After a long absence during which all his videos were pulled due to copyright claims, the recordings of Hank Williams are once again widely available on YouTube and other sites. I don’t know how long this state of affairs will last, so I’m going to get while the getting is good: from 1949, (not 1947 as stated under the video) here’s his timeless classic I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.
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Mild-mannered Muslim man, maybe mildly mentally ill, interrupts concert in the Netherlands, in front of Queen Beatrix, to preach about Allah the merciful.
Now that’s security…
This “news” story came up on my Google home page under Business.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/1049451–we-re-not-benefiting-enough-from-our-oil
It’s a letter to the editor by Gareth Skipp in Mississauga.
Gareth states “Environment Minister Peter Kent informed me that the oil industry generates about $2 billion to our economy in direct and indirect benefits.“….
Clearly, Gareth is retarded. I don`t think that it`s right for the Toronto Star to exploit retarded adults for amusement. I would like to start a petition to put an end to this pratice.
This evening’s musical selection brings back memories of listening to the battery operated radio in 1949. We had fun filled evenings listening to Boston Blackie, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, I Was A Soviet Spy For the FBI (correct name ?), King of the Royal Mounted, Firestone Music Hall and of course real country and western music. Mom would listen to Ma Perkins in the afternoon.
The truth finally is revealed about the release of the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi. PM Brown lied to the nation. But then the left lying is nothing new. Just think Premiers Campbell and McGuinty.
http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2011/09/04/devastating-secret-files-reveal-labour-lies-over-gaddafi-1/
Looks like Toronto will be Labour Battle Central next year. I hope Mayor Ford holds strong, much like Wisconsin Governor Walker did!
More proof, if any was needed. That there will be an Islamic attack on Israel. Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Iran, Syria. Will be the major aggressors.
With Russian support.
Ankara’s chosen scapegoat
Forty Israeli passengers, mainly businessmen who had landed in Istanbul on a Turkish Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, were separated from the rest of the flight passengers. Their passports were confiscated.
They were placed in interrogation rooms and stripped down to their underwear. Their carry-on bags were checked. And then they were lined up against a wall, forbidden to sit down or use the washroom.
http://carolineglick.com/
Ah, Hank Williams, who according to Leonard Cohen–himself a none too shabby songwriter–occupied the very top floor in the Tower of Song. Yessir!
Heh, Ken (Kulak), no wonder yer so much wiser than me: 1949’s my birth year!
Thanks EBD, what a great timeless song!
Me No Dhimmi – So was I born in ’49, that doesn’t make Ken any smarter, it just makes him OLDER! Though it’s agreed he’s a pretty fart smeller.
@Ken Kulak
Likewise. Of course, we had to be reasonable about how much we played the battery powered radio since the batteries (A, B, and C cells) were relatively expensive. When I was a young lad, my father bought me a crystal eadio kit which I used to listen to. No need for batteries, but it only picked the one local station nearby.
A bit later, saw an article in Popular Science about crystal radios and started building them for my friends. Then there was the day I found out about my first solid state device – an IN34 Germanium Diode.
Hank Williams changed the face of country music in North America. My favorite is Cold Cold Heart. Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis did a great number on that one. Check it out on Youtube.
TANSTA clean energy: http://inhabitat.com/solar-industry-responsible-for-dumping-2-4-million-tons-of-lead-on-china-and-india/
Ken (Kulak):
“I was a communist for the FBI”.
Your version rhymes nicely, but alas…
Some of his stuff may not be for everyone, but Hank Williams III is pretty damn good in his own right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9dDvSZYD_M
Definitely more like his grandfather than his father.
Socialism here described in less than 100 words.
Socialism: “where payments flow from richer to poorer states,”.
When persuasion fails, use coercion.
The invisible hand* becomes the visible** hands/arms/guns of Our Enemy, the State.
Shoot the ……
*Adam Smith
**Karl Marx
It’s for the Euro.
…-
“Help for Poorer Neighbors”
“Designing a Transfer Union to Save the Euro
“Many economists argue that the euro zone needs to become a transfer union, where payments flow from richer to poorer states, if the single currency is going to survive. But a look at existing systems in different countries shows that the design of such a union is crucial — otherwise some countries will become permanently dependent on handouts. By Michael Sauga more…”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,784612,00.html
Das persuasion from the da National Socialists.
Ja! It’s for the Euro.
Firstly, The Fear; then, the Hope.
That is one of the many messages/propaganda of socialism/communism.
…-
“Why austerity is only cure for the eurozone
By Wolfgang Schäuble”
“Europe has always moved forward one step at a time and it should continue to do so. This does not mean that fiscal policy in the eurozone should not gradually become more centralised. It should, as long as this process is legitimised by a strong democratic mandate. But strengthening the architecture of the eurozone will need time. It may need profound treaty changes, which will not happen overnight. But the direction is not disputed, and the determination of all member states to defend the common European currency is granted.”
“The writer is Germany’s federal minister of finance”
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/97b826e2-d7ab-11e0-a06b-00144feabdc0.html
PET Cemetery Report Presents:
Our Gallery of Iconic Socialist Heroes.
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“Infamous Ontario neo-Nazi dies”
Neo-Nazi Martin Weiche has died. The former leader of the extremist Canadian National Socialist Party died Friday night, his son Alan said. Weiche was …”
“Labour Day parade remembers Layton”
“Thousands of shouting and flag-waving marchers paid tribute to Jack Layton in Monday’s annual Labour Day Parade.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/
It appears that the EU is mirroring the Canadian economic model of financial (in)dependence.
Greece is their Quebec (no separation required).Portugal,Spain,and Ireland would stand in for the Maritimes.
Germany is the Alberta of Europe.
Our natives would be represented by the muslims,their hand out while setting up their own special areas,breeding like mosquitoes,and living in the past.
Simplistic,yes,but it’s 5 a.m. and I have to concentrate on getting ready for work,somebody has to pay the bills. Unfortunately for me,I live in the German part of Canada.
I wonder which country would stand in for our precious B.C.?
wallyj
BC would be best represented by France.
Entitlement central, but, on a collision course with its own insolvency
so the conrad is head back to prison.
hey, mr crossharbour, DONT DIP IN THE TILL. (and dont take the ‘laundry’ out the back door in a box at 3 a.m.)
“maz says… “Labour Day parade remembers Layton”
and remembers and remembers and remembers. anybody catch
the cbc slobber-fest last night with mrs dear leader?
the one bit of actual news… ms chow talks about how ill layton was
the last couple of days… effectively refuting the claim that jack
himself wrote the “hope is better than fear” deathbed letter.
not sure that olivia is the best spokes-shill for this campaign…
she has all the charisma of a rusty drill-press. hard to believe
someone tis inarticulate could get elected to any public position.
but what the heck… it’s all good over at pinko tv.
*
Mosquateria poll gone horribly wrong.
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/144877–groups-protest-muslim-prayers-at-toronto-public-school
Lack of funds scuttles Carleton-Rwanda journalism exchange:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Lack+funds+scuttles+Carleton+Rwanda+journalism+exchange/5343583/story.html
Pity. Anna Maria Tremonti could have offered a course on how to produce a more professional class of hate radio.
@ Richards in Vancouver, right. Thanks, as I could not remember the right name. The show fascinated me at the time.
@ Me No Dhimmi, thank you for the kind words, but larben has it right. I am older by seven years, but I may have more grandchildren than you guys.:-)
@ foobert, I do not remember details like that due to my age at the time, but I suspect that the listening time was husbanded because of that. City slickers had electricity, so would not know about the battery life issue. I also vaguely remember a radio show schedule in Western Producer newspaper.
Hank Williams had a very sad life and his music reflects that.
This may be old news for many of you, but Alberta’s liberal government is funding environment wackos films denigrating the oil sands. Suckers for Suzuki.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Alberta+rapped+funding+anti+oilsands+documentary/5355506/story.html
Mohammed’s Tar Sands.
Where’s the outrage from OurCBC/GorebullSuzuki?
At the bottom find this:
“Environmental experts fear that Lake Orumieh might see the fate of a lake in neighbouring countries, known as Aral Sea, which was formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world but has almost disappeared due to aggressive irrigation projects during the Soviet Union era.”
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“Iranian greens fear disaster as Lake Orumieh shrinks”
“Football chants and street protests raise profile of fight to save Unesco-listed site”
“A ship left high and dry on the solidified salt of Lake Orumieh, which has lost half its surface area.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/05/iran-greens-lake-orumieh-shrinks
Women bites tongue of would be assailant, the comments are priceless!http://www.thelocal.se/35968/20110906/
Neo-AGW Progress Report:
How-To-Become a Red-Green Sado-Masochist.
H/T Liberal Citoyen Kyoto Dionky.
Warning: From the Grauniad.
“– take a bow America, Russia, Canada –”
“These are the nations – take a bow America, Russia, Canada – that continue to emit CO2 without restraint but are happy to enjoy a more stable climate paid for by other countries who are spending billions to cut carbon emissions.”
“”free-riding” countries are undermining other countries that want to act on behalf of humanity.”
“And, as we all know, any country that does not take climate change seriously cannot, by definition, be acting rationally.”
“The academics’ theory purports to prove, mathematically, that the talks would move forward faster and more successfully if countries agreed to penalise each other if they missed emissions reduction targets.”
…-
“Can game theory save the UN climate talks?”
“German academics have used the mathematics behind the strategic behaviour of countries to propose a way though the myriad impasses”
“America will never sign up, but the EU will if China does, which is unlikely if Africa doesn’t. No nation wants to go it alone but Russia doesn’t want to do anything, and the poor want the rich to absorb all the costs but the rich will only agree to sign if the poor do more.
Yes, I’m talking about the great game of the UN global climate talks, which resume in a few weeks’ time in Panama – the last gathering before the big annual meeting, this year in Durban, South Africa, at the end of November.
But now a group of German academics at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has used game theory – the mathematics behind strategic behaviour of countries – to propose a way though the myriad impasses for negotiators.
Jobst Heitzig, lead author of a study to be published shortly in the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that what is basically going wrong in the talks is that “free-riding” countries are undermining other countries that want to act on behalf of humanity.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/sep/06/game-theory-un-climate-talks
I hear by eyewitness accounts that SIAST/SGEU is on strike without warning as of today. First-ish week of classes, so it must be “for the children”.
Janet Napolitano ‘calls out’ Matt Drudge, thereby elevating the influence of The Drudge Report. Real smart, Janet. She must be taking lessons from Barack Obama.
September 06, 2011
Janet Napolitano: Drudge is ‘just wrong’ on privacy
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is calling out web news aggregator Matt Drudge for suggesting that she’s an ogre eager to invade the privacy of Americans and in particular those who travel by air.
‘I think my nickname is “Big Sis.” I don’t think he means it kindly, actually,’ Napolitano said Tuesday, accurately recalling the moniker that often accompanies scary-looking photos of her on Drudge’s popular news site.
‘I think that what he means is we are watching too much—kind of an Orwellian view. He’s just wrong. I mean, he’s just wrong,’ Napolitano declared during a POLITICO Playbook breakfast at the Newseum. She said the privacy impact of new airport screening technology and similar programs are thoroughly vetted before they are implemented.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0911/Janet_Napolitano_Drudge_is_just_wrong_on_privacy.html
I just watched the first documentary in the “Passionate Eye” series on 9/11 over at the state broadcaster’s site.
It is well done,well worth watching.
While watching it,I did feel anger,as well as other emotions. Surprisingly my anger was not towards the islamic terrorists that did this atrocity,but at the ‘truthers’ that still 10 years later are squealing their inanities around the internet. Actually,much anger,if I run into one in the next few days,I’m sure there will be an unpleasant exchange.
Yesterday,the cbc put a story up about pieces of the towers being shipped to various places,mostly firehalls,where they would be used in memorials. The comments section for the story is infested (aided by the moderators) with the vermin that call themselves ‘truthers’.
The moderators blocked 75% of my posts,not because they breached the cbc guidelines(they didn’t),but IMHO,because they started with ” You are wrong and this is why’.
PMSH must do something about this corporation by next election,or I’m not voting,and won’t be donating.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/video.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/02/f-911-steel-beams-remnants-wtc.html
PMSH must do something about this corporation by next election,or I’m not voting,and won’t be donating.
Wow,that was quick,SDA does get results. This just up on cbc,yes cbc.Disregard the ‘islamicism’ a billion dollars doesn’t buy much these days.
“Harper says Islamicism biggest threat to Canada”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/06/harper-911-terrorism-islamic-interview.html