Good evening, EBD here. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
During the 1972 Munich Olympics a group of terrorists from Lebanon, Syria and Jordan entered the Athlete’s Village under cover of darkness; less than twenty-four hours later, 11 Israeli athletes were dead. I bring this up for a reason: I’m guessing that a lot of SDA commenters of a certain age remember how our schoolmates, teachers, friends, neighbours, and our journalists, were uniformly heartsick and appalled at the unjustifiable and inhuman brutality.
A lot has changed in the intervening 37 years. If a similar incident were to occur now, legions of people, including journalists, would launch into a discussion on the matter of Israel and in so doing obviate, almost incidentally, the matter of the volitional and moral agency of those who murdered the innocent athletes. This approach, which endlessly rationalizes inhuman brutality, typically flies under the banner of enlightenment and compassion. As Daniel Pearl’s father Judea wrote in the WSJ:
“Somehow barbarism, often cloaked in the language or ‘resistance,’ has gained acceptance in the most elite circles of our society. The words ‘war on terror’ cannot be uttered today without fear of offense. Civilized society, so it seems, is so numbed by violence that it has lost its gift to be disgusted by evil. I believe it all started with well-meaning analysts, who in their zeal to find creative solutions to terror decided that terror is not a real enemy, but a tactic.” (emph. mine)
Tonight’s musical selection, written by Noel Coward, and banned by the BBC, is a dark satire on the rationalizations of the British anti-war movement. WWII was still raging at the time the song was released in 1943 but, since the Battle of Britain had ended, Cowards’ naive, earnest character was moved to declare with disarming blitheness and no small measure of self-congratulation that “the war is over,” and to advocate for forgiveness and warm relations with their newfound would-be friends.
Coward could not possibly have known the extent to which the voices he satirically appropriated would later become mainstream, or that his topical, contemporary song was a harbinger of things to come.
Here it is, then: Noel Coward singing Don’t Let’s Be Beastly To the Germans.
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Thanks EDB and good one DN…
The rein on reign falls uneasily on the rain.
“keeping a short reign on the leash”.
Whoever would want/use a loose long leash/reign?
Watch/listen to the poodle sniffing it’s its.
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“Brison vows to keep Conservatives on a tight leash
The Liberal Party will be keeping a short reign on the leash of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, Kings-Hants MP Scott Brison says.” (msm)
while Winston Churchill was viewing the result of German bombing during the Blitz…an old woman shouted out to him…..”give it ’em back’…’let them have it too”.
Churchill’s response was..”i undertook forthwith to see that their wishes were carried out;and this promise was certainly kept….the debt was repaid tenfold,twentyfold, in the frightful routine bombardment of German cities, which grew in intensity as our air power developed, as the bombs became far heavier and the explosives more powerful.Certainly the enemy got it all back in good measure..pressed down and running over.
Alas for poor humanity!”
but now the Germans are for the most part our friends and allies…notwithstanding that irony we have a new enemy apparently desirous of our application and thoroughness once we become roused…….
……better them than us !
What’s with all the male journos claiming Iggy is sexy (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
Time for a poll, Kate.
Who is Canada’s sexiest Cerebral Man?
Prime Minister Harper gets my vote.
Love Goldstein’s coloumn…again he
slaps his media peers.
And to add to EBD’s post about Wornout making false claims…..GASP, he also accuses you of possibly taking money from the CPC Kate.
Beautifully done, DN! I was happily singing along.
Many thanks for the intelligent and clever entertainment.
P.S. Noel Coward’s rendition of “Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?” would also go over well in these crazy, PC days.
For those of you not familiar with his oeuvre, it’s well worth a listen: clever, witty, subversive, elegant, and oh, so entertaining. What a guy!
“Ice Shelf collapse could shift axis of Earth, study says”
ctv.ca feb05/2009
“the melting of the West Antartic Ice Sheet will actually cause the earth’s rotation axis to shift rather dramatically–approximately 500metres from its present position if the entire ice sheet melts”, states a release from the U of T’s physics department.
More failure, please.
Is the “watchdog” a Red-Green, Goreacle-trained rabid AGWarmite?
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“Ottawa failing on climate, watchdog says
OTTAWA – When the Conservative government walked away from Canada’s Kyoto Protocol targets, it argued its less ambitious plan was more credible and based on “real, measurable and verifiable results” (g-m)
‘Dr Death’ was called home to Allah.
Not soon enough.
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“Last big Nazi hunt ends as Aribert Heim, ‘Dr Death’, is declared dead
The last great Nazi hunt, the search for an infamous SS officer Aribert Heim, has ended with the discovery that he died in Cairo in 1992”
“the German television channel ZDF and The New York Times reported last night that Heim died of rectal cancer in Cairo on August 10, 1992, after converting to Islam”
urlm.in/bpla
Um, I’m sorry, and not to put too fine a point on it, but the arithmetic mean (which is the single most commonly understood meaning of average) of 0 and 2 most certainly is 1. See http://tinyurl.com/dd48lp
Here’s Video #4 of 6 of the latest from the ConservativeFunHouse.com.
All 6 videos are worth watching but this one in particular in superb. The gents from Texas discuss Liberal Fascism and how Obama and his “progressive” comrades want to creep deeply into the lives of all Americans.
“saying it needs to avoid producing more greenhouse gases.”
How to say Bee-Ess in Swedish?
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“Sweden changes course on nuclear power (Lifts Ban)
The Swedish government agreed Thursday to scrap a three-decade ban on building new nuclear reactors, saying it needs to avoid producing more greenhouse gases.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179247/posts
Danny Whine For Wine Williams is just Whining now.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090205/duffy_comments_090205/20090205?hub=TopStories
come to think of it , it should be Scooter Brison complaining of the comment.
Ed admits we need more stinking fans, now!
Faced with tumbling oil and gas prices Alberta will try to save thousands of jobs by offering incentives to small energy firms to drill more wells.
Premier Ed Stelmach says he wants a government plan within weeks, but so far there’s no word on how much the incentives will cost.
Too bad Harper doesn’t have the political room to offer his base a stimy.
who would have thunk it.
http://www.livescience.com/health/081023-farts-blood-pressure.html
I know I sure relax after.
they are smarter than we think. cut the welfare cheques now.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5io8DJMYkhiWKCUshwFVc2dTnvmxw
So Iggy is sexy, eh? I find him scarey!! When he asks a question in Parliament he gets up SLOWLY, asks the question and sits down SLOWLY, looking like he’s already been embalmed. Nothing sexy about that image thanks.
sheesh, vitruvius – you are absolutely right.
I was sidetracked by MikeW’s focus on ‘0’ as a divisor. Of course the divisor is ‘2’. So, 0 plus 2 million, divided by 2 most certainly does provide an arithmetic Mean of 1 million. Ah well.
The new senerio for the Worlds end.
Ice shelf collapse could shift axis of Earth, study says
Updated Thu. Feb. 5 2009 2:13 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A new study from Toronto researchers suggests that the collapse of a large portion of the Antarctic ice sheet would shift the very axis of the Earth.
Geophysicists at the University of Toronto explored the effects on North America and the globe, if sea levels were to rise due to the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090205/sea_levels_090205/20090205?hub=TopStories
“Ice shelf collapse could shift axis of Earth, study says”
Not if we gather together collectively in a newly-united Obamaworld and all jump up and down in unison at the exact moment that the shelf collapses. That should counteract the effect.
Sheesh. Relativity is not just E=MC^2.
Revnant Dream – it looks to me like those poor ignorant fools have never heard of the natural shifting of the earth on its axis every 2000 years or so or the Polar tilt, another natural occurrence. We were taught these interesting facts in Grade five! I would never ask their opinion about the possible effects of the phenomena known as the Progression of the Equinoxes because they would proclaim that I was fear mongering about an invasion from outer space!