Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to the last chance we’ll have here in the SDA LNR studios to post a two-hour video under the guise of the free time some of us have been fortunate enough to enjoy during this holiday season, here is geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells presenting his Journey of Man documentary (1:53:21).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Would it be of any strategic use for IDF to set off flares, fake an attack and then sit back and watch the media reaction?
Wouldn’t that be funny?
Actually PP,that is an excellent idea.But then we here at SDA know what whores the MSM are.It would be fun to watch the reaction though.
Here’s a poll which could go horribly wrong. Or right.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=Survey
Here’s a poll which could go horribly wrong. Or right.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=Content&Do=Aboutus
According to Angus-Reid, a majority of Canadians believe that Canadian troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan before the Liberal-Conservative deadline of 2011.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/32549/canadians_want_quicker_end_to_afghan_mission
Here’s hoping the Harper gov’t takes public opinion into account.
America’s oldest ice discovered… then it melts
Read the comments for a laugh.
http://tinyurl.com/8f9wwg
Stephen – Here’s hoping that PMSH continues to ignore the polls. This is a just war that must be fought. Where do you live, Stephen – just so the Islamic radicals know where to fly the planes into next time.
“Taliban bases fall after major offensive
A month-long operation by British, Afghan and coalition forces saw fierce close-quarter combat”
(timesuk)
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Taliban Jack NDP’s response:
“Layton no longer trusts Harper”
Edmonton Sun
Can’t fight a war on results of a poll or popularity contest. War is hell for a reason.
vitruvius – the theory of Single Origin for anything, be it human or other forms of life, has great support in the sciences. So, Spencer’s theory that our species, homo sapiens, originated from ONE individual in Africa, has great merit.
I, being genetically a ‘dubitando’, have problems with this, primarily because I hesitate over singular expressions of a ‘universal’ Form. Since I’m not a follower of the Darwinian random shot and let’s hope it survives theory but instead of an Informational Process that offers several quite functional options each of which WOULD survive and don’t need any Natural Selective Testing..then..
I think that when the energy-state is right in the environment, ie, temperature, other life forms, water, etc..when these are right or ‘full of energy’, then the planetary Information System (that’s quadrant III in my Cartesian square and I think you’ve read this)…will offer several versions of a more general model. So rather than ONE individual in Africa, the model will offer several in different parts of the world.
Now, whether it’s the Original One in Africa or the Several Versions in Other Parts of the World, they will meet up, mingle and merge, more or less, not only retaining but adding variations. So, we get the diversity of physical type that we now have in the world – and there is a great diversity of types, albeit we remain ONE species.
That means we are ONE Race, so to speak. We are all human – all of us. It also means that we can’t speak of ethnic ‘purities’ or make such claims.
Turks are Muslims.
Muslims apologize for war crimes.
Unheard of until now.
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APOLOGIZING TO THE ARMENIANS
‘Eroding One of Turkey’s Biggest Taboos’
More than 25,000 Turks have added their names to an online statement apologizing for Ottoman war crimes committed during World War I. SPIEGEL spoke with campaign initiator Baskin Oran.
SPIEGEL: Since the beginning of your online campaign, more than 25,000 Turks have signed a statement apologizing for war crimes committed by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. More than a million Armenians lost their lives in the catastrophic events, which began in 1915. Is this the beginning of a critical examination of the past?
Baskin Oran: The Turks who are now apologizing are not responsible for the sins of 1915. There is no collective crime, but there is a collective conscience. With our campaign, we are eroding one of Turkey’s biggest taboos. But still, the campaign is coming decades late.
SPIEGEL: Turkish nationalists say that you are damaging the country’s image. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan agrees.
Oran: I disagree. I think that our image abroad will actually improve. Beyond that, though, it is the grandchildren of the Armenians who should finally hear an apology — in a country like Turkey, where there is no “culture of apology.””
http://tinyurl.com/7fsnu9 (spiegel)
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“Harper affirms Cdn position on Armenian Genocide
Published: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
MANITOBA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper affirmed Wednesday his belief that 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a ‘Genocide’ nearly a century ago during the First World War.
For decades, previous Canadian governments refused to call it ‘genocide’ for fear of upsetting Turkey, which is blamed for the massacre.”
http://tinyurl.com/9l8sew (global)
maz2: **Turks are Muslims.
Muslims apologize for war crimes.
Unheard of until now.**
It’s a start, but I’m waiting to hear Muslims actually denouncing other Muslims who commit savage acts in the name of Islam.
“Jimmy Carter & Habitat for Humanity: Celebrity slum lords?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions — and, apparently, the homes in the neighborhoods along that hellish path are built by Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity.
All Jimmy Carter-bashing and schadenfreude aside, do the residents have a bona fide case or are these professional moochers trying to pin blame on others for their own lack of personal responsibility?
Probably a bit of both. A few of the houses seem to have been clearly uninhabitable. In 2005, the cracks in one foundation reportedly “became so severe that the house had to be lifted and settled on piers. Engineers hired by HabiJax found six feet of debris buried under the soil,” reports the NYT.
I’ve watched enough of these “environmental justice” activists to know that they coach their clients to complain about vague ailments (”mysterious skin rashes”) that have no relation in reality to the environmental conditions they claim are the cause. These professional grievance-mongers have blocked countless private redevelopment and remediation projects — and milked tens of millions in settlements — based on bogus scientific and medical claims.
In the end, I can’t say I feel too much sympathy for Jimmy Carter and his Hollywood partners. The Left has stoked both eco-zealotry and the entitlement culture with impunity. Perhaps they’ll feel a little less inclined to feed those beasts after getting bitten squarely in the ass.”
More from Malkin here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158518/posts
Islam’s “festival” of death wears a burka.
Where are the “worldwide protests”?
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“Female bomber kills Iranian pilgrims at start of Shia festival in Iraq
Times Online – 1 hour ago
A female suicide bomber killed at least 35 people, many of them Iranian pilgrims, and wounded scores more when she blew herself up amid a crowd of Shia worshippers outside a shrine in Baghdad today.”
Goreacle’s Footprint is tracking into Sask-Dakotas and points farther south.
Polar bears are jubilating on the Arctic ice; oodles of pups this spring.
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“Weather Maps: North America”
http://tinyurl.com/975eys
For the Y2Kyoto file –
“Melting icebergs, so long the iconic image of global warming, are triggering a natural process that could delay or even end climate change, British scientists have found.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1104772/Amazing-discovery-green-algae-save-world-global-warming.html
Also – a blistering letter from a supplier to GM Pres in response to a plea for support for Big 3 bailouts
It is circulating via e-mail- thought it was an urban legend at first but apparently not…
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/knox.asp
FOx Omits DemOcrat in its headline.
We’ll slide DemOcrat in frOnt Of the headline.
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[DemOcrat] “Bill Richardson Withdraws as Commerce
Secretary-Designate
The commerce secretary-designate has withdrawn his nomination because of an investigation into whether Bill Richardson exchanged New Mexico state government contracts for campaign financing.”
http://tinyurl.com/7lyyku
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MOre Bill, the DemOcrat:
“Bill Richardson for President. … When I entered the campaign, it was clear that we, as Democrats, had the most talented field of candidates in my lifetime …
http://www.richardsonforpresident.com”
Michelle Malkin
Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?
By Michelle Malkin January 4, 2009 05:59 PM Before we fully launch into the action-packed first week of 2009, I want to provide you with a year-end wrap-up of original blog reporting on this site and across the conservative blogosphere. Why? Well, over the weekend, a few bloggers on both the left and right perpetuated an ill-informed and self-serving myth that demands debunking. The myth is that conservative bloggers don’t do reporting.
http://michellemalkin.com/
Can’t lead a nation on results of a poll or popularity contest. Keeping tax receipts up is hell for a reason.
The name is Dr. Landscheidt.
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“New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming? June 4, 2007
“Abstract: Analysis of the sun’s varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCC’s speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8° C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected.”
“If Dr. Landscheidt is correct about this, we are about to enter an extended period of much reduced solar activity and therefore an extended period of global cooling, which will offer the first real world test of the IPCC’s CO2 forced global warming claims. On the downside of this, a return to climate conditions not experienced since about 1670 by the year 2030 will bring much hardship to millions, as many of the world’s foodbowls fail due to extreme cold, while demand for fossil fuels will increase just so people can survive the extreme cold in higher latitudes.
Unfortunately, the current obsession with global warming pseudoscience combined with hefty increases in the price of carbon use being planned and/or implemented in various countries means that very few will be prepared for the sudden significant downturn in temperatures likely to begin manifesting during the next few years, and as is so often the case, the poor will be the ones that suffer most due to the incompetence of certain prominent scientists prepared to over state the soundness of their science on the basis of a prejudicial belief, combined with a well orchestrated media campaign that has convinced much of the public and policymakers of the need to make huge sacrifices in order to ’save the planet’ from a human induced fever that in fact probably only exists in the minds of the ‘true believers’.”
http://landscheidt.auditblogs.com/archives/24
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The following is purely anecdootal evidence & not to be constrewed as a prelude to a neo-Ice Age.
“Sask. feels the chill at -50 C
A fierce blast of snow and cold was making its way east into Manitoba on Sunday after triggering record low wind chills of -50 C and colder in neighbouring Saskatchewan overnight” (canoe)
MSM: The same, yesterday and today.
O & Napoleon: “the final march”.
Did Napoleon ‘choked up’?
Will Malia sniffle?
“(hypoallergenic pillows are available; Malia has allergies),”
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“Obama ‘choked up’ over leaving Chicago for Washington
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE–President-elect Barack Obama landed in the Washington area Sunday evening, setting up the final march toward his Jan. 20 inauguration.”*
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From the Moniteur Universel, long defunct.
“Newspaper headlines confirm that the perception in Paris of Napoléon’s expedition gradually changed from complete aversion to idolatry. The Moniteur Universel wrote:
– 10 March: The Corsican ogre has just landed in Golfe-Juan
– 11 March: The tiger has arrived to Gap
– 12 March: The monster has slept in Grenoble
– 13 March: The tyran has crossed Lyon
– 18 March: The usurpator has been seen sixty leagues from Paris
– 19 March: Bonaparte strides along but he will never enter Paris
– 20 March: Napoléon will be tomorrow below our city walls
– 21 March: The Emperor has reached Fontainebleau
– 22 March: His Imperial and Royal Majesty entered yesterday His castle of Tuileries among his lawful subjects.”
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr_1emp.html
*http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/561566
Federal deal for rare Canadiana nearly collapsed: docs
Updated Sun. Jan. 4 2009 12:40 PM ET
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — A deal to repatriate a huge collection of rare Canadian art from England nearly fell apart as the selling family grew frustrated with the slow response of officials in Ottawa.
In the end, the troubled acquisition of the Peter Winkworth collection by the federal government took so long that taxpayers wound up paying $500,000 more than the original asking price, newly disclosed documents show.”….
Good thing our Conservative government is on the ball, and not like those stinkin’ Libranos who would’ve cocked it up, and cost taxpayers a half a mil more…
Oh, thank you Harper. You are so much better than those last losers….
(or maybe gentle reader, the underlying fact of large government is the theme here? No?)
Federal deal for rare Canadiana nearly collapsed: docs
Updated Sun. Jan. 4 2009 12:40 PM ET
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — A deal to repatriate a huge collection of rare Canadian art from England nearly fell apart as the selling family grew frustrated with the slow response of officials in Ottawa.
In the end, the troubled acquisition of the Peter Winkworth collection by the federal government took so long that taxpayers wound up paying $500,000 more than the original asking price, newly disclosed documents show.”….
Good thing our Conservative government is on the ball, unlike the Libranos….
Oh, thank you Harper. You are so much better than those last losers….
(or maybe gentle reader, the underlying fact of large government is the theme here? No?)
Iceland(sic): Zimbabwe in the North Atlantic.
Socialism’s promise: “champagne and spiced herring” for the PM and his court; salted herring and sea water for the proletarians.
The Icelandic Pyramid Scheme of Socialism has melted. Finis to the Icelandic Socialist Saga.
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“Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A nationally televised meeting between Iceland’s prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air Wednesday night when angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland’s political parties have met every New Year’s Eve over champagne and spiced herring to talk about the year ahead on Iceland’s Channel 2 television.
But this year’s show with Prime Minister Geir Haarde was cut short 45 minutes into the program when a torch-wielding crowd stormed Reykjavik’s Hotel Borg in an attempt to get to the studio.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158739/posts