Rush Limbaugh has a national approval rating.
This Must Be A Trick
A poll that asks to go horribly wrong, offered up to a blogosphere where there are people who can make it happen…
Update – on display, the spectacular reading comprehension skills of today’s Liberal. “Small Dead Animals is lobbying her readers to get me to stop! Is she a scared dead animal, or something?”
Can anyone point out to me where I’ve told readers how to vote? No, they can’t. Because that would be cheating, and cheating is for Liberals!
Upperdate – The poll is rapidly and abruptly closed. With the “pier option” rapidly overtaking all others that were once on offer, it looks like someone’s afraid of the democratic will of the people, or in other words – a Liberal.
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Talibanistan
A Mother Needs A Girl Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
Some of them might have grown up to be feminists, so it’s not all bad.
United States Of Obamica: Not Broke Enough
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
“The federal government ran a deficit in April for the first time in 26 years, pushing the red ink so far this budget year to a record $802.3 billion.”
“…it is indeed a good time to work for the Feds. Through the magic of compounding, my pay has increased by nearly 15% since my start date! No promotions or “step increases”, just the annual cost of living adjustment.”
Reader Tips
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 with our old friend Mr. Cab Calloway and his big band, in what Fred Astaire once called “the greatest dance number ever filmed”, are Fayard Nicholas & Harold Nicholas, the Nicholas Brothers, in their famous performance of Jumpin’ Jive, from the movie Stormy Weather, in 1943 (4:48).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
BC Election Open Thread
I haven’t been following the ins and outs of the BC election at all (blogging takes a back seat to work commitments in recent days), except perhaps to wonder if Gordon Campbell isn’t about to learn the one truism right-leaning* politicians seem most incapable of grasping – pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends**.
*I use that term extremely loosely in this case.
**Related – Who owns BC? (h/t Jema54)
The First American Prime Minister In Hiding
From Ignatieff’s first scrum;
Question: So you take [Ruby Dhalla] at her word but not the nannies? You can’t have both.
Michael Ignatieff: Merci
Heh.
The Norbert Leslie Dumais Political Compass
“People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.”
Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is threatening to pull state business from Wells Fargo & Co. unless the bank stops trying to liquidate a company that makes suits for President Barack Obama.
Giannoulias made the ultimatum outside a Hartmarx Corp. factory in Des Plaines Thursday. Chicago-based Hartmarx is the nation’s largest maker of men’s tailored clothing.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Jan. 23. It employs about 3,000 workers represented by the Service Employees International Union.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
More here –
Alexi Giannoulias is another key Obama ally and a banking scion. He was elected Illinois State Treasurer in 2006, when Obama was one of the few officeholders backing him. For once, Obama did not back the favored candidate of the machine — that was Paul Mangieri, who had been endorsed by the Illinois Democratic Party, the state party chairman, forty-one state lawmakers, and most statewide officeholders. Instead, Obama endorsed the candidate whose family institution, Broadway Bank, had been loaning money to mafia figures.
You can take the politician out of Chicago, but ….
Y2Kyoto: Franklin Expedition – The Next Generation
In the end, our intrepid Arctic explorers did not resort to cannibalism;
According to the Catlin website, the team plans to leave the Arctic later this week. I believe that they have done a fantastic job educating the public about the Arctic. Their mission has been followed breathlessly by BBC and Guardian reporters, who previously believed that the Arctic had melted and become a place for sunbathing.
Following the daily reports of ice, cold, frostbite, hypothermia, pain and general misery being endured by the team – even the most daft newspaper reporter must be aware now that the Arctic is a very cold and icy place.
[…]
This education for the public on the enduring cold of the Arctic is not marred by the fact that they failed to deliver on many early promises, including reaching the North Pole. Maybe this is why the press is pretty much ignoring them now, with only 14 hits in a Google News search for “Catlin Arctic Ice Survey”.
Oh well. There’s always next time.
The Future Of Iraq
The first of a four part series by Michael Totten;
During my last trip to Baghdad I tried to figure out if the worst in Iraq is over or if the dramatic reduction in violence is just a long lull. Half the Iraqis and half the Americans I spoke to were optimistic. The other half think Iraq is probably doomed. I have no idea who’s right, and neither does anyone else. This is the first in a four-part series where I’ll present both cases and let you decide what to think for yourself. We’ll start with the good news.
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough
If US health care is so much more expensive than ours….
….how come they drive nicer cars?
Reader Tips
Vladimir Horowitz once said that if Art Tatum ever took up classical music seriously, Horowitz would quit the next day. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here is Mr. Art Tatum performing Antonín Dvořák‘s Humoresques No. 7, in G-flat major, Op. 101, B. 187 (2:46). I wonder what Dvořák would have thought of what Tatum does at 0:48 &c ?-)
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
The First 100 Days
h/t Karl
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
How do you say “Not worth living in unless they’ll make you Prime Minister” in Latin?
The Childrens Is Are Futcher
High school students and their families might be surprised to learn that computers at the Ministry of Education take every final grade of 48 and 49 per cent and bump it up to a passing grade of 50.
Furthermore, explains Darryl Hunter, executive director of accountability, assessment and records with the ministry, when a student obtains a grade of between 44 and 49 per cent in a class, and that one mark stands in the way of graduation, the ministry will also nudge it up to 50 per cent.
The point, Hunter says, is to give students who are extremely close to passing the benefit of the doubt.
It’s odd that nobody asks why knowing only 50% of the required material should get you a passing grade in the first place.
Via John Gormley Live
Honey, I Finished The Internet
One Man’s Terrorist Is Another Man’s Liberal Voting Bloc
Hey Sri Lanka, would you just hurry up and finish them off so traffic can get back to normal? Via email;
It seems the Tamils have decided to, in my boss’ words, “take Toronto hostage”. Following news coverage for the last three hours, she says they have closed down the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway, University Avenue (where they have been protesting for nearly two weeks) and Spadina Avenue. Her husband has been trying to get out of the downtown core to his home in Oakville and is finding it incredibly difficult to get anywhere.
CP24 is reporting that protesters are set to clear the Gardiner Expressway after hearing from Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff’s office. Police are currently in the process of opening the Dundas and University corridor as well. According to one protest spokesman, Mr. Ignatieff’s office has promised to bring up the issue of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Sri Lanka with the government in Ottawa. “It was a spontaneous event,” the Tamil spokesman said in an interview with CP24.
As I said – one man’s terrorist is another man’s voting bloc.
Plus! – a helpful map for immigrants to Toronto. Truthfully, I just don’t know why McGuinty doesn’t simply redeploy the OPP from Caledonia, to prevent any interference should Tamils decide next to dig up asphalt to erect permanent barricades, claim ownership of a few downtown buildings, and play toss-the-minivan off that overpass.
QOTD: “Typical Toronto. We call in the army to clear snow, but we can’t get a few thousand scofflaws off a highway.”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is Alfred Brendel performing Franz Schubert‘s Piano Sonata in B flat, D. 960, Parts I & II, in 1988 (~15 minutes).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.