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Scopitones and Cineboxes were video jukeboxes of a sort (based loosely on WWII military technology, apparently) that were popular in the early 60s, mostly in European cafes. Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is a Scopitone – that’s what the short films were called – of wholesome and cheery French vocal ensemble Les Barclays performing Pour Ton Amour.
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  1. Last time I heard that tune it was performed by a Pipes and Drums. Entertaining post, EBD, thanks.

  2. I hear you, Mike, it sounds to me like a mash-up of “Scotland The Brave” and “Something to Sing About (This Land is Ours)”.
    Speaking of videos, here’s a keeper: watch grinning and distracted Lib MP Carolyn Bennett using her Blackberry while singing the national anthem in the HOC.
    Strangely revolting. Do watch.

  3. EBD
    Another reason why Vancouver Canuck hockey games need to be broadcast in the Ottawa area.
    Cheers

  5. Lib MP Carolyn Bennett and her cohorts probably know the International better. I could not stomach listening to the whole thing, either time.

  6. All the AGW supporters need to read this little story about the recent electrical system problems in Texas.
    http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7449?nocomments
    I like the comment “Frozen pipes, valves and monitoring systems were just some of the reasons” he said for the power failure at some 50 electrical generating plants.
    Now, all those in favor of a return the big bad cold world of the AGW wackos, raise your hand.

  9. Toronto Star, link from summary article of Thursday, Feb. 10.
    Lillian Hellmann fan and Supreme Court justice Rosalie Abella speaks to the Empire Club about her way-out-there take on “human rights”, “intolerance”, etc.
    http://www.thestar.com/news/article/935985–text-of-speech-by-justice-abella
    RA: [re the concept of the Rule of Law] “I’ve always been somewhat confused by why we use this phrase as an organizing principle.”
    RA: “So what are we really talking about? We’re talking, I think, about some universal goals — accountable government, protection against rule by whim, and about our belief in law as an instrument of procedural and substantive justice. If I’m right that that’s what we’re really talking about when we talk about a just Rule of Law, doesn’t that mean that what we’re talking about is what we’ve come to see as the indispensable instruments of democracy: due process; an independent bar and judiciary; protection for women and minorities; a free press; and rights of association, religion, dissent and expression? Those are core democratic values, and when we trumpet those values, we trumpet the instruments of justice. And justice is what laws are supposed to promote.”
    Protection against whims by government, certainly, and several of the other items too. But “substantive” justice? What is that exactly? So-called “substantive equality” (as opposed to the “formal” variety) is itself a variety of rule by whim. We see this with practically every decision from our phoney human rights commissions.
    RA: “And I think we need to emphasize that when we talk about democracy, we’re not just talking about elections.”
    RA: “Democratic values, while no guarantee, are still the best aspirational goals in my view, because without democracy there are no rights, without rights there is no tolerance, without tolerance there is no justice, and without justice, there is no hope.”
    But representative democracy refers precisely to elections: choosing those who represent you in government. East Germany called itself “democratic”; so does North Korea. In the view of the extreme left that protests in the streets, democracy means rule by themselves. And “tolerance” means intolerance of dissent, after Marcuse.
    RA: “What kind of rights are we talking about? Two kinds — human rights and civil liberties, both crucial mainstays of our democratic catechism.”
    “Human rights” (as enforced by the commissions of the same name, for example) is a fraud that violates genuine human rights like freedom of speech, of religion and of association; its whole purpose is to destroy these rights. It is designed to serve the political correctness agenda, which involves recruiting minorities and the “disadvantaged” as a substitute working class for the purpose of overthrowing capitalism.
    RA: “… the essence of social justice for Americans — the belief that every American had the same right as every other American to be free from government interference. To be equal was to have this same right. No differences.”
    RA: “Unlike the United States, we in Canada were never concerned only with the rights of individuals …”
    RA: “[in 1945] we came to the realization that having chained ourselves to the pedestal of the individual, we had been ignoring rights abuses of a fundamentally different kind, namely, the rights of individuals in different groups to retain their different identities … without fear of the loss of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.”
    Only individuals have rights. “Group rights” is a huge step backward to tribalism.
    RA: “It was the horrifying spectacle of group destruction in the Second World War which jolted us …”
    RA: “We had, in short, come to see the brutal role of discrimination, and invented the term ‘human rights’ to confront it.”
    It wasn’t discrimination that caused the tremendous loss of life in World War 2 — it was a totalitarian ideology that accepted violence, in violation of the fundamental rule of civilized society: No person has the right to initiate the use of force or fraud on any other person.
    The left has always been desperate to try to distinguish its ideology from that of the Nazis, and so it attempts to turn the non-essential characteristic of racism into an essential one. But whether you’re pro-Aryan or pro-working class, if you believe in killing your perceived enemies, your ideology is just as evil as the other.
    RA: “Civil liberties had given us the universal right to be equally free from an intrusive state, regardless of group identity; human rights had given us the universal right to be equally free from discrimination based on group identity. We needed both.”
    RA: “Then, in North America, we seemed to stall as the last century was winding down. What we appeared to do, having watched the dazzling success of so many individuals in so many of the groups we had previously excluded, is conclude that the battle with discrimination had been won and that we could, as victors, remove our human rights weapons from the social battlefield. Having seen women elected, appointed, promoted and educated in droves; having seen the winds of progress blow away segregation and apartheid; having permitted parades to demonstrate gay and lesbian pride; and having constructed hundreds of ramps for persons with disabilities, many were no longer persuaded that the diversity theory of rights was any longer relevant, and sought to return to the simpler rights theory in which everyone was treated the same, and we started to dismissively call a differences-based approach reverse discrimination, or political correctness, or an insult to the goodwill of the majority and to the talents of minorities, or a violation of the merit principle.”
    Which is EXACTLY what it is. There is no justice in advantaging minorities today on the grounds that their great-grandparents suffered discrimination. If anything, at the end of the last century, political correctness was ramping up, not stalling. Its agenda does not include a notion of “winning” the battle against discrimination — thereby ensuring it goes on forever.
    RA: “[Following 9/11] The human rights abuses occurring in some parts of the world are putting the rest of the world in danger because intolerance, in its hegemonic insularity, seeks to impose its intolerant truth on others. Yet for some reason we’re incredibly reluctant to call to account the intolerant countries who abuse their citizens, and instead hide behind silencing concepts like cultural relativism, domestic sovereignty, or root causes.”
    Translation: 9/11 was our fault; we “included” minorities in the western world, but ignored the rest of it, and therefore they attacked us, so we have to maintain reverse discrimination forever.
    And yet, when western countries do call out rights violators in other countries, they’re accused of imperialism or “imposing values”. And even more so, with mass demonstrations, when they try to actively remove dictators, as with the Iraq invasion of 2003.
    Furthermore, “intolerance, in its hegemonic insularity” is the kind of metaphoric phrase that has its roots directly in Hegel and Marx. The noun “intolerance” describes certain human actions toward one another; it is not a physical or ethereal entity that has the attribute of insularity, hegemonic or otherwise.
    RA: “65 years [after the Nuremberg trials], we still haven’t learned the most important justice lesson of all — to try to prevent the abuses in the first place.”
    See previous comment about imperialism and imposition of values.
    RA: “But we’ve also had the genocide in Rwanda; the massacres in Bosnia and the Congo; the violent expropriations, judicial constructive dismissals and brazen immorality in Zimbabwe; the assassination of law enforcers in Colombia and Indonesia; the repression in Chechnya; the slavery and child soldiers in Sudan; the cultural annihilation of women, Hindus and ancient Buddhist temples by the Taliban; the attempted genocide of the Kurds in Iraq; the rampant racism tolerated at the U.N. World Congress Against Racism and Intolerance in Durban; China; Myanmar; Pakistan; the world’s shocking lassitude in confronting AIDS in Africa; the disgraceful chapter in global insensitivity as the world formulated a strategy of astonishingly glacial and anemic proportions in Darfur; the nuclear roguery of North Korea; and the sheer roguery — and stoning — in Iran.”
    True, or mostly true, but once again the comments about imperialism and imposition of western values apply, as do those about tribalism and group rights.
    (The other quotes are in order from the speech; the above one is not)
    Judge Abella has tried to pull the wool over our eyes again. The speech advocates the iron fist of political correctness in the velvet glove of “inclusiveness”, with plenty of fog so that we don’t see it coming.

  10. nv53,
    “The speech advocates the iron fist of political correctness in the velvet glove of “inclusiveness”, with plenty of fog so that we don’t see it coming.”
    Brilliant line.

  11. AGW Progress Report.
    Outlook?
    Weather and Liberal Iggy’s O'”Whether”.
    Firstly, the weather:
    “Winter returning to Denmark”
    “A weather change is on the way after a period with spring-like weather.”
    “After a period of spring-like weather, with sunshine and temperatures above zero, winter will be returning to Denmark today bringing freezing temperatures and snow.”
    http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1193351/winter-returning-to-denmark/
    …-
    Now, the O'”Whether”:
    “Obama Tested on Whether to Break With Mubarak”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/

  12. RA: “Unlike the United States, we in Canada were never concerned only with the rights of individuals …”
    This comment is to me the crux of the Liberal, Progressive Conservative and NDP philosophy.

  14. Canadians don’t want a debate on multiculturalism.
    The elitists at the Globe and Mail told me this so it must be true.
    Or do the smug ivory tower dwellers just want to stifle other views of their cherished multiculturalism that claims to embrace all views and cultures?
    —-
    “Kirpan ban puts Canada on brink of multiculturalism debate no one wants”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/kirpan-ban-puts-canada-on-brink-of-multiculturalism-debate-no-one-wants/article1903372/comments

  15. PET Cemetery, Multiculturalism Dept., Celebrates Big Bertha*.
    …-
    “‘Masked man’ refugee claimant will move to Ontario following release
    Globe and Mail – Sunny Dhillon – ‎13 hours ago‎
    When he’s finally released from behind bars, the man who entered Canada behind a mask knows what he’s going to do first – pick up the phone and call his worried family.”
    …-
    *Big Bertha:
    “Refugees. What is Canada going to do about all the refugees pouring into this country? … handed down by the first female (and feminist) Supreme Court of Canada judge, Bertha Wilson.”
    “This is because of an absurd decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, in R v Singh (1986), handed down by the first female (and feminist) Supreme Court of Canada judge, Bertha Wilson. Her decisions are well known for their ideological fervour, rather than common sense. In R v Singh, Judge Wilson declared that anyone entering Canada would be entitled to all the benefits of the Charter of Rights. This has resulted in a very costly process for taxpayers. It is estimated that the cost of maintaining one refugee is approximately $10,000-$12,000 per year. To add a final insult to Canadians, if, after all legal maneuvering to remain in Canada fails, the claimant can be buoyed up by the fact that there is little effort made by immigration enforcement officials to find and deport rejected claimants. Four years ago, the auditor-general reported to Parliament that there were 36,000 outstanding warrants for the arrest of rejected claimants. Since then, that number has increased, with the result that many refused refugee claimants are now happily living very comfortable lives in Canada. Any offspring is automatically entitled to Canadian citizenship.
    Long Legal Process Permitted
    It can take a year or more before a refugee hearing even takes place.”
    http://www.realwomenca.com/page/newslso0902.html

  16. Our multicultural paradise, ruled by the HRC, on display in the letters page of the Telegraph-Journal in a printed letter from Dan Ennis, one-time chief of the Tobique First Nation:
    “All in the name of white greed. White greed is what killed the Beothuk and white greed is what will eventually kill off humankind.”
    Thanks for the heads-up, chief.
    http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/1379246

  18. “The school teacher considered the famous inventor to be a bit dull. After three months of schooling, one day the teacher called Thomas an “addled” (confused) student. Thomas hurried home and told his mother. When she went to the schoolhouse to talk to the teacher, they got into a heated discussion and the teacher told Mrs. Edison that Thomas was not teachable. Mrs. Edison promptly removed Thomas from the school and from then on he was homeschooled! ”
    http://www.learningabledkids.com/Famous%20Homeschoolers/thomas_edison_homeschooled.htm
    Thomas Edison was born on this day in 1847

  19. just heard Jason Kenney on Charles Adler’s show say that most Canadians think “more pavilions at the folk-a-rama” when considering multi-culturalism.

    Thankfully, he got it right the second time and said pavilions.

  20. Thankfully,I’ll get it right the second time. The last pavilions should have read “folkfest”,and I’m not even drinking,yet.

  23. AGW Progress Report: Breaking Wind.
    1. Flim-flam from Ontario’s Red-Green McGuinty.
    2. O’breaking wind.
    …-
    “Ontario halts offshore wind energy projects”
    “No approvals for offshore projects have yet been issued and “no offshore projects will proceed at this time,” the government said in a statement from the premier’s office.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/11/17242051.html
    …-
    “Wind projects delayed by fears about effect on golden eagles
    Fears that whirling wind turbines could slaughter protected golden eagles have halted progress on a key piece of the federal government’s push to increase renewable energy on public lands, stalling plans for billions of dollars in wind farm developments.
    The U.S. Bureau of Land Management suspended issuing wind permits on public land indefinitely this summer after wildlife officials invoked a decades-old law for protecting eagles, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.
    The restriction has stymied efforts to “fast-track” approvals for four of the seven most promising wind energy proposals in the nation, including all three in California.
    Now, these and other projects appear unlikely to make the year-end deadline to potentially qualify for hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds. If extensions aren’t granted in the lame duck session of Congress, the future of many of these plans could be in doubt.
    “(Companies) are waiting to know the criteria to get a permit,” said Larry LaPre, a wildlife biologist for BLM’s California desert district, of the companies hoping federal agencies will begin permitting again soon. LaPre said he expects it to be “at least a year or longer” before permitting resumes.
    Golden eagles are the latest roadblock to establishing wind farms on federally owned land, already an expensive process plagued by years of bureaucratic delay. The projects also have been untracked by other wildlife issues, a sluggish economy and objections by defense and aviation authorities that wind turbines interfere with the country’s aged radar system.
    The delays are occurring despite a target set by Congress in 2005 that directed the Interior Department to approve about 5 million homes worth of renewable energy on public lands by 2015.
    (Excerpt) Read more at bismarcktribune.com …”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2672361/posts

  24. Recall Liberal Citoyen Kyoto Dionky.
    …-
    “Calgary Junkie says:
    February 11, 2011 at 5:20 pm
    Ekos is out and has us up by 12.5 points !
    37.3/24.8/14.2”
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/02/11/free-speech-just-for-the-left/#comment-60958
    …-
    “Tory lead over Liberals grows: poll”
    “The federal Conservatives have opened up a 12½-point lead over the opposition Liberals — their largest lead since October 2009 — a new EKOS survey suggests.
    The latest results from EKOS, released exclusively to CBC News, found 37.3 per cent of respondents said they would vote for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives if an election were held now, compared with 24.8 per cent who said they’d vote for Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals.
    Jack Layton’s New Democrats received the support of 14.2 per cent of respondents, while the Green Party received 10.7 per cent and 9.9. per cent backed the Bloc Québécois.
    The Tories’ lead increased by two percentage points since the previous EKOS poll, released two weeks ago. The Liberals saw their support drop by more than three percentage points since Jan. 27.
    NDP support remained steady, while the Greens and Bloc each saw an increase of less than a percentage point.
    Liberal support, the survey suggests, is lower than the result in the 2008 federal election — the party’s worst-ever showing at the polls.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2011/02/10/ekos-poll.html

  25. Bela Lugosi junior does not represent Canadians. The more that he is out there(thanks media),the more that we shudder and say,I can’t vote for that creep.

    He makes Layton look good.

  26. Thomas Edison was born on this day in 1847
    Posted by: johnlee at February 11, 2011 3:05 PM”
    edison? oh ya, the guy that stole all those patents and tried to coerce the authorities into adopting *his* ‘superior’ DC power system.
    imagine to cost of all that copper a metre thick carrying all those megawatts and everything working at the same voltage. ya he was a real genius.

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