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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Take Five show yesterday, here are Al Jarreau, Tom Canning, Jerome Rimson, and Nigel Wilkinson, performing Take Five ¤, in Germany, in 1976 (8:03). By the way, tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Hawes’ Wensleydale. There’s something about this cheese, like the Lancashire that we previously featured, that just says, never mind the bubbles or the blue veins: this is cheese.

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

“Texas now hosts more Fortune 500 companies than any other American state.”

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Via Paul Tingley, who writes;

On a personal note: I went to a mutual fund (sustainable or green funds) seminar this spring put on by TD Brokerage. A young man beside me said that the highly intelligent people from the US coasts were going to lead America to a brighter future now that the red-neck knuckle-dragger states were no longer in power. I suggested that a more likely scenario would be that some of those un-intellectual states, led by Texas, would probably secede after the geniuses in NY and California go bankrupt.

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our occasional flights of fantasy show, here is episode seventeen from the second year of the classic Hogan’s Heroes series: The General Swap ¤, II ¤, & III ¤, from 1967 (½ hour).

  1. Just so you know that tonight’s show isn’t ill-considered, folks, I watched over a dozen episodes of Hogan’s Heroes just in order to select one most appropriate to present to you, dear SDA listeners. Well, and maybe a little bit because I like to watch Hogan’s Heroes; I don’t know about that.
  2. Once you agree to suspend your disbelief for the sake of the exercise, there are a few really brilliant comedic effects in tonight’s show. Of course, I can’t give them away, because that would spoil it for you, so, I guess, you’ll just have to watch the whole thing.
  3. Notice the production values, in particular in terms of line, colour, contrast, texture, layout, and shadow. It’s quite well done, don’t you think, looking at it as a popular surrealist television show from that era? I mean, consider the still shown by the link in the upper-right, for example.

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

“The solution to perceived market manipulation is overt market manipulation.”

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That’s what federal regulators are saying with Tuesday’s announcement that they will consider curtailing “excessive speculation” in energy markets. The move comes in response to last year’s spike in oil prices, which soared to a record $145 a barrel a year ago next week and pushed gasoline prices above $4 at the pump in many parts of the country. Since the start of this year, crude prices have jumped 42 percent, even though the recession has crimped demand and storage tanks are full.
Speculators must be to blame.
No one seems upset about last fall, though, when those same speculators helped drive down prices by more than $111 a barrel in the last five months of the year.

Another good piece at Rigzone.

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Readers may note that the preponderance of items posted here in recent days are decidedly non-Canadian in content.
This is due in no small part to the fact that the number one story in Canadian politics at the moment is a controversy involving the Prime Minister and a cracker.
I mention this, not to invite further debate, but to offer that if you are a Canadian news journalist or pundit who has not yet been launched from a bridge railing in celebration of your complete and utter uselessness, there may still be time.
(Update)

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Good evening ladies, and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, well, you know, we have to, at some point, or other, in the history of SDA LNR, do this, so, tonight, here, for your delectation, and without further ado, are Mr. Lester Flatt, and Mr. Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys, performing Foggy Mountain Breakdown ¤, at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1965 (1:47). By the way, shouldn’t I get some kind of award, or other, for run-on comma-phrases, yet, already?

I mean seriously: there were 25 commas in that paragraph!

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome, in the comments, eh, what?

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

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Associated Press, February ’09 – “President Barack Obama promised a nation shuddering in economic crisis Tuesday night that he would lead it from a dire “day of reckoning” to a brighter future, summoning politicians and public alike to shoulder responsibility for hard choices and shared sacrifice.”
Accuracy in Media, July ’09 – Barack Obama’s White House is spending more than $80,000 a week to staff its old and new media offices. Add the price of speechwriters and the White House communications tab reaches nearly $100,000 a week, or nearly $5 million a year-and that is for salaries alone.
(Via The Virginian)

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