The Lucky-X-Chromosome Senator For New York

Roadkill 29 Comments

Michael Daly revisits Caroline Kennedy;

A moment came, you know, as Caroline Kennedy was at, you know, the podium, endorsing Barack Obama, when she tipped her head and, you know, smiled just like her father.
At that instant she seemed to, you know, fill with her father’s spirit, the spirit she had seen, you know, in Obama, the spirit propelling her to, you know, step from the, you know, carefully private existence her mother had, you know, worked so hard to make possible.
In that seemingly impossible privacy, you know, she had raised three fine children with, you know, a husband who is as good a guy as ever walked. Their apartment feels, you know, like a home, with warmth and, you know, talk and laughter and, you know, life.
Among the, you know, books on her shelves are those she wrote and, you know, edited; worthy, you know, serious efforts. “Profiles in Courage for Our, You Know ,Time” is a collection she, you know, compiled and edited in 2002. I wrote the one on, you know, the peacemakers in Northern Ireland and can assure you she is hardworking,disciplined and, you know, smart, yet grounded in, you know, common sense.

You know…
More from Ace;

Also note that with Sarah Palin off the stage (for the moment), it’s safe once again for the MSM to begin pedaling the sexism card. Sexism was an important concern when Hillary was running; then not so much when Palin was being attacked; and now that Princess Caroline is running asking her relatives to make phone calls to get her appointed, it’s back.

Not Watching For The Asteroid

Media 25 Comments

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Why we won’t miss them when they’re gone;

Joseph Angotti, a former vice president of NBC News, said he could not recall any other time when all three major broadcast networks lacked correspondents in an active war zone [Iraq] that involved United States forces.
Except, of course, in Afghanistan, where about 30,000 Americans are stationed, and where until recently no American television network, broadcast or cable, maintained a full-time bureau.

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 43 Comments

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 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, in their 2007 Silvesterkonzert (New Year’s Eve concert), performing Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky‘s Pictures at an Exhibition (26:33) and Part 2 (12:30), Sir Simon Rattle conducting.

It is interesting, perhaps, to compare Part 2 of this production to the Baba Yaga’s Hut and The Great Gate of Kiev pieces by the University of Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Gdansk Music Academy Strings, which we previously featured here at SDA LNR.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Disproportionate Force

Baiting The Left 185 Comments

“In the contemporary world, the world of human rights, when you call a person a right-winger, this is the first step toward his or her delegitimization. “
Fiamma Nirenstein;

The Left blessed the Jews as the victim “par excellence,” always a great partner in the struggle for the rights of the weak against the wicked. In return for being coddled, published, filmed, considered artists, intellectuals and moral judges, Jews, even during the Soviet anti-Semitic persecutions, gave the Left moral support and invited it to cry with them at Holocaust memorials. Today the game is clearly over. The left has proved itself the real cradle of contemporary anti-Semitism.

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“It’s not ideal for us. It’s the result of pressure by the anti-wind farm lobby.”

More Money Than Brains 37 Comments

There they go again – those nasty people forcing them to admit the truth;

The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has agreed to scale down its calculation for the amount of harmful carbon dioxide emission that can be eliminated by using wind turbines to generate electricity instead of burning fossil fuels such as coal or gas.
The move is a serious setback for the advocates of wind power, as it will be regarded as a concession that twice as many wind turbines as previously calculated will be needed to provide the same degree of reduction in Britain’s carbon emissions.
A wind farm industry source admitted: “It’s not ideal for us. It’s the result of pressure by the anti-wind farm lobby.”
For several years the BWEA – which lobbies on behalf of wind power firms – claimed that electricity from wind turbines ‘displaces’ 860 grams of carbon dioxide emission for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated.
However it has now halved that figure to 430 grams, following discussions with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Stephen Harper – Call Your Office

Great Moments In Socialism 108 Comments

The UAW Reneges;

Last week’s deal was supposed to hold both the managers’ and unions’ feet to the fire. In handing out the taxpayer money, the White House insisted the auto union cut worker pay roughly to the levels of their successful competitors, Toyota, Honda and Nissan.
For $17 billion in emergency bailout cash and possibly much more later, it was a reasonable request. As President Bush said, “The time to make the hard decisions to become viable is now — or the only option will be bankruptcy.” He added that a deadline of March 31 for the industry to prove its “viability” and other limits “send a clear signal to everyone involved.”
Well, if so, the United Auto Workers didn’t get it.
Just days before Christmas, the UAW let it be known it’ll fight any concessions on wages and benefits. “An undue tax on the workers” is how union boss Ron Gettelfinger described it as the UAW reneged on the deal almost before the ink was dry.
This will go down as one of the most cynical acts of political manipulation ever. The UAW agreed to one thing with President Bush, knowing full well President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats were big recipients of union largesse and would let them slide. They read the situation correctly.

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