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Tonight’s tips music, a live version of a track from Leonard Cohen’s 1969 album Songs from a Room, is a quiet, simple, beautiful, elegiac song about a young, good-hearted woman who lost her way in the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Here’s Seems So Long Ago, Nancy.
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  1. During a concert in San Francisco yesterday, folk singer Michelle Shocked, a longtime favourite in the lesbian community, expressed opposition to Proposition 8, which would force priests to marry gays. The management of the venue shut off the stage lights, and cut off her microphone.
    Can’t allow someone to have her own opinion, now, can we?

  8. “the unit succumbed to insolvency”.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-20/china-s-solar-billionaire-undone-as-banks-push-suntech-to-brink.html
    “Solar Expansion
    It was the scale of the industry’s expansion that undid Shi’s ambitions. Solar cell prices that as recently as October 2010 were $1.50 a watt are now less than a third of that price, costing about 38 cents on March 11, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
    Suntech last reported a profit in the first quarter of 2011 and in July disclosed that it was a victim of accounting fraud involving an affiliated company in Europe. It hired UBS AG to help restructure debt payments then the unit succumbed to insolvency after failing to retire its bonds on schedule last week.”

  10. “Bobby Orr reflects on ‘wonderful life’ as No. 4 turns 65” (g-m)
    …-
    “Myke Cole, who did three tours in Iraq, has an interesting reflection on his own Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms that cast a surprising light on the banking confidence problem. Cole said he long believed that PTSD involved the classic Hollywood depictions of nightmares, flashbacks, nights sweats etc. Then he realized that in his case at least, PTSD was much bigger than that.
    I kept seeing non­profit TV spots, charity pieces and solemn psy­cho­an­a­lyt­ical essays. They all described a PTSD that I’d never seen in myself, and more impor­tantly, in anyone else I knew who suf­fered from it. I’ll never forget this one spot on AFN, where a sol­dier washes his hands, only to find blood pouring out of the faucet Stephen King’s Shining style. He hears gun­fire, looks into the mirror, the back­ground is a desert bat­tle­field strewn with corpses, glowing red.
    I picked that apart with some friends for an hour. I’m not saying that there aren’t people out there for whom PTSD is like that, but it sure as hell wasn’t like that for any of us. …
    Because PTSD isn’t a dis­ease, it’s a world view.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/03/20/o-the-great-and-powerful/#more-27966

  11. Socialism = F.A.I.L.
    Left-liberals/socialists concede F.A.I.L.
    http://www.financialpost.com/index.html
    …-
    “Europe is a complete disaster, and its luck may have just run out”
    “Comment: The crisis in Cyprus is a good opportunity to take a step back and remind ourselves how incredibly broken the eurozone remains”
    …-
    “Eurozone admits being ‘in a mess’ over Cyprus in call; sets Monday deadline for bailout deal”
    “A conference call that talks openly of Cyprus leaving the eurozone shows the level of alarm among EU officials about a crisis spiralling out of control”

  12. Link to Michelle Shocked story not working.
    Oh and while we are discussing banksters. Got a letter the other day.
    What makes them think it’s not theft, for them to keep your cancelled cheques? The banking agreement doesn’t suspend the criminal code or does it?
    I paid for the f^*king things, they’re my property..

  16. Commissar Wynne speaks in Bolsheviki-communist tongue.
    Wynne’s ‘revenue tools’ = taxation/plunder.
    Our Enemy, The State.
    …-
    “Sun | Wynne would pursue ‘revenue tools’ for infrastructure
    TORONTO – Premier Kathleen Wynne told a Liberal fundraiser Wednesday night that she will pursue new “revenue tools” to build roads, bridges and transit across the province.”

  17. Neo-AGW PR Question:
    Is AGWarming Death same as AGCooling Death?
    Please advise CRU lawyers of your settled consensus im Der Ich Bin Ein Berliner.
    …-
    “Just Kill Us Now: German Spring Kicks Off with More Snow”
    “The calendar says spring started Wednesday, but a look outside tells sun-starved Germans otherwise. Snow has blanketed large parts of the country in recent days, and forecasts predict yet more wintry weather to come. Super.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/winter-weather-plagues-germany-as-spring-begins-a-890166.html
    …-
    “Overly Overcast: Germany Weathers Darkest Winter in 43 Years”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-weathers-darkest-winter-in-43-years-a-885608.html

  19. Watcher, try to keep up. The state is now your father, mother, spouse, and best friend.

  20. Mao Stlong*/Neo-AGW PR PR: Joint Exercise Supplise.
    …-
    ““It’s a long winter and we just have to appreciate winter,” Bright explains to CTV Winnipeg. “And it’s to cheer people up. And to tell them it will end, but we’ve just got to fight on.””
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-granny-defying-winter-in-a-bathing-suit-1.1205127
    …-
    “Surprise Snow”
    “After weeks of smoggy days, an unexpected snowfall left the city of Beijing draped in a light white blanket in late March. People applauded the snow as it brought fresh air and clean sky for the city.”
    http://english.caixin.com/2013-03-21/100504700.html
    *Ex-Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle, c/o Red China.

  21. Big State’s Budget.
    >>> “better weather forecasts”.
    Neo-AGW PR’s Buggerus Report Anal-ysis to follow …
    H/T FT

  25. AGW-Neo Running Low on Gas.
    Snow supplies in good stock.
    …-
    “More than 100 injured in snow-related crashes on QEII
    Edmonton Journal”
    “Huge multi-vehicle pile-up injures 100 people near Edmonton
    National Post”
    “Edmonton and area in the grip of ‘very slow moving’ band of unrelenting snow
    Edmonton Journal”
    “Gas is running low as chill continues”
    “Gas supplies are rapidly dwindling as the cold weather continues into spring, energy chiefs have said, with the country braced for heavy snow storms over the next week.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9947340/Gas-is-running-low-as-chill-continues.html

  29. It is a little too easy to be excessively po-faced, at times, and to ignore beautiful things. That link is a great antidote.
    Thanks for that, peterj.

  30. What a beautiful, beautiful story, peterj. Thank you.
    I wept through the whole thing.
    Yes, we need to turn our eyes “unto the hills, for whence cometh our help? It comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth …”
    There is always something to be grateful for; there are always people worse off than we are who need our kindness, mercy, and help. That’s the future of our world. That’s what will ensure the future of our world: kindness to strangers and to one another.

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