Tonight’s featured amusement en route to the Reader Tips thread is a light-hearted musical number from one of the Marx Brothers’ lesser-known feature films. The sound and the images in the video are more than a bit out of sync, but the performance is just too amusingly blithe-spirited to pass up. From the Marx Brothers‘ 1940 comedy film Go West, here’s Chico, Harpo (on mouth harp) and Groucho Marx joining John Carroll in some open-air singing about the pleasures of Riding the Range together.
Clippity-clop those Reader Tips into the comments.
Erick Erickson at Red State:
“The best summation of (Obama’s) speech comes from our own Caleb Howe, who tweeted, ‘Let me be clear. Some oil spilled. But Katrina. And make no mistake. I’m having meetings. In conclusion, something about China. Windmills!’ That, ladies and gentlemen, is the President’s whole speech in 140 characters…”
Well I could sum up Oblamebush’s vapid speech with 2 characters: BS
“Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate. Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.
(…)
“Although (Port Chester, New York) is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.
“Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates…”
(…)
“‘That was very strange,’ Arthur Furano, 80, said after voting. ‘I’m not sure I liked it. All my life, I’ve heard, ‘one man, one vote.'”
Muslim States Push for UN Action on “Islamophobia”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Muslim+states+push+action+Islamophobia/3163213/story.html
Meanwhile, 5 out of the 6 billion humans who are not in Dar-Al-Islam are waiting with bated breath on UN condemnation of discrimination (up to and including mortal violence) against Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Confucians, Animists, etc, in Muslim majority countries.
The hypocrisy is so overwhelming that a dozen dead skunks under the front porch couldn’t match it. I guess no one asked the Copts in Egypt or the Parsis in Iran what their thoughts were….
BTW… is it still a “phobia” if your fears are grounded in reality? Just askin’….
I’m confused. Which one of the brothers is Carl?
Strange thinkers those UN’ers, Tanker. A dozen groups of people, all saying they are Islamic, use poison gas on school girls, cut heads off innocent contractors and journalists, hang a seven year old boy, etc., etc., and it’s the rest of us who are phobia stricken? Who knew? I’m so confused!
From Ben Stein’s Our Caudillo President, in the American Spectator:
“As I write this on Monday night, there are rumors around that BP will agree to President Barack Obama’s demand that the oil giant ‘voluntarily’ put about $30 billion into a fund to be administered by the government to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
“Now, no one disputes that this is a real disaster and that BP acted irresponsibly in commissioning Trans-Ocean and Halliburton to drill for oil in waters so deep that if a failure occurred there would be no way to fix it — at least until major damage had been done. BP, Trans-Ocean, and Halliburton, as well as the individuals involved, have much to answer for.
“But the action of the President in demanding this immense transfer of the stockholders’ wealth without any legislation or court decision is extremely worrisome.
“We live in a Constitutional Republic. The President’s job under the Constitution is to enforce the laws made by the elected Congress. His job is not to create new laws and enforce them all by himself. His job is as magistrate under the Constitution, not as Caudillo. He is not the law. He is supposed to enforce what Congress decides.
“The BP behavior is reminiscent of how, immediately after assuming office, Mr. Obama, with no Congressional authority or administrative allowance, simply made a phone call to fire the head of GM. When I called the White House press office to ask under what law or regulation Mr. Obama was acting, I was told he did not need a law….”
The whole thing here.
“Somali militants have threatened football fans they will be publicly flogged – or worse – if they are caught watching the World Cup on TV.
“Gangs of Islamists are reported to be patrolling the areas they control looking for people watching games.”
That resident CBC fossil Don Newman splutters and blows when appearing with Kory Teneycke on today’s Power Play.
I’m convinced these archaic ninnies have partaken in the liberal flavoured koolaid for so long that they’re immune to reason and are unable to recognize the leftist bias they hold.
Newman’s faux claims of his [and his cohort’s] centrist views- ‘having covered several Conservative conventions, moderating Leader’s Debates, blah-blah-blah’; not recognizing CBC’s billion dollar privileged silver spoon existence (“we have to provide service in four genres (tv/radio/french/english); castgating Teneycke for appearing on the CBC as a paid commentator; etc.
Teneycke’s arguments of bloated staffing- why send a couple of operators to cover an event when you can send a dozen?; his unapologetic stance of accepting recompense for his CBC stints; his calm demeanor while Newman was frothing at the mouth- [and Newman being a tv host for how long? was constantly overtalking so no one could follow]; his cool under fire will serve him well. If it were me, I would have taken those fingers in the face and fed’em to him! But he was right in keeping his cool. That will pay dividends.
One last thing. Evan Solomon made a token effort to counter the Don and stand up for Kory, but geez he’s a piss poor moderator/host. You’d think with their fat finances they’d be able to find someone competent!
check this nothing to do with politics video out…
Cranbrook Deer, Cute Menace.
Now that is one Marx we can appreciate.
Good for Kory. Who is Don Newman. Is he related to Alfred E. Newman?
Viva Caudillo. (barf)
“Unhand that drowning woman, young man..”:
“Clear Creek sheriff’s deputies on Thursday arrested a rafting guide for swimming to a stranded young rafter” who had fallen into the water.
“Ryan Daniel Snodgrass, a 28-year-old guide with Arkansas Valley Adventures rafting company, was charged with ‘obstructing government operations,’ said Clear Creek Sheriff Don Krueger.
“Duke Bradford, owner of Arkansas Valley Adventures, said Snodgrass did the right thing by contacting the 13-year-old Texas girl immediately and not waiting for the county’s search and rescue team to assemble ropes, rafts and rescuers.
“‘When you have someone in sight who has taken a long swim, you need to make contact immediately,’ said Bradford, a 15-year rafting guide and ski patroller from Summit County. ‘This is just silly….'”
To the Bear:
Actually, there is a political angle to the deer video. Here in Nanaimo, the deer population is out of control. I saw two dead deer on the freeway within a mile of each other on the same morning. Each represents a dangerous, perhaps fatal (to the driver, that is) accident.
Many people – those who vociferously oppose a cull- feed the deer while complaining that we’ve encroached on their habitat. Funny that they never board up their own home and leave for a high-rise condo themselves though.
It is becoming a ‘political issue’ here and those I would describe as statists demand we spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars neutering each deer rather than dispatching an appropriate number by professional hunters/conservation officers.
As usual, four legs good, two legs bad.
No Guff, your point crossed my mind as I posted. There are far too many examples of wildlife management by feeling warm & fuzzy.
Peter Foster
[For most modern liberals, including many scientists, the market sun still goes round the government Earth, and it’s a paradigm they are reluctant to change. Policy skeptics, by contrast, who are still trying to establish the revolutionary and counterintuitive insights of Adam Smith, point out that carbon rationing, green industrial strategy and aid transfers under the aegis of “clean development” are–whatever the science–economic junk.]
EBD @ 12:48 AM: The rafting guide exhibited good smarts. Wish the same could be said for our guide a few years back.
We were doing the Kicking Horse, and in the most challenging portion of the rapids, our guide took the wrong attack chute and we nailed the wall. Instantly the two front pontoons split open and three of us had to scramble up into the still entact portion of the raft that remained inflated.
Somehow we got through that portion of whitewater, and when we floated in to calmer, albeit still fast-flowing water, our Einstein guide jumps out, rope in hand with the intention of pulling us into shore. Well, you might just as easily have subdued a 2000 pound Brahma!
No sooner had that hundred feet of rope burned through his palms and we were off down river- two thirds of a raft, no guide, and not knowing what rapids or falls lay ahead! Our guide looked on in horror, I think realizing he was now soon to be an ex-guide.
Anyway, a few of us took charge and managed to retake the oars (they were jammed underneath), and fortunately we encountered a group of kayakers who reassured us that no imminent danger lay ahead and assisted us in pulling ashore.
On that bus ride back to Golden, our guide was quite subdued. Apparently, they fired him then and there. And as I recall, we closed down the bar that night, along with some newly met Texans.
Just remembered, that bar had walls and ceiling plastered with autographed Cdn and US dollar bills, so I guess this was when we still had dollar bills. Anybody know if that bar is still there?
Snagglepuss @ 12:00 AM
I thought Kory missed the mark. He should’ve come with specific examples of how the CBC shows bias, instead of allowing Newman to both digress and talk over him, which Is what Newman had attempted to do.
For example, Kory could’ve pointed out that CBC did not report on Climategate until, what I recall was nearly 2 weeks after the story broke and that Sun News would not have done such a thing. This takes any subjective argument out of the discussion, removing the “that’s your opinion, Kory” defence of the CBC that both Solomon and Newman probably would‘ve gave. He could’ve then asked each of them why the CBC chose to do that and how it could possibly be consistent with their “CBC News: know more, know now” and “experience the difference between being informed and being well informed” commercials.
And when on CTV, Kory should bring up Fife’s “knuckle draggers” remark and how Fife never apologized and CTV never acknowledged the anger it caused in the CPoC and to conservative Canadians and that Sun News would’ve discussed not only Fife’s remark but why CTV had ignored the story, in a CNN Reliable Sources program format. Kory could also add that perhaps this is one of the reasons CTV is against Sun News being given a licence to broadcast.
Kory needs to come with specific examples of media bias by both CTV and CBC — examples which put Solomon, Newman, Clark and Fife and the like on the defensive, leaving them with no possible way to defend themselves.
And now, a tale of a peaceful swan, a farmer, and the federal government….
By Ian Cumming
June 1, 2010
Half a decade ago, Brutus, a swan, landed along with his mate at Lou Mireron’s Silver Creek Aquaculture enterprise in Wellington County. On May 27th in a Guelph courtroom Brutus’s decision to not fly away and stay during that time, by his own free will, at Mireron’s fish farm, caused Judge Norman Douglas to throw out the year old legal charges brought by the federal government against Mireron, for unlawfully keeping a migratory bird under the Migratory Bird Act.
Judge Douglas was incredulous that the government had produced a 300 page document, plus brought an attorney in from Toronto, because Mireron, on principle, refused to buy a $10 permit, licensing him to keep Brutus. Being the bird had arrived on his own free will and could fly away anytime on his own free will, notes Mireron.
While the Crown had the legal right to appeal Douglas’s ruling of not allowing a trial on the matter, and could charge Mireron again, – who represented himself through all the legal proceedings – doing so, “would not be a wise move,” Douglas advised in his ruling.
This court date was to deal with a legal technical matter, involving a Justice of the Peace, Jeanette DeJong, imposing a stay on the original court hearing several months before. Because witnesses for the Crown – government environmental officials – were caught by Mireron sitting in the courtroom listening to testimony before they gave their own.
The Crown had appealed the stay, which was lifted, however the Judge, “wouldn’t give them a new trial,” noted Mireron in a June 1 interview. The government have not tipped their hand as to whether or not they will charge Mireron again, however he feels certain they will.
This migratory bird law – which any farmer or landowner could be charged with when Canadian geese, kingfishers, herons, swans or other birds merely land on their property – has been “technically chopped down without going to trial,” said Mireron. “This brings into question the whole enterprise of officials with green suits and guns chasing around migratory birds.”
The government will not allow this to be a legal precedent predicted Mireron. “They will appeal, having all the financial resources to fight this,” he predicted. The government have already spent about $50,000 in legal costs to fight his refusal to buy a $10 permit, said Mireron.
On the flip side there is no recourse for him to sue the government to recoup costs of the incredible amount of time and money this fight has taken away from his business, he noted.
Mireron notes that despite contacting and writing the OFA, on the far reaching ramifications of this law for all farmers, the farm organization has not responded in any way to his requests for help. “I’ve asked for support from the OFA, but I’m not really getting a lot,” he said.
Government regulations are something that Mireron has always happily operated under, with his fish farm enterprise, he noted. MNR, after inspecting his multiple pond enterprise, grant him a fish farm license, if everything is up to code.
“But they don’t regulate those thousands of people with a hole in the ground with some fish stocked in it, and don’t sell fish,” pointed out Mireron. “They just regulate the few people who raise these things commercially.”
“I’m not a breeder of swans, nor am I a bird sanctuary,” noted Mireron. “I have all kinds of migratory birds land on my ponds, but so do a lot of farmers have them land on their fields.” It would be impossible to get permits for all birds free to come and go, he said.
It was a year ago when Andrew Bruce, an official for the federal government MOE’s Canadian Wildlife Service, entered Mireron’s property accusing him of breeding and selling swans. It had been four years since Brutus and his mate – who was killed by a coyote – had landed at the fish farm.
Bruce, who was “very belligerent,” offered no proof of his allegation, nor had none to offer under oath when in the courtroom, noted Mireron. He had slapped Mireron with a $180 fine and ordered to obtain a $10 license, both of which were ignored.
Judge Douglas had noted in his decision that “the officer could have had some discretion, but chose not to.”
In the five years that Brutus has been on the farm there have only been about seven days that he was confined in a dog kennel, said Mireron. That was when he accidently broke his leg – which Mireron fixed – on the farm, and when he was caught pigging out on the baby fish that had just been introduced to the farm.
The few days of captivity “taught him a lesson and he hasn’t caught fish since,” chuckled Mireron. Under the law of the province it was legal to have killed Brutus for eating the fish in the stocked ponds, he noted.
Why Brutus stays and doesn’t fly away is something only he can answer, notes Mireron. While for the first few years he used to ambush and attack Mireron, in the past couple of years they have become friends, he noted.
“Maybe Brutus doesn’t think its too bad here,” chuckled Mireron.
However the principle of farmers being charged for migratory birds freely landing on their property, “is a serious situation that can apply to all farmers,” cautioned Mireron.
The moment Brutus was put in the kennel, he was kept bird. I hope the gov’t sues for legal costs.
Anyone know what happened to the Canadian Newsreader website? Looks like they’ve been down for days.
O’s legacy:
“This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
O = B.
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“British media fall out of love with Obama”
Janet Daley
Considering how relentlessly the Bush “war on terror” was ridiculed, how long will it take before the Obama “war on an oil slick” is labelled as absurd? Given the tone of this morning’s coverage, perhaps not very long at all.”
“Janet Daley was born in America where she began her political life on the Left as an undergraduate at Berkeley. She moved to Britain (and to the Right) in 1965 where she spent nearly twenty years in academic life before becoming a political commentator: all factors that inform her writing on British and American policy and politicians.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/janetdaley/100043670/british-media-falls-out-of-love-with-obama/
O’narcissist:
“”This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
Big Lies from left-liberals.
Hope and Fear: left-liberals own the Truth?
Left-liberal bee-ess.
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“Leaders see hope in Truth and Reconciliation Commission
http://www.kamloopsnews.ca – Mike Youds – 40 minutes ago
People long traumatized by years in Indian residential schools should be able to find some peace and healing through a national truth and reconciliation process that started in Winnipeg Wednesday.”
(googlenews)
And now some good news for Western Canada’s wetback farmers at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/
Headline “Food boom for Emerging Nations”.
Teaser is that crop prices will remiain 16% to 40% above average for the next decade.
Now if the crop input suppliers can’t read…..
Billions of tax dollars to bail out crooked Banking practices but they’;; put YOU in jail for a $125 debt.
http://www.startribune.com/investigators/95692619.html
I need to get a grant for doing something easy. can we create a thread called “No Sh!t Sherlock”
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Study+shows+teenage+boys+really/3159634/story.html
does someone really need to study the obvious.
I want to investigate the wetness of water.
but does this work for cougars?
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Jaguars+obsessed+with+Calvin+Klein+perfume+scientists/3135523/story.html
Give us a B, give us a P: it’s BP.
Barack Petroleum; new improved O’s Katrina.
O’s Xmas present.
…-
“BP Oil Leak May Last Until Christmas in Worst Case Scenario
BP Plc’s failure since April to plug a Gulf of Mexico oil leak has prompted forecasts the crude may continue gushing into December in what President Barack Obama has called the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
BP’s attempts so far to cap the well and plug the leak on the seabed a mile below the surface haven’t worked, while the start of the Atlantic hurricane season this week indicates storms in the Gulf may disrupt other efforts.”
“Marine life may take decades to recover, wiping out businesses along the coastline that depend on the fishing and seafood industry.
Al Sunseri, who runs P&J Oyster Co., the oldest continually operated oyster dealer in the U.S., said he could end up out of business:
“This could be the end of our 134-year-old business,” he said. “I’ve been doing this 30 years. I have a son and I don’t know if he’ll be able to carry on this next generation.””
http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-02/bp-gulf-of-mexico-oil-leak-may-last-until-christmas-in-worst-case-scenario.html
All the regulars are doing a great job here. However, Kate is still conspicuously absent.
Did I miss a trip announcement?
Yes you did, bluetech. Kate’s on the road.
I was privileged to be present at “Oliver’s Last Concert on His Tour of the Planet” in Toronto in June two years ago. Oliver is Oliver Schroer, virtuoso fiddler, who died just a month after the concert. He knew he was dying and had left his hospital bed to do this concert, which was amazing. There was no self-pity, just a human being, full of humility, dignity, and awe at the journey he was taking, and an enormous and generous talent, which Oliver Schroer was very aware was winding down.
There is a documentary of his life and art, “Silence at the Heart of Things,” premiering on TVO tonight at 10:00 p.m.
http://www.tvo.org/about/NewsReleases/SILENCEATTHEHEARTOFTHINGSJUNE1FINAL.pdf
Well worth a watch.
From Israels side
Audio: “Flotilla Intelligence or Blunder? ”
6/16/2010 9:21:00 PM
“Tamar & Tovia Dynamite” with Tamar Yonah, Tovia Singer
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2295
And, then, EBD, there’s
Melanie (Brand New Key)
Donovan (Mellow Yellow, Catch the Wind)
Tom Rush (The Circle Game)
Arlo Guthrie (Alice’s Restaurant)
Buffy Sainte-Marie (Piney Wood Hills)
The Kingston Trio (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
James Taylor (Sweet Baby James, etc., etc.)
Jerry Jeff Walker (Mr. Bojangles)
Eric Andersen (Close the Door Lightly When You Go)
Jesse Winchester (Yankee Lady, Brand New Tennessee Waltz)
Nick Drake (Hazy Jane 1 and 2, Pink Moon, Cello Song, etc.)
Emmy Lou Harris (Long Black Veil)
Pete Seeger (Little Boxes, etc.)
Ewan McColl (Peggy Seeger) (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Dirty Old Town)
Phoebe Snow (Poetry Man)
They all bring back a lot of great memories! (I provided sing-along harmony in my attic apartment!)