Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, as Cream, performing Rollin’ and Tumblin’, from their Fresh Cream album, in 1966 (4:54). Interestingly, perhaps, I used to listen to this on my Astraltune while skiing the mogul field under the then Great Divide chair on Lookout Mountain (now marked as 64 and 65 on the map), way too fast, back in the early ’70s. The combination of the song, the speed, and the moguls sure put my The Ski skis, Burt bindings, and Humanic boots to good use 😉
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An amazing interview with Andrew Klavan, a lefty who found the light (right). Too many good quotes to list but I really think this one separates the left from the right “…no system will make us good or fair but that there are systems that can keep us free so that we can choose whether or not to be good or fair.
http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/10/andrew-klavan-my-way-into-and-out-of-the-left-by-jamie-glazov/
Charles Krauthammer, The new socialism
The idea of essentially taxing hardworking citizens of the democracies to fill the treasuries of Third World kleptocracies went nowhere, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher (and the debt crisis of the early ’80s). They put a stake through the enterprise.
But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism.
One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques.
Politically it’s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man’s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale, too…
“Guelph woman arrested in Harper threat case
GUELPH — Guelph Police and the RCMP have arrested a Guelph woman following investigation into a series of phone calls placed to the Calgary constituency office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The series of calls were placed between August and November this year – as were related calls placed to the RCMP office in Ottawa.
As a result of the investigation, a 54-year-old Guelph woman was arrested Wednesday. She faces charges of uttering deaths threats, harassment and public mischief.
Robin Gallant is to appear in court next month.”
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/573685
Canada, not India, should buy one of the British carriers if it’s on offer. We could call it Nabob, Puncher, or Bonaventure…
Shashank Joshi, Sixty-five thousand tonnes of ambition
Britain’s imperial control over India was secured by its mastery of the seas, what strategists today call ‘command of the commons’. The very idea that the United Kingdom could sell one of the Royal Navy’s – and indeed the nation’s – most potent political and military assets to its erstwhile colony is therefore of considerable symbolic importance – both because of the geopolitical inversion that it represents, and also the implications for India’s ascent from a regional to global power.
In November 2009, The Guardian reported that one of Britain’s two forthcoming Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers, each costing $2bn, could be sold to India as part of next year’s strategic defence review. India is reported to have lodged ‘a firm expression of interest’…
The Enquirer knows: ” Obama Skips King’s Dinner”, “Unsure As To Bow /Curtsy Protocol for Norwegian Royalty”.
TGIF, eh
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2217032
SCIENCE ISN’T ON THE SIDE OF COPENHAGEN CROWD
Posted 5 hours ago
I CAN’T BE the only one struck by the fascinating juxtaposition of articles on the front of Wednesday’s Niagara Falls Review.
Across the bottom, intended as a call to action on the impending climate catastrophe but reading more like a Green Party advertorial, was a piece from local resident and activist Melanie Mullen.
She is reporting direct from Copenhagen, where alarmists from around the world have gathered for the announced purpose of limiting CO2 emissions, thereby saving the planet.
And directly above the Mullen article?
Why, a report about Fort Erie council approving a zoning change to allow a race car track on 820 acres of farmland to accommodate up to 100,000 fans, their accompanying RVs, and of course the fuel-guzzling emission-spewing racing cars themselves.
Talk about the mother of all carbon footprints.
It’s certainly not my place to ascribe the motives of individual councillors. However, it would seem that when there’s a chance to bring some business, people and jobs to the community, then climate-change considerations will have to take a back seat.
In this case, so they should.
I hope that as the Copenhagen gasfest continues, Melanie Mullen will, in one of her future reports, address recent revelations that have thrown into doubt the entire body of climate science.
Until a couple of weeks back, global warming skeptics were dismissed as kooks, malcontents, and even compared to Holocaust deniers.
But the discovery of thousands of emails from the U. K.’s East Anglia University, a kind of HQ for global warming academics and their data, shows the science is anything but settled even among the believers.
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In a nutshell, the emails show conclusively that scientists doctored the raw data so their computer models would produce the required result.
If you don’t believe it, just go to junkscience.com,or smalldeadanimals.comand it’s all there.
The world may indeed be warming, but it now appears this is a natural occurrence. Therefore, shouldn’t we -and the Copenhagen participants -be concentrating efforts on dealing with the effects of warming, rather than its causes?
Sadly, that’s not likely to happen.
There are way too many livelihoods at risk in the climate-change industrial complex inhabited by David Suzuki, Al Gore and an army of academics.
However, let’s be optimistic: Warming will mean a longer growing season and maybe a longer racing season at the Canadian Motor Speedway. Joe Hvilivitzky,
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Yeah, it probably was me, or my best friend Jim, you met on Standish, Peter ~ the other one of us wouldn’t have been far away. We used to ski Jerry’s Run a lot when it was too cold to come off Lookout behind Brewster rock (that was my favourite, just where the trees start to poke up through the snow, say from 25 to the lower 24 on the map). Also, we liked jumping off that cliff to the west of the Standish chair (between 50 and 52 on the map): for my taste the end of Delirium Dive was more trouble that it was worth (the Wolverine and Tee Pee Town chairs, and the entire Goat’s Eye development not yet existing), so we didn’t ski it that often (though I will say that the view of Mt. Assiniboine up that valley you could see from the top of the Lookout corniche was breath-taking, many people skiied there all their lives and never climbed up to see that view). The Astraltune was indeed in that blue, nylon chest pack; I doubt there were any other folks but Jim and I around with them, one blue and one yellow The Ski, and Burt 1s 😉
By the way, were you ever in one of the school busses
when it went over the edge? Barrel of laughs, I tell ya.
Advice for Tiger;
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
(PDF warning) I.A. McGregor, Telescoped Ammunition: A Future Lightweight Compact Ammunition?
Here’s an interesting insight into the circus going on in Copenhagen.
One key snippet:
The delegation from Bolivia will be pushing for a Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Rights, which the country’s President Evo Morales says “supersede the rights of human beings.”
Here’s a perfect example of the suppression of any real debate in Copenhagen. Watch Phelim McAleer’s simple question ignored and then squelched.
http://cjohn2979.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Forum&action=display&thread=4237
Crazy Canadian thread on US fishing site.
Tension between developing and developed countries builds as climate summit enters its fifth day
The chief negotiator for 134 developing nations left the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) yesterday in anger.
http://www.cphpost.dk/climate/91-climate/47736-g77-walks-out-of-cop15-meeting.html
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
I guess that’s why Obama’s so irresponsible: no greatness there.
Re the suppression of debate at Copenhagen (thanks for the video, Robert W):
AMAZING.
So, the security guards at Copenhagen are thugs. Why does that come as no surprise? Leftists can’t tolerate being questioned and have to squelch opinions that differs from theirs — and belittle, humiliate, and bully anyone who voices them.
Disgusting. I’d send a copy of this to my MP but she’s a leftist and would probably whole-heartedly agree with the strong-arm tactics of the security guard and the “Professor’s” mealy-mouthed response as he ducks the question and any accountability for pro-AGW scientists’ tampering with the data.
Send Canada’s Official Bilingualism to the PET Cemetery.
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“Unilingual Postmistress Keeps Job
The Mayor of Mississippi Mills says the postmistress in Pakenham will be keeping her job.
Al Lunney says he’s received a call from Conservative M.P. Gordon O’Connor that Jeanne Barr will stay on.
Barr was to lose her post because she only spoke English.
Pakenham is located within the boundaries of the National Capital region and, as such, federal services are supposed to be provided in both official languages. But only a tiny minority of people in the area speak French.”
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=69948