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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 are Al Handler and his Alamo Café Orchestra performing Mandy (1926, 2:43).

NB: Starting tomorrow night, ladies and gentlemen, Wednesdays’ SDA Late Nite Radio selections will be spun by DJ EBD, who is qualified to select exemplary performances in genres and styles that DJ Vitruvius would miss (because of his own biases), so EBD’s shows will add excellent additional depth, variety, and eclecticism to SDA LNR. Welcome to the studios, EBD, we’re looking forward to tomorrow’s show and many more to follow.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. As Dennis Miller told Bill O’Reilly: ‘The feminists are angry because Sarah Palin looks like she has some great sex with that man Todd.”

  3. The world’s navies are powerless to stop thugs in a speed boat — and so Multi millon dollar piracy acts will continue ?
    [Alarm grows as governments and navies are rendered legally powerless to conduct security operations on the high seas] Times On Line
    And from the comments at the Times, seems that the people of Eastern Europe are smarter than those in Western Europe – the biggest backers of the UN.
    [If the governments of the world have become so politically correct and unept as to allow piracy on the high seas then may be those governments deserve all of the problems they are now receive during negotiations..
    Edwin, Bucharest, ] TOL
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5183710.ece

  6. Gord,I was just going to put up the same story. Cbc ,unfortunately is immune to the cuts that everyone else is undergoing because of the very deep pockets of their owner.However,I would suggest that limiting the mothercorp to only one story a day about the ‘sensational event-of-the-century’aka the liberal leadership race would save us peons a bit of pretty polly.Every frigging day on every frigging news show that cbc airs has something about this,it is nauseating.If it isn’t iggy talking,it is rae talking,and if it isn’t rae or iggy or leblanc,it is some other lib talking about what one of the three had said.I am so thankful that they occasionally throw in a Khadr story to break up the ceaseless pandering.

  7. Just slunked over to Kinsella’s site and lo and behold,Warren is warning his groupies about the conservative’hidden agenda’. Harper is about to take away abortion rights,be afraid,be very afraid.Yeah,right. I wonder how long it will take WK to realize that both his ‘war room’ and his music is about 20 years past the best before date.

  9. With respect to the piracy and inept government comments noted above.
    I don’t think it’s a sign of government ineptitude but rather one of government rectitude. As I learned recently, 20,000 vessels pass through that area each year and only 67 have been hijacked so far. As we know, government has limited resources so it has to make choices. Sometimes tough choices. Think of the resources required to patrol millions of square miles.
    In some ways it’s akin to what we’re seeing in Afganistan and the ‘asymetrical’ warfare going on there, i.e., one roadside bomber can slow a whole company to a crawl.
    IMO, shipping companies should be making ‘commercial’ arrangements to protect their vessels.

  10. The State has no milk of its own.
    Our Enemy, the State.
    …-
    “Raw milk advocate chooses jail
    TORONTO — Ontario’s raw-milk crusader looks headed for jail after declaring yesterday that he won’t back down from his refusal to pay up to $58,000 for contempt of court.
    A Newmarket judge last month found Owen Sound-area farmer Michael Schmidt guilty of violating a court order to stop distributing raw milk.
    But having waged his battle for 14 years, Schmidt is refusing to give up.
    Now he appears set to become a martyr after yesterday telling a news conference at Queen’s Park he will go to jail before he pays a fine.
    Schmidt faces having to pay $53,000 in costs and a $5,000 fine or six months behind bars.
    Following the guilty verdict, York Region lawyer Dan Kuzmyk said he was unwilling to let Schmidt become a martyr and “throw himself on the sword of York Region.”
    Justice R. Cary Boswell reserved sentencing and Schmidt said he expects to be notified of the outcome soon.
    “The one thing that I want to make clear is no money will go over,” Schmidt said.
    “I will flatly refuse that. If they want to make a precedent of me I would rather go to jail than pay a fine.””
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/11/19/7459556-sun.html

  11. As long as piracy is profitable, expect to see more of the same. According to the British Guardian, the pirates are believed to have taken in almost 20 million pounds in ransom this year alone. So far the only people with gonads seems to be the Indian Navy which sank a pirate mother ship yesterday. If only the Royal Navy of old were still around but I gather keel hauling and swinging from the yard arm would be frowned upon today.
    Arrrgh matey.

  12. Wallyj, anything spewed by Warren Kinsilly against Conservatives you can file under “shit from hell for brains”.
    He’d better get some new material, the hidden agenda theme is stale, gone with the stuffed dinosaur he used against Stockwell Day.
    If he wants to help his beloved Liberals out of the mess they’re in, attacking others without foundation is not the smart way to go. Their problem is internal, a dysfunctional party, divided by Martin and lapsed into poverty by his Idol Chretien and his funding policy. Can’t blame the Conservatives for that.
    The hypocrites were all over the Conservatives for having a closed door session at their convention but did the same thing themselves a few days later. They should take their agendas and go hide until they get their act together and present themselves as a viable Official Opposition. They may need to look for better help in the advice department, smart-assery Kinsella style is failing them.

  13. Wallyj, anything spewed by Warren Kinsilly against Conservatives you can file under “shit from hell for brains”.
    He’d better get some new material, the hidden agenda theme is stale, gone with the stuffed dinosaur he used against Stockwell Day.
    If he wants to help his beloved Liberals out of the mess they’re in, attacking others without foundation is not the smart way to go. Their problem is internal, a dysfunctional party, divided by Martin and lapsed into poverty by his Idol Chretien and his funding policy. Can’t blame the Conservatives for that.
    The hypocrites were all over the Conservatives for having a closed door session at their convention but did the same thing themselves a few days later. They should take their agendas and go hide until they get their act together and present themselves as a viable Official Opposition. They may need to look for better help in the advice department, smart-assery Kinsella style is failing them.

  14. Saudi Arabia should be taking lead role in protecting it’s own and it’s customers shipping through these international waters. The Saudis should be well equipped for handling this given their tremendous resources. As far as Omar Kadhr is concerned, he would probably not be in this situation if not for the interferance of one JEAN CRETIEN.

  15. More proof that interfering “do gooders” are complete morons:
    http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/11/19/7457586-sun.html
    So young drivers aren’t allowed to carry more than one passenger. Instead of 1 designated driver taking care of all his drunk buddies, you now have to have 1 designated driver for every drunk? Good luck! And what happens when a group of 4 kids want to go out for an evening of fun? Instead of all piling into one car, they now have to split into two cars! Don’t think they’re gonna want to race? Idiots…..

  16. on a different note i just recieved an email from my local marketing rep and the canadian wheat board (our single desk prize) is only accepting 80% of spring wheat and 60% of the durum contracted to them on the series A contract. after farmers produced the most expensive crop in history the cwb is sticking us with the remainder as the price continues to erode. i wonder if goodale and easter will be outraged??
    god i love the mononpoly powers of the cwb.LOL

  17. Fire.
    Them.
    All!
    http://tinyurl.com/6bdem9
    Globe and Mail
    Your friend’s new fuchsia fedora might be hideous. But don’t call it gay, or you might get a language lesson from the conversation cops.
    Students at Queen’s University who sprinkle their dialogue with an assortment of “homo” or “retarded” could find out the hard way that not everyone finds their remarks acceptable.
    A sampling of some behaviour that could warrant attention from university-appointed student
    facilitators, tasked with policing students’ offensive language
    at Queen’s:
    If a student uses the phrase “That’s so gay” in conversation.
    If a student calls someone or something “retarded.”
    If a student writes a homophobic, racist or other derogatory remark in a public space, such as on a residence poster or classmate’s door.
    If a student avoids a classmate’s birthday party for faith-based reasons.

  18. EBD in the studio. Hard to match what Vitruvius has been doing. He’s set the bar high, and is the definition of eclectic while maintaining consistent high quality.
    Would it be too much to ask for some Dylan? He’s touring right now.

  19. Stubby, just another great example of the CWB making absolutely sure that western grain farmers get the full benefits of lower world prices.
    Just like they did in 2002, 1996, 1990, 1988, 1980, 1974, and of course the biggy, 1946/48.
    The CWB, screwing western farmers since 1943 and proud of it!

  20. Let’s sell the CBC to China and “Shanghai” every one of its Quisling blackguard employees. After all, the ChiCom plans sound exactly like the CBC’s “mission statement” (as actually practised).
    Jane Macartney and Sophie Yu, Beijing propaganda chief hatches plan to combat age of internet news
    China’s propaganda officials are experimenting with a revolutionary new policy to manage their message in the age of the internet: reporting the news as it happens.
    The move marks an important shift for the ruling Communist Party, which is accustomed to deciding what will be reported and when.
    However, far from being a move towards freedom of the press, the aim is to maintain control of the information available to China’s 1.3 billion people…
    “Let us use the method of providing news as the way to control news,” a well-placed source quoted Mr Li as saying in his recently issued directive…

  22. Re: “A sampling of some behaviour that could warrant attention from university-appointed student facilitators, tasked with policing students’ offensive language.”
    That’s really gay! And retarded!

  23. http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_7599
    LEADER OF THE YEAR: RIGHT MAN, RIGHT TIME
    When General David Petraeus arrived in Iraq, it was a disaster. Now he’s leaving, and it’s something else entirely. Lisa DePaulo travels to Baghdad on the eve of his departure to find out how he did it (“You’ve gotta live with the people to protect the people”) and who the hell he is (for starters, he likes Phil Collins)
    And he will do all this without so much as a flak jacket. There is perhaps no riper target on earth than a four-star general in Iraq, but Petraeus often insists on the no-flak-jacket thing. It drives his security guys nuts. This morning at his daily Battle
    Update Assessment with several dozen U.S. and Iraqi leaders, he repeated his favorite mantra: “The best way to protect the people is to live with the people.” And you can’t really live with the people if you’re walking around in a Kevlar vest, now can you? His aides relented, of course.
    A great many people have come around to Petraeus’s way of thinking. “He had a vision,” says Sergeant Major Marvin Hill, one of P4’s closest colleagues. He knew when he got here, says Hill, that the only way to win this war was to “live among the people.” That was his genius. As impolitic as the idea of nation building was at the time, Petraeus was able to change the attitudes—not only in Iraq, but back in Washington. He was always part general, part politician. And he knew in his gut that his strategy would work. “Because you can’t kill ’em all,” says Hill. “You can’t shoot your way out, you can’t kill your way out, of an insurgency. You just can’t. You have to find other kinds of ammunition, and it’s not always a bullet.”
    Clever lad.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    Frankenstein Battalion
    2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
    Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
    Knecht Rupprecht Division
    Hans Corps
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  24. kstricker – what a perfect response to Queen’s moving into the world of Newspeak and 1984.
    ‘That’s really gay!’ (Unlike Newspeak it has multiple meanings), and means both representative of the gay community’s ‘thin skin’ to perceived insults and the human community’s openness to making fun of and mocking stupidity).
    ‘And retarded’. Equally, it has multiple meanings, referring both to a slowness in growth and maturity of mental ability within the management of Queen’s and a regression to previous eras of totalitarian regimes.

  25. Scapegoating. It’s your fault. That’s why you are a captive; it’s your punishment; you had it coming.
    These words of Gideon Gono, “collective failure as a nation”, should read:
    the failure of a nation as a socialist collective.
    Gono spouts the usual socialist jargon: “to actively play a part in producing for the nation.”
    His propaganda tool? “a state-owned newspaper,”.
    …-
    “Central banker: Zimbabweans to blame for inflation
    HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s central bank chief says ordinary Zimbabweans are to blame for the country’s crippling inflation.
    Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono is quoted in The Sunday Mail, a state-owned newspaper, as saying inflation is due to what he calls a “collective failure as a nation” to produce enough, particularly food. He calls on Zimbabweans “to actively play a part in producing for the nation.”
    Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is officially 231 million percent, the highest in the world.
    Government orders to seize white-owned farms starting in 2000 disrupted the economy of what had been the region’s breadbasket. The farms were to have gone to poor blacks, but many went to ruling party loyalists. Agricultural production has plummeted. Today, Zimbabwe faces a hunger crisis.”
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJ-RIlpJisSo6o-rTqPKQli4PO3wD94FU2FO7

  26. Such nuclear-powered flights would transport millions of passengers around the world, and would allow for longer-distance non-stop flights since aircraft would no longer need to land to refuel. These flights would also have zero carbon emissions.
    Red Orbit
    http://tinyurl.com/5c4dkl

  27. Offered with trepidation:
    (Via Comment Central) George Soros, The Crisis & What to Do About It
    The salient feature of the current financial crisis is that it was not caused by some external shock like OPEC raising the price of oil or a particular country or financial institution defaulting. The crisis was generated by the financial system itself. This fact—that the defect was inherent in the system —contradicts the prevailing theory, which holds that financial markets tend toward equilibrium and that deviations from the equilibrium either occur in a random manner or are caused by some sudden external event to which markets have difficulty adjusting. The severity and amplitude of the crisis provides convincing evidence that there is something fundamentally wrong with this prevailing theory and with the approach to market regulation that has gone with it. To understand what has happened, and what should be done to avoid such a catastrophic crisis in the future, will require a new way of thinking about how markets work…
    This remarkable sequence of events can be understood only if we abandon the prevailing theory of market behavior. As a way of explaining financial markets, I propose an alternative paradigm that differs from the current one in two respects. First, financial markets do not reflect prevailing conditions accurately; they provide a picture that is always biased or distorted in one way or another. Second, the distorted views held by market participants and expressed in market prices can, under certain circumstances, affect the so-called fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect. This two-way circular connection between market prices and the underlying reality I call reflexivity.
    While the two-way connection is present at all times, it is only occasionally, and in special circumstances, that it gives rise to financial crises. Usually markets correct their own mistakes, but occasionally there is a misconception or misinterpretation that finds a way to reinforce a trend that is already present in reality and by doing so it also reinforces itself. Such self- reinforcing processes may carry markets into far-from-equilibrium territory. Unless something happens to abort the reflexive interaction sooner, it may persist until the misconception becomes so glaring that it has to be recognized as such. When that happens the trend becomes unsustainable and when it is reversed the self-reinforcing process starts working in the opposite direction, causing a sharp downward movement…

  29. charles macdonald – the article by George Soros on the economy is not innovative with Soros.
    It happens to be basic conomic complexity theory, i.e., that economic systems don’t operate within equilibrium but far-from-equilibrium; that they are open rather than closed; that they are evolutionary or develop into more complex systems of organization; that there are intrusive ‘degrees of freedom’ that can move rapidly through a network and destabilize it ..and so on.
    Even his talk about ‘errors and biases’ – that’s straight from basic complexity theory, which states that you can never thoroughly and totally ‘know’ and control a system; the lack of thorough knowledge is due to local variations, which can be termed ‘errors and biases’.
    There is a lot of research, in books and articles on the economy as a complex adaptive system. As I said, Soros is just repeating these theories; he’s not offering anything of his own analysis.

  30. ET, my trepidation related to Soros being an odious person. I wanted to shower after reading his article.

  31. Love the way the Red Star readers too Zerbie to task, Glenn. Shows just how wackadoo her ideas are — the champagne socialist readership is calling her a partisan hack.

  32. “Rae, Ignatieff, LeBlanc ditch Green Shift
    Juliet O’Neill , Canwest News Service
    Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008”
    Julie-Canwest, you are stale dated/late/dead with your headline.
    …-
    >>>>> Blogger Angry had the scoop here:
    “The Green Shift is thrown down the memory hole
    Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 07:34 AM Comments: 30
    Well, this came as a surprise. The Liberal Party website thegreenshift.ca is now redirecting to Jennifer Wright’s greenshift.ca.
    >>>>> Stephane Dion’s carbon tax plan is well and truly dead.”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/276832.php
    Roll on, Angry.

  33. No’ to Obama’s experimental government
    By Jonah Goldberg
    http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | On Sunday night, President-elect Barack Obama told “60 Minutes” that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be a model of sorts for him. “What you see in FDR that I hope my team can emulate is not always getting it right, but projecting a sense of confidence and a willingness to try things and experiment in order to get people working again.”

  34. Jewish residents of Migron reported Monday that Arabs from a nearby village had attempted to kidnap two young Jews. The attack took place on Monday morning as border police were demolishing five buildings, including a structure used as a meeting place by local Jewish youths. Border Police either failed to notice the attack or chose not to intervene, residents said, and the kidnapping was foiled only due to the efforts of alert local teens.
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128207

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