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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here’s a song about our Small Dead Animals’ (it’s only <up the street>) own Late Nite Radio show: here’s the Brooklyn, Bronx & Queens Band performing On The Beat, in 1981 (5:58).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
How’s about your company this evenin’?
Won’t you say that you are free?
Take you out to somewhere really special.
Oh won’t you come along with me.From what I’ve heard them say,
The music that they play,
Is nothin’ like you’ve ever heard before.
Once you get to dancin’ you can’t stop your feet,
Cause the rhythm keeps in time,
What do you say now?Are you ready or not?
It’s only up the street.
Everybody’s dancin’,
And everybody’s on the beat.Say that you’ll except this invitation.
Oh won’t you say you’ll come along?
Music can give lovers inspiration,
It’s just a place where we can go.Nobody has to care,
‘Cause there’s music in the air.
It’s nothin’ like you’ve ever seen before.
People dancin’… all night long,
Won’t you say you’ve got the time?
You wanna go there?Are you ready or not?
It’s only up the street.
Everybody’s dancin’,
And everybody’s on the beat.
The propensity of an endless stream of individuals on the Left to excuse away the murder of 13 people has absolutely no bounds. 🙁
Johnny is not a fan of Vitruvius:
“SmallDeadanimals.com is NOT a conservative blog, at least two of the contributors there supported Obama last election and the night host, Vitruvius recently opined that “conservatives are half wits”.”
Life is good when the ‘right’ people are pissed at you.
“Johnny went up the wrong street. I remember him from when I, Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, solved the case of the Killer’s Union in December, 1942. It was a sad story, Johnny’s story.”
SDH said “Life is good when the ‘right’ people are pissed at you.”
You know, people like to say that you are defined by your friends. No doubt it’s probably true. But there’s nothing more impressive than having powerful enemies.
Gord, I love the following quote:
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
I just hope Johnny’s last name isn’t Friendly, there could be in trouble; and a gasper Vitruvius? I always figured you as a whisky man.
I’m strictly liquor, love, & laughs, SDH. But I’ve got a dark brown overcoat.
My trench coat is tan.
If anyone is interested, http://correspondencecommittee.com/“ rel=”nofollow nofollow nofollow nofollow nofollow nofollow nofollow nofollow nofollow”>Correspondence Committee is putting up full episodes of James Burke’s Connections.
Tan? You were lucky!
The words below are from a comment found at a link I saw here (SDA) earlier today: http://www.economist.com/node/14382525/comments
“If Mr. Chavez should dare to nationalize or “expropriate” assets invested by a state entity from China, Russia, or Iran – he will quickly see his allies become lethal enemies. Venezuela cannot operate these rigs on their own (or they would) but they seem unable to negotiate business contracts in good faith with their partners either.”
“A man with as mercurial a tempermant as Mr. Chavez makes a poor dictator, since every industry and business that deals with him must factor in the large uncertianty of whether the government (Chavez) will steal them blind now or later.”
SDH said: “If anyone is interested, Correspondence Committee is putting up full episodes of James Burke’s Connections.”
Wonderful! For that, sir (or ma’am, as the case may be), thank you very much.
I have that series on DVD (watched it when it originally broadcast and actually paid for the collection, of course) but it’s terrific to know that it’s viewable online. I might have to turn off Fox News for a few hours now. 🙂
I suppose it’d be stupid/naive of me to suggest that Connections be required watching for school children in this country.
Merci again. James Burke is a history hero of mine.
We received the following today from the Saskatoon Police. Residents of Saskatoon and area may wish to honour this brave warrior.
Date: November 6, 2009 8:48
Release Number: 2009-0561
Subject: Traffic Advisory – Military Funeral Procession
The Saskatoon Police Service would like to inform motorists of several traffic closures which will take place Saturday, November 7, 2009, as part of the funeral procession for Lt. Justin Boyes.
The funeral escort will begin at the Saskatoon Funeral Home at 12:30 p.m. and take the following route;
South bound on 4th Avenue, West bound on 24th Street, South bound on Idylwyld Drive, South bound then East bound on Circle Drive, and South bound on Preston Avenue to Circle Drive Alliance Church.
The funeral escort to Woodlawn Cemetery is expected to begin at 2:00 p.m. and take the following route;
North bound on Preston Avenue to Circle Drive, West bound on Circle Drive to Idylwyld Drive, North bound on Idylwyld Drive, East bound on 33rd Street, 33rd Street to Woodlawn Cemetery.
Both routes will require temporary cross street closures along the way. Motorists are asked for their patience. Residents wanting to pay their respects along the procession route are asked to ensure they are parked off of main thoroughfares and utilize areas like the pedestrian walkways on the Sid Buckwold Bridge and Clarence Avenue overpass.
Steyn on the Fort Hood thing.
Meanwhile, back to tonight’s selection “On The Beat”, makes me want to take an Ibuprofen and dance.
Salutes to the Saskatoon Police Service. Non Nobis, Sed Patriae.
Thanks SDH – awesome – James Burke is so good. PiperPaul – check out “The Day the Universe Changed” by Burke, if you haven’t yet. Also fantastic.
And you’re so right PiperPaul – I would have loved something like that in school. I enjoyed Bronowski’s Ascent of Man at the time.
Here’s a question I just posed to Mark Steyn:
Mark,
After reading Melanie Phillips’ interesting piece, I began to wonder, “Which is less conservative these days, the Conservative Party of Canada or the same-named one in the UK?”
I have no idea of the answer but can’t think of anyone better suited to answer that question than you.
To Erik Larsen at 1:07 AM:
I’m quite familiar with Burke, and saw “The Day the Universe Changed” when it originally aired, but haven’t bought it yet.
Me being a curious person, his stuff changed me with his jumping around. History is NOT boring!
Good stuff.
“Got a light Mac?”
“No, but I’ve got a dark brown overcoat.”
Any results back from Ed’s leadership review? Can’t seem to find anything out there, and can’t get the G&M Twitter feed at work…
“Well, now it’s official. Global warmingism has court-warranted standing as a religion. And a 2,000-year-old religion is banned from manifesting its most precious symbol in front of the eyes of trauma-prone atheists. Lord, have mercy on us. Please.”
…-
“Rex Murphy
Crucifix out, warming in
What was once venerated is now, in many ways, dismissed and even despised.
Matthew Arnold, the great Victorian poet, marked the turning moment. He had early intimations of “the way we live now,” a way largely evacuated of its Christian allegiances, certainly – in the public sphere – evacuated of the regard and respect that the profession of Christianity once automatically evoked.
“The Sea of Faith/ Was once, too, at the full,” he wrote, before going on in lines of immense power to record:
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Arnold was more than a bit of a prophet. Blasted by the great cold winds of secularism and scientism, faith in the old sense, faith in Christianity in once or so-called Christian countries, is not only in decline and defensive. Faith is, at the public level, being actively pushed away, visited with dismissive scorn. At the same time, ideas, attitudes and “positions” that have never been seen under the rubric of faith increasingly seek the protections of “sanctified” belief.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/crucifix-out-warming-in/article1354734/
“*The Earth is warming,”.
AGW is the Religion of the State proclaimed by the National Post/MSM.
“The Earth (notice the capital “E” on earth) is warming”.
Where is the proof? If God is dead, prove to us that “The Earth is warming”.
…-
“Jim Prentice gets it right
“Canada is calling the bluff of Big Green and its army of unquestioning acolytes
National Post
The Earth is warming, and human activity is likely to blame.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2197134
Thanks, maz2, for Rex Murphy’s take on crucifixes being banned in Italian classrooms, an issue I noted on an earlier thread:
“Crucifixes in Italy – who would have guessed? It’s like going to Newfoundland and complaining about wharves.”
What we have in Canada — and in the West, in general — is the absurdity of giving lip service to freedom of religion and freedom of expression while saying to believing Christians: Sure you can be a Christian, you just can’t talk about it or display any of your symbols in public places?
What freedom? As Rex Murphy ends his piece in the G&M:
“Lord, have mercy on us [Kyrie Eleison]. Please.
“Is everything sacred – except religion?”
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/major-nidal-malik-hasan-fort-hood-shootings-110509
[begin quote]
… Hasan told classmates he was “a Muslim first and an American second.”
Hasan recently was involved in a spat with another Fort Hood soldier … apparently related to his Muslim beliefs.
… the other soldier, John Van de Walker, allegedly keyed Hasan’s car and also removed and tore up a bumper sticker that read “Allah is Love.” Thompson said Van de Walker had been in Iraq and was upset to learn that Hasan was Muslim.
A report filed with Killeen police on Aug. 16 indicates that Hasan’s vehicle, a 2006 Honda Civic, had been scratched by an unknown object causing an estimated $1,000 worth of damage. The report indicates that Van de Walker, 30, was arrested on Oct. 21 and charged with criminal mischief. The matter has been referred for prosecution, according to the report.”
[end quote]
So, revenge on Hasan’s part for $1000-damage to his car necessitated killing 13 people? This is the kind of “proportion” we see amongst Islamofascists — and our leftard surrender monkeys bend over backwards to paint him as a victim. When are the rest of us going to declare ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?
Disproportionate and misguided “multiculturalism” is killing our democratic freedoms, is killing our Western Civilization. When Islamofascists have more rights than law-abiding citizens who can no longer count on “equality” with visible minorities from leaders in their governmental, military, and judicial institutions it seems like pretty much game over.
Glug. Glug. Glug. There goes over 2000 years of civilization down the drain.
Goreacle Report:
Ridiculous/inane headline:
> “Iceberg pops up near island*”.
(A must see pic.)
Iceberg melt will raise sea levels? Right?
Cooling continues down while CO2 increases.
…-
“October 2009 3rd Coldest for US in 115 Years, What about the Upcoming Winter?
7 11 2009
Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo AMS fellow, CCM
NCDC has compiled the October temperatures and it ended up the 3rd coldest in 115 years. As we have shown it was cold over almost all the lower 48. Indeed only Florida came in above normal. There is no [NOAA/NCDC] press release out yet but it should be interesting.”
“Also the University of Alabama global temperature is out and it is down this month. Hadley came in late for September but it was down. The trends since 2002 continue down for both even as CO2 rise.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/07/october-2009-3rd-coldest-for-us-in-115-years-what-about-the-upcoming-winter/
“*Iceberg pops up near island
The iceberg, estimated to be 500m long and 50m high, …”.
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/11/07/108371_tasmania-news.html
So if you get 5 years in prison under Pelosi’s health care. Cal. is kicking prisoners out of jail because they can’t afford them. Is there a word that goes furthur than stupid?
Kelly McParland gets it.
His article in today’s National Post:
End the monarchy and you cancel Canada
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/07/defending-charles.aspx
What the … ?
The two headlines in the National Post about the Fort Hood massacre:
Muslims fight to control Fort Hood attack fallout (uh huh)
and
Military searching for motives in doctor’s alleged shooting rampage (duh)
One begins to understand what motivated the Desert Fathers to abandon “civilization” to live in the wilderness.
Poll at thestar.com asks if the long gun registery should be scraped.
I will let you guess how I voted.
Want to see the iron-in-a-velvet-glove-fist come down on the wrong side of the tax collector? Or, how does your benevolent government react when you don’t do as your told?
How about harassing you for multiple years with the full resources of the state directed at you by professional bureaucrats – who have another 10 years until their pension starts rolling in.
People, this is your government:
Doctor who suggested oilsands-cancer link cleared of misconduct charge
Florence Loyie, Canwest News Service Published: Saturday, November 07, 2009
EDMONTON — An embattled family physician who raised concerns about a possible link between Alberta’s oilsands and cancer rates in a remote aboriginal community received vindication this week when he was cleared of causing “undue alarm.”
Dr. John O’Connor found himself in hot water after he claimed in 2003 and 2004 that residents of Fort Chipewyan, Alta., had unusually high rates of blood, colon, bile-duct and liver cancer….The province did a statistical analysis of all cancer cases reported in Fort Chipewyan and found no evidence of elevated cancer rates in the community compared to the rest of the local health region or all of Alberta….In 2007, Health Canada physicians laid four complaints of professional misconduct against O’Connor….including:
“engendering a sense of mistrust in government in Fort Chipewyan”….
Last February, O’Connor received some vindication when the Alberta Cancer Board released a study that found higher-than-expected rates of some rare cancers among residents in Fort Chipewyan, about 700 kilometres north of Edmonton.
On Friday, O’Connor was informed he had been cleared of the remaining charge.
“The college has closed the file,” O’Connor said. “There are no more complaints and I am in good standing with the college. For me, this removes a big monkey off my back. I feel years younger.”
Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2197721#ixzz0WCe2uRSY
There is a Liberal H1N1 rant on Liblogs about an BC
Editorial by Eugene Parks, Victoria where he blames
Harper for the Flu.
The title is Thanks for nothing Stepehn Harper.
When I read it the first thing that came to my mind was that it sounded alot like Warren K’s H1N1 rant.
I bet you a million dollars that WK is writing H1N1 rants in papers using a fake idenity
RE: the European Human Rights Court and crucifixes in Italy.
RE: inversion of victimhood at Fort Hood.
Two generations ago the term “human rights” meant individual freedom and the right to be free from arbitrary persecution by government.
Today “human rights” means the freedom of elitist governments and their agencies to persecute citizens in the name of minority sensitivities and to facilitate the destruction of western culture.
When leftards take hold of a perfectly good word or phrase, they work ceaselessly to invert its meaning.
CBCpravda missed this one.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091107/ignatieff_aides_091107/20091107?hub=QPeriod