Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here are The 100 Kaba Gaidi orchestra, featuring Nikolaya (from the Rhodope Mountain village of Momchilovci) in a delightful performance of Bulgarian Kaba Gaida (bagpipe) music (3:52).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
The CHRC’s letter came up with a pretend excuse. I was let me go because, they said, I had the “goal of furthering a public debate”.
Of course, that’s exactly the goal Rev. Boissoin had. And Lynch convicted him.
Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
Wait. World toilet day?
BREAKING: New Democrat challenges American to replace French citizen* for leadership of the Liberal Party Of Canada… developing….
* Quite so.
“If you decide to ask your viewers to vote for me, I am willing to get t-shirts made promoting small dead animals and wear them all weekend and the event in vegas, which I can record and post online.”
Just look across your parking lot. Nonetheless, the Senate majority leader’s home town of Searchlight, Nevada
..is cooler there since George W. Bush took office. And is cooler than when Clinton-Gore took office. Or when Ronald Reagan took office.
Another election cycle, and they’ll have a place to relocate those starving polar bears.
Former Ontario Premier Mike Harris;
We cut personal, capital, corporate and other taxes almost 200 times, dramatically reduced the size of government, forced the broader public sector to become much more efficient and eliminated Ontario’s massive deficit. We scrapped Bob Rae’s job-killing labour law and gave people a hand-up, not a hand-out, by creating work-for-welfare. In doing so, we created an environment that led to unprecedented economic growth, the creation of almost a million new jobs and 700,000 fewer people trapped in the cycle of welfare dependency. In 2002, our economy was booming and we had a budget surplus. Ontario was the envy of the world and the foundation was in place to ensure our province’s future prosperity. As I said in one of my last speeches as premier, I only regret that we didn’t move faster, and push even harder, to make the changes we did.
Since then, the government of Ontario has slid back into its self-destructive old habits. Massive increases in public spending and the return of high taxes are dragging Ontario down and risking the economic future of our province. Ottawa’s recent declaration of our “have-not” status is the culmination of a five-year decline. This announcement proves that Ontario isn’t just on the edge of a fiscal and economic crisis — we’ve toppled over a cliff, and no one really knows how far down we might fall.
Update: Democrat voters are too stupid to vote straight, argues Franken side.
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…the place-settings featured multiple goblets, at least seven utensils per person and a plate for each of the three courses, plus a martini glass for the dulce de leche dessert with maple-glazed walnuts. Along with the sustainable paperweights, the gift bags included a 248-page issue of Travel + Leisure magazine, featuring such articles as “Driving Andalusia in Search of Spain’s Best Olive Oil.”
Welcome to SDA Late Night Radio, home of the ever-gracious Vitruvius. In keeping with the thoroughly eclectic nature of his entertaining selections, tonight we cross the briny North Atlantic, run aground on the rocks, then scramble ashore to watch a performance of one of the truly inspiring national anthems extant, Norway’s lovely Ja, vi elsker dette landet — “Yes, we love this country.”
It’s helpful and well worth it to read the English translation (verses one, seven and eight) while watching. Note also (unsung) verses three and four, and imagine the thrill of singing them at, say, a Winter Olympics biathlon medal ceremony.
Reader tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
“…to review the compensation package to help reduce the price of these vehicles?”
Question of the hour, from Mel Wilde, in the Lake Country Calendar.
Because “left-wing sniveling thought-nazis” doesn’t leave enough room on the button for a smiley face.
h/t Robert B.
“The news industry has deliberately alienated anything up to half its potential audience, as seen by the comments on here. Has there ever been an industry which committed commercial suicide in this way, turning its former customers into active enemies?” *
Life imitates Ric Mercer.
More – Zogby measures media malpractice – and is attacked for it.
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 Al Handler and his Alamo Café Orchestra performing Mandy (1926, 2:43).
NB: Starting tomorrow night, ladies and gentlemen, Wednesdays’ SDA Late Nite Radio selections will be spun by DJ EBD, who is qualified to select exemplary performances in genres and styles that DJ Vitruvius would miss (because of his own biases), so EBD’s shows will add excellent additional depth, variety, and eclecticism to SDA LNR. Welcome to the studios, EBD, we’re looking forward to tomorrow’s show and many more to follow.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
An Ignatieff campaign advisor is photographed cradling a swastika.
I didn’t mention it at the time, but a few days ago the 10,000th post went up here at SDA.
That’s right – there have been ten thousand posts here in just under 5 years.
So, if I let things slide here for a day or two during hunting season, dear readers, I hope you understand.
But I’m back now, and Bambi and his mom are cooling their heels at Prairie Meats in Saskatoon. (Who I can heartily recommend for wild game processing.)
Based on the feedback in the comments, maybe next year we’ll form an SDA hunting party.
In* boardrooms across the industry, media executives are meeting with media experts to hash out yet another strategy, and yet more innovations to address their falling fortunes, every last one of them invested in the unshakable belief that the internet is burying them because it’s faster – as though the only difference between shit and sunshine is the speed at which they travel.
“It used to be that a handful of editors could decide what was news-and what was not. They acted as sort of demigods. If they ran a story, it became news. If they ignored an event, it never happened. Today editors are losing this power. The Internet, for example, provides access to thousands of new sources that cover things an editor might ignore. And if you aren’t satisfied with that, you can start up your own blog and cover and comment on the news yourself. Journalists like to think of themselves as watchdogs, but they haven’t always responded well when the public calls them to account.”
To make his point, Murdoch criticized the media reaction after bloggers debunked a “60 Minutes” report by former CBS anchor, Dan Rather, that President Bush had evaded service during his days in the National Guard.
“Far from celebrating this citizen journalism, the establishment media reacted defensively. During an appearance on Fox News, a CBS executive attacked the bloggers in a statement that will go down in the annals of arrogance. ’60 Minutes,’ he said, was a professional organization with ‘multiple layers of checks and balances.’ By contrast, he dismissed the blogger as ‘a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.’ But eventually it was the guys sitting in their pajamas who forced Mr. Rather and his producer to resign.
“Mr. Rather and his defenders are not alone,” he continued. “A recent American study reported that many editors and reporters simply do not trust their readers to make good decisions. Let’s be clear about what this means. This is a polite way of saying that these editors and reporters think their readers are too stupid to think for themselves.”
