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  2. This is very interesting to hear. I had heard Led Zeppelin do this on one of their first albums.
    Here is an early version of Led Zeppelin covering ‘I Can’t Quit You Baby’. Every version of this song by Led Zeppelin is different because they were probably the first live improvisional rock band and people hated that at the time especially when they wanted to hear a song like it was originally recorded. They were also probably the first real professional rock band that went for musicianship (plus they had a very tall dominating singer who had learned a lot from white guys like Steve Marriott who obviously learned a lot from the great American blues guys).
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfwLUkzKx9k

  3. Just saw the new GM commercial…total green political agenda…followed by a green Ontario commercial…didn’t realize just how bad things have become in the world right now….

  5. Pete: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
    MORE CBC LEFTIST HYPOCRISY:
    Today the federal Conservatives passed a law that prevents killers who are convicted to a life sentence for murder from asking for early parole under the previous “faint hope clause.”
    It’s interesating to watch and or listen to the CBC and Radio Canada refer to “The Conservative Government,” (Fr: Le Gouvernement Conservateur,) when they want to bash the government. In the media, the proper term should be “The Government of Canada,” (FR: Le Gouvernement du Canada,) Of course the bleeding hearts oppose the new legislation.
    So let’s place pessimism aside. I live in Saskatchewan. When convicted killer Colin Thatcher tried to get early release under the faint hope clause a few years ago, the bleeding hearts opposed his request. At every opportunity, the CBC ran stories against Thatcher. Keep in mind that Thatcher’s crime against his ex was one of passion, he is (was) unlikely to reoffend.
    Today, the same bleeding hearts that cried out against Thatcher’s early release are crying out against the new law.
    Conclusion: Bleeding hearts greatly lack logic!

  6. Yes, well, probably that’s because logic is a function of the brain (at least in humans), not the heart; the latter being a fluid pump, and thus, bleeding or not, incapable of the former. It’s sort of like the CBC, Jack. Logically, you don’t want to watch it. But emotionally, in your bleeding heart, you stare at it like a gawker at a roadside traffic fatality. Fortunately, I am immune to that malady.

  10. That’s interesting, Daniel. You know, if I was one of them folks who go around constructing conspiracy theories (not that I’m suggesting that you are, for the record), then, based on Mr. Schwarzenegger’s comments when he was originally running for office, and this new result, why, I might think that it might be the case that…
    Alas, I am not one of those folks.

  14. The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel? [Caroline Glick]
    From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama’s speech was a renunciation of America’s strategic alliance with Israel.
    Rhetorically, Obama’s sugar coated the pathologies of the Islamic world — from the tyranny that characterizes its regimes, to the misogyny, xenophobia, Jew hatred, and general intolerance that characterizes its societies. In so doing he made clear that his idea of pressing the restart button with the Islamic world involves erasing the moral distinctions between the Islamic world and the free world.
    More At: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjdiMjk5ODk2OGYwYmRjNmRhYmNlZjFjNDljNTdkYTE=

  16. I note that Google appears to be celebrating Tetris day. (Happy Tetris Day!)

  17. Kate:
    Getting this on the Rasmussen poll thread:
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    Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@smalldeadanimals.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
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  18. Worth repeating:
    “When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion
    …when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing,
    …when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors,
    …when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you,
    …when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice,
    …you may know that your society is doomed.” AYN RAND

  19. Blah, blah, blah …
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-harper-legacy-politics-is-war/article1171593/
    Jeffrey Simpson’s offering in the Globe and Mail today under the headline “The Harper legacy: Politics is war ”:
    … “Only a party that raises large sums of money can afford television ads between elections, and the Conservatives are the masters of fundraising.”
    ‘Said sneeringly, as though it would be OK for the Liberals to run negative ads but, poor guys, they’re poor. He doesn’t dig any deeper into why the Conservatives are “masters of fundraising” and the Liberals most certainly aren’t. He declines to make the connection between genuine grassroots’ support across Canada for the CPC and the elitism of the LPC who, frankly, don’t appeal to grassroots’ Canadians but to the latte, white-wine crowd (Simpson references this in his article) and to immigrant voter blocks.
    “The ads reflect the Harper idea/ideal that politics is a never-ending war in which no quarter is asked or taken. No stoop is really too low for the Harper Conservatives. …”
    WHAT DRIVEL!
    The Liberals are the perpetrators par excellence of the attack ad, whether during or between elections. As has been pointed out many times, the so-called political “news” and commentary from the CBC, CTV, Global, the TorStar, Globe and Mail, etc. are non-stop attacks on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his party. And, the Liberals don’t have to pay a penny; these attack ads are completely free.
    Don Martin and Jeffrey Simpson: Tweedle Crumb and Tweedle Crumbier.

  20. Wow…check out Google’s commemorative logo for D-Day…celebrating 25 years of Tetris…

  21. This may be way OT, but, just watched some of the D-Day Commemoration ceremonies and found it interesting and a bit insulting to me as a Canadian, that the chorus who sang the respective national anthems sang O Canada completely in French, yet sang “God Save The Queen” and “Star Spangled Banner” in English. Those racist bastards!

  23. ‘Surprised me too, franinsaskatoon.
    At least Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave his speech in French and English. He was eloquent in both languages.

  24. Joanne at Blue Like You has a post about the Ontario PC race and a link to Monte Solberg pointing out that all of Canada needs to pay attention to that race.
    It seems one candidate, Christine Elliot (wife of Flaherty) is reluctant to touch the HRC mess. She’s either a red Tory, or is totally out of touch with the events of this past year involving Levant and Steyne.Fortunately another candidate is well informed and ot a chicken: Tim Hudak.
    Harris is backing Hudak…so I’m looking forward to another Common Sense Revolution!
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/

  25. Jeff, I don’t think so.
    I watched him and he was singing the anthem en français: Et ta valour, de foi trompĂŠe …
    ‘Never saw him mouthing the English words. You were joking, right?

  27. The natural end result of political correctness*.
    …-
    “Edmonton’s top cop bans swearing”
    urlm.in/cokg
    …-
    *Schiller Institute—THE NEW DARK AGE The Frankfurt School and …
    THE NEW DARK AGE The Frankfurt School and “Political Correctness” … have become overwhelmed by Comintern-style New Age “Political Correctness. …
    http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/921_frankfurt.html

  28. Randy Hillier for Ontario.
    “”I don’t believe you can reform something so broken and so corrupted in its process and its outcomes,””
    Randy understands: judge policy by its end results/outcomes; not by its good intentions.
    …-
    “Eliminate rights bodies, PC leadership hopeful says
    Ontario should eliminate its human rights commissions and tribunals, according to Randy Hillier, one of four candidates vying for the leadership of the province’s Progressive Conservatives.
    “I don’t believe you can reform something so broken and so corrupted in its process and its outcomes,” Mr. Hillier said yesterday during a meeting with the National Post editorial board. He argued issues currently addressed by commissions and tribunals should be handled by the traditional court system. “Real human rights are so important and inviolable that they should be protected by our courts by real justices, with due process of law.””
    http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1570614

  29. “Hijab-wearing Islamic supremacist woman crashes memorial for Arkansas jihad victim…
    WHERE WAS PVT. LONGS SECURITY!!! An Islamic jihadist murders an American soldier, and a hijab-wearing Muslim woman shows up at a memorial rally for him, claiming Muslim victimization and proclaiming Islamic supremacist dogma — “Jesus was Muslim!,” etc. — and railing about how “Jews” control the New York Times and Fox News.
    Don’t miss the point toward the end of the video when a friend of the hijabbed woman asks those conducting the memorial to “please go away” — as if this is suddenly an event that the Islamic supremacists control.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266192/posts
    …-
    O’Narcissist:
    “The speech did not merely miss an opportunity to speak the truth plainly. It sabotaged every effort to speak the truth plainly, to the darkest tyrannical forces in the Islamic world. It sold out America, it sold out the West, and it sold out the Muslims, too.”
    “The Cairo disaster
    David Warren
    When a politician announces, at the beginning of a major speech, that he is going to be entirely honest with you, you should stop trying to protect your wallet. For it is time to defend your soul.
    This aphorism occurred as I listened to the opening of Barack Obama’s major speech in Cairo. As I have argued previously, he is not an honest man but, instead, a demagogue. He plays games with reality in the course of weaving his rhetorical spells. To be clear: he is no Hitler, no Mussolini, with some vision of national or racial glory, cynically manipulating the crowds to purposes that are ultimately violent. Far from that.
    Nor is he a Trudeau, precisely, with an inner contempt for the people he is pledged to serve, and his own agenda to put past them. I do not even think Obama suffers from the vanity of Trudeau, who may actually have imagined himself to be some sort of “philosopher king.”
    Obama’s is a different, more insidious vanity. He acknowledges his rhetorical gift as a gift, but imagines the solutions to problems coalesce of their own accord in his presence. He is President Orpheus, the “poet king,” transforming nature with his music. The German weekly, Die Zeit, expressed this perfectly in a headline: “I am a dream!”
    It is the failure to acknowledge hard realities that makes Obama dangerous. As a wise Texan of my acquaintance put it, “he is attempting to model himself on Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator. But, it’s with a twist. He sees himself as the Great Mediator — the One who will step into every conflict around the globe, bring to bear his superior intelligence and teleprompted eloquence, and leave the parties in a warm embrace.”
    Another old friend, the errant “neocon” David Frum, explained what is shocking in that Cairo speech: to find an American president no longer mediating domestic American conflicts, but rather, those between his own country and some of her deadliest enemies. This may be presented as “reaching out” but, in practice, it leaves his own side unchampioned, unrepresented, and in the end, undefended.
    Moreover, he is playing this game with a child’s understanding of the history and the stakes.
    The Cairo speech is loaded with historical howlers.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266199/posts

  30. Post by: ‘maz2’. Thanks for the link.
    Thanks ‘Vit’ & ‘EBD’. Great selections. Just read ‘Ray Charles & Eric Clapton’ and the bonus now is in your links about the people they played with.

  31. O’Narcissist*: I’mam, the “lone wolf’, “the observer”.
    “the President laughed back,*”.
    …-
    *”Obama Rubs In His Sarkozy Snub
    In the guise of supposedly softpedaling his shunning of French prez Sarkozy, whose dinner invitation he spurned, Pres. Obama has actually rubbed in the snub.
    Check out this report on the incident [emphasis added]:
    This morning in Caen France, the President was asked why he was not spending more time in France and specifically why the Obamas turned down a dinner invitation last night by the French power couple President Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni.
    “What it means is that I have a very tough schedule,” the President laughed back, “I would love nothing more than to have a leisurely week in Paris, stroll down the Seine, take my wife out to a nice meal, have a picnic in Luxembourg gardens. Those days are over, for the moment.”
    Notice what’s missing from PBO’s list?”
    http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/06/06/obama-rubs-in-his-sarkozy-snub/
    …-
    *”The narcissist takes part in social interactions – even mere banter – condescendingly, from a position of supremacy and faux “magnanimity and largesse”. But he rarely mingles socially and prefers to remain the “observer”, or the “lone wolf”.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  32. Here in have-not Ontario, there are 4 candidates vieing for the leadership of the P.C.’s. voting complete June 25th. 2, Hillier and Hudak promote elimination of Ont. HRC. 2, Elliot and Klees promote modifying existing policy to only the original purpose, discrimination in Housing, work and ETC. and eliminating it as a tool for special interest groups who are “hurt” by speech or writings. Elimination hands a club to the LIbs. and NDP who slaughtered the PC.s on faith based education funding.

  33. I suspect that the Obamas didn’t accept the Sarkozy’s invitation to dinner because it might be difficult for them to hold their own, intellectually that is.
    I suspect that that’s why Barak Obama is a “lone wolf,” an “observer.” He’s spent much of his life observing, seeing how things are done, practising in front of the mirror, and doing a pretty good job of imitating how an intellectual leader comports himself.
    Without the speech writers, however, and the teleprompter, he finds it pretty difficult to keep up the facade.

  34. Where has the O’lOve* gone?
    O is now a pariah, says Aunty-American.
    Now is the time for what? “‘Canadian backbone'”.
    O is the fishbOne sticking in the craw.
    Canada Free Press*, and many here, called it correctly. Kudos to Canada Free Press.
    …-
    “Municipal backlash to ‘Buy American’ – Canada – Municipal backlash to ‘Buy American’
    U.S. tourist Debra Cain: “When there’s no food in the house, I’m not inviting my neighbours over for a party.”
    Halton Hills mayor calls for ‘Canadian backbone’
    WHISTLER, B.C. – Debra Cain loves Canada, loves a Canadian and lives next door to the country, but when it comes to safeguarding American jobs, she is shutting the door on her neighbour.
    “Canada, we love you, you know we do,” said Cain, a Detroit resident visiting Whistler. “But when there’s no food in the house, I’m not inviting my neighbours over for a party. I’m feeding the family first.”
    That sentiment is why nearly 1,700 Canadian mayors and city councillors will vote today on a resolution proposing retaliatory measures against Buy American policies in the United States.
    The U.S. economic stimulus package has prompted spending at the state, county and municipal level, where Canadian manufacturers and exporters, especially in Ontario, say Buy American policies are shutting them out of contracts.”
    http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/646650
    …-
    *Canadians love affair with Obama may be short lived
    17 Nov 2008 … Canadians love affair with Obama may be short lived, NAFTA, Canadian Jobs, Big three auto companies, Ontario Manufacturing, Dalton McGuinty, …
    http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6338

  35. For the Take Me Obama thread:
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    Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’
    Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”
    “He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that.”
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god

  36. Discuss “Caring” Julius Caesar and the Hare.
    ““Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped” (V, iii, 15-6) and Macbeth is slain.”
    …-
    “A Reckoning Coming for Obama
    Victor Davis Hanson
    In short, Obama reminds me a little of myself–at 26. I had left the farm for 9 years to get a BA in classics, PhD in classical philology, and live in Athens for two years of archaeological study-all on scholarships, TAships, research-ships and part-time summer and school jobs tucked under the aegis of the academic, no-consequences world. By the end of endless seminars, papers, theses, debates, discussions, academic get-togethers, I had forgotten much of the culture of the farm where I spent years 1-18.
    The Return
    Then after the requisite degrees I left academia, and returned to farm 180 acres with my brother and cousin-and sadly was quickly disabused of the world of the faculty lounge..”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266267/posts
    …-
    “Caes-hare-ian section: Animal lover cuts open body of dead hare to rescue its unborn baby
    A woman who found a pregnant hare lying dead in the road performed an emergency operation to deliver its baby.
    Caring Leila Goss, 25, spotted the mother hare after it was killed by a car and immediately noticed its swollen stomach.
    She picked up the animal, which was still warm, and rushed her home to perform a caesarean section to try to save its young.”
    urlm.in/cokv

  37. “eight out of 10 provinces actually posted job gains in May,”
    Axiom: 8 > 2.
    Liberal Iggy can’t square the roots.
    …-
    “Recovery is still taking root despite job numbers
    Canada’s unemployment rate shot up by nearly half a percentage point in May to an 11-year high, hitting 8.4 per cent. The country lost 41,800 jobs. Terrible news, right?
    Wrong. It’s certainly bad news for those hit by the 47,000 jobs lost in Ontario factories, notably in the auto industry, but for most industries and most provinces, the job market is still healing.
    That’s hard to perceive right now because at turning points in the economy, there’s so much contradictory news that it can be difficult to see what’s really happening. This is one of those times.
    On the surface, Canada’s job market took another big lurch for the worse in May after having shown a single hopeful month of improvement in April, when it created new jobs for the first time in six months.
    But under the surface, the steady stabilization of job conditions continues. You just have to look at the numbers carefully.”
    urlm.in/coky
    …-
    “Canada’s job market not as bad as it seems: economists
    OTTAWA – Continuing job losses that pushed the unemployment rate to an 11-year high of 8.4 per cent in May are masking a new truth about Canada’s labour market, say economists: it’s not nearly as bad as it seems.
    Experts point out that the net job loss of 41,800 positions last month was almost entirely a result of turmoil in Ontario’s auto sector and centred in Ontario.
    “The most intriguing feature of this report,” said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets, “is its extreme laserlike focus on one sector and one province.
    “Outside of the jobs lost in Ontario manufacturing, employment was effectively stable in the rest of the country in most sectors and provinces.”
    As a result, eight out of 10 provinces actually posted job gains in May, Statistics Canada reported.”
    http://www.canada.com/Canada+market+seems+economists/1670229/story.html

  38. batb 2:04PM – Maybe, but that’s assuming that Carla (zut alors!) Bruni is more than just arm candy. Which she may be. For all I know she’s smarter than Sartre.
    On the evidence of her undergrad Princeton Thesis, Michelle is functionally semi-literate, so it could be nobody missed out on much.
    Then again, who’s to say that TOTUS doesn’t follow Barack around everywhere, dinner parties included?

  39. This “sentence” will learn him.
    Is “the judge” “under house arrest”?
    …-
    “The judge ordered him to remain under house arrest for the first 12 months, pay $9,000 restitution to ATB Financial, perform 240 hours of community service and pay$600 in victim fine surcharges(sic).”
    “Bestselling author sentenced for credit fraud in Calgary
    Book advised readers how to get out of debt”
    urlm.in/cola

  41. Black Mamba: “Then again, who’s to say that TOTUS doesn’t follow Barack around everywhere, dinner parties included?”
    LOL!
    If so, he and Michelle missed out on a fantastic French feast.
    It’s the lack of grace, the lack of just plain good manners that galls (Gauls?) me. If your host, THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, invites you for dinner, you damned well go, even if you don’t like fois gras, mussels, or truffles. And you sure don’t turn down the invitation with a facetious “my wife and I would love to spend a week in Paris, walking the streets hand-in-hand, but my schedule is just too full” excuse.
    Zut alors, n’est-ce pas?

  43. Socialism is the heart of darkness*: blackness of darkness.
    Socialism is cannibalism.
    Socialism eats/devours/cannibalizes its own members.
    …-
    “Blair: The darkness in Gordon’s heart will bring him down
    Tony Blair believes Gordon Brown’s political future is doomed because of ‘the darkness in his heart’ and his ‘lies’ – and feels Mr Brown has no one to blame but himself. The former Prime Minister’s devastating verdict on his successor is a blow to Mr Brown’s hopes of surviving further moves to topple him, expected this week. Publicly, Mr Blair has kept out of the row. However, The Mail on Sunday can disclose that privately he shares the view held by Labour rebels that Mr Brown will lead the Party to a disastrous defeat at the next Election.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266392/posts
    …-
    *Socialism is really cannibalism
    19 Apr 2009 … Socialism is really cannibalism. americanthinker.com — Apparently in our current political climate “socialism” has become a word that does …
    digg.com/politics/Socialism_is_really_cannibalism
    (*H/T Joseph Conrad)

  44. batb – Mais oui. The Obamas’ gracelessness when it comes to diplomacy continues to amaze me. And I drink cheap plonk from a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” mug.

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