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Salon, Aug.7 –…how far divorced from the reality of our current society must you be to believe that the current president is about to institute DEATH PANELS via a system designed to improve health care availability. Please, Mrs. Palin, point to a place on Earth with a government-managed health system where something like this has happened.
Ottawa Citizen, Sept.19 – Having gone through the torment of finally getting the drug, I didn’t expect to open up a newspaper on a beautiful September morning to find a column [in the Globe and Mail] by leading health reporter André Picard entitled, “We must put a price on life.”
Or, I suppose I might have used the quote from Saskatchewan’s NDP Health critic Judy Junor, who once opined on live radio that Canadians have a responsibility to our government to “live healthier and then die quickly.”
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is DJ Dado performing
his version of X-Files ¤ in 1996 (3:55), with an interesting video.
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Czars
Dog, Spelled Backwards
Finally, Summer
(Update: Joke all you want down there in the comments… I just heard a weather man on NBC affiliate K5 from Seattle utter the words “First Nations summer”….)
A History Of Policies That Produced The Financial Crisis Of 2008
“Not What They Had In Mind”. (pdf)
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
In today’s Star – Canadian media’s foremost Liberal cheerleader notes that the natural governing party has progressed from hiding excrement, to eating it.
“The fight for concentrated power is on.”
Whywas this unrest we see today not manifest during the Bush administration? The auto companies were run by private entities out of Detroit, the financial institutions were run by private entities out of New York, and people’s individual wealth was found in their homes and savings plans. Today – in a few short months – the auto industry and the banks are given their marching orders by czars in Washington; individuals have seen their personal financial security blankets shredded. And now they see Washington reaching to control how and where they can get their health care. In short, they see the wealth and power in this country being sucked via a gigantic power grab into the hands of a small, insular elite in Washington run by a man in whom they have no confidence that he is up to the task of running their lives in the most intimate way.
Merit Based Arts Community Applauds
“Independent artists angry over lost grants”
(“Independent”?)
The Musical Diversity component gave grants of up to $20,000 for the recording and distribution of “specialized music,” defined as “music whose intent or content is not shaped by the desire for wide market appeal – instead, it places creativity, self-expression or experimentation above the demands and format expectations of the mainstream recording industry,” and has “significance beyond being just entertainment.”
Faster, please.
But I repeat thine self.
But Glenn Beck Is The “Dumb As A Post” One
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Mr. Rick Wakeman and the boys performing Anne Boleyn, from his The Six Wives of Henry VIII album in 1973 (6:37). Personally, my favourite track from my copy of the vinyl here in the studio is Jane Seymour (4:51), though I figure it to be of rather less general audience appeal, even though I’m sure that if Bach had been able to pull off that section from 02:45 to 04:10, then he definitely would have put something like it in his Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565. The parishioners would have freaked out, man (which was the whole point of having thirty-two- foot pipes in the first place: hallucinations in the pews). Alas, J.S. didn’t have access to an appropriate ramp-frequency synthesizer in the church at that time. Hell, he didn’t even have a piano yet, and a saxophone would have been sacrilege.
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“That is why I’m here”
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama, Berlin, July 2008 – “In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster than our efforts to contain them. That is why we cannot afford to be divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats, or escape responsibility in meeting them. Yet, in the absence of Soviet tanks and a terrible wall, it has become easy to forget this truth. And if we’re honest with each other, we know that sometimes, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny.”
Politico, September 2009 – “Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed today that he declined last night to take a call from the U.S. informing him of the decision to scrap planned missile-defense bases in his country. Two U.S.-based sources close to the Polish government said Thursday that Tusk also rejected a call from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — on the grounds that, as the head of the government, he should speak to the president.”
(From the comments) “Rebuild our international relationships after eight years of unilateral action” much, Mr. President?
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Accounts of western governments (from the local to the federal) kneecapping the very infrastructure upon which modern metropolitan life depends – including reliable electricity, food production, and the transport of essential goods – are so routine now, one can hardly keep track;
Calling it an “insurance policy” for Pacific Northwest salmon, the Obama administration on Tuesday offered up a tougher conservation plan for the fish that includes climate-change monitoring and the “last-resort” possibility of removing dams.
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
Your Tax Dollars At Play
“Two curmudgeons stroll down University Avenue.”
Y2Kyoto: “I don’t need the report”
It’s the first time in history that dams have ever burned water;
The energy bills in Whistler’s state of the art, showcase “green” library are coming in more than four times higher than estimated.
The soaring hydro bills, originally estimated by architects to be $7,000 per year, are closer to $30,000, which suggests the building is producing far more greenhouse gases than anticipated.
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The anomaly between the energy estimates and the true performance of the building however, prompted Councillor Ralph Forsyth, who is the council representative on the library board, to urge council for a report on the green building performances of other municipal buildings.
That motion was defeated at Tuesday’s meeting, a move that shocked the councillor.
“Don’t you want to know if the money you’re spending is working or not?” asked a frustrated Forsyth in an interview following Tuesday’s council meeting.
Rookie.
Via Jesse Ferreras
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Lorne Gunter – doing the job American Obama media won’t do.
The Anti-Reagan
He’s not the anti-Bush – he’s the anti-Reagan!
Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern Friday at President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a Bush-era missile defense shield planned for their countries.
“Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back,” the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said he was concerned that Obama’s new strategy leaves Poland in a dangerous “gray zone” between Western Europe and the old Soviet sphere.
Recent events in the region have rattled nerves throughout central and eastern Europe, a region controlled by Moscow during the Cold War, including the war last summer between Russia and Georgia and ongoing efforts by Russia to regain influence in Ukraine. A Russian cutoff of gas to Ukraine last winter left many Europeans without heat.
The Bush administration’s plan would have been “a major step in preventing various disturbing trends in our region of the world,” Kaczynski said in a guest editorial in the daily Fakt and also carried on his presidential Web site.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he still sees a chance for Poles and Czechs to participate in the redesigned missile defense system. But that did not appear to calm nerves in Warsaw or Prague.
Ahmadinejad approves, while Putin is pleased – “I expect that after this correct and brave decision, others will follow”
No doubt.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is something you probably haven’t heard for a while: John Mills- Cockell on Arp and Moog synthesizers and keyboards, Doug Pringle on saxophone, bongos, guiro, and bells, and Alan Wells on congas and percussion, as Syrinx performing Tillicum (1971, 1:57) from their Long Lost Relatives album (a copy of the vinyl of which we have here in the studios), and which you will no doubt now recall was the theme song for the CTV network’s Here Come the Seventies show, which ran from 1970 through 1973.
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Chosen Vladimir Putin’s “Comrade Of The Decade”
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?