“Can we really call that whale a “killer”? Is the issue really that black and white?”
1st Runner Up: “I call them “snuggly-fish”, so this has all been a huge shock to me.”
(Plus, keep scrolling for helpful design ideas for whale pool safety apparatus.)
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Gregory Hines and Steve Martin performing Fit as a Fiddle ¤, on Steve Martin’s Best Show Ever, in 1981 (5:48). |
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At RWN: This year’s top twenty quotes from CPAC.
Forwarded to me via email;
Jewish Defence League of Canada
7305 Woodbine Ave #297
Markham, Ontario Canada
L3R 3V7
February 25, 2010
Her Worship Mayor Hazel McCallion
Office of the Mayor
City of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive
Mississauga, Ontario L5B 3C1
Regarding your phone call to me tuesday evening, I would like to make it clear why we have chosen to protest the offices of Palestine House in Mississauga.
On SaturdayِApril 3rd, Palestine House will commemorate the 34th anniversary of Land Day, with Mr. Abdul Bari Atwan. Talking about Iran’s nuclear capability on ANB Lebanese television on June 27, Abd Al-Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, said, “If the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight.”
As a Jew and a Canadian, I find this genocidal rhetoric offensive and dangerous. You referred to it as “foolish” and to just be ignored. I will never ignore those that preach genocide. A public figure with your stature and experience should know that this type of language incites hate and violence – and in today’s climate, should not be tolerated in any community. I must say, quite frankly, that I find your request for me to cancel the demonstration to be highly inappropriate.
Further, you told me that you are “intimately involved” with Palestine House – I’m not certain what “intimate involvement” means but I would suggest that you should use your influence to have this organization cancel their speaker and render a public apology.
Our protest will be organized and above all, peaceful.
Respectfully,
Meir Weinstein,
National Director Jewish Defence League of Canada
President Barack Obama on lowering health care costs, just now: “That’s how WalMart does it…”
County Medical Examiner Dr. Noshit Sherlock: “Trainer likely died from drowning, trauma”.
… and the Temple of Gloom.
h/t Allen
Meet graywater.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
David Suzuki’s Facebook Notes – The science of climate change is evolving rapidly. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s last report is now two years old, and the research in that report is more than four years old. Recent scientific information shows that the impacts of climate change are happening much more quickly than expected. The polar ice cap is melting at an astonishing rate.(?) Ocean levels are rising more rapidly than predicted. (?) And weather-related disasters are mounting.(?)
Reuters: Scientists examine causes for lull in warming – “There is a lack of consensus”, said Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, on why global temperatures have not matched a peak set in 1998, or in 2005 according to one U.S. analysis.
“Grade Obama’s First Year In Office” – a CBS poll goes horribly wrong.
Nothing divides the NDP like the Israel-Palestine conflict. It’s rare to find a New Democrat too busy to talk to the media, but deputy leaders Libby Davies and Thomas Mulcair were strangely unavailable today when asked to talk about the party’s policy on the Middle East.
[…]
It is for this reason that a party activist called Matt Godwin has launched a group called Progressive Caucus for Peace to offer a more balanced, moderate voice on the Middle East. Mr. Godwin said he was appalled by the 2006 resolution and the treatment of Jews by many on the left. “The issue has become poisonous, so this network was started to bring together dedicated social democrats … and counter extremist views that paint Israel as an apartheid state,” he said.
The aim is not to change official party policy, which supports a two-state solution and has been worded so as not to cause any offense. Rather the new group is attempting to change the climate in a party where it has become fashionable to don a Palestinian scarves and spew hatred that would be deemed unacceptable in any other context.
Good luck with that, Mr Godwin. It’s not “fashion” – it’s who they are.
h/t Trent.
Update: Speaking of which….
Photo Emerges Of Murderous Killer Whale At Tea Party Rally.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
When someone is singing a song in a language you don’t understand you can nonetheless often get a pretty good idea as to whether it’s a love song, a patriotic song, or, say, a drinking song simply by noting the tempo, the nature of the dance moves, the singer’s facial expressions, the clothing and set decorations, whether the song is in a major or minor key, and so on.
Good luck with that tonight: our feature performer’s facial and physical gestures are sufficiently foreign as to make it almost impossible for non-Russian speakers to determine either his emotional state or his intentions. He could be welcoming an honored guest with his heartfelt performance, or he could be openly celebrating his success in removing said guest’s toenails with a pair of pliers. There’s no way of knowing for sure, but after repeated viewings I lean towards the latter interpretation.
Here he is then, Smolensk’s own Eduard Hill, aka Edward Anatolyevich, National Artist of the Russian Federation and member of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, performing the unease-inducing Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой.
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Via David Thompson – “Mitigating Global Warming Through Art”
Music in general and art in particular seems to be a promising Archimedean point for multiple new life styles. Performing music and dancing… may be powerful enough to substitute the culture of consumerism since they enable a creativity-based self-autonomy as well as cultural self-sufficiency. “Back to art” could even open up the path to self-induced simplification in order to overcome the hegemonic consumerist environment… Humanity should not be primarily treated according to the logic of homo economicus. Rather it might be best envisioned as communities of artists.
It’s catching on!
ABC News is poised to make a major round of cuts that will reduce the size of the news division by as much as 20% and radically reorder the network’s traditional approach to news gathering.
in a startling coincidence – The FOX News Channel (FNC) operating income, as compared to the prior year, increased 50% for both the fourth quarter and the full year, primarily from increased affiliate revenues. For the full year, FNC primetime ratings were up 45% compared with the same period a year ago.
Or stinking giant mirrors, or stinking earthquake generators, or stinking puny hybrids….
Researchers in Texas say they have found a way of cutting the cost of producing gasoline by two thirds, taking advantage of the lowest grade of coal available – one that is abundant beneath the Canadian prairies.
A new refining process being perfected at the University of Texas at Arlington can turn the low-cost lignite coal, also known as brown coal, into oil at a fraction of the cost of importing crude oil from abroad.
Beauty!
h/t Karl
Update: In the comments, Eric Anderson reminds* me of this.
Pew Research, 2009 – No Decline in Belief That Obama is a Muslim
Drudgereport, 2010 – New Missile Defense Agency Logo Causes Online Commotion…
The use of the word “denier” to slur skeptics has long been criticized on the basis that it’s an inappropriate borrowing of a term long used to identify those who minimize or refute the Holocaust.
That misses the mark. They’re not borrowing the word at all – they’re using it in the original context.
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that people who do not take the threat of climate change seriously remind him of those who downplayed the growing threat of fascism and Nazism in the 1930s.
If you hadn’t figured that out yet, you haven’t been paying attention.
HINT: It begins with “K” and ends with “rugman” (pdf).
Mr. Krugman states that Canada’s advantage has been in being stricter about limiting bank leverage, and that’s true. But he then blames Reagan-era deregulation for the “dangerously interesting” US banking system and suggests that the wild American banking mustangs must thus be broken to the regulatory bit.
The thing is, in his Keynesian enthusiasm, he is neglecting the most important qualities of the Canadian financial system, the things that really made the difference and account for the fact that we didn’t have a US-style housing collapse and have to bail out our entire banking system. The stuff he cites in his column is all correct, as far as it goes, but it’s just the feathers, not the chicken.
(Here’s the Google Quick View if you don’t like the pdf.)
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is “The Father of Bluegrass”, Mr. Bill Monroe, with his famous Blue Grass Boys (who included both Flatt & Scruggs in 1945) performing Blue Moon of Kentucky ¤ §, in 1980 (2:24). Bill’s little riff on the mandolin ca. 1:32 is very nice. |
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