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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our continuing series [ 1, 2, 3 ] on ancient pipe organs with modern cameras focusing inside the works, here is our old friend John Scott Whiteley performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ ¤, BWV 664 (5:30), from Bach’s “Leipzig” Chorale Preludes, on the Arp Schnitger organ of St. Pancratius Church in Neunfelde, which was built in 1688 and was Arp’s largest two-manual instrument.

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54 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. How can a claim of fair use between a private citizen and a private
    organization, under copyright law, be akin to eminent domain (which is
    the act of a government appropriating private property for public use)?

  3. I have two comments to make, well not exactly comments, but rather questions that are similar to a juxtaposition of sorts.
    first one.
    If the networks are crying crisis because the cable networks are not paying for the airing of their programming, why are they petitioning the citizens to force the government to do their bidding instead of just getting a court order to stop the cable companies from airing the programs without permission (copyright).
    second one.
    If the liberals are so outraged over what they see as partisan use of tax payer money, does this mean they would be willing to support the govenment if they tabled a confidence motion to eliminate that $1.95 vote subsidy, or would they be willing to fight an election to keep it?

  8. Great idea, your second comment Gimbol; don’t know enough about the first suggestion, but there does seem to be a lot of whining goin’ on from the cable companys, who are also involoved in ripping us off on internet access; according to recent studies.

  9. “How can a claim of fair use between a private citizen and a private
    organization, under copyright law, be akin to eminent domain (which is
    the act of a government appropriating private property for public use)?
    Posted by: Vitruvius at October 18, 2009 9:24 PM ”
    Errrrrr…maybe he meant enema domain?

  10. This letter was mentioned in a thread yesterday, but I figured this would be a better place for it, rather than further derail the thread about the CF.
    Lord Moran wrote this back to the UK as his posting was coming to an end.
    This Brit had this country pretty much nailed. From PET to the abysmal politicians we elect to the NEP, I cannot disagree with anything he wrote.
    http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/Lord-Moran.pdf

  12. gimbol- you’re asking the liberals to take a principled stand?? Now when was the last time that ever happened?

  13. I saw the premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong in Vancouver this evening. Phelim McAleer was there. His film ripped to shreds the likes of Gore & Suzuki. There was an interesting Q&A afterwards, part of which I captured on video – it’s on my blog.
    I would have focused the film more on scientific facts but the Left doesn’t care about facts so the approach he used was perhaps best.
    Do see it!

  14. I saw the premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong in Vancouver this evening. Phelim McAleer was there. His film ripped to shreds the likes of Gore & Suzuki. There was an interesting Q&A afterwards, part of which I captured on video – it’s on my blog.
    I would have focused the film more on scientific facts but the Left doesn’t care about facts so the approach he used was perhaps best.
    Do see it!

  15. I saw the premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong in Vancouver this evening. Phelim McAleer was there. His film ripped to shreds the likes of Gore & Suzuki. There was an interesting Q&A afterwards, part of which I captured on video – it’s on my blog.
    I would have focused the film more on scientific facts but the Left doesn’t care about facts so the approach he used was perhaps best.
    Do see it!
    Posted by: Robert W. at October 19, 2009 12:29 AM
    I bought the DVD from their website, but I’m still waiting for it to be delivered. I’ll watch the Q&A you have posted on your blog, Robert.
    Cheers…

  16. Kathy Shaidle wonders “I don’t know why Amazon is selling Sarah Palin’s upcoming hardcover book for only $9 — but they are.”
    It’s called “remaindered”, Kathy. It’s what happens when a publisher has to dump printed copies of a book because nobody wants to buy them.
    It’s part of what’s known as a free market, where goods are only worth what people are willing to pay.
    Glad I could clear that up for you…

  17. This one is for Hans Rupprecht.
    **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgWIE92BrY0&feature=related**
    Enjoy.

  18. This one is for Hans Rupprecht.
    **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgWIE92BrY0&feature=related**
    Enjoy.

  19. Perhaps djb, but the book hasn’t even been released yet. If it is because of lack of interest then it reinforces my theory that palin is the MacArthur of our era.

  20. It’s called “remaindered”, Kathy. It’s what happens when a publisher has to dump printed copies of a book because nobody wants to buy them.
    It’s part of what’s known as a free market, where goods are only worth what people are willing to pay.
    Glad I could clear that up for you…
    Posted by: djb at October 19, 2009 1:15 AM
    Yeah. I guess after the first 1.5 million copies sold out, they didn’t want to sell too many more.Might make them them look bad,selling a left wing book so sucsessfull.BTW… when does Zero’s,or any other lefturds book hit that mark???

  21. Whoops. Make that VRWC book. My fault.trying to rebut a lefturd after being tired from working all night,instead off sleeping in mommy’s basement.

  22. we’ll see, djb. If it hits the NYT bestsellers list, I just know you’ll pop by to admit you were wrong.

  23. Poor little DJB, clearly a refugee from the CBC News site but he forgot to shed his hatred at the SDA homepage.
    Reminds me of a recent comparison:
    Mark Levin’s Liberty & Tyranny sold over 1,000,000 copies.
    Sam Tanehaus’s The Death of Conservatism sold a little over 3,000.
    The fact is that most people are fed up with the Leftard crap. Now that consumers have choice, be in books, periodicals, TV, the radio, or the Internet, it’s clear how incredibly small a griyo the Rabid Leftists truly are.

  25. I frequently agree with the columns of George Jonas, but not the one he wrote in the National Post on Saturday, Oct. 17. The issue was sodomy, in the context of a U. S. Supreme Court ruling in 2003 (Lawrence) that struck down a Texas statute barring the practice. Jonas says he agreed with the result, but not with the fact that the law was found unconstitutional.
    “What the framers of the Constitution did believe was that people should be governed by laws of their own making”, he says, “they thought that matters of public morality were for elected lawmakers to decide”, and “there’s no reason to think the framers decided to make all forms of sexual expression a fundamental and inalienable right”. This of course describes the old democracy-versus-rights conundrum. Legislatures certainly can and must pass laws, but they should not infringe on individual rights.
    Jonas writes, “much as I believe consenting adults ought to be free to employ their orifices for any purposes they like, I’m no more persuaded than Justice Scalia that the framers of the constitution meant to elevate anal sex into an entitlement” (Judge Scalia wrote the dissent). This might be called the Triviality Fallacy: the notion that noble concepts like freedom deserve constitutional protection, but mundane things don’t. The problem is that the exercise of freedom consists mostly of indulging in large numbers of mundane activities. If they aren’t protected, then freedom is gone.
    This fallacy sometimes shows up in Canadian Supreme Court judgments. In Edmonton Journal (1989), Judge Wilson wrote, “the activities of a golf or curling club were clearly not deserving of constitutional protection”. The context was a discussion about the scope of freedom of association, but the fallacy is present nonetheless. In Bryan (2007), Judge Fish, upholding a law that banned the publication of election results from eastern Canada while polls were still open in the west, scorned the idea that such communications were “an important part of the political discourse”. In other words, they’re so trivial a violation of freedom of expression that the government can act to ban them. Analogously, in Cooper v. Hobart (2001), Chief Justice McLachlin and Judge Major decided that a registrar of mortgage brokers doesn’t owe a duty of care to investors in the companies, but only to “the public”. The only members of the public who would have an interest in the proceedings, namely the actual investors themselves, were apparently not important enough to warrant protection. This ruling unwittingly serves to make regulation worthless.
    Jonas goes on to say that the American Constitution was designed to safeguard concepts or practices “deeply rooted in [that] Nation’s history and traditions”, and that “it would be hard to argue that sodomy, whether straight or gay, is such a tradition”. But freedom covers much broader ground than things “deeply rooted in history”. By this logic, any activity that was created or invented after 1776 would not qualify for constitutional protection.
    Finally, Jonas says, “I think the practice of judges ‘reading in’ nonexistent constitutional rights, even for good causes, let alone to placate special interests and appear politically correct, deserves contempt”. It well might. But this instance is merely an example of interpretation, not “reading in” such as was done in the notorious Vriend case of 1998.

  27. Death and Taxes.
    …-
    “By way of marriage
    Dr Martin Stephen, the High Master of St Paul’s described how it was not enough to sit back and let British National Health Service doctors cure him of a stroke after it turned him at 56, from a “healthy professional” into a “lump of flesh on a hospital trolley”. The key to recovery, he discovered, was acting quickly and not waiting for the doctors to help. Fortunately for Stephen the experience of his father in law had blazed the trail.
    The first harsh realisation was that something very bad had happened. The second was that nobody in the hospital was going to tell me how to get better (the only advice I received comprised vague noises about the need for “rehabilitation” and “exercises”). The third realisation was a consequence of the first two: I had to get out of hospital and cure myself.
    Bizarrely, I owe my recovery to my mother-in-law. Her husband had received almost no help when, in 2003, he had suffered a stroke in his seventies. So she had gone on the internet – as one does at 74 – and found that major strides had been made in America in treating stroke victims. Research there showed that damaged neural pathways could be re-routed, and that a diminished signal could be sent through the outer lining of an otherwise dead nerve. The key was speed. After three or four weeks, the brain seemed to start a permanent shut-down on these pathways.
    Stephen had three weeks to save what was left of his life. What he did next will horrify every modern married man. He adopted a daily program contrived by his formidable mother-in-law. She ensured that he did the following:”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/18/by-way-of-marriage/
    …-
    “Nothing’s certain, but this tax could spell McGuinty’s death”
    “A physician friend works in one of those multi-doctor clinics the province has done so much to encourage. The clinic is incorporated and each physician pays 30 to 40 per cent of his gross monthly OHIP billings to cover overhead. The federal tax man applies the GST to this payment and now the province will boost that by eight percentage points with its new HST. Combined with the increased sales tax on rent, this one clinic will now pay about $80,000 more a year in taxes.”
    urlm.in/dgnh

  28. Goreacle Report: Food not for humans.
    Swedish Hare Balls Scapegoated.
    Sacrificed to Gaia.
    …-
    “Swedes Divided Over Bunny Biofuel
    Bodies of thousands of rabbits are reportedly fuelling a heating plant Residents in Stockholm are divided over reports that rabbits are being used to make biofuel.
    The bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden, local newspapers say. The city of Stockholm has an annual cull of thousands of rabbits to protect the capital’s parks and green spaces.
    The rabbits, not native to Sweden, are mainly the offspring of pets released by owners, and are said to be destroying parks in the capital. Since they have no natural predators, the city administration of Stockholm employs hunters to kill the rabbits.
    Tommy Tuvunger, one of the hunters, told Germany’s Spiegel website that 6,000 rabbits were culled last year, and another 3,000 this year. “They are a very big problem,” he said. “Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough, a contractor comes and takes them away.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365389/posts

  29. Lord Moran’s letter back in 1985 is very enlightening and obviously not widely distributed by the MSM back in the day. A tear came to my eye when he mentioned a warning about our deficit of $30 billion. Only $30 billion!
    I really don’t have any use for lords and dames and all that snotty social structure but this dude nailed Canada’s problems right in the head. I wonder what he thinks about his Britian now?

  32. Wow. Say something even slightly critical, get labelled left. It would be even funnier if it was true. When did Charles Johnson’s lizardoids start hanging out at SDA? Am I going to be banned?
    And all for pointing out that the market decides the price of goods like books.

  33. The Cancer Industry: “she” “spokesperson”.
    Cancer Industry is politically correct.
    Mistakes? Don’t worry. Overrated. Send money.
    …-
    “NL rate of chemo mistakes not alarming: cancer society
    CBC.ca – ‎1 hour ago‎
    A spokesperson for the Canadian Cancer Society says she isn’t alarmed over revelations about the number of mistakes made during treatments in Newfoundland and Labrador”

  34. DJB, please do some homework.
    The book will not be out for another month.
    The reduction is a result of a price war between Walmart and Amazon.
    Barnes and Noble and Borders have not lowered the price. Not yet anyway.
    How can a book which is not yet published be in oversupply?

  35. Lee You are right. Wal-Mart dropped the price to ten bucks, Amazon went to 9 and WM matched. WM makes a lot of money on books and is going for market share and bums in the door.

  36. Incitement to Murder by the MSM and the Lord Mayor of London.
    …-
    “London Mayor: The barefaced greed of bankers and their bonuses beggars belief
    The Telegraph ^ | 10/19/2009 | Boris Johnson
    If you pressed a rifle into the hand of the man in the street and asked him to choose between two targets – an MP or a banker – who do you think would get the bullet? Tricky, eh? It is hard to know which of these two formerly respectable professions has fallen further in public esteem.”
    “Some people might hesitate, like Buridan’s ass, the rifle barrel weaving indecisively between two such luscious hate-objects. Most people would simply call for two bullets.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365703/posts

  37. Actually the book is $9 to compete with wal-mart. Currently there is a price war going on between the two. Many popular books that shouldn’t be selling for $9 are.

  38. djb @1:15 am ” It’s what happens when a publisher has to dump printed copies of a book because nobody wants to buy them.”
    Explain the millions that have been ordered/sold.
    Not calling you a lefty, just wondering if you ass-u-me-d the Palin books weren’t selling.

  39. Tex, I think that Lord Moran’s letter would have been classified back when he sent it. I seem to remember reading that BBC gained access to it via a freedom of information request.
    From the tone of his letter I imagine he would be less than thrilled with the UK today!

  41. I think it’d be far more funny allan, if on Halloween we had little visitors dressed up in burqas. … and why not?
    “trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat, not to big, not too small, just the size of Montreal”
    my favorite…

  43. I heard something on the radio today about an Olympic peace resolution. Wow, if the UN passes that, Vancouver is going to save a lot on security in 2010.

  44. “Chretien bemoans Canada’s ‘lost foreign stature’
    PARIS — Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has squandered Canada’s status as China’s best friend and has abandoned Africa, former prime minister Jean Chretien said here Monday.”
    (global)
    …-
    PET Cemetery awaits Jeancula.
    When was Canada ever China’s “best friend”?
    Africa has abandoned Africa itself.
    >>> “Mo Ibrahim prize for African
    leadership will not be awarded this year
    A foundation set up to award a $5m (£3m) annual prize for good governance in Africa has said there will be no winner this year because it could not find anyone to award it to.
    The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, set up by the billionaire businessman and philanthropist, said its prize committee considered some credible candidates, but could not select a winner. “The prize committee is independent of the board,” Ibrahim said. “It is the prize committee’s decision not to award a prize this year and we entirely respect it. We made clear at the launch of the foundation that there may be years when there is no winner.” The seven-member prize committee is chaired by Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general. It includes Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland and Nobel laureate, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel laureate, and Graça Machel, the former minister of education and culture in Mozambique.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365688/posts

  45. “Still no Price Tag attached to new sentencing bill”
    ctv.ca/the canadian press
    monday oct.19/2009
    IMO: My Question to the Liberal & NDP Soft on Crime MP’s & Senators
    Whats the Cost to the thousands upon thousands of Innocent Victims that have been affected by crime?

  46. Iffy is Iffy, indeed.
    The question burns: Who is the Liberal leader?
    Is Iffy the leader? Is Mao Stlong’s nephew, Boob Lae, the leader?
    This rivalry/feud will bury the Liberals in their PET Cemtery.
    This from NNW.
    “* Iggy’s return to Harvard
    Wednesday, October 21. UPDATE: Akin: No he’s not. OLO calls to say organizers jumped the gun Iggy staying in Ottawa Wed.”
    Read more here:
    http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2009/10/iggy-skips-out-of-economic-conference-to-go-back-to-harvard/

  47. maz2 “When was Canada ever China’s “best friend”? ”
    When we were doling out one million a week to China. That was under the Chretien Liberals. Funny — no media attention ever given to that . . . who got the money? What was it used for? I think it was coinsidered “aid”.

  48. LindaL, yes, one wonders about the LPC/Chretien/Martin/Maurice Strong/Power Corp/China Connection which the Canadian media has completely glossed over. Where DID all the money go? Who made money and on what? It doesn’t seem to have been the Canadian taxpayer. OTOH, some of the principals involved seemed to have ended up very rich or very much richer …
    Can you imagine if the CPC had these connections? The media would be all over them. ‘Must be nice for a political party to have the media in their pocket.
    Kinda sounds like a thugtocracy, not Canada.

  49. batb:
    The LPC/Chretien/Martin/Maurice Strong/Power Corp/China Connection was and still is all about the money; as is the great AGW scam.
    It is a simple but clever kleptocracy to remove wealth from the mere peons of the globe and transfer wealth to rather large global landlords.
    The peons are to pay rent, for their continued existence, for the sin of taking up planetary space and exhaling C02.
    Serfdom was too obvious and banned, thus the clever lot decided to reinvent serfdom by forcing the planet to buy carbon indulgences.
    Humanity’s sin is to continue breathing.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  50. It all sounds so familiar:
    Alan Yentob ‘nets three incomes’ from BBC
    “…I look forward to a government who has the will to phase out the TV license…”
    “…the BBC is more secretive than the Mafia…”
    “…What galls me about the BBC is that they have their own political agenda…”
    “…He has no particularly rare insight, skill or knowledge – but holds the box seat at our monopoly public services broadcaster. On balance I’d say he’s ripping us off….”
    “….There’s so much public money given to the BBC that it’s high time we had an external audit of the way it’s run…”
    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6879552.ece

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