Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the first movement, Allegro con Brio, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Symphony #25 in G Minor ¤, KV 183, with our old friend Mr. Leonard Bernstein conducting (8:34).
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I said it was a contest. And because this is the Party of Jack! you all take 4th prize.
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The rest of you get to hold hands and cross the finish line together like proper little socialists.
(The National Post has other suggestions, none of them nearly as good.)
Because, if it saves one life…
h/t Shippedout
…. not to be confused with flagging@whitehouse.gov, which is the e-mail address for reporting President Obama’s latest approval rating.”
h/t qwerty1
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
LA Times – “U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said.”
New York Times – “The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say.”
It’s an idea…
The saucy thong swimsuit – sold as the perfect present for dumped boyfriends – looks like a real bikini but disappears completely after just a few seconds in water. Sellers in Germany bill the Get Naked costume as a chance for men to get their own back after a break-up.
But women’s rights campaigner Rosmarie Zapfl stormed: “It is an absolute insult to women that this has been invented.”
…whose time will end;
Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions of Muslims, will change the continent beyond recognition over the next two decades, and almost no policy-makers are talking about it.
The numbers are startling. Only 3.2 per cent of Spain’s population was foreign-born in 1998. In 2007 it was 13.4 per cent. Europe’s Muslim population has more than doubled in the past 30 years and will have doubled again by 2015. In Brussels, the top seven baby boys’ names recently were Mohamed, Adam, Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza.
Well, if nothing else, we can look forward to the day when those “women’s rights campaigners” so focused on the real issues are herded into burqinis.
KevinB, in the comments – “I find it doubly ironic that you posted this today, as the front section of the National Post had an article about a French woman’s book “40 Reasons Not To Have Babies”. The article, with no further explanation, stated that France was having a “mini baby boom”. (That’s a small boom in births, not a boom in dwarf infants, just to be clear.) What it didn’t say is that boom is composed mostly of Muslim babies; native French women have one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, just as native Quebec women have the lowest birth rate in Canada. This idiot Corinne Maier (who is, apparently, ageless, since her face would stop time) is not only unaware that her people are dieing out, she’s encouraging them to do it faster.”
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are the George Shearing
Quintet performing Swedish Pastry (2:49).
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h/t brock
25 bucks will buy you a house in Detroit.
That’s a performance indicator.
Hey there, you suckers who buy on the basis of fuel efficiency;
Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore) today introduced legislation that would fund a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) pilot program to examine a new source of funding that would help make up for the highway trust fund deficit, which the Department of Transportation estimates will hit $5-7 billion this August. The legislation calls on the Department of the Treasury to undertake a series of studies to demonstrate the viability of a VMT revenue source in every state, and it reflects a successful pilot program undertaken in Oregon.
“We cannot wait to invest in our nation’s roads, bridges, and public transit,” said Rep. Blumenauer. “America’s infrastructure needs critical investments now, and with the highway trust fund flirting with a dangerous deficit, we need innovative solutions that will create a steady source of revenue. Oregon has successfully tested a Vehicle Miles Traveled fee, and it is time to expand and test the VMT program across the country. A VMT system can better assess fees based on use of our roads and bridges, as well as during times of peak congestion, than a fee based on fuel consumption. It is time to get creative and find smart ways to rebuild and renew America’s deteriorating infrastructure.”
The world is being run by crazy people.
h/t Rich
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Eric Clapton, Jack
Bruce, and Ginger Baker, as Cream, performing Strange Brew
on The Beat Club, in 1967 (2:21).
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(Right click to open full sized images).
h/t to Larry Weber, who explains – “The pictures were taken around the Medicine Hat area after a windstorm last week. The bales apparently weigh up to 1600lbs and some were reported to have rolled up to 5 miles.”
Update – commentors advise that the photos are from 2008.
Kate’s roof repairs? … or Obama’s Presidency? You decide:
(Kate update: I dunno. Mine looks worse…)
A party in power grows increasingly thuggish;
What the town-hall meetings represent is a feeling of rebellion, an uprising against change they do not believe in. And the Democratic response has been stunningly crude and aggressive. It has been to attack. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, accused the people at the meetings of “carrying swastikas and symbols like that.” (Apparently one protester held a hand-lettered sign with a “no” slash over a swastika.) But they are not Nazis, they’re Americans. Some of them looked like they’d actually spent some time fighting Nazis.
Then came the Democratic Party charge that the people at the meetings were suspiciously well-dressed, in jackets and ties from Brooks Brothers. They must be Republican rent-a-mobs. Sen. Barbara Boxer said on MSNBC’s “Hardball” that people are “storming these town hall meetings,” that they were “well dressed”, that “this is all organized,” “all planned,” to “hurt our president.” Here she was projecting. For normal people, it’s not all about Barack Obama.
“Thuggish” too strong a word?
As this column is written, there comes word that John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO has announced he’ll be sending in union members to the meetings to counter health care’s critics.
You know what they say – you can take the politician out of Chicago….
“But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”
But the One needs your help in shutting people up. David Harsanyi explains – “If you’re a virtuous and patriotic American, you may find this column either offensive or misleading. If so, please forward it to White House authorities at the Department of Fishy Activity. (E-mail the good people at flag@whitehouse.gov)
There’s plenty of video of those Nazis who won’t shut up at Drudge this morning.
And these just in: dangerous mob photos smuggled out of town hall meetings…
(H/T Mario)
More – The Media Take Aim At ‘The Mob’”
Earlier this month, [Associated Press] announced it would distribute “watchdog and investigative journalism” penned not by its own staff or that of member papers, but by four outside groups: the Center for Investigative Reporting in Barkeley, Calif.; New York-based ProPublica; and two D.C. outfits, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.
AP, itself a not-for-profit enterprise, identified the four organizations as “civic-minded” nonprofits. They also all have decidedly liberal sponsors. A cursory glance at the “independent” news shops reveals their reliance on left-tilting patrons such as the Knight Foundation and leftist donors such as financier Herbert Sandler and currency speculator George Soros.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Lion Tracks ¤ episode of Snagglepuss, brought to you for two reasons tonight, because, firstly, from a philosophical perspective: A Man’s Home is His Castle; and, secondly, from an engineering perspective: Heavens to Murgatroyd … (7:16).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments, even.
What began as roof repairs on part of my house has progressed to a room with wide open sky, ripped out walls, and partial floor replacement. As a result, much of my time has been devoted to helping that project move along as quickly as possible. .. and doing what I can myself to keep costs down.
Thus, blogging will be quite low on my list of priorities for the next week or two. If content gets a bit stale, or your excellent tips go unreported, I apologize – but there are only so many hours in a day!
Lagging just two years behind the blogosphere, the Washington Examiner reports:
Researchers who have inspected climate monitoring stations across the U.S. have found that almost 90 percent of the weather monitoring stations have failed to meet National Weather Service requirements.
Anthony Watts, a retired meteorologist, and a team of over 650 volunteers, photographically documented 1003 out of 1,221 of the climate monitoring stations managed by the U.S. Weather Service. The results of this survey show that the temperature cited as proof of man-made global warming is laced with false biases in favor of alarmism.
“We found stations located next to exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat,” Watts said. “We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.”
The research team also determined that 89 percent did not measure up to the National Weather Service’s requirement that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial heating source. This means almost 9 out of every 10 stations are reporting higher temperatures because they are badly sited.
“The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperatures of 0.7 degrees C (about 1.2 degrees F) during the twentieth century,” Watts said.
See for yourself at Surfacestations.org
h/t Ed S.
Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
In the present western world, considerations of human suffering and hardship are political, to the largest extent. A public proclamation of empathy is frequently a weapon in mindful disguise, and the difficulties of others are often pruriently appropriated and then channeled into rage at government and at those with different political views. It wasn’t so very long ago, though, that there wasn’t a safety net except for that provided by family and friends and local community. While it was understood, then as now, that any individual’s life trajectory was determined in part by effort and diligence as well as by station of birth, back then there was more of a realistic understanding that the relentless corporeal fates — war, illness, economic collapse, drought, death, abandonment of the slow by the swift — that will take us out of this world are out of our hands, and that these fates, often unkind, are part of a shared condition that no one can rise above or escape.
Tonight’s song, recorded in 1929, is a lullaby of sorts, a flickering far-away light through the darkness of time that makes tangible a condition wherein elemental, matter-of-fact human empathy is natural, casual, and normal — small and familiar and human — as opposed to, say, just a force for political agitation. At the time, of course, it was just a good song. Here it is then, without further ado: the great Jimmie Rogers sings Hobo Bill’s Last Ride.
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