Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the noted basso profundo Vladimir Miller and the choir of the Valaam Monastery (a stauropegic Orthodox monastery in Karelia, located on the largest island in Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe), performing Do Not Reject Me In Old Age (6:38).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
(Note from Kate – I’m currently on the road, so posting frequency will be slow over the next few hours. Things should be back to normal by tomorrow evening.)
Steve Janke,at Angry in the Great White North,has a posting on Bob Rae’s ethically challenged fund-raising scheme.—http://stevejanke.com/—,read it there,because it is doubtful that the msm will consider it newsworthy.
Judge sides with govt dec. re galloway
good thing his supporter’s did’nt send the caravan to meet him afterall, & who were his supporters?
hardboiled – that 4 billion is loans, not purchase funding. You normally don’t get anything for a loan other than a right to collect.
The US funding was over 17 billion and was loans not purchase funding. Their current request has been turned down.
As for Mulroney, please don’t rabble-rouse; it wasn’t ‘bags of cash’. And, we know that the agenda of this whole scenario is political.
Schreiber has one and only one agenda – to stay out of Germany which wants him deported for fraud. So, Schreiber will say anything, lie and manipulate, to achieve this goal. The Liberals have tried to ‘guilt by association’, trying desperately to link Harper to Mulroney. That’s their agenda. Rather similar to yours.
RW at March 29, 2009 10:33 PM …..does not matter why he was fired.He took bucks from the gubbermint(the”O”),so the “O” now owns him. Simple.I pay for your website,I hire or fire you.My bucks,my choice.If you can’t figure that out,how the hell do you expect the sheeple to??? It’s called “common dog-f&*k”,of which there is a very sorry shortage of for the last 30 years.
The real method behind the bailouts…
http://www.qando.net/?p=1774
Socialism/fascism etc., of Taliban Jack Layton, Duceppe, the O.
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“Khmer Rouge horrors detailed at trial
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Khmer Rouge executioners threw victims to their deaths, bludgeoned them and then slit their bellies, or had medics draw so much blood that their lives drained away, prosecutors alleged Monday at the opening trial of Cambodia’s genocide tribunal.
The grisly accounts were part of the indictment read into the record for the regime’s chief torturer and prison warden, Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, the first suspect to face justice a full three decades after the Khmer Rouge 1975-79 reign of terror.
Disabled survivors of the regime joined earnest young law students and other spectators in a modern custom-built courtroom on the outskirts of the Phnom Penh to watch the long-delayed proceedings get under way.
Duch, now 66, commanded the group’s main S-21 prison, also known as Tuol Sleng, where as many as 16,000 men women and children are believed to have been brutalized before being sent to their deaths.
“I have mixed feelings. I am angry because the Khmer Rouge killed my wife,” said 68-year-old Bou Meng, one of a handful of S-21 survivors. “I am happy because the Khmer Rouge leader was brought here today to be prosecuted.’
“I hope that the court will give me justice, and that justice will come soon,” he said.
The tribunal alleges that Duch oversaw such atrocities as execution by bloodletting, and the hurling of children down three storeys to their deaths. He is charged with committing crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as torture and homicide, and could face a maximum penalty of life in prison. Cambodia has no death penalty.”
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Thought this was cool. Grade 8 final exam from Salina Kansas 1895.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=afa_1238362547
Here’s what I think should be done about the Big Three carmakers (if they are unable to make it on their own).
In the process of bailing them out, they should go through a process similar to that done to Ma Bell in the 80’s. That is, break them into smaller companies.
So now the Big Three would be say 30 or so. Each of these companies would have a plant, a product line, some funding (the bailout divided by 30) and would be on their own after that.
The unions would all be decertified and the workers at each of the 30 companies would decide whether or not they wanted to unionize and with what union. They would have to make this decision keeping in mind that there are now 29 other companies to compete with, and if they ask for too much their company may not be competitive and may not survive. With 30 companies, the union would be unable to impose the same settlement on each of the companies (indeed, many of them would likely be non-unionized).
GM’s automotive sales in 2007 were $178 billion, so divided by 10 is around $17 billion. In Canada, $17 billion in revenue gets you into the top 20 largest companies, so these new “baby” GM’s would not be insubstantial companies. My own belief is that once you reach a certain size, economies of scale are more than offset by diseconomies of bureaucracy.
I think in such an environment, the industry as a whole would thrive (certain of these 30 would not, of course) and there would be more innovation, choice and value, and long term, a more healthy industry.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Here’s another entry into why the New York Times is going extinct
‘New York Times’ Spiked Obama Donor Story
A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.”
Speedy – did you look at those questions? I have a BA in History and I do not know the answers to at least half those questions. I think this exam should be given to all the teachers and professors in Canada and the USA. Those who cannot answer 10 questions (I am thinking that at least 15% of the ‘education industry’ folks could answer 10 of the questions) must go to summer school to get some education. If they refuse, taxpayers debar them from teaching and rescind their pensions.
Jethro – that’s an interesting scenario. Essentially, you are breaking up the union’s infectious parasitic control of the auto industry.
And it is this imperialistic, colonizing takeover by a parastic entity, the unions, which has finally destroyed its host – the auto industry.
The union parasitic takeover meant that the focus of the auto industry shifted from the production of cars for purchase by consumers who wanted those products…to a focus on the wages, benefits, pensions, medical care, overtime, special dispensations etc..of the workers of that industry.
No company can afford to focus only on its workers while ignoring its products. But, that’s what the unions set up. The focus moved to the profits assigned only to the workers not to the product. This meant that the industry had very little money for research, for developing better products, for purchasing better equipment, for updating plants.
Instead, all its profits went for higher and higher wages – far beyond comparable car companies such as Honda; for massive pensions to retired workers, for excessive overtime, for more and more benefits paid for solely by the company rather than the worker, for paying for ‘special services’ union workers who would only work at single tasks ..and so on.
There is one and only one cause of the collapse of the auto industry in the US and Canada. One cause. The unions.
Please break the news slowly to Boob Rae (Hi! I’m Mao* Stlong’s nephew) and Citoyen Dionky.
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“Canadian’s hopes dashed as Montana keeps death penalty”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1445379
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Human organ harvesting in China:
*”China’s hi-tech death van where criminals are executed
Death will come soon for Jiang Yong. A corrupt local planning official with a taste for the high life, Yong solicited money from businessmen eager to expand in China’s economic boom.
Showering gifts on his mistress, known as Madam Tang, the unmarried official took more than £1 million in bribes from entrepreneurs wanting permission to build skyscrapers on land which had previously been protected from development.
But Yong, a portly, bespectacled figure, was caught by the Chinese authorities during a purge on corrupt local officials last year.
He confessed and was sentenced to death. China executed 1,715 people last year, so one more death would hardly be remarkable.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216528/posts
Holy crap! Remind me not to be a smart ass with anyone who graduated 8th grade in Kansas. Those questions were tough. I felt a few memory cells actually come back to life (briefly). Somehow I don’t think that the exams these days is quite so tough.
I know there a a few people here that should go over the grammar and orthography(?) portions. I know I should.
Speedy and Texas — the other thing I have noticed is that some elderly people have very good memories . . . as in being able to recite lines from Shakespeare, etc. (So long as their memory is not impaired at all.) This is because training of memory was very rigorous in the earlier part of the last century. You were expected to memorize stuff. I have also seen a comparison of vocabularies for high school graduates (1930ish and now), and while I can’t remember the exact figures (not having had that good memory training myself) vocabularies in the late 30 were about 5 times more extensive than they are for graduates today. Someone should investigate this further as I think we really are getting dumber — not good.
Flag flap. Canadian flag exclusionary ! http://tinyurl.com/d9ngt4 “People may not realize that overt displays of patriotism can also be seen as exclusionary and even sometimes work to undermine democratic ideals.”