| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are the NHK Symphony Orchestra performing Claude Debussy‘s L’après-midi d’un faune ¤ and II ¤, Kimbo Ishii-Eto conducting, in Tokyo, in 2005 (ca. 11 minutes). |
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Via FFOF
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And they managed without felling a single tree!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Tommy Douglas; – “Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt — it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
Tommy Dougas; – Some have objected to sterilization on the grounds that it is depriving human beings of an unalienable right. But medical science declares that it is possible to be sterilized and yet have sexual intercourse. In the main this is all the defective asks. Among them the parental instinct is not paramount, but is entirely subordinated to the sex urge. Thus sterilization would deprive them of nothing that they value very highly, and would make it impossible for them to reproduce those whose presence could contribute little to the general well-being of society.
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Jonathan Winters on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: Part I ¤ and Part II ¤ (ca. 15 minutes). |
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“Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence”.*
Danish police on Friday shot and wounded a man trying to enter the home of an artist who drew controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The man, a 27-year-old Somalian who was armed with an axe, was caught trying to break into the home of Kurt Westergaard at 10pm local time, police said.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Independent, March 20, 2000 – Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
Telegraph, Jan2. 2010 – Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.
h/t Instapundit
h/t Dan C.
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Robert Miles performing his dream trance classic, Children §, from his 1996 Dreamland album (4:00). |
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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week’s SDA distinguished lecture, documentary & interview symposium. This week, for your delectation, here is Israeli conductor Itay Talgam presenting his TED talk Lead Like the Great Conductors ¤ (23:24). Personally, I think that there are probably lessons for each and every one of us, and for all of us, in Maestro Talgam’s talk.
NB: This is not Reader Tips. The topic here is Maestro Talgam’s talk.
h/t EBD
Best wishes to all of you for 2010, and thanks once again to everyone – our guest bloggers, advertisers, sponsors, commentors, readers, and trolls – for helping make 2009 the best ever at SDA.
A few quick links for you, then I’m taking the rest of the day off!
I blame the Finnish for owning so many guns.
Top 20 Quotes of the Decade
Mayo Clinic – meet Tommy Douglas.
Via Stephen Taylor;
Make your own here!
Police Cars Repossessed Due To Falling Tax Revenues
To say that Cairo, the seat of Alexander County, Ill., has seen better days is a cruel understatement. […] The situation got so bad this month that the bank repossessed five of his seven cruisers. Four of them sit in the bank parking lot now, shorn of their emergency lights, antennas and seals. In addition to losing his cruisers, the sheriff lost three-fourths of his staff, most of them deputies, to budget cuts.
Wait, there’s more…
At its peak, the staff had 29 full and part timers.
It’s hard to see how they ran out of money.
(h/t Tom)
| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio, now fortified with thiomersal, fluoride, and MSG, and to the first day of the last year of the first decade of the third millennium. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians performing Auld Lang Syne § (2:04). Happy New Year, Everyone! |
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…and the “Afghan detainee” preoccupations of certain media personalities embedded in the Ottawa press gallery…’
This should be the end of the Afghan detainee issue as something, er, serious. But, given Canadian blinkers and self-referential obsession, it will not be. At the end of the year this is the one thing about Canada in Afstan, and related politics, that you should read–and very carefully. A post by Terry Glavin, following on this one by Kate.
Update: “Dr Goebbels on the line”–that’s the conclusion of this post at The Torch:
Afstan: The odd view of our media about their sources
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Today, New Year’s Eve, while everyone’s attention is understandably on family and friends, we learn (thanks to the ever alert Bill Roggio, reporting on the Standard’s blog) that the administration has now released Qais Qazali, Laith’s brother, who is the head of the Iran-backed terror network, in addition to a hundred other terrorists. In violation of the long-standing, commonsense policy against capitulating to kidnappers and terrorists because it just encourages more hostage-taking and murder, the terrorists were released in exchange for a British hostage and the remains of his three contract guards (whom the terrorists had murdered).
