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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Stan Getz, Jim McNeely, Marc Johnson, and Victor Lewis, as the Stan Getz Quartet, performing Desafinado and Girl from Ipanema ¤ (7:26).

For those listeners who are, like me, fans of Stan, here for the record and your ease of access are our previous Late Nite Radio shows featuring Mr. Getz: 2009-08-11, 2009-06-07, 2008-12-02, 2008-08-26, 2008-07-02, and 2007-10-20.

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

56 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. The state intrudes – Babies learn about their “rights”
    . . .
    As the first baby to be born at the Trillium Health Centre today – entering the world at 12:18 a.m. – he received a special visit from Success By 6 Peel’s Children’s Rights Committee.
    . . .
    was the first of 20 babies at Trillium to receive, among other treats, a Onesie bodysuit with Peel Children’s Charter of Rights listed on the back.

  3. Jean Charest giving a big speech about how virtuous he and the Quebec government is because they believe in the science of climate change and because they will be doing so much to cut down on carbon emissions. Of course Mother Nature has blessed Quebec with water power and the rest of the package is just parsley on top (helping municipalities to go more green, etc.)
    Of course he is all for this scam because it is another way of having more equalization money going to Quebec, just in another currency, i.e. carbon credits. At the expense of Alberta of course.
    If only he would promise never to give another speech in order to to cut down on the hot air…What a pompous ass. Can’t believe people still think of him as a future prime minister of Canada.

  5. ?
    who’s going to enforce babies’ rights?
    my personal experience is the one who you *think* and whose *job description* has them defending your rights, are the first to breach them.
    does this mean we will have retroactive abortion in the future at the trillium?

  7. George Monbiot ? George Monbiot ?
    Now where have I heard that name before ? A global warming fanatic, right ?
    Well, if he can say this , why n’ he!! can’t our beloved CBC even mention the biggest fraud story the world has ever seen !!!!!?????
    ——
    Even George Monbiot, one of the fiercest media propagandists of the warming faith, admits he should have been more sceptical and says the science now needs to be rechecked:
    It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.
    Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.
    Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign. Some of the data discussed in the emails should be re-analysed.

  9. Anthony Watts says it all;
    —————
    If even Monbiot, an extremist, can say that much, why cannot the Liberals say far more? And will now the legion of warmist journalists in our own media dare say as Monbiot has so belatedly:
    [I apologise. I was too trusting of some of those who provided the evidence I championed. I would have been a better journalist if I had investigated their claims more closely.] Monbiot
    Scepticism is the essential disposition of our craft, yet too many journalists have abandoned it. Remember: the opposite of sceptical is gullible.
    ————–
    Al & David, anything to add?

  10. more on the rot in motor city aka detoilet michigan:
    3w.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6926247.ece

  11. Ron
    Our MSM can’t tells us anything about this scandal. They’re too busy still telling us about Michael Jackson dying.

  12. Oh, snap. NBC has pulled down the Obama-Hu skit from SNL. It’s available on their website, but of course, we can’t watch it from Canada as Global doesn’t allow it.

  17. Someone left me this line on a YouTube video of Obama supporters dancing in the streets of Seattle, after his victory last November:
    Obama is spending my money like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse, using his ex-girlfriend’s credit card the same night she gave him a Dear John letter.

  19. I think the lieberal handlers have handed both Iggy and Borat Dion a great big cup of shut the f**k up.
    they know that both of them are causing a tank in the polls. only Bob the Blab Rae on deck right now while they rig a new rudder.

  20. Simpson, Jeffrey to me show details 7/22/08
    With respect, I have spent some years reading the “science,” and am in profound disagreement with you, as are all the governments of Canada (even Alberta and Saskatchewan accept the reality of climate change), the two major parties in the U.S., all of Europe, even China and India and Brazil, and the overwhelming number of scientific academics such as the Royal Society, the National Association of Scientists plus almost all of them in Canada. No one seriously believes that sun spots stuff. But there’s nothing I could say or point you to that would make you change your mind. Polls here show that about 10 per cent of Canadians deny the relaty of global warming, and as the song says “they will not be moved.” It’s frustrating, I guess, because the world has passed them completely by, so they bray at the moon.

  23. that would be the same governments that run the post office and the ERCB that “accept” “the science” of AGW.
    what have we wrought?
    or should that be
    What have we? rot!!

  24. mmmm, so Jeffrey, when can we expect a piece on how the science was cooked, er, is settled ?

  25. “Nemanya” maz2!
    According to allegations in a new Russian-language book, it appears that former Olympics pooh-bah Juan Antonio Samaranch played with both sides of the coin of 20th century totalitarianism.
    It is alleged that Samaranch – as the outgoing Spanish ambassador to Moscow in 1980 – caught the attention of “Herr Rupprecht’s” “Kind Good Boys”, and the Red spooks “set about cultivating Mr Samaranch as a contact.”
    No word on whether this led to the Beijing propaganda coup of 2008 (taking into account warming post-1989 Sino-Soviet and Russo-Chinese relations) – but the book does hint that Juan Antonio twisted arms for Sochi’s successful 2014 bid.

  27. mr fort hood shrink not doing too well:
    3w.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/11/23/2009-11-23_fort_hood_shooting_suspect_maj_nidal_malik_hasan_permanently_paralyzed_from_ches.html

  28. “The Architect as Totalitarian
    Le Corbusier’s baleful influence
    Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one sense, he had less excuse for his activities than Pol Pot: for unlike the Cambodian, he possessed great talent, even genius. Unfortunately, he turned his gifts to destructive ends, and it is no coincidence that he willingly served both Stalin and Vichy. Like Pol Pot, he wanted to start from Year Zero: before me, nothing; after me, everything. By their very presence, the raw-concrete-clad rectangular towers that obsessed him canceled out centuries of architecture. Hardly any town or city in Britain (to take just one nation) has not had its composition wrecked by architects and planners inspired by his ideas.
    Writings about Le Corbusier often begin with an encomium to his importance, something like: “He was the most important architect of the twentieth century.” Friend and foe would agree with this judgment, but importance is, of course, morally and aesthetically ambiguous. After all, Lenin was one of the most important politicians of the twentieth century, but it was his influence on history, not his merits, that made him so: likewise Le Corbusier.
    Yet just as Lenin was revered long after his monstrosity should have been obvious to all, so Le Corbusier continues to be revered. Indeed, there is something of a revival in the adulation.”
    http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_otbie-le-corbusier.html

  29. ‘Trying to post on the Freddy Mercury thread and there’s a server problem … is it just me or is there a general problem?

  30. “The Architect as Totalitarian
    Le Corbusier’s baleful influence
    Obsessed with concrete, Le Corbusier called this a ‘garden’
    Rene Burri/Magnum Photos
    Le Corbusier was to architecture what Pol Pot was to social reform. In one sense, he had less excuse for his activities than Pol Pot: for unlike the Cambodian, he possessed great talent, even genius. Unfortunately, he turned his gifts to destructive ends, and it is no coincidence that he willingly served both Stalin and Vichy. Like Pol Pot, he wanted to start from Year Zero: before me, nothing; after me, everything. By their very presence, the raw-concrete-clad rectangular towers that obsessed him canceled out centuries of architecture. Hardly any town or city in Britain (to take just one nation) has not had its composition wrecked by architects and planners inspired by his ideas.
    Writings about Le Corbusier often begin with an encomium to his importance, something like: “He was the most important architect of the twentieth century.” Friend and foe would agree with this judgment, but importance is, of course, morally and aesthetically ambiguous. After all, Lenin was one of the most important politicians of the twentieth century, but it was his influence on history, not his merits, that made him so: likewise Le Corbusier.
    Yet just as Lenin was revered long after his monstrosity should have been obvious to all, so Le Corbusier continues to be revered. Indeed, there is something of a revival in the adulation.”
    http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_otbie-le-corbusier.html

  32. The goracle in today’s Toronto Star—“”They have to tear up four tons of landscape, all for one barrel of oil. It is truly nuts. But, you know, junkies find veins in their toes.” I am hoping that Gore will soon be spending a lot of quality time with junkies really soon.—http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/environment/article/729836–oil-sands-threaten-our-survival-al-gore-warns

  34. I see google ads are furiously pushing all kinds of nature ads from groups like Nature Canada.ca and the World Wildlife Foundation. They are appearing on many of the web pages exposing the Climategate fraud. They just wont quit will they.

  36. It dont look good Mr Benny
    Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential tracking poll for Tues Nov.24/2009
    -15
    this is the Lowest Obama has yet to recieve
    27% strongly approve
    42% Stongly Disapprove

  39. If the Libranos were pi$$ing taxpayer cash away on self promotion, the Cons might be a little miffed about it.
    …Instead, these private organizations are happy to pi$$ away your money for their own benefit…
    Tory MP apologizes for erroneous flyer
    Joan Bryden THE CANADIAN PRESS
    Published On Mon Nov 23 2009
    OTTAWA–A Conservative MP has apologized for misrepresenting an opponent in one of many controversial flyers his party has been mailing – at taxpayers’ expense – across the country.
    The apology came Monday just as a secretive all-party committee was meeting to discuss what, if any, limits should be placed on so-called ten-percenters – one-page flyers that MPs are entitled to mail to households outside their own ridings.
    Saskatoon MP Maurice Vellacott apologized “explicitly” and “without reservation” for the flyer sent to New Democrat MP Peter Stoffer’s riding about the long gun registry. The flyer asserted that Stoffer had “worked to support the registry” when in fact he has opposed it since its inception 12 years ago.
    Vellacott appeared to suggest that the flyer was produced by the Tory party and not by him or his staff, even though it went out under his name.
    “I have received an undertaking from our Conservative resource group that in the future they will proofread more carefully and nuance more appropriately any ten percenter mail pieces that are sent out under my name,” he said…..
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/729766–tory-mp-apologizes-for-erroneous-flyer

  40. J.E. Dyer, Going Rogue: The Review
    I just finished Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. I’m particularly busy right now, so the fact that I postponed other things that really need doing in order to read through it quickly is testament to the interest Palin’s account sustains…
    What [Ronald Reagan] had going for him was more than an articulate appreciation of principle: he had moral courage. And that brings us back to Sarah Palin, and Going Rogue. My opinion on the Palin phenomenon is that what so many people see in her is an electable politician with moral courage. She is electable not merely because she is attractive and energetic, but because her conservatism – what she calls “Commonsense Conservatism” – is principled without shorting pragmatism. She recognizes a proper role for government, but not the idea of government as eschatological agent that even many conservatives have. What Going Rogue does is spell out Palin’s concept of governance; and it is sure to requite the anticipation of her many supporters…

  42. And here’s another feel good moment brought to to you by the big “O”.
    The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce that the DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).http://www.adc.org//

  45. Isn’t it curious that actual justice is achieved in a despotic dictatorship, and not in western democracies…
    China executes 2 for tainted milk powder scandal
    The Associated Press
    China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick.
    Zhang Yujun was executed for endangering public safety and Geng Jinping was executed for producing and selling toxic food, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
    Their sentences were upheld in March by an appellate court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang. China requires death sentences to receive final approval from the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing, after which most are carried out by lethal injection.
    Xinhua said news of the execution had been issued by the Shijiazhuang Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, although a court clerk who answered the phone Tuesday said he was unable to confirm the sentences had been carried out.
    The case was one of China’s worst-ever food safety scandals, involving tainting of infant formula with the industrial chemical melamine, which can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.
    Melamine, used in the manufacture of plastics and fertilizer, was added to watered-down milk to fool inspectors testing for protein, and to boost profits.

  46. xiat, other than a few changes in North America, that would describe the thinking of 97% of Canadians!
    The changes, by the way, would be:
    Canada: “Home, Sweet Home”
    USA: “Home of Disneyland & Disneyworld”
    Mexico: “Winter Margarita Fun”

  47. Kate: CFP has a new column up by Dr Tim Ball about John Holdren, Obama`s Science Czar and his tie in to Climategate….thought you might like to link….

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