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Tonight’s entertainment takes us back a few years and across the ocean to England: from the b-side of their 1958 single “Handed Down”, here are the sweet-harmonizing Kaye Sisters making an impressively extensive list of romantic requests, ending with Love Me Forever.
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  1. Nobody? just me?
    Maybe the posting is problematic
    In any case, here’s an excerpt from Gorecki’s Symphony #3. A recently deceased and underrecognized Polish composer.
    http://tinyurl.com/2buc7af
    I wouldn’t post it if it wasn’t worth watching, please have a look. Let’s claim Ms Bayrakdarian – an engineer from U of T.

  3. Juxtapose ?
    “‘There’s nobody out there, except for Sarah Palin, who can absolutely dominate the stage, and she can’t stand on the intellectual stage with Obama,’ Williams said.
    Via HotAir ( http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/26/quotes-of-the-day-551/comment-page-2/#comments )
    with
    Robinson: You are quoted in the Boston Globe, “I like Obama but I reject the suggestion that he is an intellectual. He is an activist merely mimicking the mannerisms of an intellectual.” How good is Obama’s mind?
    Epstein: His mind is pretty good, but it is a clever “means-ends” mind. He has never written a scholarly article in his entire life.
    ( http://easyopinions.blogspot.com/2009/04/richard-epstein-discusses-barack-obama.html#Blog1 )
    And the vid clip from National Review Online;
    ( http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=YWRiOTM2OGU1OGFjMzc4ZjMzYmM4MWE1MWQwNTAzYjY= )
    (About Richard Epstein
    Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972.)
    with;
    Sarah Palin, Scoop Artist
    Re.Death Panels;
    Confirmation of Mrs. Palin’s scoop was brought in by the New York Times in a dispatch issued Christmas day, more than a year after Mrs. Palin issued her warning about Obamacare leading to government involvement in end-of-life issues.
    […]
    The question that that we find ourselves thinking about is how was Mrs. Palin able to see this issue when others weren’t. Is she just smarter than the editors and the Congress? Or does she just have more life experience? Is it that her religion gives her a framework for learning all this stuff? Or is it that her sensitivity was heightened by making of her own decision to bring Trig into the world? Or is it something about the Alaskan spirit?
    Our own conclusion is that it doesn’t matter. It’s enough that she was just ahead of the others, and the point is one to mark. She has become, at a relatively young age and by whatever means, a savvy woman. We noticed it, say, when she suggested the best way to handle the question of the West Bank settlements was to let the Israelis decide, a policy the administration is now following. We noticed it when she went to Hong Kong and warned about the collapse in the value of the dollar and spoke of the importance of gold.
    It was apparent when she dove in before other politicians and the intelligentsia and warned about the dangers of the Federal Reserve’s second round of quantitative easing. And when, in advance of the BP oil-spill disaster, she’d been campaigning to develop our onshore energy resources. And when she began branding as her own the idea of commonsense, conservative constitutionalism — a year before a resurgent GOP is preparing to open the 112th Congress with a reading of the entire text of the Constitution.
    ( http://www.nysun.com/editorials/sarah-palin-scoop-artist/87175/ )

  5. AGW Progress Report: H/T googlenews.
    Nothing found from Goreacle.
    …-
    “Seoul Has Coldest December in 30 Years, Says Weather Bureau”
    “Blizzards: all of Bulgaria under ‘code yellow’”
    “Return of the Florida freeze”
    “UK WEATHER: 2011 TO START WITH A SHIVER AS BIG CHILL GOES ON(sic)”
    [Italy] “WEATHER WOES: ICE AND SNOW IN THE NORTH, RAIN IN THE SOUTH(sic)”
    “Maritimers batten hatches as latest storm arrives
    CTV.ca – ‎29 minutes ago‎
    HALIFAX – The winds are picking up and snow is starting to fall as a storm system that paralysed the northeastern United States takes aim at Atlantic Canada.”
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/12/24/merry-christmas-wherever-you-are/#comment-57878

  6. Suzuki would have been one of those demanding us skeptics declared witches and burned at the stake. Never ceases to amaze me how religion can be used to attack those who question the “elitists” who know all of course.
    http://christopherhitchenswatch.blogspot.com/2009/12/cooking-weather.html
    “An elderly man suffered a massive heart attack.
    The family drove wildly to get him to the emergency room.
    After what seemed like a very long wait, the ER doctor appeared wearing his scrubs and a long face. Sadly, he said, “I’m afraid Grandpa is brain-dead, but his heart is still beating.”
    “Oh, Dear God,” cried his wife, her hands clasped against her cheeks with shock. “We’ve never had a Liberal in the family before!”

  7. Salim Mansur, Associate professor in the faculty of social sciences, University of Western Ontario:
    In this study my main concern is with some of the unintended consequences of multiculturalism that are weakening the basic principles of a liberal democracy, such as Canada. The events of September 11, 2001 showed, I believe, how multiculturalism has become an instrument of extremist political ideology, such as Islamism, and can work against the values and interests of liberal democracies.
    http://www.aims.ca/site/media/aims/Multicullturalism.pdf
    h/t Blazing Cat Fur

  8. Melanie Phillips has a great article about the moral poverty—even perversity—of the “non-judgmental” welfare state and its connection to the decline of Christianity (and the muddle headedness of such church leaders as the present Archbishop of Canterbury). An excerpt:
    “. . . if people who make immoral — or amoral —choices benefit from these, that creates a fundamental injustice throughout society. For there is no surer way of undermining and demoralising those who refuse to cheat the system or who are living lives of self-restraint and responsibility.
    “Yet that is precisely what our non-judgmental culture of dependency has given us — the moral degradation of an entire society.
    “You might think that the Church of all institutions would be in the forefront of ¬fighting such cultural collapse. So why does Dr Williams [Archbishop of Canterbury] put himself on the wrong side of the moral tracks?
    “Well, his disapproving reference to the ¬Victorians is more than a little revealing.
    “For during that period, it was Christians who spearheaded the great social reform movements which turned Britain from a society riven by crime, illegitimacy and drunken squalor into a tranquil country in which the traditional family was the crucible of social order.
    “That transformation came about through a profoundly moral view of the world rooted in a muscular Christianity. This upheld the dignity of every human being and the optimistic belief that people could redeem themselves through their own behaviour.
    “It was these Christian attitudes that led to the abolition of slavery and a host of other reforms. Yet Dr Williams has in the past ¬apologised for the role of the church during this period, radiating deep embarrassment about religious impulses which once were a synonym for progressive attitudes.
    “This is rooted in a collapse of religious belief within the Church of England which has been going on for decades. Accordingly, it has steadily eroded its commitment to the moral codes embodied in the Bible and embraced instead the secular alternative – the religion of Left-wing ideology.
    “Thus Sunday school was replaced by social work, morality by expediency and holy war by class war. . . ”
    Read the rest @ http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=788
    This reminds why I’m no longer an Anglican. And I altogether agree that the decline in Christianity has made the field fertile for both Marxist leftism and the ascendency of Islam, both ideologies, BTW, which hate Christianity. (Melanie Phillips? She’s Jewish!)

  9. Thanks for that, lookout. That the decline of Christianity and Judeo-Christian values in our progressive (sic) Western societies has led to societal instability and downright anarchy and mayhem can’t be repeated enough.
    It’s a tough argument to sell these days in the dumbed-down, every-culture-is-equal, multicultural melee we are now dealing with in the West, but that’s just more reason to continue to repeat it as often as possible.

  10. Erik, Gorecki’s “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs” is one of the most sublime pieces ever written. I have the recording with Dawn Upshaw. Bayrakdarian’s voice is darker than Upshaw’s but they both sing this prayer exquisitely.
    (The link I followed didn’t work: this is where I accessed the Isabel Bayrakdarian video:)
    http://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com/2010/02/isabel-bayrakdarian-sings-gorecki-third.html
    To English speakers’ eyes, the Polish language looks very harsh on the page. What a revelation to HEAR it: it’s a most mellifluous and beautiful sounding language!
    The second movement is a prayer to Mary: “O Mother, do not cry. Queen of Heaven, protect me always. Hail Mary, full of grace.” (“Prayer inscribed on the wall of cell no. 3 in the basement of ‘Palace’, the Gestapo’s headquarters in Zakopane; beneath is the signature of Helena Wanda Blazusiakowna, and the words, ‘18 years old, imprisoned since 26 September, 1944.’” Liner notes.)
    This music and Helena’s words—the juxtaposition of such beauty, hope, and goodness with such evil—breaks one’s heart.
    Millions of Gorecki’s Third Symphony have been sold, and I think he’s now quite well known, along with other “minimalist” (and Christian) composers as Arvo Part and John Tavener. I’m sorry to hear that Gorecki has died. “May light perpetual shine upon him.”

  12. Christmas is back with a vengeance. This year Christmas music was played in pretty much every store, mall, grocery store I was in. And I exchanged many “Merry Christmases” with store merchants.
    To top it off the local Home Depot has a large creche right inside the store as you come in. I have never seen that in the 10+ years it has been there.
    As an atheist, I’m delighted by these developments, and hope for more of the same next year.
    A belated Merry Christmas to all at SDA.

  13. Like Churchill, Mississauga Matt, you seem to be a flying buttress to the Christian Church: you support it from the outside!!
    No one is asking that every one be a believer but it seems important to our civility and shared communal life to at least acknowledge the larger good the Church does for society and desist from knocking it, as the progressives have been doing for the past few decades here in the West.
    Like you, I’ve noticed a much more open attitude to wishing others a “Merry Christmas!” and to depicting the true Christmas Story in public places.
    lookout and Erik Larsen, Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs is one of my favourite pieces of music.

  15. from the today in hollywood celebrity history file:
    Dec 27 1937
    Mae West performs an “Adam & Eve” skit that gets her banned from NBC radio.
    LOL !!!

  16. “BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
    Emeritus Gatherings
    GLOBAL WARMING . . . COMPARED TO WHAT?
    Lucian B. Platt
    September 9, 1999
    As you know, I am a geologist. I am also an optimist. I thought I should say this right up front because one of the things I am optimistic about worries some people, namely change in the natural world. This hot ball of rock we live on is changing. The world continues to evolve. Continue is the key word here. If we do not see the long-continuing processes, we may imagine that we are experiencing a singular event at a singular time in history, and that other times were static.
    Along with the fear of change, in the minds of some, is the fear that a change will be catastrophic in some way. Today catastrophes are certainly fashionable. We hear alarmist assertions that are unbelievable, but the public buys them at least in part because the public does not have comparative data. People have no way to compare the claimed damage and its impact on the fragile world with historical changes and their effects. Note the emotional overtones in “damage” and “impact” versus the calmer and more evaluative connotations of the words change and effect. And watch out for the word fragile when the item turns out to be quite resilient. So my subtitle is “compared to what.” I offer data about climate changes, both cooling and warming in time before people were significant, changes much bigger than the slight warming during this century. There are independent indicators showing several kinds of changes without catastrophic breakdown.”
    http://www.brynmawr.edu/emeritus/gather/Platt/platt_1.html
    …-
    H/T:
    “Wicked holiday travel mocks global warming
    Nancy Thorner
    Two days before Christmas the Obama administration moved unilaterally toward two go-it-along policies little noticed by the public and most likely timed to be missed by most Americans pre-occupied in preparing for Christmas Day: 1) Directives on greenhouse emissions and 2) the repeal of the Bush era’s policy limiting wilderness protection.
    It was EPA administrator Lisa Jackson who on December 23 issued a directive for new power plants and oil refinery emission standards over the next year to better cope with pollution contributing to climate change. Claims were made by Jackson that power plants and oil refineries were constituting about 40% of greenhouse gas pollution in this nation.
    While the new EPA directive is of great concern and represents a back-hand approach to getting what the administration wants without Congressional approval, it was not at all surprising. in 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court gave the agency the authority to regulate heat-trapping gasses.
    Frustrated that “cap and trade” was stalled in the Senate, President Obama two days after the midterm elections served notice that “Cap-and trade” was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way. I’m going to be looking for other means to address this problem.”
    What closely followed on November 10th were EPA state-directed guidelines which became the first-ever federal guidelines for reducing greenhouse emissions from industrial sources.
    In light of the extremely cold weather during the Christmas holiday season in Europe and here in the U.S. that caused havoc with holiday travelers, it would seem reasonable for the Obama administration to reexamine its mad dash to limit greenhouse gas pollution for the purpose of curtailing global warming through the reduction of CO2. But will this nation do so?”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/wicked_holiday_travel_mocks_gl.html

  20. A couple of the great lines—and visuals—in the video, “Burka Woman”:
    “I’ll go home and practise flirtin’ . . . with my [black] living room curtain . . . Burka Woman”!!
    “Give me a thrill . . . show me your left nos-tril . . . GRRR . . . Burka Woman”!!
    This is a major hoot.

  22. Just like the good old days when evolutionists included the thyroid as just another organ we humans evolved out of use. There used to be 50. Now there is no vestigial organs, or even the idea of vestigial body parts. That theory has become defunct as well. It took longer for the Romans to figure out dried boars dung, is not an aphrodisiac.
    Subtle-But Important-Functions of Junk-DNA
    The December 17, 2010 issue of Science has yet another article explaining why the concept of “junk”-DNA should no longer be given much credence:
    It used to seem so straightforward. DNA told the body how to build proteins. The instructions came in chapters called genes. Strands of DNA’s chemical cousin RNA served as molecular messengers, carrying orders to the cells’ protein factories and translating them into action. Between the genes lay long stretches of “junk DNA,” incoherent, useless, and inert.
    http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/12/subtle-but_important-functions041961.html#more

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