The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
In what is being described as an unprecedented radio contract, Limbaugh will keep his syndicated show on-the-air and e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e through 2016 with CLEAR CHANNEL and PREMIERE RADIO.
Already host of the most lucrative hours since radio’s inception, Limbaugh’s total package is valued north of $400 million, according to media insiders.

Gord Tulk – “Does that give him enough to buy the NYT?”
Heh.

So the CPC tabled Bill
C-61 for First Reading in Parliament. Boy, it sure looks
similar to Sam Bulte’s Bill from 2006.

I wrote to my MP, Carol Skelton
in January,
2007. She replied and forwarded my note to Bernier. I
never heard a word from that satyr. I doubt I’ll hear
from his replacement.

I use Linux. Due to the nature of Linux, licensing
the Content
Scrambling System to play DVD’s is a non-starter. In order
to enjoy my bought and paid for DVD’s on Linux I must use
the DeCSS
libraries. This Bill makes my fair use illegal. Once again,
a gov’t is creating criminals.

I will be breaking this proposed law every time I play a DVD
because, my application uses an un-licenced, independent
library to unscramble the CSS used to encrypt the DVD.

I have no problem punishing thieves who distribute music in
contravention of fair use. I vociferously deny that I am a
criminal for playing a DVD on my free operating system.

I don’t have any fear of not being able to watch my DVD’s,
HD’s or Blue-Ray discs. The latter two have already
been cracked
and it won’t be long before someone releases it into the
wild.

What I do want to know though, is why are the “liberty
loving” CPC emulating the “Gun Law” and making us regular
Joe’s criminals? From this end, it looks like it is because they
were wined and dined by the Motion Picture Association,
Recording Industry Association and their Canadian cohorts.

Go read Micheal
Geist and see just what this Canadian DMCA makes illegal.

Soon after he arrives into the office on Monday morning, he
is contacted by a researcher located in the field who asks
him to track down an article and to email an electronic copy
as soon as possible. Jim finds the article, scans and sends
it via email. After work, he drops into the local HMV and
purchases a DVD copy of the movie Juno. At home, he
transfers a copy of the movie to his video iPod for viewing
on an upcoming business trip.

If the Canadian DMCA becomes law, all of Jim’s copying
activities arguably violate the law.

Jim’s in for a bad life if Microsoft or Disney decide to get
nasty.

Given the lack of any concrete action regarding Section 13,
given C-61’s draconian anti-liberty statutes I will most likely be
withholding, declining, or voiding my vote come the election. I’m
really not interested in the CPC anymore. They have proven
themselves to be nothing but the same as those they replaced.

In fact, I’d rather pay a carbon tax than abdicate any more of
the liberties that I currently have.

Cheers,
lance

Snerdley came in today after seeing Jeremiah Wright. He said, “You realize she’s going to get the nomination, you realize this, don’t you?” And I said, “That’s not in stone yet.” “She is going to get the nomination, and you are going to get the blame because of Operation Chaos.” And I’ve had some other friends say it, because people want the Clinton dragon slain. They just want it out of there. Operation Chaos has many, many battle plans; many, many options. We have foreseen all potentialities, if I may use that word. We have a battle plan if Hillary gets the nomination. We have a battle plan if Obama succeeds and pulls this off.

More…“It seems the website of Barbara Reynolds (the Clinton supporter who arranged Wright’s torpedoing of Obama) has been emptied of all content? What kind of site shuts down when it gets its national attention? Clearly one with something to hide.”
Update – Rush calls an operational pause…

In the opening weeks of the provincial election, I expressed my underwhelm with the SaskParty campaign in this way;

And perhaps the most important question of all – will the Saskatchewan Party leave the security of pre-election poll results showing their party with a wide lead to campaign like a government in waiting? Is SaskParty leader Brad Wall going to step up his “football dad” image and act like a premier?
Will he lead the wave or just hope to ride the “change for change’s sake” trend to victory? At the moment, there is a sense of the latter. He may passively ride the trend. The SaskParty platform, while well thought out and publicly detailed, is decidedly tepid. The campaign style seems haunted by the fear of misstep. They’ve forgotten that battles aren’t won by keeping one’s head low.

It was advice not taken.
I’m slow to anger. This does not mean I lack a quick temper, but there’s a difference between leaving a bruise and leaving a body. Genuine anger requires time, reflection, and something heavy that balances well in your hand.
It all started with a call from the CBC’s Jeff Leo, who broke the news. Sometime between March 28th and April 1st, the United Nations had issued the Universal Declaration On The Rights of Crack Whores – and I didn’t get the memo.
Unfortunately, my Premier did.
And they had caught him off guard, in a position of strength. So I was not surprised that he distanced himself, to heal the rift I’d created between the SaskParty and a deeply hurt intravenous drug user community. When a man will throw “being a good dad” under the wheels of an NDP opposition he’s just annhilated at the polls, what possible chance does a Bingophobe have?
So today, the intended shoe dropped. Because when a man will throw a Bingophobe under the bus, what possible chance does a Conservative MP saying “faggot” on video have?
Or that was their hope.
For that was the plan all along. Few reacted to my Station 20 West commentary because within its “harsh” nature, it spoke the truth. It went virtually unnoted until NDP MLA Cam Broten issued the Saskatchewan New Democrat’s unilateral redefinition of “Identifiable Group”.
Had he kept his wits about him and remembered Who. He. Is. and more importantly, who they are, there would have been no successful set-up, no “distancing” Premier Wall on fresh tape declaring intolerance zero-tolerance.
But this too, shall pass. The fashion sense jokes are already emerging.
I hope he’s learned a lesson. I hope he’s learned that pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends. I hope he’s learned that whoever is advising him on his public image needs to be kicked to the curb.
But most of all, I hope he’s learned to stop offering his throat.
One last thing. Speculation abounds in certain quarters about my “motivation” for supporting the SaskParty. Specifically, what benefits might have been coming my way.
Given events of this week, and given my anger, it’s time to put certain facts on the record. Get your pads and pencils ready my friends, because here’s the dirt you’ve been waiting for.
In exchange for my support of the SaskParty in my capacity as a blogger, I have received precisely … nothing.
Nothing was asked for, nothing was offered. No government contracts, no consulting gigs, no private business tilted my way. No invitations to social events, no advertising contracts, no party positions.
Not so much as a free case of beer, left anonymously on my doorstep.
So there you have it. My support for Brad Wall and the SaskParty has been, all along, exactly as represented – the exclusive domain of one private citizen acting voluntarily, without compensation or expectation of reward.
Which means the only “lines” here at SDA remain those drawn by me, and the rule of law.
So, Premier Wall – I ask that in the future you not trespass on my property.
You do not draw the lines here.
You’re not my referee.
And I answer to no one.
(Mr. Broten – I’ll be dealing with you in due course.)

William F. Buckley

We in the VRWC can finally let you in on the joke*.
Bush was “Rove’s brain”.

To be known as the team of “Unfair & Unbalanced”…

Newsweek has announced who will be its 2008 conservative to balance out the hiring of Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas.

h/t

Is at it again…
But then, that’s what they’d want me to say.

Canada’s futile attempts to bring some sense to UN Human Rights Council gets appreciated in this article in the Jerusalem Post.
I think we’d be better off just shutting down the embarassment that is the UN Human Rights Council, but if we’re going to participate it’s good to see Canada attempting to limit its stupidity.

Feminist head explosions on the port side…

“I want to launch a call to all those in the world who believe in the values of tolerance, of liberty, of democacy and of humanism, to all those who are persecuted by the tyrannies and by the dictators, to all the children and to all the martyrized women in the world to say to them that the pride, the duty of France will at their sides, that they can count on her.”
“France will be at the sides of the Libyan nurses locked up for eight years; France will not abandon Ingrid Betancourt; France will not abandon the women who are condemned to the burqa; France will not abandon the women who do not have liberty. France will be by the side of the oppressed of the world. This is the message of France; this is the identity of France; this is the history of France.”

For a fiscal conservative there was a lot not to like in the budget. But whatever else one may say about the budget, one cannot say it was bad politics. Micro-targeted incentives certainly are capable of swinging some votes:

It’s the first time Ipsos-Reid reported the Conservatives, who scored a minority victory 14 months ago, could win a majority.
Grit support plunged to 29% from 34% in a survey conducted a week earlier.
Moreover, the poll indicates the Conservatives have opened up a 10-point lead (43% to 33%) over the Liberals in Ontario…

Tristan at Shelley The Republican has uncovered my secret – and with that, laid bare my European socialist tendencies and pro-terrorist sympathies.

click to enlarge, “luser”…
That’s right. Everything you see on SDA is created on a operating system I didn’t pay for, with free software developed by anonymous hackers. There are no anti-virus programs on my computer. None at all.
Bill Gates has never seen a penny from me.
If that doesn’t creep out you capitalist pigs, nothing will.

When a plan comes together.