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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 is the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, performing Richard Strauss‘s Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Part I, Part II, Part III, & Part IV, Antonio Pappano conducting (about ½ hour). Note that the four trumpets in C that are scored for Also Sprach Zarathustra are, in this case, rotary valve trumpets with conical bores, of the German style that one might expect Strauss to have used, and like the Weril ER4011 shown to the right. Now there’s something you don’t see every day.

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  4. [The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet’s Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.]
    Sounds cool, but;
    [Dr Wolfram, an award-winning physicist who is based in America, added that the information is “curated”, meaning it is assessed first by experts. This means that the weaknesses of sites such as Wikipedia, where doubts are cast on the information because anyone can contribute, are taken out. It is based on his best-selling Mathematica software, a standard tool for scientists, engineers and academics for crunching complex maths.]
    Oh, I get it. Those doing the “curating” – who are those irreproachable ones ? Someone such as a Hansen ? A Gore ? A John Cross ?
    Wiki – where anyone can contribute but only the “all knowing” control who gets published.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/an-invention-that-could-change-the-internet-for-ever-1678109.html

  5. Israel Today, the West Tomorrow
    Mark Steyn
    On Holocaust Memorial Day 2008, a group of just under 100 people—Londoners and a few visitors —took a guided tour of the old Jewish East End. They visited, among other sites of interest, the birthplace of my old chum Lionel Bart, the author of Oliver! Three generations of schoolchildren have grown up singing Bart’s lyric:
    Consider yourself
    At ’ome!
    Consider yourself
    One of the family!
    Those few dozen London Jews considered themselves at ’ome. But they weren’t. Not any more. The tour was abruptly terminated when the group was pelted with stones,
    Rest Here: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/israel-today–the-west-tomorrow-15134?search=1

  6. Ron,
    Being a software development, with a keen interest in AI, I have more than a passing interest in such technology.
    I’m always hopeful but I’m VERY skeptical that anything remotely close to the hype is remotely close to being developed!
    Robert

  11. Vit – really interesting re the valve trumpets with the conical bores. Long ago I contemplated a career in music – I was a string player – funny how I knew NOTHING about other instruments!
    Man is indeed a clever animal
    Great posts as always – and one of the reasons I come here is to become “smarter”.
    I didn’t weigh in on the cheese selections – however may be worth mentioning that I really like “Epoisses” – which was rumoured to be Napoleon’s favourite cheese.
    “Epoisse De Bourgogne arrived on the scene in the 16th century by Cistercian Monks. Napoleon was intrigued by this alcohol laden, complex cheese. Production continued until World War Two and stopped due to the war. It was revived by an Epoisses (France) resident named Berthaut. Epoisses is a 50% fat, cow’s milk cheese that is washed in Marc de Bourgogne, a local alcohol. The combination of salt and alcohol help make this cheese a creamy, sweet, pungent, grassy, barnyardy, spreadable complex cheese. This ‘King of Cheeses’ pairs well with a red Bordeaux.”
    It has a strong aroma, but its bark is worse than its bite!

  12. Vit,thanks for yesterday’s explanation of why some cheese has a particular aroma.

  13. The federal Liberals hold a convention this wknd, and the conservative websites are reduced to discussing (yummy) cheese instead. Must have been a really exciting convention. Zzzzzzzz

  16. Gotta love the CBC.
    In spite of Canada’s pork industry begging the media to STOP using the term “swine flu” as a result to the damage it’s causing that industry, the CBC continues to use it over and over again this morning on Newsworld, this when most responsible news outlets are now using “H1N1 virus” exclusively.
    I asked myself why the CBC continues to do this, particularly when the discussion on Newsworld this morning is about potential job losses for that sector of the economy. Then I learn that Alberta is where most of Canada’s pork industry is located.
    Gotta punish those who voted for PMSH it seems.

  18. Posted by: Daniel M. Ryan at May 3, 2009 10:42 PM
    But, but ,but….
    Who will do the braaaawdcast?

  19. Swine flu pickles producers? Pickled swine flu? Jobs axed to stay afloat?
    MSM has the swine flu.
    …-
    “Producers in a pickle
    Edmonton Sun – ‎3 hours ago‎
    By TARINA WHITE, ALYSSA NOEL, SUN MEDIA Pork producers could be forced to axe jobs to stay afloat after nine countries banned the meat in reaction to Alberta pigs contracting the swine flu virus.”

  20. mark I was listening to the radio this morning and I discovered something peculiar. The virus seems to only travel north. The restrictions put on by other countries are on Mexico, US and Canada. Sort of like Kyoto, no socialist or communist countries at all. Hmmmm.

  21. Interesting column by Alan Dubuc in Saturday’s La Presse on why keeping electricity rates artifically low in Quebec is bad economically and environmentally. The Parti Quebecois opposes any rate hikes and indeed put a freeze on rate hikes when it was in power. (It is for that reason that we have been playing catchup in the last five years in our rates, at least for inflation).
    Low rates subsidize the affluent who tend to use more power. Plus they encourage waste. But as with any other government giveaway, people feel entitled to artifically low rates because it has ‘always been thus’.

  22. flipping through channels this morning, the irresponsible MSM , after two or three weeks of hype over a flu that likely has less barfing than an average stampede week at Cowboys they now accuse people of overreacting and that the peak is in the past. the real problem in the MSM is there are too many “journalists” and not enough stories so like a bad Nancy Grace show one story has to take weeks.
    57 channels and nothing to watch.

  23. Dial in for the last bwaaadcassst by the Liberal Party mouthpiece: Barrrfff.
    Don has a text message for you: Barrrfff.
    …-
    “”He’s the last larger-than-life authoritative CBC political correspondent. There’s no one who comes close,” said Peter Donolo, former Liberal communications director for Jean Chrétien who has known Newman for nearly 20 years.” (g-m)
    Fire. Them. All.

  24. Demmy Joe’s not afraid of the Big Bad Swine Flu.
    Go Joe.
    Joe’s record: “36 years” at the Pork Trough without swine flu.
    The longest record goes to Demmy Senator Byrd; 96 years at the Pork Trough.
    …-
    “Joe Biden openly defies swine flu, enters Amtrak station today!
    Vice President Joe Biden, who infamously advised Americans against entering confined transportation spaces during the current swine flu outbreak, will enter the Wilmington Amtrak train station in Delaware this morning.
    For all 36 years of his long Senate career, Biden used the Wilmington station daily on his commute to and from the Capitol. Which means that Biden was riding the rails as a U.S. senator way back when the current president was on an elementary school playground.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243690/posts

  25. It’s a go. CBC/Pravda declares in caps: “ELECTION WATCH”.
    Boag fills Bwaaadcast’s gumrubbers with Bhoagwash.
    Here’s the End Game: “”That’s the “situation.””
    …-
    “ELECTION WATCH
    Keith Boag
    Are the Liberals getting ready to pull the plug?”
    urlm.in/cine

  26. “Buffett: Wouldn’t Buy More Newspapers ‘At Any Price’”
    “Warren Buffett will keep the Buffalo News and a stake in the Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO)—but won’t play white knight for the newspaper industry. The billionaire financier told shareholders at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting taking place today in Omaha, Neb., that newspapers face possible “unending losses” and that the company would not buy most U.S. newspaper “at any price,” according to MarketWatch and WSJ. ”
    http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-buffett-wouldnt-invest-more-in-newspapers-at-any-price/

  27. Just spent some time at anncoulter.com. She has written a hilarious piece on the harsh interrogation tactics Americans have been using at Gitmo. Ann is at her best in this one.

  28. Election Watch???
    What, are we now going to have an election every six months. I thought we just had an election, with the lowest turnout in history. Oh yeah, that’s right, let’s have another one. F*cking liberals. Scumbags, everyone of them.

  29. Will Canada follow suit? Our lads in Afghanistan might appreciate more Spectre support.
    (Via CSP) Bryan Mitchell, Corps Refuelers to Pack ISR, Firepower
    The Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines said they needed it. Now Marines across the fleet are going to see a smarter — and meaner — air refueling capability.
    Adding another arrow to its quiver, the Corps is moving quickly with an ambitious plan to arm one of the service’s aviation workhorses with intel-gathering capabilities and a trio of weapons systems.
    For less than the cost of an AC-130 gunship, the Corps plans to build for its fleet of KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft nine mission kits that will include an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensor, as well as three separate weapons systems, according to Marine Corps Maj. J.P. Pellegrino…

  30. Iggy is going on about EI payments and I am amazed, I thought the Liberals stole all the money in the EI plan when Martin took $94 billion so he could fake paying off the deficit. Laugh out loud how the American-hating Liberals now have one leading their party. Did we ever find out what type of car another liar McCallum drove as he didn’t seem to know?
    Just when you thought you had heard it all I read in the Star, where else, at my friend’s place that a UofT professor wants us to pay a head tax to the devoloping world just because we were lucky enough to be born here and they weren’t. Oh, I feel so guilty, where do I send the cheque to.

  31. Spengler, Predicting the death of Islam
    Book review: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali Allawi
    A grim assessment of Islam’s survival prospects concludes this book-length essay by a prominent Iraqi politician who recently served as minister of defense and finance in the American-backed Iraqi government. Unless Muslims can restore Islam as a “complete way of life” embracing the public as well as the private sphere,

    The much heralded Islamic “awakening” of recent times will not be a prelude to the rebirth of an Islamic civilization; it will be another episode in its decline. The revolt of Islam becomes instead the final act of the end of a civilization.

    These are the last words of Ali W Allawi’s book and might serve as Islam’s epitaph, for the restoration of the Islamic civilization he proposes seems fanciful. Allawi dismisses the notion that Islam might evolve into a personal religion of private conscience. Islam, he insists, offers an all-or-nothing proposition. Muslims either will “live an outer life which is an expression of their innermost faith” and “reclaim those parts of their public spaces which have been conceded to other world views over the past centuries”, or “the dominant civilizational order” will “fatally undermine whatever is left of Muslims’ basic identity and autonomy”…

  33. More than $1M spent on phantom commission
    By Dean Beeby, THE CANADIAN PRESS
    OTTAWA – The federal government has spent more than $1 million over the last three years to support a public appointments commission that doesn’t exist.
    The blue-ribbon panel was a 2006 election promise by the Conservatives, who soon passed the Federal Accountability Act that included plans to create the commission.
    The new body was to monitor the way cabinet makes appointments to public offices which are traditionally mired in patronage.
    The five-member panel would ensure the process is “conducted in a fair, open and transparent manner and that the appointments are based on merit,” said the act, passed in the wake of the Liberal sponsorship scandal.
    But Prime Minister Stephen Harper cancelled those plans in May 2006…

  34. Mark: “In spite of Canada’s pork industry begging the media to STOP using the term “swine flu” as a result to the damage it’s causing that industry, the CBC continues to use it over and over again this morning on Newsworld, this when most responsible news outlets are now using “H1N1 virus” exclusively.” Really, I don’t fault the CBC here — the problem (in part) is what they have named the virus. It looks short written — but it is a mouthful (four words) if you try to say it. It’s not easy to remember — as a single catchy word would be — even a catchier acronym would have helped. CTV sort of uses it — but also seems to be avoiding use altogether referring just to the “flu” and similar obfuscations. I actually thought that retaining use of the term “swine flu” which is what people understand is one of the more sensible things done by the CBC.

  35. I’m puzzled why Ignatieff wants an election now.
    First, with regard to the EI, it is a fact that the Chretien-Martin Liberal govt set up EI as a ‘payroll tax’ without the approval of parliament and then stole billions from that fund to cover their deficit.
    Ignatieff’s focus on the EI will serve to link him to this yet-another-Liberal theft of taxpayer money.
    Second, we had an election in October. Why should we taxpayers pay for another one – when we, the people, haven’t asked for one? Ignatieff wants one? Tough.
    Last fall, the Liberals-NDP and Bloc tried to overthrow our govt, and move themselves into governance without an election. This was a vicious attack on our democracy. Ignatieff signed the Coalition agreement to carry out this undemocratic action.
    Then, when the Liberals forced Dion to step down and inserted, without an election, Ignatieff as leader, Ignatieff loftily informed us, and PM Harper, that ‘He’s under probation’.
    What incredible arrogance. Ignatieff was essentially saying: ‘I, Ignatieff alone have the right, the authority, the wisdom, to Rule. You, Harper, are under me and my guidance. You are under probation’.
    Now wait a minute. We, the people, didn’t elect Ignatieff to be The Wise Man. We, the people, are the Wise Men. We elected a government. We elected Harper’s CPC as our government. We didn’t elect, we didn’t ask Ignatieff to oversee our duly elected government.
    But that’s the role Ignatieff publicly asserted for himself. Again, what incredible arrogance.
    So, we see that Ignatieff’s only agenda is Power. We saw that when he signed the Coalition, which was a take-over without an election, and protected from elections for 18 months by the pre-signed agreement of the Bloc to approve all Fiscal Motions without reading them.
    We saw that with his self-appointment as the Canadian Wise Man.
    And now.
    But, it’s Chretien who is pushing for an election. Why? Chretien is for Rae, not Ignatieff. Does Chretien want Ignatieff to lose, so that Rae could take over?
    What’s going on?

  36. Liberals Prep for June Election
    susan delecourt
    T.O Star may04/09
    Have a look at the Comments on this article
    they do not favor Ignatieff
    And BTW they are Now Closed, Imagine that!

  37. Remember the math, folks: The Conservatives only need one opposition party to vote with them. So the Liberals, on their own, cannot bring down the government.

  38. Chantal Hebert’s Star Article comments were also entirely against her take and Igg. And don’t forget, we’re talking ‘The Star’ here. And after being filtered !!
    Good point, ET. Canada has been ruled by the Power connection for almost a century – including Muldowney. Chretien and gang cannot understand how it can be any other way. They have all got very rich.

  39. Anyone notice that the Media & Ignatieff were pretty quick to deflect the Liberal Floor Resolution Re: Carbon Tax/Cap & trade.
    Another Raise your Taxes admission committed by Ignatieff & the liberal’s only to be fudged off by Canada’s Liberal Media.
    btw: While in Vancouver, did Ignatieff know what time zone he was in?

  40. Of course the LIEberals want an election; right after they got roundly clobbered to their worst result in recent memory with Dion.
    The great AGW, cap ‘n trade socialist wealth transfer program got scuttled. I mean how is Mo Strong and the Power Corp. boys going to turn a dime when they don’t have control of government to mold and manipulate people.
    Now Iggy comes to the fore, after signing on to the coalition Coup-scam and says we need an election because they couldn’t steal one away from the electorate during the December ’08 dust up.
    If you thought your vote didn’t count before, that was all laid to rest in December.
    But for people who were paying attention, you would have figured that out by Karen Redmond’s statement back in ’05 the then LIEberals were considering not observing future confidence vote losses in Parliament for the balance of the spring session.
    Democracy of necessity but not necessarily democracy. The chief characteristic of a LIEberal Canada is that it continues to line LIEberal pockets. It’s all about the money and don’t awaken the sheeple to the rampant theft that passes for governance.
    Hence the recent talk up of Bloc and NDP support to keep the LIEberals from government cash register.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  41. Most of the time it’s like fairy land in here. Minister Jimmy Prentice is putting together a carbon tax right now. It’ll be ready in the fall. Ok?
    Gads – so much selective memory and selective acceptance of fact in here. All for the sake of partisanship.
    Besides, here’s Coyne with the straight dope on the Cons’ straight dope (or at least, the Con’s very own version of Lon Chaney – the Man of a Thousand Faces)….
    The best man for the job—well, the best one around
    His approval rating, like his party’s, has slid, but Stephen Harper is here to stay
    Andrew Coyne
    Here’s how bad things have got for Stephen Harper: people are taking Garth Turner seriously. The former journalist, former Conservative, former MP’s gossipy tell-all of his time in Parliament, Sheeple: Caucus Confidential in Stephen Harper’s Ottawa, with its lengthy, verbatim quotes from private conversations with the Prime Minister, has attracted the sort of respectful attention usually reserved for more substantial works. And far from being dismissed as the sour grapes of a perpetual grandstander, his tales of ill use at the hands of Harper and his aides have raised only rueful clucks of “sounds about right.” Among Conservatives, I mean.
    It’s been like that lately for the Prime Minister. His party is rapidly losing what meagre altitude it had gained in the polls; tensions are high between its Progressive Conservative and Reform factions; and the bizarre, self-inflicted crisis over Brian Mulroney’s party membership was resolved only after some small but striking displays of defiance by caucus members. Little wonder that speculation among the political class has grown: that Harper’s grip on power is slipping, that he might leave or even be forced out before the next election.
    It’s not going to happen. Whatever Harper’s mistakes of judgment, however grating voters may find his personality, there is no obvious alternative to him as party leader, nor is one likely to emerge in time for an election. Bloodied as he may be, diminished as his reputation surely is, he’s not going anywhere: not of his own volition, and certainly not against it.
    That isn’t to understate the Conservatives’ present distress. From a six-point lead in the polls, on average, in January, the Conservatives have drifted to a two-point deficit in April. Support is falling everywhere: they are in a three-way dogfight in B.C., have fallen eight points back of the Liberals in Ontario, and in Quebec—oh God. At 35 per cent in a Léger poll last September, the Tories are now hovering around 10 per cent. In some polls, they’re trailing the NDP.
    The odd thing is that the public gives the government pretty good marks, all in all, for its handling of the economy—remarkably so, at a time of rising unemployment, falling output and exploding deficits. Six in 10 respondents to a recent Ipsos Reid poll rated the government’s economic performance at C or better. An Ekos poll finds nearly half of Canadians believe the country “is on the right track,” a question that is usually strongly correlated with support for the party in power.
    Yet just as many respondents said the government was “on the wrong track.” Those polled described the Harper government as cautious, rather than visionary, though their own preferences leaned distinctly to the latter side. It’s hard not to interpret these results as a referendum on leadership. It is surely no coincidence that the Liberal surge began more or less the day Michael Ignatieff replaced Stéphane Dion as leader. More tellingly, the Tory slide has been accompanied by a significant increase in public disenchantment with Harper: Ekos finds 54 per cent disapproval of Harper’s performance, nearly twice as high as for Ignatieff.
    On the other hand, polls still show Harper leading or level with Ignatieff on a range of traditional leadership questions: “best prime minister,” “strong and decisive,” and so forth. Understandably so. No one doubts Harper’s abilities. He is easily the most impressive political leader of his generation. It’s his style, the way he does politics—the chippiness, the intolerance of dissent, the relentless partisanship—that puts people off. Once, people would have described him as dull but decent; a bit of an ideologue, but a straight arrow; principled, consistent, ethical to a fault. Now, the word that more usually comes to mind is Machiavellian.
    Yet even his reputation as a strategist has been tarnished. The leader who was once known for playing “the long game,” preferring to build his political capital rather than take short-term political profits, has succumbed, under the pressures of minority government, to the temptations of tactical advantage. For a time, against Dion’s uncertain opposition, it seemed to work. The Tories ran the table with the Liberal leader, emerging triumphant in a series of parliamentary tests of will that were the basis of Harper’s alpha-male reputation as a “strong leader.”
    But since the fall the results have been little short of catastrophic. The calling of an early election, in defiance of his own fixed-term legislation; the decision to campaign without a platform, even in the shadow of an oncoming economic crisis; his own erratic performance as a campaigner, notably with regard to Quebec; the fall economic statement, with its ill-judged lunge for the opposition’s vitals; the desperate, borderline unconstitutional lengths to which he went to stave off a vote of no-confidence; the sudden lurch into deficit in January’s budget, the enthusiastic embrace of corporate subsidies, the massive increase in spending—all this has bewildered the government’s supporters, even as it has alienated swing voters.
    But. With all his faults, who is there to replace him? Leave aside the matter of how he could be replaced. What alternative is there for the Conservatives? Who could command the same degree of confidence? Answer: no one. It is perhaps the strongest indictment of Harper’s leadership that he has recruited so few people of stature to serve with him, and afforded those he has so little opportunity to shine. But the fact remains: he is by far the Conservatives’ strongest horse. By far. Peter MacKay? Don’t make me laugh. Jim Prentice? Don’t make me weep. Jim Flaherty has performed capably enough as finance minister, but has probably risen as far as his abilities will take him. Jason Kenney, talented as he is, is not nearly ready. After that it’s a long way down.

  42. “Iggy is going on about EI payments” I am also puzzled by their big focus on EI. In particular, the Liberal talking points seem to be that there is this disparity across the country regarding number of weeks to qualify — should be one system for all. Well, what they are ignoring is that the current system was set up, because work in certain regions is seasonal. You could work in some of these places and never qualify. The current problem of overall job losses does not relate to number of weeks needed to qualify. In fact, probably most of those folks in places like Chrysler have 35 years of employment under their belts, so no problem with qualifying. The Liberal plan will put everyone under the lowest common denominator re weeks to qualify and I am not sure what this accomplishes. You would need to be certain of ramifications of something like this before tinkering, I think. How expensive is it to change the system and does it make sense if the current downturn is temporary. Does this encourage job hopping or creation of part-time/temporary jobs? So I am puzzled by why they have selected this as their central issue.

  43. Does the CBC have an axe to grind with Pork Producer’s in Canada or Did they Unplug the News wire for the week & forget to plug it back in.
    lindal also caught this earlier
    as of the article release at 1:27 CBC has not gotten the message Yet!that it is not called Swine flu anymore It’s H1N1.
    BTW linda the liberals have a great habit of playing on the fears of Canadians So they will twist & spin the UI, When they are the ones that created this Mess at UI & also note the Liberals are using the excuse things were not that bad when they changed the UI formula.
    Or are the liberals just looking for that common denominator that will trigger either the bloq or the ndp into voting with them to Defeat the govt.

  44. Does the CBC have an axe to grind with Pork Producer’s in Canada or Did they Unplug the News wire for the week & forget to plug it back in.
    lindal also caught this earlier
    as of the article release at 1:27 CBC has not gotten the message Yet!that it is not called Swine flu anymore It’s H1N1.
    BTW linda the liberals have a great habit of playing on the fears of Canadians So they will twist & spin the UI, When they are the ones that created this Mess at UI & also note the Liberals are using the excuse things were not that bad when they changed the UI formula.
    Or are the liberals just looking for that common denominator that will trigger either the bloq or the ndp into voting with them to Defeat the govt.

  45. LindaL – I share your puzzlement but the Liberals have selected issues that pertain to voting blocs. Not to the general welfare of Canadians. They have selected issues that will appeal to specific blocs of voters.
    So, they want to expand the powers of the nefarious HRCs. Why? To appeal to the leftist academics in the big cities, who, elitists all of them, consider it their ‘moral duty’ to ‘help the poor’. Of course, this requires an impoverished and victimized class or groups of victims, and the Liberals are very good at creating Sets of Victims.
    Then, they want to ‘cap and trade’ – akin to Dion’s infamous Green Shift. Why? Again, to appeal to a very specific Set of Voters – the dimwitted latte crowd again. In the cities. Who, again, elitists and totally out of touch with reality, see AGW as their latest ‘mission to save the hapless and helpless’.
    I suspect that EI is yet another strategy to appeal to the Maritimes and Quebec.
    Again, ALL Liberal policies have one and only one agenda. To manipulate a specific Set of Voters into voting for them.
    That’s been the basis for the Liberal multiculturalism, their support for the isolation and freeze-dried nature of new immigrants. It’s been the basis for their Quebec hypocrisy. It’s been the basis for the Gun Registry.
    There isn’t a policy, a program, developed by the Liberals that isn’t geared to one and only one agenda. The Vote.
    Therefore, rather than the old dictum of ‘follow the money’ – with the Liberals, you can add (and I mean add not substitute)..follow the vote.

  46. United Opposition Parties Press for UI Reforms
    cbc.ca may04/09
    There are key issues that need to be fixed…..
    michael Ignatieff

  47. add to prior post
    Harper said the Liberals have latched onto the issue of UI reform in order to create a diversion from the “Re-affirmation of the Carbon Tax”
    Liberal Spin at 11

  48. Juxtaposing An Extreme Left-Wing Double Standard
    http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2009/05/juxtaposing-extreme-left-wing-double.html
    Janet Jackson’s nipple exposure is still before the courts… the SCOTUS overturned a lower court ruling throwing out the huge fine imposed against CBS, saying that the ultra-brief, accidental appearance of the nipple was a big, fat, hairy, serious deal. Yet where’s the legal uproar about the illegal, vulgar, depraved, full-nudity, extremely-explicit XXXXX behavior of the outlaw homosexual extremists on the streets of San Francisco in broad daylight?

  49. btw
    On May2 under the “Featured Comment” threat I commented to no applause about an idea to send flyers about Conservative accomplishments. I suggested going young. Many people disagreed, but I was unable to respond in a timely fashion. For what it’s worth, I have responded, it’s the last comment on the thread.

  50. National Geographic article on sun activity and the effect on earth temperatures.
    “Sun Oddly Quiet — Hints at Next “Little Ice Age”?Anne Minard
    May 4, 2009
    A prolonged lull in solar activity has astrophysicists glued to their telescopes waiting to see what the sun will do next—and how Earth’s climate might respond.”
    The sun is the least active it’s been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.”
    In reaction, AGW supporters are contorting in denial
    This is a gem:-
    “He and other researchers are therefore engaged in what they call “preemptive denial” of a solar minimum leading to global cooling.
    Even if the current solar lull is the beginning of a prolonged quiet, the scientists say, the star’s effects on climate will pale in contrast with the influence of human-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2). ”
    Apparently, nothing can alter the trend toward rising temps, even if it happens.
    (Pay no attention to that man behind the screen!)
    Worth the read, 2 pages.
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090504-sun-global-cooling.html

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