didn’t stick around too long but does anyone know if this is the stuff the art’s funding is(was) going into?

  40. The continuing march towards Eurabia
    —————–
    Last weekend’s events in Cologne demonstrate what European conservatives are up against. A conference protesting the building of a mega mosque run by Turkish radicals was violently disrupted by thugs who gained the approval of the local German authorities and the German media. The international media, including the so-called “conservative” media, have either not written about the Cologne incidents or done so by branding the conservatives as “Neo-Nazis” and the thugs as ordinary citizens bravely fighting back “Nazism.”
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3548

  41. Headline politics. As played by Canada’s unbiased media.
    No surprise here: Harper remains fiscally off balance with Quebec
    Stephen Harper, me and the NCC
    Harper’s goal a right-wing Canada
    The PM’s phony war on the elites
    Playing politics with youth crime
    Tory youth-crime plan is wrong on two counts
    Harper just pandering to voters with crime policies
    Harper heads for carbon fiasco
    Dion will grow on Quebec voters, Rae says
    May urges strategic voting
    Harper a man who ‘lives in a bubble’
    Politics played role in cuts to arts: Flaherty
    Deposed Tory candidate has been tied up with legal issues
    Dion’s wife passionate campaigner
    Where’s Dona?

  43. hardboiled – not everyone defines ‘conservative’ in the same manner as you. I’m sure you know that.
    That means that your definition of ‘conservative’ is not necessarily acceptable as ‘the only valid type’.

  44. GUILTY – Verdict in TO terror trial. Let the countdown to whining about Islamaphobia begin!
    —————
    Evidence of the existence of an alleged homegrown Islamic terrorist plot to attack Canada was “overwhelming,” a judge ruled Thursday in convicting a youth accused of participating in the group.
    In the first major decision under Canada’s new anti-terrorism rules, Ontario Superior Court Justice John Sproat ruled it didn’t matter that the group appeared to be bumbling and incapable, or that plans to behead the prime minister were surreal.
    “Planning and working toward ultimate goals that appear unattainable or even unrealistic does not militate against a finding that this was a terrorist group,” Sproat said.
    http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/505905

  45. ‘conservatism’ exists in shades ET, as does liberalism, socialism, communism, and fascism.
    What I have a hard time with is partisanship, and how clinging to a party is somehow a proxy for reflection and thought.
    Reasonable people can disagree about policy, and even, discuss those disagreements and opinions in a rational context.
    reasonable ‘conservative’ political parties don’t piss away 19 billion dollars in pre-election spending in targetted regions, for the express purpose of buying votes.
    I expect that ‘reasonable’ conservatives would believe the same. I am hopelessly naive. Or the partisan koolaid is particularly strong, and inhibits rational thought.
    http://www.taxpayer.com

  46. MSM/Globe describes the Muslim Islamist terrorist as “a young extremist”.
    MSM/Globe describes the Muslim Islamist terrorist as “The suspect”.
    He is not “a young extremist”; nor, is he a “suspect”; he is a convicted Muslim Islamist terrorist.
    More:
    “The suspect – a 20-year-old who converted from Hinduism to Islam a few years ago and whose name cannot be published”.
    MSM/Globe uses the word Islam once: “who converted from Hinduism to Islam”.
    MSM/Globe are Muslim Islamist appeasers.
    He cannot be named! Release the name of this Muslim Islamist terrorist to Canadians.
    Canadians demand his name be released.
    The cowardly MSM/Globe will not allow comments.
    …-
    “Guilty verdict in Toronto terror trial
    “BRAMPTON, Ont. – An Ontario judge has found a young extremist guilty of a designated terrorist offence in a key test of federal laws.”
    http://tinyurl.com/4r7pse

  47. Meanwhile on the Good Ship Loli-pop they are starting to issue life jackets & tread water.
    Graham Richardson CTV reported earlier that the liberal campaign is taking alot of heat in Quebec, He reported on a Lib Canidate in QC that is not from their, she lives in a hotel their, the closest she has been to QC until the campaign started was Ottawa, She comes from Vancouver( i guess this is the only way he(Dion) could fullfill his pledge of more women running)

  48. Canadians don’t think highly of public service, data shows
    There’s a “public service index” — an average of scores from 13 weekly surveys up to Aug. 26 — where, to use private-sector norms, a number in the 60s is considered outstanding and in the 50s is good…..But whether your expectation is high or low, the fact remains that not one of the 29 (government) departments or agencies has hit the standard of a well-run company — Tim Hortons gets a 59, Google a 57, and Canadian Tire polled a 55 (snip) A cluster of nine — Environment Canada, Health Canada, the RCMP, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (despite the listeria hysteria), Tourism, Canadian Heritage, Public Safety, the Bank of Canada and National Defence — scored in the low- to mid-40s, a range Angus Reid vice-president Catherine Rogers described as “not bad.” Only one federal entity, the Armed Forces, made it into that realm — and just barely, with a score of 51. Every other agency or department was well below that number, especially in the data from B.C. respondents, who tended be a little more harsh in their judgments.
    ….These are very low scores — an average of just 25 per cent who think government departments work ethically, to cite the worst example. In the case of the several agencies that may touch people’s lives in substantial ways — for example, the RCMP and Health Canada (both at 31 per cent), or Canada Revenue (at 24 per cent) and the Parole Board (at 11 per cent) — this lack of trust is chilling.”
    Not unless one realizes how deeply corrupted and politicized the RCMP in this country actually is – and what a failure the ‘new’ commissioner has been at changing it.
    Just think of it, the Cons have increased government size by 19% since coming to (minority) power, and have announced $19 billion in un-budgetted spending during the period Jun 2 to Sept 6.
    OOOOOOO…..those big bad other parties are sooooo big spenders. Quick! To the party literature fast! Must…get….opinion….reinforced……

  49. The latest wrinkle from PowerCorp Boob:
    “Dion will grow on Quebec voters, Rae says
    TV debates will make a difference. ‘He (Dion) is a very smart guy, he knows more about public policy than just about anybody'” (montgazette)
    …-
    In other Quebec news: Moss grows on rocks.
    “World’s oldest rocks found in Quebec” (gaz)

  50. Meanwhile….as our ‘new’ and improved government uses an armed militia to control information flow:
    Mounties protecting Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a campaign event in Surrey, B.C., were used Tuesday evening to stop reporters from approaching a high-profile Tory candidate. “Keep them out,” Harper aide Ray Novak shouted at the RCMP security detail as journalists approached Dona Cadman. CTV’s Rosemary Thompson was literally yanked aside by one Mountie as she approached the retreating group – which did not include the prime minister….It’s an unresolved storyline the Conservatives, understandably, don’t want pursued during an election campaign.
    According an RCMP spokesperson, that’s not what happened.
    “In no way were the officers, assigned to protect the prime minister, attempting to interfere with journalists trying to interview Ms. Cadman,” Sgt. Sylvie Tremblay responded by email Wednesday. “RCMP Protective Officers acted appropriately in their mandate of protecting the PM by ensuring that he was able to exit the grounds in a safe and secure manner.” In fact, PMO officials knew reporters wanted to speak to Cadman and immediately directed her toward a secure exit that was going to be used by Harper. The RCMP detail then stepped in to stop the trailing media.
    ….It would appear to be an inquiry forgotten not just by the Mounties and current government, but by the Liberals in opposition.
    The Liberal campaign war-room issued a news release Wednesday decrying Tory heavy-handedness. “The job of the RCMP is not to prevent the Conservative party from being embarrassed,” said the Liberal party release. “They are there to protect the prime minister against genuine physical threats and they should never be used as a political tool.”
    D’OH!
    But the most infamous case of RCMP deploying its resources for essentially communications reasons came under the watch of former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien at the 1997 APEC summit in Vancouver. An inquiry into the pepper-spraying of protesters concluded that the Mounties had “succumbed to government influence and intrusion in an area where such influence and intrusion were inappropriate.” Testimony at the inquiry suggested government officials were consumed with the poor optics of large demonstrations. “By whatever educational or other communications means available, the RCMP must instill in its officers … that they are to brook no intrusion or interference whatever from government officials,” inquiry commissioner Ted Hughes concluded.
    http://tinyurl.com/43tkkt
    Ahh…I love the smell of the banana republic in the morning….

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