For raising the voting age to “owns property”.
Y2Kyoto: Save The Coal-Fired Power Plants
Do it for your kids.
h/t Mystery Meat
Who Can Take Tomorrow? Spend It All Today?
h/t Paul T.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is Mr. Stephen Gordon Hendry, MBE, performing his ninth Perfect 147 Score & II in his competitive career, at the 1999 World Snooker Championship. In this case the big question is, for £157,000: What about the pink?
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“They took my signature”
Oh, dear. Look what we started. “Dhalla faces new allegations from Ont. senior”
Villanueva says Dhalla called and asked her to retract her May 13th retraction. She refused. “They took advantage of my age. They thought I’m not going to fight back. I am fighting back.”
I’ll pay $10 for a photo of Ruby Dhalla with her hands wrapped around a granny’s throat.
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Obama: Not Surrendering Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
May 21: President Obama Gives Major National Security Speech – “Guantanamo became a symbol that helped al-Qaida recruit terrorists to its cause. Indeed, the existence of Guantanamo likely created more terrorists around the world than it ever detained.”
May 21: New York Terror Plot Foiled: “The suspects […] were said to be motivated by anger about Muslim casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan because of U.S.-led military operations there.”
“The implication that I personally, or the club has taken Ms Dhalla’s side is totally false”
Bumped …..Update: this just came across the Canadian Press wire. (No link yet).
“Dhalla issued her own brief statement in response:
“I appreciate Ms. Villanueva’s clarification; however she is not speaking on behalf of all the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club. Many members of the Filipino Seniors Club and community have expressed their support in letters, phone calls and emails.”
Where SDA leads, the mainstream is sure to follow!
(Original post follows below.)
May 7: Filipino Seniors in Support of Dhalla
Maybe not.
To whom it concern:
My name is Aurora G. Villanueva, a member of the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club.
I wanted to clarify my position in relation to the statement made by Ms Dhalla during the inquiry. The letter she presented in the inquiry that was signed by me, but not written by me.. It was prepared by the office of Ms Dhalla.
Full text (note this is an unsigned draft) here and reprinted below the fold.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“And you wonder why so many of us aren’t just unsympathetic, but are actually pointing and laughing at seeing you go down in flames?”
Tommy Douglas: Importing Incompetence
Obama is about to find out* socialized health care’s dirty little secret. Nobody needs to be a doctor.
About 70,000 patient exams in Saskatchewan are being reviewed for possible errors after concerns were raised about the competency of a radiologist.
The review will look at all work done by Dr. L. Darius Tsatsi since he started plying his craft in Saskatchewan in 2004, health officials said Wednesday. It covers people who had X-rays, CT scans, mammography or ultrasound tests.
Most of the tests were done at Yorkton Regional Health Centre over the last five years, but a small number done in Prince Albert and Swift Current will also be reviewed. Tsatsi has worked in all three cities since moving to Saskatchewan from South Africa.”
Y2Kyoto: Beware The Climate-Industrial Complex
Naturally, many CEOs are genuinely concerned about global warming. But many of the most vocal stand to profit from carbon regulations. The term used by economists for their behavior is “rent-seeking.”
Thank Heaven For Small Mercies
America is still not ready for a Rocky Horror Picture Show Revival.
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Welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we feature Egyptian star Sha’ban ‘Abd-al Rahim, who is perhaps best known abroad for his songs “Hey People, It Was Only a Tower and I Swear by God that They Are the Ones Who Pulled it Down” and “I Hate Israel.” In the Egyptian context ‘Abd-al Rahim — who was recently commissioned to compose a jingle for McDonald’s’ new McFalafel sandwich — is a veritable singing catalogue of other, smaller, topical issues as well, and has”released a number of songs…about the dangers of smoking cigarettes and marijuana (‘Abd al-Rahim admits to smoking both), unjust taxes, pollution of the Nile..” and so on. No topic is too quotidian or particular for his lamentational advice. In “Beware of Avian Flu” he sings:
Ducks and pigeons
If you see a dizzy goose, beware of it
or pick up the phone and report it.
Report it.
Even when he’s singing about something as politically charged as the Jyllands-Posten cartoons —
These are crazy people, and their top guy is an idiot
Denmark? They are nothing but pagans.
— he comes across as not angry, but more like a fatalistic cab driver chatting about how the world has gone to hell in a handbasket. Ethnomusicologist James Grippo writes:
“In present-day Egypt, popular music can be discussed as falling into two overlapping categories: sha‘bi and shababi (youth music). Sha‘bi, literally ‘popular,’ but more accurately understood as ‘of the people,’ is the quintessential ‘music of the people,’ a sometimes populist and sometimes popularized manifestation of urban folk music conventionally performed in lower class life-cycle celebrations such as weddings and circumcisions.
“As the reigning sha’bi superstar, Sha’ban ‘Abd al-Rahim is a cultural phenomenon who maintains a delicate balance between ‘fool’ and ‘hero.’ The archetypal ‘fool’ in Middle Eastern culture is Joha, or Goha in Egypt, known endearingly as the wise fool or trickster. Like ‘Abd al-Rahim, Goha ‘is portrayed as either very stupid or miraculously clever.”
Here he is, then: Sha’ban ‘Abd al-Rahim, resplendent in his “gaudy shoes that match either his belt or his outfit (which he says often matches his upholstery and curtains)” performs his catchy Swine Flu Song on Egyptian TV.
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In A Shocking And Unpredicted Turn Of Events
“The moist, dark, warm interior of a folded used reusable bag that has acquired a small amount of water and trace food contamination is an ideal incubator for bacteria.”
This latest discovery of the blatantly obvious has been turned over to the “federal Sub-Committee on Food Safety currently investigating the safety of Canada’s food system, federal and provincial health ministers and medical organizations across Canada with a request for immediate action.”
h/t John B.
This Was The Moment When The Rise Of The Oceans Began To Slow
…and 150,000 manufacturing jobs get vapourized…
Imagine if the President had instead said today, “This new fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions rule will slow the increase in future global temperature seven thousandths of a degree Celsius by the end of this century, and it means the sea will rise six tenths of a millimeter less than it otherwise would over the same timeframe.” It loses some of its punch, no?
h/t
More: “At the same time that the president was announcing the Californication of the country’s automobile fleet, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) was working to push through an anti-energy bill designed to export the Golden State’s failed energy model to the rest of the country. “
Good times!
Previous: “To boldly go where no consumer demand has gone before”
I Have A Dream©
An idea whose time has come – Nationalize Martin Luther King Jr.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and beating up 7 year olds is about to become fashionable again;
City Councils across Britain are calling upon its citizens to become “citizen snoopers”–people who will report on loud neighbours, litterbugs, and even people who take their garbage out on the wrong day. Children as young as seven are being recruited, and so far over 9000 Britainers have signed up.
I like the idea of a list. When Britain finally unravels, they’ll be able to line them up in alphabetical order.
Too Much Democracy
It’s the number one reason that socialists run out of money.
h/t Ed S.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night open music show, here are Béla Fleck and the Flecktones performing Big Country (8:05). Fleck has received Grammy nominations for country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, spoken word, composition, and arranging. To date, he is the only artist to receive nominations in so many categories.
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Not Watching For The Asteroid
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
