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Tafelmusik – literally “table music” – is a light and airy style of classical music that was originally played at banquets and feasts. It’s also suitable, as it turns out, for post-rioting decompression. In the interests of relieving some of the pain, suffering and post-traumatic stress caused by having an officer raise his voice to you, or look at you the wrong way, or tell you that he doesn’t care what you think, tonight’s selection features a bit of soothing and peaceful tafelmusik written by 18th century Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Here are Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln playing the Sonata for oboe and continuo in G minor. Let the healing begin.
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  1. Marni Soupcoff:
    “Did getting cut from a midget junior A hockey team during tryouts this spring result in psychological damage and/or demoralization for two adolescent boys? Their respective sets of parents say yes.
    “In fact, the damage was apparently so bad that when the young players — Christopher Valela and Daniel Longo — were let go by the Avalanche Minor Sports Club in April, their parents sued the Greater Toronto Hockey League, the team and four team officials for $25,000 each…”

  5. Sam Besserman, 11, claims he’s getting jobbed in school due to his conservative views:
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/4264775/conservative-kid-tries-to-survive-california-school?playlist_id=87937
    His article in American Thinker. If this is legit, the kid’s pretty bright:
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/a_conservative_kid_tries_to_su.html
    and, of course, Priscilla’s take (the comments are pretty funny):
    http://www.newshounds.us/2010/06/29/gretchen_carlson_lets_conservative_kid_trash_his_teachers_to_show_liberal_bias_in_education.php#more

  8. The quote of the week? From Byron York’s piece on the Masseuse and The Goracle, in which the masseuse explains in her 73-page police statement that “Later, she talked to friends, liberals like herself, who advised against telling police. One asked her ‘to just suck it up; otherwise, the world’s going to be destroyed from global warming.'”
    http://tinyurl.com/2fspqko
    The modern American liberal true-believer’s version of “Lie back and think of England,” the sex education supposedly provided by Queen Victoria or some other Brit to a daughter.
    Simultaneously hilarious and pathetic…

  12. Lethbridge Alberta Airshow gets the AD terribly wrong. has Canada’s date of entry into WWII off by two years.
    Tora Tora Tora – Back by Popular Demand TORA TORA TORA is a re-creation of the December 7th 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. It’s accomplished through hundreds of dedicated volunteers most belonging to the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) working as ground crew, maintenance, pilots and pyrotechnic experts. The purpose is to create a dynamic history lesson about the event that propelled us into World War II …..and entertain

  15. Now why could that be? At 11:14
    Drained brain,I went to the story and could not determine why. A little more details please,and thank you.

  17. Drained brain,I went to the story and could not determine why. A little more details please,and thank you.
    Simple. Think of the unseemly and inappropriate comments favoring, gasp, capital punishment that might pollute the CBC site if they actually allowed comments.

  18. Oh, and speaking of capital punishment, Mark Steyn annihilates Alan Rock over a memo about Ann Coulter, reducing him to a pebble – actually to crumbling bits of gravel here at NRO:
    http://tinyurl.com/368ftc3

  19. Ann Coulter has more balls than the entire male side of Allan Rock’s family tree.

  21. Hamas loves the little Children.
    Hamas Attacks UN Summer Camp in Gaza
    http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/230402/hamas-attacks-un-summer-camp-gaza
    Taliban pays 7.000 USD for each child suicide bomber
    «The going price for child bombers was 7,000 to 14,000 USD. Thats huge sums in Pakistan. The price depends on how quickly the bomber is needed
    and how close the child is expected to get to the target».
    http://ivarfjeld.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/taliban-pays-7-000-usd-for-each-child-suicide-bomber/

  22. Andrew Breitbart offers $100,000.00 for the ‘Journolist’ email archive.
    I wonder if any CBC’ers were on it?
    tp://tinyurl.com/2utcxs7

  23. Hurricane Obama: Place your bets here.
    O’lOOk: O’Oily rain:
    “There have already been reports of oily rain in some locations along the coast.”
    …-
    “Hurricanes: A knockout blow to Gulf production
    Whether Hurricane Alex hits the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or not, it’s only a matter of time before one will. Alex is, after all, only the first storm in a year the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting will be an abnormally active one for hurricanes.
    In case you’d forgotten, blow-outs of deep-water wells aren’t the only strike against Gulf of Mexico oil production. It was just five years ago that the impact of severe hurricanes took an even heavier toll on the region.
    Back then, BP and the other majors were confidently predicting that their offshore platforms could withstand all but “storm of the century” hurricanes. Those assurances turned out to be as valid as their more recent ones about the likelihood of deep-water spills. BP’S marquee Thunder Horse platform was easily toppled by Hurricane Dennis, leaving the billion-dollar rig leaning drunkenly in the waves—a premonition of worse disasters to come.”
    http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1622801.html

  24. “*The Treason of the Intellectuals”.
    “*“Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds,””.
    To be blogged as:
    “Just Visiting”, aka MoveOnOrg.
    (H/T Liberal Ziffy)
    >>> “Canada a favourite place for Russian ‘illegals’ as a staging ground before moving south, former KGB general says”
    Of Liberal Ziffy and his Harvard buddies:
    Obama and ““Don Heathfield””.
    “He was a well-connected businessman who graduated from Toronto’s York University before moving on to Harvard.”
    …-
    “‘Canadian’ couple in alleged spy ring put down roots in U.S.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/canadian-couple-in-alleged-spy-ring-put-down-roots-in-us/article1623878/?cmpid=nl-news1
    …-
    “*The treason of the intellectuals & “The Undoing of Thought”
    When hatred of culture becomes itself a part of culture, the life of the mind loses all meaning.
    —Alain Finkielkraut,The Undoing of Thought
    Today we are trying to spread knowledge everywhere. Who knows if in centuries to come there will not be universities for re-establishing our former ignorance?
    —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
    In 1927, the French essayist Julien Benda published his famous attack on the intellectual corruption of the age, La Trahison des clercs. I said “famous,” but perhaps “once famous” would have been more accurate. For today, in the United States anyway, only the title of the book, not its argument, enjoys much currency. “La trahison des clercs”: it is one of those memorable phrases that bristles with hints and associations without stating anything definite. Benda tells us that he uses the term “clerc” in “the medieval sense,” i.e., to mean “scribe,” someone we would now call a member of the intelligentsia. Academics and journalists, pundits, moralists, and pontificators of all varieties are in this sense clercs. The English translation, The Treason of the Intellectuals,[1] sums it up neatly.
    The “treason” in question was the betrayal by the “clerks” of their vocation as intellectuals. From the time of the pre-Socratics, intellectuals, considered in their role as intellectuals, had been a breed apart. In Benda’s terms, they were understood to be “all those whose activity essentially is not the pursuit of practical aims, all those who seek their joy in the practice of an art or a science or a metaphysical speculation, in short in the possession of non-material advantages.” Thanks to such men, Benda wrote, “humanity did evil for two thousand years, but honored good. This contradiction was an honor to the human species, and formed the rift whereby civilization slipped into the world.”
    According to Benda, however, this situation was changing. More and more, intellectuals were abandoning their attachment to the traditional panoply of philosophical and scholarly ideals. One clear sign of the change was the attack on the Enlightenment ideal of universal humanity and the concomitant glorification of various particularisms. The attack on the universal went forward in social and political life as well as in the refined precincts of epistemology and metaphysics: “Those who for centuries had exhorted men, at least theoretically, to deaden the feeling of their differences … have now come to praise them, according to where the sermon is given, for their ‘fidelity to the French soul,’ ‘the immutability of their German consciousness,’ for the ‘fervor of their Italian hearts.’” In short, intellectuals began to immerse themselves in the unsettlingly practical and material world of political passions: precisely those passions, Benda observed, “owing to which men rise up against other men, the chief of which are racial passions, class passions and national passions.” The “rift” into which civilization had been wont to slip narrowed and threatened to close altogether.
    Writing at a moment when ethnic and nationalistic hatreds were beginning to tear Europe asunder, Benda’s diagnosis assumed the lineaments of a prophecy—a prophecy that continues to have deep resonance today. “Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds,” he wrote near the beginning of the book. “It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity.”
    http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-treason-of-the-intellectuals—-ldquo-The-Undoing-of-Thought-rdquo–4648

  26. Tippered GoreBull Report:
    What’s a “bergs”?
    “Sea ice will continue to be too much of a complicating factor for some time to come, Lasserre said. Freeze-up and break-up is unpredictable. Even small bergs — called growlers — can slow down a cargo ship, ice-strengthened or not.”
    >>> “In data that has since been circulated by organizations from the Arctic Council to NATO, he found the answer is: not much.”
    …-
    “Little interest in Arctic shipping
    Survey: Most firms wouldn’t use route
    By BOB WEBER The Canadian Press
    Wed. Jun 30 – 4:54 AM
    A recent survey is pouring cold water on the prospect of international shipping traffic steaming through Canada’s Northwest Passage despite visions that melting sea ice and longer periods of open water will turn the fabled waterway into a busy cargo route.
    “These companies are really, really not interested in Arctic routes,” said Frederic Lasserre of Quebec’s Laval University. “It’s never going to be a Panama Canal.”
    When Arctic sea ice dropped to record low levels in 2007, observers began to suggest that the Northwest Passage could offer a money-saving alternative to southern routes. The passage, many pointed out, could trim nearly 10,000 kilometres off common trips such as London-Yokohama or Rotterdam-Singapore.
    Foreign policy experts in Canada and the United States were predicting commercial shipping was a matter of when, not if.
    So Lasserre decided to ask the ones who send out the ships what they thought of the passage. In data that has since been circulated by organizations from the Arctic Council to NATO, he found the answer is: not much.
    Lasserre contacted 125 shipping firms from Asia, Europe and North America and got responses from 34 companies representing 62 per cent of the market in 2008. Only 11 of them expressed any interest at all in shipping through the Northwest Passage.
    Most of the interested firms were in North America. And most of those were already present in the North through efforts such as the annual sea lift of bulk supplies to northern communities.
    Lasserre got similar results from a second, more extensive survey last summer. That survey suggested that resistance to the passage was strongest among companies focused on container shipping — the largest part of the market, but one that relies on dependable, accurate delivery times.
    Only six out of 46 container shippers would even consider an Arctic route, the results suggested.
    Sea ice will continue to be too much of a complicating factor for some time to come, Lasserre said. Freeze-up and break-up is unpredictable. Even small bergs — called growlers — can slow down a cargo ship, ice-strengthened or not.
    “What the companies are selling is not merely transportation, it’s also schedules,” Lasserre said.”
    http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/1189772.html
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/30/record-cold-down-under/#comment-420241

  27. Breaking news via Andrew Bolt – The tipping point for the world ending due to AGW is 2200. Or 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2009, 1999. Or in months, days or hours.
    In other water-is-wet news, New Zealand’s ETS is costly, corrupted and useless.
    http://tinyurl.com/2vwlw3j

  28. With regard to a resistance to Arctic shipping, any change takes time. It is unscientific to base a prediction on current usage and speculation. Furthermore, a study done by a professor near the massive St. Lawrence shipping economy requires studies done not only elsewhere but over time.
    On another theme, I wonder what the world will pick up on as its next apocalpytic threat? We seem to go through them in phases. We’ve had global cooling, we’ve had nuclear war, we’ve had various diseases such as SARS and H1N1. Oh, and the infamous computer meltdown at the turn of the century. Then, there’s AGW, the scam-of-the-century, a scam to enrich some at the expense of others. With Al Gore in his own heat meltdown, caused by man and not by nature, I’m wondering what the world will turn to next in its need for both scams and hysteria?
    Meanwhile, Obama ignores the oil spill, threatens Arizona and refuses to deal with borders, but is instead, focused on the 2010 and 2012 elections. His agenda is to ‘legitimize’ the 12 million illegals in the US for these elections. It will be payback time then, and he expects them to vote Democrat. How’s that for his obligation to respect and uphold democracy?

  29. Waiting for O’gOdOt.
    To be blogged as: The Death of O’hOpe.
    O’gOdOt he dead**.
    “Waiting for Godot (pronounced /ˈɡɒdoʊ/) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot” (wiki)
    O’gOdOt’s legacy?
    “*This is his [Obama’s] sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “The end of North American trilaterism
    Harmonization was once all the rage, but under Obama the initiative appears dead”
    “There is no one in the Obama administration who is charged with thinking about the future of North American competitiveness, and, in contrast to the former front-row seat, the CEOs, said Johnston, now have “no place to go” to discuss their wish list for reform. “We hoped [the SPP] would re-emerge in some new form with more inclusion and transparency and some significant White House leadership,” said Johnston. But instead, “There is no focus on this issue. It’s like it’s gone back to before the North American Competitiveness Council even happened.””
    http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/29/the-end-of-the-trilateral-dream/
    …-
    *O’narcissist:
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
    (**H/T Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad)

  32. Jenny Yuen; a reporter looking for stories that support her views,
    ” I expected to potentially be tear gassed, hit with ricochet rubber bullets and be beaten with batons during the G-20 weekend”
    While she was out looking for numerous police inflicted injuries (I wonder if she was wearing black?) and was taking pictures with a camera in her hand when she claims that a police officer on a bike slammed into her, crashing into her left arm.
    What a great reporter she is. With a camera IN HER HAND she failed to get a picture. She failed to interview witnesses. She failed to describe the incident properly.
    At one point she states, “A bike cop ran me over at Queen St. and University Ave” But then she goes on to say, “when the guy slams into me, crashing his handlebars into my left arm”. But goes back to the more dramatic line of “running over pedestrians”.
    So what was it? You were looking for a police brutality photo. “ran me over” indicates that you were knocked to the ground and the wheels of the bike went over you. What seems to have happened is that she got in the way of the police trying to do their jobs, and was lightly brushed up against while fishing for a police brutality story. Where you jumping in front of them to get a good photo?
    What is the real story here, Jenny? You had a camera in your hand and were taking pictures. Did you take a picture of the injury? Why not snap a picture of the the guy as he was riding away, or the “other dozen cops who witnessed the crash”? And where are all the other reporters on the scene with their cameras? And what about eye witness accounts? Aren’t you supposed to be a reporter? And what’s with this drivel of a story getting syndication?
    It’s more like whine than news, but I suppose it fits the type of story that they wanted to run with.
    http://www.calgarysun.com/news/g20/2010/06/29/14560961.html

  34. Breaking news (ok I’m just kidding)
    CNBC reports today that it is sending a reporter to Ft McMurray and we can follow her ‘as she travels to the tundra of Alberta Canada to visit Devon Energy’s oil sands project’.
    It will be on CNBC June 30 at 8:00 pm eastern.
    More at http://www.cnbc.com/
    I’ll be damned, the cold tundra has come that far south since I was there in the 60s!
    This I gotta see.

  38. “There is no one in the Obama administration who is charged with thinking about the future of North American competitiveness”
    –
    –
    The percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.
    You know what the private business sector is… a real life job/business, not a government job. Here are the percentages.
    T. Roosevelt…….. 38%
    Taft…………………40%
    Wilson ……………… 52%
    Harding………………49%
    Coolidge………….. 48%
    Hoover…………….. 42%
    F. Roosevelt……… 50%
    Truman………………50%
    Eisenhower……….. 57%
    Kennedy………….. 30%
    Johnson……………..47%
    Nixon………………. 53%
    Ford………………… 42%
    Carter……………… 32%
    Reagan……………….56%
    GH Bush…………….. 51%
    Clinton …………….. 39%
    GW Bush……………. 55%
    Bambi………..8%
    Everyone in his cabinet is looking for tenure.

  40. SDH, yeah, he does!!
    He was fantastic and got a number of standing ovations. I figure he’s had a hard life, though — out of which comes the heartfelt music — ’cause he looks a lot older than 58. What really came through was a lovely humility, like he knew that his music is a gift to share, not something to brag and strut about.

  41. EBD – why!!???!
    Why oh why was the post I submitted last night never put up?
    I mean I know it wasn’t really that great or anything, but it’s not like I’m the only one whose posts aren’t always A+ material. I do do my best and all. It wasn’t that bad.
    *Sniff*

  42. Black Mamba, I assure you that I’ve never deleted a single post of yours, have no intention of ever doing so, and based on the consistent..erm, nature of your comments in an ongoing way, I’m all but certain that Kate didn’t delete your comment either. A certain percentage of comments, including mine, go automatically (the key word) to the junk filter either because they contain certain flagged words or because there’s more than two links, or, very frequently, because a link contains the word “on and line” without the “and.”
    This junk filter is almost entirely filled with spam, so when it gets too full the whole lot tends to be deleted; sometimes comments are picked out and released first, but sometimes not. As of today – just checked – your comment is officially….gone.
    Sorry. Do you have last night’s comment handy? If you do, try it again, and then I’ll take a look and see what caused it to be (automatically) caught in the filter.

  43. Hey EBD, while Mamba’s bitchin’ to the management, I posted a trifecta of *ahem* wonderful reader tips last night but only two made it though.
    That missing post was at least a solid B+
    [EBD here: As I was looking for Black Mamba’s comment I saw yours still hanging on by its fingertips at the tail end of the spam list, so I released it – you’ll see completing your trifecta in the comments above.]

  44. If it was held up by the filters, I may have deleted it cleaning spam. There’s been a steady assault on SDA for weeks by spammers, and I’ve been doing mass deletes. My apologies, if I had more time, I’d go through them individually, but I don’t always.

  45. I’ll be damned, the cold tundra has come that far south since I was there in the 60s!
    This I gotta see.
    Posted by: rockyt at June 30, 2010 3:29 PM
    She meant to say, she’ll be riding around in a Tundra. She’d better keep the windows rolled up, or the mosquitos will turn her into a mummy.

  47. Has this been posted previously? If so, please delete to save Gore/Tipper from ambaressment.
    Gore Who?
    …-
    “Portland police will investigate accusations that Al Gore groped woman
    Portland police announced today that it will re-open and investigate a Portland massage therapist’s allegations that former Vice President Al Gore sexually assaulted her at a downtown hotel in October 2006.
    The announcement comes as the therapist went public for the first time, telling the National Enquirer that she demanded a full police investigation of her complaint.
    Molly Hagerty is photographed in the latest edition of the National Enquirer, holding the black pants she wore that night.”
    http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/portland_police_will_reopen_al.html

  49. The son of a founder of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas, who became a Christian and spied for Israel, will be granted political asylum in the United States as the Department of Homeland Security dropped its objections
    http://tinyurl.com/2cql744

  50. Trying again -sorry if it’s a duplicate
    The son of a founder of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas, who became a Christian and spied for Israel, will be granted political asylum in the United States as the Department of Homeland Security dropped its objections …
    http://tinyurl.com/2cql744

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