Reader Tips
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 a video of Ansgarr in The First IT Professional at Work (2:37).
Update: some commenters have reported problems with the above link, if you experience same you may wish to try this alternative recording of the same content.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
2008 Weblog Awards – Results Official
General Categories
Best Blog – Andrew Sullivan
Best New Blog – ~ synthesis ~
Best Individual Blogger – Driftglass
Best Humor Blog – The Comics Curmudgeon
Best Comic Strip – xkcd
Best Online Community – Strobist
Best Liberal Blog – Wonkette
Best Conservative Blog – small dead animals
Best Political Coverage – FiveThirtyEight
Best Celebrity Blogger – Wil Wheaton
Other categories of interest to SDA readers –
Best Science Blog – Watts Up with That
Best Canadian Blog – Ezra Levant
And last year’s runner-up for Best Canadian Blog, Best Diarist – Raymi the Minx
The full list of results is here.
The list of people to thank is long, and will be by necessity, incomplete. First, to the loyal readers here who have put SDA at the top of our category for each of the five years we’ve been nominated!.(Four years as Best Canadian blog, before being retired by the awards committee and moved to the Best Conservative category.)
To our friends in talk radio, John Gormley and Charles Adler for the shout-outs they gave SDA over the past week (and over the past year, for that matter!). As my Dad says – blogging is talk radio for the internet!
Blogging Tories also played a big part, featuring the poll at the main site during the final couple of days.The endorsements from individual bloggers were a great help. They were all appreciated, and as you can see by the margin of victory, every one helped.
Truthfully, my initial goal was to finish somewhere in the middle of the pack. Then, when things began to swing into gear, it became apparent we had an outside shot of pulling it off. But talk about a nail-biter! After a see-saw battle with Ace, SDA didn’t pull into the final lead until about 15 minutes before the polls finally closed.
Speaking of Ace – the morons are great competitors, and what a great blog site. I don’t stop there nearly enough.
Someone called the other day, and asked “what’s next?”. The truth is that there is no “what’s next”. SDA is exactly what it was intended to be, and I have no greater aspirations or ambitions than to do exactly what I am now.
So, as you were.
Except for a few final words to our right leaning compatriots in the US. Some wondered why a blog from rural Saskatchewan had been included in the category… and how it was gaining on them.
Black is white, up is down and a Canadian wins “best conservative” at the Weblog awards.
Had conservatives in the US worked as hard at “getting out the vote” as the SDA Nation did this week, you might be getting ready to welcome Vice-President Sarah Palin today.
US Airways Jet In Hudson River
Links at Drudge
Flashback – Air Canada Cuts Inflatable Life Vests In Order To Save Fuel
Update – Foxnews is reporting that police believe everyone is safely off the plane.
More, including video at Pelalusa blog.
Just In Time For Obama
The New York Times reports that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review — the specialized federal appeals court created by the 1978 FISA statute to rule on questions involving national security surveillance — has reaffirmed that the President of the United States has inherent constitutional authority to monitor international communications without court permission.
The power exists, the court is expected to reaffirm, even when the communications of American citizens are involved.
The ruling, which was classified when made back in December, may be disclosed publicly as early as today. As the Times says (or, shall I say, concedes through gritted teeth?): “In validating the government’s wide authority to collect foreign intelligence, it may offer legal credence to the Bush administration’s repeated assertions that the president has constitutional authority to act without specific court approval in ordering national security eavesdropping.”
Yeah, it may.
It understates the case to say the Bush administration has been slandered for asserting this power — accused of shredding the Constitution and violating the principle that no one is above the law (even as Congress put itself above the law — the Constitution — by enacting and trying to enforce a statute, FISA, that sought to diminish the president’s constitutional authority). It was never true.
Not that it matters. When Obama wants to eavesdrop on foreign terrorists, God simply whispers the transcripts into his ear.
Toronto For Israel Rally
Y2Kyoto: Every Time You Start That Hybrid
A polar bear dies;
Green car owners have apparently complained in such large numbers that the Honda Civic Hybrid isn’t living up to high mileage claims that the carmaker has approached U.S. government regulators about revising its mileage guidelines, according to a lawsuit by one Honda hybrid owner.
A California appellate opinion filed on Monday showed that a Honda customer service representative told Gaetano Paduano, the dissatisfied owner of a 2004 Honda hybrid, that the company had received “a high number of complaints” that the sedan achieves significantly less than its promised mileage of 47-plus miles per gallon.
More evidence that my own rolling Gaia assassin is ultimately greener than the alternative – it’s been 23 years since they made me a new one.
Honda cars from Auto123.com
The Great Grit Split
Sources within the party say that the split between the Jason Cherniak Has Approved This Message and the Go Hamas! Drive The Zionist Entity Into The Sea factions of the Liberal blogosphere lays the groundwork for a coalition of the latter with the Isn’t Our New President Dreamy? and the George Bush Is A Zionist Entity Supporting War Criminal blogrolls … developing…
Taming The Mighty Associated Press
That’s not Art!
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Now they complain.
Israel’s Crippling Blockade Of Gaza
Takes me back to that day in 1993, when President Bill Clinton sent six warships to blockade Haiti.
(Reading the comments, it’s apparent nobody’s figured this one out yet… think, people, think!)
Reader Tips
Good evening, EBD here, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, a real treat for SDA opera buffs: we present Der Holle Rache, aka the Queen of the Night’s Vengeance Aria, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
Opera fans typically love to while away their evenings debating which performer’s version of any given aria is the best one, so tonight we give you two quite different versions of the Queen of the Night Aria, one by French Coloratura Natalie Dessay and one by Florence Foster Jenkins so that SDA readers may decide for themselves which version is best for them. Feel free to discuss the matter, just not in the thread. If you feel it necessary to comment, remember that musical preferences are strictly a matter of taste, so please avoid heated arguments, profanity and all-caps. In my personal opinion, both versions of the aria are exemplary in their own way.
So, grab your opera glasses and work up a persistent scratchy cough, we’re off: first, Der Holle Rache as sung by French coloratura Natalie Dessay, and then by the remarkable Florence Foster Jenkins.
The thread is open for your reader tips.
Hamas Press Conference On Gaza Conflict
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Giant Fans
We’re not running out of oil.
2008 was the second-best year ever for Saskatchewan in terms of actual drilling with 4,045 oil and gas wells created. Most of that attention is focused on the Bakken oil play and the Weyburn-Estevan area.
You’re running out of oil.
“Every single statement by Obama has an expiry date. Every one.”
Just Hanging Out Waiting For The Sentencing Circle
Christopher Pauchay has been rearrested while drinking with his buddies in a local bar.
It could be worse. He might have been babysitting.
If Canada Were The Nation Michael Byers Dreams Of
The Moment Just Before The Rise Of The Oceans Began To Slow
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(Stop being ridiculous. This sort of vehicle is expected to meet the security and safety needs of its passenger, and it’s unfair to compare that to the level of security and safety provided by that planet-killing SUV you bought to drive the kids around in.)
More planet healing austerity…
On The Other Hand, We Did Win Those Wars
And there’s something to be said for that.
The More, The Merrier
When the Nazis show up to march with jihadists, you’re supposed to pray for an asteroid, not provide a police escort.
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Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, we have a special presentation in honour of Tuesday’s results. Dedicated to the lovely and gracious Miss Kate McMillan, here is Mr. Louis Armstrong performing Hello Dolly (2:29, live). And now, if y’all will very much forgive me:
Hello, Katee. This is Vitruvius, Katee.
It’s so nice to see you back where you belong.
You’re lookin’ swell, Katee; I can tell, Katee:
You keep glowin’, still crowin’, you’re still goin’ strong.I feel the room swayin’, while the band’s playin’,
One of our old favourite songs from way back when.
So: take her wrap, fellas, find her an empty lap, fellas,
Katee’ll never go away, oh yeah.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.