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  3. Absolutely great selection Vitruvius. The Mills Brothers are my favorite group. Their last great hit parade hit was this one: Cab Driver made in 1968. Note the superb guitarist accompanying.

  4. Agreed on that Cab Driver tune, Gunney99, though I will say that in my opinion the best available Mills Brother’s work in the Interwebliothèque, at least in terms of highlighting their special skills, is their 1932 version of I ain’t got Nobody, which we previously featured at SDA LNR (before is was SDA LNR) here.

  6. Mao Stlong reporting:
    “China: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting”
    “China bans child singer with crooked teeth from singing at opening ceremony”
    “China: Stocks slide to lowest in 19 months (-5.21%: massive unloading of Olympic-related stocks)”
    “Three security staff murdered in China’s Xinjiang: Xinhua (a new attack on Aug. 12)”
    “China faked footprints of fire coverage in Olympics opening ceremony(it was computer graphic)”
    “China: Beijing ratchets up security following violent attacks (more armed soldiers and APC’s)”
    (free republic)

  7. Who could be trumping/ramping up hype about Harper’s absence from Beijing and what’s to be gained either way?
    We hear it’s not about politics from the same sources who continue talking about it.
    Could it be Uncle Mo out to help his “nephew”, Bob Rae and company….Power Corps et al?

  8. In the “Your Taxdollars at Work” department, I was reading some comments on an article in the mop & pail, and followed a link from ‘A Canadian in Cole Harbour’. It was a listing of grants handed out by the good old Canada Council of Farts.
    http://tinyurl.com/3lg4o
    After looking over the 6000+ grants I noted several things such as:
    -All the roads in Saskatchewan should be paved by now because Saskatoon’s Paved Art + New Media went to the trough 7 times in 2006,
    -The Ontario Human Rights Commission got money under some catagory dealing with UNESCO,
    – The CBC, Governor General’s and other grants actually come out of the CCA’s purse,
    – there were 46 organizations that got $30,000 each for “Capacity Building Program for Culturally Diverse Organizations”,
    – a heck of a lot of the grants don’t even stay in Canada, UK, USA, Serbia, Syria, Belgium,India, Rwanda, Germany and Dennmark to name a few places your taxdollars went to,
    -there are continuing grants for established professionals like Maude Barlow and the like,
    -18 Long term Grant Assistance to visual Artists @ $40,000 each, and,
    – a whole string of foreign publishers for International Translation Grants.
    Funny though, I did not see Delise or Katewerk Inc in the list.
    I’m seriously thinking of changing jobs and fill in CCA Grant applications full time and mail them from a postal box in Trinity-Spadina area of Toronto.

  9. Yes,Liz J,Harper is being criticized moreso daily. If you want to hav a little fun with the lefties,try to first get them to admit that Bush being over there is just a waste of time,and then ask them why Harper should be there.

  10. “The Conservatives focus much of their election message on the less affluent middle-class, and like to portray themselves as favouring NASCAR and curling over cocktails and galleries.”(g-m)
    “Mr. Dyer”? “democracy”?
    *”Mr. Dyer travelled to Cuba in 2007 to speak about democracy.”
    …-
    “Cuba ‘jailing fewer dissidents'”
    “It says that any change in the human rights situation remains “unlikely”.”
    “The Cuban authorities deny that there are any political prisoners. Instead, they are referred to as mercenaries, paid by the United States to undermine the revolution.
    Since Raul Castro took over this one party state from his ailing brother Fidel, Cuba has signed the UN Human Rights Conventions.
    President Castro has also lifted restrictions on owning mobile phones and computers as well some economic reforms. But political change to this one party state is not on the agenda.”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7555814.stm
    …-
    “‘Left-wing’ writer [“Mr. Dyer”] denies applying for travel grant”
    “But he [Picard] also said PromArt was not without its flaws. The performing arts division was unbalanced, with grants going predominantly to Quebec,”
    http://tinyurl.com/5d36pz (g-m)

  11. Also,while I am talking Olympics. The 57 countries that are members of the Organization of Islamic Countries has a grand total of 3 medals,one of each. 57 countries,representing a very large portion of the 1.3 billion muslims of the world may end up with less medals than little Denmark and the Netherlands combined…So what exactly do these religious freaks excel at,besides praying and killing? It is not sports,music,literature,architecture,medicine,science,etc.,etc.?

  12. “Mr. Thibault said he often makes tea [hot water?] for his wife.”
    Robert Thibault said, Marjory LeBreton is an “idiot”.
    “Mr. Thibault said Monday he was about to begin a two-week vacation and he hoped not to think about Ms. LeBreton for some time.”
    …-
    MSM Headline:
    *”Thibault in hot water again
    MP tells senator to go back to making tea for Brian Mulroney”
    Rewrite headline:
    Male Liberal MP Robert Thibault says female Conservative Senator Marjory LeBreton is an “idiot”.
    *http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1072700.html

  13. Iranian swimmer refuses to race in a heat that includes an Israeli swimmer, IOC claims he was sick.

  14. There is a theme song the Liberals could use in the form of a question, it wouldn’t even skip a beat….
    How do you solve a problem like the Garther to the tune of “How do you solve a problem like Maria”? With permission from Mary Poppins herself of course.
    They haven’t much to sing about though, they’re self destructing, one bonehead at a time.
    Still think someone in the media should be talking about the disgraceful performance of Szabo in the Committee chair and the entire Opposition in the current Kangaroo court over the so-called “In and Out”. It’s beyond the pale.

  15. John C. Wohlstetter, Russia vs. Georgia: Four painful lessons
    Ethnic separatism once again has further destabilized world geopolitics, with the outbreak of military conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia & Abkhazia…
    Four lessons come immediately to mind: (1) the risk minor powers pose to major-power relations; (2) the risk of excessive compartmentalization in policy; (3) the risk from grossly misplaced strategic focus; (4) the risk of making a fetish of democracy promotion–especially in the form of multi-ethnic states.

  16. Of all people (which is why I like her), Margarte Wente of the Globe and Mail really gets it: that the MSM are hypocrites and dissemblers of the worst kind. BRAVA!
    Here’s her column for today. Start Quote:
    What’s the ickiest part of the John Edwards scandal?
    Is it when he explained that his wife’s breast cancer was in remission when he took up with Rielle?
    Is it the e-mail in which she reveals that her nickname for him was “love lips”?
    Is it the campaign video (shot by Rielle) in which Mr. Edwards, dressed in tight jeans, says he doesn’t want to be seen as “some plastic Ken doll,” then leers, “I actually want the country to see who I am – who I truly am”?
    Is it Rielle’s wacko hairdo?
    Is it Elizabeth Edwards’s yech-inducing blog, in which she blamed her husband’s troubles on “a string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication”?
    Or is it that we never would have learned a word about any of this without the National Enquirer?
    John Edwards always did strike me as too cute to be trusted. If only he hadn’t milked the family-values cow for every last sentimental drop. If only he hadn’t been quite so conspicuously loyal to his brave, ill wife. If only they hadn’t rededicated their marriage, with vows he wrote himself. Of course, that was eons after he broke off his affair with the wacky New-Age party girl. Or maybe not so many eons. He’d be thrilled to take a paternity test. But guess what! She doesn’t want one.
    Scandal has turned Mr. Edwards into a pathetic has-been. It’s had much the same effect on the news bosses at the mainstream media, who used to be the gatekeepers for all things fit to print. When the Enquirer broke the story months ago – while Mr. Edwards was still in the race – they treated it like poison ivy. “Classically not a Times-like story,” sniffed Craig Whitney, the standards editor of The New York Times. This was the same paper, you may recall, that recently ran an innuendo-laden story on John McCain and his friendship with an attractive lobbyist a decade or so ago. No wonder critics accuse the MSM of double standards – one for Democrats, and another for Republicans.
    But the problem’s worse than that. Now that the barbarians have stormed the gates and sacked the citadel, the MSM have no idea what to do. Sending out their best reporters to match a story broken by the gutter press simply isn’t in their DNA. You’d have more success training a Rosedale matron to go dumpster-diving. And that is why anyone who can find the Drudge Report knew for weeks what the mainstream papers were too delicate to report: that Mr. Edwards had been caught skulking around the Beverly Hilton in the middle of the night, where the woman with whom he had publicly denied having an affair happened to be staying. With her baby. Of whom he is absolutely not the father.
    The jig was up when ABC News finally nailed the story for itself, then invited Mr. Edwards on the air. At that point the MSM cringed and ran it, along with heaps of self-justifying excuses. “Never in recent journalistic history have so many tough reporters so closely resembled sheep,” wrote Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten, whose own paper was a leading offender.
    In fact, the barbarians have been at the gates ever since the O. J. Simpson trial, which turned out to be a cultural and racial event of immense significance. The MSM couldn’t bear to dumpster-dive into the lurid details, even as an insatiable public gobbled them up. That was when they began to lose their grip on deciding what is news. With the explosion of the blogosphere, their power is gone for good.
    Mr. Edwards is no O. J. He’ll be a trivia question soon – just another in a long line of ambitious politicians undone by their libidos. “I think every single candidate for president, Republican and Democratic, have lives, personal lives, that indicate something about what kind of human being they are,” he said last year on 60 Minutes. Well, now we know – thanks to the gutter press no one can any longer afford to ignore.
    End Quote.

  17. American Enterprise Institute, The War in the Caucasus: An Initial Assessment
    9:00-10:30 A.M. (Eastern), Wednesday, 13 August 2008
    Panelists:
    Leon Aron, AEI
    Frederick W. Kagan, AEI
    Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, U.S. Army (Retired)
    Moderator:
    Thomas Donnelly, AEI
    AEI usually posts audio and video from these events, so you might want to keep a weather eye on the site.

  19. Caroline Glick, Turkey’s abandonment of the West
    On Wednesday, Iran’s genocidal, nuclear weapons-seeking leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will arrive in Istanbul for a “working visit” with Turkish leaders. This visit represents a diplomatic triumph for Teheran. Since assuming office three years ago, Ahmadinejad has feverishly pursued diplomatic ties with Western-allied states in an effort to weaken the West’s will to take action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Turkey is the first NATO member to welcome him to its territory…
    TURKEY’S WARM ties with Iran are matched by its embrace of Iranian satellites and proxies like Syria and Hizbullah…

  20. Ronald Bailey, Star Trek Warp Drive Possible?
    Two physicists at Baylor University are proposing that string theory suggests that faster-than-light travel using something the Enterprise’s warp drive may be possible…
    One problem:

    The Baylor physicists estimate that the amount of energy needed to influence the extra dimension is equivalent to the entire mass of Jupiter being converted into pure energy for a ship measuring roughly 10 meters by 10 meters by 10 meters.

  21. “In solidarity with Tim McLean” is an okay editorial from the NP; however, one passage made me spit out my coffee.
    “As steadfast proponents of free speech, we were reluctant to call for the Westboro Baptists to be banned from Canada or barred from the street in front of the funeral.”
    What Bizarro world is this editorialist living on?

  22. “Closing down Insite will bring out the angel of death
    At the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto, many people were puzzled by federal Health Minister Tony Clement’s refusal to make any public comment about the future of Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection site” (nnw)
    …-
    “Sightings of rats rise in Vancouver
    The Province – 9 hours ago
    But the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority insists there’s no reason to be overly concerned — as long as you avoid contact with them and destroy any food they may have gotten into.
    Easy livin’ for city rats 24 Hours Vancouver”
    (goonews)
    …-
    “He tells the concierge M. Michel about the rat, but the concierge refuses to … The Plague, by Albert Camus,” (bookrags)

  23. Amazing headline from MSM/CanPress!
    Look! It’s a first!
    They used the words “Liberal MP” in the headline.
    Must be an error; let’s rewrite headline:
    Grit male MP Robert Thibault apologizes twice; once for his mysogyny and once for his gerontophobia
    …-
    “Liberal MP apologizes for sexist taunt days after apology for ageist remark
    By THE CANADIAN PRESS
    OTTAWA – A Liberal MP has apologized for the second time in five days for taking over-the-top partisan shots at Conservative opponents.
    Robert Thibault says he didn’t mean anything sexist when he called Marjory LeBreton, the government leader in the Senate, an “idiot” and suggested she should “go back to making tea” for former prime minister Brian Mulroney.”

  24. What Bizarro world is this editorialist living on? Posted by: Johann at August 12, 2008 11:07 AM
    One where freedom means exactly that: freedom.
    Barring breaking the law (with its’ malleable interpretations), freedom of speech and movement is a basic construct of a free nation.
    That said, the presence of said Westbourough whackjobs, nutballs, and fruitpuffs would likely constitute a threat to public safety, as reasonable people would react unfavorably to their presence. And thus, a buffer zone could rationally be discussed.
    But again, even though this group exhibits paranoia – even a mild psychosis – offensiveness is not something the state should be prosecuting. Despite what fascists and leftist ghouls like Kinsella and their ilk would do if they were ‘kings’. Must really froth their lattes that people just don’t do and think as they’re told.

  26. Good post hardboiled. Agreed. At most the state should take measures to ensure the nutters are surrounded by some kind of security cordon.
    I’m out of the loop on this one. What’s the deal with this Baptist group? What’s their objective? I gather they are homo-haters. Was the Greyhound victim gay?

  27. Mao Stlong’s Red Orympics is a *Potemkin (fake)village.
    MSM agrees.
    Mao say, “we wanted to project the right image,”.
    …-
    “A TRIBUTE TO FAKERY
    Olympic opening featured lip sync, digitized fireworks
    Aileen McCabe, at the Beijing Games , Canwest News Service”
    “a largely unrepentant Chen Qigang, the music designer for the ceremonies, blithely told Radio Beijing: “The reason why little Yang was not chosen to appear was because we wanted to project the right image, we were thinking about what was best for the nation.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6fqmcl
    …-
    *Potemkin village: “A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century.”
    (dict.com)

  28. The 57 countries that are members of the Organization of Islamic Countries has a grand total of 3 medals,one of each.
    somewhat off topic but…
    every time I see this “57 Islamic countries” mentioned I wonder if there is a connection between this fact and the fact Obama made a mistake and said the USA had 57 states?…

  30. Scotsman-MSM-scientist says a shark “ate a carcase”. That’s some global warming; sharks eating carcases.
    Put that in yer GW-Funk&Wagnalls.
    “Jeffrey Gallant, the co-director of a Canadian-based shark research group, said:” “He did not think attacks from sharks were a new threat to polar bears, on top of the loss of habitat caused by climate change.”
    Gallant was “left left Open-mouthed”.
    …-
    “Scientists left Open-mouthed after shark eats polar bear
    The Scotsman
    SCIENTISTS have been stunned by the discovery of a shark that had eaten a polar bear. Part of the jaw of a young polar bear was found in the stomach of a Greenland shark in Svalbard, northern Norway.
    Kit Kovacs, of the Norwegian Polar Institute, said: “We’ve never heard of this before.
    “We don’t know how it got there. We can’t say whether or not the shark took a swimming young bear or ate a carcase.”
    http://tinyurl.com/626z6x

  31. I disagree with hardboiled. I don’t think that disrupting a funeral is an example of freedom of speech. It’s disrupting a funeral. The fact that speech accompanies the disruption is not relevant.
    Section 176-2 of the Criminal Code states “Every one who wilfully disturbs or interrupts an assemblage of persons met for religious worship or for a moral, social or benevolent purpose is guilty of an offence”
    The Baptist group, to my knowledge, were coming to disrupt the funeral. Nothing to do with Tim McLean in his own nature (and there’s no evidence that he was gay or not gay) but merely because that’s what they do – disrupt funerals. The fact that McLean was murdered is, in their view, evidence that he was evil.
    Now, if you want to debate the theory that ‘being murdered’ is evidence of ‘your evilness’ – that can be a topic of free speech. But disrupting a funeral because you’ve already concluded such an axiom is not an expression of free speech. It’s just disrupting a funeral.

  32. Did somebody say bullistic?
    Here’s a twofer article from MSM: 1. Global warming is racist. 2. Profanity* from a liberal-Democratic spewed at a black pastor.
    …-
    “California state senator’s profanity stuns pastor at hearing
    The Rev. Robert Jones went to the Capitol last Wednesday hoping to make his voice heard.
    What he got instead was a swear-word laden rebuke from Democratic Sen. Pat Wiggins, who interrupted Jones’ testimony to say: “Excuse me, but I think your arguments are bull—-.”
    The exchange left Jones, the senior pastor at Oak Park United Methodist Church, stunned and offended. “It is a slap in the face,” he said in an interview.
    The outburst occurred as Jones, 46, testified at an informational hearing on how California will cut global warming emissions. Jones, who is African American, said he went to urge lawmakers to consider minority communities when drafting those regulations.
    “Our communities are the ones who suffer more than any other communities – the poor and the underrepresented …,” Jones said. “It is important to have our perspective.”
    But after less than two minutes of speaking – and before he could finish – Wiggins blurted out her comment.
    A stunned Jones turned to Wiggins and could muster only a “well …” before Sen. Christine Kehoe, a San Diego Democrat and the chairwoman of the hearing, interjected.
    “Let me step in here, Pastor Jones, we very much appreciate your presence here today, and you’re right. The community should be part of the discussion and it is,” Kehoe said.
    In an interview, Jones called Wiggins’ comments “extremely disturbing” and said he had not yet been contacted by the senator, or her staff, to apologize.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060683/posts
    …-
    Yes, somebody said “bull—-“. A liberal-Democrat said “bull—-“. Is that worser than calling a woman an “idiot”?
    *”SHEFFIELD: Profanity greater on liberal blogs”
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/07/profanity-greater-on-liberal-blogs/

  33. Daniel Pipes, The West’s Islamist Infiltrators
    Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is a Pakistani mother of three, an alumna of MIT, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University. She is also accused of working for Al-Qaeda and was charged last week in New York City with attempting to kill American soldiers.
    Her arrest serves to remind how invisibly most Islamist infiltration proceeds. In particular, an estimated forty Al-Qaeda sympathizers or operatives have sought to penetrate U.S. intelligence agencies…

  34. Georgia, Kosovo, “moderate Islam”, supra-ethnic states — all that and Topo Gigio:
    Spengler, Putin for US president — more than ever
    If Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were president of the United States, would Iran try to build a nuclear bomb? Would Pakistan provide covert aid to al-Qaeda? Would Hugo Chavez train terrorists in Venezuela? Would leftover nationalities with delusions of grandeur provoke the great powers? Just ask Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili, who now wishes he never tried to put his 4 million countrymen into strategic play.
    In January I urged Americans to draft the Russian leader to succeed George W Bush (Putin for president of the United States, January 8, 2008). Putin’s swift and decisive action in Georgia reflects precisely the sort of decisiveness that America requires…

  35. Ok here is the question for the day
    Today Oil dipped to a low of $112 on trading today, Anyone remember what gas was selling for when it was at 110 a barrel Months & Months ago. See where iam going with this is the price at the pumps coming down with the prices of a barrel like how they rose with the increases.

  36. “Spanish Hoopsters in Hot Water Over Olympics Ad (Chinese Eyes)(sic)
    Spain might have high hopes of bringing the Olympic flame back to the Iberian peninsula in 2016, but the country that played host to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 is sporting a public relations black eye today.
    The Spanish Basketball Federation took out a full-page ad in the country’s largest sports newspaper, Marca, wishing the men’s and women’s teams good luck in the Beijing games. The photo accompanying the ad, however — showing all team members making a slant-eyed gesture — raised eyebrows and sparked international outrage.
    The heavily favored Spanish team, the reigning world champions, took the court Tuesday against China, and was greeted with typical Chinese polite applause — mixed with a rare sprinkle of boos. Spain went on to win in overtime, 85-75.
    The Guardian newspaper reported that no one from the federation felt the ad was inappropriate, and that no offense was intended.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060742/posts
    (Mao Stlong say, pictule incruded lude.)

  37. It’s just disrupting a funeral. Posted by: ET at August 12, 2008 4:09 PM
    I’m with you on that ET. You have quoted the law – and it’s there for a reason. Hence the idea of setting up an area (doesn’t have to be in the same province) where these bozos can hold up signs, yet not have any visible or audible impact on the reverence or solemnity of the family’s grief.
    It’s just the idea of ‘banning’ things that don’t hold water to me. Although, I honestly think a few butterfly nets should be sent after that bunch.
    Let ridicule & scorn be the passage for the twisted & small souls as these Westbourough bunch are. A useful lesson to be taught to society, our children, and our communities that taken beyond rational thought, most concepts can become poisonous. Banning discussion or the bright light of day on people like these only serves ignorance.
    Which, is the biggest irony of all. Especially for moral relativist gerbils – like Warren Kinsella.

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