Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Michelangelo once said: “To create a sculpture just remove the unnecessary material”. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a Matsuura MAM72-63V machining a V8 engine block ¤ from a solid rectangular prism of aluminum (10:58). The cylinder-honing phase just cracks me up. I’ll tell you what, honey, they didn’t compute those trajectories by hand 😉
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Steven F. Hayward stopped by the vast Silicon Graffiti production facilities in the suburbs of San Jose on Friday to discuss the second and final volume in his history of Ronald Reagan and his era. The new volume is titled, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution: 1980-1989, and is due out this week.
At Pajamas Media. (sorry, linked fixed!)
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Toronto Star – So, long live the best blogs in their evolution into appendages of the mainstream media.
TechDirt – it appears that CNN didn’t avoid Balko’s research and reporting either, in its own reporting on Hayne, as a part of Anderson Cooper 360. Much of what was done by CNN appears to have come straight from Balko’s research — and sources quoted by CNN told Balko that CNN claims it found them via his articles. But, does CNN credit Balko for any of it? Nope. Not at all.
h/t Kathy Shaidle
The latest Michael Yon dispatch from Afghanistan
Well, this is clumsy quoting. In fact, it’s not a direct quote at all; more a cherry-picking of statements from a 10 minute interview, strung together and placed in quotation marks;
“When someone’s just blogging anonymously because of employment concerns or whatever, it doesn’t matter,” said Catherine McMillan, who writes a political blog called Small Dead Animals. Government critics in oppressive regimes have every right to secrecy, she added. “As soon as you use anonymity as a shield, to set up hate sites or write outrageous things, you should expect anything and everything to come back at you.”
That said, it does bear a passing resemblance to what I told Susan Krashinsky. I explained that there are individuals who choose anonymity for employment reasons, for reasons of personal safety (bloggers in war zones); while there are others (I mentioned the once anonymous Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club fame) who simply prefer their content to stand on its own merit.
However, I also hold that when individuals exploit anonymity to defame or, as has happened in my case, actually create a site to write under my stolen identity, they should expect everything and anything to come back at them.
Anonymity isn’t a right of blogging, it’s a tool. Use it appropriately, and few will take issue with your choice. Use it to misrepresent, attack and defame, and all bets are off. Someone will be out to get you.
Besides, anyone who uses Google’s platform to shield their identity is a fool to begin with. Contrary to the title of the piece – “The virtual end of online anonymity “ the ability to write anonymously on line remains a keystroke away from your nearest offshore server.
Update: Right on cue, an anonymous commentor pops into the Globe and Mail comments section to defame me.
Via Bourque
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Christian Zacharias
performing Domenico Scarlatti‘s Sonata in G, K. 108 (3:03).
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In a move certain to receive widespread support from Canadian Liberals…
The legislation, aimed at providing judges with clear direction on the 1937 Constitution’s blasphemy prohibition, imposes a fine of up to 25,000 euros — about $39,000 — for anyone who “publishes or utters matter that is [intentionally meant to be] grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion.”
Police with a search warrant will be able to enter private premises and use “reasonable force” to obtain incriminating evidence.
“pouring of resources into lavish sets …nothing has been too extreme … rarely denied … however seemingly outrageous. …facade of unlimited financial means …. spending her way into nightmare … took a 24-million-dollar loan from … high-end pawn broker …December 2008… due September 8 … over-leveraged … house in the trendy Greenwich Village … and a second home outside the city .. an apartment on the banks of the Seine in Paris to please her lover….”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Dana Andrews starring as Matt Sevetik in the Trial By Fear episode of I Was A Communist For The FBI (1953, 27:18), in our continuing series previously including The Black Gospel, The American Kremlin, The Innocent Club, and, of course, The Canadian Backbone.
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They counted all the trees, put up a Kyoto museum;
The amount of carbon emissions caused by world forest destruction is likely far less than the 20 percent figure being widely used before global climate talks in December, said the head of the Brazilian institute that measures Amazon deforestation.
Gilberto Camara, the director of Brazil’s respected National Institute for Space Research, said the 20 percent tally was based on poor science but that rich countries had no interest in questioning it because the number put more pressure on developing countries to stem greenhouse gases.
“I’m not in favor of conspiracy theories,” Camara told Reuters in a telephone interview on Friday.
“But I should only state that the two people who like these figures are developed nations, who would like to overstress the contribution of developing nations to global carbon, and of course environmentalists.”
h/t Rich
At the Torch.
(Pins not included)
photo by reader “JW”
TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s “Jackass” show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” should have been listed.
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Washboard Sam,
Big Bill Broonzy, and Bob Hudson performing Who Pumped
the Wind in my Doughnut? (3:06).
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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun – “Nutbars are ruining health care”
Does it meet the test of critical thinking and intellectual honesty to allege Barack Obama and the Democrats want to kill grandmothers and disabled children by creating government-run “death panels”?
Further, if Obama and the Democrats were insane enough to attempt this, would they telegraph it from page 424 to 434 of their 1,017-page health care reform bill under the heading: “Advance Care Planning Consultation”?
Finally, does having their government murder helpless loved ones sound like a vote-getter with the American people? C’mon.
Jim Towey, WSJ – “The Death Book for Veterans “
Last year, bureaucrats at the VA’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, “Your Life, Your Choices.” It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA’s preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated “Your Life, Your Choices.”
Who is the primary author of this workbook? Dr. Robert Pearlman, chief of ethics evaluation for the center, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing.
“Your Life, Your Choices” presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political “push poll.” For example, a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be “not worth living.”
And talk about rapid reaction. In the wake of the attention drawn to “Your Life, Your Choices”, a disclaimer appeared this morning on the front page of the PDF version available on the net.
I don’t much enjoy taking a whack at Lorrie over his op-ed, as I admire 95% of what he writes, but in this case I get the sense that he might benefit from reviewing commentary by well-known nutbar Charles Krauthammer and right wingers like Nat Hentoff.
Seven people arrested in carbon credit fraud.
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Terry Glavin notices his fellow travellers;
This is lurid, reactionary filth, all dressed up as “anti-imperialism.” Its adherents and apologists, and every last one of you who would tolerate it, make excuses for it, or give it sanctuary by alleging that to merely notice it is to “smear the peace movement,” will rot with it in history’s dustbin. And while you weep and gnash your teeth at every tiny revolutionary victory, Afghanistan’s long and bloody democratic revolution, for which so many Canadians have given their lives, will surely triumph. Slow and steady, the people will win.
Echoing pretty much what we warmongering righties been saying for what… 6 years, now? The left’s not anti-war – they’re on the other side.
h/t EBD
Congratulations to Russel J. Lyster taking the top prize in the Fraser Institute Essay Contest for Excellence in the Pursuit of Measurement.
You can read his submission as well as those chosen runners-up here.
