Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Wednesday night comedy show, here is Mr. Foster Brooks performing his famous Airline Pilot sketch on the Dean Martin show (4:04).
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Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the Department Of Dangerous Daisies goes on high alert;
We are asked to believe that plastic flowers are too dangerous to leave in a cemetery because, according to a council spokeswoman, they could get caught up in lawnmowers, and “the bits of plastic flying around could be very dangerous.”
Too bad for the Nazis they didn’t think of dropping bits of plastic flowers during the Blitz, instead of bombs. Evidently the British would have surrendered.
h/t Peter G.
(video works now)
(Where are you going with this, Anchoress? (link fixed now))
International Olympic Committee executive director Gilbert Felli also defended the use of a more photogenic double, comparing it to an athlete taking part in Olympic qualification and then being dropped for the main event.”
Or, having the superior bid as an Olympic hosting city, but being dropped in favour of better offers.
Asked how Yang’s parents would explain the decision to her, Felli added: “That is what it is in sport, in life.”
We now return you to coverage of synchronized diving and beach volleyball….
h/t maz2
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
“It was a bad crisis for the world. It required tough words but also a smart
approach to call on the international community to step in. And I’m very,
very happy that the Senator’s request for a ceasefire has been complied with
by President Medvedev.”
“If the green shaft was in place when Hedy had the cross’s burning in Prince George would the tax be on the people burning the cross or the people who made the cross??”
(h/t sammy)
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 courtesy of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project are the Peerless Orchestra performing Ma Rag Time Baby in 1899 (2:19, MP3, 2.1MB).
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I now realize that I was in Canada, where only politically correct speech is protected.
I was in Canada, the land of cultural relativism, where the most important value is tolerance. Criticizing any other country or culture is a breach of the now distorted policy of multiculturalism. Now, I would pay the price.
If I had only known how big a price.
A young man came in and sat in the second row. He picked up a copy of my book from the table, took a perfunctory look at it, and started interrupting me.
“You think all Muslims are terrorists,” he asserted.
“I do not,” I replied, as categorically as possible.
“Well, that’s what your book says,” he retorted.
It looked to me as if he had just taken a few glances at it, so I replied: “Have you read my book?” He paused and then said, “Part.”
I decided not to take him seriously and I continued. Another mistake.
Suddenly a man appeared, standing off to my left, and started into a rant. It was something about how the Americans and the Israelis are the real terrorists, and that democracy is really fascist. He was scary.
University of Waterloo Professor Dennis Stoutenburg was there and tried to calm the man.
“Sir, this is a lecture. Why don’t you sit down and listen?”
Another mistake.
Read the rest.
(h/t soup)
With nowhere to go but sideways;
…if only Canadian kids had the opportunities of those spoiled beach boys growing up in North Korea – we too would have seven medals by now like they do.
More – Questions abound. You can try to get answers from these guys, but it seems more likely you’ll be called a “hater”
Warren Kinsella’s new ally in the never ending struggle against hatery!
(Related… Catholic Insight might enjoy more support from certain quarters if they had the presence of mind to run the occasional teen sex pictorial essay. Educational ones, of course.)
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Democratic Party insiders have revealed that Clooney and Obama regularly send texts and emails to each other and speak by phone at least twice a week.
One said last night: ‘They are extremely close. A number of members of the Hollywood community, including Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, offered to help raise funds for Barack but it was with George that he struck up this amazing affinity.
‘George has been giving him advice on things such as presentation, public speaking and body language and he also emails him constantly about policy, especially the Middle East.
Update – “This new conflict in Europe touches some very deep feelings for Michelle and I. On one hand, we’ve always felt a certain kinship with the Georgians ever since our first campaign stop in Atlanta; on the other, our library is adorned with only turn of the century neo-primitive Russian art. Alas, such is the burden of leadership.”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Monday night jazz show, here are the Mills Brothers performing Up the Lazy River (2:24).
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(Stratfor map via Powerline.)
President Bush delivered a brief, stern warning to Russia this afternoon, and told Moscow that its attacks in Georgia had “substantially damaged” its standing in the world and its relations with the West.
Speaking at a lectern on the stone steps leading to the Rose Garden from the colonnade outside the Cabinet Room, Bush said he was “deeply concerned” about attacks on the city of Gori and threats to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
Noting evidence that Russia may be preparing to bomb the capital’s civilian airport, he said such a move would be a “dramatic and brutal” expansion of the conflict, which began over the disputed territory of South Ossetia.
(Transcript at the link.)
Meanwhile, the anti-war left take to the streets in the thousands to condemn the imperialist aggressors. Any moment now.
Much more at Gateway Pundit.
Just think* – this week 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.
The Edwards mess is the most recent and visible, but hardly unique, example of the mainstream media’s hear no evil/see no evil approach to newsgathering. How many other stories has the MSM missed, denied or avoided? From Rathergate to Reverend Wright to the success of the surge, the pattern is the same: MSM stalls, shuffles its collective feet, and doggedly ignores information for as long as possible until they can no longer do so with a straight face. The fact that these stories without exception work to the detriment of Democrats is apparently a grand coincidence.
And the notion that they are upholding some “journalistic standard” is rendered absurd. Edwards’ story wasn’t important on Thursday, but it was on Friday because he confessed? No, the level of proof changed, but the story’s relevance did not. If it wasn’t worthy of investigation before the ABC interview then it was unworthy of mention afterwards. Their explanation for their editorial decision-making is no more credible than . . . well than Edwards himself.
Related – Howard Kurtz.
And Stephen Green agrees – “If you treat a Republican one way and a Democrat another and it isn’t liberal bias — then what is it? A Sulzberger family suicide pact?”
