Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is one of my favourite dance tunes from 1999, Danish D.J. Martin Ottesen, also known as Funkstar Deluxe, with his interpretation of Mr. Bob Marley‘s classic work: The Sun is Shining (3:33).
Interesting how in Bill O’Reilly’s column he notes the demise of left wing media as people from all walks of life are terrified of our emminent economic collapse. I still see the lefty posters on various sites like NP or the CBC still touting the socialist line as in we won neocons, you lost. Not really, we all will lose as Obama and his political allies in all western countries continue down the road to socialism and shared misery. Probably meet one of these clowns, like “stirred up” in a breadline.
“Also, unique visitors for the Obama-loving website Daily Kos have declined a whopping 73% since last fall—a disaster. So what’s going on?
It all has to do with fear. While President Obama retains a high approval rating, many Americans are flat-out scared about the economy. The recession is bringing massive pain to America, and responsible citizens want the truth about public policy, not partisan cheerleading.”
Erik Larsen – so, is there a role for new conservative party in the US? One that would return to those values? Or is it hopeless…
I, for one, do not think it’s hopeless. This is a political cycle. It may last a decade or two, but in the long view, nothing is forever except maybe a “conservative” government in Alberta.
I think there is a very substantial audience out there for a party that would espouse values of secular, minimally interventionist, unapologetically pro-Western (as in non-NWO) government. It would take its true direction from the original words of the founding fathers of the US, not just pay lipservice to the Constitution while carrying out anti-constitutional interventions in the daily lives of citizens.
The big question is whether it would split the right so badly that the democrats would have free reign, as happened in the Reform/Alliance and PC party years in Canada. The answer is that it likely would, until either the old Republican party and this new party merged, or one of the two parties won the battle for hearts and minds.
The question that follows then is whether we think that the creation of the Reform party, and how things ended up now, with a CPC that has some Reform influence, but also some classic Tory influence, in its leadership. Though I am not entirely content with the CPC, I think it was a worthwhile process, despite the years in the wilderness.
Lori, I look at the Republicans in the US and I see a party in decline. I have tremendous admiration for John McCain, but I think he “put off” the base. Whilst Palin may have “consolidated that base”, it seems clear to me that no matter her strengths or weaknesses, the base in 2009 and going forward will be pretty small.
I know nothing about Michael Steele, he is probably a great guy, but his choice at this time just seems so oddly reactive and transparent, as does searching for the future in Jindal (who by the way is another guy who impresses me).
Suffice it to say that I think that the Republicans have painted themselves into a corner, and it will be a while before the paint dries.
Looking at the widescreen shots of the Republican conventions, it doesn’t seem to me to reflect the demographics of the modern US.
Although they are making headway into, let’s call it “candidate diversity”, it will be a few years until people accept that this is the new look of the Republican party, and not just a fad
Then there may be a chance for them.
Goreacle’s Jackboot is descending on Canada’s capital.
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“FLASH FREEZE WARNING: City of OttawaIssued at 3:28 PM EST FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2009”
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/alerts/wwcaon0012
O’s quagmire. Accused of “a betrayal”.
BDS = ODS.
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“Democrats dismayed by Obama’s decision
President Obama today announced the withdrawal of over 90,000 US combat troops from Iraq by next August, but his decision to keep a force of up to 50,000 was attacked by leaders of his own party as a betrayal of his promise to end the war.”
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2009/02/27/democrats-dismayed-by-obamas-decision/
I don’t think it would make any difference now. There are some questions as to where he was born but more at the issue is where he lived. I can’t remember exactly but somewhere around the age of sixteen he should have opted for US citizenship. He did have the citizenship of his father. He was listed as Muslim at his Catholic school St. Mary’s. I don’t know immi law but I think it is along those lines.
LOL >>> “”Everyone is in shock,” Inez Fung” cried.
“It was like a grieving session.”
Grieving counsellors included: Hansen, Goreacle, Dionky, Soozie, Prince Chucky, and more.
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“Climate researchers in a spin after satellite loss
The climate community is counting the costs of losing NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), which plummeted into the ocean during launch on 24 February.
The satellite would have measured carbon dioxide concentrations in unprecedented detail, allowing scientists to track emission sources and identify ‘carbon sinks’ around the globe. Many also hoped that OCO would pioneer an approach for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions under a future Kyoto-style global warming treaty.
“I think it’s a tragedy for carbon-cycle science,” says Elisabeth Holland, a senior scientist who studies carbon and nitrogen cycles at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. “My experience is that every time we have a comprehensive new data set, we redefine the field,” says Holland, who was not involved the project.
At present, samples are taken by hand every two weeks at roughly 100 ground stations situated unevenly around the world. During the same period, OCO would have provided something on the order of a million measurements across the earth. There are some older instruments aboard satellites capable of measuring carbon dioxide, and Japan’s Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), launched in January this year, will measure carbon dioxide as well as methane and water vapour. But when it comes to carbon dioxide, none of these instruments have the precision that OCO was capable of providing.
“There is no equivalent to OCO,” says Philippe Ciais, associate director of the Laboratory for Climate Sciences and the Environment in Saclay, France.
“Everyone is in shock,” Inez Fung, an atmospheric scientist with the University of California, Berkeley who worked on the OCO project, said after a debriefing conference call on Tuesday afternoon. “It was like a grieving session. There were 13 buses at the launch. A lot of people contributed to this.”
Emissions failure”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195680/posts
“Canadian mini-satellite may solve carbon puzzle
27 02 2009
from the Calgary Herald: Canadian mini-satellite may solve carbon puzzle (h/t to WUWT reader “Freezedried”)
While NASA lost a $285-million US satellite this week, a Canadian microsatellite that does the same job is chugging along happily in orbit –at 1/1,000th the cost.
The 30-centimetre-long University of Toronto satellite is searching for the “missing” carbon dioxide–the vast amount of Earth’s main greenhouse gas that somehow vanishes each year.
That’s what NASA’s OCO(orbiting carbon observatory) satellite would have done, if it had survived launch on Tuesday. The big difference: Canada built and launched its tiny version for $300,000.
The OCO launched but failed to reach orbit. (see WUWT story here)”
http://tinyurl.com/arnygf (wattsup)
Tech stuff here:
http://www.utias-sfl.net/nanosatellites/CanX2/system.html
Since a budget is actually the ‘estimate’ of income vs. expense, I think Mr. Flaherty is doing well.Of course the media will continue with the doom and gloom headlines and this story is tucked in to the corner.
Well…at least they ‘covered’ it:
Budget surplus in December
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090227/ottawa_surplus_090227/20090227?hub=Canada
An interesting little item over on the cbc website. PICTOU, N.S. – Green Leader Elizabeth May says she hasn’t dropped off the public’s radar more than any other opposition politician since the last federal election.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/090227/n022782A.html Uh Lizzie,if you have to issue a statement saying that you are not missing in action ,you are. BTW,for those that are calling for the cbc to trim fat and hustle for their coin,well,that is a slippery slope that is so uncanadian. What next,political parties depending on their own supporters to get by? 🙂
Here is an excellent outline of the Obama campaign and presidential structure.
Obama as a Manipulator
It includes such factors as racism, white guilt, liberal media, liberal education..and George Soros. Interestingly, it doesn’t refer to any particular agenda or belief held by Obama. As I keep saying, I don’t think he himself is a political theorist; his agenda is purely to maintain and increase his power and control.
O is a spent force.
His cadres have deserted; his leftists have fled; O has been expelled/driven out of the City of O.
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Anti-War Activists Disappointed With Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Plan
What Candidate Obama promised and President Obama delivered has many of his most ardent supporters on the left — from members of Congress down to grassroots anti-war activists — wondering whether he can be counted on to advance the liberal agenda.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195862/posts
This is the last post re the Dinosaur MSM. No more; there are other topics to cover; e.g., the death of the CBC. LOL!
It’s over, it’s over.
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“Newspaper convention cancelled amid industry woes
By Michael Liedtke, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An annual convention of newspaper editors has been cancelled for the first time since the Second World War, undone by the worst economic crisis since that harrowing era.
The American Society of Newspapers Editors’ decision to skip this year’s meeting was announced Friday, coinciding with the final edition of the Rocky Mountain News – the largest daily U.S. newspaper to shut down so far during a steep two-year slide in advertising revenue that’s draining the life out of the industry.
“The industry is in crisis,” said Charlotte Hall, president of the trade group and editor of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel. “This is a time when editors need to be in their own newsrooms doing everything they can,” to help their publications survive.
Until now, 1945 had been the only year that the American Society of Newspaper Editors didn’t meet since the group’s first convention in 1923. The newspaper industry weathered through 10 U.S. recessions since the last cancellation.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2009/02/27/8563216-ap.html
ET – interesting re George Soros. During the run-up to the election, I thought one of the most influential non-politicians would be, because of energy prices, that guy . . . um . . . how could I forget . . . so important and critical . . . oh yeah T Boone Pickens. He’s just a blip now.
I would like to see the “feminist votes” linked up a bit more – but I guess a graph can only be so complex.