“In no field is Hans Christian Andersen’s fable about the Emperor’s new clothes more salient than contemporary art; or, to put it another way, in no commercial field are there so many Bernie Madoffs.”- Theodore Dalrymple
(Related – Against the dehumanization of Art)
Or, how to send a man to the moon using nothing more than a plastic bag and an Electrolux.
h/t Shaken
The United Steel Workers join the AK-47 Of God* in yesterday’s “Wipe the state of Israel off the planet” march.
(Video shot by SDA regular Mississauga Matt)
That’s their promise.
Trudeaupia – more European by the day.
“I guess Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and his best friend the Lying Jackal, and The Guy Who Is Suing Us, were all too busy chasing imaginary Nazis on the internet to be there.
I guess Truffles the Hobbit, the young Liberal Party hack who threatened to take me to court for being an anti-semite (because I joked that he was “too stupid to really be Jewish”) was too busy to be there.
But I was there
(Actually Cherniak has an excuse. He has all he can manage just holding the lid down at Hatelogs.)
Others notice “the curious silence of the CJC and the toilet warriors.”
Like all good Canadian conservatives, I was out for much of the day shoveling snow and clubbing seals.
Down in the United States Of Obamica, Helen Thomas’s fan boys were lounging around their computers, voting. It seems these moist-palmed-throat-slitters are heavily motivated by something they call “sweater puppy” video.
I hesitate to point this out to you Morons, but Helen Thomas has “sweater puppies”, too.
So, allow me to do a little motivating of my own.
Had enough?
No?
Well, let’s just put it this way: Canadian “puppies” don’t hide behind sweaters.
Now, fearless rodent swarm – go vote. Never falter. Ace may have 60K readers a day, but Saskatchewan has 100,000 grain farmers!
In July of 2006, police raided the home of a 21 year old waitress and seized her boots with red laces and her knitting. Due to the actions of courageous Virtual NaziTM hunters, the Canadian government was able to consign the powerful symbols of hatred to a place where tolerant Canadians would never be exposed to them again.
So tell me, you loud, proud defenders of enforced Canadian tolerance – how’s that been working for you?
Or maybe, more to the point – why weren’t you there to confront them?
Because you’re not men enough?
Or because they vote Liberal?
 Plato & Aristotle |
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio and to our new Saturday night Distinguished Lecture, Documentary & Interview series. To provide an overall structure for these shows, at least for the next several months, we’re going to start with the first part of philosophy: metaphysics, that is to say, what exists? From the largest to the smallest, from empty to infinity, what is the fundamental reality we exist in? These questions address the undergirding upon which all else rests, so let’s take a look at some of them first. Then we intend to head toward epistemology and axiology, and eventually politics and art, though there may be deviations from time to time.
Before we get started with tonight’s show, if you are not already familiar with the Hubble telescope’s ultra-deep-field images of galaxies, which Richard refers to near the beginning of his talk below, you may wish to first watch this video: The Most Important Image Ever Taken (6:13). In this video, we find that a little tiny portion of the sky, that until these images we thought was dark, actually contains on the order of ten thousand galaxies (of the roughly hundred billion galaxies that we think exist, each with on the order of a hundred billion stars, which works out to about 10²² stars in total, for those of you keeping score at home).
So now, tonight, without further ado, for your delectation, here is Dr. Richard E. Rothschild‘s excellent talk: The Universe is Rated “R” for Violence (46:03), in which he, a professor of physics at the University of California in San Diego, discusses the changes that are happening on huge scales within known existence, of which neutron-star thermonuclear flash-burning is perhaps my favourite. And you may well say, but Vitruvius, metaphysics is above or beyond physics, so why are we doing physics tonight? Well, it’s because I disagree with that taxonomy. I think that meta-foo includes foo. I don’t want to argue about it, if you don’t agree, just ignore me and watch the videos, already.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Gays hang flags in support of Islamists.
Just like Islamists… oh wait.
More photos of today’s Israel Must No Longer Exist rainbow of peace march.
Via The Torch, news that the University of Guelph is planning to honour a “war criminal”;
The U of G will present the prestigious Lincoln Alexander Outstanding Leader Award to Rick Hillier, the retired Canadian general best known for his big mouth and ties to torture…
They have a poll up. You know what to do!
David Akin also has a few choice words for them.
Update – Jan 11, 2009 – “The editorial written by Scott Gilbert and posted on The Cannon Friday, January 9 has been removed while The Cannon operating committee investigates its appropriateness.”
They have a new poll up, and this one’s even better!
With the help of our provincial government.
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 the Music To Die By episode of Casey, Crime Photographer (1948, MP3, 6.6 MB, 28:36), brought to you by the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation. Interestingly, perhaps, the last word in the show, before station identification, is Canada.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
As if you needed another reason to vote for smalldeadanimals.com as the leading conservative voice in the North American blogosphere…
Insert “wet pussy” joke here.
And they’re not high enough.
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For the ten thousandth time, you silly little conservative simpletons – it’s not anti-semitic to protest the apartheid Zionist entity may their stomachs roast in hell…
(Page here).
Nice friends you have there, Libloggers.
Via Kathy Shaidle – “A reporter on Global-TV last night said police had told her they are expecting 15,000 protestors outside the Israeli embassy on Saturday.”
The segment with Gilbert shows him and another doctor badly faking chest compressions and other life-saving measures on a live boy faking death in what can only be described as political theater. The video claims to be filmed by the brother of a Palestinian teen that claims the boy was one of two purposefully killed by a missile fired at them by an Israeli drone as they played.
[…] CNN editors who swallowed the story of the poorly-acted video unquestioningly—no doubt because it fit the anti-Israeli narrative familiar to CNN viewers and critics—have now pulled the video without explanation, correction, or retraction.
It has also been determined that the videographer who filmed his brother’s “death” is the general manager of a company that hosts web sites for Hamas.
Fake but accurate! While the video is gone, the story remains up at CNN.
The video:
SDA guest blogger Damian Brooks (of The Torch) is heading to Afghanistan;
I can’t say when, but it will be shortly. I can’t say exactly where, nor how long I’ll be gone for. DND is understandably picky about that sort of thing. But if the creek don’t rise, I’ll be posting from over there at some point in the fairly near future, so watch this space.
This is a first for a Canadian blogger. A fairly narrow first, but a first nonetheless: bloggers have served, but not really written about it; American bloggers have embedded with Canadian troops; Canadian bloggers have gone over unilaterally. But to the best of my knowledge, a Canadian blogger has never before been invited on a CF-sponsored visit.
Damian is doing this out of his own pocket. I’ll be hitting his tip jar this morning.
