If you’re of the inclination…I know, they’re only primaries, but still….
Convoy!
From Hot Air, this ballsy, in your face move.
“Our plan is to deliver much-needed humanitarian assistance to the Kurds of Turkey, who by the way outnumber Israelis and Palestinians combined,” he said.
(…)
Another sea-bound venture is being organized in an effort to draw attention to Turkey’s own controversial policies – this time to Cyprus, to “call for an end to the Turkish occupation” of the island’s northern half – and is being organized by Meretz activist Pinchas Har-Zahav, and his son Haim, who has also signed on for the voyage.
Heh.
Copyright, redux
Almost two years ago to the day, we talked about then Bill C-61. We had a wonderful conversation.
Last Wednesday, the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages introduced Bill C-32, An Act to amend the Copyright Act.
You may say, here we go again. However, after looking at many of my previous objections and comparing them to the First Reading of C-32, my hesitations are much mollified.
C-32 as compared to the previous C-61 is much stronger on the traditional concept of ‘fair-use’. It has significant penalties for pirates who are the real targets.
I’m actually quite happy with the Bill and whole-heartedly give it support. It only took three tries by two different governing parties to come up with a reasonable compromise, but there you go. The system (helped by an election and a prorogation) worked.
Oil Drenched Seal
The Obamas will attend the star-studded gala at Ford Theatre featuring singer Kelly Clarkson, comedian George Lopez, actor Dick Van Dyke and others. Ty Burrell of ABC’s “Modern Family” will host.
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs are to receive the Ford’s Theatre Lincoln Medal.
The event will be televised as America Celebrates July 4th at Ford’s Theatre on July 2 by ABC.
For sure Michelle will wear a “stunning” gala gown but this time the gown will stand out against a sickening background of muddy oil covered birds and beaches.
I hope Michelle has selected the worst possible dress for this inappropriate event. They should have canceled Sir Pall and this gala 2 weeks ago.
UPDATE – And the wait was rewarded: Michelle looks like a seal in a silver spandex wetsuit.
Of course, some will be all a-flutter.
Update: Nero Fiddles
Hazel
Backed By Ink
There are very few similarities to the Hungary of 1924/37/42 and Hungary/PIIGS/etc. of today. First and foremost there are no attractive looking, negotiable bearer bonds.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
‘I believe that if you rely on the print version of the New York Times, the first time you will learn about the Thomas controversy will be in tomorrow’s paper. Assuming they cover her resignation.”
Scratch The CBC
Find a lazy anti-Semite.
Y2Kyoto: Not Partisan Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Washington Times, March 5th – Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be “an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach” to gut the credibility of skeptics.
Anthony Watts, June 7th – Today my life and my office was disrupted by the unannounced and uninvited presence of a person who seems to be convinced that I’m in the employ of “big oil” (I’m not) and that my opinions and the opinions of others here is so wrong, that this person must take up a crusade against me.
Reader Tips
As a kid I always loved Rolf Harris; I remember listening to his performances on the radio when my parents thought I was asleep. I loved the sound of his Perth-accented voice, so lively and mischievous yet sincere. Tonight’s Reader Tips companion is Harris’ 1969 version of a song about unquestioning, unflagging loyalty to the bitter end. It may be too childish and sentimental for some people, but I’ll always like it. In a time of post-ironic, too-cool-for-school attitudes, it’s remains a pleasant, perhaps rosy-tinted, reminder of what seems in hindsight to have been a more straightforward, upright time.
Here’s Australian entertainer Rolf Harris, performing the touching 1902 song Two Little Boys.
The thread is open for Reader Tips.
Last year
The Tea Party raised the spectre of big government so effectively that America moved and that frightens incumbents.
There’s a solution for that problem this year, stop listening.
h/t Drudge
Sask Specialist Directory
Gov. Sask announced today that their Specialist Directory is available to the public.
So if you’re waiting, get on that phone to your GP and figure out how to get to the least busy Doc.
Huge natural gas pipeline explodes in Texas
“I take great pride in following the rules.”
Judy, Romanian Strippers, Sgro says that she wasn’t aware that expensing rent to her children landlords was against the rules.
But, we don’t need to look at MP’s lunch tabs, right, Iggy?
Democracy as cults of personality
Part of the overall problem, as well, Prof. Savoie said, is that political parties “have lost their soul” and politics has been taken over by professional politicians. He said there was once a time when the core values of political parties never changed, but now, all parties are the products of their leaders and not based on public policy ideas and values for which Canadians can vote for.
“They’ve been captured by the election day, the need to organize around elections. They’ve been captured by cronies and lobbyists and in the process they’ve lost their soul,” he said. “If you’ve lost your way, if you’ve lost your soul, you’ve lost what the party’s all about, then personalism takes over. The Liberal Party of today is Michael Ignatieff’s party, tomorrow it will be someone else’s party. The Conservative party today is Stephen Harper’s party. In a few years it will be someone else’s party and the core values will not matter all that much.”
Helen Thomas retires
The Love Boat
Debbie Schlussel:
A giant fact about the HAMAS Gaza Flotilla continues to be kept quiet by the mainstream media: Adam Shapiro and Huwaida Arraf – the leaders of the “Free Gaza Movment” and the organizers of the HAMAS Gaza flotilla – and their organization harbored several Islamic terrorists and homicide bombers, including those who blew up a Tel Aviv Bar.
To the ilk who hide their motivations, with the complicity of the news media, behind terms like “peace activist,” such “giant facts” aren’t even motes, they’re utter irrelevancies; to Israel’s most committed opponents, acts of targeted murder like the one at Mike’s Bar in Tel Aviv, where three Israelis were killed and fifty injured, are effectively humanitarian aid bombings.
They don’t use those exact words, of course – at least, the pink ones who aren’t from the region don’t – but you can be sure that in thirty or forty years, western countries will see a senility-induced outbreak of Helen Thomas-style honesty. It will be a relief of sorts.
(h/t SDA commenter The Joel)
Beauty
A Tea Party member and former Marine steps forward:
Reader Tips
Welcome to SDA Reader Tips. Tonight’s musical accompaniment comes in the form of a song by the late Judee Sill, a remarkably talented but largely unheralded musician whose beautiful voice and spiritual, baroque pop songs are so beautiful, gentle and clear-headed as to be hard to reconcile with her dark and troubled life.
Tim Page, in the Washington Post:
Tom King’s “The Operator,” a 650-page biography of David Geffen, who founded Asylum and signed Sill as the first artist to record on his new label, devotes only one sentence to her, calling her “a former prostitute and reformed junkie.” King might have added “stick-up artist,” “drug dealer” and “street hustler” to his capsule biography, for Sill led a troubled and unsettled life. And yet…she was also an artist of extraordinary gifts, one whose best songs are suffused with a radiant, prayerful and excruciatingly tender innocence, all the more affecting because it must have been so hard-won.
The immediate temptation is to classify her with some of her more famous contemporaries — Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro and Carole King — and, indeed, the similarities are there. Yet Sill’s body of work is both more limited and more perfect. Virtually all of her songs are intensely devotional; along with J.S. Bach and Mahalia Jackson (two of her acknowledged influences), Sill believed that the purpose of music was the glorification of God. Instead of sharply etched social vignettes or cosmopolitan evocations of modern life and love, she wrote her own sort of hymns — guileless, urgent, naked, absolutely personal.
Here, for your Sunday evening pleasure, is the late Judee Sill’s 1971 release Jesus Was a Cross Maker.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips. Please read on for an important note:
Robbing Peter
to pay Paul hurts Paul too.
h/t Instapundit