Thanks to everyone who’s been sending emails, cc’s, and tips to me privately over the past hours. I do read them all, but can’t possibly use every suggestion or thank everyone individually, so allow me to do so here.
SDA is a group effort, and wouldn’t be possible without the help of the guest bloggers, regular tipsters and readers – your contributions and ideas are appreciated, even if they don’t all get to the main page!
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage audio show, and courtesy of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project of the Department of Special Collections in the Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of California in Santa Barbara, here is Mr. George Thompson performing Cohen at the Telephone on Edison Blue Amberol cylinder number 2815, in 1916 (MP3, 3.0 MB, 3:19).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
And If You Believe That
I have a building in NYC to sell you.
Queen Of Greens?
Disgruntled sources high within the Green Party have leaked secret details of the inducement offered Elizabeth May to obtain her public support of the Dion-Duceppe-Dipper coalition. …. realizing a Senate seat was beyond her grasp, May is quoted as saying “It’s an offer I decided I could sink my teeth into” … developing….
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“Dion is nuts”
Bourque exclusive IGGY RETHINKS COALITION
Senior Ignatieff insiders are tantalizingly whispering to Bourque that the Toronto MP is having grave doubts about supporting the shocking Dion coalition bid, now labelled by many as the “Separatist Coalition”, given the defining support it has from both the BQ’s Gilles Duceppe and former PQ Premier Jacques Parizeau.One longtime senior Ignatieff backer, under condition of anonymity, confided that “Michael is in a tenuous situation and he is feeling a lot of heat from caucus colleagues and constituents alike. Frankly, we think we got snookered by Bob Rae on this one”. It nets out to this, according to this longtime Liberal and echoed by many other key backroom players: ordinary Liberals across the country, the card-carrying bbq-ing door-knocking envelope-stuffing phone-banking kind who make up the backbone of the party and who would need to be counted on to support his leadership aspirations, are vehemently rejecting the Dion argument that a deal with the separatist Bloc Quebecois is in the best interests of Canada. “Bullshit”, said one Liberal power-broker, who was quick to point out Dion is tilting at Liberal history for the sake of a short stint at 24 Sussex. “Dion is nuts”, he told Bourque, “I am ashamed he is leading the party of Laurier, Pearson, Trudeau, and Chretien – my God, Chretien, the guy who poured out his federalist heart against Rene Levesque’s country-killing forces so long ago – I am ashamed Dion is selling us out.”.
(copy/paste error fixed, sorry)
Where’s Gary Doer?
viia email;
One might want to ask where Gary Doer is right now…. He apparently advised the Federal NDP on campaign advice prior to the most recent federal election…. And… He apparently has worked well with the PMSH….
And…
As the longest serving premier in Canada you would think that he has some capital to spend on bringing everyone together….
Oh one more thing… He uses federal equalization payments like they are candy.
Who Knew He Had It In Him?
The ball has begun to roll;
However, if the government does fall and unelectable Dion gets to be Canada’s unelected PM, Steady Eddie hints at a Plan B.
“We do have a strategy in place,” he reveals. Then clams up. “I’m not going to play the cards until we know who we are dealing with,” he says. “And what the issues are.”
But the premier’s office phone lines were buzzing yesterday.
There’s talk of a Coalition West to fight off the eastern invaders.
Saskatchewan’s solid Premier Brad Wall is contacted. So is B.C.’s flaky Gordon Campbell.
“I’m here to represent the best interests of Albertans,” Stelmach vows. “And to protect Albertans.
Via Darcey
Keep calling your MLA’s.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and when the Opposition is outlawed, only outlaws will oppose;
Damian Green, a conservative MP and Shadow Minister for Immigration, who was seized by anti-terrorist personnel from the Metropolitan police, held for questioning for 9 hours, and whose private papers and computer files in his home and office in the House of Commons were confiscated. The Honorable Member’s offense? Embarrassing Gordon Brown’s government. How did he do this? By revealing in debate on the floor of the House of Commons and in various lapses, failures, and dirty-little-secrets about the government’s immigration policy…
Obama, On Your Shoulder
Is there nothing that The Savior cannot do?
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Notice: Some of you have been getting antivirus software alerts. Here’s what I’ve found. The problem is with embedded videos, so I’ve dropped those for now and replaced it with a link.. Actns/Swif.T virus affecting embedded YouTube vids?
Spoke with Google/YouTube and apparently anti-spyware software from Computer Associates had been returning false positives, identifying certain files contained within YouTube embed codes as malware. The specific YouTube issue is apparently being corrected by Computer Associates and wasn’t actually harmful in the first place. If you’ve got CA software, you might want to check for any updates.]
Elizabeth “Tanks On Parliament Hill” May As Environment Minister?
Six senate seats for the separatist BQ?
Premier Wall, you need to be calling an emergency meeting of your cabinet to draft whatever legislation it takes to protect our resource industry from these crackpots – now.
Contact your Sask Party MLA here.
Update via Bourque “BREAKING: BC Premier Gordon Campbell denounces Coalition putsch: “Stand back, think of Canada !” …”
Overheard Outside A Liberal Caucus Meeting
First Liberal: “I got the impression that Canadians are split on the issue“.
Second Liberal: “Funny. That’s how I felt about Peter Mansbridge shagging Cynthia Dale when he was married to Wendy Mesley.”
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“I’m talking NEP BAD”
That rarest of all creatures, a Liberal who gets it;
Think that Westerners hate the Liberals already; think about the fallout after this. This will play extremely BAD in the West. EXTREMELY BAD. I’m talking NEP BAD. Steven Harper and the Conservatives are the embodiment of the West overcoming decades of alienation and frustration. This coalition will rob them of this. They’ll be pissed (PISSSED). Everyone has basically acknowledged that for the party to be relevant in the future and truly be a national party, we need to be competitive in the West (wealth, people, power heading here). This puts us back another 20 years. For the sake of Liberals in the West DONT DO IT.
The numbers
At this very moment a quite literal coup d’etat is under way in Ottawa, make no mistake about this. A government elected just seven weeks ago by the people is about to be overthrown, a government with by far the broadest representation from across the nation of any political party. It breaks down as follows:
British Columbia: CPC 22 – Lib 5 – NDP 9
Prairies: CPC 49 – Lib 2 – NDP 5
Ontario: CPC 51 – Lib 38 – NDP 17
Quebec: CPC 10 – Lib 13 – NDP 1 – Ind 1
Maritimes: CPC 10 – Lib 17 – NDP 3 – Ind 1
Territories: CPC 1 – Lib 1 – NDP 1
[…]
Circa 1988 I attended a hastily called rally in Lloydminster, AB, for western separatism. Roughly 600 showed up. Hundreds of them bought memberships. People were angry, fed up, and ready to go it alone.
A couple of months later I attended another rally in the same hall, this time to hear Preston Manning. Many of the same people showed up, hundreds of them. Manning’s message was that separatism was not the answer. Rather, what was needed was “reform” of the confederation, in which the west could become an equal partner. He summed it all up with the simple mantra: The west wants in.
Hundreds scrapped their separatist memberships, and joined Preston Manning’s newly minted Reform Party. Over the ensuing decade he changed the political landscape forever. After growing pains until hell wouldn’t have any more, in 2006 Stephen Harper, one time policy guru for Preston Manning, emerged to form a minority Conservative government.
The west was finally in.
Rally For Canada, Rail At Ralph
Rally For Canada, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6 in various cities across Canada. Click the link for details.
Ralph Goodale should also hear from you, preferably by phone. (306) 585-2202
As the single Liberal elected in this province, Goodale has participated in removing Saskatchewan’s 13 voices from the government side of the house, submitting our growing resource economy to the extortionist whims of Quebec and the Ontario trade unions – all for the sake of one last shot as his own comfy fur entitlement.
It doesn’t matter if he’s your MP, call his office and do some yelling.
Update – This is the fastest growing online petition I’ve ever seen. Our Right to Vote on the Coalition Government
Now, if someone would only start an “Our Right To Kick Ralph Goodale’s Ass All The Way To The Manitoba Border” petition.
Romeo And Juliet
just because it’s time for a change of pace.
Notice: Some of you have been getting antivirus software alerts. Here’s what I’ve found. The problem is with embedded videos, so I’ve dropped those for now and replaced it with a link.. Actns/Swif.T virus affecting embedded YouTube vids?
Spoke with Google/YouTube and apparently anti-spyware software from Computer Associates had been returning false positives, identifying certain files contained within YouTube embed codes as malware. The specific YouTube issue is apparently being corrected by Computer Associates and wasn’t actually harmful in the first place. If you’ve got CA software, you might want to check for any updates.]
“Apparently Dion has been demoted to webmaster.”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here is Mr. Stan Getz performing Blood Count at the Newport Jazz Festival (1984, 4:32).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
It’s Twenty Minutes Before Midnight, Eastern
And a blog site run by a commercial artist in Saskatchewan is still logging over 1.400 visits an hour.
You stupid sonsabitches have no idea what you are about to unleash.
Always Look At The Bright Side Of Life
The Liberal Party, which I joined in 1961, has done a Nixonian deal — no, make that a Neville Chamberlain deal — with two devils, the separatists and socialists, that will destroy it, just as the British Liberals fell after WW1 by compromising their principles in pursuit of unattianable power.
