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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Eddie Quillan as Mr. Ellery Queen, Wade Boteler as Inspector Queen, et al., in the 1936 moving picture: The Mandarin Mystery, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, & VIII, which was based on The Chinese Orange Mystery novel by Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay, and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Nice stuff Vitruvius, thanks.
    Now, back to politics; how about them EU elections? Any indicators there?

  2. “Conservatives racing ahead in EU parliament voting”
    “Germany’s Social Democrats headed to their worst showing in a nationwide election since World War II”
    “Tonight is a very difficult evening for Socialists in many nations in Europe, Martin Schulz, the leader of the Socialists in the European Parliament.”
    “Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Freedom People’s Party held a two-digit lead over his main center-left rival.”
    And, in the Netherlands, Wilders took 17% of the vote for 4 seats.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090607/ap_on_re_eu/european_elections

  3. A country of ugly canadians?
    That’s what we are becoming, according to Ottawa law Professor Amir Attaran. Outstanding credentials and impressive career achievements mean that we should pay attention to his proposition. Dr. Attaran writes in the June 2009 issue of the Literary Review of Canada. The essay of this lawyer and scientist argues that Canada is liquidating its internationalism, losing the outward gaze that Prime Minister Lester Pearson cultivated, leaving today’s Canadians more insular than preceding generations.
    http://northerninsights.blogspot.com/2009/06/are-we-ugly-canadians.html

  10. On Saturday the N.P. carried excerpts of Christopher Buckley’s book; a so-called expose of his parents.(God knows why, they’ve never quoted WFB
    who has been writing for almost 60 years) Young Buckley claims to have been with his father in his last days and intimates that he may have committed suicide, a mortal sin in the RC faith. Chris himself admits he has lost his own faith,no longer believing in the resurrection of Jesus. (Nor it seems in article 4 of the Decalogue, the one about honouring one’s parents) There are those who will suggest that he withheld publishing until now out of respect for his parents, but many of us will know that it was out of cowardice; his father could have lacerated him in print and only God knows what mom might have done. This sometimes happens to the children of the great, who are incapable of so much as holding a candle to those who gave them breath. I won’t be buying this book.

  11. you know those tanks in the city park welded shut and gussied up whenever there is a remembrance ceremony of some sort?
    well today June 7 for the first time ever I saw a ‘veteran’ Sherman TANK trundling down a city street under its own power. the engine was switched to diesel, I could tell by the smell of the exhaust.
    and in the tank commander’s seat? the other type of veteran who just happened to be in one some 60 years + a day at a certain french seaside beach . . .

  12. you know those tanks in the city park welded shut and gussied up whenever there is a remembrance ceremony of some sort?
    well today June 7 for the first time ever I saw a ‘veteran’ Sherman TANK trundling down a city street under its own power. the engine was switched to diesel, I could tell by the smell of the exhaust.
    and in the tank commander’s seat? the other type of veteran who just happened to be in one some 60 years + a day at a certain french seaside beach . . .

  13. My mother sent this to me:
    A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost.
    She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, ‘Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.’
    The man consults his portable GPS and replies, ‘You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.’
    She rolls her eyes and says, ‘You must be a Conservative!’
    ‘I am,’ replies the man. ‘How did you know?’
    ‘Well,’ answers the balloonist, ‘everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’re not much help to me.’
    The man smiles and responds, ‘You must be a Liberal’.
    ‘I am,’ replies the balloonist. ‘How did you know?’
    Well,’ says the man, ‘You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.’

  14. Re: Daniel M. Ryan @11:21 pm
    An interesting read, and now these facts should be shouted from the rooftops by every right-thinking citizen, CPC MP or candidate that AGW is a sham and totally bogus.
    I mean, really how dense does one have to be to see the folly? In the West, we’re now well into June, crops have been planted, but we’ve had virtually no precip at all this spring, temps are so low that anything that has germinated is not advancing, and with dips below freezing on many overnights, we are starting to wonder if a crop will even be made this year! But still the stupids spout the mantra.
    I’d like to tell my MP for the caucus to get some balls, confront the hoax and as a government do a 180 with regard to policy and funding,[they might be surprised that that wouldn’t be a vote loser at all!]…. but maybe her husband would be put off by that? );

  15. Just your regular home schooled 11 year old…
    “Just like black holes, they suck in particulate objects, and also like black holes, they also travel at escape velocity, which is, the speed to get out of there is faster than the speed of light,” Cavalin says. “I’d like to prove that wormholes are really there and prove all the theories are correct.”
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525254,00.html

  18. BBC News: “European voters punish the Left”
    I guess the Obama Effect is backfiring … BIG TIME!
    I’ve provided headlines and links here.

  19. I’m listening to BBC Radio 4 right now – @ 7:45am London time. The BBC anchor is in an absolute tizzy, showing his Far Left inclinations. He essentially just equated question Global Warming Hysteria with having a Mental Illness. Unbelievable!

  20. Note the sidebar at the DeSmogBlog (four paragraphs):
    “Democracy is utterly dependant upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy.”
    “There is a vast difference between putting forth a point of view, honestly held, and intentionally sowing the seeds of confusion. Free speech does not include the right to deceive. Deception is not a point of view. And the right to disagree does not include a right to intentionally subvert the public awareness.”
    “Although all public relations professionals are bound by a duty to not knowingly mislead the public, some have executed comprehensive campaigns of misinformation on behalf of industry clients on issues ranging from tobacco and asbestos to seat belts.”
    “Lately, these fringe players have turned their efforts to creating confusion about climate change. This PR campaign could not be accomplished without the compliance of media as well as the assent and participation of leaders in government and business.”
    First of all, democracy refers to nothing more than the election of a government. An informed electorate is preferable to an ignorant one, but the fatuous notion that climate-change deniers are “undermining democracy” is in reality a call for the crushing of dissent. But usually it is dissenters who “inform the electorate” far better than the powers that be who would shut them up. We’ve already seen this kind of totalitarian rhetoric from the climate-change camp last year. And of course, if the electorate were genuinely informed, all the damned socialist parties would have been long since swept away and capitalism would reign supreme.
    Note especially “free speech does not include the right to deceive”. Well, actually it does. How else could one discuss the issues and decide which side is being deceptive? Maybe the real deceivers are the ones saying “free speech does not include the right to deceive” to cover their own malevolence?
    As for “comprehensive campaigns of misinformation” and “creating confusion”, these are the left’s stock-in-trade through its use of anti-concepts, like the phony “human rights”, to name just one.

  24. it appears there is a problem with the post thing on the “thumbs on scale” post, it gives the 404 error stuff

  27. Obama uses written pledges to fight terrorism – from Gitmo terrorists!
    ———————
    THE Pentagon now confirms that at least 74 former Guantanamo detainees have resumed terrorist activities after claiming they weren’t terrorists.
    […]
    For that matter, Gitmo doesn’t even do “interrogations” anymore. They’re now called interviews, and they’re voluntary.
    […]
    As a condition of their release, the Gitmo detainees signed pledges to renounce violence and enroll in “reintegration programs” in countries that agreed to repatriate them.
    http://www.nypost.com/seven/06072009/news/nationalnews/terrorists_free_to_kill_once_again_as_th_172957.htm

  30. IGNORANCE RUNS RAMPANT
    A while back, “Small Dead Animals” ran a photo of hundreds of newspaper vending machines that were in sitting in a scrap yard.
    Just click on any major Canadian newspaper. (Ex: Regina Leader Post.) They’ve reduced the number of letters to the editor in their “hard copy” to virtually “nil.” The LP has 2-3 letters, edited and shortened to a point where one writer informed me that half of his letter had been taken out.
    The same policies apply to stories in the “online editions. Most “comments” feature have been removed from major headline stories.
    Conclusion: Readership, (AKA customers,) are no longer important. Could that be why they are in trouble? Like helloooo, you need customers to stay afloat!!

  31. I loved the old B+W movies!! I grew up sitting in front of a 24″ “Zenith.” I was always a nighthawk–I recall the actors very well!

  33. Lorne Gunter today in the NP takes a calm look at H1N1, echoing what most of us have been saying, that it’s all media hype. Actually, I think hysteria would be a better word.
    Here’s the link.

  35. Re voter intimidation post with its comments non-working:
    If all it takes to intimidate an American voter is a rubber stick, America already lost. I’ll side with Justice dept in this rare case – those three should be ignored and no further taxpayer dollar spent to prosecute them. Three coward clowns, nothing more.

  36. Sorry about the problems in commenting on “Thumbs on the Scale”
    The crack SDA team is working on it; I suspect the problem has something to do with global warming.

  37. >>> “Mr. Gurria’s assessment backs up a claim of Prime Minister Stephen Harper”.
    …-
    “Canada’s economy one of first to recover: OECD
    Canada’s economy is in good shape, and it should be one of the first in the world to come out of recession, says the head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
    “Effectively, Canada will be one of the first to come out of the recession,” secretary-general Angel Gurria told business leaders and policy makers Monday at the Conférence de Montréal. His comments follow a report by the organization, one of the world’s leading economic groups, signalling a possible “trough” in Canada’s recession,
    Mr. Gurria’s assessment backs up a claim of Prime Minister Stephen Harper – that Canada was one of the last countries to fall into recession, and will be one of the first to recover.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canadas-economy-one-of-first-to-recover-oecd/article1173099/

  38. Notice:
    The comments on the entry “Thumb on the Scale” are now working.
    My apologies to the four commenters who got through — your comments are gone. Vanished. Kaput. It’s like they never existed.

  39. With regard to Lisa Raitt, and the member of her staff, Jasmine McDonnell – who left key documents in a TV news bureau a week ago, and now, it has come to light, left a recorder with a private conversation of Ms Raitt – in yet another MSM studio, that of the Chronicle Herald.
    Think of it; two private or secret documentations left in media offices. By Ms Raitt’s staff member, who was on her communications staff.
    Oh, and this staff member’s father is a key Liberal supporter.
    Admittedly, a daughter need not follow the father’s political views – but two sensitive documents, left in the offices of the media?

  40. Ireland is no longer Green.
    “The Green Party, Fianna Fáil’s coalition government partner, fared even worse with the prospect of losing nearly all of its council seats.”
    …-
    “Stunning reversal of fortunes for Ireland’s Fianna Fáil”
    “Fianna Fáil, the most successful political party in Western Europe, was facing up to its worst electoral performance in its history last night with the likelihood that it would lose a European Parliament seat in Dublin.
    The party’s woes were compounded by disastrous results in local council elections and two Dublin by-elections.”
    urlm.in/corp

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