Not Waiting For The Asteroid

Media 72 Comments

Y2Kyoto: Remember To Speak In TALKING POINTS

May 4, 2009

Baiting The Left 41 Comments

NYT;

Instead of grim warnings about global warming, the firm advises, talk about “our deteriorating atmosphere.” Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up “moving away from the dirty fuels of the past.” Don’t confuse people with cap and trade; use terms like “cap and cash back” or “pollution reduction refund.”

Missing from the article – “When faced with credible arguments, smear your opponents by invoking the Holocaust.” (link fixed)

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May 4, 2009

Reader Tips 50 Comments

Pick to View

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 the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, performing Richard Strauss‘s Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Part I, Part II, Part III, & Part IV, Antonio Pappano conducting (about ½ hour). Note that the four trumpets in C that are scored for Also Sprach Zarathustra are, in this case, rotary valve trumpets with conical bores, of the German style that one might expect Strauss to have used, and like the Weril ER4011 shown to the right. Now there’s something you don’t see every day.

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

The Things They Don’t Tell You At The CBC

The One 63 Comments

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… it’s a 27 point drop in 100 days.
h/t

“One hundred million there”

The One 21 Comments

” … $100 million here, pretty soon, even in Washington, it adds up to real money…”

Via Megan McCardle

The First American Prime Minister In Waiting

The Libranos 88 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Only name on the ballot, May 2, 2009 – “Ignatieff won 97 per cent of the votes of the 2000-odd delegates at the party’s three-day convention. “
Only name on the ballot, Oct.16, 2002 – “Iraqi officials say President Saddam Hussein has won 100% backing in a referendum on whether he should rule for another seven years. “
h/t Phil

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 41 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is Nobel laureate Dr. Kary Mullis, chemistry professor and co-discoverer of the Polymerase Chain Reaction, presenting his talk: Celebrating the Scientific Experiment (31:33).

There are, in terms of available historic data, a large number of readers here at SDA who understand and appreciate natural curiosity and skepticism; science, experimentation, and empiricism; and the dangers presented by scientific bureausclerosis, and worse, ideological charlatanism, such as that proselytized by enviro-wieners like the climate change apocalyptists (for example). Fortunately, Dr. Mullis covers all that, and the matter of frogs’ natural desire for space flight, thus it is that I think that it may be the case that a non-trivial fraction of SDA LNR listeners might appreciate Kary’s talk.

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

Canuck Of Convenience

The Libranos 52 Comments

Oh man, doesn’t this…

“Convention sources explain that the number “23” was chosen to commemorate the years the 61 year old Prime Ministerial wanna-be is thought to have actually resided in Canada.”

… just take you back?

In related news – “you can take the professor out of the party, but … eh… nevermind.”
h/t Mike W.

Is Your Children Leftist?

Great Moments In Socialism 22 Comments

Under “things I didn’t know, but might have guessed“…

Like the more famous Teach for America, the New York Teaching Fellows program provides an alternate route to state certification for about 1,700 new teachers annually. When I met with a group of the fellows taking a required class at a school of education last summer, we began by discussing education reform, but the conversation soon took a turn, with many recounting one horror story after another from their rocky first year: chaotic classrooms, indifferent administrators, veteran teachers who rarely offered a helping hand. You might expect the required readings for these struggling rookies to contain good practical tips on classroom management, say, or sensible advice on teaching reading to disadvantaged students. Instead, the one book that the fellows had to read in full was Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire.

h/t Peter G.

Featured Comment

Featured Comment 126 Comments

Reader Brian Mallard is looking for input;

I am going to be in Ottawa this coming week. I will attend a meeting where the prime minister will take questions in an open forum. There are no media in the room. What question would you ask if you had the chance?

You Don’t Pull The Mask Off The Old Lone Ranger

Blogging 23 Comments

And you don’t mess around with SDA.

The Tolerant Left

The Tolerant Left 131 Comments

“Judge should decide whether veils allowed in court”

More Pavilions At Folkfest 19 Comments

When the concept of multiculturalism was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”…
h/t Revnant Dream

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 46 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is Brian Donlevey in the role of Steve Mitchell in the Lefty & Sam episode of the Dangerous Assignment radio show (1950, 28:26).

While I don’t intend to add a daily cheese function to SDA LNR, in the comments on last night’s cheese selections (which is an occasional feature here at SDA LNR, where we once learned that Charles MacDonald actually likes Tomme de Savoie), ET mentioned her favourite cheese, and due to what my browser history list now shows in retrospect was an erroneous search query, I mistakenly suggested or at least could have been interpreted to have suggested that said cheese couldn’t be found via the normal Interwebothique search facilities. To correct that we have here tonight the second of two nights in a row of tonight’s cheese selections: Delice de Bourgogne, courtesy of ET, and Explorateur, a recommendation thereto that I have for her. De gustibus non disputandum est!

Delice de Bourgogne

Explorateur

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

Taking The Hunt To The Witches

The One 63 Comments

They said that if you voted for McCain, dissenters would be targeted by the White House – and they were right!

“A group of investment firms and hedge funds decided to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout. They were hoping that everybody else would make sacrifices and they would have to make none,” Obama said.
“I don’t stand with them,” Obama said. “I stand with Chrysler’s employees and their families and communities. I stand with Chrysler’s management, its dealers and its suppliers. I stand with the millions of Americans who own and want to buy Chrysler cars.”

I heard this over the car radio yesterday, so didn’t blog about it then, but my thoughts were similar to Stephen Spruiell’s;

Does that mean he doesn’t stand with the thousands of Americans who have retirement plans with Oppenheimer Funds? […] Not everyone showed this kind of backbone. I don’t know about you, but knowing that Oppenheimer’s managers were willing to stand up to immense political pressure on behalf of their investors kind of makes me want to open an account there.

Politico – “It’s clear that the White House thinks the politics of battling unnamed “speculators” works in its favor.”
Last month he sparked the Great National Rile-Up over AIG bonuses, now this.
The hopey-changy agenda becomes clearer by the day – what Bush did for terrorism, Obama will do for witches.

“Soldiers too, are dying by the dozens.”

Little Known Facts 45 Comments

From a nurse’s letter written during the 1918 Flu Pandemic, before America lost its moral bearings.*

Two German spies, posing as doctors, were caught giving these Influenza germs to the soldiers and they were shot last Saturday at sunrise. It is such a horrible thing, it is hard to believe, and yet such things happen almost every day in Washington.

Flip That House

Hey Canada, You Voted For Him

Juxtapose! 65 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Toronto Star, March 2008: “Obama would win in Canada: Poll”
National Post, April 2009: “It boils down to the fact a very large number of Canadian companies, who have been competing in the U. S. for decades, have been told overnight that they can’t sell to the U. S.”

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