Derrick Snowdy no hearings huh, hmmm me thinks someone spilled the beans toJack. now he wants it hushed
Mon at 8:14pm via Facebook for BlackBerry
– [name withheld] Taliban Jack?
Mon at 8:23pm
– Derrick Snowdy Yep, I guess he knows now how close this is going to hit home with a certain NDP and he needs time to prep
Mon at 8:25pm
More at Stephen Taylor.
I’m painting my window frames.
(Hey, it’s either that, or genocide some Cossacks.)
Update: OK, there’s no topping this.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) SDA Late Nite Radio.
Anyone who has ever stumbled across MTV – in a restaurant, for example – has heard the sort of music discharged by poodle-haircut-sporting wannabe-Satan types who clearly spend too much time in front of a mirror. Puffing out their lips and sneering like tattooed, cross-dressing derelicts, they wear their uber-coolness like a self-inflicted injury as they blast twenty-thousand watts of dehumanizing noise to drugged-up kids with STDs and nose rings. Oddly, they never seem to take any pleasure in performing their music.
Tonight we take a happy joyride in the opposite direction, and hand the stage over to the enduring one-man phenomenon known as Walter Ostanek, aka Canada’s Polka King. Flying blissfully under, over and around popular music’s radar, this legendary performer has been known throughout his more than fifty-year career for his ability to lift the spirits of his fans, many of whom are of European immigrant stock, with his live performances and his over eighty high-quality records and CDs . His Slovenian-style (sometimes called Cleveland-style) polkas evoke good food and good times with family, friends, and neighbours, and are always delivered with a smile. We’re talking about a man who knows what side his bread is buttered on:
To Walter Ostanek, the title, “Canada’s Polka King” is much more than just a name. It is a special honour that carries with it an obligation to a special dedication and a promise to his fans and followers that wherever and whenever the Walter Ostanek Band appears in public, the band will do their utmost to please the audience and keep them happy.
That they surely do. Here then, performing with his crack band, is three time Grammy Award winner, International Polka Hall of Fame inductee, member of the Order of Canada, and proud owner of Ostanek’s Music Centre in St. Catherines Ontario – which carries a wide range of musical instruments including a selection of quality button and piano accordions, and whose friendly staff will walk you through the process of finding the right accordion for your price range and skill level – Walter Ostanek – he’s the fellow in the white shirt on the left – as he makes three or four generations of folks forget their troubles on the dance floor with the merry musical announcement that yes, indeed, it’s Polka Time!
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On receiving, drip by drip, the transcripts of the emails that senior university staff sent between each other, some with redacted areas, CFOB also came to learn that as requested, the social networking site Facebook had been used to find out which students were attending the meeting. One message, sent on 30 November 2007 by Steve Bernique, assistant director of operations at the university, said “I love this programme [Facebook]! Now we know who is going to attend.”
A screen shot of the list was distributed amongst the higher echelons of the university as they discussed possible ways of blocking the event, including making use of university facilities out of the financial reach of groups such as ERI and CFOB.
“I think it’s quite incomprehensible; I don’t understand the actions of any academic institution spying on students and the community expressing their academic right and freedom; it’s preposterous,” says Hameed. “It wasn’t clear to me who the spies were but all the same it was quite distressing that students could be induced or paid to spy on fellow students and human rights activities.”
One member of the audience had deeper reasons for feeling distressed: octogenarian Harvey Su is the oldest Karen refugee in Canada. He was “appalled” by the surveillance, a phenomenon he thought he had fled.
“Who are these University of Ottawa presidents, vice presidents and security staff working for exactly? The people of Ontario? Or are they working for the Desmarais family, the oil companies and the Burmese military regime? This I really want to know.”
Dear Diary,
I have never been so discouraged and dispirited. My skills are being wasted, and the only challenge in my working life now is dealing with the incredibly increased stress level. I don’t see opportunities to do strong journalism. I feel I work for a corporation that no longer understands public broadcasting…
The rest is here – because I like to end the day on a high note!
Update – Related!
Now is the time in Hespeler when they juxtapose!
If this keeps up, the graves they dig in may end up their own;
Allix was required by law to hire an archeology team last year — to dig up the family property — before she was allowed to build a house just outside of Parksville. Bones and aboriginal artifacts were found, but her son said not much has been done with that discovery.
“It’s just a box full of artifacts — that aren’t even on display,” said Tim Allix. “If the B.C. government had to pay $35,000 for this, they wouldn’t do it. They’re saying ‘Ah, let’s just pass this on to the landowner.'”
Under the province’s Heritage Conservation Act, landowners whose property has been designated a heritage site cannot build until archeologists have done an assessment and removed any First Nations artifacts or human remains — at the landowner’s expense.
I’m become relatively immune to outrage over public policy infringements of private property – the sheer volume of abuse makes rage unsustainable. What I can’t wrap my head around is the behavior of free citizens who apparently believe they can exploit government-mandated property abuse without eventual risk to their personal safety.
Many B.C. residents don’t know their land has been designated, because there is no system in place to inform them. The province keeps the database of sites that are reported to them, by First Nations and other interested parties, but that information is not shown on land title documents.
There are now 38,000 registered sites with some 2,000 new ones added every year. The minister responsible, Kevin Krueger, acknowledged that the lack of disclosure has been a long-standing problem.
Canadians are a numbingly tolerant lot, but everyone has their breaking point. If my job description included digging around in someone else’s dirt, I’d be certain to have a freely-offered invitation in hand before setting foot on their property – “Heritage Conservation Act” be damned.
h/t Kevin B
When the first Trudeau government passed the Official Languages Act in 1969, nearly all fluently bilingual Canadians lived along this ribbon of land. They still do.
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Bill C-232, introduced by New Brunswick NDP MP Yvon Godin, would require all future Supreme Court nominees to be able to hear cases in French or English without the aid of official translators. All three opposition parties voted in favour of this distortion of reason, democracy and unity; only the Tories opposed it.
Where are our talk radio guys? I think the Honourable Member from Filibuster should be invited to explain himself.
h/t to Francesc0, who writes – “I’m hoping it’s a wedge issue with which the Opposition hopes to force an election.”
Yup. You go, go, go with this one, Mr. Ignatieff.
Via Hot Air.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Del Porter, Marshall Smith, Ray Johnson, & Dwight Snyder, as the Foursome, performing There’ll Be Some Changes Made and When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’ ¤ in 1937 (5:17). The Foursome toured with Glenn Miller and recorded with Bing Crosby & Dick Powell, and were often backed on drums by a young Spike Milligan (which helps explain some of the visual items in the montage accompanying this audio).
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“To let Matt Stone and Tres Parker that the dust will never settle down”.
“Just one pull of the trigger separates a law-abiding citizen from a law-breaking criminal.”
Another quotable quote from the Land That Logic Forgot;
“The murderer lied on his application.”
h/t Bull
Ed Chen, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said he asked for the meeting “to clear the air because in my 10-plus years at the White House, rarely have I sensed such a level of anger, which is wide and deep, among members over White House practices and attitude toward the press.”
Heh.
More related video…
Because Keith Olbermann’s dying father asked his boy Keith to read Thurber to him, Keith thinks this is good television, calling Thurber the best humorist of the 20th century. Do you know what humorist means? It means seriously unfunny. Garrison Keillor is a humorist, and I’ve seen funnier orphanage fires. Perhaps what Keith’s father didn’t tell him is that listening to Thurber might want to make you die faster. And now Keith reads it on the air.
An independent veterinarian has ruled Brittany and Rambo are not pitbulls, which means after 97 days in the pound, the two dogs are finally home.
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Brittany and Rambo were seized from separate homes Jan. 13.
There had been no complaints of running at large, aggression or biting. Brittany was seized when an Animal Control Officer went to the Branco home to renew a dog licence for Tyson and spotted her.
The Brancos complained that the city seized Brittany with the help of Peel Regional Police, but without a warrant. City officials maintained there was “exigent” circumstances surrounding the seizure of Brittany, giving them the right to seize without a warrant, but would not elaborate.
Still a success: Since the Dog Owners Liability Act was enacted in 2005, pit bulls have killed fewer Ontarians than former attorney general Michael Bryant.
Other findings included:
* Rates of diabetes among the South Asian (8.1 per cent) and black (8.5 per cent) groups were twice as high as among white (4.2 per cent) and Chinese (4.3 per cent).
* Obesity was five times more prevalent among white (14.8 per cent) and blacks (14.1 per cent) than Chinese (2.5 per cent). The prevalence of obesity among South Asians was 8.1 per cent.
* Black women were more likely to be physically inactive and obese than the overall population.
* South Asian and Chinese women were also less likely to participate in daily physical activity than the overall population.
In related racism…
Come on you bastards – pronounce it.*