Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite radio and to our regular Saturday night Distinguished Lecture, Documentary, and Interview series. It’s two months now since we started this series, and I think that we’ve pretty much managed to sort of set the domain of discourse for our new series: from metaphysics to epistemology to axiology, that is to say, the stuff I’m interested in. From what, I should select the stuff you’re interested in? That would be a bit presumptuous of me, already, don’t you think?
Anyway, another way to look at this is to take out some of the -ologies, and note that what we are looking at here are existence, knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics. And that seems ok to me. Why not? I mean, we have to fill a whole week’s schedule here in the studio, every week, so it seems reasonable to me to designate some hooks on which to structure our hats.
Nevertheless, it remains the case that, as a result of the searches, previews, and edits I have been conducting over the last couple of months, pursuant to this Saturday night series, I have now managed to accumulate a large enough collection of works, which have passed though my filters, so that I no longer have the ability to structure them into a coherent argument, as I once did. Even if I could in principle, I don’t have the time (things are pleasantly busy here in the lab, um, at work), and besides, who am I to presuppose your interpretation of these works which I have tentatively selected for your delectation?
So, instead, I have written a little computer program to process a file in which I keep a list of all the SDA LNR DLDI Series candidate works queued but not played, to date, and pseudo-randomly choose one show for us each week. Then we, or rather you, dear listeners, at least after having suffered through my initial bloviating as here illustrated, can take the discussion into whatever aspect of the topic you find interesting.
Now you might well ask: what’s the value-added here, Vitruvius? It is, simply, that for you the value-added is that I agree with many of the common tenets here at SDA, and thus I am able to save you the cost of wading through some of the huge piles of steaming crap that exist out there; and that for me: there is one common tenet here at SDA, that is to say, not to speak for Kate, but based on the general tenor of the comments, that I disagree with, and the selection of the shows in this series gives me a chance to address that (as I see it) shortcoming, without putting too fine a point on it.
Without further ado, then, tonight’s pseudo-randomly selected pre-filtered SDA LNR DLDI Series show is Mr. Benjamin Zander presenting his talk: Classical Music with Shining Eyes (20:43).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Love the series Vitruvius – thanks – always love to learn
PS – was reading a bit about Bernanke (lazy, just wiki stuff), he’s certainly not a dumb guy:
“Bernanke was educated at East Elementary, J. V. Martin Junior High, and Dillon High School, where he was class valedictorian. At age 11, Bernanke won the state spelling bee competition but finished 26th overall at the national competition in Washington, tripping up on the word ‘edelweiss’. Bernanke also taught himself calculus, edited the school newspaper, and achieved a near-perfect SAT score of 1590 out of 1600.[9] He was also an All-State saxophonist, playing in the school’s marching band.” etc
Also, and of interest:
“Bernanke’s future as Federal Reserve chairman became uncertain on November 21, 2008 when it was announced that President-elect Barack Obama would name Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary over Larry Summers, leading to speculation that Obama was positioning Summers as Bernanke’s successor. Summers was picked to run the National Economic Council. Two Obama advisers said that Summers would be the leading candidate to become the next Federal Reserve chairman should President Obama choose not to reappoint Bernanke when his term ends January 31, 2010.”
No more Bernanke? That would be a very interesting thing. Never dull moment these days.
Saskatoon #1. Winnepeg #2. Regina #3.
The most dangerous cities in Canada. Not much of a story with the MSM. I wonder what is going on in Saskatchewan? Maybe SDA could shed some light.
On a completely different topic: Are there any urban reserves elsewhere in Canada, particularly Ottawa, or Montreal, or Quebec City?
Edmonton has urban reserves nearby. We must be in the top few of dangerous cities – is Edmonton #4?
No Canadian cities are in the top few dangerous cities. How can one expect others to seriously consider one’s conjectures when one’s rhetoric is always over the top?
Yes … music that soothes the savage soul … when there is so much savagery around us … movies .. tv cartoons .. video games .. rap music .. rock’n roll .. porn .. political, tribal and religious hatreds ……..
Interesting article from a science site entitled:
Virtual And Real Worlds: Two Worlds Of Kids’ Morals
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090302120102.htm
Winnipeg is #2 in Canada, yes, but the violence is limited to a small percentage of the population that seem to kill and maim each other. Dissect the crime stats by police district, and you’ll have an obvious picture of what is happening in this city.
Plus, Vit is correct. We’re the second most violent in Canada, which is kinda like saying we’re the second most ferocious koala bear. Not exactly a killing ground.
Canada has the distinction of being the only industrial country in the world where the rural murder rate exceeds the urban murder rate on a per capita basis.
the reason is the same as the reality of urban reserves.
Montreal has two reserves nearby. Of course they have their own police force and the Quebec Police Force rarely goes on the reserve. So I guess you could call it crimeless, if you don’t count the intimidation by the thugs on the reserve and the organized smuggling that goes on. Hydro has basically given up collecting on people who don’t pay their electricity bill, by the way.
“[Prince] Charles: Only 100 Months To Save The Planet”
100 months…
this accounts for if you live on a reserve not by one.
http://www.sonnyradio.com/realage3.swf
the MSM and my own spawn have added 4 to my virtual life.
How does pseudo-randomness operate?
And what is ‘the common tenet’ here that you disagree with?
Goreacle “was speaking […] with the closed-minded dogmatism of a religious zealot.”
“When Al Gore insisted yet again at a conference last Thursday that there can be no debate about global warming, he was speaking not with the authority of a man of science, but with the closed-minded dogmatism of a religious zealot.”
“Boston Globe asks: Where’s the global warming?”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/07/boston-globe-asks-wheres-the-global-warming/#comments
Ali Sina is an apostate Muslim.
Written before the election:
“Listening to Obama … it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch Khomeini, how he would excite the crowd and they’d come to their feet and scream and yell.
I was amused to hear a listener calling Fox News Radio’s Tom Sullivan Show, (Feb 11) and saying: “Listening to Obama … it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they’d come to their feet and scream and yell.” ( Videos of Hitler’s speeches are available on Youtube. They are worth a look.)”
Obama: “An unequivocal expression of delusional grandiosity”
“Obama inebriated with the fantasy of unlimited success.”
“Obama absorbed in reveries of omnipotence”
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“Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
By Ali Sina
2008/09/22
I must confess I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package. It is so instinctive for most people to want to see blacks succeed. It is as if all humanity is carrying a collective guilt for what the ancestors of blacks endured. However, despite my initial interest in him, I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words.
It is surreal to see the level of hysteria in his admirers. This phenomenon is unprecedented in American politics. Women scream and swoon during his speeches. They yell and shout to Obama, “I love you.” Never did George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt. Martin Luther King Jr. or Ronald Reagan arouse so much raw emotion. Despite their achievements, none of them was raised to the rank of Messiah. The Illinois senator has no history of service to the country. He has done nothing outstanding except giving promises of change and hyping his audience with hope. It’s only his words, not his achievements that is causing this much uproar.
When cheering for someone turns into adulation, something is wrong. Excessive adulation is indicative of a personality cult. The cult of personality is often created when the general population is discontent. A charismatic leader can seize the opportunity and project himself as an agent of change and a revolutionary leader. Often, people, tired of the status quo, do not have the patience to examine the nature of the proposed change. All they want is change. During 1979, when the Iranians were tired of the dictatorial regime of the late Shah, they embraced Khomeini, not because they wanted Islam, but because he promised them change. The word in the street was, “anything is better than the Shah.” They found their error when it was too late.”
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
Speaking of rhetoric that’s “over the top”, Vit consider how we dance around the issue in these comments, so we don’t insult any INDIANS.
Then look at how people speak about the Muslims who are half a world away in Sweden.
Ontario Human Rights Commission Czarina Barbara Hall scheduled to be on NEWSTALK CFRB Jim Richards Show on Monday March 9th – 10:00 a.m.
http://www.cfrb.com/shows?tab=day&day=1
The Pyramid Scheme of Gaia/AGW: The Top examines the bottom ^.^.^.^.^.^.^.^ …
Meanwhile, Prince Chuck* >>>
“It will be a gathering of those from the top of society – ‘psychotherapists, social researchers, climate change activists, eco-psychologists’ – who will analyse those at the bottom of society,”
“The psychologisation of climate change denial – even the very use of that term: denial – reveals how utterly aloof and cut off are the environmental elitists from mass society. They cannot comprehend, indeed are ‘baffled’ by, our everyday behaviour, our desire to have families, our resistance to hectoring, our dream of being wealthier, better travelled, our hopes of living life to the full. For them, such behaviour is irresponsible and it runs counter to the ‘extraordinary information’ provided by scientists. They seriously expect people to make life decisions on the basis of pie charts and graphs drawn up in laboratories in Switzerland, rather than on the basis of what they and their families need and, yes, what they want. That the green lobby is so perturbed by our failure to act in accordance with scientific findings shows the extent to which, for them, The Science is a new gospel truth and religious-style guide to life, and anyone who disobeys it is a sinner, heretic or deranged individual, a moral leper of the twenty-first century.
Psychologising dissent, and refusing to recognise, much less engage with, the substance of people’s disagreements – their political objections, their rational criticisms, their desire to do things differently – is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes. In the Soviet Union, outspoken critics of the ruling party were frequently tagged as mentally disordered and faced, as one Soviet dissident described it, ‘political exile to mental institutions’ (11). There they would be treated with narcotics, tranquillisers and even electric shock therapy. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, O’Brien, the torturer in Room 101, offers to cure our hero Winston Smith of his anti-party thinking. ‘You are mentally deranged!’ he tells him. Today the word ‘Orwellian’ is massively overused, to describe everything from fingerprint library cards to supermarket loyalty cards, but treating your dissenters as deranged? That really is Orwellian, and we should declare permanent war against it.”
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“Pathologising dissent? Now that’s Orwellian
A few months ago, for a joke, I set up a Facebook group called ‘Climate change denial is a mental disorder’. It’s a satirical campaigning hub for people who think that climate change denial should be recognised as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association, and that its sufferers – who probably engage in ‘regular chanting and intensive brainwashing sessions in cult-like surroundings’ – should be offered ‘eco-lobotomies’ to remove ‘the denying part of their brain’. The group now has 42 members. Yes, some have signed up because they get the joke, but others are serious subscribers to the denial-as-insanity idea. ‘Thank God I’ve found this group’, says one new member, who is sick of other Facebook groups being ‘hijacked’ by unhinged eco-sceptics.
The idea that ‘climate change denial’ is a psychological disorder – the product of a spiteful, wilful or simply in-built neural inability to face up to the catastrophe of global warming – is becoming more and more popular amongst green-leaning activists and academics. And nothing better sums up the elitism and authoritarianism of the environmentalist lobby than its psychologisation of dissent. The labelling of any criticism of the politics of global warming, first as ‘denial’, and now as evidence of mass psychological instability, is an attempt to write off all critics and sceptics as deranged, and to lay the ground for inevitable authoritarian solutions to the problem of climate change. Historically, only the most illiberal and misanthropic regimes have treated disagreement and debate as signs of mental ill-health.
This weekend, the University of West England is hosting a major conference on climate change denial. Strikingly, it’s being organised by the university’s Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. It will be a gathering of those from the top of society – ‘psychotherapists, social researchers, climate change activists, eco-psychologists’ – who will analyse those at the bottom of society, as if we were so many flitting, irrational amoeba under an eco-microscope.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201920/posts
*>>>”Charles: Only 100 Months To Save The Planet
The Prince of Wales is preparing to tell the world we have “less than 100 months to act” before the damage caused by global warming becomes irreversible” (nnw)
I think Edmonton IS #4,with Prince George at #5,as the most violent cities.Of course,these 5 cities all have a large native population,but to think that fact has any bearing on the statistics is obviously a knuckle-dragging racist like myself.
Correction,should be”if you think”.
Breath of fresh air in a world of madness:
“‘Shut up about Chavez the killer’ Venezuelan co-star tells Sean Penn”
(The Independent)
The saccharine conventions of showbusiness were thrown out of the window last week, when the Hollywood actress Maria Conchita Alonso was collared by paparazzi and asked if she was pleased about her former co-star Sean Penn’s recent Oscar victory.
“He’s an amazing actor. I can’t take that away from him,” she said of Penn, who worked with her on the 1988 cop film Colors. “It’s just that he has no clue at all what’s going on in Venezuela. He’s been praising Hugo Chavez, who is a dictator and a killer. He should shut up about what he doesn’t know.” Alonso, who was raised in Venezuela, was apparently upset by a glowing article that Penn had written for The Nation magazine about her homeland’s charismatic but increasingly dictatorial left-wing President.
Today is international women’s day. And REAL is having a rally in Washington against Islam/Shariah
Info, petitions, etc.
realcourage.org/2009/03/march8/
Where’s global warming?
Boston.com
http://tiny.cc/usz8k
From The comments
by GaiusCaesar March 07, 9:56 AM
Now lets get this silly subject going, and yes Glbal Warming is Philosophically here.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists,and Obama supporters
We’ve stuck together since the late 1950s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know that we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and just will not ever agree on what’s right. So let’s just end it right now while we can do it on friendly terms. We can smile, shake hands, chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and each go our own way.
Separation agreement.
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a portion. That’s going to be the difficult part, but I’m sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate taste. We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can have those. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. And since you hate guns and you hate war, we’ll take the firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell. But you are going to be responsible for finding a biodiesel vehicle big enough to haul them around.
We’ll keep the capitalism, the greedy corporations, the pharmaceutical companies; we will keep Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have the homeless, the homeboys, the hippies and illegal aliens. We will keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, the greedy CEOS and all of the rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and we’ll let you have NBC and Hollywood.
You can be nice to Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer anybody that threatens us. You can have the peaceniks and the war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we will provide them with security. You won’t have to worry about it. We will keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley Maclaine. You can also have the UN, but we will no longer pay the bill.
We will keep the SUVs, the pickup trucks and the oversize luxury cars. You can have the compacts, the subcompacts and every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everybody healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors. We will continue to believe that healthcare is a privilege and not a right. We will keep “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and the national anthem, and I am sure you will be happy to substitute in their place “Imagine.” I’d like to teach the world to sing “Kumbaya” or “We are the world.” We will practice trickle-down economics and you can give trickle-up poverty your best shot. And since it so offends you, we will keep our history, our name and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots. And if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the friendly spirit of parting, I’ll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in about 15 years.
Get a mortgage and the government will bail you out, why make a payment.
“More than 9,200 of the loans insured by the FHA in the past two years have gone into default after no or only one payment, according to the Post analysis. The pace of these instant defaults has tripled in one year. By last fall, more than two dozen FHA home loans on average were defaulting this way every day, seven days a week. ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/07/AR2009030702257.html
Discord expected over women’s rights pact
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29570022/
Go, Army.
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“Canadians make military history with Afghan chopper flight
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A Canadian helicopter has ferried Canadian troops into a combat operation for the first time in the country’s military history.
One of the country’s six Chinooks helped lift a contingent of 180 soldiers deep into Taliban territory west of Kandahar city on Saturday where the troops raided a series of compounds in search of weapons and bomb-making equipment.
Two British Chinooks also took part in the mission, with each of the three choppers carrying about 30 soldiers in two separate waves.”
urlm.in/bvag
“Franks discusses Sanger, eugenics
Angela Franks, author and Ph.D. of theology, linked the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, to the eugenics movement of the first half of the 20th century, while arguing that elements of eugenics – which attempts to improve the quality of the gene pool through selective fertility – are still present in today’s organization.
“We know Margaret Sanger because she established an institution and gave eugenics staying power inside an institution,” Franks said.
Franks lectured on “Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood: The Eugenics Connection” Wednesday night in DeBartolo Hall. According to Franks, Sanger, who is popularly known for her efforts to provide women with contraception, was also a prominent figure in the eugenics movement, which saw overpopulation as a problem on the horizon.
“Sanger is a eugenicist,” she said. “Basically she believed that birth control limits the bad genes and she saw it helping to keep the unfit from reproducing. The eugenic worldview doesn’t say that all people are created equally.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202011/posts
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“Cows, jaywalking pets and other critters could win added legal rights (more CA democrat lunacy)
LA SLIMES
Reporting from Sacramento — Errant motorists beware: Puppy hit-and-run could soon be a crime.
Pushing animal rights in a new direction, a state lawmaker has proposed slapping California motorists with a fine and possible jail time if they flee after hitting a jaywalking dog, cat or any other pet or farm animal.
The measure by Mike Eng (D-Monterey Park) would require that drivers attempt to provide aid to an injured critter and notify the owner or animal-control authorities.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202009/posts
Good advice here: “To Hell With Niceness”*.
STOPIGGY.
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“Soccermom Says:
March 8th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
We’ve played nice for far too long. Fight fire with fire, and all that. Playing nice gets you in opposition.”
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“Editorial: Forget the attack ads
If the Conservative party really does have new “attack ads” in the can, aimed at Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, that’s just where they should keep them – in the can.” (montreal gazette)
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2009/03/08/editorial-forget-the-attack-ads/#comments
*”To Hell With Nicensss”
“We might therefore interpret the niceness movement as a feminisation of education, but in fact its range is wider. Its project is to banish pain (including the pains of duty) from our lives.”
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/942/full
Update: Prince Chuck now says you have 18 mont … er, wait … this is HIS last year’s prophecy.
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“Prince Charles: Eighteen months to stop climate change disaster
The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.” (telegraphUK)
Last Updated: 1:08PM BST 18 May 2008″
UpdateUpdate: >>>> Dire News> six (6) pages to get through before the End at the “11th hour”.
“Climate experts are increasingly worried, though.”
“Climate change may be clear and present to an overwhelming majority of climate scientists and interested lay people”.
Why don’t you get it? Are you not an “interested lay people”? You not “increasingly worried”?
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“Climate’s 11th hour
# March 9, 2009
# Page 1 of 6
Tomorrow, as the Rudd Government releases its draft legislationon emissions trading, 2000 scientists will begin arriving in Copenhagen to share dire news on climate change. Adam Morton and Tom Arup report.
ANY number of people offer views on the politics of climate change. Few cut to the heart of the issue like Harvard don Daniel Gilbert. “Scientists lament the fact that global warming is happening so fast. The fact is, it’s not happening fast enough,” he said in a speech last year. Gilbert does not believe climate change is slow, nor does he want to see the world slide quickly into environmental catastrophe. But he has some understanding of why people with the capacity to act, including leaders in Canberra and elsewhere, appear hamstrung when faced with the enormity of the threat of climatic disaster.
A respected psychologist, he says part of the reason most people fail to get worked up about climate change is our sensitivity to change; if something moves dramatically overnight we are alert and possibly alarmed, but if it is a gradual shift averaged across the globe over decades, it is much harder to get angry.
The financial meltdown is a clear and present danger demanding immediate response. Climate change may be clear and present to an overwhelming majority of climate scientists and interested lay people, but it won’t immediately put thousands of workers on the breadline.
Climate experts are increasingly worried, though. More than 2000 will meet in Copenhagen this week for an emergency summit to emphasise that the shift is happening much faster than expected. Hosted by the University of Copenhagen, the climate congress has two main goals — to update the science since the 2007 report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and to develop and promote policy solutions. The key findings will be transformed into a new and improved report to lobby leaders in the run-up to a crucial UN conference in December, when a new Kyoto-style agreement is due to be signed. Continued…”
http://www.theage.com.au/national/climates-11th-hour-20090308-8sg9.html?page=1
ET ~ Pseudo-Random Number Generator
Have you seen Salman Rushdie’s girlfriend? Or his ex-wife?
GF
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/02/08/2009-02-08_pia_glenn_flings_no_tall_tale_for_salman.html
Ex-wife.
http://pakistaniscandals.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/padma-to-rushdie-pack-your-knives-and-go/
More! Olivia Wilde.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_01/rushdie_468x413.jpg
Really seems like Allah is punishing him, doesn’t it?.
A Letter to Mr. Gurbax Malhi, MP, Liberal MP for Bramalea-Gore-Malton
Mr. Gurbax Malhi, MP
Liberal MP for Bramalea-Gore-Malton
House of Commons
Ottawa
Dear Gurbax:
Your Media Release (March 5) playing your Liberal game of innocence for supporting the Tamil Tigers, the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world, “Although a number of attendees at this rally chose to wave LTTE flags, I did not realize the significance of these flags, nor was I aware that other speakers made statements in support of the LTTE”, doesn’t cut mustard for me.
Why, did you think the demonstration of blood-red flags with a growling Tiger in the middle resting its head on the crook of two Kalashnikovs with a ring of bullets was to ‘Save the Bengali Tigers from Extinction’? What did you smoke last morning when you got up Gurbax? How naïve can you be.
Gurbax, when I wrote you a few days ago about your statement in parliament on the Sri Lanka file, you wrote back to me waving a white flag. With your participation at the Tamil Tiger rally on Parliament Hill yesterday afternoon, where the Tamil Tiger flags were waved in abundance, and speeches made in support of the Tamil Tigers, you are not only a fool, but you have been made a fool by your Tamil constituents. My advice to you is to keep out of Sri Lankan politics, which you don’t seem to get it, and I doubt that you will ever get it either.
What distresses me most is to know that you having come from the Sikh community who were involved in the most despicable and the biggest terrorist attack on Canada by downing the Air India Flight 182 killing 312 Indo-Canadians, and you still want to dabble with terrorist activity in Canada. Shame on you Gurbax.
Did you notice that in your Media Release you had not called on the Tamil Tigers to surrender or not shoot at the Tamils who are fleeing to the Government controlled areas of the Wanni? Don’t you try to tell us that you are not a supporter of the Tamil Tigers when you certainly are? With this participation, “I am a supporter of Tamil Tigers” is written all over you. You are now being an absolute disingenuous politician of the worst calibre. You have no right to hurt the Tamil community who are under attack by the Tamil Tigers who are being horded as a human shield. You have no damn right to hurt my Sinhalese community either any more who are shot, bombed and claymore-mined by the Tamil Tigers.
You no doubt have noticed my anger and frustration in your continued participation and supporting the Tamil Tigers, as you don’t deserve any politeness or diplomacy. You bet, Gurbax, this will not be the end of you hearing from me, as I shall keep an eye on you like a Mumbai hawk.”
Sincerely,
Asoka Weerasinghe
Friday, 06 March 2009
http://www.spur.asn.au/AW_20090306_Gurbax_Malhi.asp
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“Liberal MP invites entire caucus to Tamil terrorist rally
Yesterday I wrote about Gurbax Malhi, the Liberal MP who spoke at a rally in support of the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group responsible for tens of thousands of murders in Sri Lanka. That’s why the Tamil Tigers, more formally known as the “Liberal Tigers of the Tamil Eelam”, or LTTE, have been banned as a criminal organization in Canada for three years.”
http://ezralevant.com/
Why was it absolutely necessary to give Iran the bomb? Why all western leaders: Bush, Blair/Brown, Sarkozy, Merkel, Harper et al were hell bent on allowing the mullahcracy to obtain nuclear technolody? It was so obvious that Iran WAS ALLOWED, that no amount of talking from the current leaders can change the perception now, that it’s obviously too late.
I want one question answered: why???
Via Debkafile:
DEBKAfile’s Washington sources quote experts familiar with the Iranian program maintain that it is far more advanced than the US and Israeli governments are willing to admit.
On March 4, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy published a paper with two important disclosures:
1. Iran has enough fissile material available for making up to 50 nuclear bombs.
Senator Chris Dodd- real estate and pardons:
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-rennie-dodd-house0308.artmar08,0,6379102.column
“It takes considerable political skill for a U.S. senator to win a presidential pardon for a friend without the traditional review by the Justice Department. Sen. Christopher Dodd moved the furtive levers of power in 2001 for Edward R. Downe, convicted of tax and securities fraud eight years before. A man will do a lot for a former real estate partner.”
Dodd was never required to name Kessinger (on Senate disclosures) as the co-owner of their house on 10 acres of waterfront property on the west coast of Ireland for the eight years they owned it together. As with the condominium, the public doesn’t know who paid the expenses associated with it when Kessinger owned two-thirds of it.”
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Patterico is showing a poll in 2006, that shows that Democrats didn’t want Bush to succeed.
Democrats wanted Bush to fail
Remember also how the MSM and Democrats vilified the military accusing them of every war crime they could think of? The names and insults towards Bush?
How can the Democrats now attack Rush Limbaugh for saying that he doesn’t want Obama to succeed – by which he means his socialist policies – which will destroy the middle class of America?
It’s just so simple ET – the Democrats are on the side of compassion, and also what is right. Therefore, “anything goes” when it comes to effect their end (I’m not quite sure what the end is, actually).
Those mean old heartless Republicans, however, are just intent on ruthlessly taking everything from anyone they can, leading to little girls selling matchsticks and pencils on the street corners.
So they must be stopped, in any way possible.