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For several decades starting in the 1920s, the “Meyer Davis Orchestra” would perform in multiple cities, hundreds of miles apart, on any given night. Meyer Davis, you see, was “one of the first dance band contractors, supplying orchestras for society gatherings, weddings, hotel ballrooms, country clubs, and presidential balls.” At one point, there were sixty-two different orchestras bearing his name. Tonight’s selection is a 1930 recording of the a Meyer Davis Orchestra, along with vocalist Frank Munn, playing It Seems To Be Spring.
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  6. Thanks EBD, listened to it twice, plus a few of the others listed. Fits right in with my Glen Miller cds.

  7. If you complete the CBC compass survey and click “neither agree nor disagree-no opinion” for all the questions.
    You are…Liberal.. Ta da!

  8. I was reprimanded by several Liberals on a variety of political blogs. My sin?? I simply wrote the word, “SPONSORGATE.” Try it it’s fun!

  9. PET Monkey of Contempt on Liberal Count Ignatieff’s Back.
    PET Cemetery Archive:
    Topic: Contempt of Parliament.
    >>> “*That’s ripe from the Liberal party. When it enjoyed unrivalled electoral sway, as it seemingly did forever, it inscribed the A in Autocratic. It was led by Pierre Trudeau, who thought so much of Parliament that he described its elected members as “nobodies.”
    Date: October 11th, 2000.
    Who was Prime Minister? Liberal Ad$Cam Chretien.
    Liberal Count Ignatieff’s Contempt Diary:
    >>> “Pierre Trudeau was right when he said MPs were nobodies 50 yards away from Parliament Hill,” says John Nunziata, an independent MP who once sat as a Liberal, until he was kicked out of caucus for voting against a budget measure. “But today many government MPs are nobodies even on Parliament Hill.”
    http://www.peterdiekmeyer.com/via001011.html
    …-
    Liberal Contempt of Parliament, MPs, and Canadians.
    “*Rex Murphy: Liberals hope to sell a civics lesson as a campaign theme
    Rex Murphy Mar 26, 2011 – 8:54 AM ET | Last Updated: Mar 26, 2011 9:23 AM ET
    Why are we having an election? According to the Liberals, it’s because Stephen Harper is choking Canadian democracy, and, most of all, because he treats Parliament with contempt. That’s ripe from the Liberal party. When it enjoyed unrivalled electoral sway, as it seemingly did forever, it inscribed the A in Autocratic. It was led by Pierre Trudeau, who thought so much of Parliament that he described its elected members as “nobodies.”
    When last in power, the Liberal party went on for a full year about fixing the parliamentary “democratic deficit” without of course actually doing anything about it. Any party with Jean Chrétien at its helm for 10 years knows more than a little about playing roughhouse with the House of Commons, and has grown totally comfortable with the art of neutering its own backbench. It’s because of this history, as much as anything else, that the Liberals’ claim that the election is about restoring democracy has no force behind it.
    Truth to tell, all parties — once they finally get their turn in power, and with it the ability to put their friends and allies in all the high places — forget or erase their deep and sensitive concerns about the power of the executive, or restoring the dignity of the legislature. In opposition, everyone derides the powerful PMO (or, at the provincial level, the premier’s office). Once in power, the view from the top is so much more enchanting that even the purest reformer while in opposition suddenly learns about the “complexity” of governing and the need to “concentrate” decision making.
    I have seen fine minds turn to mush on encountering high office. The leader, however inadequate, is suddenly venerated as a communication and political genius, a cross between Oprah and Churchill. For the aides and consultants, it’s thicker cushions and longer rides; and the idea of deference to those lower in the chain a purely forgivable hangover from bleaker days when they were outside looking in.
    Voters are familiar with this phenomenon. Which is why “restoring democracy,” or whatever the Liberal slogan is, won’t last a week. It is at best a convenient catchphrase to stamp Harper with the semi-dictator tag, to appeal to that fair body of opinion out there that has a visceral distaste for him and his style, and which seems quite invested in the odd notion that Harper is only waiting for a majority to turn Canada into some weird Reformist theocracy or a one-party gulag state.
    Restoring democracy has another disadvantage as a clarion call. It’s too obviously a diversion, an attempt to walk away from the obvious: the economy as a central issue of this time.
    Economic concerns — even with this latest Libyan adventure in the foreground — are still the voters’ first priority. The anxieties about jobs, concern about the still unsettled state of the whole world’s economy, have people quite concentrated on what matters to them. The Liberals are trying to sell a civics lesson as a campaign theme. In quieter times it might have had half a chance. Not now.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/26/rex-murphy-liberals-hope-to-sell-a-civics-lesson-as-a-campaign-theme/

  10. Of Liberal Count Ignatieff’s First Nations’ Monkey On His Back.
    Ugh! Kemo Sabay Report.
    In Texas? Ugh, Ranger.
    But, but, the liberal-left says the first nations are the First Nations in North America, er The First Nations indians are the First First Nation, er Nations, er, …
    *Ask Liberal Count Ignatieff’s Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr.
    …-
    “New evidence of first humans in North America … in Texas”
    “Researchers in the United States have discovered an ancient settlement site in central Texas they are describing as a game-changer for New World archaeology — a place littered with thousands of stone artifacts from as early as 15,500 years ago.
    The discovery appears likely to rewrite the story of when and how prehistoric Asian travellers arrived in northern Canada and began peopling the Western Hemisphere and is being touted as a death blow to the long-standing — and increasingly besieged — “Clovis first” theory about the original human occupants of North America.
    That archaic culture, identified from distinctive stone spear points found at various sites in the United States and Canada, was long thought to have developed about 13,000 years ago as big-game hunters from Siberia crossed the Bering land bridge that linked Alaska and Asia at the end of the last ice age.
    The Clovis people were assumed to have migrated along an ice-free corridor through present-day Northwest Territories and Alberta before proliferating across North and South America, gradually evolving into the New World aboriginal nations encountered by European explorers.
    But several putative “pre-Clovis” archaeological sites unearthed in the past 20 years have cast doubt on the Clovis-first hypothesis. For example, human coprolites — fossilized feces — were recently discovered in an Oregon cave and dated to 14,100 years ago.
    Those and other older sites, including a much-debated excavation at Monte Verde, Chile, believed to be 14,600 years old, point to a human migration into the Americas that must have occurred well before the appearance of Clovis people.
    Some have argued seafaring Asians must have used boats to move between glacier-free refuges along the Pacific Coast of Alaska and British Columbia at least 16,000 years ago.
    And last year, two University of Utah anthropologists published a radical new theory that the original peopling of the Americas might have begun more than 20,000 years ago from central Siberia, across the Arctic Ocean, via Canada’s High Arctic Islands.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/03/25/new-evidence-of-first-humans-in-north-america-in-texas/
    …-
    *Ask Liberal Count Ignatieff’s Liberal Ad$Cam MartinJr.
    “Martin urges Tories not to ignore Kelowna Accord
    Former [Liberal] prime minister Paul Martin says the Conservative government must heed his Kelowna Accord bill so that aboriginal Canadians can access the same quality of …”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2008/04/08/martin-kelowna.html

  11. CBC has a very well done online tool to quantify your political views. They call it the Vote Compass:
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/votecompass/
    At the end, you are shown on a four-quarters political graph along with the five parties. I think the questions are very fair and informative. I am surprised by the tight grouping (herding?) of four of the five parties.
    Now, if the CBC really wanted to contribute to democracy, they would show us the graph with all their journalists on it. The same for CTV, Radio Canada and the G&M. It would be very, very interesting.

  12. Tim Naumetz says Harper’s unscripted ramblings may have cost him the election to fire-breathing Ignatieff.

  14. Connie Woodcock deftly harp… er, lampoons Dizzy Lizzy in today’s Toronto Sun:
    For this, her third try, she prospected the nation for a likely looking opportunity and washed up in the B.C. riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands where presumably she thinks enough wild-eyed fans of global warming remain to get her into Parliament.
    Nice. 🙂

  18. If you complete the CBC compass survey and click “neither agree nor disagree-no opinion” for all the questions.
    You are…Liberal.. Ta da!
    Posted by: DaveT at March 27, 2011 1:19 AM

    I did the CBC’s voter compass survey twice. The first time I somewhat disagreed with all questions,the second time I somewhat agreed.

    And the survey says (in both cases)…..You are ….Liberal…. What a surprise!!!

    Geez,it almost appears that our unbiased national newsource is running a survey that will steer the undecided and/or uninformed voter to the Liberal party.

  19. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-26/john-bolton-kill-libyan-dictator-moammar-gaddafi/
    “Former ambassador John Bolton, President Bush’s decidedly undiplomatic envoy to the United Nations who is considering running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has a decidedly undiplomatic solution to the crisis in Libya: The United States should terminate Muammar Gaddafi with extreme prejudice.”
    I’m not much of music fan but his solution reminded me of a song that I was forced to listen to too often.

  20. Liberal Count Ignatieff is laying down Iggy’s Law :
    Moi-I, Count Ignatieff, am # One Dog in Our Separatist Coalition Troika.
    Get back, Gilles; back you Bloc Bloquiste! “mangeur d’hotdog”*.
    …-
    “Ignatieff urges Quebecers to choose Grits over Bloc to stop Harper
    Vancouver Sun”
    *H/T PET:
    “Trudeau also looked down on Bourassa personally, once referring to him as a mangeur d’hot dog (a hot dog eater), though Trudeau later admitted in his TV biography that …”
    http://www.gilles-proulx.com/en/celebs.php?id=24
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/03/27/the-tail-would-still-wag-the-dog/#comment-67497

  23. Snag..I was referring to the oldie that Vίt posted at 3:p.m. yesterday…”The Middleton Family Goes to the Fair”. I should have specified.
    Vίt does not allow comments on his postings. I think I know why 😉

  24. Of Liberal Count Ignatieff’s O’Harvard buddy: Update.
    O’s Veep, er Veep’s Team, comes out of his/hers closet.
    …-
    “Biden Team Apologizes to Reporter for Sticking Him In Closet
    EXCERPT
    A statement from the VP’s office noted that “It is standard policy for the Vice President’s office that a print pooler cover the speaking program at fundraisers. This has been the consistent policy throughout the Administration. At times, these fundraisers are at private homes and ‘hold rooms’ are provided for pool reporters to wait for the speaking program to commence. A hold room, however, should not be a storage room. This was the unfortunate mistake of an inexperienced staffer and the Vice President’s office has made sure it will never happen again.”
    Biden’s office added that in this particular occasion, “half of the hold room was used for storage by the home’s owner and the other half was open space. A table and chair were set up for the reporter to allow him to file his story afterwards and work while he waited for the speaking program to begin. It was designated as the hold space because of its close proximity to the event room. The speaking program began approximately one hour after the reporter arrived, which he covered as the pool reporter, and he departed the home as soon as the motorcade left (about 15 mins after the speaking program ended).”
    Alexander’s note to Powers ended: “Thank you for your patience and flexibility.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2695514/posts

  25. Earth Hour Victory in the Maritimes (No mention of NL or Atlantic Canadians, NL experiencing a winter storm yesterday and this morning, this is from the St. John’s Telegram no less.)
    …Large numbers of Maritimers showed their support for Earth Hour on Saturday evening.
    Nova Scotia Power reported an estimated 18-megawatt reduction in power consumption between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Saturday evening.
    That represents the equivalent of turning off more than 1.4 million 13-watt compact florescent light bulbs…
    (No mention of the daylight savings time effect, maybe just a coincidence that the decreased rate of consumption over fixed capacity was 0.78% in NB and 0.76% in NS, virtually the same. I would of figured that NS waould of seen a greater dip in it’s consumption with all the learned and better than dipper-likers in and around the Halifax area compared to their redneck, inbred, anti-intellectual neighbours in NB. What’s up with the 13 watt CF? Who uses that as a light except for a reading lamp. Just checked the upstairs powder room, 4 @ 23 watts. Brings it down to only 790,000 light bulbs, not as envirazzled as 1.4 million)
    NS Power 18 MW reduction (18/2293)
    2293 MW generating capacity
    (They list 5 thermal, one tidal, 33 hydro, 4 combustion turbines, 2 wind farms and 2 additional wind turbine sites. No breakdown of % or generating capacity of each energy producer. I wonder why?)
    NB Power 24 MW reduction (24/3142)
    Electricity is generated at 13 hydro, coal, oil, and diesel-powered stations, with an installed net capacity of 3,142 MW comprised of 1,728 MW of thermal, 889 of MW hydro and 525 MW of combustion turbine capacity.
    Someone contact Charlie Sheen, the greenies are #winning!

  26. Did Global Warming caused the Japan Tsunami disaster?
    -“The warning from the 2001 report about the 3,000-year history would prove to be most telling: “The recurrence interval for a large-scale tsunami is 800 to 1,100 years. More than 1,100 years have passed since the Jogan tsunami, and, given the reoccurrence interval, the possibility of a large tsunami striking the Sendai plain is high.”-
    http://tinyurl.com/6jnp388
    Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, Updated and Expanded Edition
    by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery
    http://tinyurl.com/68zffp5
    In this New York Times bestseller, authors Singer and Avery present the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. Using historic data from two millennia of recorded history combined with natural physical records, the authors argue that the 1,500 year solar-driven cycle that has always controlled the earth’s climate remains the driving force in the current warming trend.

  27. “New evidence of first humans in North America … in Texas”
    Damn, I think I met some of their relatives while I was down there. Just a bit strange but honest and hard working (can you mention those words and first nations in the same sentence?) I do think however that the swamp people of the Louisiana bayou predate these early Texans.

  28. Here’s Part 1 of 6 of Mark Steyn recently speaking at Hillsdale College.
    Posted by: Robert W. (Vancouver)
    Thanks !

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