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Tonight we’ve got a couple of Tom Waits songs suitable for Halloween. First, the scary little number God’s Away On Business (“digging up the dead with a shovel and a pick / it’s a job, it’s a job”). And if you run out of candy for the trick-or-treaters, simply hide a couple of speakers behind your pumpkins and crank up The Black Rider – that oughta keep the porch clear.
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  1. A couple of days ago I posted a Reader Tip about the Swiss couple whose marriage vows were renewed in a ceremony in the Maldives; unbeknownst to the couple, those “officiating” the ceremony were actually saying things like “The children that you bear from this marriage will all be bastard swine. Your marriage is not a valid one. You are not the kind of people who can have a valid marriage. One of you is an infidel. The other, too, is an infidel and, we have reason to believe, an atheist, who does not even believe in an infidel religion.”
    Well, here’s an excerpt from a Comment Is Free column by William Sutcliffe in the Guardian, titled “The exploited Maldives ‘celebrants’ are the victims here, not the Swiss couple”:
    “While much has been made of the ‘infidel’ comments, it seems likely that the source of the bile directed towards the Swiss couple is as much economic as religious. But then perhaps the question shouldn’t be ‘why do they hate this couple?’, but ‘how could they not?’. Can any of us honestly say that if we had to do their job on their salary we would feel any different? Despite the grovelling apology issued by the Maldivian authorities, the victims in this story are not the Swiss couple but the ‘celebrants’ who have now been arrested, and the thousands of other Maldivians who will doubtless be under harsher pressure to bite their tongues and keep smiling over the cocktails.”

  2. In honour of what will eventually happen (and we all know it) I have composed a little ditty for our prodigal son…
    http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/10/31/guantanamo-khadr-sentencing.html
    “Welcome back, your plea was your ticket out.
    Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about.
    Well the govenment’s changed since you hung around, but your murderous crime has come back around.
    Who’d have thought it’d lead ya? (your lawyer knew it’d lead ya)
    Back here where we’ll free ya? (eight years’ll be a breeze, ya)
    Yeah we’ll tease you a lot ’cause it’s the only chance we’ve got, welcome back.
    Liberal hacks’ve got your back, you sack of crap.
    Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.”

  4. yes, the opposite of the “one”s throw which was a combination of a bad layup and a girl throw.
    something a little ew about a boy that dont like baseball- foghorn leghorn

  7. Obama caught lying again,
    Obama tells heckler they should heckle the GOP since they are the ones who refuse to help with the AIDS epidemic.
    Obama is lying,
    Here are the facts,
    …
    The United States devotes enormous sums of money to fighting AIDS. In 2009 the United States was the largest donor in the world, accounting for more than half of disbursements by governments. And it’s Bush’s fault! Or, rather, credit.
    As the AP reported at the end of Bush’s time in office, Bush launched a $15 billion plan in 2003 to expand AIDS prevention, treatment and support programs in 15 hard-hit countries, 12 of them African, which account for more than half the world’s estimated 33 million AIDS infections.
    The AP report notes that the initiative tied in with a World Health Organization campaign to put 3 million people on AIDS drugs by 2005 — a goal it says was reached in 2007. The AP added that Congress passed legislation in 2008 that more than tripled the budget to $48 billion over the next five years, with Republicans and Democrats alike hailing the program as a remarkable success.
    While the reputation of George Bush is snapping back, Barack Obama grows smaller by the minute.
    Read the rest at,
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/10/027572.php

  18. “October Ends” With Record Snowfall in Ottawa.
    MSM is snowblind.
    …-
    “October Ends with Snow
    The first snowfall of the year wasn’t unusual for Ottawa.
    Environment Canada says 6 cm of wet snow was recorded at the Ottawa International Airport Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
    Ottawa receives an average of 4 cm of snow in October.
    The record for largest snowfall on October 30th was 5.6 cm back in 1962.”
    http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=76622

  19. Markham lawyer Deanna Natale, daughter of former federal Liberal cabinet minister Judy Sgro, is scheduled to appear before a disciplinary hearing in connection with her law firm’s high-volume debt collection practice ….
    ….Consumer advocate Mark Silverthorn has posted 50 pages of background material in connection with Ms. Natale’s collection activities on his law firm’s website,
    http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2010/31/c7540.html
    July 10, 2007
    Judy Sgro, You Have A Lovely Daughter
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/006621.html

  20. With groovy graphics and video:
    Alexander Sinitski and James M. Tour, Graphene Electronics, Unzipped
    Can any electronics material rival silicon—tunable, current-carrying, self-insulating, easy to fabricate, as common as sand on the beach? Even if another rival came forward, could it ever overcome silicon’s 50-year, trillion-dollar head start in development?
    Yet we do need an adjunct to silicon, because so much of the potential market for electronics has yet to be opened. Electronics in paper, on walls, and in clothing are today mere novelties, simply because silicon can’t easily be painted on a surface, draped on a flexible platform, or used to cover large areas. What’s needed is something that can do all that and still be churned out cheaply and in bulk, processed easily, and slipped deftly into the guts of the next generations of electronics.
    Allow us to suggest a candidate: graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon linked in a hexagonal network, like chicken wire….

  23. Salah M. Bedair, John M. Zavada, and Nadia El-Masry, Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage
    As we build transistors and other components with nanoscale dimensions, processors and memories are becoming so dense that even their infinitesimal individual currents are combining to produce scorching heat. Furthermore, quantum effects that were negligible before are now so pronounced that they’re threatening to render circuits inoperable. The upshot is that we’re fast approaching the point when moving charge is not going to be enough to keep Moore’s Law chugging along.
    In anticipation of that day, researchers all over the world are already working on a promising alternative. We have set our sights on a different property of electrons, which we hope to exploit for storing and processing data. This property is spin….

  24. I post this every Yr on SDA & my thanks to Kate & all for allowing me to in readers tips.
    With November 11th approaching please remember to wear a Poppy.
    Please also remember to wear the Poppy on the left side.
    *the Royal Canadian Legion does not sell the poppy, it is by a donation of your choice.
    All members of the RCL ask is please honour our veterans young & old, Those that are no longer with us & Those that gave the ultimate sacrifice by wearing a Poppy.
    Many RCL Branches hold a church service the sunday before the 11th., And all are welcome to attend.
    And if you can please attend the Remembrance Ceremonies at your local cenotaph on the 11th of November.
    We Will Remember Them

  25. An excerpt from The Servile Mind:
    Kenneth Minogue, The Irresponsibility of Rights
    All servility is dangerous. To be even a little servile is to think that whatever is frustrating must be a form of oppression, from which liberation alone will provide release. Often, however, one is frustrated not by “oppression” but by reality, or an instinct for self-restraint. It is a feature of life to which some kind of “rage” is not an appropriate response. Servility is a personality structure with little protection against the temptations of impulse. The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights. And a right is irresponsible because it is a legally entrenched liberty that does not contain within itself the limitations instinctive in a free society. That is why there is a constant moral fussing in current societies about the necessity to match rights with responsibilities. As Jack Straw, a British Minister of Justice, has remarked, human rights are being treated like consumer goods for selfish ends by some people in Britain. “I am really worried about the commoditisation of rights, and the sense that people should see their rights as consumer goods,” he said….

  27. Ulilities should not be donating to Liberals: NDP
    ctv.ca Toronto
    http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101101/hydro-donations-to-liberals-101101/20101101?hub=TorontoNewHome
    Ontario New Democrats want to know why publicly owned Electrical Utilities are donating to the governing Liberal Party.
    The documents show Oakville Hydro gave the Liberals $8,500 for a 2009 byelection in the Haliburton area, hundreds of kilometres away.
    Newmarket-Tay Power Distribution, which is over 150 kilometres from Haliburton, gave the Liberals $1,350 for the same byelection and another $1,000 for the central party.
    Essex Power Corporation donated $1,700 to the governing Liberals to help them win a byelection this year in Toronto-Centre, nearly 400 kilometres away from its base in southwestern Ontario.
    **IMO This is just another sign of how Corrupt the McGuinty Liberals are. McGuinty please resign & call and Election.

  28. Not to worry. This Blast of AGW will bypass the Great White North. It’s on its way south to Florida.
    “This early start to winter”.
    …-
    “Coldest Weather So Far This Season
    Cold air will rush into the eastern third of the country late this week, affecting nearly the entire Eastern Seaboard.
    The cold will extend as far south as Georgia and northern Florida.
    This early start to winter could force many residents across the South to turn on the heat in their homes and cars and put a stall on some weekend outdoor plans as temperatures drop well below average.
    High temperatures on Friday across northern Georgia, including Atlanta, are forecast to stay below 60 degrees.
    This would be the coolest air to enter the region since the end of March.
    Additionally, AccuWeather.com is forecasting a low of 39 degrees in Jacksonville on Friday night, which would be the coolest night in the River City since March 8.
    However, the coldest air associated with this early winter chill will be found in the Northeast.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/40958/coldest-weather-so-far-this-se.asp

  31. The notion that rights are “irresponsible” is itself irresponsible. Rights are an absolute requirement for individual human survival. The biggest problem is that the left presents as “rights” numerous claims on others’ efforts that are not genuine rights.

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