| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are our old friend & organist Karl Richter, and his Munich Bach Orchestra, performing George Frideric Handel‘s Organ Concerto, II & III, Op. 4, No. 1 (1971, ca. 16:00). |
 USA 17 |
 Alinghi 5 |
The weather in Valencia looks good for some proper racing in the first match of the 33rd America’s Cup challenge, which is ready to start, in a few hours, at 02:00 Mountain time on Monday, 2010-02-08. On the toss of a coin between the commodores of the defender yacht club, Switzerland’s Société Nautique de Genève, and the challenger, the USA’s Golden Gate Yacht Club, the priority to enter the start area for the first race, with the right of way on starboard tack, went to the USA’s BMW ORACLE Racing. I’ve tested the live streaming Internet video coverage and it appears to be ready to go at www.americascup.com (you’ll need to install the RayV viewer if you don’t already have it).
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Update, 00:30: it became apparent, at our little A/C 33 pre-party, here in the SDA LNR studios, when we were discussing the interaction between the torques involved in these structures and Reynolds numbers, that some folks just don’t grok how big these sailboats are. I can fix that: the images to the left are to scale (pick to zoom). USA 17 is twenty stories high. |
Update: Race 1 postponed to Wednesday due to lack of wind.
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US Christians pissed that Christian hate crimes laws cover Christian hate crimes. Still awaiting Muslim hate crime category – developing….
Christians claim hate crimes law an effort to ‘eradicate’ their beliefs
By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 — 2:15 pm
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Christians claim hate crimes law an effort to eradicate their beliefs. A Christian group in Michigan has filed a lawsuit alleging that a package of hate crimes laws named after murder victim Matthew Shepard is an affront to their religious freedom.
Far from the intended purpose of severely punishing criminals who commit unspeakable acts against a persecuted minority group, the religious activists claim the laws are a guarded effort to “eradicate” their beliefs.
Filed by the Thomas More Law Center — which bills itself as the religious answer to the American Civil Liberties Union — the complaint claims that protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people “is an effort to eradicate religious beliefs opposing the homosexual agenda from the marketplace of ideas by demonizing, vilifying, and criminalizing such beliefs as a matter of federal law and policy.”
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/401/
CBC has hit a new low.
“A military commander from Canadian Forces Base Trenton in eastern Ontario has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two women.”
The picture they managed to dig up for this front page story is of “Col. Russell Williams, centre, and Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk, left, speak to Defence Minister Peter MacKay during his visit to CFB Trenton on Jan. 17.”
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/02/08/belleville-jessica-lloyd-dead-missing.html
Looks like CBC is trying to link Conservatives with murder and rape.Wouldn’t you know the story is closed to comments.
CBC has now closed and presumably deleted the comments on the Col.Williams story. Better late than never.Better still though would be to allow comments on all the crimes.
“From this moment on”
[…]
“The Left doesn’t want to govern, it wants to rule given the chance. It is as always willing to leave its own Big Tent behind at the decisive moment. The continual calls from the Democrat Left for Obama to ‘grow a spine’ are really coded calls to say that the moment is now; that the President must ‘’seize the day, seize the hour”. It’s not as Cost imagines, a call to compromise. It’s a call to say that the time for compromise is over. They can drop the mask; they can hoist the Jolly Roger.”
“2. Walt:
THE VAMPIRES OF THE LEFT(sic)
They lay in darkness, waiting dusk
They cannot stand the light
They smell of rotting flesh and musk
They hate us of the right
They live by parasitic law
They are the vile undead
They eat the flesh of good men raw
They kill or go unfed
Oh yes they smile when meeting you
They bend but do not break
The only thing that we can do
Is drive a wooden stake
Into their shriveled putrid hearts
And with bare hands dismember
The rotting heads and separate parts
Beginning this November”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/02/08/from-this-moment-on/
alan
What,they couldn’t find a picture with the Prime Minister,they had to settle for MacKay?
O’gored by Al’s AGW.
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“Look out Mid-Atlantic, here comes “Son of Snowmageddon””
“Issued by The National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington, MD 3:04 pm EST, Mon., Feb. 8, 2010
… WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY(sic).”
It may be a different naval race that matters:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118083§ionid=351020205
Blazing cat fur had this on his site. Too funny.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DfCoy_kQh08/S3CpoXbIyQI/AAAAAAAABhA/jmD7hN3xQ04/s1600-h/Global+Warming+Hoax.jpg
Al Gore’s Weather (AGW): Ahm pleased to announce, on behalf of Gaia, O’s regime is sclewed … agin. Ah repeat, O’s …..ed, agin.
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“Federal Government in Washington DC CLOSED on Tuesday
Office of Personnel Management ^ | February 8, 2010 | OPM
Federal Government Operating Status in the Washington, DC, Area the following message applies only to Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are CLOSED.
This Means . . . Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are closed(sic).”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447123/posts
W-K has surfaced.
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“Libel filings show battle between hate-hunter and conservative blogger
TORONTO • Richard Warman, Canada’s top online hate-hunter and scourge of free speech advocates, offered his first public response on Monday to the online campaign against him led by conservative blogger and lawyer Ezra Levant.
In court filings for a libel suit, Mr. Warman calls Mr. Levant’s conduct toward him “obsessive,” states he “has no respect for authority,” and says it is “surprising” he is a member in good standing of the Law Society of Alberta.
“Mr. Levant is in the habit of fabricating extremely serious allegations of misconduct against others,” Mr. Warman states in an affidavit filed in Ontario Superior Court.
“He describes various human rights tribunals across Canada as ‘kangaroo courts.’ He vilifies their members, he accuses their lawyers of lying to them (without any evidence) and he mocks those who would dare to disagree with him.”
In a brief hearing on Monday, Mr. Levant’s lawyer Peter Jacobsen said Mr. Warman has made “irrelevant and scandalous accusations,” and that he will file a full written response in two weeks. Mr. Levant declined to comment on them on Monday.
Of all the libel suits that arose from the vicious public debate over hate speech in human rights law, none are as richly layered as this one, known officially as Richard Warman v. The National Post Company, Jonathan Kay, Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle, Fivefeetoffury.com, smalldeadanimals.com, Catherine McMillan, Mark Fournier, FreeDominion.ca, Constance Wilkins-Fournier.
There are others, including one that goes to trial this morning in Ottawa, brought against Mr. Levant by Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer Giacomo Vigna.
Khurrum Awan, a lawyer whose hate speech complaints against Maclean’s magazine brought the issue to Canada’s front pages, has another on the docket against Mr. Levant.
They all arise out of the blog-driven backlash against Section 13, the internet hate speech section of Canada’s Human Rights Act, and in particular the activism of Mr. Warman, who has brought every case in the last decade or so, often by posing as a hatemonger online.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2538327
Michael I. speaks up about the Olympics, ” People are going discover we’ve always been an Asian country, facing out to Asia.” I didn’t know that.—http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=32532.html
alan “Looks like CBC is trying to link Conservatives with murder and rape.”
I don’t really think so. I think the pic was just selected for shock value as in “Look how high up this guy was!” It certainly shocked me.
I don’t think Barry Dunham is concerned his real birth certificate would show his birth was in Kenya or Montreal, not Hawaii. More likely his problem is an illegitimate one.
I sort of cooled on America’s Cup racing when they outlawed hand operated keel angle jacks, depleted uranium keel ballast, and crews had to be less than 50% millionaire lawyers. Who wants to watch a bunch of stress engineers wetting themselves as the Kevlar mast and airfoil strain gauges suddenly enter the red zone on their laptops.
Re: I had an interesting conversation with Stephen Boissoin the other day. He’s the Red Deer man, who had a long fight with the Human Rights Commission. What struck me was his opinion that this was not a freedom of speech issue, but rather, a matter of him being right, and them being wrong.
For all the support he received from people like Ezra Levant, he has nothing nice to say about Ezra, or other free speech advocates. He thinks they’re just using him, to further their own agenda. Stunning.
Oh well, I suppose it doesn’t change the position of his supporters, that he isn’t grateful.
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1…I don’t recall this conversation NOR saying what you claim here…funny how people interpret what they hear, if they even heard it. Although, I do speak top a lot of people.
Let ME respond directly.
1. OF COURSE THIS IS A FREEDOM OF SPEECH ISSUE as I have proclaimed for the last 8 years. Plus, I am right too. Freedom of speech is the secondary battle for me, meaning, my initial issue was the homosexual agenda…this issue remains a problem.
2. Nothing nice to say about Ezra or free speech advocates?…..GET A GRIP. That is pure nonsense. Free speech advocates defended me and many are many friends. Ezra generated some great attention to my case..he was a piece of the big puzzle for sure. Ezra has his own agenda and motives. I will leave them between he and God.
3. I am very grateful for the divinely inspired support that I received. To insinuate otherwise is blatant ignorance, maliciousness and stupidity.
Stephen Boissoin
sboissoin@gmail.com
403-304-5400