Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight, for your delectation, here is the inimitable Mr. Steven Wright
performing my favourite version of his classic Comedy Shtick ¤ (6:24).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
In 1976, Yaacov Ben Moshe was more of a progressive liberal than he is today.
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman – “…this bill’s goal of reducing U.S. carbon emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 is nowhere near what science tells us we need to mitigate climate change. But it also contains significant provisions to prevent new buildings from becoming energy hogs, to make our appliances the most energy efficient in the world and to help preserve forests in places like the Amazon.”
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman’s house.
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Meet Aya Ali al-Mulla , the newly crowned Miss Moral Beauty.
Or save yourself the trouble, and view the artist’s rendition.
(h/t Drained Brain)
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A Beginner’s Guide To Crossing Cultures – “There is a recognition that all cultures are equal and should be respected. This is a worthy goal. “
Associated Press – “Authorities said Thursday that four boys ages 9 to 14 took turns raping an 8-year-old girl behind a shed for more than 10 minutes in what Phoenix police are calling one of the most horrific cases they’ve ever seen. […] Hill cited the family’s background as the reason the family shunned the girl. All five children are refugees from the West African nation of Liberia.”
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Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Billy Stewart and
the boys performing Summertime in 1966 (4:51).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur,” Obama told ABC News.
…now that he’s recalibrated the unfortunate post-racial business and diagnosed America’s sore throat. (For a guy who’s made a career of apologizing to the whole world, one would think a simple “I’m sorry” would come easy.)
If an individual must surrender their religious freedom when acting on “behalf of government”…
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission agrees with that decision saying the commissioners are appointed to perform civil marriages and when they are acting on behalf of the government have an obligation to carry out that duty.
Why aren’t they paying his legal costs?
It all begins innocently insipidly enough….
“Let’s realize we need to deal with crime from an evidence based approach and not a ‘gut feeling’.”
Today’s criminal justice reading pleasure – a Bob Tarantino smackdown.
The Fraser Institute is giving away $10,000 in cash and electronics prizes in its 2009 Student Video Contest. The topic is: What is the appropriate role of government in the economy?
Full contest details can be found at: http://www.fraserinstitute.org/videocontest
A still smoldering France surrenders to the French;
Fired workers at a bankrupt French auto-parts supplier won severance pay averaging 28,500 euros ($40,500) after threatening to blow up their factory …..
Via Osumashi Kinyobe , a Washington Post map details the death camps of North Korea.
Some day politicians will line up to wring their hands to declare “if only they had known”. Again.
Reader Lee M. updates: “What to you expect for $165M per mile … four consecutive days of uninterrupted service?“
Previous – Seattle’s brand spanking new parking-lot free light rail system.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the third (Part I, II) and final special edition of SDA Late Nite Radio pursuant to that singular time in history forty years ago: Apollo 11. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Back to Earth ¤ (6:48), footage of Mission Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin, supported by a cast of 400,000, sailing back from the Sea of Tranquility, Moon, to the Pacific Ocean, Earth, splashdown at 09:50 PDT on July 24, 1969. A Dream; Hard Work; Success. People can, and many do, miss the simple majestic beauty of the Apollo 11 mission, always finding something to complain about, and that’s sad, really, for them. Fortunately, to the benefit of our species, this singular accomplishment now forever stands as a beacon in the navigation charts for the pursuits of the human spirit.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
President Obama may have wanted health care to dominate coverage of his news conference, but at best that topic is sharing space with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Obama said Cambridge, Mass., police “acted stupidly” in arresting Gates, an African-American scholar who teaches at Harvard; the president also said race “still haunts us,” and that too many blacks and Hispanics are still pulled over without cause.
Was the question a set up?
Obama went out of his way to call on that reporter as the last questioner of the night — even when some confusion about whether he’d called on someone else resulted in his having to go back to her after taking another question.
For a wartime president managing a slew of manufactured “crises” in a reeling economy, he was sure armed with an astonishing level of detail about the arrestee’s side of the story in a local breaking-and-entering case that had resulted in no charges being filed. Obama even had a “spontaneous” joke at the ready about how he himself would probably get “shot” if he ever tried to break into the White House. The joke, of course, fell flat. Trust me on this one (I used to be the guy who decided whether to file federal charges in Westchester County in the first few years after the Clintons moved there): Outside the courtiers of the White House press corps, no one — especially the Secret Service — likes jokes about American presidents getting shot.
And it is just shameful for an American president to describe the police as “stupid” and feed into the racializing of the Gates case. At this early stage, no one has testified, the matter can’t possibly have been thoroughly investigated yet, and the real facts simply aren’t known. Obama, moreover, is not just the president; he’s a lawyer. He’s supposed to know better — though last night he sounded like exactly the sort of lawyer he used to be back in the good ol’ ACORN days.
(Officer’s response and police report.)
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FCPP – It is insane to ignore the voices of the people at the bottom who witness a lack of accountability and transparency in Indian Country. One candidate for national chief, on his campaign website, said that, “First Nations leadership has been challenged by unfounded assertions of lack of accountability and integrity.”
CBC – British Columbia businessman Shawn Atleo became the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations on Thursday morning when his sole remaining contender conceded defeat after the eighth ballot.
Related: The AFN Needs Fresh Thinking
Just one of the correct answers from the Canadian Citizenship Test (Revised 2009).
An email from Darcy Moen of Second Time Office Equipment;
Second Time Office Equipment has seen a huge influx of 48 pallets (30 tonne) of ewaste come in during the past few days. The public has turned out in a show of support and dropped off more eWaste at our facility than usual. I suspect it has much to do with the multi-media comments coming from your blog, CTF, and radio.
Our yard is totally full, and we are working a double shift to clear some space.
