Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time television crime-detective show, here are Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, and William Hopper as Perry Mason, Della Street, and Paul Drake in The Case of the Wary Wildcatter, Part 2, and Part 3, with guest star Barbara Bain (1960, 7:56 + 6:58 + 8:33). For your further perusal, should you be so interested, here is my link-filled essay on Pulp Fiction, and here is a collection of my favourite Perry Mason book covers scanned in from my collection of about 40 such novels.
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The Messiah, during his first news conference after Nov 4, made a disgusting swipe at Nancy Reagan when commenting on consulting former Presidents:
“I have spoken to all of them who are living,”
“I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Obama_apologizes_to_Nancy_Reagan.html
Yuk-yuk!!
Later, he threw his own comments under the bus, to follow the rest of his scandalous expendables.
I hope that the Messiah will learn between now and Jan 20 to not be such a complete jerk as exemplified by his insult to an elderly First Lady.
Surely, this isn’t “the moment” his domestic and world-wide fawns been waiting for!
Apparently it was Hillary that had séances, Nancy prefered astrologers. At least I think that’s true about Hillary. Awe what the hell, I’ll report it anyways.
Looks like Mr. Constitutional Scholar forgot about the 13th Ammendment, with the latest drive to bring back slavery.
Hmmm. Wonder who was looking for that change?
mhb23re at gmail d0t calm
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speaking of obama nation… looks like there’s
a civil war brewing in california.
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“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1889562
Way less than five minutes in this case.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge219.html#dysonf
Of course, in the minds of the religious AGW (oh, sorry, “Climate Change”) believers, Dyson is a wingnut, flakey, mean-spirited old fart (probably with a hidden evil anti-environmental “agenda” as well) that represents the Backwards Thinking Of The Past.
The problems today with science might be that no longer do we stand on the shoulders of giants but rather reject “old thinking” out of hand and instead adopt pop culture science as reported in sound bite excerpts from some ex-journalism student whose attention span has been reduced to 3 paragraphs or 10 seconds’ explanation of extremely complicated subjects, whichever comes first.
Things that are complicated to understand require a fair amount of back-and-forth communication so as to clarify exactly what is being discussed. The MSM cannot possibly provide this, as they are always looking out for the next train wreck to breathlessly report on in order to gain ratings, fame or phrase-making notoriety.
This is a perfect environment for agenda-driven, misinformation-bent interlopers to pop up and obfuscate the facts via misdirection or to shunt the discussion off onto an off-topic tangent, usually heavily laden with emotional hooks, strawmen and ad hominen attacks.
Question: Is it necessarily “slavery” for a school to require a student to put in some hours of community service, any more than requiring him to do homework?
It surely wouldn’t be much of an issue with a private school. It would likely be more so with a public one.
This could be yet another reason to separate school and state, in the same way and for the same reasons as separating church and state.
Mandatory work IS slavery EVERY time. Technically, drafted military are as well. Watch them exempt all blacks from this requirement.
Forced community service would be closer to indentured servitude, than slavery. However, both were abolished – by Republicans, no less – and covered by the 13th Ammendment to the Constitution.
Even JFK said, “Ask what you can do for your country”. He didn’t force you to serve it; as a freeborn citizen, it’s your right to refuse community service, under the guise of highschool “outreach”, or whatever.
Or it was optional, until now.
Mark Steyn: ‘Center-right’ America lurches further left
With about half the electorate ‘on the dole,’ a change of direction isn’t likely.
By MARK STEYN
Syndicated columnist
Give me liberty or give me death!”
“Live free or die!”
What’s that? Oh, don’t mind me. I’m just trying out slogans for the 2012 campaign and seeing which one would get the biggest laughs.
My Republican friends are now saying, oh, not to worry, look at the exit polls, this is still a “center-right” country. Americans didn’t vote to go left, they voted to go cool. It was a “Dancing With The Stars” election: Obama’s a star, and everyone wants to dance with him. It doesn’t mean they’re suddenly gung-ho for left-wingery.
Up to a point.
More at: http://www.steynonline.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,33/
I hope Barney bites again before his days are done.
Keep the CHANGE. Really.
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=5081
h/t CFP
Don’t call me stupid:
“Nietzsche seems to be suggesting that the acceptance of the Death of God will also involve the ending of accepted standards of morality and of purpose. Without the former and accepted faith based standards society is threatened by a nihilistic situation where peoples lives are not particularly constrained by considerations of morality or particularly guided by any faith related sense of purpose.”
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/friedrich_nietzsche_quotes.html
Whenever I hear the word, “Nietzsche” I am reminded of Kevin Kline’s character in ‘A Fish Called Wanda’.
Asshoooole!
What crime? Do you hear any “contentious” grime?
Da “soft-pedal” works real good.
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“Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s aides say the Conservatives will soft-pedal some of their more contentious proposals on issues such as crime”
(G-M)
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“Shooting spree erupts in Toronto
By BRYN WEESE AND KEVIN CONNOR, SUN MEDIA.”
“A heart monitor rests on a stretcher between the feet of a gunshot victim last night after bullets hit four people in the Black Creek Dr. and Weston Rd. area. (Dave Thomas, Sun Media)”
“A North York shooting sent four men to hospital last night with three in life-threatening condition.”
Loser socialist Clark: “a reputation for a serious, even dour, demeanor,”.
Was Clark a control freak? A bully? A mean woman?
Was her nickname Clarkerite? Clarko? Did Clark cut the arts?
Clark was a serious, sour socialist?
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“New Zealand leader loses election to conservative”
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand on Saturday elected its first conservative government in almost a decade, ending the rule of one of the world’s longest-serving elected female leaders.
“Clark, a 58-year-old former academic and avid wilderness trekker with a reputation for a serious, even dour, demeanor, has led the country since 1999.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/11/08/7345196-ap.html
“Senior Vows to Post Young Offender’s Name”
The ChronicleHerald.ca
*Disabled 74yr old robbed by a teen ticked off by Judges Sentence
The slap on the wrist judge did not even make the kid pay for the damages to the seniors property in the assault, The senior had to pay for his broken glasses, Scooter & for an ambulance.
The senior is so P****** with this that HE is going to “Risk going to Jail” to tell everyone in his area by posting the kids name, mother & where the kid lives.
Who’s surprised? Same old, same old at the Mother Corpse:
CBC Brass Split $1-million Pot
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/11/08/7344106-sun.html
Adam Taylor, acting federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation responds: “We object to the idea that it’s OK for a Crown corporation to act like a private entity when it comes to executive compensation. In a time when tax revenue will be scarce, this should outrage ordinary Canadians.”
A cut to the arts is disappointing after Calgary forks over $500,000 to consultants?
City council members should be scrapped.
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“National Portrait Gallery project scrapped
Canoe.ca – 3 hours ago
By KATIE SCHNEIDER, SUN MEDIA City council members looking forward to the National Portrait Gallery coming to Calgary say they are disappointed the federal government has decided to kill the project for which they spent $500000 on a bid.”
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“Do you think the Tories were right to scrap plans for a national portrait gallery?
Yes 85%
No 15%
Total Votes for this Question: 583”
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/poll_results.html
actual footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bCuEXrU-yQ
Hey it’s playoff football weekend.
What better time to kick the Canadian Wheat Board again?
Any CWB voters that are still gonna vote for the CWB monopoly must read this weeks Western Producer article ‘DIRE PREDICTIONS PROVE TRUE’.
Alabama grain analyst Tim Wood says that the market peak prices indicate that a major top ($20/bu wheat) was reached this past winter and we will not see grain prices like that again for 3 to 5 yrs.
Nothing can illustrate the incompetence and gross negligence of the CWB marketing team than the fact that the CWB stupidly hoarded some 4 mil tonnes of wheat from the world market at the exact time the world was crying out for wheat, any wheat.
That is 4 mil x $700/mt or $2.8 billion arbitrarily and without cause, witheld from farmer hands.
That’s the same farmers holding some $54 billion of debt.
So now the world has added another 80 mil tonnes to the world supply this summer and prices are headed down again.
I hope the CWB supporters with wheat still in their bins remember this fiasco because history shows that a historic price top like this past winter usually will not happen for another 5 to 10 or even 20 yrs.
And that’s inspite of the added population every year.
I have always said that farmers (and some profs) should be demanding to see the CWB file marked ‘Grain Sales Turned Down’.
Go Roughies!
Grassroots Tories urging PM to move to right
Demands at next weekend’s policy convention could challenge Harper’s effort to soften party’s image
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail Update
November 8, 2008 at 12:00 AM EST
“…Conservative Party spokesman Ryan Sparrow played down the potential impact of the convention resolutions on government decisions.
“They’re just like any other consultation you would have with any stakeholder group,” he said, confirming the government will not be bound by the Winnipeg decisions….”
This a$$hole must be confusing the Cons with the Libranos. If this gerbil thinks that the Party will tell members what’s gonna happen, I will rejoice.
Because the conservatives in the party will ensure every lightweight a$$sucking leftist progressive opportunists are tossed out on their behind. Beginning with this arrogant fart generator.
Terence Corcoran: “In his brief statement and question session [at his first press conference], the president elect of the United States said next to nothing about anything. There were no signs of the Yes We Can positivism of the campaign in his low-key, even halting manner. What little he did say may well signal the beginning of a new phase in Obamamania: No we can’t.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=24eec3ae-8370-4dcb-a49a-a317be4fc4ca
“You will also no doubt hear from our city leaders that you don’t have to worry.”
Mao Stlong say, don’t wolly. Red Orympics goody, goody. You wan 1 eggloll? Take 2; all flee with lice bowl plice. No seclets.
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“An Olympic veil of secrecy
What’s the deal with city’s $100-million real-estate gamble?”
http://tinyurl.com/638sbb (vansun)
The regressive progressives: Back to the Dark Ages.
It’s Earth Day Every Night.
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“Lights out: activists are showing the darker side of Paris
Environmentalists act to curb energy waste
Waving a broomstick above his head, Maxime leaps up and down on a pavement in Central Paris. Is he mad, passers-by wonder, or drunk? No, his comrades explain, he is seeking to cut the global demand for energy.
Meet Le Clan du Néon, an increasingly popular environmental movement that wants to make the City of Lights a little darker. One tactic is to turn off neon shop signs at night by reaching the external fire switches that control them, usually found two or three metres up the façade.
“The signs are a waste of electricity and a visual pollution,” said Michael, a 27-year-old engineer, as Maxime used the broom to flick a switch above Aigle Azur, a travel agency, and plunge the shopfront into darkness.
“It’s crazy that when we all need to save energy, these neon signs are left on for 24 hours day,” he added.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5110640.ece
http://tinyurl.com/5ds2jw
It is all the free market’s fault.
Freidman was wrong.
Was he?
Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center – City University of New York (CUNY)
Chow/Layton
– Taxpayer subsidized co-op apartment
– Surgery at a private clinic
– Subsidized home-care for mom
Can’t they afford private home-care?
Ontario braces for a grey wave
…Community Care Access Centres (CCACs), which provide free home care from cradle to grave and control access to long-term care facilities…
….The lack of resources means serious mistakes are made. The Star’s Moira Welsh reported last October that Olivia Chow’s 83-year-old mother was “overlooked” by the CCAC for two weeks “while a surgical wound in her stomach grew raw and infected.”…..
This is kinnda how I have felt since the Election South of us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nosaM97DONU
Comment: “1. Rob Murphy:
Let them rot.”
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“General Woe-tors”
“I would like to see the Administration do everything they can to accelerate the retooling assistance that Congress has already enacted.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/11/08/general-woe-tors/#comments
CTV poll
Do you think comedians will be easier on Barack Obama because he’s a Democrat?
54% no
http://www.ctv.ca/
Posted by: cal2 at November 8, 2008 9:56 AM
hahahahaha !!!
That was brilliant & should be mandatory viewing for the Left. Nothing beats The Onion. Thanks, man.
mhb23re
at gmail d0t calm