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Tonight’s little Friday night oddity takes us back to a time when things like overpasses and railings were considered delightful, visually interesting expressions of the modern age – or at least, they were viewed that way in communist Poland. From 1969, here’s Polish vocal group the The Novi Singers performing a wordless, unidentified, erm, song.
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  2. A fine laugh over at Power Line: Obama was thinking that maybe it was his middle name—not his middle finger—that was upsetting the Israelis.
    Paul Mirengoff gets it right: he writes, “What was Obama’s middle name in May 2009, Shlomo?’
    BINGO!

  3. What a great tune! Such a catchy melody, an nice beat and it’s easy to dance to. I’ll be humming that one for a while.

  5. There was a lot of vocal jazz floating about in the Sixties,Yes I WAS there and I DO remember.
    It is great music for those suffering from attention deficit disorder as there is no beginning, no end,no lyrics and no point.You can mentaly wander in and out and not miss anything.
    Why are those guys wearing shower scrunchies around their necks?

  6. Another catchy tune, EBD, (but this was back in 1944/45), was the song, Wilberforce get off that horse and bring him into lunch.
    Chorus: Oh, Wilberforce, Oh, Wilberforce, get off that horse and bring him into lunch, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh.
    Can’t remember the verses, but we’d play it on the nickelodeon and then sing it at the top of our lungs all the way home.
    You can’t beat a good song with a great beat. ;>)

  9. I like railings, what’s wrong with railings? And had it been in Polish I wouldn’t have understood it anyway. The shirts are a bit poofie, but didn’t the Dave Clark Five wear them also? Or was that Herman’s Hermits?

  12. Well I think that’s ridiculous. If they didn’t have colour by then they certainly should have.

  18. Geez. I go out for an evening, and you kids punch holes in the walls and set the wet-bar on fire.
    Maybe I should give give Robert W. a badge and a truncheon…

  24. Well….that’s it then, If the HuffPo is citing Coast to Coast it must be true.
    BTW is that 100,000 psi bhp or well head pressure?
    Syncro

  25. Americas having a Garage Sale.

    Obama will appear for a grassroots event.
    Tickets once priced at $250 are now going for $99, while $35 tickets are half off.

    Canadians get in free.

  26. Hory Smoke: It’s Ribelar IggyZiffy.
    (H/T Mao Stlong/Boob Lae’s Uncle Mo)
    …-
    “Chinese airport closed after fiery UFO is spotted flying over city
    A Chinese airport was closed after this mysterious object was spotted in the sky.
    Arcing over Zhejiang’s provincial capital Hangzhou, the UFO appeared to glow with an eerie white light and left a bright trail in its wake.
    Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm and dozens of flights had to be diverted.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1293395/Chinese-airport-closed-UFO-spotted-city.html
    …-
    “Aliens Cause Global Warming: A Caltech Lecture by Michael Crichton”
    “The “exoneration” by Climategate investigations (like Muir Russell) that never bother to talk to skeptics, create an impossible conundrum of having essentially a trial with judge, jury, reporters, spectators, and defendant, but no plaintiff. The plaintiff is locked outside the courtroom sitting in the hall hollering and hoping the jury hears some of what he has to say.
    Given this, I thought it valuable to revisit this Caltech lecture on the state of science and consensus by the late Michael Crichton.
    – Anthony Watts”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/09/aliens-cause-global-warming-a-caltech-lecture-by-michael-crichton/#more-21629

  28. Canada making hotair.com in a big way – and a good way .
    [How did Canada do without massive government stimulus spending?] HA

  31. I thought I was pretty well done with Islam, having spent several months on the subject a few years back, before moving on to Austro-Libertarian economics. So, I was surprised to find myself reading this with fascination. Clearly, unless the West refines its definition of RELIGION we’re doomed. Notice his dismissal of the “moderate Islam” canard, his remarks about the irrelevance of the number of “moderate muslims”, the over-arching importance of the VANGUARD of the islamic leadership, and the mosques as political and military command and control centers for Islam.
    THE MUSLIM MOSQUE: A STATE WITHIN A STATE
    by Vijay Kumar (via Atlas Shrugs)
    Selected snips:
    THE KAABA IN MECCA WAS NOT BUILT AS AN ISLAMIC MOSQUE. It was an ancient temple that had been shared by polytheists, Christians, Jews, and Hindus, honoring 360 different deities. In 630 A.D. the Kaaba was captured by Islam in its military invasion and conquest of Mecca.
    The Quran is the supreme political document of Islam—its political manifesto and political constitution. It is the only constitution of the nation-state Saudi Arabia, which is the home of Mecca and the Kaaba, where all mosques point, and is the birthplace of Islam.
    The Quran is a totalitarian constitution. It demands submission by anyone within its jurisdiction. The Quran governs all mosques everywhere in the world.
    In short, Sharia law stands in direct opposition to the American Constitution and Bill of Rights. The implementation of Sharia law demands the overthrow of the American Constitution and our form of government and system of laws. Mosque leaders, in every nation in the world, are loyal to the Quran, the Hadith, the Sira, and consider them divine law, and therefore supreme over all manmade laws.
    In every instance where Islam has conquered and “destroyed utterly” a nation or civilization, the key to the conquest was the establishment of mosques, which are political and military command and control centers for Islam, and which all point toward the seat of Islamic power: the Kaaba.
    Throughout history, since 610 A.D., the leaders of Islam have been waging Universal Jihad around the world for the purpose of Islamic totalitarian domination of the world. It has never mattered what percentage of the Muslim population was “peaceful” or “moderate.” Peace and moderation are not relevant to the totalitarian mandates of Islam’s political documents, and Islam’s leaders always follow the totalitarian mandates of Universal Jihad contained in them.
    There are post-Nazi democracies. There are post-Communist democracies. There are no post-Islamic democracies. Literal Islam, as contained in its political documents, is the consummate totalitarianism.
    Islam declares that the Quran and Sharia law are divine, and, as such, are the only “legitimate” law in the world. In that way, Islam “self-legitimizes” its right to use physical force anywhere in the world, and the right of every Imam in every mosque in the world to call for physical force and violence at any time. This makes every Imam in every mosque a military leader.

  32. Synchro – Don’t know if this answers your question about if it is 100,000 psi bhp or well head pressure? As well is it true, as in feasible that something big, aka ‘boom’, come out of this?
    …..
    Some speculate that the pressure of the methane at the base of the well head, deep under the ocean floor, may be as high as 100,000 psi — far too much for current technology to contain. The shutoff valves and safety measures were only built for thousands of psi at best. There is no known device to cap a well with such an ultra high pressure.

  33. Me No Dhimmi, having read your post it’s clear to me that the mosque the Americans are allowing to be built at Ground Zero SHOULD NOT BE BUILT.
    Even before reading your post I thought it was an absolutely crazy, inappropriate, and dangerous idea. After reading your post, I know it is.
    What’s Bloomberg’s problem?

  34. A big thanks to ‘batb’ for that Kory Teneycke article. It lead me to this one by Margarete Wente.
    Let’s imagine Canada’s political scene these days as a 100-yard long football field (just play along). Right in the middle, at the 50 yard line is the absolute political centre, to the right are small-c conservatives and to the left are the assorted leftist actors.
    Can anyone honestly say that ANY of our political parties sits to the right of that 50 yard line? I can’t. We might be less worse off than what our American friends are enduring but to pretend that Harper’s Conservatives are a right-wing party (even mildly) is nonsense IMO.
    The big question now for Sun TV has nothing to do with what’s going on at field level but instead to look up at the stands and see where the audience is sitting.
    I would guess that most SDA regulars sit somewhere between the 40 yard line on the right to the goal line at the far right. The question though is, what percentage of Canadians sit on the right half of the grandstands?
    P.S. Bonus points if you can identify where CBC News, CTV News, and Global News sit on the field!

  35. John Brooks
    I was being snotty in the 3:04 post. I’ll try to behave now. Anyways…
    Don’t put any stock in what Richard C Hoagland is claiming, it’s absolute bullshit.
    The bottom hole pressure (bhp) is somewheres in the neighborhood of 12,000 psi. (can’t find the exact number but it is provable)
    Were the formation pressure 100,000 psi they would have had a blowout while drilling the well. Well control is achieved through hydrostatic pressure, by maintaining a column of fluid that weighs more than the formation pressure.
    The drill mud weight (pounds per gallon) can be adjusted to match the formation pressure. If the mud is too heavy it will begin to feed into the formation and can damage the well to the point that it won’t produce or (depending on the porasity of the formation)it does the opposite. It drinks the column of fluid faster then you are pumping, underbalances and turns around and kicks. If the mud is too light the well will take a kick also.
    The fact that the well was drilled and cased absolutely disproves the 100.000 psi meme.
    The mud weight they were using is a known, the capacity of the entire wellbore is a known. Multiply one by the other and you have the weight of your column. That number will roughly equate to the formation or bhp.
    One of the reasons they lost this well was that they circulated the drill mud out of the hole with lighter fluid. They made the column lighter, which wouldn’t have been a problem if the cement holding the deepest part of the casing was done properly. Poor well design then compounded the issue and it all went to shit from there.
    Once the relief well intersects the existing casing this puppy will be put to sleep.
    Syncro

  37. Barack Petroleum Update.
    (Barack (BP) is an O’Harvard buddy of Canadian Liberal leader MaoZiffyIggy.)
    O’They’re Off…
    “Dickerson said. “We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation.”
    …-
    “First rig sails away over drilling ban
    Lawmakers and experts fear loss is only the start of offshore exodus
    Diamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a ban on deep-water drilling.
    And the Ocean Endeavor’s exodus probably won’t be the last, according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them outside the U.S.
    Devon Energy Corp. had been leasing the Endeavor to drill in the same region of the Gulf as BP’s leaking Macondo well, which has been gushing crude since a lethal blowout April 20.
    But Diamond announced Friday it will lease the rig through June 30, 2011, to Cairo-based Burullus Gas Co., which plans to send the Endeavor to Egyptian waters immediately.
    Devon is one of three companies that has cited the deep-water drilling ban in trying to ease out of contracts to lease Diamond rigs. Diamond, a drilling company, said it expects to make about $100 million from the deal, including a $31 million early termination fee it recovered from Devon.
    Larry Dickerson, CEO of Houston-based Diamond, signaled that other of his company’s rigs could be relocated, too.
    “As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed,” Dickerson said. “We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation.”
    It was unclear how many U.S. jobs could leave with the Ocean Endeavor, but typically more than 100 workers are on the rig at any given time, doing everything from drilling to cooking meals. Onshore, a network of businesses supplies the rigs with groceries, equipment, uniforms and drilling materials.
    “It’s not unusual for an energy service company to have 1,000 vendors that they buy from or purchase services from,” noted Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands. As a result, Brady said, the economic damage from the moratorium stretches far and wide.
    Fearing for investment
    Brady and other oil-patch lawmakers have been pressing President Barack Obama to end the six-month moratorium he imposed on 33 deep-water projects May 27 after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig that was drilling a well for BP.
    Obama said the ban was needed to allow time for new safety standards to be implemented and a commission to investigate the cause of the April 20 blowout at BP’s Macondo well.”
    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7101738.html

  39. Thanks Syncro, it is refreshing someone giving an explanation of this.
    So basically this is blow (excuse the pun) out of proportion.
    As well the methane ‘bubble’ lurking at the bottom is none existent or to the point of not worrying about another Bermuda Triangle so to speak.

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