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  3. Thanks for this, Vit.
    I remember first listening to Eroica in the Summer of ’68 as a thirteen-year old goofball at Shuswap Lake, BC. I loved it, and later that summer came back to Calgary to assemble my brand-spanking new Heathkit “five-bottle” short-wave radio. What a summer that was. Ah, Beethoven and short-wave.

  4. I was originally afraid to buy this record as a callow youth, because I thought it was scandalously titled “The Erotic Symphony”

  7. Ahh, what a night! My internet connection finally comes back after eight hours on the fritz, and then I get an award!
    Hey, this one just kills me:
    Students told that they can’t play Ave Maria at their graduation ceremony.
    I believe that’s the third of the seven signs…

  10. Al Gore’s Weather (AGW):
    Liberal Iffy’s O’Harvard buddy.
    O’s Katrina: Quagmire/Disaster/Abyssmal ignOrance.
    O’not-slick:
    ““Oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills,” Mr. Obama insisted on April 2, two days after he announced he would allow drilling in the Atlantic Ocean from Virginia to Florida and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. “They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn’t come from the oil rigs; they came from the refineries on shore.””
    …-
    “Oil spill threatens to sink Obama’s energy plan”
    “Political damage will be hard to contain, not least because the slick could shatter the President’s shaky compromise on offshore drilling”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/oil-spill-threatens-to-sink-obamas-energy-plan/article1554337/

  11. UNaBomber Mao Stlong’s AGW Katrina: Quagmire/Disaster.
    UNaBomber Mo Strong is Canadian “Liberal leader” Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo.
    …-
    “UN: No comprehensive climate deal this year
    KOENIGSWINTER, Germany — The United Nations chief negotiator on climate change says there will not be a comprehensive deal to fight global warming this year.
    Yvo de Boer told reporters in Germany on Monday the next U.N. climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December will provide a “first answer” on greenhouse gases “but it will not provide an answer that is good enough.”
    The U.N. climate chief says a good outcome of Cancun would be decisions on an “operational architecture on climate change” with an actual treaty coming later.
    He says he expects such an international climate treaty before the end of 2012, but even that will “not be the definitive answer to the climate change challenge.”
    De Boer said earlier this year he will resign July 1.”
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9TuMrvrknh-ZXwqmZ2N-48kff3wD9FFARRO4

  12. “What a summer that was. Ah, Beethoven and short-wave.”
    Let me guess….you didn’t date cheerleaders either, did you?

  16. Looking for the Tip
    Sunday i heard on my local radio station that David McGuinty Liberal MP wants Jaffer/Guergas to pay back the Taxpayers for use of her office.
    Hmmmm lets see now Baird made a point of saying in QP last wk that Taxpayers are still waiting for Repayment of the 39Million the Liberals “Stole” from the Taxpayers during “Adscam”
    I will keep looking for this or if anyone else has seen it posted i would sure like to read that one.

  18. Joachim Kronsbein, Berlin’s Fabled Philharmonic Gets a Reboot
    Though still Germany’s best orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic is worried about losing touch with audiences in the digital age. To face these challenges, it will be getting a new director — with a television background and unorthodox views about how to address them….
    In the Philharmonic’s marketing heyday, when Herbert von Karajan — the principal conductor from 1954 to 1989 and successor to the legendary Wilhelm Furtwängler — still headed the orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic made dozens of recordings a year. In those days, the musicians always collected a share of the orchestra’s handsome profits. With these royalties, their salaries and the fees they earned as instructors at music colleges, they were among the best-paid musicians in the classical music industry….

  19. Walter A. McDougall, Can the United States Do Grand Strategy?
    In spring 2003, following the last lecture in my survey course on U.S. diplomatic history since 1776, a brilliant, inquisitive student approached me in the hall to ask a final, confidential question. She said that my course helped her appreciate, as never before, how swiftly the United States had become the mightiest nation ever, with unprecedented military, economic, and cultural influence. But how long would it last? How long did I think the United States could stay on top?
    At first I was tongue-tied, because I was loath to inject a future national leader with either complacency or despair. Then an answer occurred to me. It all depends on whether the United States is as exceptional as we like to believe. If the United States follows the pattern of all previous powers, then demographic or technological trends, new foreign threats, strategic folly, overextension, domestic decadence, or sheer loss of will must hurl it into decline, perhaps within fifty years. If, however, our institutions, values, and national character really do amount to a new order for the ages, a potent mix enabling the United States to reinvent itself and force other nations to adapt to the challenges posed by us, then the republic may stay on its asymptotic trajectory. I stopped there, but as I walked to my office I recalled Arnold J. Toynbee’s historical law to the effect that empires die by suicide, not murder….

  21. Re: Deletion of ‘WHAT IF’post. I am very curious as to why the post was deleted. Please fill me in.

  22. Because, DWO, you posted exactly the same comment to Reader Tips and to Spill Baby Spill: Update (it’s here), and because the comment was on topic in the latter case, and because your comment was not a Reader Tip, logically your comment belongs in said latter discussion (where it still is) and not here (where it now isn’t), and so logically I concluded that you had posted it first here by mistake, and then there in correction, and so I unpublished it from here for you as a favour to you.

  23. LibIffy: Times Square?
    Been there. Done that* with Moi O’Harvard buddy.
    Seriously, I-Moi/O were “Just Visiting”.
    …-
    “COPS: Times Square Car Bomber Got the Wrong Fertilizer
    The would-be car-bomber who left an SUV loaded with propane and gas cans, fireworks and timing devices on a Times Square street also had more than 100 pounds of fertilizer, but not the kind that would explode, police said today.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505694/posts
    …-
    “* Ignatieff, Obama pic beamed to NYC, Vegas ***
    image of U.S. President Barack Obama and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff projected on a screen in Times Square. ( Photo courtesy of the Liberal …”
    vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/national/2009/02/20/8469041.html

  24. DWO:
    I don’t know where you’ve been and what blogs you follow–however do you know anywhere else where they lay down sringent rules such as Vit does? I follow at least seven blogs–never heard of such rules!

  25. The Small Dead Animals Reader Tips Principles & Guidelines have been explained here before, Joe, and you have acknowledged reading the latter. To the degree that you do not find those terms and conditions to be to your liking, you are welcome to comment instead in other entries here at Small Dead Animals (as long as you are on-topic &c there), or in the unmoderated Reader Tips entries in those other blogs you read.

  26. Al Gore’s Weather (AGW):
    There goes Mah flight to London to see Chuck.
    …-
    “Is the ash cloud chaos back?
    Scotland and Ireland shut down airspace amid new safety fears”
    “Iceland’s troublesome volcano is set to cause more misery for air passengers as ash cloud shuts down airspace over Scotland and Ireland.
    The skies over parts of Scotland were closed as a precaution tonight after an increased concentration of volcanic ash was detected in the atmosphere, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said.
    The ash is forecast to exceed the safe level agreed by the CAA and airlines in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, tomorrow.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1271346/Iceland-volcano-Ash-cloud-returns-grounds-flights-Ireland.html

  28. Elections Canada has released the figures for political donations for the first quarter of 2010. This fellow contributed as a member of the Victory fund.—
    Full name: Francis L. Graves
    City: Rockcliffe Park
    Province: ON
    Postal code: K1L8J3
    —http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin2/detail_report.aspx

  30. Sorry about that. It seems that this has info has to be accessed through Elections Canada’s only. This may be a little more helpful,but you still have to go through a few links such as party and contributor. —http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin2/select_search_option.aspx

  33. Once again,my apologies. I could not even find this site again through my computer’s history. Oh well,this should work,—http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin2/select_parties.aspx?entity=6&lang=e&period=1. — That should bring you to a page entitled ” Choose your Quarterly …”. Choose period 2010,Hit Liberal party.Hit add,On the next page hit select all.Then hit search selected.Go to ‘by contribution’ and then to all ranges. This should land you on the right page from where you can access the names of all their supporters. Those who give $91.66 a month are quite likely members of the Liberal”Victory Fund”. Hopefully this works. There are other CBC unbiased regulars on the list also. John Duffy,for one.

  35. This may be old news but I don’t remember seeing it anywhere. The Japanese have issued an arrest warrant for Canadian Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd infamy. Please God,let this lenghty link work.—http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/04/japanese-media-reports-arrest-warrant-issued-for-sea-shepherd-leader-paul-watson.html

  36. Yup, that link works, and it is, I think, an interesting story too. I would suggest though, Wally, that in the future you leave the “—” off from before the “http:”, as it makes it more difficult to double-click to pick up the whole URL (and only the URL) for pasting into the address bar. Just start the http: stuff on a new line by itself.

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