“It was too much for any one person to filter”

Terrorism 13 Comments

The entire West Side Highway, the roof of the Marriott Hotel directly below, and everything flying through the air, was on fire. I stood there for what seemed an eternally long time, fixated in shock and amazement as the cars on the West Side Highway blew up, one after another. It took me about two seconds to deduce that I needed to get out – immediately. Although we had a good evacuation procedure in place, I was not going to wait for it to be dictated to me. I grabbed my backpack, then a frightened Karen, and stressed in a loud, forceful manor laced with foul language (using everything in the book and then some!) that everyone needed to move now!

h/t Kathy Shaidle, who notes;

PS: Nice of Obama to show up in New York earlier this week for the memorial service for… Walter Cronkite, a man whose televised lies slandered American servicemen and helped sign the death warrants of millions of abanonded anti-communist Vietnamese, who died so that a bunch of spoiled, dirty hippies could live and spread their contagion throughout society for the next fifty years.
Ooops, Obama couldn’t make it to New York today though.

First They Came For The Marriage Commissioners

Freespeechers 65 Comments

“I fail to understand how secular powers and government agencies should think they are in a position to tell the church that she is wrong in her internal rules and regulations, even though these have directed and shaped the life of the church during the last 2,000 years. However, this is what we face today. If the Human Rights Tribunal should choose to interfere with the church’s governance, this will be most shocking. The tribunal has no authority to place itself as an arbiter of canonical precepts.”

Unless they decide they do.

The First American Prime Minister In Waiting

The Libranos 70 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Globe and Mail –

“The Liberal Party would not agree to a coalition. In January, we did not support a coalition. And we do not support a coalition today or tomorrow,” he told reporters in Ottawa.

Youtube –

Bonus! March 31st…. “Michael Ignatieff says he is ready to lead a new coalition government unless Stephen Harper’s Conservatives scrap their attack ads, drop their partisan edge and present a budget that addresses the needs of Canada’s struggling economy.” (update – the link is also from December, the page was “updated” in March)
h/t Orville
Related – Dear Iggy…

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 41 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. It has been said by some that the most difficult discs to jockey are those of stand-up comedy, because it is so easy for some to take offense. On the other hand, Oscar Wilde said that “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they will kill you”. So, casting all caution to the wind, pace the risk, tonight, for your delectation, here is a medley of Mr. John Pinette performing his Stand-Up Comedy ¤, and Part II ¤. John’s Get Out of the Line! sketch, in part two, is, I think, brilliant, and his whole nay, nay shtick in part one is delightful. You know why it has a safety bar? Because it’s not safe!

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Is There Nothing That Community Organizing Can’t Do?

Baiting The Left 60 Comments

The other shoe drops…

One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to engage in child prostitution and a series of tax crimes, another secretly shot videotape has surfaced that shows the same couple getting similar advice from ACORN officers in Washington.
The newly released videotape, shot on July 25, shows ACORN staffers explaining to the pair how they can hide the woman’s professed work — prostitution — and get a loan that will help them establish a brothel.

Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

Moonbats 18 Comments

Charles Krauthammer, Sept. 11, 2009;

One Obama administration source told ABC that Jones hadn’t read the 2004 petition carefully enough, an excuse echoed by [DNC Chairman Emeritus] Howard Dean.

Howard Dean, Dec.1, 2004;

“The most interesting theory that I’ve heard so far — which is nothing more than a theory, it can’t be proved — is that [President Bush] was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?”

“Remembering a Future That Many Feared”

Baiting The Left 30 Comments

While forgetting the President who prevented it from happening.
Via Instapundit, (where there’s a full roundup of 9/11 commemorative links.)
Victor Davis Hanson – Our National 9/11 Schizophrenia

Today one-third of Democrats believe that President Bush was involved in the planning of September 11. Best-selling books have alleged that 9/11 was a planned government operation. Novels were published and movies screened envisioning the assassination of George W. Bush. Politicians as diverse as Robert Byrd, Al Gore, and John Glenn all compared the president or his policies to Nazis or Brownshirts. All that was in response to the losses in Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo, in addition to the partisan advantage sought by discrediting the Bush presidency.
Now, on the eighth anniversary of the assault, the world has changed almost beyond belief — even if many circumstances that led to the attack on America have not. The Taliban regime and Saddam are still gone. Democracies still function in their place. America remains safe from attack. Yet rarely do we credit anyone for such facts.

Be It A Bridge At Chappaquiddick, Or 100 Million Corpses

Great Moments In Socialism 38 Comments

It’s better to focus on the good people do!

The title — “monument to the victims of totalitarian communism” — has already been changed once. In the first proposals, one by a non-profit group called Tribute to Liberty, the other by Open Book Group, it was to be called “monument to the victims of communism.”
After beginning discussions with the NCC in March 2008, the groups had back-and-forth discussions with a committee of experts who suggested that the title be changed because it could be perceived as “unduly critical of Canadians who might associate themselves with communism,” Egan said.

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