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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 are the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing the Overture from Johann Baptist Strauss‘s operetta Die Fledermaus, with one of our favourites here in the studio: Herbert Von Karajan conducting (1987, 8:57).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
The Heartland Institute’s Conference On Climate Change is livestreaming now.
Tonight’s Opening Dinner, starting at 6.30 pm EDT, features Hon. Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, and Richard Lindzen, one of the most prominent climate researchers in the world.
Which should make the Europeans stand up and take notice.
h/t Orlin.
… ground to a halt the day “W” left for Texas.
(Don’t waste too much energy in the comments explaining this one. This is a “one-plus-one-equals” post.)
Plus! Remember now – experience only matters when you’re vice-president!
Is there nothing that Obama cant’ do?
…we are relearning that the “Imperial Presidency” is only imperial when the President is a Republican. Democrats who spent years denouncing George Bush for “spying on Americans” and “illegal wiretaps” are now conspicuously silent. Yet these same liberals are going ballistic about the Bush-era legal memos released this week. Cognitive dissonance is the polite explanation, and we wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Holder released them precisely to distract liberal attention from the Al-Haramain case.
People in Gaza described a silent bomb which is extremely destructive. The bomb arrives as a silent projectile at most with a whistling sound and creates a large area where all objects and living things are vaporized with minimal trace. We are unable to fit this into conventional weapons but the possibility of new particle weapons being tested should be suspected.
A quote from MichaelMoore.com? Jewhatinglefties.org?
Guess again!
Related…
Davis Cup 2009 Sweden vs Israel
In Malmo, Sweden.
Nice clean television version here.
Via Then There Was Light.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite radio and to our regular Saturday night Distinguished Lecture, Documentary, and Interview series. It’s two months now since we started this series, and I think that we’ve pretty much managed to sort of set the domain of discourse for our new series: from metaphysics to epistemology to axiology, that is to say, the stuff I’m interested in. From what, I should select the stuff you’re interested in? That would be a bit presumptuous of me, already, don’t you think?
Anyway, another way to look at this is to take out some of the -ologies, and note that what we are looking at here are existence, knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics. And that seems ok to me. Why not? I mean, we have to fill a whole week’s schedule here in the studio, every week, so it seems reasonable to me to designate some hooks on which to structure our hats.
Nevertheless, it remains the case that, as a result of the searches, previews, and edits I have been conducting over the last couple of months, pursuant to this Saturday night series, I have now managed to accumulate a large enough collection of works, which have passed though my filters, so that I no longer have the ability to structure them into a coherent argument, as I once did. Even if I could in principle, I don’t have the time (things are pleasantly busy here in the lab, um, at work), and besides, who am I to presuppose your interpretation of these works which I have tentatively selected for your delectation?
So, instead, I have written a little computer program to process a file in which I keep a list of all the SDA LNR DLDI Series candidate works queued but not played, to date, and pseudo-randomly choose one show for us each week. Then we, or rather you, dear listeners, at least after having suffered through my initial bloviating as here illustrated, can take the discussion into whatever aspect of the topic you find interesting.
Now you might well ask: what’s the value-added here, Vitruvius? It is, simply, that for you the value-added is that I agree with many of the common tenets here at SDA, and thus I am able to save you the cost of wading through some of the huge piles of steaming crap that exist out there; and that for me: there is one common tenet here at SDA, that is to say, not to speak for Kate, but based on the general tenor of the comments, that I disagree with, and the selection of the shows in this series gives me a chance to address that (as I see it) shortcoming, without putting too fine a point on it.
Without further ado, then, tonight’s pseudo-randomly selected pre-filtered SDA LNR DLDI Series show is Mr. Benjamin Zander presenting his talk: Classical Music with Shining Eyes (20:43).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Has no business prosecuting David Ahenakew.
Related: National Socialist Party of Canada – so far left they’re “ultra-right”!
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
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Speaking of Rush…
Folks, I want to ask you a question. In the so-called trial held in a Canadian court room, a trial to determine whether the defendant was guilty or not guilty of murdering Tim McLean, do you know how many witnesses were called? Two. Both of them psychiatrists, who both agreed that the defendant was not criminally responsible because he was ill. None of the testimony was challenged by the Prosecution because the Prosecution agreed with the Defense on everything of substance and there was no point in challenging testimony they agreed with. So who was representing the victim’s family and the family known as the Canadian people? Were there eyewitnesses to the crime? Dozens of them. The passengers and the bus driver. Why weren’t any of them called? The so-called witnesses who were called, weren’t witnesses of anything. They were two doctors who talked to the accused, who under medication told a story of God and voices. We have no evidence that he is telling the truth, but we are told that he is a sick man, obviously a sick man. Jefferey Dahmer was a sick man. Charles Manson was a sick man. Paul Bernardo was a sick man. Because the man who killed Tim McLean and presumably ate his victim’s eyeballs – because he was sick and is sick – the rest of us are forced to be sickened by the notion that he is saved from a permanent incarceration by his sickness, which the witnesses say can be medicated away.
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 Gerald More as Raymond Chandler‘s most famous character, Philip Marlowe, in The Eager Witness episode of the Adventures Of Philip Marlowe (1949, 27:43).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“I have never understood multiparty democracy. “It is hard enough with two parties to come to any resolution, and I say this very respectfully, because I feel the same way about our own democracy, which has been around a lot longer than European democracy.”
.. and you thought Wright had perished under the bus:
On US radio’s Garrison show today, I was asked for my reaction as a true born Englishman to President Obama’s double insult – first the sending back of the Winston Churchill bust, then his snub to Gordon Brown. “Tough one. Really tough one,” I said, torn – as most of surely are – between delight at seeing Brown roundly humiliated, and dismay at having the special relationship so peremptorily, cruelly and bafflingly ruptured.
Iain Martin is quite right here: no matter how utterly rubbish we have become as a nation in the Blair/Brown years, Britain’s friendship is something Obama will come to regret having dispensed with so lightly. This was not the act of a global statesman, but of a hormonal teenager dismissing her bestest of best BFs for no other reason than that she felt like it and she can, so there.
I wonder how many sermons Mr. Wright gave on “gift giving”? It is truly, the thought that counts:
Some time later, Sarah Brown (the Prime Minister’s wife) showered little Sasha and Malia Obama with gifts, including a half-dozen carefully selected children’s books by British authors not yet available in the States, and outfits from British boutique Topshop, which just recently opened up its first American location in New York City.
First Lady Michelle Obama, however, apparently sent a helper down to the White House gift shop and picked up, for the Browns’ sons Fraser and John, two models of the presidential helicopter, Marine One. Each model, it seems, retails for $15 in the aforementioned gift shop. How thoughtful.
crossposted @ Cjunk
… what if they are both wrong?
The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system. According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation. In this paper the popular conjecture is analyzed and the underlying physical principles are clarified. By showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no calculations to determine an average surface temperature of a planet, (c) the frequently mentioned difference of 33 C is a meaningless number calculated wrongly, (d) the formulas of cavity radiation are used inappropriately, (e) the assumption of a radiative balance is unphysical, (f) thermal conductivity and friction must not be set to zero, the atmospheric greenhouse conjecture is falsified.
In the meantime, “Never Waste a Good Crisis”
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and there’s a new directive out from the Ministry of Silly Walks…
Teachers are being told they cannot chase children who run away from school, and must “track” them and call police instead.
They have been told that running after primary age pupils breaches “safe handling” rules because it can lead them to flee faster.
The advice came to light after a mother criticised teachers for calling officers rather than stopping her four-year-old son themselves when he ran away from school.
…to build upon past programs.
Conservative housecleaning day in Ontario.
