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 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong performing Summertime (4:59).
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It is a question that aches today in the heart of every liberal.
The pseudonym CTV uses for the hatchet jobs no one will sign their name to;
Is the entire staff of CTV News unaware that Canadian troops have a universally known safety zone? And that all unidentified and non-CF personnel are to drive slowly or stop, giving ample space for the protection of themselves and those troops?
It isn’t a state secret when everyone in theatre has been made aware of it. You would think CTV would want to include that in their article.
Because Allah knows – no Islamist has ever used someone else’s kids as human shields to carry out an attack.
Related: The progressive Stageleft lashes out at Canadian troops with this stinging accusation – American!.
Meet the Climate Youth!
In a luridly-designed website, mimicking the style of “yoof” cartoons, it offers a bundle of downloads, including a pack of “climate crime cards“, urging its recruits to spy on families, friends and relatives, inviting each of them to build up a “climate crime case file” in order to help them ensure their putative criminals do not “commit those crimes again (or else)!”
Quite what the “or else!” should be is not specified, but since the “climate cops” are being encouraged to keep detailed written records (for those who can read and write), there is nothing to stop these being submitted to the “Climate Cops HQ” for further sanctions, the repeat offenders being sent to re-education camps. And for those “climate cops” that successfully perform the “missions” set (or turn in their own parents), there is the reward of “training” in the “Climate Cop Academy”.
Someone should forward this idea to the Liberals. A little tweaking of the colour scheme, and it would dovetail quite nicely with Dion’s Green Shaft.
The Climate Cops website: “The training starts here”.
“… beating out Montreal’s Le Devoir.”
After the Kosovo War ended in 1999, well-heeled Gulf Arabs with Saudi money moved in to rebuild mosques destroyed by Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslav army and paramilitary forces. They’re still there trying to impose a stern Wahhabi interpretation of Islam on indigenous Europeans, and they’re having an awfully difficult time getting much traction. Almost everyone in Kosovo despises these people. They are known as the Binladensa, the people of Osama bin Laden.
Things are different in next-door Macedonia.
Michael Totten has his second installment up.
bzzzzt … “Scott is calling in from Radisson… Scott, could you tell us what you’re seeing there at the moment” … bzzzztt …. “Yeah, it’s raining really hard here, bolt lightning and crackle my deck furniture is all over the yard and there’s branches down everywhere”… bzzztt… “Thanks Scott and stay safe” … cracklebzzzt… “No problem, and have a good one, eh. Go Riders!” …
The lightening crashed and the rain pelted the side of the house, and one roll of thunder seemed to go on forever. My ears perked up… the sound was getting louder – and closer. There was no mistaking what it sounded like;
The tornado descends as a violently rotating funnel cloud and sounds like the rumble of a freight train…
That’s when the horn blew for the level crossing.
A long time reader and observer of American politics writes;
Yesterday and this morning I watched the ZDF-TV coverage of Obama’s speech. ZDF, a self-described NBC partner, showed a clip of Brian William’s interview with the messiah. In it, Brian asked Obama to react to John McCain’s comment that he would rather lose a campaign than a war, unlike Obama.
On the whole, the ZDF was comparatively restrained. Their White House correspondent from the White House lawn actually described Obama’s trust-gap that polls show. They had commentary from former-ambassador Kornblum, a Clinton appointee now living in Berlin. CNN’s Amanpour made an appearance but confined her comments to the event, the Obamafest, being like an Oktoberfest. The ZDF “anchors” made various guesses of the crowd size and age, from 20,000-100,000 of 25-year olds.
ZDF were gracious in not mentioning just how substance-free the speech was. They did mention that the purpose of the speech, planned pictures, and images were intended for the American audience. One anchor even mused that Obama had his sights set not only on the US’s but also the world’s presidency.
The Germans in recent history have been notoriously deficient in judging the character and intent of leaders, beginning with their own in the 1930s. Somehow the Camelot myth has overtaken and obliterated Kennedy’s disastrous meeting in Vienna with Khrushchev, and that the building of the Wall could very well have been stopped.
Few Germans still remember how GIs in some parts of West Germany, immediately after the end of the War, “lost” trains filled with food to supply a starving population. A Berliner I met at the B-School and who became a friend, told me that the school I had attended had become a hot-bed for Communism, undeterred by the murders at and on the other side of the Wall.
The messiah seems to have forgotten, or not understood at all, that Truman and Reagan faced long odds and determined opposition, at home and abroad, to organize and maintain the Airlift, to bring down the Wall and Communism—if only for a time.
Thanks, Joe.
5 – 0
Good things happen when you dump the NDP!
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here is John Scott Whiteley performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Prelude & ‘Wedge’ Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 (7:08), on the Zacharias Hildebrandt organ in the Wenzelskirche in Naumburg, Germany (which Bach played and probably helped design). The Wenzelskirche organ was Hildebrandt’s largest, featuring three manuals and pedal, fifty-three stops, and a thirty-two foot Posaunenbass pipe with a principal harmonic frequency of sixteen hertz. It was built in 1746 and restored from 1993 to 2000.
How much would you pay for that? But wait, there’s more! As a special bonus for the engineers, mechanics, and metallurgists in the audience, this video includes lots of footage from many cameras installed inside the organ. It’s very rare that one gets to see in action some of the many tens of thousands of linkages in a baroque pipe organ, including some of the cross-rank coupler stops. Also all too rare to see, this video has some great footage of some of the many thousands of pipes (behind the façade) inside such an organ, especially from 5:20 to 5:40 in the video. I strongly recommend full-screen viewing for this one, if your terminal supports it without flickering.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Hard at work bringing the message of Islam to the world.
Not even the Associated Press can continue to turn a blind eye;
The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.
Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years. But the Iraqi government and the U.S. now are able to shift focus from mainly combat to mainly building the fragile beginnings of peace — a transition that many found almost unthinkable as recently as one year ago.
Despite the occasional bursts of violence, Iraq has reached the point where the insurgents, who once controlled whole cities, no longer have the clout to threaten the viability of the central government.
If you happen to travel the Canadian leftosphere these days, you may notice a deafening silence from certain “progressives” who celebrated every US military setback, every marketplace explosion, every terrorist strike.
Yes you did, you pathetic wastes of skin – you loved every minute of it. Cloaking your words in faux outrage didn’t make your motives any less transparent. You rejoiced in the prospect that a President you despise and a nation you envy might be humiliated.
It hardly mattered that the consequences of a western power losing to the forces of Islamic fascism would be visited as severely upon you and yours, as they would those who of us who argued for victory. You can’t help yourselves – it’s your nature. But, I truly don’t know how you face yourselves in the mirror.
Related: A must read – Audacity of Hopelessness.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night contemporary music show, here are The Guess Who performing These Eyes from their Running Back Thru Canada live album (2000, 3:50).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
A reader emails – “The article is practically a parody of itself. Naturally the Globe has forbidden comments on this gem.”
Brian Minchin said his son, Michael Langan, was as healthy as a horse, and used to walk four or five miles a day in pursuit of aluminum cans, trying to scrounge together enough money for some beer and marijuana.
He said his son may have been drunk or high on marijuana when he was confronted by two police officers in an alley close to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg’s downtown core. Police say they ordered Mr. Langan to drop a knife, and when he refused they were forced to taser him.
[…]
“He was asked to drop the knife or something and he didn’t do it. I guess they asked him several times. Maybe he was drunk. He probably was drunk because he gets kind of crazy and brave when he’s drunk,” he said. “People think they’re Superman when they’re drunk, even adults.”
[…]
He said he doesn’t have many memories of his son, but will always cherish the thought of the day they spent together when the Grey Cup was last in Winnipeg. Mr. Minchin scalped half a dozen tickets and then went into the stadium to watch the game with his son. They smoked joints and drank beers at halftime, he said.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and “Sir, put down that fag and keep your hands where we can see them.”
A painter and decorator from Ceredigion says he is “dumbfounded” after being slapped with a £30 fine for smoking a cigarette in his own van.
Gordon Williams says he had popped to the shops earlier this month, when he was pulled over by council officials.
“I was told that because my van is my place of work I had broken the smoking laws […] I am dumbfounded – the van is only insured for private use and to get me to and from work,” added Mr Williams, from Llanafan, near Aberystwyth.
h/t Paul
h/t Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
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 the Blond Lipstick episode of Casey, Crime Photographer (1947, 28:17), brought to you by the Anchor Hocking Glass Company.
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Is there.. ah… nothing …. ?
Via Stop the ACLU
Verily, it is said – there is nothing that the O-Child can’t do!
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”
Related – “Funny. That ass doesn’t look very much like Keith Olberman.“
