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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and weekend listening pleasure, here is Natalie Masters as the lovely and delightful Miss Candy Matson performing the The Fort Ord Story episode of her YUkon 2-8209 show, in 1950 (28:26). If you need a player for this media, here is RealPlayer.
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Via Tim Blair
More where that came from at Recovery.gov
THE Rudd government’s $480 million “national solar schools” program was quietly suspended yesterday afternoon via a notice posted on the popular scheme’s website.
Or, in the immortal words* of Tasnim Aslam – “Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence“.
A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are ‘deceptive’.
The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday.
The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra. If they are found wearing a bra, they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said…
‘Al Shabaab forced us to wear their type of full veil and now they order us to shake our breasts,’ a resident, Halima, told Reuters, adding that her daughters had been whipped on Thursday.
‘They are now saying that breasts should be firm naturally, or just flat.’
That Michael Ignatieff screensaver is watching you…
The copyright lobby’s interest in the bill has been simmering since its introduction, with lobbyists attending the committee hearings and working with Liberal and Bloc MPs to secure changes. The two core concerns arise from fears that the bill could prevent surreptitious use of DRM and block enforcement initiatives that might involve accessing users’ personal computers without their permission.
The DRM concern arises from a requirement in the bill to obtain consent before installing software programs on users’ computers. This anti-spyware provision applies broadly, setting an appropriate standard of protection for computer users. Yet the copyright lobby fears it could inhibit installation of DRM-type software without full knowledge and consent. Sources say that the Liberals have introduced a motion that would take these practices outside of the bill. In its place, they would define computer program as, among other things, “a program that has as its primary function…inducing a user to install software by intentionally misrepresenting that installing that software is necessary to safeguard security or privacy or to open or play content of a computer program.” This sets such a high bar – primary function, intentional mispresentation – that music and software industry can plausibly argue that surreptitious DRM installations fall outside of C-27.
Even more troubling are proposed changes that would allow copyright owners to secretly access information on users’ computers…
Emphasis mine.
They mean 16 “years”, don’t they?
Don’t they???
Get me the little bastards’ names. I’ll see to it they get published, Youth “Criminal Justice” Act be damned.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
October 2, 2001 – “Bill Clinton is suspended from the practice of law in this Court,” the Supreme Court announced in a decision that came without comment or indication of how the nine justices of the high court had voted on the ruling. Clinton has 40 days to contest the decision. The Supreme Court gave no reason for its move. However in April, the former president paid a fine of $US25,000 ($61,500,000) and was barred from practicing law for five years in his home state of Arkansas.
October 16, 2009 – The former U.S. president is at McGill University to accept an honorary doctor of laws degree.
Via Hotair
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, and for SDA LNR listener
BATB, here is Mr. Nat King Cole singing Stardust ¤ (3:04).
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Ann Coulter * on Sean Hannity just now;
“One of the guys in the consortium trying to own the Rams is George Soros, who by the way, admitted on network tv to collaborating with the Nazis, but he’s fine because he owns the Democratic party.”
*from memory, so subject to minor correction.
American Thinker: “Thanks to an intrepid blogger with the tag Trapdoc posting a letter to Mark Steyn, the search for the Wikipedia Libelist responsible for damaging posts to the Rush Limbaugh account has been narrowed to the IP address of a New York City law firm:”
More: Don’t miss today’s update at the American Thinker link.
So says Foxnews.
I’d put off that “letter to Santa Claus” for a few days if I were him.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Via an obscure ethnic restaurant critic’s archives;
OTTAWA – The Liberals are complaining to the federal ethics commissioner over the Harper government’s use of taxpayer cheques bearing the Conservative party logo or Tory MPs signatures.
Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson is being asked to investigate dozens of examples of promotional government cheques that Tory MPs used to tout stimulus spending for partisan gain.
Via Jean Chretien.net archives;
OTTAWA; QUEBEC CITY – Jean Chretien, the Prime Minister, yesterday said his government had nothing to apologize for in seeking to reap maximum partisan political benefit from disbursing $1-billion worth of federal job grants across Canada each year.
He had always made sure since taking power in October, 1993, that voters were left in no doubt that it was his Liberals who were distributing such grants, he said.
“Listen,” he added, “we are the government … I don’t see why we can’t try to get credit for what we do. I hope we do so. There is nothing to be ashamed in that.”
Great sleuthing, courtesy of Manny
…but rules are rules, and apparently whoever the authoritarians are that run things decided that you cannot express the opinion that the media wants black quarterbacks to do well. Rush got booted out of ESPN for saying that. And apparently there is no such thing as forgiveness in the sports world. Unless…
Unless you electrocute and drown dogs, and slam them to death?
(Via)
Still fake but accurate: the Rush Limbaugh media lynch mob.
Good question: “If Limbaugh really is a racist, then why does it take bogus quotes to “prove” that he is?”
“Hey dude, I think I figured out a way we can score a Porsche for the weekend….”
Testosterone is what drives men’s desire to own fast cars, according to a study published in the journal Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes.
| March, 2009 – “Hillary Clinton gave Sergei Lavrov a mock “reset” button, symbolising US hopes to mend frayed ties with Moscow. “ |  |
| October, 2009 – Forsaking good sportsmanship, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday ridiculed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s lack of success in Moscow in getting agreement on Iranian sanctions. Speaking in Beijing, he said, “There is no need to frighten the Iranians. We need to look for a compromise. If that is not found . . . then we will see.” |
Steven Malanga warns that Washington is “Driving Off Another Mortgage Cliff”;
As a ‘learning experience,’ the current recession and its associated housing bust haven’t produced many enlightening moments for our policy makers in Washington. Nothing makes that more obvious than the news that delinquencies and foreclosures are rising rapidly among mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, whose reserves have fallen below acceptable levels. The agency’s losses, which are almost entirely on loans made after problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were already apparent in the current bust, may require (guess what) a new taxpayer bailout.
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Faced with these troubling signs, the FHA is banking on optimistic projections of rising home prices, which would help to clear up problems with its portfolio in the next few years. But as the economist Robert Shiller observed last week in a New York Times column, a recent uptick in home prices could represent little more than a new wave of short-term speculative buying, what Shiller called “short-run price volatility” that may well be just the equivalent of a brief bear-market rally. If housing market bears are correct, prices could start declining again, and the FHA would be in for a mess of trouble.
Not surprisingly, FHA’s backers in Washington, the very same people who defended Fannie and Freddie when critics warned of their increasingly dangerous lending practices, are quick to accept the optimistic view. [Maxine] Waters proclaimed in recent hearings that, “I am feeling very confident about FHA.” This is the same Waters who in 2004 told a Congressional hearing that, “We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly at Fannie Mae.”
Related – Foreclosures: ‘Worst three months of all time’
h/t Gord Tulk
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight PJ Harvey and Nick Cave rework
Here are Nick Cave and PJ Harvey in a live performance of Henry Lee.
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