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Tonight’s music selection was published here about three years ago, but since it’s my favourite song of all time I’m going to let it lift off once again: Here are the Rev. F.W. McGee and the blind-but-that-won’t-stop-me sanctified singer and piano player Arizona Dranes belting out their wholehearted, transcendent rendition of Fifty Miles of Elbow Room.
Might play it again in a couple of years.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

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  2. Pushing your buttons:

    Over 600,000 Facebook users have taken part in a psychological experiment organised by the social media company, without their knowledge. Facebook altered the tone of the users’ news feed to highlight either positive or negative posts from their friends, which were seen on their news feed.

    They then monitored the users’ response, to see whether their friends’ attitude had an impact on their own. “The results show emotional contagion,” wrote a team of Facebook scientists, in a paper published by the PNAS journal – Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists of the United States.

  5. Daniel Greenfield, aka Sultan Knish:
    “The ongoing problem on the right is that it talks ‘extremist’ and legislates ‘moderate’ while the left talks ‘moderate’ and legislates ‘extremist’. That’s a big part of why Obama is in the White House and conservatives are still struggling to make headway.
    “Obama isn’t in the White House because Americans woke up Communist one morning. I know that ‘Free Stuff’ is a popular theory, but people always liked free stuff. The larger welfare population helped shift the balance, but if Obama had been a non-viable candidate, there would have been no balance to shift and it would have done him as much good as it did Jesse Jackson or Dukakis.
    “Obama is in office because much of the country believes that he is a moderate and a centrist.”
    True – thanks in no small part to the media.
    Also: The Innocence of Hillary, a video based on one of Greenfield’s columns.

  7. These are incredible!
    Old Farm Equipment And Scrap Metal Turned Into Stunning Sculptures
    South Dakotan sculptor John Lopez creates life-sized scrap metal sculptures with a uniquely Western American twist. In his hands, old discarded farm equipment is recycled into sculptures of iconic creatures from the American West like a bison, a horse plowing a field, or a Texas Longhorn.
    More here:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2633902/One-mans-junk-anothers-art-Stunning-sculptures-buffalo-horses-cowboy-riding-Triceratops-created-scrap-metal.html

  8. Teenage girl sentenced to a year in jail for throwing bacon on a Scotland Mosque.
    Richard Berkow: “I wonder what would happen if someone left Ouija board on the pew of a Catholic church in Scotland.

  10. I have noticed Steyer’s involvementbp in this stuff. In this case he promises major funding for candidates who block Keystone. He is also the guy who funded the anti-Harper ads during some sporting event. Clearly he has an agenda, and I do not for a minute believe it is about the environment. Maybe he works for the Saudi’s. Anyone have any ideas?

  12. Interesting about “Paulson” he was the GW Bush guy who sunk McCain in the 2008 election Campaign by crying “The sky is Falling” and GW repeated that song just when Obama was losing.
    I always thought he was creepy Corrupt! Why would Republicans
    want Obama to WIN?
    Keep your powder dry!

  13. EBD,
    Daniel Greenfield has most things right IMO..
    He is now on my Favorites, Thanks

  15. How the elitists attain their position:
    Friday, June 27, Globe and Mail. Wade Rowland, of York U’s “communication studies” department, and author of Saving the CBC.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-cbcs-a-service-not-a-business/article19354362/
    Title: “The CBC’s a service, not a business”
    WR: “… the public broadcaster is not a business in any conventional sense. It exists not to make money or to satisfy financial goals, but to fill a public need – one that is not being served by private media outlets. The CBC is a public good, like the school system, like medicare, like our universities and colleges, our public museums and galleries.”
    But I hardly ever watch CBC TV, outside of sporting events like the NHL playoffs (now moving to another network) and the current World Cup; my opinion of CBC Radio is actually slightly higher. I’m a member of the public too, but whenever people talk about the benefits of “public broadcasting”, what they really mean is their own projects that they might not be able to sell to commercial stations, for which they can now get taxpayers to foot the bill.
    If I want or need something, I go to a business and purchase it. If I don’t want something, why should I have to purchase it anyway? Terms like “public service” are always couched in the language of freebies, but they’re inevitably more expensive than private business.
    Note also that medicare and public schools were legislated into existence and can easily be legislated out again.
    WR: “… the CBC’s purpose is to serve its audiences as citizens, rather than as consumers. Its purpose is to create news, information and entertainment that’s judged for its creative, intellectual and artistic integrity, rather than its ability to attract large audiences that can be sold to advertisers.”
    As we all know, to the left, a “citizen” is a person who, when the government says “jump!” answers “how high?” As I pointed our earlier, “consumers” can pick and choose what they want to spend their money on. Apparently “citizens” don’t have that right.
    And just who are the judges of what has “creative, intellectual and artistic integrity”? If the public don’t watch it, the answer must be … the artistic elitists. How self-serving!
    Rowland wants a 5 per cent to 7 per cent “impost” on Bell, Rogers, Shaw, etc., which “could put the CBC back in the business of being an authentic public-service broadcaster, beholden to no vested interests, commercial or political.”
    But the CBC is beholden to vested interests – it’s beholden to all the advocates of “public broadcasting” who want their own artistic “needs” fulfilled at someone else’s expense.
    There have been numerous complaints on these premises by posters who have tried to comment on the CBC website but whose comments, critical of the prevailing left-wing opinion, were not published (I am not one of them, by the way; I don’t read that site). Any person or institution has the right to remove critical comments from its own web property, but not at public expense.
    That’s why “public broadcasting” and “public need” are only a cover for self-serving elitists.

  16. “So tell me again Bush lied about WMD’s in Iraq: ISIS occupies Iraqi chemical warfare stockpike”
    “An interesting tidbit of news that has come out of the recent fighting in Iraq that the Mainstream Media is curiously quiet on:
    ‘The State Department and other U.S. government officials have revealed that ISIS now occupies the Al Muthanna Chemicals Weapons Complex. Al Muthanna was Saddam Hussein’s primary chemical weapons facility, and it is located less than 50 miles from Baghdad.
    The Obama administration claims that the weapons in that facility, which include sarin, mustard gas, and nerve agent VX, manufactured to prosecute the war against Iran in the 1980s, do not pose a threat because they are old, contaminated and hard to move. “We do not believe that the complex contains CW materials of military value and it would be very difficult, if not impossible to safely move the materials,” said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.’
    The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies had this to say about Saddam Hussein’s secret stash at Al Muthanna in a 2010 report:…”
    “From these reports, it sounds like the whole country was packed to the rafters with ‘weapons of mass destruction’ – or their immediate precursors. Another left-wing shibboleth exposed as a hoax.
    You know what? I don’t want to hear another God-damned thing about how Bush lied, and soldiers died.”
    http://canadiancincinnatus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/06/so-tell-me-again-bush-lied-about-wmds-in-iraq-isis-occupies-iraqi-chemical-warfare-stockpike.html

  17. That dove tails nicely to answer the question someone used to answer a question not too long ago. Seems that individual after being peppered by some questions about her role as secretary of state after an embassy was attacked, responded “at this point, what difference does it make”?
    Well then, if at the time critics of president GWB war in Iraq used the premise that there where no WMD in Iraq, GWB lied about it, and as a result soldiers died, then the difference it makes at this point is that someone lied about a video and this lie was perpetuated because someone wanted to cover up the reason they died.
    That’s what difference it makes.
    Hillary lied.

  18. Adventures of America’s ruling class.
    Is there any evidence the GOP was complicit in IRS attacks on Tea Party, US Constitution, Friends of Israel, etc., groups?

  22. Maz2, can you, or anyone,tell me exactly WHAT it is that Jack Layton supposedly did for Canadians.
    The MSM raves on and on about how beloved Layton was,and how much he did for us, but no one can ever name anything specific he did. He certainly looked out for himself and his wife, running up expenses on the taxpayer, highest expenses of any MP,to the tune of about a million bucks a year between himself and Olivia.
    I’ll always remember him fondly for stating that out troops in Afghanistan were ”possibly war criminals”.

  24. An escape destination!
    “Astronomers have discovered an alien planet that could offer some of the most Earth-like conditions seen to date in the galaxy.
    Located just 16 light years away from our planet, Gliese 832c is a super-Earth with a mass 5.4 times that of our own planet orbiting a red dwarf star every 36 days.
    This orbit means that Gliese 832c is much closer to its host star than we are to ours, but because its red dwarf star has only half the mass of our Sun the planet receives around the same amount of stellar energy as we do.”
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-of-the-most-earthlike-planets-in-the-galaxy-has-been-discovered-a-stones-throw-away-9572491.html

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