Some people complain about the Reader Tip musical selections, saying there’s too much piano, or not enough cowbell. By far the most most common complaint is that I don’t feature nearly enough of the music of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and astronomer-astrophysicist Carl Sagan. It’s almost impossible to find online videos of Hawking’s Wheelchair Ballet, or anything from Sagan’s showgirl-festooned Vegas spectaculars, so tonight you get the next best thing: Backed up by Symphony of Science, here are Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking taking star turns in a performance of A Glorious Dawn.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Cobb:
“Somehow Americans have come to think that they can put the right body in the Oval Office and the awesome power of his rock and roll can deflect bullets, or turn beaters into Ferarris like something out of a ZZ Top video. They think that narrowing down the complexities of the world to a phrase like ‘Axis of Evil’ is a sign of arch stupidity and that they should expect failure after failure coming from a stupid man from Texas (a stupid state). The solution, according to such people, is to hire a slick talking dude from Harvard who can talk his way out of a paper or plastic bag. And they picked well. But what they didn’t understand is that…
The rest here.
I’ve heard that Ludwig van Amadeus-Bach was quite a musician.
Bam Bam’s Oval Office speech on Tuesday has done nothing to help his approval ratings. In fact, they’ve gotten worse, getting close to their all time lows. Past two days since the speech, Rasmussen shows a -20 approval rating among likely voters.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
I think we can say the bloom is officially off the rose. And, with this the gulf spill, and an administration lacking any key managerial and executive experience, I predict the approval rating will reach new record lows in the coming days/weeks.
Please sign the petition and help keep a variety of our fees reasonable, or at least less than ‘what the traffic can bear’
You know, like those gouger kings, Rogers AT&T.
http://cu.convio.net/ComcastNBC
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Please do as your mandate prescribes.
You allowed Rogers-AT&T unfair power and look at all the customer outrage that generated.
Their latest is messing up the Iphone franchise.
I had to use the state consumer protection agency’s help to get fair treatment from AT&T’s Bull of the Woods unfair actions and over-charges.
I’m certain thousands of customers more meek than I paid million$ in unfair charges and suffered made up on the spot ‘policies’.
Respectfully A.Robinson
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Here’s a video, shot on Tuesday June 15 in the Barking area of London, showing Muslims disrupting the Royal Anglian Regiment homecoming.
Rogues of K Street, Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant.
Bring a beer, it’s a good read.
Excerpt from “Nightfall on the solar industry,” by Lawrence Solomon:
“In Spain, under a 2007 law that guaranteed 25 years of way-above-market prices to solar power developers, industry invested $22-billion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make Spain the solar showcase of the world. Now that Spain is flirting with bankruptcy, the government is planning to rescind those guarantees, the Spanish press reports.
“Under the government’s expected change of mind, the revenue of most existing solar-power plants would be cut by 30% and for new ground-based photovoltaic generators by 45%. The government would rescind fewer subsidies for roof-mounted panels: 25% cuts for large roofs and 5% for small roofs. The result, according to Tomas Diaz, director of external relations at the Photovoltaic Industry Association in Madrid, would be bankruptcy for most of the country’s 600 photovoltaic operators.
“In Italy, the government plans to scrap guaranteed prices paid to owners of so-called green certificates, which represent greenhouse-gas-free power. Without those guarantees, says the head of the Association of Foreign Banks in Italy, solar and wind companies that obtained some $6.8-billion in loans may be unable to make their loan payments, leading to widespread default…”
Stephen Hawking is also a gansta rapper:
http://www.mchawking.com
whoops don’t click on that link, there’s been malware installed since I last visited. instead check out “all my shootings be drive-bys”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wkw9nvRCY8
EBD –
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Fil Kaler.
(Just to clarify to readers, it’s the 10:51 comment-link to the Muslim protest video that’s down, not the Hawking/Sagan video in the main page post. – EBD)
I see socialism is working out for western Europe about as well as it worked out for the Soviet Union. Serves them right for getting sucked in by the AGW political fraud. The only problem is that it is the every day Joe and Jane that end up suffering the illusion.
Hey, what happened to the pianer music?
Bilderberg Group concerned about global cooling
The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 – 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.
not really a tip but more of an observation …
… listening to the radio this am while driving my wife to work – I heard a scathing report of the RCMP & CSIS for their failure with regards to the Air India bombing – my comment to the wife was – that’s who I would put the blame on (as opposed to the bombers).
As part of the BP kangaroo court congressional hearing, one congressman had the decency to apologize to the BP CEO for the $20 billion “shakedown” (his word):
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-am-ashamed-of-what-happened-at-white.html
Of his short speech full of soundbites, the CBC only carried his words “I’m sorry”.
Video of the muslim protests against British soldiers in LONDON here, along with the usual related videos on the sidebar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ygCc9qlWM
The ‘jist’ of the CU email that motivated me to sign the petition..
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Dear Tony,
The recent battle between Comcast and the NFL gave football fans a taste of what’s to come – games blocked or moved to higher cost tiers.
Now Comcast wants to buy NBC, gaining control over popular programs like “The Office” and a big stake in the now-free online TV site Hulu.com.
Free programs could become subscriber-only, and cable subscribers may find their favorite programs bumped up to more costly “tiers.” Comcast says nothing will change, but once they have this kind of power, they will use it to squeeze every dollar out of you.
Tell the FCC to say “No!” to the Comcast/NBC merger.
The FCC has the final say, and it is supposed to say “no” if the merger won’t be in the consumer’s best interest. The Commissioners have asked to hear from you – but the comment period ends THIS WEEK! [/Quote]…secure Https: website..
tinyurl.com/2bwhzbp
Thanks for the 11:04 link, lance, that IS a good read. Heartening, too, in a dastardly kind of way…
Here’s a juxtaposition for you:
National Post, Wednesday, June 16. Letter from one Robert P. Kaplan. Not sure if it’s the moron by that name who was in the Trudeau cabinet and inflicted the Young Offenders Act and other abominations on the country.
Link: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/Grafstein+votes+Liberal/3159903/story.html
“Liberals come up with the solutions to unfolding and often unanticipated challenges, based on what the situation demands, and not on some ideological preferences, unlike the Conservatives.”
Governments (of any stripe) rarely come up with a viable “solution” to anything. Many government programs are announced with great fanfare then quietly scrapped a few years later for standard reasons of economic inefficiency and/or bureaucratic incompetence or indifference. Plus, many “unanticipated challenges” turn out to be the results of previous government policies.
“[Liberals] respect the potential the government has to be a force for good in the society. Liberals are always thinking of things the government can do to improve itself and to improve society.”
Government is only a “force for good” to the extent that it carries out its proper function, which is to step in when citizens use violence on one another. It is not the function of government to “improve” society, rather it is up to individuals to improve themselves. What happens if the government-sponsored “improvement” turns out to be a disaster? Like the billions of dollars wasted by governments in transparent vote-buying schemes?
“We prefer an active government. At the heart of it is our belief that the federal government is the main force which holds Canada together so it needs to be substantial, competent and busy.”
“Active government” leads to Adscam, waste, and reams of parasitic bureaucrats who produce nothing of value but who are paid high government-union salaries; it is a serious drain on the economy. Not to mention decades of appeasement to Quebec.
And then along comes this example:
Globe and Mail, Thursday, June 17.
Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-government-to-pay-more-than-67-million-to-sawmill-owners/article1606963/
“The federal government has been ordered to pay more than $67-million to the owners of a defunct Yukon sawmill after a judge found that a former Liberal minister encouraged construction of the mill, only to have his departmental staff starve it of wood.”
This sort of situation is the usual result of Liberal-style “active government”, of finding “solutions to unfolding and often unanticipated challenges”. Read the article to see unnecessary, cretin civil servants in (in)action.
Glad they didn’t lose.
Yes, lance, the 11:04 link was well worth reading.
CNN makes it up on the fly to say oil spills are better than oil spill cleanups
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/16/vbs.toxic.alberta/index.html?hpt=C2
CNN all Obama all the time.
This is a theme running through some investment forecasting lately..
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“Oil supplies have reached a capacity plateau and will not meet a growth in demand over the next decade.”
— Sadad al-Husseini, former chief of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco.
Sadad al-Husseini is a geologist and reservoir engineer. He worked for state oil firm Saudi Aramco from 1970 to 2004. He became a Vice President of Aramco and was elected to its Board of Directors. He was a key architect of Saudi Arabian energy production policy for more than a decade.
He’s one of a growing group of oil experts who realize this simple truth:
Oil demand is rising (slowly during the downturn, then sharply when we’re out). Oil production isn’t rising. In fact, it cannot. (*In fact, recent evidence suggests that production is falling even faster than we thought.)
It won’t be long before investors around the world wake up to the startling reality – oil is the single most important asset in the world. That’s when the race to $250 will become a sprint…
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Have you still got an oil furnace? Who needs ANY furnace anyway? Why not install $45 base board heaters?
Electric heat is the cheapest,..at least in BC.
And, oh yeah, the Nissan Leaf will be out soon. Priced at under 30K less incentives and rebate.
Look Ma! No gas.
I’m not too sure if this is a tip or an open question for discussion: What happened to the last real Canadian News aggregator? It seems that Bourque is stuck on phony lakes, male menopause and his dubious racing career. Tried the other day to get more info on a plane that overshot the Ottawa runway… nada, but Diaz says losing her virginity is hard WTF. Leave the leftoid crap for the Natural News Watch/Star.
Amen, I’m done.
Ulterior Motives??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100618/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_cam
Here’s the money quote(s):
Democrats and environmental advocates say the relentless pictures are helpful politically because they highlight a problem that people know was caused by an oil company, not the president. They also hope the images — plus pictures of oil-covered birds and beaches — will win greater public acceptance of cleaner energy sources. Obama called for such a transition in an Oval Office speech Tuesday.
O’impotent.
Barack Petroleum is Jimmah Carter.
Left-liberal Spiegel:
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“The World from Berlin
Will Obama Be the ‘Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century’?
Can US President Barack Obama lead America away from fossil fuel dependency? German commentators don’t think so. Some say he is in danger of turning into an idealistic, one-term president like Jimmy Carter.
US President Barack Obama’s address from the Oval Office on Tuesday was supposed to be a moment of leadership during the worst environmental disaster in American history. But critics from across the political spectrum wondered afterwards whether he’d shown leadership at all. The geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico seems, technologically, to lie beyond anything either BP or the US government was prepared for, and Obama failed to mention any specific new ideas.
“The tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean-energy future is now,” he declared, without offering policy details. Of course, it wasn’t a policy speech. But the fact that Obama failed to outline a clear path toward this clean-energy future seems to have disappointed a lot of people. “He didn’t boldly push an agenda,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, to Politico, the Washington-based news website. “I think a lot of people took that to mean lukewarm support for anything big.””
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,701279,00.html
“Photo Gallery: The Oil Keeps Flowing”
Leaf range as low as 47 miles. Great golf cart though.
TG, are you some special kind of fool? First you post in here and blather about some kind of corporate deal that might impair your free access to some TV shows. So what? TV is shit, all of it. Get a life.
Second, you climb on the “peak oil” bandwagon, and ride your electric-car hobbyhorse for all it’s worth. Where the Hell do you think we will get the necessary electric power to run all our road and rail transport, IN ADDITION TO all our current usage? Sure isn’t going to come from hydro; most of the best sites are already used, and the watermelons will try to block every attempt to build new dams. The only way, realistically, that we can double or triple our electrical power output is to go nuclear, and in a big way. Are you up for that?
P.S.: of course the Saudi Oil Minister is going to quack about scarcity. He wants to get top dollar for his product. Same reason some guy peddling his ’80 Monte Carlo on Craigslist says, “rare!”
Cancer on the left: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/cancer+political+left/3168612/story.html
Only I wouldn’t say it’s “creeping up on them”…it’s been festering for quite some time…
OK, EBD, I know I’m already on overkill, but here are a few contemporary Canadians who are dynamite:
Oliver Schroer (RIP): Field of Stars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPQNMe9yRc&feature=related
Justin Rutledge: St. Peter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqemKHD2_AM
The Wailin’ Jennies: One Voice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mm3JY5qmQs
(BTW, I listened to all of the singers/songwriters I’ve suggested, and saw some live in concert: Tom Paxton, Tom Rush, Laura Nyro, James Taylor, The McGarrigles, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia, Leonard Cohen, Eric Andersen.)
Sound familiar folks? Our governments have abrogated our defense in favor of our enemies.
To frightened to see we are in a religious war with a foe who will not stop. It terrifies them so much there actually working against us knowing.
JMO
Weathering the approaching storm
By Caroline B. Glick
Rather than attend to all of them, Israel’s leadership is devoting itself almost exclusively to contending with the least dangerous among them while ignoring the emerging threats with the potential to lead us to great calamities.
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/
Jeez Gordy…
Ya gotta look around and use google a little.
Bloomboxes and energy-smart appliances are reducing electricity demand every day.
The BC grid can support 2.5 million EVs on overnight charge with no upgrade whatever.
Check BC Power Smart and government websites.
The EU guys and Alcan quit using Bulk power to fry bauxite into aliminium at Kitimat. Their huge power dam now feeds the grid.
Another huge hydro dam is in the works for mid-BC and northern mining east of Rupert.
BTW…did you notice the quote in the post?
Are you better informed than professional money managers who study this stuff every day?