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A British wag once dismissed country music as nothing more than “gilted spouses complaining whilst drunk.” There’s some truth to that, but country lyrics often address real-world relationship issues in ways that other forms of music don’t. Here’s a good example: The star-studded Notorious Cherry Bombs‘ marriage-themed complaint It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips At Night That Chew Your…
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  2. http://m.nationalreview.com/article/378737/case-against-reparations-kevin-d-williamson
    The final Graf of an excellent column:
    Mr. Coates is largely correct about the past and is to a degree correct about the present. About the future, he is catastrophically wrong. The political interests of African Americans, like those of other Americans, are best served by equality under the law. The economic interests of African Americans, like those of other Americans, are best served by a dynamic and growing economy, preferably one in which the labor force is liberated from the dysfunctional, antique Prussian model of education that contributes so much to black poverty. The people to whom reparations were owed are long dead; our duty is to the living, and to generations yet to come, and their interests are best served by liberty and prosperity, not by moral theater.

  5. My two favorite Country Western songs are:
    ” Run to the roundhouse, Nellie, he can’t corner you there.”
    ” Never mind the shrimp boats, Ma, here comes Pa with the crabs”

  8. From an article in Macleans by Jonathan Gatehouse titled America dumbs down.

    The American public’s bias against established science doesn’t stop where the Bible leaves off, however….When it comes to global warming, only 33 per cent expressed a high degree of confidence that it is ‘man made,’ something the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has declared is all but certain.

    Macleans: Dumbing up Canadian waiting rooms since 1911.

  10. Hey everybody, look who is back! Welcome back EBD. We sho missed you.
    Regarding tonight’s musical selection, that might be why a lot of NA men look for Russian and Ukrainian wives. In case you are interested, though, be aware of gold diggers.
    And, regarding the Macleans tip, Gatehouse does manage to make take a swipe at those who do not believe in Global Warming and also at George Bush and Sarah Palin.
    Macleans dumbing up Canadians since 1911 is right. I cancelled my subscription about fifteen years ago. Yes, I know, I was a little slow with that realization.

  13. Oh no, EBD is back, there go the music selections…we’re back to the “I know better than you” disc jockey. It was fun when Kate was doing it…while it lasted.
    As for reader tips, here is my offering:
    Those Moderate Muslims, or alternatively Those Left-Wing Lawyers:
    http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/553408/20140523/u-s-pakistan-mutton-husband-wife-beat.htm#.U4Ga6PldVqU
    Second source:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2636196/Pakistani-immigrant-killed-pregnant-wife-wrong-dinner-lawyer-claims-thats-just-culture.html

  15. I’m not naming names, EBD, but Robert played Celine Dion while you were gone.
    I’m sure he meant well. Don’t ever leave us again.

  16. Our CBC’s Journolist Death Watch.
    …-
    “Ukraine election: Journalist killed as voters blocked in volatile east
    CBC.ca”

  19. O’narcissist’s Mohammed Report.
    …-
    “U.S. inaction on Syria helped make it a hell on earth”
    “RUSSIA AND China on Thursday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Syria. Western powers and human rights group condemned the veto, and rightly so.
    But let’s get real.”
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/us-inaction-on-syria-helped-make-it-a-hell-on-earth/2014/05/23/07da806c-e287-11e3-9743-bb9b59cde7b9_story.html
    …-
    “Netanyahu Says Obama Got Syria Right”
    http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-22/netanyahu-says-obama-got-syria-right

  20. Of Death: Mohammed’s manifesto & Elliot Rodger’s manifesto: Death.
    …-
    “British-born killer ‘very disturbed’, says family
    Elliot Rodger, 22, killed six victims in rampage through small student town of Isla Vista in California
    ‘I am a living god and will destroy everything’: killer’s manifesto
    Idyllic university town shattered by gun massacre” (telegraph)
    …-
    “‘I renounced Islam, so my family think I should die'”
    “Harriet Alexander talks to a British woman whose life was turned upside down when she left Islam”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/10854163/I-renounced-Islam-so-my-family-think-I-should-die.html

  21. Elections in Ukraine will not solve problems in eastern Ukraine.
    “Ukraine votes in highly-charged presidential election
    Voting has opened in Ukraine’s hotly-contested election, with chocolate tycoon Petro Poroshenko the clear favourite to be chosen as president”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10855123/Ukraine-votes-in-highly-charged-presidential-election.html
    …”the hub of Ukraine’s coal and steel industries, only nine of the 34 electoral constituencies were open, according to the central election commission.”

  22. Anti-semitism kills Jews.
    “Pope Backs” Mohammedans.
    …-
    “Pope Backs Palestinian State in Unscripted Stop at Barrier”
    (bloomberg)
    …-
    “Belgian Police Hunt Jewish Museum Killer as Nation Votes”
    “The gunman who killed three people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels yesterday remains at large, as leaders from Europe to Israel condemned the attack.
    “From camera images we have learned that the perpetrator was probably alone, that he was well prepared and that he was armed,” Ine Van Wymersch, an official in the Brussels judiciary’s investigative arm, told reporters today. Law enforcement officers “are still actively seeking this perpetrator. We are calling for the collaboration of the population to arrest this individual.””
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-24/shooting-at-brussels-jewish-museum-leaves-three-dead.html

  23. Open nominations and a different way of doing politics.
    ” The membership cards were given to these voters through intermediaries, who in most cases suggested that the new Liberal members vote for Miller”
    ” These people, primarily from the riding’s Muslim community, say they never paid for the membership cards,a clear violation of the Liberal party’s own rules.”
    “The two (JT and Miller) met at Montreal’s private Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. The pair travelled abroad together. ”
    http://www.macleans.ca/politics/questions-raised-about-votes-in-marc-millers-liberal-nomination/
    You won’t find any mention of this on the CBC, but you can find a dozen stories about Eve Adams. Hmmm, that is odd.

  24. The Ontario Labour Movement, the people who have shut down our eastern based auto manufacturing, appliance factories, agricultural equipment plants and a thousand other industries have now launched attack ads against Tim Hudak.
    Interestingly enough, I doubt that Tim Hudak was even born when the first Ontario GM plants started their down slide because labour problems.
    And interestingly enough, the CBC cut off commenting after less that 300 comments on the article.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/ontario-labour-groups-still-deciding-how-they-ll-stop-hudak-1.2652573

  25. Hope so…I like Dion, especially knowing she gets snubbed by CBC…makes me love her even more.
    Feels like family here…welcome back EBD.
    Groan…my co-workers love their Macleans rag mag.

  26. Hold on. EDB’s eclectic(and occasionally peculiar) music choices are usually excellent. The DJ can’t help it that he actually “does know better than you” (musically speaking, of course).

  30. Well, I really do think a little Celine goes on and on and on….
    But I was kidding about needing to be rescued from Robert.

  32. http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/athabasca-glacier-melting-at-astonishing-rate-of-5-metres-a-year-1.1837219
    CTV reports that the Athabasca Glacier is retreating at the ‘astonishing’ rate of 5 meters per year. Surely this is a sign of accelerating global warming and we are all doomed.
    Elsewhere in the article, they report that the glacier has retreated 1.5 km since 1890. That calculates as roughly 12 meters per year. Only in the climate change world is 5 greater than 12. Must be the new math.

  33. Vive la far right.
    “A jubilant Le Pen, whose party beat President Francois Hollande’s ruling Socialists into third place,…”
    …-
    “French far right in ‘earthquake’ win as Europe votes”
    “Marine Le Pen’s far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent-wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.
    Without waiting for the final result, a somber French Prime Minister Manuel Valls went on television to call the breakthrough by the anti-immigration, anti-euro party in one of the EU’s founding nations “an earthquake” for France and Europe.”
    http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABREA4N0DK20140525

  34. ” John Lennon, Johnny Cash are our modern ‘saints,’ researcher says ” … somehow she missed Che. But, Jimi Hendrix was thrown into the mix.
    Riddell quotes one fan as saying that “Everyone has their own personal Johnny, like everyone has their own personal Jesus.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/john-lennon-johnny-cash-are-our-
    modern-saints-researcher-says-1.2653540
    We pay millions every year to the CP for stories like this.
    How many millions? We will never know, that is protected information.
    The article is written by a PhD candidate.
    Of course we subsidize her ‘education’ also.

  36. Hockey fans….
    Is P.K. Subban an idiot ???
    Quick answer, yes.
    He jogged/strutted in spot during the American national anthem tonight.
    That is so disrespectful.

  38. Corrie wants to know who pushed Tina to her …..?
    …-
    “For the first time in modern history, neither Labour nor Conservatives have won a British national election”
    “Ukip unleashes political earthquake with European parliamentary elections win”
    “The Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats will acknowledge the powerful symbolic moment for Ukip, a party that was only founded in 1993, in pulling ahead of all the established parties whose roots date back more than 100 years.”
    “The last time that Labour or the Conservatives failed to win a national election was in December 1910 when Herbert Asquith won the highest number of seats, though not the largest number of votes, in the general election for the Liberal party.”
    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/26/ukip-european-elections-political-earthquake#start-of-comments

  39. Wallyj, I’m not a fan of Subban – he’s one of those guys that puts an “I” in “team” — but a lot of athletes keep loose, especially during the extenda-mix “look at me!” performances of the anthems, by shuffling from side to side, shaking their legs out, etc.
    Personally, I think there should be a moratorium on national anthems at sporting events other than international competitions where the competitors are representing their country. It would spare us from tacky debacles like Christina Aguilera’s melismatic “twilight’s last reaming” (sic) at the Super Bowl a few years ago, or the NYR’s current anthem singer (who’s a decent singer) pulling out his Rangers towel in the middle of the anthem and waving it around.

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