Other groups pitching the Dragons for “stimulus” cash included the auto sector (represented by former CAW union head Buzz Hargrove), post-secondary students, manufacturers and municipalities for infrastructure funding, and the Suzuki Foundation for “green” spending.
Watch the CTF in action pitching the Dragons on EI premium harmonization, a higher Basic Personal Exemption, and lower, flatter income taxes for Canadians.
This special edition of the Dragons’ Den will air in two-parts on Wednesday, January 21st and Friday, January 23rd during the second half of CBC’s The National News.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage media show and to all those who hope that the President of the United States of America, whomever he or she may be (or in this case, Mr. Obama), won’t be lead in a diabolical direction, here is the silent film version of Faust as directed by F. W. Murnau (1926, 1¾ hours, and there is an English “closed caption” button to the lower right of the viewing window).
| 21:53 | Satan | You have summoned me! |
| 22:43 | Faust | Be gone from me, Satan! |
| 23:22 | Satan | One day! Try it! Just one trial day! |
| 24:28 | Faust | Can you help the hungry and the sick? |
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“They are pursuing a more elite audience, in print and on the Web, abandoning the old Henry Luce notion of catering to the masses.”
The road to survival, no question.
“Well, I’m here in Kandahar.”
Damian Brooks, trusty SDA guest blogger and official embed for The Torch is in Afghanistan.
You can read his first two installments there – Welcome to Two-Way Range and
Winning Percentage.
Three Good Guys And A Bad Guy Post-Racial Moment Of The Day
Inaugural benediction by Rev. Joseph Lowery:
‘Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around… when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen’… “
United States Of Obamica
Brace yourselves…
(captured image)
In a less changier time…
Update – Obaaama! (h/t Jim)
No, You Weren’t Mis-hearing
Via email –
“Was I mis-hearing, or did the great orator flub the oath of office?”
(Nonetheless, this will be a designated “good will” thread – an opportunity to extend our best wishes to the new US President for a safe and successful four years, followed by the longest string of paid speaking engagements in American political history.)
Principles Are Eternal
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Christopher Hitchens
I wouldn’t reconsider my vote for Barack Hussein Obama, in other words, and when he takes the oath, I hope to have a ringside seat. I already know something about “the speech” and its Lincolnian tropes. (If you want your own understated preview, take a look at what he said to the crowd in Baltimore Saturday, as his whistle-stop train made its way from Philadelphia to D.C.’s Union Station.) But, on the last day of his presidency, I want to say why I still do not wish that Al Gore had beaten George W. Bush in 2000 or that John Kerry had emerged the victor in 2004.
The rest is here.
More from Victor Davis Hanson – Bush Considered
When the concept of multiculturalism was introduced to Canadians…
Most assumed it meant more pavilions at folkfest.
“…we’re just trying to educate you of what our options are.”
Flight 1549 For America
Ride For Diabetes – Michael Cole Emails
I was asked to send you an update on the ride as of right now I am in Valemount BC after a bike show in Edmonton , Which went well I had some good media coverage with CTV . Now just a few days from the final mile.
In one way I’m glad its coming to an end with all the worry and stress. The trip has all but bankrupt me. I hope to get lots of media at the end of the ride, after all if it wasn’t for them this trip would have been a waste of time.
The ride was done in the dead of winter to cause a stir and it seems it has partly thanks to you. If you want to see whats up for the end of the ride go to my web site www.ridefordiabetes.com and click “events”.
I haven’t had much sleep since this has started with riding fixing media and answering e mail it has been a long one again – thank you for your interest
– Michael Cole
Consider helping him out if you are able – he’s certainly worked for it.
CTV clip here
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here courtesy of mail from listener Porter are Billie Holiday and The Sound Of Jazz All-Stars performing My Man, He Don’t Love Me (1957, 7:42).
Love is like a faucet,
It turns off and on.
Sometimes when you think it’s on, baby,
It has turned off and gone.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Stop Payment
From the mouths of babes…
Accused terrorist Omar Khadr identified Maher Arar as someone he recognized from an al-Qaida-run “safe” house in Afghanistan, an FBI agent testified in a Guantanamo Bay military commission Monday.
Robert Fuller, who interrogated the Canadian-born terror suspect in October 2002, said Khadr made the identification from a black-and-white photo of Arar provided by FBI in Massachusetts – a state where Arar, now an Ottawa resident, once lived.
“He identified him by name,” Mr. Fuller testified. “He said he had never seen him in Canada.””
Is There Nothing That Hip Hop Can’t Do?
Y2Kyoto: Obama’s Nostradamus
“some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century.” – Dr. John.P Holdren, 1971 (pdf)
Sentences Commuted: Ignacio Ramos And Jose Compean
President George W. Bush has commuted the prison sentences of two former Border Patrol guards whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer ignited debate about illegal immigration.
Bush’s act of clemency on Monday for Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean was a victory for Democratic and Republican members of Congress and others who pleaded with the president to pardon the men or at least commute their sentences.
Like Lovers* Kept From Each Other’s Arms
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Update – the Centre For Urban Schooling “evening with a domestic terrorist” promo.
h/t Carl.
Now They Notice
From the day President Bush took office, the long knives were out for him – in ways they will not (and should not) be out for President-elect Barack Obama. The chattering class saw Dubya as a walking style crime in a cowboy suit. They hit Bush for everything – for the way he mangled syntax, for the books he read, because he worked out too much.
Note now that the buff Obama is taking office, stories gushing about Obama’s daily workouts flood the channels. Oh, yes, and the same people who belittled Bush for sending troops to war even though he only served in the National Guard somehow do not seem to notice Obama’s utter lack of military experience.
More on the acknowledgment that “To trash Bush was to belong”. (h/t)
Related – “The embattled New York Times Co. … is talking to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim about making a sizeable cash investment .”
Baby Boomers
People “carrying placards calling for an end to what was described as a ‘massacre’”.
h/t Stephen J.