Today’s New Years dinner – “special needs” turkey
Uncle Jay Sings The News
h/t to a whole bunch of you.
Y2Kyoto: Consider This Your Global Warming Warning, Calgary
h/t Kathryn C.
Environment Canada
Western Media Swings En Masse To Cheer Hamas
The turning point.
Always Look At The Bright Side Of Life
Channel 4’s Dorothy Byrne defends her network’s choice of Christmas messenger;
“As the leader of one of the most powerful states in the Middle East, President Ahmadinejad’s views are enormously influential. As we approach a critical time in international relations, we are offering our viewers an insight into an alternative world view.”
To mark the historic event, Hamas legislators in Gaza legalize crucifixion.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our 2009 New Year Show, here are Andre Rieu, The Johann Strauss Orchestra, and The European Pipe Band performing Auld Lang Syne (3:40).
And here are the SDA Commenter Statistics for 2008.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Out With The Old
Thanks to each and every one of you – guest bloggers, commentors, tipsters, donors, linkers, and readers for helping make 2008 the best-ever year at SDA.
Everyone have a safe and happy New Year! I’ll do my best, with your help, to keep up the pace in ’09.
Times Square Earth Cam
“We have to stop the existence of parallel societies within our society.”
More pavilions at Cultuur Markt!
Two weeks ago, the country’s biggest left-wing political grouping, the Labor Party, which has responsibility for integration as a member of the coalition government led by the Christian Democrats, issued a position paper calling for the end of the failed model of Dutch “tolerance.”
It came at the same time Nicolas Sarkozy was making a case in France for greater opportunities for minorities that also contained an admission that the French notion of equality “doesn’t work anymore.”
But there was a difference. If judged on the standard scale of caution in dealing with cultural clashes and Muslims’ obligations to their new homes in Europe, the language of the Dutch position paper and Lilianne Ploumen, Labor’s chairperson, was exceptional.
RTWT.
Separation Of Church And History
Until a few days ago, former Prime Minister Paul Martin was still Catholic, Stephen Harper was affiliated with the Christian Missionary Alliance and the late MacKenzie King used to be a slightly unconventional Presbyterian. Then, this information mysteriously vanished from Wikipedia. A quick online search revealed that the sudden disappearance of information concerning the religious affiliations of Canadian politicians-both dead and alive-was a haphazard editorial decision taken after a brief online discussion between the likes of DoubleBlue, Ducio1234 and Skeezix1000, thus confirming the worst misgivings that so many have about Wikipedia.
In a single swoop, denominational information concerning former prime ministers John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson, Louis St. Laurent, R.B. Bennett, and all others starting from September 25, 1926–when Prime Minister Arthur Meighen left office for the second time–was removed. Perhaps this was a watershed moment in Canadian religious history that I had not known about, maybe DoubleBlue and friends discovered something entirely new about our country’s past, or perhaps they simply have not gotten around to deleting Meighen’s Presbyterianism yet.
h/t Gregg
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Loch Ness Monster
It’s the 2008 Global Warming Top Ten List!
“In Somalia back in 1993, climate change, according to 11 three- and four-star generals, resulted in a drought which led to famine,” Rep. Edward Markey told a group of students who had come to the Capitol to discuss global warming, according to CNSNews.com. “That famine translated to international aid we sent in to Somalia, which then led to the U.S. having to send in forces to separate all the groups that were fighting over the aid, which led to Black Hawk Down.”
(BTW – this is an excellent item to have handy when the Cultists Of Gore resort to holocaust terminology in response to those who mention the “face blistering cold”.)
The Roadkill Oracles
Last year on this day, I invited readers to post their top three predictions for 2008. How did they turn out?
A few hits, lots and lots of misses, but Arnie Madsen came the closest!
1.Outbreak of civil/religious war in Pakistan
2.Market crash worse than 1929 , EURO becomes world standard currency.
3.Israel fights back after years of failed appeasements to Palestinians .
So, let’s try this again.
Your top three predictions for 2009 are welcome in the comments. Remember – I said three.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Irving Aaronson and his Commanders, featuring Irene Bordoni, performing Cole Porter‘s Let’s Misbehave (1928, 2:46), which contains the famous line: I always squeeze my Pekingese when he’s good.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
I Remember When They Did This For George Bush
Chesty McCheesecake’s Sweet CBC Serenade – “Beginning Monday, January 5, CBC Radio 2 invites Canadians to help select the top “49 songs from north of the 49th parallel” that would best define our country to the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama.”
I’m sure the suggestions will come flying in now…
h/t Bluetech
Sunkist Intifada
h/t to Irwin Daisy, the pic seems to have originated here.
2008 Weblog Awards – Finalists Announced
After four consecutive years of topping the Weblog Awards for Best Canadian Blog, SDA has been bumped up a category, and selected as a finalist against a very tough US field for Best Conservative Blog.
Victor Davis Hanson
RedState
Ace of Spades
Power Line
Eject, Eject, Eject!
Plumb Bob Blog
Michelle Malkin
American Thinker
Blue Collar Muse
small dead animals
Little Green Footballs
Right Wing Nut House
The Next Right
Atlas Shrugs
This year’s “Best Canadian Blog” nominees include some of my favourite names;
Dust My Broom
The Canadian Sentinel
We Move to Canada
Ezra Levant
Buckdog
Calgary Grit
five feet of fury
The Torch
Attack of the Redneck Mommy
Abandoned Stuff
The full list of nominated blogs is here. Many thanks to all of you who nominated SDA across several categories (including Best Blog). Voting begins January 5th – prepare to be mobilized!
Update – Kevin Aylward;
There are two sites I do want to mention: The Club For Growth and small dead animals. These two sites had won their categories (Best Business Blog and Best Canadian Blog, respectively) for three years running by pretty large margins. In effect this year we’ve put them in the “Hall of Fame” by clearing them out of the finalist slate in those categories. Were they finalist again in those categories they likely would have swamped the competition yet again. To us this seemed contrary to one of the goals of The Weblog Awards – for participating sites to have fun with the competition. The prospect of going up a site going for a fourth win in a row could dampen the enthusiasm of the other finalists in those categories. Both sites will be honored (in a manner yet to be determined) on the respective poll page they’ve been retired from. small dead animals was moved up to the Best Conservative Blog category and Club For Growth was not a finalist in another category this year.
Canadian Newsperson of the Year
Canadian Journalism Project – Cast your vote for Canadian Newsperson of the Year
Via Jay Currie;
Ken Whyte backed up Mark and told the socks to stuff it. Go vote for him. […] And lest people think I am trying to freep the poll, I found out about it via the Tyee weekly newsletter which is promoting David [Beers].
“This is the first university in world that gives out bachelor’s degrees in rocket manufacture”
Israeli warplanes bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a significant Hamas cultural symbol, in the latest of a series of aerial attacks in the coastal territory, the Islamist group said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the strike. Witnesses said a series of explosions rocked the Gaza city campus. Israel has killed 298 Palestinians in an aerial offensive since Saturday in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
And that is all they offer – from Hamas’ lips to the world’s ears… Patrick Poole fills in the blanks;
Other reports have detailed how the IUG [Islamic University of Gaza] has also been used for weapons storage, launching rockets, and holding hostages. In February 2007, Palestinian security forces captured seven Iranian military trainers and confiscated 1,000 Qassam rockets located at the IUG. Another article reported that 2,000 AK-47s were also confiscated, as well as evidence that captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, abducted by Hamas in June 2006, had previously been held at the university.
A May 2007 International Herald Tribune article described IUG’s centrality in the Fatah-Hamas factional fighting in Gaza, with the university used to launch attacks against their rivals and for military training…
But the best part?
The labs were made possible by millions from a Saudi-financed charity in … Ohio.
More – GONE: Islamic University, home of “Gaza Scholars”
Rob Clark “Fast Talks” His Way To Vegas
Heh.
