Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here is Valaida Snow performing Cole Porter’s classic My Heart Belongs To Daddy (1939, 2:54).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
My Heart Belongs To Daddy was written by Mr. Porter for the 1938 musical Leave It To Me where it was introduced by Mary Martin. The song contains one of Porter’s most obscure lyrics, one of several rhymes for “daddy”, in which the singer talks about her “fine finnan haddie”, which is a Scottish term for smoked haddock. Referring specifically to the melody, the famous performer and actor Oskar Levant, born in orthodox Jewish family, described it as “one of the most Yiddish tunes ever written”.
What’s driving me crazy these days is how the MSM is conducting phoney interviews based on facts they make up and then using these phoney facts to hang around the heads of Palin & McCain. Here’s an example: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/msm-winning-election-for-obama-one-lie.html
Yet … YET you then go onto YouTube and see mindless sheep after sheep reposting the same and commenting what a big dummie Palin is.
One has to ask: Is this technique of non-facts how Hitler got into power 75 years ago? At least back most of the press didn’t go along with the lies willingly. Very different today.
My only hope is that along with phoney journalism, there are also phoney polls.
it’s true !!! it’s true !!! there ARE aliens from space and they just landed in a farmer’s field in the foothills of Alberta.
from the monotone voice synthesizer came the request:
‘take me to your leader’
from the Alberta farmer came the quick retort:
‘well that sure as hell ain’t stephie dion’.
LOL !!!
Expect more chaos the closer the election date looms.
I’m probably off-topic. Is anyone else here sick and tired of hearing about the ” ask your doctor or health care professional reminder”, always after promoting some unnecessary propriatory drug/eleviation commercial?
Robert, as I said to my wife, the media has been and now is aggressivly inverting reality, why I can only surmize that the urnalism schools are all infiltrated with the likes of Jackoff Layton and Steffi Dion types, and the professors like Bill Ayers and Ward Churchills. I have told my children, better to be a prostitute than a journalist, just look at the likes of Greg Weston and Don Martin.
If the left gets to add up the votes of all the other parties and say that they voted to stop Harper, then I say, we get to take the people who abstained. next time one of your lefty friends tries that piece of fraudulent math on you, spring on them how anybody who did not vote approves of the incumbent government!
With Lehman Bros going down, does anybody know what happens to the multi-millions of Carbon Credits they were handling? This could turn out to be a double ripoff!
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“robert says… mindless sheep after sheep”
and, of course, the all-knowing msm chooses
to skip over stuff like this.
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Robert W.
Here’s the Battleground results, (Lou Dobbs Mentioned them on the caricature of Glenn Beck’s old show tonight), 2 way trend
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Good news: The “icons” are falling; the “stars” are burning out. The CBC is going down.
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“”This is a group of your most senior journalists telling you our news service is losing crucial gravitas.”
“CBC stars protest as ‘icons’ lose jobs”
http://tinyurl.com/57jay3 (citizen)
There’s a very interesting op-ed article today in the New York Times by, of all people, Margaret Atwood. It’s about the overall effect on our day-to-day social interactions of the unpaid debt load that’s built up over the past few years — since computers enabled a volume of debt our grandparents (and for some, our parents) would be unable to envision.
Atwood, surprisingly, points out how various religions, chiefly, Christianity, view unpaid debt as “sin”–and if not sin, then highly destabilizing of social interactions.
She’s absolutely correct in observing that “To heal [the wounds], we must repair the broken moral balance that let this chaos loose…[and]
if fair regulations are not established and rebuilding seems impossible, we could have social unrest on a scale we haven’t seen for years.”
She ends with “Is there any bright side to this? Perhaps we’ll have some breathing room — a chance to re-evaluate our goals and to take stock of our relationship to the living planet from which we derive all our nourishment, and without which debt finally won’t matter.”
My only quibble is that, after having acknowledged that it is religion (and more specifically Christianity), afterall, which seems to teach us about fairness in debtor-creditor relationships, Atwood refrains from naming God and our relationship with Him. The closest she can get to a relationship is one “to the living planet from which we derive all our nourishment.”
I’d go one step deeper, or more cosmic: The relationship which nurtures both us and our planet is that of our connection with the Creator of the Universe. Since we have downplayed THAT relationship, we’ve seen an exponential slide into greed and chaos.
Link for Atwood op-ed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/opinion/22atwood.html?th&emc=th
Kevin….relax dude! As pointed out by shamrock in previous posts, it would be suicide for the libranos to partner with the traitors(bloc) and vice versa.
And there are enough centre/right of centre libs who would never stand for a coalition of the idiotic.
No my friend, PMSH has clear sailing for a few years, so it is now time to jail a few adscamer’s and to continue the counter clockwise rotation of the spigot feeding the trough wallowing leftards. (so sad, another generation of potential trough wallowers not being allowed to realize their trough wallowing potential)
LMFAO at those idiot libranos!
VOTE REFORM!(it seems to be working!)
GO ARMY!
Clock wise/counter clock wise…..as long as he continues cutting…..
“To prevent a financial crisis from turning into an economic calamity, the European Union has pulled the emergency brake on green policies. At last week’s EU summit in Brussels, seven eastern and central European countries, together with Italy, threatened to veto the Union’s climate pact. The rebel governments claimed that the originally agreed goal of cutting the EU’s CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020 was too expensive; economic turmoil and rising unemployment meant that implementing the CO2 goal was no longer affordable.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=895009
But wait, didn’t Stephane Dion assure us during the last campaign that Europe’s approach was working?
Rick Richman, The Second Coming of Jimmy Carter
Barack Obama is taking America down a path modeled by Jimmy Carter, and threatens to be as bad a president as his trailblazer…
On November 3, 1976, the day after Jimmy Carter’s election, the New York Times ran a profile explaining his remarkable political victory — how a one-term governor from Georgia, with no significant record, began planning his presidential campaign in the second year of his one-and-only four-year term, and then went on to secure the nomination from more experienced rivals and defeat a sitting president…
Barbara Kay has a nice article in the National Post about the Quebec Mentality.
http://tinyurl.com/6zg4kd
It reveals their isolate self-absorbed perspective. And, I think, confirms what some of us have been saying – stop pandering to Quebec. Focus on other areas, such as Ontario and the West and the North!
Chapter and verse on Leftist denial, including pronouncements by our own Prince/ Count Michael Ignatieff:
Peter Wehner, Liberals and the Surge
And yet, no matter what most American believe or what reality tells us is so, leading liberal observers and politicians, long in the vanguard of opposition to the war, have denounced the surge at every point. Even as some, in the face of overwhelming evidence, have been forced to concede a modicum of American progress, they have done so reluctantly and have downplayed the role played by administration policy in achieving that progress. Others have denied that significant progress has been made at all…
I posted a couple of stories for the “Not Waiting for the Asteroid” series in the post on OSC’s “”So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?”
Jason Burke, Misreading the Taliban
It is true that the Taliban are unlikely to win much more territory, as they are nearing the limits of the land in the south and east of the country where Pashtun tribes, who make up between 40 and 50 per cent of the total population, are concentrated. (The Taliban are an almost exclusively Pashtun movement, although by no means all Pashtun are Taliban.) Militarily, they will find it impossible to capture a major city while foreign troops remain in the country. But as senior British soldiers and diplomats have recently made clear, the Taliban are also unlikely to be significantly “rolled back” in the near future. This marks a strategic change in Afghanistan. “Victory” as previously defined is now impossible…
(Via Israpundit) The Third Jihad-a new movie by the producers of Obsession
Chris – In Canada, you have to have that. You are prohibited by law from describing the effects a drug can induce. The Viagra commercials show this perfectly when they speak in gobbly-gook to get their point across about how fabulous their new boners are.
Even when the unelected bagmen are rejected by voters, they still get cheque writing privileges:
“MONTREAL — The mayor of Montreal and federal and provincial cabinet ministers will leave for London on Wednesday to plead the case to save the Canadian Grand Prix. Mayor Gerald Tremblay will be accompanied by federal International Trade Minister Michael Fortier and Quebec Economic Development Minister Raymond Bachand at Thursday’s meeting with Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone.
Bachand said Tuesday he has spent the last week looking at the economic benefits of the event.
“I’m starting to have a good feel for these numbers,” said Bachand. “We’ll be meeting Mr. Ecclestone on Thursday to see how much he wants this Grand Prix to be held. If the conditions are financially responsible, we’ll save this event. If they’re totally unreasonable, we’re in trouble.”
Fortier and Tremblay have also previously said they are willing to support the event but only if it guarantees economic benefits. The F1 chief says Montreal has not paid its debts to his organization for the last three years. Tremblay, Fortier and Bachand say the amounts for 2006 and 2007 have been addressed, while there is still a dispute over what is owed for 2008.
The Canadian GP, which draws an estimated $100 million per year in revenues and economic spinoffs to Montreal, was dropped from F1’s 2009 calendar on Oct. 7 and replaced by a race in Abu Dhabi.
The Turkish Grand Prix was also moved into Montreal’s June 5-7 dates.
Tremblay said recently there is a contractual difference of $10 million to $20 million between F1 and race promoter F1 Grand Prix du Canada.”
Nothing the Cons have done is any different from what the Libranos would do or could. The same story, whether Librano or Tory….
Liberal adventures with Dion are really funny, but the real question is whether Harper will keep cruising in the middle of nowhere (or is that Ontario?). If conservative government won’t take care of this nonsense, does it really matter who do we elect to dine and sleep in Ottawa?
Careful with that xiat. Con Jim Prentice presided over an 16% expansion of the Indian Industry and status quo during his tenure there. In failing to ensure all Canadians were treated equally in Caledonia, The Cons signalled that there will not be a change in how Indians are treated in this Country.
Nor will they approach Section 13 of the Human Rights Act: time and again, this Party has not borne out to be ‘conservative’ in anything but name.
Liberal, Tory, same old story…
FOXNews.com
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Plenty has been said about Sarah Palin’s appearance, from her designer glasses to her striking similarity to actress Tina Fey.
But lately her stylish look has come at a price — more than $150,000 of which was paid for by the Republican National Committee — according to a report Tuesday by Politico.
The Web site cited financial disclosure records that suggest the wardrobe makeover began in September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York totaling nearly $50,000.
The documents also show a $75,000 shopping trip at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis in September, as well as about $4,700 spent on hair and makeup, Politico reported. Documents don’t show similar costs in August.
John McCain announced Palin as his running mate on Aug. 29, just before the Republican National Convention, held Sept. 1 to 4 in St. Paul, Minn.
Enjoy.
Some commenters at the Globe are sooooo perplexed as to why the US Greenback is skyrocketing in strength against all other currencies.
Their perplexed condition came to be because they have been reading the newspapers. Forgive them. The Media has only talked of the ‘American’ problem (as in bashing).
The Media failed to mention that European bamks are in worse shape.
Average American bank leverage, about 20 to one. European, about 35 to one. Barclays about 60 to one! Hopeless.
If you do not read the newspapers, you will be uninformed. If you read them, you will be misinformed.
Could that be the reason why the left(latte left, that is) are such perennial losers ??
http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto092320081500162088&page=2
Warman wins another case and Kirk Makin writes:
“A lawyer for the federal government, Mr. Warman has mounted a one-man campaign to eradicate Internet hatred through the human-rights complaint process. He has pursued almost 20 complaints, and has yet to lose one. As a result, he is widely disliked among the ultra right.”
Leaving aside the fact that it is people in favour of free speech who widely dislike Warman, Makin admits that HRCs exist to persecute the right.
John Podhoretz, Polling for Dollars
One of the best pieces to be published in this campaign season has just popped up on the New Republic’s website by Michael Crowley: “Survey Says: How Many Pollsters Does It Take To Screw Up An Election?”
Crowley offers a pitch-perfect portrait of the way in which polling has overwhelmed this race and the political class in general; once an obsession solely of professionals, polling has become grist for the mills of dozens of websites and tens of millions of people, just at the moment at which polling itself has become statistically questionable at best owing to cultural changes that polling can’t properly take account of — like increased cell phone use, fewer people at home in the evenings and on weekends, more resistance to calls from strangers, and the difficulty in determining both the size and composition of the actual electorate…
Paul S. Wesson and Mark Anderson, The Gravity Probe B Bailout
In 1964, before the term “black hole” was even coined, NASA began funding a project that would test the outer limits of the theory behind black holes, Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Last May, with the project, called Gravity Probe B (GP-B), looking like a US $650-million flop, a NASA review board recommended that all funding be cut off by the end of September.
Now, in a dramatic turnaround, the Gravity Probe B team has secured non-NASA funding to press forward with data analysis of an experiment that has been bogged down by unexpected sources of noise. With the latest round of stopgap funds in place, the group holds out hope that it will either be able to verify or refute one of the most extreme predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity…
Liberal, Liberal, same old story…
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[Liberal] “Ontario facing $500-million deficit
The global financial crisis has left Ontario facing a deficit of $500-million and forced the province to dip into its rainy-day fund as it copes with a revenue shortfall and rising expenses.” (nnw)
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“CANOE — CNEWS – Politics: Don’t balance the books on our backs …
20 Oct 2008 … MONTREAL – As the federal government contemplates running a deficit with a global recession looming, Canada’s premiers and territorial …”
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And dexter is backing a junior senator with zero experience in executive management. A close friend of a terrorist who almost made good with killing thousands. A 20 year member of a racist, supremacist church. Involvement in a criminally fraudulent voter registration organization. An employer of racist thugs from the Nation of Islam. A pathological liar. A proponent of murdering children born alive after an unsuccessful abortion attempt. An admitted socialist, trained by communists. Etc.
Compared to that, dexter’s criticism of Sarah Palin, for the crime of buying clothes, is as pathetic as his own existence.
Who is dexter? Is that you Ted?
Ah Daisy, I see you copied and pasted over here. Well, I’ll oblige.
I don’t care who wins. I would prefer McCain winning, but I won’t be crying if Obama wins.
I just really don’t like Palin. She’s a complete poser, bereft of any virtues.
She’s been educated at colleges that have no entry requirements.
She is divisive as hell – “Pro-America parts of America” – a nice way of saying that being American requires being Republican. Yeah, that bodes well for democracy. Thou shalt not diverge from the party line. You know who else says that? Them commies. And you know who lap it up? The useful idiots.
She claims to be anti-elite – then, the moment she gets a chance, she tries to dress like them. How Latte left.
She appeals to small-town Joes – who account for a staggering 20% of the American population, but are glorified beyond belief.
She’s become the mouthpiece of the angry section of the Republicans. Barack “Hussein” Obama. That is a new low – playing on the fringes fear of muslims and arabs. The underlying message – Arabs and Muslims are not equal in the land of opportunity. This is what the founding fathers had in mind.
Her entire approach is straight out of the leftist revolutionary handbook. She represents the little guy against the out – of -touch elite. Sure she does. Thats why shes spending $3,000 dollars a day on her appearance. She would be right at home amongst the Latte left.
“Compared to that dexter’s criticism of Sarah Palin for the crime of buying clothes is as pathetic as his own existence.”
Did mommy not feed you today? You sound like you need some sugar. Low sugar levels often result in crankiness. Stop behaving like a petulant child. If mommy’s not home, learn how to pour yourself a glass of milk and make some toast or something. Poor thing. I do feel for you.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081022/business/cbusiness_us_markets_canada_stocks
up down up down up down in rapid succession and serious %ages.
ok, how many times does this have to happen before it is recognized for what it is: a repetition of the days weeks and months leading up to ’29?
“Sea ice area approaching the edge of normal standard deviation
22 10 2008
Watching arctic sea ice rebound this year has been exciting, more so since a few predictions and expeditions predicated on a record low sea ice this past summer failed miserably. I’ve spent a lot of time this month looking at the graph of sea ice extent from the IARC-JAXA website, which plots satellite derived sea-ice extent. However, there is another website that also plots the same satellite derived data, the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center of Bergen Norway, and they have an added bonus: a standard deviation shaded area. For those that don’t know what standard deviation is, here is a brief explanation from Wiki
…standard deviation remains the most common measure of statistical dispersion, measuring how widely spread the values in a data set are. If many data points are close to the mean, then the standard deviation is small; if many data points are far from the mean, then the standard deviation is large. If all data values are equal, then the standard deviation is zero.
In a nutshell, you could say that any data point that falls within the standard deviation area would be considered “within normal variances” for the data set. That said, current sea ice extent and area data endpoints (red line) are both approaching the edge of the standard deviation (gray shading) for both data sets. Here is sea ice area:”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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TO weather forecast:
Tonight Rain or snow
Temperature: 1’C
(canoe)
Great Leader/interim leader Watch: Now you see ’em; now you don’t.
Canada:
“EDITORIAL: Mr. Dion vanishes”
(winfreepress)
“South Korean President Says North’s Leader Still in Control – 9 hours ago”
(voanews)