| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Steely Dan performing Do It Again, from their Can’t Buy a Thrill album, in 1972 (5:59). Steely Dan fans might also like to revisit Reelin’ In The Years, Babylon Sister, and Kid Charlemange at our October 10, 2009 Late Nite Radio show. |
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It’s your Earth Hour Warm Up. My score: 15.7 planet Earths. Top that.
That said, don’t allow me influence you.
When I was in Israel, I couldn’t help but notice that the only thing standing between the lush crops of the Kibbutzim and the spotty vegetation and goat sheds of the Arab Palestinians was a highway.
Culture matters.
… has an investigative technique offered this much promise.
Researchers believe technology could be used to determine a computer typist’s age, sex and culture within 10 keystrokes by monitoring their speed and rhythm. […] Mr Butler, who heads Newcastle University’s Cybercrime and Computer Security department, said: ”Roy’s research has the potential to be a fantastic tool to aid intelligence gathering for crime fighting agencies, in particular serious and organised crime and for those tracking down paedophiles.
I expect this will require much more funding.
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As regular readers have no doubt noticed, the server interruptions here have become a significant issue, particularly during the mid-morning hours.
Good news, though – this evening SDA is being migrated to a new, more robust server. Let’s hope this solves the problem.
Thanks so much for your patience with this.
In fact, I suspect this one could go deeply, tragically wrong…
A South Korean naval vessel with more than 100 aboard was sinking on Friday in waters near North Korea and Seoul was investigating whether it was hit in a torpedo attack by the North, South Korean media said.
Broadcaster SBS said many South Korean sailors on the stricken vessel were feared dead.
South Korea’s YTN TV network said the government was investigating whether the sinking was due to a torpedo attack by the North, and Yonhap news agency said the Seoul government had convened an emergency meeting of security-related ministers.
Yonhap also reported a South Korean navy ship firing toward an unidentified vessel to the north.
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“Ms Coulter, allow me to introduce Terry Grant. Mr. Grant chases down hippies on horseback for a living.”
Ha! Juxtapose! (h/t Ed Minchau)
Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman, whose financial troubles have been well-documented, has accepted an offer from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: $5,000 and a month’s supply of vegan hot dogs and hamburger patties for her family of 15 in exchange for allowing the animal-rights group to place an ad on her lawn.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. William Shatner performing Rocket Man ¤ at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards show (5:16).
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So, it must be good!
The Public Service Alliance of Canada condemns the Harper government’s decision to close Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax. The union maintains that the closure of the three offices will make it substantially harder for individuals from marginalized groups to launch human rights complaints.
The three offices slated for closure received 70 per cent of all signed complaints to the CHRC in 2008.
Finally a little good news. I’d taken to watching Glenn Beck in recent days, just for the calming effect.
Heh. I can see the messaging already …
Related – “Senator Doug Finley rose in the Senate to give notice that he would “call the attention of the Senate to the issue of the erosion of Freedom of Speech in our country” and that this would be done through an inquiry.”
Update: Don’t fill those party contribution envelopes just yet… fewer offices or more money? Sure glad we’re not running a massive deficit.
Joyce Green, Department of Political Science
J.F. Conway, Department of Sociology and Social Studies
George Buri, Department of History
Emily Eaton, Department of Geography
Jeffery R. Webber, Department of Political Science
David Webster, International Studies
Annette Desmarais, International Studies
Darlene Juschka, Women’s and Gender Studies and Religious Studies
Meredith Rogers Cherland, Faculty of Education
Garson Hunter, Social Work
John W. Warnock, Department of Sociology and Social Studies
William Arnal, Department of Religious Studies
Leesa Streifler, Department of Visual Arts
Carol Schick, Faculty of Education
Ken Montgomery, Faculty of Education
André Magnan, Department of Sociology and Social Studies
Update: According to JGL this morning, Leesa Streifler denies she gave permission to have her name added as a signatory, Jeffrey Webber contends she did. (But he has no time to be interviewed.) Game on!
GLOBE was incorporated in 2006, the founding directors all being British legislators […]
“To provide a forum for ideas and proposals to be floated in confidence and without the attention of an international spotlight“.
And out of reach of FOI requests.
Globe Director, Lord Oxburgh has been appointed to lead the inquiry into the scientific aspects of Climategate scandal.
GLOBE Director Lord Julian Hunt is “a climate modeller, former head of the Met Office, and an Honorary Graduate and Honorary Doctor of Science, University of East Anglia.”
The Directors acknowledge the support of International Organisations, Governments, Parliamentary Bodies and Industry, both financially and politically, with paticular acknowledgement to United Nations, The Global Environment Facility, The World Bank, European Commission, the Governments of Canada and Great Britain, the Senate of Brazil and Globe Japan.
Your tax dollars at work? (There you go, war rooms.)
Interesting stuff. But read the whole thing, including the comments.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Fidel Castro…
“We consider health reform to have been an important battle and a success of his (Obama’s) government…”
“This bitch does not speak for me.”
And with that I concur with “Gordon”, who sent this clip along. “Ann Coulter got what she deserved”
I’m starting to think the not-showing-up-to-riot is a failed conservative policy.
(Coulter updates here, including news that the Calgary venue has been changed, “to accomodate increased demand”.)
Out of the frying pan…
The campaign to save the First Nations University of Canada passed a major milestone on Tuesday when the University of Regina, the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the provincial government announced a memorandum of understanding that could see funds flow to troubled aboriginal institution through U of R.
… into the idiot stewpot.
“Why stop at the question of dependents of Canadian Forces personnel? There’s all kinds of people who are killed in workplace accidents,” [U of R political science prof Jeffrey Webber] said. As an alternative to the program, the group says there should be universal access to post-secondary education.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) Late Nite Radio.
The success of so-called progressives in the last few decades in positioning themselves as the adjudicators of respect, tolerance, and freedom is surely the great irony of our age. Those who most typically call their opponents fascists, or some variant of the word, are the same people who feel perfectly justified in using mob rule to silence opposing views. This sort of cultural success in flipping the truth on its head even manifests in the most powerful office in the world: the current President has had a long association with a man who participated in the bombing of the Capitol buildings and the Pentagon, and yet high-ranking Democrats serving under him feel perfectly entitled to deign to characterize, with a straight face, regular mom and pop folks who disagree with the Democrats’ policies as being a radical fringe of extremists, while much of the legacy media happily parrots this bald-faced inversion of the truth.
This sorry state of affairs is at least partially the fault of conservatives who have played into the hands of unreasonable opponents by constantly asserting the need to maintain a spirit of cooperation, even as their opponents make volubly clear through their words and actions that they have absolutely no interest in doing the same. This assumption that compromise and bipartisanship is always the reasonable approach is badly mistaken because it not only presupposes, in the face of evidence to the contrary, that one’s opponents are equally well-intentioned and willing to meet halfway, but it also ignores the unpleasant reality that certain freedoms, once bargained away, may never be regained without bloodshed.
Tonight’s jaunty song selection is dedicated here to conservatives who think that cooperating and plea-bargaining with intransigent opponents is a win-win, that there is no such thing as us versus them, and that supineness will invite respect and facilitate compromise on the part of one’s opponent. Here’s Tom Lehrer’s fiercely satirical paean to fair play at any cost, Fight Fiercely Harvard.
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Shortly after noon on a recent Saturday, Fatima Thompson, a Muslim convert, and three other women prayed in the men’s section of the lavishly decorated Islamic Center of Washington, in a moment akin to Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat.
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Police officer Barry Goodwin soon arrived and awkwardly walked over to the line of women—in his socks, because he couldn’t enter the mosque in shoes—to search for the organizers.
h/t ioxymoron
This related item, by popular demand.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama, March 19th – “Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.”
Associated Press, March 24th – Under the new law, insurance companies still would be able to refuse new coverage to children because of a pre-existing medical problem, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main congressional panels that wrote the bill Obama signed into law Tuesday.
Bonus link: the Ko-Tax! (link fixed)
