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 Mariss Jansons and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra performing, a capella, Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov‘s funeral service for male choir Γ (7:45).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
So today we get this crock of crap from ctv.ca where they are callled on doing iggys explaining and censoring for him –http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090523/top_comments_090524/20090524?hub=TopStories –followed by this here crap . read the last comment –http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090523/top_comments_090524/20090524?hub=TopStories – hypocracy like you’ve never seen before on ctv.ca
Kate and all –
I think this opposition blocking of Bill 8 “Family Homes and Matrimonial Property Rights on Reserves” will make big news next week.
Apparently the Liberals/NDP/BLOC are planning to gang up to defeat this.
I’m guessiong they have the Chiefs in the backrooms pulling the strings. They don’t want their women to have rights – they want to rule them by tribal law and enforced poverty.
It will be a tragedy if this bill does not suceed.
Here is some background. Maybe we can all get in front of this:
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=450409
http://www.nailband.com/File/File.htm
remake of carole king’s way over yonder
* Open Question *
I’ve heard numerous reports of GM & Chrysler dealership owners suddenly losing their franchises from the manufacturer:
– No notice
– No compensation
– Apparently the dealership has done nothing wrong
I have not ever heard how this is possible. Clearly there’s a contract between the automobile manufacturer and the dealer. Surely there can’t be clause to just severe it without compensation?
If anyone is in the biz or has otherwise heard how this is legally possible, I’d very much like to know.
Robert: I heard a dealer interviewed on the radio who said that the dealer buys the cars and the parts inventory from the manufacturer. All the money outlay is by the dealer and none by the manufacturer so GM and Chyrsler are saving zero dollars by terminating these contracts. And they will now have less people and locations selling their cars. How does that make sense?
Unconfirmed reports from South Korea of a Nork nuke test, but an Ace of Spades commenter said that the US Geological Survey readings say the tremor was much deeper than that usually used for underground explosions, so it might just be a natural tremor/quake that the Norks are exploiting for the sake of sh*t disturbing.
Here’s the AoSHQ thread where pro-nuke items are appearing. (USGS maybe now saying that it was on the surface.)
http://minx.cc/?post=287722
And a commenter at HotAir says the Japanese are calling it a nuke test. (But without a link.)
BTW, Obama still hasn’t appointed an ambassador to Japan yet.
Robert and Fritz- I used to be friends with a guy who owned a Ford dealership in a small town. The manufacturer does lay out a fair amount of cash to these guys. All the tech support, training, specialized equipment, and carrying charges. There’s also the cost of taking back all those lease returns.
There is a cost saving in having fewer dealers, but it sure makes it hard to regain your place in the market.
CARPETBAGGER Definitions: A few that fit the parachuted annointed Liberal leader Mickey “blue eyes” Ignatieff
An outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; “after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south”
A candidate who runs in a district where he or she has not previously held residence;
Politician who lives wherever s/he thinks s/he can be elected.
Thought I would look it up when the term was used to describe Ignatieff by a man on the street interview.
Pretty well fits don’t you think?
More reports supporting nuke testing by the Norks, and they test-fired some missiles afterwards too. (They also threatened to do this, conduct a nuke test and perform more missile tests, at the end of April over alleged slights from the UN.)
Nork nuke? Try saying that fast five times.
Bruce Walker sees real similarities between President Obama and former President Clinton, in part because he met ‘Slick Willy’ a long time ago:
“Slick Barry”
Front the Y2Kyoto files, here’s an interesting bit of history.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/deming2.html
(The Xhosa didn’t die out completely – they are now the main tribal component of the ANC that is running (and ruining) South Africa.)
“CFRA Polls
Does Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff have a winning issue if he forces an election over EI (Employment Insurance) rules?
Yes 10.0%
No 89.4%
Other 0.46%
Total Votes: 427”
http://www.cfra.com/polls/default.asp
Did anybody else watch the Memorial Day programme (I saw it on PBS) last night in the U.S. As much as I love the way the Americans show their patriotism and support the troops, there was a long segment with a disabled soldier from the Iraq war which I thought was too maudlin.
I guess if it was my son I would think differently, but I couldn’t help wondering what was the cost of the 17 operations he underwent plus therapy plus his mother and sister quitting their jobs and staying with him full-time at the hospital for three years.
The medics in Iraq and Afghanistan are now able to save people who earlier would never have survived bomb explosions, but a lot of the survivors will never have much of a life afterwards.
They mentioned 5,000 troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan – how many were killed in Vietnam?
Memorial Day in the US. Take a minute to remember those that served and those that paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
Iggy: A Liberal-Librano$’ Mule?
Questions have arisen as to why Iggy has returned to Canada after his 34(?) years in exile.
Another question is this:
What was the purpose of Iggy’s flying round-trip to and from Bermuda?
Bermuda is an international tax haven.
Was Iggy on a mission on behalf of the Librano$’ Foundations?
Is Iggy a Liberal-Librano$’ mule?
The monies stashed in the Liberal created Foundations by Liberals Ad$Cam Chretien/MartinJr was originally:
$9,000,000,000.00.
That money was/is Canadian taxpayers’ tax money.
Where was the money stashed?
Off-shore in a tax haven such as Bermuda is one place to look.
Did Iggy have a mission/an assignation in Bermuda?
Did Iggy return to Canada from Bermuda empty-handed?
Follow the Money.
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“Foundations Created by Canadian Government under Investigation
(March 7, 2005) Canadian Auditor General Sheila Fraser is scrutinizing the accountability of several foundations created by the federal government.
According to a report published by Fraser in February, the government has given $9 billion since 1997 to arms-length foundations it created to promote science, education, technology and research. Those foundations include the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Genome Canada, Sustainable Development Technology Canada and the Millennium Scholarship Foundation.
In that report and in comments made to Parliament, Fraser expresses concerns that $7.7 billion is still sitting in the foundations’ bank accounts. She sees room for improvement in three areas regarding the foundations: ministerial oversight; reporting to Parliament and the public; and an external audit and evaluation regime. Fraser also wants to see provisions created that allow ministers to step in when circumstances change significantly or the foundations are working at cross purposes.
The Auditor General does not have access to any foundation audits as such responsibility is not in her purview. However, she has asked Parliament to obtain copies of such audits for the Office of the Auditor General to review. The government has yet to respond.
For a copy of Fraser’s report and comments to Parliament, go to the Auditor General’s website.”
http://www.afpnet.org/ka/ka-3.cfm?content_item_id=20110&folder_id=2485
Marla Braverman, Democracy and Idolatry
…America handed Barack Obama a clear victory this past November, and a majority in Congress as well. It is precisely now, however, as the politics of hope have captured the hearts and minds of so many, that we must remind ourselves why the idealization of politics, and of political leaders in particular, is so dangerous to liberal democracies. For in truth, these societies require skeptical citizens, not trusting ones, if they are to remain strong and healthy, and fulfill the promise for which they were created…
We’ve seen the numbers for the US – $3900.00 per household per year for cap and trade – and now the UK numbers are coming out. Where are Canada’s?
“Such is the zombie state of our MPs that they agreed to this lunatic measure [the Climate Change Act] without the Government giving any idea of what this might cost. Only one, Peter Lilley, raised this question, and it was he who, last month, alerted me to the fact that the minister, Ed Miliband, had at last slipped out a figure on his website (without bothering to tell Parliament). The Government’s estimate was £404 billion, or £18 billion a year, or £760 per household every year for four decades.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5374207/Climate-Change-Act-Now-the-world-faces-its-biggest-ever-bill.html#comments
Found next to Kates link about Bolton
This is also of interest, a major what if Ahnold had lived up to his promise.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124303239041948579.html
more on carbon.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/the_geography_of_carbon_emissi.html
Bloomberg opines on asteroid ducking:
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ajWeXrjAC4uk
“Thanks in part to a steady diet of free food, Google has grown into a worldwide giant while newspapers have had their guts hollowed out.
That isn’t the only reason, not even the main reason, newspapers totter on the brink of extinction. To some degree they have cut out their own guts.”
Spending a few free moments looking at the quotes of some of the US founding fathers. Gads, they were on the right track….and is a strong reminder of how very, very far our liberties and society has moved away from these notions of freedom and liberty.
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson
And know that there are thousands of persons employed by your tax dollars in government that are continually working towards limiting you – and conficating more of your earnings to build the empires.
“Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value” – Dean Steacy
Hold your political party to account when they want to grow bureacracies, bail-out selective corporations, or treat Canadians arbitrarily.
…And do it often…
[CBC’s] “MERCER: TURN OFF OLIPHANT, IT’S JUST TOO AWFUL”
(sic)
(Bourque)
Mercer and his CBC buddies, LibNDP, etc., pushed this Gong Show.
Enjoy it, Mercer.
Eat crow/puffin: cawcawcawcacwcawpuffcawpuff ……
Well that didn’t take long. Wonder what Page has got to say about the forecasts….?
Canada deficit to be much larger than expected
MEECH LAKE, Quebec (Reuters) – The federal deficit this year will be “substantially more” than the C$33.7 billion that was predicted in the January budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday.
Flaherty, speaking to reporters, blamed the economic slowdown and lower tax revenues.
Since you’re interested, Hardboiled, there’s some great reading here:
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/fedi.htm
Off Topic & Not a Readers Tip
With the blujays on a skid & nothing else on TV sat nite but repeats. We decided to go to the show at the Galaxy theatre in Owen Sound. After the initial shock of the Price of Pop & Popcorn, With lots of new releases to choose on we decided on Star Trek. So my take on this movie.
Fantastic!,
the wife even liked it & she is not a Trekie.
If you have not seen this, go. even if star trek is not your thing it was not stop action, There was even some applause at the end.
Just when you thought the Conservatives would do the right thing….”Breitkreuz failed to show up for the debate….”.
OTTAWA — An attempt by a Saskatchewan Conservative MP to abolish the controversial long-gun registry quietly died Monday.
Garry Breitkreuz, who represents a riding in rural Saskatchewan, had introduced a private member’s bill in the House of Commons aimed at scrapping the controversial registry and the bill was to be debated in the House of Commons Monday morning. But Breitkreuz failed to show up for the debate and, according to rules of procedure in the House, that meant his private member’s bill now falls to the bottom of the priority list…..”
Billions spent for nothing, with continued funding and persecution of the citizenry.
‘Conservative’ is in name only.
Why did Breitkreuz fail to show up for the debate? Did he have a heart attack? Are we supposed to just guess this stuff, or do you have half a brain? What, no link, even, already? Pin the tail on the donkey? Blind man’s bluff? Or are you just sociopathic?
I could’ve posted the link – but I find those who are interested go get it. Those who aren’t, don’t anyway.
Despite the wonderful work Breitkreuz has done exposing the waste and sloth attendant to poor public policy, the cowardice of this climbdown (An Ode to Incrementalism?) and the irrelevance of the backbencher speaks volumes to the caliber of political leadership present in this country.
Here’s the link Vit. I like Google to help find things on the internet. If you search ‘Google’ (it’s almost like a verb) with a series of words from the post, you can get the whole thing.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1628746
So let me get this straight. Your job here isn’t to provide other people with Reader Tips, your job is to get them to go find their own reader tips based on some sort of scavenger hunt you’re operating?
Hmm. I don’t have a job here, inasmuch as the traditional concept of earning an economic rent in exchange for goods and/or services.
I do post (generally) about the rank hypocrisy of declared and nominal conservatism in Canada and the perils of partisanship.
I think that if someone is interested in gaining further knowledge, they’ll look it up. If not, they won’t.
But, you appear to be agitated by the absence of a direct link – or at least the demands that opening another tab (or heaven forbid, a browser incidence) and searching on the words – well, I had no intent to fluster, frustrate, and upset you.
I henceforth will contribute links to referenced articles on conservative cowardice, climbdowns, misrepresentations, and lies. And any other reader tip that I might contribute.
Trust that is satisfactory.
You’re right, you don’t have a job here. You’re a one-
trick-pony freeloader, who masturbates in public over
some sort of abstract conservativism that doesn’t exist.
But hey, if and when you do feel like making
a contribution, please, be sure to let us know.
Wow. The old boy’s blown a rod.
Too many hours under that ham radio tower?
Wow. The old boy’s blown a rod.
Too many hours under that ham radio tower?
Or maybe your anger should be directed at the Cons – they lie to you. I don’t.
But it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t matter whether or
not I like it, it doesn’t exist. What now, sir? Do
you have a back-up plan, other than complaining?
And yet Vit, you are strangely silent when maz2 drops one of his linkless stories in the reader tips……
Actually, Maz tends to have links, Jim, at least that I’ve noticed; I usually just skip his stuff. What, you can’t usually tell the commenter from the first few words? Anyway, it seems to me that Maz’s biggest problem is his run-on formatting. His comments just don’t hold together at all. Compare, for example, the excellent work of Charles MacDonald. Yet Maz has dibs. He’s been here since the old Shotgun days five years ago. So really, that’s up to Kate, not me. Hardboiled, not so much: he’s fair game.
This little tidbit is from the link that hardboiled provided.—“Mr. Breitkreuz was not available for comment but an aide said that he allowed his bill, C-301, to die in favour of a similar bill, C-391, put forward by Manitoba Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner”. Once again proving that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Also,this brings up the question,why only quote the words that denigrate the Conservative party unless you work for the cbc?
Aye.
“OPP stop man from raising Canadian flag
A man was subdued by police during an attempt by a Caledonia group to raise the Canadian flag across from Douglas Creek Estates yesterday.
Neil Dring, editor of the Grand River Sachem, a local paper, said about 25 people attempted to march from the Lions Hall to a hydro pole across from the site of protest where about 40 First Nations people had gathered.
Dring said about 40 Ontario Provincial Police officers were on hand to discourage Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality (CANACE), led by Merlyn Kinrade. The group wanted to “symbolically” demonstrate that the town is still subjected to what they called two-tier justice.
“The natives were very upset,” Dring said. “They said it was inciteful and they would never raise their flag in downtown Caledonia.””
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/571497
Good news for Canadian taxpayers.
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“Ottawa won’t bail out GM pensions: Clement
Although Ottawa has agreed to give billions in loans to General Motors of Canada Ltd. if the company comes up with a suitable restructuring plan by June 1, that money won’t go towards the auto maker’s underfunded pension plan, Industry Minister Tony Clement says.
Mr. Clement insisted Monday that any money lent from the federal government to the struggling company will not go towards topping up GM Canada’s pension shortfall, which is approximately $7-billion.”
urlm.in/cnbp
The Halimi Cover-Up
by Pamela Geller
Death in an Islamic “homemade concentration camp”.
THis shows the moral slime Europe has become.
Warning! The following contains descriptions of extreme brutality.
The abduction and murder in Paris of a young Jewish man by a gang of Muslim immigrants calling themselves the Barbarians shocked the whole of France in 2006. But now that the accused are on trial – silence.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/8802