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The Fleetwoods were a vocal trio from Olympia, Washington whose “angelic, mellow style” brought them a string of hits, starting with the 1959 single “Come Softly To Me”. In tonight’s selection, from the 1963 album that ended the group’s hit-making days, a young woman jilted by her former boyfriend asks his new girlfriend to do her very, very best to Hurt Him.
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  1. “We now know how many people have the problem most often cited as the reason for last years’ health overhaul legislation. Answer: 8,000
    “No, that’s not a misprint. Out of 310 million Americans, only 8,000 people have the problem given as the principal reason for spending almost $1 trillion, creating more than 150 regulatory agencies and causing perhaps 150 million or more people to change the coverage they now have.”
    http://bit.ly/eB9oSn

  2. Mark Bonokoski, the former editor and publisher of the Ottawa Sun, tears into the end of year retrospective provided by the five “journalists” (Taber, Galloway, Craig Oliver, Bob Five, and Jim Travers) on CTV’s ridiculously biased show Question Period.
    Bonokoski begins –
    “Maybe it’s the air in Ottawa. Maybe it’s because much of the national press gallery lives in a subliminally gated political community where the pack mentality is nurtured and then contained by a white picket fence so high that the rest of Canada, over time, becomes foreign.
    “(There) must be an explanation for its distance from reality…”
    The whole thing here. It’s a fairly recent (since the SUN TV announcement, perhaps?) development to see MSM journalists breaking omertà by taking other journalists to task for their egregious, biased, “in club” views.

  3. EBD, I heard him chatting with Adler about this subject. Is it any wonder most Canadians are bored silly of politics in this country when their “filter” are five bland talking heads such as these?

  5. “Teabaggers” is an old cliche; the new Liberal talking point is that respect for the Constitution is a fetish:
    HuffPo: “How about the whole Constitution fetish you guys have?” Salon: “What’s with conservatives’ fetish for the Founding Fathers?” Maddow Blog: “The new Constitution Fetish.” Slate: “How the Tea Party’s fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble.”
    Guh.
    As a special bonus, here’s Joy Behar:
    “Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand?”

  7. Good to hear, Robert (10:19), I’m sorry I missed it. Hopefully it’ll show up in the audio vault.
    Did they take callers, or was it just the interview?

  9. Tengkselot, Robert!
    RT: Mark Steyn is pessimistic about the future of the so-called Anglosphere, including the US, in his new essay in The New Criterion.
    Pollyannas beware: he knows what he’s talking about, and backs up his case with pesky facts.

  11. EBD, thanks for the Steyn link. I thought he had stopped writing altogether while he dealt with some health issues. Good to hear he’s back, if even temporarily.
    Here’s a segment from his appearance this past Monday on Rush Limbaugh’s show.

  12. Looks like the big lie promoted by the LANCET about juvenile vaccines link to autism has been busted….finally in the MSM…
    Journalist Brian Deer has shown the report published in LANCET to be fraudulent…
    The Lancet withdrew the article in January of last year after concluding that “several elements” of the paper were incorrect. But the journal didn’t describe any of the discrepancies as fraud. A British regulator stripped Dr. Wakefield of his medical license last May, citing “serious professional misconduct” in the way he handled the research.
    Efforts to reach Dr. Wakefield weren’t successful.

  14. Sorry to have nothing to offer in the way of tips, but I do have a burning question: how is it that one can google Stephen Lewis and never find anything negative? Has he no detractors? My friends are all ga-ga at the mere mention of his name. It’s a little cult-like, actually, and somewhat creepy. Any thoughts?

  17. Robert W: I listened to the clip and the best that I can guess is that she is wanting gastric bypass surgery so that would be elective. 7 years tho, I don’t trust anything associated to Rosie.
    I severely broke my elbow 2 1/2 years go and it was considered an emergency and still my surgery was bumped back a few hours due to a greater emergency, a childbirth thing.
    I know of a lady who has very severe scoliosis and she was 3 years waiting for a consult as there was only 1 surgeon doing that type of surgery here in BC. Who knows how long she will be waiting to actually get surgery.
    mike

  18. If you really, I mean really, don’t like the price of gasoline in North America, here’s an option:
    “I filled my tank yesterday. I used 93 octane, unleaded, which in Venezuela costs Bs. 0.097 per liter as you can see above in the green square. (photo at the link of the gas pump in Caracas)
    Now, let me explain that Bs. 0.097. With the latest devaluation, the lowest exchange rate available is Bs. 4.3 per US$, which means that a liter of gasoline in Venezuela is:
    (Bs. 0.097/Bs. 4.3)= 0.0225 US$ cents
    A number so small, that it is hard to relate to. Try 8.5 cents a gallon, yes US$ 0.085 per gallon or 35 times cheaper than the $3 gallon which prevails today in the US. Think about it, 35 times cheaper!
    That is why I prefer for you to look at the other number: I got 43.27 liters for Bs. 4.2, or I filled my tank for less than a US dollar, exactly 97.6 cents.”
    …
    and a can of pop, will set you back about 6 or 7 Bs.
    http://devilsexcrement.com/2011/01/05/how-cheap-is-gasoline-in-venezuela-another-reality-check/
    As Migue Octaviol points out in his article, the poor ride the buses, the rich drive their cars, so who has the benefit of gasoline at .0223 US dollars per litre?

  19. Globe and Mail business section, Wed., Jan. 5. Hayek making a comeback?
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/friedrich-august-von-hayeks-time-has-come/article1857752/
    “He was lured to the London School of Economics at that time to counter the growing influence of Cambridge University’s John Maynard Keynes, who was developing his ideas on how governments could counter recessions by replacing lost private demand.”
    You can’t “lose” private demand. Supply is demand — this is Say’s Law. There are no magic wands to suddenly create “demand” out of thin air that isn’t already a supply, and certainly none wielded by government which has only coercion to rely on. Trade is value-for-value, and one person’s supply is another’s demand.
    “The weakness of Austrian economics is that it fails to explain why markets fail to deliver things such as affordable health care and pensions to poorer people.”
    Markets do deliver those things. They just may not deliver them as fast as the critics want — again because there are no magic wands, and besides markets (i.e., businessmen) respond to consumer demand and not criticism. If it weren’t for the massive amounts of government interference in the economy that has built up over the past several decades, our standard of living would be much higher and the lack of “affordable” this or that would be much less of a problem even for the poorest.
    Incidentally, Ayn Rand ripped Hayek and did not regard him as an advocate of capitalism, which I believe was because for all his pro-free market stance he was not opposed to antitrust laws.

  20. This just in, according to the CBC Newsworld news ticker: 500 Manatees died in Florida due to oceanic acidification and human hunting.
    Oh, wait. I read that wrong. The Ceeb says they froze to death.

  22. I almost skipped over this article when I saw Maude Barlow’s name attached to it. I changed my mind because radical progressives are often amusing, although never intentionally. I wasn’t disappointed:
    “Any increase in commodity exports to Europe will place a greater strain on groundwater in Canada, which is already a leading “virtual” water exporter, sending massive amounts of surface and groundwater out of the country in agricultural products. Our current net export of water in grains alone is totally unsustainable, equivalent to twice the Athabasca River’s yearly discharge.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/what-you-dont-know-about-a-deal-you-havent-heard-of/article1859216/

  23. Samaria’s Strategic Value. (Samaria is the part of the “west bank” north of Jerusalem; Judea is south of the city).
    “Samaria straddles Israel’s Central Mountain ridge, running north-south for 70 kilometers right down the middle of the country. This ridge runs parallel to that part of the coastal plain which is the most heavily populated, including the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. It is staggering to think that the western side of this ridge dominates a section of the coastal plain that is home to 70% of Israel’s population and 80% of its industry and infrastructure, not to mention numerous military installations, most major traffic arteries and its sole international airport. Were an enemy to control the Samarian heights, Israel could be shut down overnight. Moreover, the eastern side of the ridge overlooks and controls the strategic Jordan Valley, widely considered essential to Israel’s security.
    “People don’t realize that pre-1967 Israel, without Samaria, is just 15 km wide at its narrowest point. An enemy tank can traverse that in under 18 minutes. That’s not a defensible border. Once that weak link is broken, Israel is cut in half. Samaria serves as a buffer to the country’s nerve centers along the coast to the west and provides territorial contiguity with the Jordan Valley to the east. Its depth provides Israel with the crucial reaction time needed to mobilize forces and repel a ground invasion. It also allows her to deploy her air defense systems from forward positions along the Samarian hilltops and not from the crowded coastal plain. Short-range radar and early-warning systems positioned on the plain would have their line-of-sight blocked by the mountain ridge.
    “The airspace overhead is no less crucial to Israel’s security. It takes just three and a half minutes for an enemy fighter bomber to cross over the Jordan River and reach the Mediterranean. Under two minutes to reach Jerusalem. Without Samaria, Israel would lack the minimum reaction time needed to intercept enemy aircraft or deploy anti-aircraft missiles. Without this airspace, she would be defenseless.”

  26. AGW Progress Report:
    Redeem your CO2 indulgences for FFPs(sic) from our Unfriendly Skies.
    More: The Weatherman says:
    “*Never mind El Niño or La Niña, week three coming up this month will be “El Frigido” for millions.”
    …-
    “Airlines waiving change fees in Northeast”
    “With more snow forecast for the Northeast this weekend, major U.S. airlines hit hard by a December blizzard are warning of delays and cancellations and waiving the usual fees to change flights.
    Delta, American, United and Continental all say there could be travel disruptions. The bad weather could affect large airports such as Newark, LaGuardia and JFK in the New York City area.”
    http://www.app.com/article/20110106/BUSINESS/110106073/Airlines-waiving-change-fees-in-Northeast
    …-
    “*El Frigido”:
    “Extreme Cold Coming January Week Three”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/44043/extreme-cold-coming-january-we.asp

  27. wondering, I’ve often wondered, too, why so many people find Stephen Lewis such a hero.
    I think it’s because he’s a great self-promoter and he’s been out of the limelight for quite a while now, so his self-promotions are rarely questioned.
    He’s also taken on a “mom and apple pie” issue: AIDS in Africa, an issue on which he is vehemently against the Catholic Church’s policies on sexuality. He’s actually an anti-Catholic bigot and in his incessant talk about and promotion of “just use a condom” seems to have missed/ignored the success of the Ugandan ABC Program (Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms), a strategy which is the most effective and successful in Africa in combating the spread of not only HIV/AIDS but other STDs, as well.
    What really bothers me is Lewis’ apparent concern for those afflicted with AIDS in Africa and, while raising money for his cause, he travels around the world, first-class. He’s definitely a Forest Hill socialist: He lives first-class and loves to help the downtrodden by giving away other people’s money.
    I once saw him in a coffee shop in Forest Hill. He was much shorter than I would have thought, like Trudeau. I suspect that their allies in the media always take/took under shots of them, to make them look taller.

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