Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and long-weekend reading, and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show and to Kate’s earlier entry on socialists instilling fear, we have an exceptional non-radio entry. Here is Gees’ First Case, a short novel by Jack Mann, set in England and written in 1934, which considers some of the strategies and tactics used by communists, anarchists, and other enemies of civilization. Pick “continue reading” for an excerpt.
| Today’s ΣVe/n: 4.22 » 5.14 (126 » 137 Seats) | ||||
| Angus: 4.96 |
Decima: 2.95 » 4.80 |
EKOS: 6.49 » 7.20 |
Nanos: 2.48 » 3.60 |
|
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
| “Don’t you think you have bitten off rather a big piece with the idea of revolution in this country, Miss Lenoir?” [Gee] asked. “Our teeth are good,” she answered, thus proving that she understood the idiomatic slang — as she did not that of plain vans. “As — for instance, now?” he suggested, and offered her a cigarette which she refused. He took one for himself and lighted it. “How do you mean that?” she asked. “The forces of law and order are also fairly well equipped, speaking in a dental sense,” he pointed out gravely. “I see. Law and order — yes. But when we have destroyed order, there will be no law. As, without law, there can be no order.” “Then you mean definitely to destroy order?” he asked. “To bring about starvation, riot, revolution — death to the tyrant capitalists and the extinction of their system,” she answered composedly. “To strike simultaneous blows at the power stations of the key industries. We do not believe in war as the capitalists know it: our war is more deadly, for we use the people who have been their tools and slaves against them, and a whole people roused to action against its rulers is more deadly than an army as the capitalists know it.” Never had he known a situation so grotesque: this lovely, dainty, apparently cultured woman sat here talking calmly of ruining a nation, and — what was still less credible, though true — evidently expected him to approve the madness she was preaching. “But isn’t that destroying the very people you want to set free!”” he queried. “Excuse the question, Miss Lenoir. I merely want to get it all clear. And if you starve them to death — ” “Not to death,” she interrupted. “To rage that means death to their tyrants, the capitalists who drain the life-blood of the masses for their own pleasures. And we do not plan to set the masses free — the workers of the world can never be free. We tell them of freedom, promise it, and hold it out always as a hope, but they must be governed under our system just as much as now, though not — not by capitalism. In that is the great evil that torments the world — until we have destroyed it. Ultimate freedom for us, the leaders of mankind, but for the great masses of the workers — no.” Madness on madness! The overthrow of a tried, established order, and the setting up of one which denied the possibility of freedom. He brooded over it, and incautiously let his distaste for such an idea manifest itself in his expression. She observed it. |
Emphasis mine.
Focus on the $18 B, the projected cost of Canada’s participation in Afghanistan. Pay attention to media and politicians spin on this report.
Next go to the CTV Canada AM website, http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam
Under the Canada AM headlines you will find
‘Afghanistan mission to cost Canada $18B: report’
Then move over to the right CTV video player, fourth story from the top
‘Lewis Mackenzie on Afghan war costs’
where Lewis Mackenzie clears the mud that the ‘journalists’ served.
Note that the sum, as presented in the media, includes ancillary costs that will end when the last soldier of that enterprise dies.
As Mackenzie explains that subject among other things, in the cost of WWII and Korean War, they should have included cost like looking after the veterans to this very day.
What the hell is wrong with those ‘journalists’, one can easily understand what is wrong with the politicians.
Lowlifes.
Saw Borat Dion and Crouton in Brampton on the tube tonight. Crouton looks scary, like he’s been either dead or undead for a few years.
Can someone ask Jack Layton why he wants to take money away from Canadian banks through taxes instead of the actions by the Canadian govt today? The purchase of CMHC insured mortgages by CMHC from the banks will free up capital for continued access by Canadian businesses and individuals. Jack will threaten the health of Canadian banks and put those Canadians who he claims to represent at a greater risk.
The best thing for Canadian businesses and individuals is to have a strong banking system. Jack wants to attack the banks for ideological reasons only, with no care for the consequences.
QOTD?
Overheard on G&M forum
Paul Byer from Canada writes: “The news just keeps getting better. I predict Dion will also vote for Harper just out of habit. It would be his 44th time in 2 years.”
I suggest the readers here spend some time googling economic news around the world.
Remember when the jets hit the towers, when the lights went out in the east, when the Reagan was shot?
I think today might be time we’ll remember in that same way about the financial crisis. Things really fell apart today.
Stock exchanges in Indonesia, Russia, Ukraine, and a list of smaller countries are now closed until further notice by their governments. That’s right, it’s illegal to sell your possessions. The commercial lending marketplace has completely broken down and banks are isolating themselves, refusing to lend money to each other as they normally would on a daily basis for regular operation. This has caused (reportedly) over 35 banks to become go under today alone. Central bank interest rate cuts are being made all over the world to temporarily liquify and save money market funds. Money markets are pretty much regular bank account and this is causing the cash holdings of personal and corporate accounts to become frozen or to just be totally gone.
Given that the commerical lending market place has completely broken down, an economic and stock market breakdown is imminent.
Soon blue helmeted military troops will be deployed under the command authority of NORTHCOM for civil security.
The emergency management provisions of the Security and Prosperity Partenership, the SPP, will be enforced and state corporatism, that is state corporate rule, will arise where stakeholders will be appointed to rule over the factors of production and oversee industry, commerce, trade and investment.
At that time, if the Fed’s new liquidity facility CPFF is in effect, it will be available only for those companies which are deemed necessary for the security and prosperity of the homeland.
PETE, PETE!!, WHERE ARE YOU?? SOMEBODY FIND PETE!!- I’m sorry for making fun of you the other day. We need some of your childlike optimism. We need you to show us the good things, ’cause I can’t see any, but with a little encouragement I just might be able to, and maybe I can pass it on.
sL
we start again?” Anyone else notice this? Watch that part of the video again. Becoming flustered could be expected perhaps if he was constantly interrupted while replying… but if you notice he’s not. The interviewer doesn’t interrupt. Dion, WELLLL into his own reply, INTERRUPTS HIMSELF! Why? Why is this? How did he know he had made a mistake when the interviewer never pointed out the need for clarity at that point? What was wrong? Why did Dion ALL-ON-HIS-OWN spot the “mistake” and DEEP INTO his own reply? If he didn’t understand the question, what was he replying to for that length of time?
The truth is that the video clearly shows Dion running another line of thought throughout his “reply”. He was attempting to answer a question while thinking about an excuse to why he really had no legitimate answer, like trying to listen to a phone conversation and a person in the room at the same time, but Dion was having in conversation with himself…. this is why he became discombobulated… he was looking for a way out, having a second line of thought going, thinking about how he had no answer to the question asked to him and what he would say if the interviewer pressed him on it again. Following the “can we start again?” routine was simply a way he could gather his thoughts, play for time, thinking about how none of his talking points would apply to the question, having his off camera “translator” run interference, and hope that the network wouldn’t broadcast it…. With MSM cheerleading him to the finish line, you can’t blame him for thinking he would get away with it.
Oops! Sorry for the double post, Kate. The Notepad I use is a quarter of the screen… didn’t highlight to copy yhe entire message.
I’ve watched the Dion interview several times and what stands out most for me is the time at which he becomes flustered and says, “Can we start again?” Anyone else notice this? Watch that part of the video again. Becoming flustered could be expected perhaps if he was constantly interrupted while replying… but if you notice he’s not. The interviewer doesn’t interrupt. Dion, WELLLL into his own reply, INTERRUPTS HIMSELF! Why? Why is this? How did he know he had made a mistake when the interviewer never pointed out the need for clarity at that point? What was wrong? Why did Dion ALL-ON-HIS-OWN spot the “mistake” and DEEP INTO his own reply? If he didn’t understand the question, what was he replying to for that length of time?
The truth is that the video clearly shows Dion running another line of thought throughout his “reply”. He was attempting to answer a question while thinking about an excuse to why he really had no legitimate answer, like trying to listen to a phone conversation and a person in the room at the same time, but Dion was having in conversation with himself…. this is why he became discombobulated… he was looking for a way out, having a second line of thought going, thinking about how he had no answer to the question asked to him and what he would say if the interviewer pressed him on it again. Following the “can we start again?” routine was simply a way he could gather his thoughts, play for time, thinking about how none of his talking points would apply to the question, having his off camera “translator” run interference, and hope that the network wouldn’t broadcast it…. With MSM cheerleading him to the finish line, you can’t blame him for thinking he would get away with it.
Dion’s probably a decent guy. He’d probably make a great prof teaching French speaking students.
It was obvious he was trying to spout out his 30 day plan crap, whatever that is, like it would have made any difference. (I don’t want my government taking care of my financial interests anyway, I want my bank to do that)
I think the poor bugger just isn’t cut out for the job as opposition leader. He should go back to his life and let someone qualified take over.
Vitruvius,
I was hoping for a “listen” piece tonight. But this spells opportunity!!!!
You have a great voice at witnessed in your Hinderlands piece. If you do the English bits, I can do a convincing English/German/Nazi reading.
I’ll never say anything negative against another artist, but Hans is a hack.
Let me know how you’ll pay me.
Junia Among the Apostles
The Story Behind a New Testament Saint & the Egalitarian Agenda
Junia—The First Woman Apostle
by Eldon Jay Epp
http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=21-08-022-f
Someone get the evangelist a cab please.
Sheldon he ran for the job and got it. A lot like a dog chasing a car and the car stops….duh what now. I’m sorry this idiot is a lieberal, they lie cheat steal, all the things we teach our children not to do, there can be no empathy now for these heartless bastards as they stole millions over the past years, think of your retirement account as compared to Cretins, Rocks,Copps, and tell us you feel sorry for the paisley dweeb!
Also, Dion, in an attempt to “clarify” (as he claims), is the one who offers the choice/resolution to the clarification he seeks. It’s NOT the interviewer that does that…
“2 1/2 years ago?” Dion says, and TWICE (beginning of the vid and end… still claiming he doesn’t understand). So the context of the question, right from the start, is established in Dion’s mind. NOW or THEN?… easy.
Since he constantly had the NOW eliminated, this shows he had no answer to the question, not that he didn’t undestand.
He is a shameless, opportunistic weasil for claiming he’s hard of hearing… worse, Liberals claiming it’s a lingustic issue Harper’s making fun of… Who’s the party that’s trying to inflame Quebec nationalism? There goes Dion’s unity cred down the toilet.
Ghosts of Christmas past?
Ralph Klein Montreal Gazette
“(NDP leader Jack) Layton and Dion are making statements right, left and centre but they make no sense. Mr. Dion doesn’t have a plan. Oh ya, he has a plan alright – like I have a plan.”
Give me Ralphie over Danny Boy any time.
“He’d probably make a great prof teaching French speaking students.” Indeed he is not cut out for the job of PM, but I also heard that he was a mean SOB when he was teaching.
Empire of Yin – Part 2: The Persistent Blindness of Superiority
In 1978, Solzhenitsyn still couldn’t have known the fine detail, but since then, enterprising Third World minorities have been arriving in the countries of the West in order to use the framework of liberal law as a nutcracker with which to extract benefits, preferential treatment, and eventual domination of the broken societies that have given them shelter. And since the West abounds in idiots useful to the cause of self-destruction, such external forces of entropy are greatly fortified through deliberate actions of the host countries’ legislators, courts, executive authorities and civic “rights” organizations.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3579
I had a dream, in which elected MPs were asked to prove their loyalty to Canada, and not to (a) Quebec, (b) Mo Strong or (c) Karl Marx.
The silence in the House was deafening.
Like most of my dreams, no such luck.
Excerpt from The Address to the Nation by H.E. Geir H. Haarde, Prime Minister of Iceland:
“Fellow countrymen
“I am well aware that this situation is a great shock for many, which raises both fear and anxiety. In such circumstances it is extremely urgent that the authorities, companies, social organisations, parents and others who can contribute make every effort to ensure that daily life is not disrupted.
“If there was ever a time when the Icelandic nation needed to stand together and show fortitude in the face of adversity, then this is the moment. I urge you all to guard that which is most important in the life of everyone of us, protect those values which will survive the storm now beginning. I urge families to discuss together and not to allow anxiety to get the upper hand even tough the outlook is grim for many. We need to explain to our children that the world is not on the edge of a precipice and we all need to find an inner courage to look to the future.
“Despite this major setback the future of the nation is both sure and bright. What is most important is that the foundations of our society and the economy are solid, even though the superstructure has given way in the face of the present disaster. We have natural resources, both on sea and land, which will ensure us a good living whatever happens. Our level of education and the human resources which we have here are no less enviable in the eyes of other nations than our natural resources. By the same token, we will have the opportunity to rebuild the financial system. We have learnt from those mistakes which were made during that period of massive growth and that experience will prove to be valuable when put to the test. With a common effort and with that optimism which characterises the Icelandic people, we will emerge from these difficulties and make a new and energetic come-back.
“Fellow Icelanders
“The task of the authorities over the coming days is clear: to make sure that chaos does not ensue if the Icelandic banks become to some extent non-operational. For this the authorities have many options and they will be used. Both in politics and elsewhere it will be important to sheathe our swords. It is very important that we display both calm and consideration during the difficult days ahead, that we do not lose courage and support each other as well as we can. Thus with Icelandic optimism, fortitude and solidarity as weapons, we will ride out the storm.
“God bless Iceland.”
http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/news-and-articles/nr/3035
He didn’t mention “green green jobs” even once.
anon,
Pick another handle … anon1 or something. I use killfile and anon is my kill list. I don’t want to exclude your comments from my view because you chose the handle of some moron that posts here.
Breaking news…
Parliamentary Press Gallery on CBC Don Newman Politics blame Harper for Dion’s incompetence.
It is the real Stephen Harper.. over the top, attack, cold, calculating. Why does Don Martin hate Harper so much. Wasn’t it Paul Martin’s people who said to Don Martin “Alberta can blow me!” Did Harper cut him off from the free bar at last years Christmas party or something?
CBC leads off Newsworld with Cadman Tape and Palin interference as “top” news stories.
Surprise…Surprise…Vancouver Sun endorses Harper for a majority government! It is hard to believe as they have been bashing him for the last two years.
The market action today bloodied a lot of the bad guys as leverage is wound down, especially with debt positions. Short selling was also unlocked. It’s not all bad, unless you want to play while this is going on. I’m not, but wish I could pick up more of the bargains.
to those who steadfastly claim ‘its all the Dem’s fault’:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021015-7.html
who’s fault is it again?
3w dot whitehouse dot gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021015-7 dot html
Tim McLean’s mom wants to bring back the death penalty:
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/10/10/7038146-sun.html
the dion CTV triple stutter is all over the web now.
3 days till the election and iggy issues assurances of total Liberals support for stephalococcus dion.
Al W; heh…yep, they looked at the alternatives and were pained to discover there IS only one choice!
(I wouldn’t be surprised if the shareholders gave them a little push in the right direction; a small matter of self preservation)
CPC currently leading and projected to win in 142 seats across the country.
Quebec 8 seats (ouch)
ON 49 seats
AB, SK, MB 50 seats
Atlantic Canada 9 seats
BC 25 seats
Northern 1 seat
Only chance of a majority is a blue shift in Quebec or seat pick up in GTA.
Well on the bright side they have lots of hot water in Iceland and most of the U.K.’s cash somewhere too.
Just saw on the CNN wire that Joerg Haider, the Austrian politician, died in a car accident. Let the conspiracy theories begin..
Removing any and all doubt, as if there ever was, that the Toronto Star is a liberal rag, their latest poll asks (my bold):
“CTV has released unedited footage of a fumbled interview by Liberal leader Stéphane Dion. Is this fair?“
I kid you not. 🙂
The media think they have us over a barrel obviously. Maybe it’s time we fight back. As it stands now, together with the pollsters, all Liberal friendly,they’re choosing who runs this country. It’s no longer a true democratic process. It’s sinking to the level of a third world dictatorship with the media picking it’s leader.
How much lies and dirt can busy working people keep ahead of? Who has time to get the truth?
If this country goes to Dion Liberals, that’s not what you’ll get, you’ll be having a bit of wacky Jacky and Ditsy Lizzy in there as well calling the shots. If that’s the coalition we get we’re in for rough times.
We have the good fortune of good management and the services of a good and capable person in Mr. Harper. What kind of fools could even contemplate changing to risk in bad economic times?
I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and the hope that those who have the glorious pageant of autumn colours get a chance to see them.
I know I will be calling voters and doing my darndest here in Quebec to get out the Conservative vote. It is very discouraging for all of us that Quebec voters are clinging to the Bloc, but, even though the artists and media have worked against us, it is true that given the choice, Quebec voters have historically always gone with a francophone leader if they have the choice between a francophone and an anglophone, however bilingual. It would be Dion, but of course the sponsorship scandal fixed that, not to mention how his reputation and image have never recovered in this province from the federalist/separatist battles.
I have one last prayer – that Justin Trudeau is not elected and that a dynasty of Trudeaus does not begin.
Tor.Star endorses Dion Liberals! I’m shocked I tell ya…who would have known?????
CBCpravda All Lieberal All the Time . reports on the Lieberals digging out the old crooked fossil himself. followed in the story by Mr. Outrage himself Ed (Im not quite Dead) Broadbent. of course Cretian couldnt help himself from mentioning the dead granddaddy of them all Pierre.that word alone sets CBC reporters all a flutter.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/story/2008/10/10/chretien-dion.html
this from CTV(tass)
they make being “more astute” a bad trait.
“The key reason is that Harper in Canada and McCain in the states are more astute than their opponents,” he told CTV’s Canada AM.
The conservative leaders have simply outplayed their opposition, Winn said. Key mistakes on the liberal side, in both cases, have also hindered the campaigns of Dion and Obama.
Dion’s largest blunder was the decision to run an election campaign largely centred on the Green Shift carbon tax plan, Winn said.
CTV(tass) All Liberal Most of the Time , but we try harder.
I have one last prayer – that Justin Trudeau is not elected and that a dynasty of Trudeaus does not begin.
I second that. the trudeaus have a legacy of living off the public purse that now extends more than 40 years. even that fawning castro fan sacha gets paid by CBCpravda.
“Newman Politics blame Harper for Dion’s incompetence.” Ott. Citizen in talking about this incident also focus on Harper lacking “class”. What is appalling about this is that Harper has been smeared from day 1, mercilessly attacked in the debates, and skewered with ancient, trivial things like the plagiarism nonsense, but when he DARES to say anything about Dion when Dion makes an obvious and egregious misstep, it is Harper who is again to be criticized. Dion’s error is very revealing and it would be genuinely scary to have this guy leading the country (not the language thing — though that is not good), but his shallow and naive understanding of the economy. In downplaying Dion’s slip-up, the CBC and journalists such as Martin do a grave disservice to this country.
I keep hearing them smear Harper for his ‘reaction’, I have yet to see them display his reaction along side their claims.
Media Bias in tenfolds.
Stephen Taylor has a great little Video up
“Stephane Dion gets by With a little Help from his freinds”
“but I also heard that he was a mean SOB when he was teaching.”
Yes. the attribute of ‘nice’ to compensate for Dion’s incompetence is misplaced to say the least. The guy is a prick. He regularly skewered students who didn’t agree with him in front of the class. In one instance holding a student paper high in the air before dropping it in the garbage bin.
IMO, his arrogance is the reason for his lack of English speaking skills. And his pompous demeanor is on display every time he poses for a photo op.
There is nothing nice, nor humble about him.
“The progressive, rights-based political thought of today may feel it has no use for Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. It ignores this great work at its intellectual peril… more»” (a&ldaily)
“Leviathan Then And Now
By Peter Berkowitz
The latter-day importance of Hobbes’s masterpiece
Until relatively recently, students of politics and ideas generally regarded Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan(1651) as the outstanding work of political philosophy in the English language. Over the past several decades, however, professors of political science and philosophy have largely relegated Hobbes’s masterpiece to the back shelves. At best, they tend to view Leviathan as an historical artifact, an early and influential stepping stone on the way to the development of those Kantian-inspired theories — Rawlsian and Habermasian at the forefront — that aim to vindicate the rights-based, progressive welfare state and dominate academic teaching and research.
This demotion of Hobbes’s masterpiece is unwarranted and impedes understanding of Leviathan. The demotion rests on the assumption, common among today’s scholars of political ideas, that after millennia of confusion and error they have at long last constructed the complete and adequate — or soon-to-be-complete and very nearly adequate — theoretical approach to politics. It also is grounded in their belief that the issues of immediate concern to them are alone of moral and political significance, while the issues that occupied thinkers of earlier generations are at best of antiquarian interest. Accordingly, if they turn to it at all, professors tend lazily to ask of Hobbes’s Leviathan — as they lazily ask, if they turn to them at all, of other classic works of political philosophy — how it anticipated or failed to anticipate the contemporary agenda.”
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/29949629.html
IMO, Dion looks like the type of person who throws hissy fits and vaults into the irrational when he is rattled.The vidio of Deyawns reaction to Mr. Murphy is proof of my suspension. It would be way over ‘stupid’ to elect such a personality as the person in charge of anything important because such a personality is consumed by ‘ego’. Deyawn appears on the edge of tears and/or outrage all the time. He has a very fragile demeanor, hiding a hollow soul that has never been outside the protective bubble created by the mushy ‘intellectual crowd’. He is a hothouse weed, he has no imagination, therefore he can not feel compassion for anyone but himself. It shows.
I have looked at so many comments now that the one that standsout the most,The person want’s to see a Coalition of the Liberal/NDP/GRN/BLOQ If the Conservatives win, Obviously that was Not here that i saw that.
If that Happens iam Moving Out West! honey say good-bye to the kids.
Palin abused her office, panel rules
Associated Press
October 10, 2008 at 10:36 PM EDT
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperilled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain’s Republican ticket.
Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Ms. Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.
Let’s here it for Sarah!
Cbc is running a little ‘fair and balanced’coverage on newsworld current affairs program. Four different people telling the audience why Harper is satan and why the ‘arts’ are so necessary to our lives. At the start they have an ‘artiste’ tell us that the arts contribute $86 BILLION to our economy. I thought I heard it wrong,but it came on again,$86 BILLION. Who knew,I would have never guessed that much.God bless the cbc,masters of misinformation.
Another example of Dion-like literacy.
Here: in or at or to this place or position (Canadian Oxford DIctionary)
Hear: perceive with the ear; listen to
Izz yuer falut I cannot be understood. Go an vote for Dion, idiot.
Red-Green Show? The Final Curtain*.
Yes. Here it is:
“”Go Green, Vote Red.”
“She also said May is confusing and upsetting Green members by endorsing Dion for prime minister.”
“Supporters of Liberal candidates for Orillia and Barrie wore t-shirts that said “Go Green, Vote Red.”
Dion also commented that he hopes Green Leader Elizabeth May will be victorious in her battle in Central Nova.
“We want Elizabeth May in the Commons instead of Peter McKay,” Dion said.
But Orillia Green candidate Valerie Powell angrily objected to Dion’s call for Greens to abandon her and vote Liberal.
It’s a democracy she said, and she has a right to attract as many votes as possible in a tight three-way race.
She also said May is confusing and upsetting Green members by endorsing Dion for prime minister.”
Headline:
“Dion says economy will slow pace of his platform”
http://tinyurl.com/3msev3 (canwest)
(*Frank: “And so I face the final curtain. My friend, Ill say it clear, Ill state my case, of which Im certain. …”
Just an aside to my previous post. The cbc is now running a program about the outrageous costs of the war in Afghanistan. But,in two years the ‘arts and culture’ economic engine of Canada brings in enough to run the war for ten.I don’t see a problem with staying.