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Reader Tips 48 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio, and welcome to our annual Twelve Days of Christmas Extravaganza. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our opening bid in this year’s shows, on a humerous note, here are Straight No Chaser performing The Twelve Days of Christmas at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana (1998, 3:30). And for tonight’s flip-side, here is Mr. Frank Sinatra performing The Christmas Waltz (2:59).

We’re planning to do two tunes a night during this year’s extravaganza, since even at two-dozen tunes we’re still barely scratching the facade of the rich tradition underfoot. And to be clear, to mitigate potential impatience, we’ll generally be starting out on the secular foot now, and ending up on the sacred foot later, ok?

While we’re here, a quick reminder that a set of Christmas Carol Song Sheets, including both the sacred and the secular, and formatted for printing, is available (should you find it useful) at The Sagacious Iconoclast.

Lastly, for the record, I should like to note that:

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

New York Money Manager Bernard Madoff Seeks Federal Bailout

Roadkill 34 Comments

Just kidding.

The roster of potential victims in what prosecutors said was a $50 billion Ponzi scheme has grown exponentially longer in the past few days. [… ]
A charity in Massachusetts that supports Jewish programs, the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, said it had invested its entire $8 million endowment with Madoff. The organization’s executive director said she doesn’t expect it to survive.
Other institutions that believed they had lost millions included The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and the Texas-based Julian J. Levitt Foundation.
Hedge funds and other investment groups looked like big losers too. The Fairfield Greenwich Group said it had some $7.5 billion in investments linked to Madoff. A private Swiss bank, Banque Benedict Hentsch Fairfield Partners SA, said it had $47.5 million worth of client assets at risk.

Well, half kidding. Meaning, I figure there’s a 50-50 chance that his clients will.
Related (in French) – Is Desmerais/Power Corp among them? (Via Bourque)
Bablefish translated

How To Depress A Quebecois Reporter

Insufferable Twits 70 Comments

During my QPAC days in Quebec, the Journal de Montreal liked to refer to me in their headlines as l’Anglohone Juif Galganov. In translation: Anglo Jew Galganov. Where was the Human Rights Commission then?
The Journal de Montreal can best be described as a sensationalist tabloid that mixes gossip, sports and news. It should also be noted that more than a million French Quebecers read the Journal de Montreal every day.
The reporter expected me to answer her question with a degree of outrage towards this coalition, so imagine her surprise when I told her that I was all for it?

There’s an audio version at the link (upper right corner)
h/t Debbie

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 47 Comments
   
Ellis-Bextor

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show and our last show before our 2008 SDA LNR Twelve Days of Christmas Extravaganza begins, here is Sophie Ellis-Bextor with Cristiano Spiller et al performing Groovejet on Top of the Pops in 2000 (3:30).

This tune sold over two million copies world-wide, was reportedly the first song played on an iPod, and, indeed, was one of my favourite dance songs in 2000. Ideally, you’re looking for about 100 dBa and 200 dBc for this one (which is only a few hundred watts of output-stage amplifier power and inches² of woofer in a small room, say 1000 ft³); my apologies to those stuck with toy computer amplifiers and speakers. On the other hand, I did write this Letter to the Editor, so you should probably take my opinion with a scruple of salt.

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

Taking The Christ Out Of Costco?

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Reader Jeanette writes;

As a non-practising Christian I have never displayed a nativity scene in my home, mostly out of principal and respect for those for whom the Christmas story is meaningful. I don’t believe in being a “Sunday Christian”, or even a “Christmas Christian”.
That was until recently, when I started to realize that in doing so I am silently condoning the demise of our Judeo-Christian culture. For me being a “secular Christian” is now a political statement against those liberal forces that are causing us to say “Happy Holidays” and Holiday tree” etc.
So this year I decided to add a Nativity scene to my Christmas decorations and I needed to go out and buy one. In previous years they have abounded at all the major retailers throughout the Christmas season and in the post Christmas sale period. To my shock there wasn’t a single nativity scene for sale at Walmart in Regina nor at Costco! I have yet to check out Zellers and Canadian Tire. Is that because they are sold out, or not bringing them in for sale?
Do I think it’s a conspiracy, No! But is it more evidence that the liberal movement to destroy our Christian culture? It could be. Perhaps this could be a discussion on SDA.
Merry Christmas Kate, and Happy New Year

Comments open for your feedback…

Professor Lipstick

Political Animal 119 Comments

A Canwest/Global National poll suggests;

… Canadians are so uncomfortable at the prospect of a Liberal-NDP coalition government, backed by the Bloc, that a majority – 56 per cent – would prefer going to the polls again early in 2009 if Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean is forced to choose between the two options. That number is unchanged from a similar poll conducted last week, prior to Ignatieff’s promotion to the Liberal leadership.
The poll also said the Conservative party would garner 45 per cent of the vote and score a majority victory if an election were held today.
“All of a sudden, Stephen Harper’s hand has got a lot stronger,” Darrell Bricker, president of Ipsos Reid, said Friday. “There is no reason for him to fear an election.”
The survey results said the Liberals have not improved their electoral prospects – so far – by picking Ignatieff earlier this week to replace the unpopular Stephane Dion. Those surveyed favoured the Conservatives over the Liberals by 45 per cent to 26 per cent when no leaders’ names were mentioned. The 19-point gap was repeated when the question was rephrased to name Ignatieff.

Via Montreal Simon who’s taking the news rather hard.

Poll Security Tightened At OliviaChow.ca

Not Quite News 55 Comments

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For Immediate release
December 12, 2008 – Toronto
After the website of of Member of Parliament Olivia Chow was “hacked” by hundreds of individual votes “suspiciously cast contrary to Olivia’s position”, technical experts on staff with the Saskatchewan New Democrats were flown in to erect an emergency security fence to protect the Trinity-Spadina MP from future embarrassments at the keyboards of “right-wing groups”.
“We are confident that the new innovations at OliviaChow.ca will prevent future online polls from going horribly wrong”, a Chow spokesperson said, in an email to reporters on Friday.
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(h/t Robert W.)

Just A Chief Of Staff From My Neighborhood

The One 29 Comments

“A source familiar with the investigation confirmed … that Rahm Emanuel did in fact have multiple conversations with Governor Rod Blagojevich [and his chief of staff] about the senate seat…”
More…
Don Surber on the man behind the curtain;

“DeLeo is a colorful fellow who drove Cadillacs, Jaguars and Mercedes as a $20,000 a year bailiff in traffic court.
Emanuel is ducking the press. DeLeo is ducking the press. Blagojevich is taking singing lessons.
And if he’s smart, Obama is vetting a new chief of staff.

Buchanan asks the question of the hour of a President-elect who claims there was no “contact”;

Blagojevich is overheard on the wiretaps complaining that all that Obama, whom he slurs nastily, was offering was gratitude.
How did Blagojevich know that?

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