Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Charles Mingus, Don Pullen, George Adams, Gerry Mulligan, Benny Bailey, and Dannie Richmond performing is the second half of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ¤, in Montreux, in 1975 (9:30). This song is named after the passing of the great saxophonist Lester Young, who wore a pork pie hat.
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Socialism, the number one reason why Cities run out of water.
Water rationing for Venezuela’s capital city
odd that the cap worn by sport’s car afficionados….golfers….cool jazz enthusiasts…and englishmen has never reached the gustatory brand recognition of the pork pie hat…
i refer of course to what is termed by millions across the anglo-saxon world as the ‘cheese slicer’….
i share these little lapidary insights for fear they may be lost to future generations..
The average Democrat voter, as exemplified by the mind of a 7 year-old: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/television/1859029,CST-FTR-people02.article
PRICELESS!!!
Ancillary Canadian angle: What age would be the child’s mind that represents the average NDP voter?
Mr. Begley, I’ll have you know I have two (2) cheese (cutters) I call them, and I neither golf, own a sports car, nor play an instrument, though I do like to listen to light jazz and Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson and the like. though not while wearing the hat.
Muslim woman admits to carrying USB drive with 7,000 files for the “Brothers of the Mujahadeen” at Liverpool airport
“It had been tied to the inner sleeve of her burka, but fell out as she reached down to scratch her leg … It was described by police as “a mini encyclopaedia of weapons-making.”
All together now, in your best Lefty voice:
Not all USB drives are used for terrorism.
Robert…Sad part is,when the little indoctrinated twit is old enough to vote, the One he humped for won’t be calling elections.
larben..
you’re quite right…cheese ‘cutter’ is the correct word….
there is no excuse for my error so i won’t proffer one…
a thought tho…what to make of carmen miranda?
Cheese cutter hat…trivia.. I seem to recall that the Liverpool folks (dock workers) were known to place razer blades into the peak of that hat.. a slap with that hat left a nasty gash…. (an old RCN warning to sailors)
I’m not sure what the general feelings of the Olympics are here on SDA but I just got an earful from a social networking site I belong to called Couch Surfing.
I left my own thoughts there too (21st one down). I wonder if most of these people are on some serious meds?!
Mr. Begley- It seems to me (though before my time) that she wore a kind of fruit salad upon her lovely head. I will stick with my cutters and fedoras. Not a good fedora as the last hat store, The Manly Hat Store went out of business some years back.
Can we please abolish the monarchy?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gZgqO9InU0i1tAhF_r7JrOuD4r0Q
Seriously though I hope Queen Elizabeth lives forever, because I can’t stand the thought of having this imbecile’s face all over my currency.
With any luck, Chrles will never get near a throne. I think his Mom wants the grandkid to take over.
All hail King William (V)!
This I found to be a very interesting conjecture about cultural development though four individual generational arch types.
I don’t know how much stock to put into it.
It is a very elegant theory but then so many are.
A Study in Cycle Theory:
The Convergence of 2012 Part 3
by Mary Miller, Director of Research
As we continue the study of cycle theory, the work of Neil Howe and William Strauss has been applauded in secular circles as “visionary.” Indeed, their book The Fourth Turning is provocative in addressing the cycle they believe America is in at this moment. In their 1997 work, Howe and Strauss defined four repeating generational archetypes: 1) Hero (raised protectively as children); 2) Artist (raised during a time of crisis); 3) Prophet (raised during post-crisis affluence); and 4) Nomad (raised during times of cultural upheavals).
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2008/883
Don Martin’s confused comments on the vaccination story have the most important point made so far-
“While precise statistics are hard to come by, the few provinces posting innoculation progress are a long way from exhausting their allocated shipments, even while they complain about an imminent delivery slowdown this week.”
If the provinces have more unused vaccine,the number of doses the feds make available is irrelevant ; it means the problems are shown to be with the provincial distribution not with the feds.
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2174950
“Is the media guilty of generating swine flu panic?
Yes 90%
No 10%
urlm.in/dixt (CTV)
A message for the despicable, craven Iffy Liberal known as Hurricane Al, aka Alfred Apps, he of the TO Liberal party and the Separatist Coalition.
Apps is President of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Liberal Party members: will you demand Apps’ resignation? Does Apps need medical attention?
More here*.
“Arlene King, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, reiterated yesterday that “in the vast majority of cases,” people who get the H1N1 flu will recover on their own with no medical help. It’s a message that health officials should keep driving home. Richard Schabas, Ontario’s former health officer, notes that a child in Canada is 20 times more likely to die in a car accident than of H1N1 flu.
Fortunately, most people seem to be getting that message.
Lineups at clinics such as the one at Metro Hall were much shorter Monday, as the panicky feeling of previous days waned. Rather than rant about the supposed failures of health officials, sensible people will calm down, weigh the risks and carry on.”
“Marcus Gee
Panic and blame won’t help cure the flu
It is natural to question public health authorities, but they have done reasonably well considering the circumstances”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/panic-and-blame-wont-help-cure-the-flu/article1348984/
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Apps shakes hands with Iffy at the office?
Apps’ e-mail* is here.
“Anyway, before you read the e-mail, here’s a few points to bear in mind:
1. If Apps seriously thinks the Prime Minister would let Canadians die to save a few bucks on vaccine, he needs to get hold of himself, and perhaps seek medical assistance.”
“Liberal president Alf Apps suggests cost-conscious Tories were willing to let Canadians suffer”
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/02/346918.aspx
“*Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn’t mean you’re smart
IS GEORGE W. BUSH stupid?”
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“Alberta students protest ‘femimenace’
Students take offence to university president’s remarks”
“I think the growth in female enrolment is encouraging news. But there are still under-represented groups that need representation, (such as) aboriginals and low-income (earners).”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/11/03/11615366-sun.html
*urlm.in/dixv
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via giggles taber…
“Did the Ignatieff Liberals really plant one of their own
to complain on national television about the shortage
of vaccine?”
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Down with the ‘rats.
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“Fund office or shut it down, says Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page” (googlenews)
Fund office or shut it down, says Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page
(CP) – 1 hour ago
OTTAWA — Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page says he will recommend his operation of monitoring the government’s financial performance be shut down if he does not receive sufficient resources.
Page says he still has not been told whether his budget will increase to the recommended $2.8 million, which he says he needs to do his work. Page has been a thorn in the side of the government with his reports questioning Finance Department estimates of deficits and other issues.
He says several staffers are on loan from other departments and if he doesn’t have a critical mass of qualified personnel to do the work, he will recommend the office be shut down.
In testimony to the House finance committee, Page says the government has also been slow in giving him needed information on how Ottawa’s infrastructure stimulus is being implemented.
He says the information he does have suggests the government may not be able to spend all the money it has set aside to stimulate the economy and says Ottawa should extend the deadline so that stimulus does not lapse.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Alberta+shots+success+Liepert/2176446/story.html
Alberta Flu clincs are a success?
Just like the maiden voyage of the Titantic!
Funny that about Kevin Page.
The Accountability Act and campaign promises from the cons pledged to create an independent (it’s not, it reports through the Library) budget office that would scrutinize government spending and forecasts (it does, but with inadequate resources and an absence of support from the Cons).
Ostensibly, the office was supposed to stop the gov’t (Libranos et al) from gerrymandering budget estimates and screwing the public with misinformation and deliberate lies.
Now, with that said.
Why are the Cons dropping off 5,000 pages of hardcopy on their doorstep the same day as Ralph Baird/John Goodale appears before committee?
It’s because the Cons are the Libranos when it comes to rewarding friends, doling out cash to preferred businesses, and doing regional vote buying.
Librano or Con, its the same old song.
A CBC lawyer and Ont gov’t media appointee on leave to the OLO appearing without disclosure on the CBC. What could possibly go wrong?
Say it with me: “What leadership?”
Anthony H. Cordesman, The Afghan Decision: The Defining Test of Obama’s Leadership
If Abdullah’s decision to withdraw from a second round of voting holds, President Obama must then make a decision that will define his presidency. President Obama will have to take personal responsibility for the outcome of the war in Afghanistan, betting his historical reputation and second term on the outcome.
At the same time, far more is at stake than the President’s reputation. Obama must chose a strategy and a set of plans and actions that will determine the outcome of the war in Afghanistan and shape much of the course of the struggle against Jihadism and the search for regional stability in Central and South Asia over the next decade and beyond…
Multiculturalism, the bane of civilisation:
Geoffrey Luck, Eurislam – A Model for Australia?
Population, the sleeping dog of politics, and its kennel companion immigration, have been off the national debate agenda in Australia. They are now being woken up by projections of a population of 35 million by the middle of the century, a startling increase in immigration numbers and a new surge of illegal asylum seekers. A new book with a searing assessment of the effects of immigration on Europe has arrived just in time to warn Australia what to expect—a cultural revolution…
Two Yen @ 12:56 – Why this bias against the Prince of Wales? Charles is the next in line to the throne and he’s waited his turn and has some good ideas; like dropping the State religion nonsense, though I think the monarch should have to be Christian at least. William is far too young and there will be plenty of time for him, in the meantime, lets not hurry Elizabeth from her rightful position.
The Prince admits he is an Idiot, on WWF letterhead, no-less. In an apologetic letter to a great Canadian.
As a matter of fact, I wear a cheese cutter every day.
Mr. Begley – may I call you “Groinpuller” for old times’ sake? or perhaps “the Living Groinmaster”? – as to what to make of Carmen Miranda, I would say she would make an excellent Miranda warning.
And anyway, where in the world is Carmen? San Diego?
Do people know how many staff Michelle Obama requires as First Lady? 22.
canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652
Cbc has a poll up on the swine flu ‘crisis’.—-http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2009/11/do-you-think-the-government-mishandled-the-swine-flu-vaccination-process.html—-
CFRA Polls
“Do you agree with the Conservative government’s clampdown on refugee approvals? Latest numbers show the number of successful refugee claims plummeted 56% since the Harper government took power.”
“Yes 95.2%
No 4.35%
Other 0.38%
Total Votes: 1308”
http://www.cfra.com/polls/default.asp
Via maz2:
“Is the media guilty of generating swine flu panic?
Yes 90%
No 10%
When was this poll on the CTV Web site? It doesn’t seem to be there now …
The evolution of fear mongering ends up in its’ rightful place: the Church
Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
Al’s Gore’s much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.
In his latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, the man who won a Nobel prize in 2007 for his touring slideshow on disappearing polar ice and other consequences of climate change, concludes: “Simply laying out the facts won’t work.”
Instead, Gore tells Newsweek magazine in a pre-publication interview, that he has been adapting his fact-based message – now put out by hundreds of volunteers – to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to protect the planet.
“I’ve done a Christian [-based] training program; I have a Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up, also a Hindu program coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It’s probably my favourite version, but I don’t use it very often because it can come off as proselytising,” Gore tells Newsweek.
http://worldbbnews.com/2009/11/gores-spiritual-argument-on-climate/
I’ll try this again.If it doesn’t work you can go to the cbc main page and then to ‘your voice’.Right now,the hysterical side is at 55%,the informed side is at 42%,Ignatieff is at 3%. http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2009/11/do-you-think-the-government-mishandled-the-swine-flu-vaccination-process.html
Ok,that link works. It will be interesting if cbc will report on it if it doesn’t go their way. Speaking of their way,they had Susan Smith on Power and Politics again,described as a person from Bluesky Mgmt. Later Ms. Bennett,liberal health critic, was spewing and stammering about the ‘crisis’. She was calling Solomon “Kevin”. Which brings up another health issue. When does self-prescribing become an addiction issue? If Libby ever loses her East Vancouver seat…….
Can anyone explain to me why Google never lists SDA as one of my “most visited” sites, seeing as it’s the first blog I visit every day and many other times before I go to bed?
A whole lot of the other sites I go to ARE listed, but not SDA.
Hmmmm … what’s going on?
Michael Caine switches allegiance to Conservatives
Not all USB drives are used for terrorism.
Posted by: Mississauga Matt at November 2, 2009 10:16 PM
And not all terrorists are USB drives.
Actually, Angry in the Great White North, Blue Like You, and Stephen Taylor aren’t listed either, whereas sites I seldom go to are. This is weird.
“Europe’s elite celebrated”.
The elites are socialists. Socialists are not the poor, the working people, the farmer, the small business people.
Socialists are the apex of the socialist pyramid.
Socialists are the monied people, the intellectuals, the cultured people.
The elites are the neo-communists/fascists.
Their victory, however is a hollow victory.
Europe is now a backwater; a relic of history, consigned to the ash heap of history.
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“Lisbon treaty signing leads to new dawn in Europe
Europe’s elite celebrated the imminent arrival of its first president last night as the last lingering resistance to the Lisbon treaty fell away with the stroke of a pen in Prague.”
(Times)