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  2. Thanks Vitruvius. I have both the Harry James and the Herb Alpert versions on LP and am in the process of converting the LPs to cd. Great music.

  4. Great stuff Vitruvius. Thinking of Ed Sullivan makes me think of Pearly Mae taking her shoes off, and that little bundle of energy; Anna Maria Alberghetti (not to mention Edie Gorme, etc.)

  6. Thanks, Exetaz and Vit.
    First time I’ve seen a big band stage version, other than when we’ve played it. The full instrumentation is nice, although I think Harry James runs it a bit too fast…
    Great stuff.

  7. A story out of Florida, where Juanita Castro has lived since 1964, she broke with the brothers over their revolution a couple of years before exiting to Florida, it seems the Brasilian Ambassador had recruited Juanita for the CIA, and she was passing information to the JFK administration and their deaf ears… 48 hours later, the U2 spy photos were on JFK’s desk.
    more here..
    http://www.therealcuba.com/
    http://babalublog.com/2009/10/juanita-castro-passed-along-warnings-of-soviet-missiles-in-cuba-to-camelots-crackerjack-cia/

  8. Sooooo, in order to cut costs in the “downturn”, the Winnipeg Free Press will be going Tabloid on Sundays. (I thought every day was Tabloid day there !)
    I can imagine FP customers hitting sites like sda and Drudge for their Sunday information fix. And once they see a ‘click-away’ comparison between Kate and Matt and … phittt, Gordon Sinclair, it will then become Monday also. And Tues ….
    Sorry, FP staff, but it did not have to be this way. Should have canned Frances Russel and gang a couple of decades ago.
    (Read the FP’s own commenters. Very telling.

  11. Batb and maz2 regarding the Berton family / Paul Berton… from yesterdays Reader Tips
    Pierre and “Poor” Janet had 7 kids, Penny, Pamela, Patsy, Peter, Paul, Peggy Anne, and Perri.
    Pierre Berton’s obit from his first real haunt, TorStar
    http://www.thestar.com/obituary/atog/article/107961
    Paul’s foto is at the Toronto Sun beside his column, I see a familial resemblance,

  12. a facinating tidbit.
    in Dawson City , Pierre Bertons house is across the street from Robert Service’s house and down the block from Jack London. Surely the biggest concentration of authors in the entire world. the whole place is but 3000 people(down from 30000 in the gold rush, which predates any of these authors residency)

  14. From Richard Russell’s site:
    A few paragraphs from a recent Paul Craig Roberts article. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan.
    Costs are out of control, and priorities are skewed in the interests of rich organized interest groups at the expense of the vast majority of citizens. For example, war at all cost, which enriches the armaments industry, the officer corps and the financial firms that handle the war’s financing, takes precedence over the needs of American citizens. There is no money to provide the uninsured with health care, but Pentagon officials have told the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the House that every gallon of gasoline delivered to US troops in Afghanistan costs American taxpayers $400.
    “It is a number that we were not aware of and it is worrisome,” said Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the subcommittee.
    According to reports, the US Marines in Afghanistan use 800,000 gallons of gasoline per day. At $400 per gallon, that comes to a $320,000,000 daily fuel bill for the Marines alone. Only a country totally out of control would squander resources in this way.

  16. Cal 2 – I once lived in Pierre Burton’s house, before it was renovated by Pierre and Parks Canada. Pierre came to visit once and they did an interview in his old home.
    When I lived in that house it was heated by a barrel stove in the cellar – I removed the piles of newspaper sitting near the stove because I had visions of it going up in smoke when it was 60 below and the stove was red hot. The place was well insulated though, I must admit; it never got below 40F in the kitchen. I could not see out of the iced up windows for 3 or 4 months – the ice was about an inch thick.
    That was all back in the glory days in 1979-1980 before Dawson became a ‘toy town’. Dawson was a ghost town sprung to life by the price of gold. It was a wonderful time to live in such a place, I always felt I had one foot in the 1980’s and one foot in the 1898-1902 days. Amazing things happened every day. It was an adventure to wake up because you never knew what might happen. In the Casino, Diamond Tooth Gerties, the floor was frost heaved and had holes worn through the boards but miners threw gold nuggets at the can-can girls and women wore thousands of $$ of gold dangling from necks, ears and wrists. Miners often left gold nuggets for a tip in the Dinning room where I worked and the Bank of Commerce, the same one Robert Service worked in, had a gold scale in there to transfer gold to $$. Casino chips were legal tender all over town – so was gold.
    It was a window in time, it only lasted four years but I will be forever glad that I was there – then.

  17. A Tribute to Ernest Shackleton.
    …-
    “Whisky on (Antarctic) ice: Ernest Shackleton…left a stash at the bottom of the world.
    CAPE ROYDS, Antarctica — This spit of black volcanic rock that juts out along the coast of Antarctica is an inhospitable place. Temperatures drop below –50 Fahrenheit and high winds cause blinding snowstorms…
    But if you happen upon the small wooden hut that sits at Cape Royds and wriggled yourself underneath, you’d find a surprise stashed in the foot and a half of space beneath the floorboards. Tucked in the shadows and frozen to the ground are two cases of Scotch whisky left behind 100 years ago by Sir Ernest Shackleton after a failed attempt at the South Pole.
    Conservators discovered the wooden cases in January 2006. They were unable to dislodge the crates, but are going in with special tools in January during the Antarctic summer to try to retrieve them. An international treaty dictates that the crates, and any intact bottles that are inside, remain in Antarctica unless they need to be taken off the continent for conservation reasons. The whisky’s condition after a century of freezing and thawing is unknown…
    Shackleton turned around 97 miles short of his destination, telling his wife, “I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.” When the ship arrived in 1909 to pick the men up, they left their supplies behind in their hut, including reindeer sleeping bags, tins of boiled mutton and bottled gooseberries. And, as we now know, they also abandoned two cases of Charles Mackinlay & Co. whisky.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371547/posts

  18. Jema54: Please give SDA an account of the Berger Commission scandal/boondoggle.
    …-
    “*Pipeline dream in peril”
    “*And what would you rather do? Buy gas from up in the Northwest Territories, a long, long, long, long, long, long ways away at a very high cost, or get the gas that is just next door?”
    urlm.in/diab
    …-
    “The Spell of the Yukon”
    “No! There’s the land. (Have you seen it?)
    It’s the cussedest land that I know,
    From the big, dizzy mountains that screen it
    To the deep, deathlike valleys below.
    Some say God was tired when He made it;
    Some say it’s a fine land to shun;
    Maybe; but there’s some as would trade it
    For no land on earth — and I’m one.”
    Robert Service
    urlm.in/diaa

  19. Ban Ban Kimoon Report: Goreacle Report cancelled. manbearswineAGW has flown the coop; experts say, it has stress ‘fluen.
    Ptttawkkkk caw caw …..
    …-
    “UN red-faced after visit from KFC’s colonel
    Red-faced United Nations officials Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chicken’s “Colonel Sanders” gain access to restricted areas.
    The guard escorted the white-suited intruder past security barriers, where he got a handshake from the UN General Assembly president, Dr. Ali A. Treki of Libya. The faux fast food chain founder also posed for a picture beneath the assembly’s giant UN logo.
    “It should not have happened– that I will stress, and very strongly,” said Michele Montas, spokeswoman for UN secretary general Ban Kimoon.”
    urlm.in/diac
    …-
    “Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet”
    urlm.in/diad
    …-
    “UN signals delay in new climate change treaty”
    urlm.in/diae

  21. The PETApatter of O’Veal nude; sealed with a video.
    Ain’t show business great?
    …-
    “Let Them Eat Veal
    Immanuel Kant once observed that “he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.” I thought about Kant when I recently learned that the Obamas had graced their dog ‘Bo’ with a dog house shaped birthday cake made out of veal – that’s right, veal – the most expensive item on many a restaurant menu.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371818/posts
    …-
    “Pamela Anderson PETA Ad
    Pamela Anderson was the latest celebrity to star in a nude PETA ad.”
    http://www.mahalo.com/pamela-anderson-peta-ad

  22. Just cruised over to the CBC news website (don’t ask). They are reporting on the terrorist suicide bombings that claimed 155 live and who knows how many injuries.
    True to their mantra they only refer to the terrorists as “insurgents”. I guess one man’ terrorist is another man’s insurgent.
    Pull the plug on that outfit – now.

  23. Giggles, the Drama Queen, like the Bank Dick*, keeps her eyes/ears at the keyholes.
    Yes, Giggles, left-liberalism-socialism is a mental disorder.
    Here is da proof, and when you have a good proof, Jeancula Chretien says, …..
    …-
    “‘Flash mobster’ exposed”
    “3. Protester unplugged. After the drama had subsided on Parliament Hill yesterday, there were some questions to be answered. Who exactly were the young protesters disrupting Question Period with shouted demands of action on climate change? Thanks to the magic of YouTube there are some answers. One of the protesters, who appeared to be an organizer, looks exactly like one of the delegates to the NDP convention in Halifax last August. In the video, the protester is talking outside of Centre Block, explaining the purpose of the “flash mob” was to show support for a clean energy future. And then there is a clip of a young man, who looks much the same, at the microphone at the NDP convention asking a question about the tar sands. He also looks a lot like the protester, Joe Cressy, who was interviewed on CBC Newsworld five years ago and was one of the student spokespersons for the anti-George W. Bush protests that took place when the former U.S. president came to Ottawa.
    Yesterday afternoon, CTV News Channel’s Power Play host Tom Clark asked NDP leader Jack Layton if he knew anything about the protest. He did not. Meanwhile, the organizers behind the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition – the group that had been in Ottawa for four days to push MPs on the subject – denied any involvement in the protest. “We regret that for many youth who attended Question Period, which was intended to be an educational experience, left feeling hurt and unsatisfied,” said Amber Church, the National Director of the coalition.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/…

  24. Wow NuLabour is finally exposed for the radical socialist.commie zealots they are.
    Read this story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1222977/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-The-outrageous-truth-slips-Labour-cynically-plotted-transform-entire-make-Britain-telling-us.html
    Read the comments this one blew me away.
    To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution – but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future – the School recommended (among other things):
    1. The creation of racism offences.
    2. Continual change to create confusion
    3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
    4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
    5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
    6. The promotion of excessive drinking
    7. Emptying of churches
    8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
    9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
    10. Control and dumbing down of media
    11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
    Google it to find out more. We have been conned.
    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1222977/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-The-outrageous-truth-slips-Labour-cynically-plotted-transform-entire-make-Britain-telling-us.html#ixzz0V93YhRS7

  25. Re Yesterday’s Poppy Posting’s
    From Veterans Affairs Canada’s website
    Q&A section
    Can i wear my father’s(brother’s, relatives’)Medals?
    Medals may only be worn by the Veteran. It is a criminal offence to wear military medals that someone else has earned.

  26. Canada’s CBC is allied with Islam’s jihad. CBC suppresses vital/key information.
    CBC headline re-written:
    Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Muslim from Toronto, charged in charged with attempted murder.
    …-
    “Canadian charged in plot to attack Danish newspaper”
    “Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, a native of Pakistan and citizen of Canada who primarily resides in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 18. He was charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorism conspiracy involving Headley and at least three other individuals in Pakistan.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/27/canadian-terror-arrest.html

  27. Not sure how one gets from Harry James to Shackleton and thence to Pamela Anderson. I suspect Maz2 has something to do with it! Earnest Shackleton; what a great and determined man, what an
    Irishman was he! Okay, Pamela Anderson. great adventuress in silicon.

  29. No mention of President Bu.., er O’s quagmire.
    But, MSM’s Death Watch continues.
    …-
    “October new deadliest month for US in Afghanistan
    By Associated Press”
    urlm.in/diat

  30. Jema54 — Fascinating story. I love gold rush stories. How lucky you were to live in such a place.

  32. The Motunes – still causing outrage after all this time.
    2 Chicago Men Arrested for Overseas Terror Plot
    The U.S. Justice Department says two men in the city of Chicago have been arrested for plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the [false] Prophet Muhammad.

  33. Tommy Douglas* visits Ontario.
    …-
    “‘The problem is he was dead'”
    “When he started showing flu-like symptoms over the weekend, the family took Evan to a walk-in clinic. They told them to come back if he got worse.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/10/27/11544881.html
    …-
    *”Burnaby NewsLeader – New Edmonds branch to be named Tommy Douglas …
    Is it a good move to name a library in Burnaby after Tommy Douglas, known as the ‘Father of Medicare” and in 2004 named the ‘Greatest Canadian of All Time'”
    http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/…/51235107.html

  36. Rose @ 10:06 a.m.:
    To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution – but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future – the School recommended (among other things):
    1. The creation of racism offences.
    2. Continual change to create confusion
    3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
    4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
    5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
    6. The promotion of excessive drinking
    7. Emptying of churches
    8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
    9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
    10. Control and dumbing down of media
    11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
    This sounds like the standard Marxist-leftist agenda for the past century or so; I doubt it was conjured up for the Blair government. I’ll bet it ties in with the video on “political correctness” that was linked in one of these Reader Tips threads, from the Transylvania Phoenix blog on Oct. 14. I haven’t read the comments to the Melanie Phillips article but I presume the “School” is the Frankfurt School (of Marxism)?

  37. Kelly: This is the easy way to make a link small.
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