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 are Béla Fleck and the Flecktones performing Big Country (8:05). Fleck has received Grammy nominations for country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, spoken word, composition, and arranging. To date, he is the only artist to receive nominations in so many categories.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
RobertW Re: “I just heard a guy on the radio say that all conservative political parties are doomed because “smarter, more well educated people” only vote for left-of-center parties.” Well, I don’t agree with this point, but even if it were true, the commenter seems to have missed that people are really getting dumber. I believe this has been verified.
Generally speaking, people have been getting smarter for some time now, at least by some measures, although there are some indications this phenomenon may be starting to peter out in some cases. For more information see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
The Tamil Tigers may have been defeated in their home country,but the job is not completely over. Hopefully, after a few weeks of well-deserved rest, a couple of hundred of the Sri Lankan army will come to Canada and take care of the rest of the TT’s and their supporters.
Here is an Attack Ad from Iggy’s MSM Newsservice/Server, sub branch Canwest, with a headline that is misleading, fatuous, and dissembling.
The report following the headline is a dog’s breakfast of deviousness which only a left spinmeister could muster.
It’s an IggyBarf Alert. It’s one POS.
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“Canada criticized for posting Economist’s seal article on website
Peter O’Neil, Europe Correspondent, Canwest News Service”
[The MSM report concludes with this animal rights propaganda:]
“There are dozens of organizations across Europe working and campaigning to stop bull-fighting and foie gras force-feeding and we are certain that, in time, they will succeed in ending these practices, but it takes a long time,” Mr. Hiel said.
“No one in Europe thinks that the EU is a perfect set of institutions . . . but the overall trend is one towards a better world for animals and people.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1613557
Golly Joe, you can say it much better than me.
My aunt ( who is still alive, although beset by Alzheimers) worked all her life with the Crown Attorney there. The stories she could tell are legend.
Next time I’m in Woodstock, I’ll look for the death mask. By the way, have you identified the seven monkeys engraved into the facade of the courthouse?
Vitruvius re this from Wikipedia: “estimates that if American children of 1932 could take an IQ test normed in 1997 their average IQ would have been only about 80.” — I don’t believe this for a minute — at least not with respect to verbal ability and language skills. I have read that in the 30’s/40’s the average vocabulary was something like 3 times what it is today. I will try to dig out the source of this. I have already read somewhere that increasingly there are fewer people at the top of the scale and more towards the lower end.
Hey Atric, the next time you are in Woodstock, let me know and I will share a “cold one” with you.
Geez , to be truthful, I can’t help out regarding the monkeys on the courthouse, I know they exist but have forgotten their background.
However, I suspect they may get some play once a trial takes place for the two charged today in the murder of Victoria Stafford.
And I Googled and cut and pasted the Thomas Cook piece
No Red Tory … No Red Tory … No Red Tory …
Go Randy Hillier.
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“Tory leadership race heats up over human rights commissions
TORONTO – The race to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party heated up Wednesday, as Christine Elliott, the centrist wife of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, trashed her rivals’ plan to scrap the province’s human rights tribunal.
Speaking to a luncheon crowd in downtown Toronto, Elliott called the plan – introduced by Randy Hillier and quickly adopted by Tim Hudak – a short term political ploy that could end up leading the party to defeat in the next provincial election.
“It would be a gift to the Liberals, one they would exploit as ruthlessly as they did with faith-based funding,” she said, referring to former leader John Tory’s disastrous 2007 election plan to fund religious schools.
“Just like faith-based funding, this is a policy that was made with the short term goal of winning a leadership campaign,” said Elliott. “Why on earth would we want to expose ourselves by plunging recklessly into such a controversial issue?”
“If we’re going to beat the Liberals, we have to show better judgment than that.”
Elliot’s attacks were aimed mainly at Hudak, the one-time Tory cabinet minister endorsed as leader by former premier Mike Harris, who is perceived to be her chief rival in the contest. Hillier, a rookie MPP who gained enormous traction in rural Ontario as head of a libertarian landowners group, was only mentioned in passing.”
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Long after the day’s rush of activity ….
Vitruvius …. Post Modern is what Bella is … the modern age of music … by my reckoning … began around the begining of the 20th century and peaked in the 1950s …. Bella IMO takes off from those heady days and wings into the future … hence Post Modern.
Oh yeah …. Go Randy…
He adopted Britain as his home.
He has called America his country…
sounds like the facts to me.
That’s negative????????
Oh look, we’re debating health care at the CBC!
Oh, wait, no we’re not, we’re bashing the US again.
Too bad we can’t have a rational discussion about the various health care systems around the world instead of the one dimensional BS we hear about the US vs our system.
It’s also too bad that the political agenda of the so called CBC takes precedence over the welfare of the actual patients.
I wonder just how much blood is on their hands as a result of sidetracking every debate into a anti-American hatefest?
/www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/15/f-rfa-macdonald.html#socialcomments
“He brags he’s horribly arrogant and that he’s cosmopolitan….”
a new tory “attack ad”
These are words right out of the iggymeister’s mouth.
If you don’t like what people say about you, then you should be careful about what you say.