Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night open music show, here with our old friend Mr. Cab Calloway and his big band, in what Fred Astaire once called “the greatest dance number ever filmed”, are Fayard Nicholas & Harold Nicholas, the Nicholas Brothers, in their famous performance of Jumpin’ Jive, from the movie Stormy Weather, in 1943 (4:48).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Peter Schiff’s new interesting commentary .
Pat Buchanan, after noting that the opposition has good odds after a new President’s first two years, offers advice to Republicans for the 2010 election:
“Wanted: A fighting party”
Personal bankruptcies jump 57% in Canada
OTTAWA — The economic downturn continued to take a huge toll on Canadian consumers in March, with personal bankruptcies soaring more than 50% from a year earlier.
There were 10,578 personal bankruptcies filed during the month, up 57% from 6,736 in March 2008, the federal Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy reported Tuesday. On a monthly basis, consumer insolvencies were up 17.3% from 9,020 in February.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1588396
Thanks xiat – I always love Schiff. He is just too funny! His “debate” with Art Laffer was comedy gold – it seemed so outrageous at the time.
Again and again – he says it will take a long time to convert the shopping malls of America to factories
He is just so full of common sense. He always points out that government intervention just causes problems!
“What did she know and when did she know it” Can you believe it – Democrats “probing” Nancy Pelosi as to what did she really know about the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques”?
I guess they’ll just have to waterboard her to find out, eh.
For those that enjoy slap downs check this one out. A British MP responds to a huffing and puffing BBC anchor(think CBC’s Carole MacNeil)over the scandle of public funds paying for personel expences.
**The MP here takes it a step further, though: Since everyone’s suddenly so interested in wasting public funds, let’s find out how much our very, very important — and state-supported — BBC anchors are bringing home each year.**
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/12/british-pol-destroys-bbc-hack-how-much-are-you-paid/
Did she say 92k pounds a year !!?? Like, $200 grand ??
What would Pete here make ?
Finally, a little sanity coming out of America!
“Finally, a little sanity coming out of America!
Posted by: Robert W. at May 13, 2009 2:29 AM ”
Quite right,Robert. I only hope for our American cousins it’s not a case of too little,too late.Imagine! Being able to actually state your own opinion!
“Wintry blast hits Alberta”
(canpress)
“Snow in Saudi Arabia in May?
(WUWT)
Survey Questions:
1. Has your opinion of Iggy changed because of Goreacle’s climate?
2. Have you sent a getwell card to Buttcrack Karl?
Nothing new for Alberta,maz2.I’ve lived there 24 years,and there have been only TWO Victoria Day long weekends where it did NOT snow!!(Edmonton and area)
I’Ruby meets O’Narcissist courtesy I’Iggy.
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“Against that backdrop, the Liberal MP testified yesterday that her hands were clean. “I have nothing to hide and I have done nothing wrong,” she said. Specifically, she declared:
* “I, Ruby Dhalla did not employ Magdalene Gordo or Richelyn Tongson.” No one is accusing her of legally hiring them, as the Star long ago reported her brother’s name is on the documents.
* “I, Ruby Dhalla did not sponsor Magdalene or Richelyn.” Again, no one suggests she did. To the contrary, it was the failure of the Dhalla family to arrange the proper federal clearance that was the problem.
* “It has been suggested that Ms Gordo and Ms Tongson were in Canada illegally,” Dhalla noted, before triumphantly proclaiming this to be false. Yet no one is alleging they were in Canada illegally. The problem, which Dhalla failed to address, is that the nannies lacked the required clearance from the federal government to work in the MP’s home.
* Brandishing a fistful of boarding passes, Dhalla claimed her frequent absences from Toronto somehow proved she’d rarely seen the nannies. But she acknowledges they overlapped for days at a time, and no one is suggesting she oversaw the nannies 24/7.
* “I don’t know what their motive is or who is behind this.” Dhalla and her lawyer are making bizarre allegations of a political conspiracy to destroy her career. She even noted that Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was recently seen at a political event with her Conservative opponent in her Brampton riding. And she suggested the nannies had been coached in their answers.
She even suggested that the nannies went public in order to secure their status in Canada. “I really hope that my name and that my family’s name (are) not being utilized in any way, shape, or form to gain permanent residency,” she said.”
“Ruby Dhalla fails to clear the air”
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/633292
Nancy drinks the coolaid!!
May 13, 2009
No Target is Better Than Any
by Lee Harding, CTF-Sask Director
Saskatchewan Environment Minister Nancy Heppner just upgraded a terrible policy goal to simply bad. Prior to the 2007 election, her Saskatchewan Party pledged to uphold the NDP’s target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Thankfully, however, Heppner recently abandoned the plan that would have reduced GHGs by 32 per cent by 2020, noting it would have placed “a pretty heavy burden on industry.” If only it had ended there.
Shortly thereafter, Heppner announced the province would embrace Ottawa’s lower, though still punitive, target of reducing carbon emissions by 20 per cent by 2020. Although she defended the move with good rhetoric, her words could equally be used against the new plan.
“One of the assumptions of the [NDP economic and environmental] modeling is that every business has the ability to pay. That’s simply not the case,” said Heppner, regarding the 32 per cent target. “We’ve heard from companies who said that they wouldn’t be able to meet those targets. The financial hardship was too great.”
Heppner later added, “You could easily reduce the emissions if you shut all business down, but that’s not the approach our government wants to take.”
No kidding. Yet, according to Heppner, GHG emissions rose by 62 per cent during the 16 year NDP era. If emissions could rise so drastically with static population size and modest economic development, the draconian and expensive measures required to actually reduce emissions would be nothing short of scary.
Unfortunately, national and international politics are exerting a negative pressure on our province that deserves full resistance. Until recently, Prime Minister Harper had called for intensity-based targets that called for lower carbon emissions relative to industrial production, not a hard-cap based on total emissions. This approach would have allowed for industry to continue to grow, albeit with difficulty.
However, it seems Harper has given way to cues from Washington. U.S. President Barrack Obama pushed for a hard cap on emissions during his January visit to Ottawa, and by now federal policy is being expressed in the same terms. Carbon emissions, added every time we exhale, will be reduced 20 per cent, industry or no industry.
Thus, recently, Finance Minister Flaherty announced that the federal government would impose carbon emission limits on coal-fired power plants, even though these provide more than 70 per cent of the power supply of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. If utilities fail to reduce emissions, they must buy hot-air credits from somewhere else to compensate.
The idea that meeting the new targets would cost just $700 million dollars over ten years, as Heppner has suggested, are almost laughable. It will take $1.4 billion and a 30 per cent reduction in output to transform Unit 3 of Boundary Dam power plant. If the six units at Boundary Dam produce just 30 per cent of the provincial power supply, how many billions would it take to transform them all? Even the government’s suggested power rate hike of 20 per cent over ten years wouldn’t do that.
Even while Heppner defended the new environmental policy, she actually showed the province has a choice. Regarding her revised plan to reduce emissions, she said, “It continues to be one of the – if not the most – stringent plan put forward by a province.”
In an effort to stop the exhaust, the government has put a banana in the tailpipe. Too bad that moves like that are doomed to stall our economic engine. Is that what we want–to be left stranded in the cold?
It is supposed to snow on Victoria Day in Alberta. Otherwise all the home and garden centres would have too much stock. Every Alberta gardener knows that you buy bedding plants twice. Once before V Day and once after. It’s a growth industry, eh.
Count Mikhail Ignatieff collects Babushka Nanny Dhallas;
Nesting Nanny Dhallas.
Count ‘em: DhallaYes/Da, DhallaNo/Nyet, DhallaMaybe/DaNyet, >>>
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“Ruby Dhalla: Is Michael Ignatieff capable of giving a straight answer to any question?
“Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff is asked a simple question.
Does he support his fellow MP, Liberal Ruby Dhalla, who is facing allegations of mistreating nannies employed by her family?
Michael Ignatieff gives a firm yes. And then says no. And then a maybe.”
http://stevejanke.com/
What would Pete here make ?
Posted by: ron in kelowna at May 13, 2009 1:15 AM
$800k+/year I’d guess.
$800k !? You got to be kidding. Almost a $Million per year ! Why, that that .. would mean the CBC would have to get about a $Billion a year from somewhere !?
That’s a lot of hay for some litigation lawyer to go after – Mansbridge skewing our news – same deal as false advertising.
Your roving reporter was at today’s Tamil protest at Queen’s Park in downtown Toronto. Less than 500 Tamils were there when I arrived at 12 noon but the numbers soon swelled into the thousands. The protest was held at the southern tip of the property.
The visible police presence to my mind was somewhat light. Police in riot gear made a ring at the road’s edge with about 8 feet separating each of them. A mounted unit of about 8 animals stood guard far back next to the legislature. A few police and media helicopters flew above. A couple of security guys scanned the crowd from a balcony high up on the face of the legislature. The police-to-protester ratio was such that there won’t be much the cops can do if called on to actually do something. The chances of that however seem slim.
Many of the protesters arrived via Toronto’s transit system, the very same one that, rumour has it, they may disrupt this very afternoon. Many carried the flag of the Tigers or wore a t-shirt exalting that organization. A number of Canadian flags were in evidence; most were tied to rough-hewn wood on which the words “return to volunteer” were written. The flags themselves had the deep creases of flags in their first use. One man carried a Quebec flag; I was going to ask him his motivation for doing so then decided not to.
The protestors were of all ages; many able-bodied men and women were happily given the day off work by their employers. Similarly, schools were happy to let the kids out of their studies.
There wasn’t much going on. A table for donations of dry goods was set up, and I saw a few No Frills and Price Chopper bags handed over. There was a hunger strike tent where presumably some people were starving themselves, but I never got close enough to have a good look. Several people with bullhorns lead a call and answer session of the “what do we want?” /“when do we want it?” variety. It was pretty unorganized and uninspiring, the perfect recipe for just about anything to happen.
I did see Christie Blatchford and a CTV guy whom I’ve seen a million times but can’t think of his name. And of course, in attendance was grey-haired female carrying the flag of the United Steelworks Union.
The weirdest thing happened at the bottom of the hour. The boom of the marching band could be heard off in the distance but getting louder and louder, and sure enough a group under 100 strong in royal blue and white made a right turn onto Queen’s Park Circle. Behind them were people carrying banners, floats, even Chine dragons. All for Falun Dafa.
They eventually made their way past the Tamil protest and settled in also on the Queen’s Park lawn but closer to the legislature. Welcome to Toronto!
Mississauga Matt,
The faithful out here keep hoping for a Flames play-off run, to liven up the Red Mile!
OTW it’s pie-throwing leftards, or raging grannies!
H/T Stephen Taylor
Check out Ignatieff.Me
Very well done.
Matt,
Thank you for keeping us all updated with your first hand account! Do you have a blog? You should be posting such stuff there! And adding any photos you’ve taken as well.
If you want to use my blog as a proxy of sorts just drop me a line.
Robert
Harper says Tories will take on the Liberals over EI reform
ctv.ca
*PM Harper says if the want to fight an election over EI, the tories are ready to take them on
Liberal leader Ignatieff resumed demands the govt revamp eligibility rules fo Ei.
Ignatieff & the liberals want to set the min. hrs a person has to work to 360hrs, Thats roughly 9 wks.
IMO: I guess that’s not too bad for some deadbeat if he/she can get it, work for 9wks then collect for 52Wks.
* liberals say the proposal would cost 1.5 Billion, Now i do have a problem with that too, Any time the Liberals have given an Estimate they are usually out by a few BILLION, then again whats a few Billion to Liberals
Its Not Their Money.
Liberal’s Say Anything to Buy Votes
Thanks Mississauga.
I’m at Spadina and Dundas and can back up the fact that there has been at least one helicopter hovering over Queen’s Park none stop all day.
Still hovering at 4:01 local time as I type with small prop aircraft also continually circling.
Photos, gents, we’d love photos! I’ll host them if you can’t! Just send them here.
Watch the 2nd woman (3rd person) in this video. She’s clearly the Poster Girl for a Useful Idiot amongst the Leftist community.
CBCpravda ,All Lieberal All the Time
pravda , the headline should read
Tories ready to take on Grits.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/13/harper-ei-election013.html
>>> “sea temperatures are cooling”.
Survey Question:
Has your opinion of Puffin LibIggy changed because of “cooling” at sea?
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“Forecaster may cut Atlantic storm outlook
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (Reuters) – Colorado State University hurricane forecaster Bill Gray said on Wednesday he may reduce his next Atlantic season forecast because sea temperatures are cooling and a weak El Nino may appear by late summer.
“Things are looking better and better for fewer storms,” Gray told Reuters in an interview at the Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference in Fort Lauderdale.
“Off the west African coast there’s colder water. There’s increasing high pressure in the Azores Islands that typically makes the trade winds stronger,” he said.
In April, Gray’s team predicted the six-month Atlantic hurricane season, which starts on June 1, would see 12 tropical storms, of which six would become hurricanes and two would reach “major” status of Category 3 or higher on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.
The pioneering forecaster said if his research team lowers the forecast, it would likely drop to 11 storms. The new forecast is scheduled for release on June 2.
The April forecast was already reduced from one issued in December, when the CSU team called for 14 tropical storms, including seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250202/posts
Yes, Rosie: Socialism/communism/nazism/fascism/obamaism/ndpism/liberalism is a cannibal; one body; many heads with one stomach.
The better to eat you, my dear.
Rosie says of TO:
“The killing field is literal this time.”
The natural end result of socialism.
The killing fields were literal here* also.
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“We all share in ravaging of the city
The killing field is literal this time.
A swath of scrub between hydro poles, small copse of trees beyond, postwar middle-class homes abutting one side, golf course on the other.
Fourteen-year-old Adrian Johnston was killed here late Monday afternoon – executed, sounds like – with nearby residents trying to comfort the boy, if only so that his mother might know he didn’t die alone.
“He’s just a baby, without any hair on his chin,” a neighbour trained in CPR who’d attempted chest compressions told reporters afterwards. “I kept saying, `Talk to me baby, talk to me.'”
But the neighbour knew it was a lost cause, recognized the gurgling death rattle in the teenager’s lungs.
An urban field in Toronto’s west end, near The Junction, not historically a district of guns and gangs violence and maybe there was no gang involvement here, though there certainly was a gun: Adrian shot in the chest, stomach and shoulder.
Witnesses have told police they saw the youth walking along Scarlett Rd. shortly beforehand, in the company of another male, the latter’s description so generic as to be useless – black male, black hoodie, black bandana. If surveillance video exists from which a better identification might be made, investigators weren’t saying so. That’s unlikely, however, or police would have released the images already.
They’d walked into the field together, these two males, but only the suspected shooter walked out, ran out.”
http://www.thestar.com/article/633443
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*pol pot killing fields
Millions of Cambodians accustomed to city life were now forced into slave labor in Pol Pot’s “killing fields” where they soon began dying from overwork, …
http://www.davidstuff.com/historical/polpot.htm
The Iggy-McGuinty-Liberals-Tamil Tigers Coalition.
It’s real;it’s criminal; it’s a betrayal of Canada by Iggy & his Liberals.
“Michael Ignatieff’s response was to contact the mob, after they had assaulted police, and promptly promise to take up their cause in the Parliament of Canada.””
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“Ignatieff’s tawdry deal
By rewarding an unlawful Tamil protest, the Liberal Leader has legitimized what he claims to condemn.
J.C. BOURQUE
Special to Globe and Mail Update
Toronto news stations played the footage repeatedly on Sunday night: a handful of police officers trying to control thousands of aggressive Tamil demonstrators. Just before the throng broke through the meagre police line to go on to block one of Canada’s busiest highways, a protester threw a police bicycle at an officer, causing him to stumble back a few yards. Several bottles were seen being thrown at the police.
That the protesters took the expressway with some violence and considerable menace is clear to anyone who watches that video. Michael Ignatieff’s response was to contact the mob, after they had assaulted police, and promptly promise to take up their cause in the Parliament of Canada.” (more)
urlm.in/ckms (Globe-Mail)