Tonight’s amusement en route to the tips is a song about loss of faith in the goodness of human nature. The beautifully simple fan-made video that accompanies it is powerfully affecting because it artfully goes right to the heart of the song, which isn’t a lyrical examination of, or treatise on, sadness and disappointment, but rather an expression of the purely emotional state wherein loss of faith and trust feels monumental, absolute, and permanent. From the 1997 release The Boatman’s Call, here’s Nick Cave singing People Ain’t No Good.
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“According to (Arizona Republican) State Sen. Antenori, Mexican officials and President Barack Obama’s U.S. advisors have come up with a $270 million dollar program to fight the treacherous and deadly Mexican drug cartels.
“The rationale for this latest anti-cartel initiative is that the thousands soldiers and cops based in Juarez, Mexico aren’t effective enough to stop the bloodshed that’s seeping into the United States.
“However, instead of tough enforcement and increased police and military resources, the Mexican plan to solve the crime and violence epidemic is to create programs such as youth orchestras, physical fitness programs, free concerts, student breakfasts, etc.
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“‘This will surely create fear and horror in these gangsters. Students doing a Mexican hat dance will stop the cartels in their tracks,’ quipped former New York narcotics officer Charles Santiago.”
Well…if you stuff enough money in the hat…?
Syncro
Sounds rather similar to Toronto’s Mayor Miller, who – alarmed at the increase in gun violence in the city – proposed more ‘basketball courts’.
Oh, and the province decided that segregated schools would be beneficial (blacks only).
Needless to say – the gun violence has increased in Toronto to such an extent that daily gun violence is now ignored by the MSM and reported as if it were just another robbery or attack.
I hope that Obama includes sufficient funds for Shade Areas just like Mayor Miller did. Come to think of it, perhaps Miller can get a consulting gig advising them where to install such protection from the sun.
Can you all believe that in 2010 we actually have such asshats running things?!
I Can See November from my Porch!
Yesterday I discovered a superb source of info called American Conservative University Podcast. It’s a compilation of select radio show segments & lectures. A very useful & enjoyable resource!
From a commenter on Dennis Miller’s website known as ‘Brer Rabbit’ :
LEFTISM FOR DUMMIES
1. Make up your perfect fantasy land
2. Trash anything that does not match said fantasy land
3. Work to destroy anything that is not in your fantasy land
4. Villainize all who tell you your fantasy land isn’t real
5. Support leaders who promise you your fantasy land
6. When things get worse and worse, and people scream at you to stop, remain firm in belief that your fantasy land is near
7. When system collapses, act shocked when jackbooted dictators take over and fail to deliver fantasy land
8. Get locked in gulag, wonder what happened
9. Receive thanks from those who told you so
10. Apologize to the victims?
11. A bullet to the back of the head
Can you all believe that in 2010 we actually have such asshats running things?!
Sure, why not? That’s what happens when people refuse to get involved in governing themselves and turn it over to lawyers and other crooks. People in a democracy generally get the government they deserve.
Re: ET at August 22, 2010 10:31 PM
Mayor Miller has obviously never seen The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Seriously, do they just figure ‘fun’ is the opposite of violence and therefore people just need to have more fun? The flow of their flawgic eludes me.
“Lawyers and OTHER crooks” nice call John. humorous too.
of all the tyrants and dictators of modern history, well, make that since biblical times, how many were leftists and how many were fascists?
California , not broke enough , half billion dollar schools.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100822/ap_on_re_us/us_taj_mahal_schools
Beagle – for the last century, most have been both.
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labour.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political prison to rot.
If you cross the Canadian border illegally you get
* a job,
* a drivers license,
* social security card,
* welfare,
* food stamps,
* credit cards,
* subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house,
* free education,
* free health care,
* billions of dollars worth of public documents printed in your language,
* the right to carry your country’s flag while you protest that you don’t get enough respect.
I just wanted to make sure I had a firm grasp on the situation…
That list is correct for America, it’s slightly different for Canada. The intent is the same.
The Food Stamp program is administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, thus it is not available in Canada.
Social security cards are in America, Canada has The Social Insurance Number, a nine-digit number that you require to work in Canada or to receive government benefits.
In Canada government documents are printed in French and English.
A relevant question;
When push comes to shove, will anyone be surprised if the native population becomes violent with perceived interlopers?
At what breaking point does the native population become violent?
At what breaking point is tolerance seen as capitulation and seen by the native population as weakness to be overcome?
At what point does the native population no longer listen to their ‘betters’?
Though most of you fine SDA regulars are now asleep, some of us West Coasters are still awake.
I hope a number of you get to start your Monday listening to Michael Savage’s stupidest callers of 2010.
It is absolutely hilarious to hear these ignoramuses but it saddens me to know that they are also vote cancelers, be they Democrats in the U.S. or NDP’ers here in Canada.
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
-Winston Churchill
John G: That’s two insightful quips tonight. Kudos, sir!
Apologies for potential formatting issues — posting from my blackberry.
Recent info from the Not Evil folks re-affirms my decision last year to
Boycott all things James Cameron
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Friends,
Last March James Cameron sounded defiant.
The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to ask questions about climate change orthodoxy and the radical “solutions” being proposed.
Cameron said was itching to debate the issue and show skeptical journalists and scientists that they were wrong.
“I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads,” he said in an interview.
Well, a few weeks ago Mr. Cameron seemed to honor his word.
His representatives contacted myself and two other well known skeptics, Marc Morano of the Climate Depot website and Andrew Breitbart, the new media entrepreneur.
Mr. Cameron was attending the AREDAY environmental conference in Aspen Colorado 19-22 August. He wanted the conference to end with a debate on climate change. Cameron would be flanked with two scientists. It would be 90 minutes long. It would be streamed live on the internet.
They hoped the debate would attract a lot of media coverage.
“We are delighted to have Fox News, Newsmax, The Washington Times and anyone else you’d like. The more the better,” one of James Cameron’s organizers said in an email.
It looked like James Cameron really was a man of his word who would get to take on the skeptics he felt were so endangering humanity.
Everyone on our side agreed with their conditions. The debate was even listed on the AREDAY agenda.
But then as the debate approached James Cameron’s side started changing the rules.
They wanted to change their team. We agreed.
They wanted to change the format to less of a debate—to “a roundtable”. We agreed.
Then they wanted to ban our cameras from the debate. We could have access to their footage. We agreed.
Bizarrely, for a brief while, the worlds most successful film maker suggested that no cameras should be allowed-that sound only should be recorded. We agreed
Then finally James Cameron, who so publicly announced that he “wanted to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out,” decided to ban the media from the shoot out.
He even wanted to ban the public. The debate/roundtable would only be open to those who attended the conference.
No media would be allowed and there would be no streaming on the internet. No one would be allowed to record it in any way.
We all agreed to that.
And then, yesterday, just one day before the debate, his representatives sent an email that Mr. “shoot it out ” Cameron no longer wanted to take part. The debate was cancelled.
James Cameron’s behavior raises some very important questions.
Does he genuinely believe in man made climate change? If he believes it is a danger to humanity surely he should be debating the issue every chance he gets ?
Or is it just a pose?
The man who called for an open and public debate at “high noon” suddenly doesn’t want his policies open to serious scrutiny.
I was looking forward to debating with the film maker. I was looking forward to finding out where we agreed and disagreed and finding a way forward that would help the poorest people in the developing and developed world.
But that is not going to happen because somewhere along the way James Cameron, a great film maker, has moved from King of the World to being King of the Hypocrites.
– Ann McElhinney
Robert, I had to quit that vid about a minute in, in fear of my blood pressure. Mind boggling.
Our Lady of the Cliches has surfaced.
Read all about OLC’s “”Wag the Dog*” theory”.
“Sheila Copps is a former Jean Chrétien-era Cabinet minister and deputy prime minister.”
OLC is also a Liberal Ad$Cammer.
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Harper has determined that fear and loathing is more effective than bridge building
He has been very successful, thus far, in convincing the rest of us that this boatload of people is truly nothing more than Tamil terrorists. Is that really the new face of Canada?”
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/copps-08-23-2010
(*H/T Whither Al Gore (WAG)? (formerly AGW)
PET Cemetery Lecture Series Presents.
For your election: Liberal Egghead Intellectual I-Am-Elitist Iggy, aka Our Soilist.
Another stern Iggy lecture from PET Cemetery’s “Just Visiting” archives.
All rednecked Canadian bigots will enjoy.
See abstract below.
Link: liberal.caca.
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“Michael Ignatieff: lower the rhetoric on Tamil migrants
Canadians need to stand back and take a deep breath when it comes to the discussion around the almost 500 migrants who arrived on our soil a little over a week ago.”
(NNW)
“Survey finds”, economists “unexpectedly agree”, experts concur, ornithologists take flight: as feared, smoker MaryJane dies hopelessly intestate flying with one wing crumpled; a cripple with one toke in good leftists’ hands.
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“Survey finds most fear boomers will cripple health-care system
Globe and Mail”
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“Canadians build car from cannabis
TG Daily – Emma Woollacott – 43 minutes ago
A Canadian company will next month launch what would surely be a hippy’s perfect car – one built largely from cannabis. The car, called the Kestrel, is a compact electric vehicle which can carry four people – so not much new about it there.”
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(H/T GoogooNoose)
Socialism: “fear” and “rubber bullets”.
Grade: Fail.
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“Most Canadians fear for health system: report card
CTV.ca”
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“South Africa army keeps hospitals open during strike
South Africa’s security forces have deployed outside hospitals as unions defy a court order to keep essential services open during their strike.
Police have fired rubber bullets at striking health workers, injuring several protesters in Durban.
The army has sent medical teams to 37 hospitals around the country to keep emergency health services open.
Some one million civil servants began their strike on Wednesday, in a dispute over pay.
The government on Saturday obtained an injunction against the strike, which the unions immediately condemned.
The injunction forbids strikers from blockading state buildings and instructs those providing essential services to return to work.
The BBC’s Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg says early indications are that the order has had at best a limited impact.
Those shot outside Durban’s Addington Hospital were reportedly blockading the staff entrance.
Nurse Buhle Ntsele, who was bleeding from the thigh after being shot, said their protest had been peaceful.
“People who are working have betrayed us. We need to deal with them,” the South African Press Agency (Sapa) reports.
Sapa says that some nurses were on duty at the hospital’s casualty unit, while there was a heavy police presence outside.
The situation is reportedly similar in hospitals in Johannesburg, with a police and soldiers monitoring protesters at the gates and army medics working inside.
Volunteers sought
Mugwena Maluleke, a spokesman for the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), told the BBC over the weekend that union members would not be advised to return to work.
“We have to highlight our plight. We have told our members, there must be no obstruction of entrances and no intimidation,” he told Sapa.
The health ministry has asked for volunteers to help clean hospitals and cook food for patients.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2575755/posts
People taking advantage of a carbon scheme, say it isn’t sooooooooo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100821/ap_on_bi_ge/un_un_carbon_cutting_scheme
Ich Bin Ein Democrat.
(H/T O’JFK)
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“Without George W. Bush, division tears apart the online left
Washington Examiner (a print newspaper) ^ | 8/22/2010 | Charlie Spiering
In the ‘old days’ of the Bush administration, life in a online liberal discussion forum was great. Everybody was having a great time bashing the president and marveling at each other’s brilliance. But in the age of Obama, these once fertile fields of partisan rancor have been tainted by ideological dissent.
The latest news from Democratic Underground (DU) is a perfect example of what’s happening to the left online.
Earlier this year, the moderators of DU angered users of the forum after they issued a lengthy “censored list” of online behavior that would be banned and deleted from the site.
Now, matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short.
In the face of dissent and division, website administrator Skinner took to the web to issue a angst filled lament over the loss of the ‘old DU’
You don’t like what DU has become. Maybe you have very specific complaints, or maybe you don’t really know exactly what it is that you don’t like. But what you do know is that you wish it was more like the old DU. A community. A place that was special. Where we had big disagreements, but at least you felt like we all had something in common.
Yeah, I miss that DU, too.
I miss it so much that it makes my heart ache. I lie awake at night agonizing over it. I can barely bring myself to read my email anymore. I’m burned out and tired.
. . .
Here’s the problem in a nutshell: Back when Bush was President, he represented the center of gravity in politics — the focal point that determined “Which side are you on?” — and everyone on DU actually was on the same side. Now that Barack Obama is President, he has become the center of gravity. I think it’s clear that we still broadly agree on the issues, but we disagree on how best to get there, how long it should take, and how much compromise we are willing to accept. Those are the disagreements that matter now. To be blunt, we are not all on the same side anymore.
Imagine if during the Bush Administration, Democratic Underground had welcomed people who thought the president was doing a bad job, *and* people who thought the president was doing a good job. DU would have sucked. Sure, it might have been worth the effort to stop by every once in a while to argue with conservative idiots, but nobody would have felt like DU was their home, their safe-haven, their community.
So what is a lefty web haven to do when change causes division? Skinner proposes the following: “I am starting to think that much more radical change is necessary.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2575313/posts
This is VERY funny!
From the article” http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/copps-08-23-2010
“Is that really the new face of Canada?”
Seems to be. Check around Hamilton for starters, Sheila. You might be surprised at what you hear and not just about Tamils. And a majority of us aren’t too consumed about what the UN thinks of us, either, despite what you would like us to think. We don’t need you to think for us, or the UN for that matter.
Besides, what does Sri Lanka have that we need to “build bridges” with them? Exporting unwanted Tamils? We used to make steel in Hamilton to actually build bridges. All we seem to generate now is rust. Barbed wire might be a new product line in demand, though – razor wire.
You think so highly of these potential Canadians, put them up in your house Sheila, not mine. They can apply just like anyone else, especially since they could come up with the $50,000 to pay the Snake Heads to come here.
Is there no where on the Planet Earth the Followers of the Mad Prophet are not killing someone? Islam should mean “Murdering rage”.
I notice the Russians don’t use castrated phrases like “Man caused disaster”. The Castrating progressives have not been busy enough. In Russia. They still talk like men, not gay teens.
Violence Flares in Dagestan After Militant Leader’s Death
23 August 2010
A wave of coordinated attacks swept Dagestan after authorities dealt Islamist militants a heavy blow over the weekend by killing a local rebel leader blamed for the Moscow metro bombings.
But analysts said the surge in violence — which included two car bombs, shootings and kidnappings that killed at least five people and injured three others — was not necessarily revenge for the death of Magomedali Vagabov, whom authorities have said organized the twin blasts in the Moscow metro on March 29 that killed 40 people.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/violence-flares-in-dagestan-after-militant-leaders-death/413476.html
Colin in Mission at August 23, 2010 3:04 AM
James “Gunslinger” Cameron takes a beating from Andrew Bolt here : Could sceptics debate Cameron’s Avatar instead?
It’s hilarious how the Cameron team starts off with promises of a gun-blazing public debate at high noon with climate deniers. Then pretty soon they are insisting on a private discussion without cameras, records or an audience. Finally they decide to canceling the entire event. It sounds like James Cameron may have done a bit of independent research on AGW and realized his side is shooting blanks.
Canceling = cancel. I hate typing and editing. Computers and technology should be able to automatically correct these types of problems by now! Kind of like on a PVR where they warn you “Are you sure you want to delete this program?”.
James Cameron backs out of climate change debate.
Who would have ever guessed?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/08/23/filmmaker-james-cameron-backs-out-global-warming-debate-he-organized
Mao Stlong say, You wan tlaffic jam; you wan malmerade?
See Moi nephew, Canadian “Liberal leader” Bob Rae.
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“100-km Chinese traffic jam enters Day 9
A nine-day traffic jam in China is now more than 100 kilometres long and could last for weeks, state media reported Monday.
Thousands of trucks en route to Beijing from Huai’an in the southeast have been backed up since Aug. 14, making the National Expressway 100 impassable, Xinhua News reported.
A spokesman for the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau reportedly told China’s Global Times newspaper that the backup was due to “insufficient traffic capacity … caused by maintenance construction.””
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/08/23/china-traffic-jam.html
A couple of black tea partiers speak. The guy tells what it is like being a black teapartier. He gets it. One thing I am curious about are Republicans black and Democrats African American or is it just how they feel about themselves? I hate PC.
http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/08/emancipation-ii-this-time-even-the-white-folks-get-freed/