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  3. Should main stream media now be main stream medium?
    Apparently the same crew will be putting together the Sun & the former Asper [former Black] [former Southam] papers in several cities.
    But we are assured that
    “Stories will be re-written to suit the tone of the publication they are meant for”
    Paul Wells helpfully suggests
    “Just change all occurrences of ‘Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’ to ‘Shiny Pony Justine’ for the tabloid.”
    http://www.j-source.ca/article/postmedia-begins-company-wide-layoffs-calls-newsroom-meetings

  10. The Justine government: PRs for today.
    …-
    “‘We’re back'”. (PET Cemetery)
    “Dosanjh: Anaemic stance on Jihadi terror leaves Canada relegated to the margins” (province)
    “Canada excluded from anti-Islamic State coalition meeting” (mailUK)
    …-
    “John Ivison: How can the Liberals leave others to defend our national security?”
    “Tuesday, October 7, 2014 will go down as a day of ignominy for the Liberal Party of Canada.
    For crass electoral reasons, the party voted that day against the Conservative motion to send CF-18 fighters to join the coalition arranged against the barbarians of the Islamic State, the militant group who, at the time, were knocking at the gates of Baghdad.
    Calculating that the war would become unpopular, particularly in Quebec, the Trudeau Liberals locked themselves into a position advocating a “military role of a non-combat nature.”
    That they still haven’t found a face-saving way to fix that blunder is now Canada’s disgrace.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/john-ivison-how-can-the-liberals-leave-others-to-defend-our-national-security

  11. Dinosaur Media Party’s QOTD:
    “Ottawa is our country’s capital; what stories will we not hear about, with the loss of 12 jobs at the Sun and Citizen?”
    …-
    “The true meaning of Postmedia’s job cuts can’t be captured in numbers”
    “On Tuesday afternoon, as news trickled out about Postmedia’s 90 job cuts, the Canadian journalistic fraternity convulsed in despair;…”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-true-meaning-of-postmedias-job-cuts-cant-be-captured-in-numbers/article28277736/

  13. Many voters making fun of the Trump for saying 2 Corinthians.
    Well, guess what the bible says?
    1 Corinthians,
    2 Corinthians.
    1 John and 2 John.
    Second Corinthians is not listed in the bible..
    cabbage heads..
    Just because a preacher says it is 2nd Corinthians, doesn’t make it true..

  14. Between Potash Corporation and Postmedia we had 500 job losses today,and we probably brought in 500 Mohammedans.This is what the Liberals call doubling down.

  16. “Canada’s most attention-grabbing personality is the new Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau, whom a swooning electorate has just elevated to the highest office in the land. Possessing no relevant business or political experience and no demonstrable leadership qualities apart from name recognition and good looks, he is a dandiprat version of the fatuous nonentity America elected to lead them into a condition of weakness and insolvency.”
    An excellent article by David Solway. I have not read anything written by Solway for probably decades. I think he used to write for the Grope and Flail.
    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/canada_the_us_and_the_donald_.html

  17. I don’t, but good question. Also, where are Jema54 and our truck driver/ex soldier friend from Ontario. It is disconcerting when regular commenter/friends suddenly disappear from these pages. Could we have helped in some way?

  18. Every Pastor/Priest/Minister I’ve ever heard called it ‘second Corinthians’. That was the gaffe. Personally I don’t care as Trump gets my support regardless, but it made his try at connecting with the Evangelicals look phony.

  19. By the way, I’m not a fan of these lists. Lots of errors made, and name recognition seems to be important. The same people had Neil Peart listed as the third best rock drummer – and mispronounced his name. You gotta be clueless to make that mistake…

  20. As someone who goes to church a lot but doesn’t go to a lot of churches, I don’t think I would have noticed 2 versus 2nd Corinthians. Hadn’t given it any thought before, but I guess our congregation does mix the cardinal in with the ordinal occasionally just to keep things from becoming too ordinary.
    If he had said 2 Amendment it would have caught my attention.

  21. I live in an Eastern Ontario Federal riding that had a Conservative M.P. with several riding offices in different parts of the rural riding. So far the elected Liberal M.P. hasn’t set up any offices. People are starting to complain as each office used to get around 30 requests a day for help with forms like getting passports and other problems. Wondering if this is happening in other ridings. The Liberals seem to be having a lot of organizational problems at all levels. And no media coverage of the slowness and snacks.

  23. AGW RIP.
    Magnificent Weather Alarmism 1&2 by accuw.
    …-
    “Massive storm to dump up to a foot of snow from DC to Philadelphia, NYC”
    “Colossal storm to unload up to a foot of snow from DC to Philadelphia, NYC”
    “A major winter storm will hit the eastern United States with the potential for heavy snow to impact more than 50 million people at the end of the week.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/

  25. It’s called Second Corinthians because it’s the second lettter (in the canon if not the actual second).

  26. Ha! The Alberta NDP noticed state-side…
    maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/27535-Wednesday-morning-links.html

  27. The Steely Dan song won’t come up because of copyright or something but you are right. The late Phil Woods should have been on that list.

  28. I live in an Eastern Ontario Federal riding that had a Conservative M.P. with several riding offices in different parts of the rural riding. So far the elected Liberal M.P. hasn’t set up any offices. People are starting to complain as each office used to get around 30 requests a day for help with forms like getting passports and other problems. Wondering if this is happening in other ridings. The Liberals seem to be having a lot of organizational problems at all levels. And no media coverage of the slowness and snafus.

  30. There wasn’t one truly good saxophone player in that line up … those guys were all what we call ‘honkers’. I know it’s pop music and that is for the masses, however, like in sports we like to watch the very best in the play-offs to see what the very best looks like in action. Same for music … so if you want to catch a glimpse of the very best … here is a piece by the greatest tenor player of all times, (in my professional opinion) Michael Brecker, with one of the greatest guitar players of all time … Pat Metheny. Sure, it’s jazz, but that is the only venue where the limits of one’s ability can be tested. You might like it.
    If you have never heard of these folks, you have a some treats ahead, unless you are stuck in ‘honker’ mode all the time.
    https://youtu.be/k6frDRYia_I

  31. How about Pete Christlieb’s solo in Deacon Blue? Or Phil Woods solo in Katy Lied? Or Wayne Shorter’s solo in Aja?

  34. Solway: (Canadians are/might be …) “An Eloi people roistering in a Morlock world …” Sounds about right.

  35. The average person, myself included, would not know that nor would it stop them from enjoying the songs. The saxophone has wide appeal because it is the one instrument that produces many of same sounds that imitate the human voice.

  38. “Oil in unrelenting rout, plumbs new lows under $27
    Reuters”
    …-
    “Ross McKitrick: The electric car is dead, executed by Al Gore and his environmental allies”
    “So who killed the electric car? Anyone minded to do so only needed to come up with a scheme to cause electricity prices to soar and conventional gasoline prices to collapse.”
    “Gasoline is cheap. Electricity is expensive. Bad environmental policy contributed to both outcomes”
    http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/the-electric-car-is-dead-executed-by-al-gore-and-his-environmental-allies

  39. Well J, I’ll give you that Michael Brecker might have been the finest technician with the tenor sax that I have heard. However, all that technical ability sounds to my ear like a series of increasingly difficult finger exercises. It’s not music.
    I realize that I am a mere philistine, not a professional, but, my taste runs way more to the following:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B138dl-ClSk

  40. Just as “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” so too ‘music is in the ear of the listener’.
    “Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”
    ― Anonymous quote from goodreads dot com

  41. AGW RIP.
    Satellite data not shown by GISS/NOAA. Why?
    “The trend of United States annual temperature anomalies ,including the 2015 anomaly shows a decline over 18 years or since 1998.”
    …-
    “GISS and NOAA to Announce 2015 “Record High” Global Temperatures in Joint Media Teleconference Today”
    Herkimer’s comment:
    “These press releases are meaningless when one looks at what has really been happening in North America and more locally in United States . Instead of giving a balanced analysis of what the past climate trend is for their home country, they are just spreading climate alarmism which is inconsistent to the observable data . One year records are just anomalies, nothing else . The temperatures in US and North AMERICA are declining but NOAA and GISS will not call a press release to tell America the real facts.
    The trend of United States annual temperature anomalies ,including the 2015 anomaly shows a decline over 18 years or since 1998.
    WINTER (-1.44 F/DECADE) COOLING
    FALL (-0.04 F/DECADE) COOLING (FLAT)
    SPRING (+0.12 F/DECADE) WARMING (FLAT)
    SUMMER (+0.24 F/DECADE) WARMING
    ANNUAL (-0.22 F/DECADE) COOLING”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/20/giss-and-noaa-to-announce-2015-record-high-global-temperatures-in-joint-media-teleconference-today/

  43. O’narcissist’s Watch.
    …-
    “U.S. Stocks Close Lower After Late-Day Rally”
    “How Much Lower Will Markets Go? Top Investors See No Bottom Yet”
    “Oil Tumbles Most in Four Months”
    “Investors Brace for Bear Markets Around the Globe”
    “3 hours ago Washington Could Get One to Two Feet of Snow From Friday Storm”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/

  44. Yes, same thing where I live. Local Liberal candidate is useless. Put his constituency office in a location that is very difficult for anyone to get to. Most of the time he is not there. Totally disorganized and uninterested in helping the community. Typical lazy Liberal. Cares more about when his next flight is to Ottawa so that he can rack up more airmiles.

  45. PET Cemetery Report.
    …-
    J’narcissist’s Watch.
    “splendid news for Canada: we’re No. 2 in a new ranking of the best countries in the world.”
    “Canada excluded from coalition meeting”
    …-
    “We’re No. 2! Canada ranked second best country in world”
    “The annual schmoozefest of the rich, powerful, famous and their courtiers in Davos, Switzerland, has already produced splendid news for Canada: we’re No. 2 in a new ranking of the best countries in the world.
    Released at the World Economic Forum, the survey rated 60 countries across 24 categories.”
    http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6240975-we-re-no-2-canada-ranked-second-best-country-in-world/
    …-
    Arab News:
    “Canada excluded from coalition meeting”
    “Canada has been excluded from a meeting of defense ministers in Paris this week to discuss the fight against Daesh militants.”
    http://www.arabnews.com/world/news/868201

  46. BJ,
    I hear you on the technical exorcizes that define many jazz players, but Mikey was creative, he didn’t just play exorcizes, he manipulated a song in many interesting ways.
    Dave Koz is like Kenny in that they can play well, but they are commercial players who are great ambassadors to the saxophone .. David Sanborn who created a much copied style and is fine jazz/soul player as well.
    Mikey was simply above all these guys for mastery of the instrument and for his innovations. Don’t forget Lee Ritenour never got the nod from the world of Leonard Feathers until he put out an album emulating Wes Montgomery .. another great original player who use octaves for melody line to emphasize his play … also didn’t use a pic so the octaves provided volume he didn’t get without the pick.
    Michael Brecher earned the respect of every heavy in the Jazz world …
    Cheers,
    Good that you listen to Coz …

  47. The Justine government’s credibility is poofed by Mohammed.
    …-
    “Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa ask for break in receiving refugees” (G-M)
    …-
    “Syrians return to Damascus homes after truce”
    “Hundreds of families displaced by fighting in a neighborhood on the edge of the Syrian capital are returning to their homes as part of a truce between the government and local rebels reached last year.
    Their return to the Qadam neighborhood is the latest in a series of ground-level local agreements to end fighting and ease suffering in the war-stricken country.”
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/syrians-return-to-damascus-homes-after-truce/

  48. I guess “smooth jazz” like THAT has “mass” appeal. In the same way that beige is a non-offensive, neutral, wall color. When I hear that stuff, it reminds me of the color “mauve” … a washed-out, “accessible”, shade of purple and magenta that is simultaneously; neither and nothing.

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