Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is an episode of the Adventures of Phillip Marlowe show, based on Raymond Chandler’s famous character, starring Gerald Moore in The Glass Donkey, brought to you by Wrigley’s spearmint chewing gum (1950, 29:25).
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Terry Glavin, for the National Post – The new Kabul .
Among Kabul’s human rights activists, student leaders and women’s rights groups, the big fear isn’t the spectre of Taliban militias rolling back into Kabul. The much greater threat comes from places like Washington, Tehran and Islamabad. It’s the clamour for a backroom deal with the Taliban (with President Hamid Karzai’s signature on it for the sake of appearances). The stink of a looming betrayal is everywhere, and Kabulis, betrayed so many times before, can smell it a mile away.
Via The Torch, where, on a related note, is posted this memo – “But when it comes to the Canadian mainstream media vocally telling all of us just how hard it was for them to decide what to do [in the case of Mellissa Fung], I have one more thing to say: shut up.”
Modify HRC Jurisdiction
PROPOSED BY VICTORIA AND KELOWNA – LAKE COUNTRY
iii) The Conservative Party supports legislation to remove authority from the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Tribunal to regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints related to Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Passed “overwhelmingly”
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From Gord Tulk who’s on the scene at the convention, “kady omalley’s posts over at macleans are full of errors. The vote on fiscal imbalance did not see one hundred people rush into the room. All policy sessions finished early many of the resolutions passing like sh?t through a goose. Only ten resolutions from each of four catagories make it to the plenary. If more than ten were passed the delegates vote by paper ballot which ten get to the floor. Debates were vigourous but not heated – we are all consevatives here. It’s like SDA comments in real life. Having a blast. “
Speaking of Macleans, comment of the day here – “It’s like Kady’s sitting in South Korea trying to figure out what’s happening in the North by looking over with a pair of binoculars.”
“Beyond the massive job loss, Congress and the Bush administration need to provide immediate assistance to the auto industry, because America’s energy independence is dependent upon it. The U.S. auto industry is the sector that will lead the way to energy independence.
How? The car you drive will soon be the storage unit for all your energy needs. Your home, your car, your appliances can all be powered through the advanced battery that will sit inside your plug-in electric vehicle.”
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm is one of Obama’s hand-picked economic policy advisors.
After announcing he is not running against fellow Liberal candidates but “against Stephen Harper and the Conservative government,” [Michael Ignatieff] charged them with dishonesty, incompetence and something close to bigotry and racism.
“We do not want a Canada where the colour of your skin, the language that you speak, the country you originated from determines how well you survive this economic downturn,” Mr. Ignatieff declared. Liberals, he added, “are going to fight for all Canadians to get the same shot at the economic dream.”
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It’s a desperate-seeming strategy, even if certain tired elements within the Liberal party — ageing spin doctors seeking to recapture their glory days of smearing Stockwell Day — haven’t gotten tired of it. Why, one wonders, is Mr. Ignatieff taking tactical cues from the Adscam-era demagogues who gave his party such a bad name in the first place?
Indeed. For his opening move, the demagogue mentions an Ignatieff NYT piece from 2004 – without linking it.
Ignatieff initially supported the [Iraq] war – as had the Clintons, and as had most of the Democratic Party establishment.By March 2004 – long before he became an MP, let alone a Liberal leadership contestant – he was writing in the New York Times that he had been wrong. That impressed me.
And for good reason. Oops! Here’s what Ignatieff actually wrote about his support for bombing Iraq (a country chock full of brown people!);
The discovery that Hussein didn’t have weapons after all surprises me, but it doesn’t change my view of the essential issue. I never thought the key question was what weapons he actually possessed but rather what intentions he had.
Ignatieff concludes the op-ed by arguing (rightly, in my opinion) that having intervened, the US was duty bound to pursue the Iraq war to a successful outcome;
If the United States falters now, civil war is entirely possible. If it falters, it will betray everyone who has died for something better.
Interventions amount to a promise: we promise that we will leave the country better than we found it; we promise that those who died to get there did not die in vain.
It wasn’t until he decided to run for political office – in a country he hadn’t lived in since 1978 – that Ignatieff had a “change of heart”.
But that’s just predictable spin on an issue that died earlier this year when the tides in Iraq turned in George Bush’s favour. It’s this passage, from the second paragraph, that caught my eye;
As usual we were talking about ourselves: what America is and how to use its frightening power in the world.
In 2004, Michael Ignatieff not only continued to support the prosecution of the Iraq war, he publicly self-identified as American to a New York Times audience.
Again, it wasn’t until he decided to run for political office – in a country he hadn’t lived in since 1978 – that he had a “change of heart”.
And he has his shiny new spin-doctor to thank for pointing it out.
$600 million doesn’t go as far as it used to. The candidate of hope needs a little more change.
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 is Mr. Chet Atkins performing Villa at the Ozark Jubilee (1958, 1:59).
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Krista Erickson resurfaces… on the CBC’s “broadcast and journalistic standards” beat.
Background: Pablogate
Don’t let babies drive drunk. (Unlike them other guys).
SGI Traffic Collision Statistics, 2006 PDF
“You got a
letter from Ryerson this morning.”
“Ryerson? What is it?”
“It’s a big building where students go to be taught by journalism professors who are incapable of fact-checking, but that’s not important now.”
Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit getting his “heart ripped out” by right-wing bloggers.
Nominations are open! (Click the graphic).
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Update!
(h/t Dutch Canuck)
“No one’s immune,” said one staffer, who called the mood “extremely grim.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show, here are Spike Jones and his Wacky Wakakians performing Hawaiian War Chant (2:51). “As the sun pulls away from the shore, and our boat sinks slowly in the west…”: absolutely brilliant.
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… the [Canadian Cancer Society] is holding a conference starting today at which it has assembled experts to advise it on whether cosmetic-pesticide restrictions, which now exist in Ontario, Quebec and many municipalities, should be followed by tougher action against the use of the sprays in agriculture.
