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The Buddy Deane Show was a Baltimore-based television program that aired in the late 50s/early 60s. Patterned after American Bandstand, the show featured white-bread teenagers dancing on camera to the latest pop songs (and sometimes even singing their own songs) while Deane and his co-host moved merchandise during breaks in the action. Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips is an in-studio promotional spot for an exciting and remarkable product that, as you’ll see, provided hours and hours of fun for the whole family: here’s the perky Nancy Rogers urging viewers to go out and purchase the latest absolute-gotta-have-it invention called the Bob-A-Loop.
Wowee. Please remain calm.
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  2. Bob-a-Loop had to be the forerunner of the Yo-Yo. Mom had some pretty good yo-yo moves in that clip.

  5. Has anyone been following the Saudi “Spine for a Spine” story lately?
    Man injures other man in fight damaging his spinal cord resulting in paralysis. Saudi Sharia court is seeking to have his spinal cord severed medically as “punishment”.
    an eye for and eye and all that.
    The victim and his family could seek an alternative method of punishment, such as fines or imprisonment, but would rather this guy becomes a parapaligic.
    He he he – This is justice coming your way! The way the Liberal left would like it obviously, because they invite and defend it. Nice…….

  6. >>Bob-a-Loop had to be the forerunner of the Yo-Yo.
    Nope. The yo-yo was invented in the Philippines long before the Bob-a-Loop. It’s one of the Philippines many little-known contributions to popular American culture, another one being the word ‘boondocks’ (from the Tagalog word ‘bundok’, meaning ‘mountain’.

  8. Looking at the engineering that went into that invention, there must several left that are still in their original package.
    You can buy a Bob-A-Loop on E-bay!

  9. “I’d always figured the claims you hear about Venezuela being more violent than Iraq or Afghanistan were just a bit of criollo hyperbole. You know, nothing to be taken literally. Until yesterday’s staggering revelation in El Nacional sent me off on a bit of a Google search that revealed that no, actually, it’s literally true. By wide margins.
    There were 2,412 Civilian casualties (reported) due to the war in Afghanistan last year. In Iraq, 4,644 (reported). Venezuela had 19,133 violent deaths in 2009.”
    I wonder, who are they at war with? The populations are all 28 – 30 millions. “and all that without the suicide bombings…”
    http://www.caracaschronicles.com/node/2638

  13. John Galt @ 12.56 am
    The Venezuela number used by the source I linked to, is from the government of Venezuela, and that they have tried to minimize the number is clear to anyone, recently they’ve made efforts to stop having these numbers published by having the newspapers self censor for acts showing the photos of violence. The stories for this are at the blogs I’ve linked to as well.
    The story of what has happened in Colombia (not “Columbia”) is known to anyone following the Uribe Presidency and what it has meant to Colombia to have some real success against the terrorists bent on ruining their country. Your source appears to not indicate this change in Colombia that has taken place. It’s almost a decline by half in the past few years.
    There are quite different results at wiki although the real difference may be that they don’t rely a great deal on the numbers from the U.N. The USA is listed at about #42 and Canada at #72.
    The current Government of Canada statistics agree with the wiki numbers.
    The wiki results are correct for Venezuela, the morgues in Venezuela are backed-up / inundated with the business… in spite of the Chavez gov’t giving the police in Caracas a 250% pay increase this year.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate

  14. and at “Nationmaster.com” there are only 62 countries on their survey. Wiki isn’t all that either as there’s only about 120 countries listed there, somewhat short of the real number. That would explain some of the overall placement differences for Canada and the USA, but not the numerical differences of the er, “front runners”.

  15. I had a Bob a Loop as a kid – never knew the right name for it. I don’t remember my father donning a suit to play with the Bob a Loop either.

  16. And thanks to Vitruvius for the links to James Burke – a must watch for any thinking reed.

  17. Another car surfing accident here in Quebec, but this time the 16 year old fighting for his life in hospital was a childhood friend of my son and they go to the same high school. The 17 year old driver may be charged with reckless driving and other charges – he has been released for the moment.
    The injured boy was an elite soccer player at the provincial level. The family are hard-working immigrants. What a waste. I pray he survives and will live a normal life.

  18. I, for one, don’t believe Obama is a Muslim – openly or secretly. But after rewatching this video of Charles Krauthammer scolding Obama for the prime directive he gave to NASA’s Charles Bolden, I can fully understand why 1/4 of Americans suspect he probably is indeed a Muslim.
    By the way, anyone who believes that Obama never said this to Bolden has really overdosed on the Leftist Kool-Aid!

  19. John Gault>
    “Murders Per Capita”
    It’s funny that the murder rate list you provide, in no way resembles the firearms list per capita around the globe! Funny that, no? It must be something else, hmmm.
    Check out page 10 of 34 – the US is #1 and Canada is #12 for small civilian arms per capita globally.
    It’s also strange that both England and Australia that have draconian gun laws and much fewer guns, rank above or next to Canada for murder rates.
    http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/year_b_pdf/2007/CH2%20Stockpiles.pdf
    So much for registering guns. I think the libs need to look elsewhere to suss out thier issues.
    .

  20. The Lieberals approach to gun control defies all logic and reason, but that makes no difference to them. It’s nothing but a vote grabbing ploy that plays to the ignorance of urban Canadians whose knowledge of firearms comes from watching American TV programs. They know how they feel and don’t want to be confused by facts they can’t understand.

  21. Knight 99, upon further reading, some results listed at Nationmaster.com were from 2003. Things have changed.
    I liked Switzerland’s policy regarding all households being armed, and having some sort of ongoing training. Obviously in high drug consuming areas that’s not going to work / results may vary.

  22. marc>
    Yea, the Swiss have always had a positive and sensible attitude towards gun ownership. Just have to respect them for it!
    BTW – Kudo’s on the Calgary patronage. Am also originally from Calgary, still love it, but it’s changing……….

  24. Guess we all know the answer but, is Lizzy May bat shit crazy?
    She says the Tories are dangerous to democracy and bureaucrats are scared of this government citing the firing of Linda Keen and the recent case of Veteran’s Ombudsman Pat Stogran who is not being given another term, at least to this point.
    She opines there will be an election within a year, whenever the PM wants one. She also is confident she will win her seat as will some other Greenies. Where have we heard this bravado before? Bon chance.

  25. Comrades Lenin/Stalin/McGuinty: U-screwed Plans.
    “Report the fulfilment,” “Fulfil on time,” etc.”
    …-
    >>> “A Plan for the Electrification of Russia.”
    “A LETTER TO V. I. LENIN
    Comrade Lenin,
    During the last three days I have had the opportunity to read the symposium: A Plan for the Electrification of Russia.[8] My illness made this possible (it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good!). An excellent, well-compiled book. A masterly draft of a really single and really state economic plan, not in quotation marks. The only Marxist attempt in our time to place the Soviet superstructure of economically backward Russia on a really practical technical and production basis, the only possible one under present conditions.
    You remember Trotsky’s “plan” (his theses) of last year for the “economic revival” of Russia on the basis of the mass application of the labour of unskilled peasant-worker masses (the labour army) to the remnants of pre-war industry. How wretched, how backward, compared with the Goelro plan! A medieval handicraftsman who imagines he is an Ibsen hero called to “save” Russia by an ancient saga. . . . And of what value are the dozens of “single plans” which to our shame appear from time to time in our press — the childish prattle of preparatory-school pupils. . . . Or again, the philistine “realism” (in fact Manilovism) of Rykov, who continues to
    page 51
    “criticise” the Goelro and is immersed to his ears in routine. . . .
    In my opinion:
    1) Not a single minute more must be wasted on idle talk about the plan.
    2) A p r a c t i c a l start on the work m u s t b e m a d e immediately.
    3) To this start must be devoted at least one-third of our work (two-thirds will be required for “current” needs) in transporting materials and men, restoring enterprises, distributing labour forces, delivering food stuffs, organising supply bases and supply itself, and so on.
    4) Since the staff of the Goelro, for all their excellent qualities, lack a sound practical outlook (a professorial impotence can be detected in the articles), we must without fail include in the planning commission live practical men who act on the principle — “Report the fulfilment,” “Fulfil on time,” etc.
    5) Pravda, Izvestia, and especially Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn [9] must be instructed to popularise the Plan for the Electrification both as a whole and as regards its concrete points dealing with individual parts, bearing in mind that there is o n l y o n e “single economic plan” — the Plan for the Electrification, and that all other “plans” are just idle talk, empty and harmful.
    Yours,
    Stalin”
    http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/LL21.html
    …-
    >>> A Plan for the Electrification of Ontario, Canada.
    Comrade Liberal McGuinty:
    “Hydro prices ‘going up like a rocket’
    Electricity prices in Ontario are “going up like a rocket,” fuelled in part by the Ontario government’s Green Energy Act, says a longtime observer of the province’s energy scene.
    “You are going to get screwed, and it’s going to be painful,” said Tom Adams, a Toronto-based consultant and a former executive director of Energy Probe.
    “We’re talking about hundreds of dollars a year out of your pocketbook that didn’t need to happen. I’m livid about it. People should be outraged.””
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Hydro+prices+going+like+rocket/3428382/story.html

  26. No! to the “ruling class media”.
    …-
    “Let Me Translate: We Don’t Believe Him – or You.
    By C. Edmund Wright
    Memo to the ruling class media: We are not ignorant or stupid. We’ve not forgotten Jeremiah Wright. It’s not that we don’t “know” what faith Obama subscribes to — it’s more that we don’t believe him. Or you. Sorry. Not buying.
    Besides, sometimes we just like to tweak you with our poll answers — and use any poll as an excuse to “vote against Obama” in any way, shape or form.
    **
    Frankly, it has been equal parts comedy and insult to watch the ruling class media haplessly wrestle with the reality that millions of Americans believe Obama to be a Muslim. They are so clueless.
    As if we needed any more proof– this is simply another positive dose that the ruling class media and the country are divided by a huge gulf of philosophy, reality and experiences. And they are just beside themselves that a country that was concerned that Obama’s (Christian?) pastor is a crazy nut in the spring and summer of 2008 can totally forget about all that in the summer of 2010 and call Obama a Muslim.
    They so miss the point. We have forgotten none of that. If fact, apparently now more Americans are deciding to look into all of this and process it in light of Obama’s actions.
    So allow me to help the media out on this thorny confusing issue:”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/let_me_translate_we_dont_belie.html

  27. See,”Ignatieff strong-arms Bagnall on gun registry”..from Yukon News (http://yukon-news.com/news/19355).
    Iggy quote from the column:’We’re in a 54 billion dollar hole and I didn’t dig it.But I’ve got to dig us out!’..note once again,that it’s ALL about Iggy,not the party,not the MP’s,it’s the ‘ego’ on display.

  28. Feminisation of Canada’s MSM.
    …-
    “New Global anchor takes chair
    Calgary Herald – ‎4 hours ago‎
    By Lssari A Liepins, Postmedia News August 22, 2010 2:02 AM Dawna Friesen will take over as Global National’s -anchor and executive edi tor, becoming Canada’s first full-time female anchor of a national nightly newscast.”
    …-
    “World Without Men: The Forgotten Novel of Totalitarian Lesbiocracy by Charles Eric Maine
    World-Without-Men.jpg
    The blurb on the thirty-five cent Ace paperback likens Charles Eric Maine’s 1958 novel World without Men to George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’sBrave New World. Ordinarily – and in consideration of the genre and the lurid cover – one would regard such a comparison skeptically. Nevertheless, while not rising to the artistic level of the Orwell and Huxley masterpieces, World without Men merits being rescued from the large catalogue of 1950s paperback throwaways, not least because of Maine’s vision of an ideological dystopia is based on criticism, not of socialism or communism per se nor of technocracy per se, but rather of feminism. Maine saw in the nascent feminism of his day (the immediate postwar period) a dehumanizing and destructive force, tending towards totalitarianism, which had the potential to deform society in radical, unnatural ways. Maine grasped that feminism – the dogmatic delusion that women are morally and intellectually superior to men – derived its fundamental premises from hatred of, not respect for, the natural order; he grasped also that feminism entailed a fantastic rebellion against sexual dimorphism, which therefore also entailed a total rejection of inherited morality.
    In World without Men, Maine asserts that the encouragement of sexual hedonism, the spread of pornography into the mainstream of public culture, and the proscription of masculinity are inevitable consequences of the feminist program, once established. The fifty years since the novel’s publication – as a thirty-five cent paperback – have vindicated Maine’s notable prescience as a social commentator.
    Although World without Men might not measure up fully to 1984 or Brave New World, Maine, a talented storyteller, worked on a higher level than most of the genre writers represented in the Ace catalogue. Indeed, in its narrative structure, World without Men trades in at least one formally modernistic gesture. It gives glimpses out of chronological order of a progressive biological and cultural catastrophe so that the reader must reshuffle events into their actual, causal sequence. Part one or “The Man” takes place in the Seventieth Century, and part two or “The Monkey” late in the Twentieth. Part three or “The Girl” takes place perhaps seventy-five or a hundred years after part two. Part four or “The Patriarch” takes place sometime in the indefinite far future, but before 7000 AD. (References to Christ as having been born “seven thousand years ago” permit specification of the date.) Part five or “The Child” recurs to 7000 AD and shares certain personae with “The Man.” Thus “The Man,” “The Patriarch,” “The Girl,” and “The Child” are long-term sequels to “The Monkey,” which chronicles the development of a birth-control drug called Sterilin, while probing the consciences of the pharmaceutical researcher, a man, who creates it and the corporate mogul, a woman, who aggressively markets it.
    I. “The Man” immediately places the reader in a world of disturbing oddity, doubly disgruntling because its exclusively female denizens take it dogmatically for granted.”
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4505

  30. The Bob-a-Loop has been around since ancient Egypt, the toy has been found in tombs.

  31. I’m vindicated!
    I could never stand Peter Gzowski, while at least half of Canada, it seemed, went gaga over him during his 15-year gig at the CBC.
    From a new biography by R.B. Fleming entitled “Peter Gzowski: A Biography,” we learn that he was pretty much a spoiled brat, a nasty loser, an inveterate liar – aka “storyteller,” and a left-wing-I-won’t-grow-up bastard of the first order. It’s good to know that I wasn’t just being a poor sport for not liking his infantile, lefty political views:
    “Fleming notes but doesn’t emphasize Gzowski’s dogmatic, narrow-minded politics. He subscribed to the bizarre CBC doctrine that a representative panel of Canadian opinion consisted of a Red Tory, a left-wing Liberal and a member of the NDP. He didn’t dislike conservatives; he barely believed they existed. He began adulthood as a one-dimensional lefty and never saw any reason to change.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/08/21/robert-fulford-the-surprising-life-of-peter-gzowski/#ixzz0xLCk7Y6Ymore:

  32. maz2 @ 6:54 in comparing the electrification of Russia and McGuinty’s plans. I wonder if workers will be buried in the concrete in Ontario when they fall like they were in the building of the dam on Dnieper River by the city of Zaporozhia?

  34. If the government can’t find a spine to deal with this boatload of poseurs and God knows what, perhaps we could give them an ultimatum, ship them back post haste or decline our ballots in the next election.
    I can’t support this stupidity, I will decline my ballot but we need to send emails to our MP’s to let them know how we feel and what we intend to do.
    If they prefer the votes of Tamils in Toronto over patriotic Canadians who have supported this country for generations, they may find theat not enough to win an election.

  35. liz j- dealing with the Tamil situation, and the misuse of the refugee system, is not dependent on whether the govt/Harper ‘has a spine’. It’s dependent on parliament – and Harper has a minority.
    Even if very CPC member voted to reform the immigration system – and Harper has made it clear he wants it reformed – his minority could not overcome the majority vote by the people who set up this immigration system in the first place: the Liberals, NPD, Bloc. The left.
    The Liberals set up this system with the deliberate intention to snare all immigrants both legal and illegal (the latter are the false refugee claimants) to vote Liberal. Remember that although it is the law that only citizens can vote in actual practice citizenship is never required; all that is required to get your name on the registration list is ‘proof of residency’, i.e., two bills (Bell, Hydro) with your name and address.
    The Liberals wanted their votes. They had and have no interest in the morality of fake refugee claims, blatant refugee abuse of the taxpayer who is forced to provide welfare, medical, housing for these people.
    Therefore insisting that Harper ‘do something’ about this refugee situation – without acknowledging that when he tries, the Liberals immediately mount a ‘tears-for-refugees’ campaign, is illogical on your part. What must be done is for more citizens to speak out about this issue, such that the Liberals will realize that they have lost public support.

  36. The CBC site search thingy is busted again:
    “Your search – judy sgro ethics rent – did not match any documents.
    No pages were found containing “judy sgro ethics rent”. ”
    “judy sgro $100,000.00” doesn’t work either.

  37. Ken (Kulak):
    Sources say, an untold number of DPs (displaced persons) were encased in concrete during the construction of this project. DPs were mainly from eastern Europe.
    …-
    “The “SWISHA” Project”
    “The School House Museum’s
    presentation of “The SWISHA
    Project” leads the viewer
    through the 1940s
    construction by the Ontario
    Hydro Power Corporation of a
    major hydro electric power
    dam on the Ottawa River at
    Des Joachims (pronounced
    locally as ‘D’Swisha’),
    Quebec, Canada. It includes
    life in the construction
    camps, the
    dislocation/relocation of
    communities up stream, the
    effect of the dam on the
    lumber industry on the river,
    the creation of the Hydro
    Colony at Rolphton, Ontario,
    life in the Colony, the
    dismantling of the Colony and
    relocation of its buildings.
    The viewer can access
    details of the project in
    Ontario Hydro’s 1948
    Publication, “Des Joachims
    Generating Station, Ottawa
    River,” and a month-by-month
    account of the dam’s
    construction as detailed in
    the final edition of the
    Ontario Hydro Construction
    Division’s publication,
    “DesJoachims News.”
    An account of the
    project, as seen through the
    eyes of freelance writer,
    Bruce McLeod, and published
    in the November 1950 issue of
    Maclean’s magazine under the >”
    http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm_v2.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000305

  38. Left-liberal MSM is stunned/shocked/bleeding.
    The veil of the left-liberal MSM Temple has been rent.
    Who holds “the keys to power”?
    …-
    “Shock of election outcome felt around the world
    The Australian – Simon Canning – ‎1 hour ago‎
    THE world’s media has reacted with shock over Australia’s failure to elect a government outright. Newspapers reported that the nation was facing the prospect of being ruled by a minority government for the first time since World War II, …”
    “Newspapers reported that the nation was facing the prospect of being ruled by a minority government for the first time since World War II, a state that could unleash uncertainty on Australia’s financial markets as Labor and the Liberals jockeyed to form a ruling coalition.
    The Wall Street Journal
    Australia, normally one of the most stable democracies in the region, faces its most uncertain period in recent political history after a national poll on Saturday failed to deliver a clear result.
    The country’s two major parties, the centre-left Labor administration of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Liberal-National conservative bloc of Tony Abbott, said a new government likely won’t be formed for a number of days, as negotiations begin with non-party lawmakers who hold the keys to power in the first hung parliament in 70 years.
    The stunning outcome — the first time since the 1930s a first-term government has failed to clearly win re-election — will likely fuel a bout of uncertainty as markets weigh the demands of independent lawmakers who range from rural-based conservatives to environmentalists.
    The Guardian
    After five weeks of bitter, negative campaigning, neither Labor, the current government, nor the conservative opposition Liberal party looked like they would be able to form a government in their own right. It appeared that both parties would have to rely on others in the lower house of parliament.
    Labor can expect the support of the first-ever Greens member, and probably also a former Green turned independent, who seemed likely to win a seat.”
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/shock-of-election-outcome-felt-around-the-world/story-e6frg996-1225908598772
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/08/21/the-australian-elections/#comment-120065

  39. Somehow the idea of the Fort Hood incident where Nidal Hasan murdered 13 and attempted to murder another 32 doesn’t really pass as “workplace violence”.
    Unless the DOD is now including islam isn’t separable from mental illness…
    … “the DOD investigation focuses on workplace safety issues and the disclosure of mental health problems rather than the obvious — WTF was a guy in contact with a known terrorist leader doing in the military in the first place?”
    http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/203679.php

  40. AlMoh Reports: Send no money/relief to Israel.
    >>> “However, next to Israel, Pakistan has probably the worst international image around right now.”
    The “experts” wring their hands.
    Meanwhile, TORedStar reports, Muslims shakedown our Conservative government with your tax dollars.
    …-
    “Who cares about Pakistan?
    By Jude Sheerin BBC News
    Donations have been sluggish to the Pakistan floods appeals, as they were back in 2005 when the part of Kashmir the country administers was torn apart by an earthquake. The BBC News website asked some experts to comment on possible reasons why.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11035270
    …-
    TORedStar:
    http://www.thestar.com/news/world/pakistan/article/851000–canadians-urged-to-step-up-pakistan-flood-relief?bn=1

  41. 😉
    “Nearly half a century after leaving her beloved Cuba for Miami, Isabel Díaz finally got to confront the man responsible for her exile: Fidel Castro.
    The 93-year-old great-grandmother — legally blind in both eyes — grabbed a softball bat and swung it as hard as she could, smacking him across the mouth, knocking the cigar from his lips.” … “Just to hear her curse for the first time in my life was great,”
    http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/22/1785525/the-life-and-death-of-the-party.html

  42. Bumper sticker seen the the USA.
    I lost my Bob-A-Loop years ago, but I still have the box it came in!

  43. Maz2 — Thanks for the SWISHA project link. I have a cottage near SWISHA. The pics are great.

  44. ET, thanks for the scold.
    I just happen to think this is a serious enough issue to recall Parliament and attempt to make the necessary changes to put an end to this abuse.
    Let the opposition stand and be counted,take it to the people if necessary.

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