Reader Tips

Reader Tips 17 Comments
 
 

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our second of three special
Apollo 11
editions of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to that singular time in history forty years ago, here is some
documentary coverage, The Eagle Has Landed, and here is the original Man On The Moon, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, & VIII broadcast coverage, as you would have seen it, live, on television, landing on the moon at 20:17 GMT on July 20, 1969, with twenty-five seconds of fuel left, and then setting foot on the surface of the moon, at 02:56 GMT on July 21 1969. And lastly, here is some documentary coverage from the Lunar Ascent at 17:54 GMT later that day.

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

Hope, Change, Porkulus

The One 51 Comments

Quote of the Day Update;

“As God as my witness, I thought hams could fly…..”

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
porkulus.jpg
h/t Speedy
Note: This has been reported as “debunked” as the order was for a whole bunch of 2 lb hams. Actually, this company received two such contracts, the other for over $2 million. Apparently, frozen ham is a key component in the rebuilding of California’s crumbling infrastructure…
There’s plenty of other stimulus entertainment to be had if you have time to search the small contracts on this page.
Monday morning chain yank at Drudgereport:
SPENDING SCARED: WHITE HOUSE PUTS OFF RELEASE OF BUDGET UPDATE…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR ‘HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB’…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR ‘2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED’…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR ‘REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER’…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR ‘MOZZARELLA CHEESE’…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR ‘PROCESS CHEESE’…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $16,784,272 FOR ‘CANNED PORK’…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,444,100 FOR ‘REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112’…
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $541,119 FOR ‘INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNAL’…
And the USDA response on Drudge Item on Recovery Act Funding. Heh.

Kelowna Fires

stuff 39 Comments

A quick note and photos from SDA reader “Ron from Kelowna”, who remains a safe distance from the fires and advises “We’re ok right here. Forests very dry. Fires are about 3 miles from us. The problem yesterday was the wind. Today so far is calm. Divide the “news” reports by an order of magnitude !!”
Mount Boucherie looking SW
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Still, for those with property closer to the fires, I’m sure it’s an uneasy time.

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 22 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Mr. Fats Domino performing Blueberry Hill, in 1956 (1:36). This up-tempo version of Bobby Cerdeira, Al Lewis & Larry Stock’s 1940 song reached #2 in the Top 40, and was #1 on the R&B charts for 11 weeks. It was Domino’s biggest hit, selling more than 5 million copies worldwide in 1956-57.

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

Y2Kyoto: In Case You Haven’t Noticed

Roadkill 31 Comments

We’re winning;

General Electric has pulled the plug on its Earth Rewards MasterCard program due to lack of interest, ClimateWire reports.
A first-of-its-kind program, card users could set aside 1 percent of the value of their purchases for carbon offset projects.

Meanwhile… congressman Mike Castle (R – Delaware), meets his constituents at a town hall meeting three days after voting in favour of cap and trade. Things get really interesting at about the 4 minute mark.

(via WUWT)

The First American Prime Minister In Waiting

The Libranos 89 Comments

Damn.
Here’s a man I could have voted for…

Following a 2005 lecture at the University of Dublin’s Trinity College, Ignatieff excoriated Canadians for trading on Canada’s “entirely bogus reputation as peacekeepers” for 40 years and for favouring “hospitals and schools and roads” over international citizenship. “If you are a human rights defender and you want something done to stop [a] massacre, you have to go to the Pentagon, because no one else is serious,” Ignatieff said.
“It’s disgusting in my own country, and I love my country, Canada, but they would rather bitch about their rich neighbour to the south than actually pay the note,” he said, in response to a question about peacekeeping. “To pay the bill to be an international citizen is not something that they want to do.”

Of course, that means he’d have been running for office in the US, and I’d be voting Republican.

Mo’s Kind Of Town, Chicago Is

Religion Of Submission 17 Comments

FNC;

A group committed to establishing an international Islamic empire and reportedly linked to Al Qaeda is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq’s onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades.
Now, it is coming out of the shadows and openly hosting a July 19 conference entitled, “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam,” at a posh Hilton hotel in a suburb of Chicago.

More here: – “Hizb ut-Tahrir: An Emerging Threat to U.S. Interests in Central Asia” (2003)
h/t

Reader Tips

Uncategorized 34 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, and pursuant to SDA LNR Archive Maintenance, we have a new version of one of the top dozen available Interwebothique Late Nite Radio Shows that we listed here when we officially started this gig over a year ago, which is a good thing since that version we had previously linked to has long since gone away, and for bonus points, not only that, but both the audio and the video are better in this version, and there are lyrics too, already. So, then, without further ado, here are James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti performing It’s a Man’s World ¤ (4:40).

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

California: Not Dysfunctional Enough!

Juxtapose! 26 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
July 6th – “San Ramon, California-based Chevron has dismissed 100 construction workers and other contractors since July 2 and plans to send another 900 home by the end of August after Contra Costa County Superior Judge Barbara Zuniga last month ruled the environmental permit covering the project was inadequate. “
July 17th – “On Wednesday, authorities shut down most of the operations of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the largest court system in the country […] Presiding Judge Charles McCoy said he was forced to take the step in anticipation of a 138-million-dollar funding shortfall for the fiscal year that began this month. “
h/t Adam B.

SWEEP: Revisiting The Rent Seekers

Gopher News 8 Comments

SDA: August 13, 2007:

In, Feb 2006, EPSC submits an industry led product stewardship plan to the Government of Saskatchewan. In May 2006, the Government of Saskatchewan approves the stewardship plan submitted. (Well, it appears that the EPSC has found its compliant Government.)
Shortly there after, EPSC then creates a non profit organization called SWEEP to administer the plan.
Now, let’s have a look at the board of directors of SWEEP:
We see Sean DeVries of Panasonic Canada as Chair, Nick Aubry of Sony Canada, Rebecca Brown of Dell Canada, etc, etc, etc and David Betts of EPSC as Executive Director. Oh, wait a moment, let’s have a look at the board of directors of EPSC. (See: http://www.epsc.ca/a_board.html) We see the brands of Dell Canada , Sony Canada , Panasonic Canada listed (amongst a few other well known brands such as HP, Toshiba, etc) and David Betts as President and CEO of EPSC. (David Betts has recently stepped down and has been replaced)
What is up with this? Many of the same people and companies of EPSC are also represented on the board of SWEEP. It would appear that the industry not only makes products, but it is now in charge of the disposal of the same products they make. Have the foxes just been put in charge of the hen house?
Can we trust electronic producers to police? Has our government sold our environment out to product producers or representatives of producer’s interests? How independent and arms length is this program, and does it represent the public’s best interests? Or does this ewaste program reflect only the interests of the corporations behind it?
These might be some very tough questions to put to the Minister responsible.
Who is exactly paying for development of the SWEEP program? Again, I refer to Mr. David Betts’ speech in Orlando : (see: http://www.epsc.ca/pdfs/betts_orlando_speech.pdf) and I quote: ‘We consider the financing we have received an advance that will be paid back to members following program introduction.’
Just how much money raised from Ewaste recycling fees are being diverted to repay EPSC and it’s member companies? Can the general public who is PAYING ewaste fees every time they purchase a computer or television review or audit the funds and how they are spent?

Canadian Taxpayers Federation: July 17, 2009

As the largest e-recycler in Saskatchewan, Moen’s business was already recycling 60 tonnes of e-waste per month before SWEEP ever existed. Recycling was profitable enough without any government programs. Moen picked up unwanted electronics for free and refurbished what he could for resale. The rest was dismantled and the remaining gold, silver, lead, cadmium, mercury, ferrous metal and plastic was separated and recycled.
Yet, Moen’s company was shut out from SWEEP by the provincial government. Instead, SARCAN became the sole collection agency for the SWEEP program. SARCAN would have the computers dismantled, while all televisions and monitors would go to eCycle Solutions, an Alberta-based company. That company also recycles e-waste collected from other government-mandated recycling programs established in British Columbia and Alberta.
Moen’s competitive disadvantage in the current climate is made clear on the eCycle website. There eCycle admits, “Because we are government subsidized our services represent a significant cost savings for you”; Nearly $2.3 million was spent by SWEEP on collection, processing, and its environmental audit last fiscal year, almost all of which was sent to eCycle and facilities contracted out by SARCAN. Unfortunately for consumers, SWEEP collected more than twice as much ($6.2 million) in Environmental Handling Fees (read: taxes) during that time.
Even greater excesses could soon follow, to the harm of recyclers like Moen and consumers alike. By 2010, SWEEP expects to expand its application of eco-taxes. The EPSC has already identified a list of items to tax, including: copiers, palm pilots, scanners, telephones, cell phones, stereos, speakers, MP3 players, iPods and DVD players.
The worst part is that, unlike private sector recyclers such as Moen, SWEEP has had much talk but little action on refurbishing and re-using electronics. Not only is this worse for the environment, this leaves second-hand computer stores in Saskatchewan having to import products from out-of-province.

Call your SaskParty MLA. They were elected to rid us of the NDP mindset, not emulate it.

“Australia’s government nannies have officially banned 1,370 web sites.”

Freespeechers 45 Comments

Ezra Levant;

They’ve drawn up a blacklist, just like the medieval index of banned books. Right now it’s a voluntary pilot project to which Internet service providers can submit. But if the trial run is deemed a success and made law, anyone who links to a blacklisted site can be fined $11,000 a day. That means it will be a crime not just to provide the contents of a web site, but to merely reproduce its address.
That’s not just like banning books. It’s like banning books, and banning saying the banned book’s title. It’s a lot of banning.
But here’s the tricky part: the government won’t even say what those 1,370 banned web sites are. It’s secret. So there are 1,370 web sites out there that could result in your criminal prosecution in Australia. But you won’t find out what they are — until you link to one of them. That’s right out of Alice in Wonderland. The pretzelian logic goes like this: if the Australian government were to list those 1,370 banned web sites, then not only would they be breaking the rules themselves, but that list would serve as an advertisement. Out of the billions of web pages on the Internet, 1,370 would be given special attention, inviting anyone curious to check them out.
Of course, people who compile the secret blacklist know what’s on it. But apparently they can be trusted not to succumb to the temptation to look at the sites. And the list was sent to selected Australian Internet companies for a trial run. That didn’t work out quite as well. The list was leaked to Wikileaks, the web site that specializes in publishing confidential documents, especially embarrassing internal government memoranda.
And that’s when things got even weirder. Wikileaks published the entire blacklist on one of its pages. So now that Wikileaks page, too, has been added to the blacklist. It’s number 1,371.

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 42 Comments
 
 

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Sweet performing Love Is Like Oxygen from their Level Headed album, in 1978 (7:14).

Nota bene: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the daily SDA Reader Tips entry. It is a place that is provided for you, dear reader, to alert other SDA readers to various level-headed tips you might have, in order to alleviate the shame and embarrassment that would arise from being off-topic in other SDA entries. How to remove wax from a carpet is a tip, SDA is like oxygen is a tip, that Mark Steyn has a great new article here is a tip, if the Large Hadron Collider sees a Higgs Boson that will be a tip, I could go on and on: tips is a pretty broad category. And, the daily Reader Tips entry is a place to make occasional comments about said posted Reader Tips, including the opening LNR tip, comments on those comments, and so on, to a degree.

That all makes sense: not enough and you’re gonna’ die. Nevertheless, you get too much you get too high: Reader Tips is not a place for copying and pasting vast tracts of text from other publications. That’s not only illegal, it’s actually rude. Use a link. It is not a place for you to go on and on and on and on trying to convince all SDA readers that you are righteously correct about some pet peeve of yours. Get your own blog for that, then post an excerpt from and link to your essay here. It is not a place for posting ill-formatted run-on comments. Be considerate of your readers. It is not a debating society. I wish it was, but Kate says it isn’t. And it is not a place for school-yard name-calling of those you don’t agree with.

There is a reason for my saying all this, and that is that to the degree that Reader Tips becomes overrun by excessive commentitis from a small number of activist commenters, signals from otherwise legitimate and possibly interesting SDA Readers’ Tips become lost in the noise of the verbodiarrheic, thus lowering the overall Shannon information value of the exercise for all of us. Remember, my job here (in Reader Tips) is to be like a host to the guests of Reader Tips, and that means I have to know when to (and be willing to) invoke the bouncers (and I am).

Therefore, in order to be reasonable to all the guests of Small Dead Animals who might like to post occasional Reader Tips and occasional comments thereupon, I say to those of you who have recently been trying to use these Reader Tips entries as if they were your personal blog: don’t do that any more. I’m not asking anyone to go away or to not talk about something, it’s just that this is the world-famous Small Dead Animals, so try to be reasonable, please.

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

We Learned To Love It

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 82 Comments

You will too.

It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

And after that, they’ll make private billing from your doctor illegal, and private “for profit” diagnostics illegal, and well, there’s not a lot they won’t make illegal to ensure that you, your doctor, your technicians, and your nurses don’t desert the system for greener pastures.
And while you may not learn to love things like “doctor shortages”, “temporary acute care bed closures”, and “dying on waiting lists” right away, your children and grandchildren will, because politicians and union leaders and grade school educators – really, all the leading intellectual lights of your nation – will be hard at work from this day forward, instilling in them the conviction that the health care services they are prohibited from receiving are a cornerstone of your national identity.
So enough with the dissent.
As Canadians can tell you, it’s unpatriotic.

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