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 Billy Cotton and his band performing Two Hearts on a Tree (1934, 3:00).
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Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Obama spokesmen now say everyone knew that President Bush’s troop surge would create more security. This is blatantly false. Obama said in early 2007 that nothing in the surge plan would “make a significant dent in the sectarian violence,” and the new strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.” He referred to the surge derisively as “baby-sit(ting) a civil war.”
Now that the civil war has all but ended, he wants to claim retroactive clairvoyance. In a New York Times op-ed laying out his position, Obama credits the heroism of our troops and new tactics with bringing down the violence. Our troops have always been heroic; what made the difference was the surge strategy that Obama lacked the military judgment — or political courage — to support.
Just how is it possible that U.S. combat forces are protecting the site of the Babadag training facility in Tulcea, Iraq when equipped with non-lethal MILES gear that fires nothing but blanks?
“Hours after The New York Times Co. suffered the embarrassment of a third person scaling its Eighth Avenue headquarters in recent weeks, the company got pounded by Wall Street…“
“LA Times Publisher David Hiller resigns after 21 months at helm…”
“Lipinski has been in the top post at Tribune Co.’s flagship paper for seven years. Her departure comes a week after the 161-year-old newspaper told its staff it would eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs.”
Easily my favourite guy from Shawinigan.
During the 10-minute video of his questioning in Guantanamo a year later, he can be seen crying, his face buried in his hands, and pulling at his hair. He can be heard repeatedly chanting: “Help me.”
At one point he lifts his orange shirt to show the foreign ministry official and agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) wounds on his back and stomach which he says he sustained in Afghanistan.
“I’m not a doctor, but I think you’re getting good medical care,” one of the officials responds.
Mr Khadr says: “No I’m not. You’re not here… I lost my eyes. I lost my feet. Everything!” in reference to how his vision and physical health were affected.
“No, you still have your eyes and your feet are still at the end of your legs, you know,” a man says.
Sobbing uncontrollably, Mr Khadr tells the officials several times: “You don’t care about me.”
Now, may we view any of the thousands of similar videos of vicious and manipulative murderers, rapists, and thugs sobbing their way through other police interrogations?
Spare me.
Three genes may play a strong role in determining why some young men raised in rough neighborhoods or deprived families become violent criminals, while others do not, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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They found specific variations in three genes — the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene, the dopamine transporter 1 (DAT1) gene and the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene — were associated with bad behavior, but only when the boys suffered some other stress, such as family issues, low popularity and failing school.
MAOA regulates several message-carrying chemicals called neurotransmitters that are important in aggression, emotion and cognition such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.
The links were very specific.
The effect of repeating a grade depended on whether a boy had a certain mutation in MAOA called a 2 repeat, they found.
And a certain mutation in DRD2 seemed to set off a young man if he did not have regular meals with his family.
“But if people with the same gene have a parent who has regular meals with them, then the risk is gone,” Guo said.
“Having a family meal is probably a proxy for parental involvement,” he added. “It suggests that parenting is very important.”
Zimbabwe is about to run out of the paper to print money on.
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 Woody Herman and his big band performing Four Brothers (1963, 3:19).
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Liberal MP Ken Boschcoff trying to explain Green Shift on John Gormley Live this morning.
Via Newbusters;
KATE SNOW, HOST: So, things are certainly bad for a lot of Americans. I don’t think we want to discount that. But you say this is a psychological recession. What do you mean by that?
KIT YARROW, PSYCHOLOGIST: It’s a snowball, really. I think the way that consumers feel about things is very emotional. And those emotions are trumping reality, creating this snowball where they’re pulling back on spending which is then making our economy worse. It’s not quite as bad as consumers feel like it is.
SNOW: How so? How is it not as bad as we think?
YARROW: Well, you know, we’ve had really great prosperity for the last few years. We’ve had very cheap gas. We’ve had a lot of increase in our home values. We’ve had it really pretty good as stock market increases. And, emotion is always caused by this mismatch between what we perceive and reality. Right now, I think there’s a big mismatch between what we perceive should be, basically our expectations of the economy and now what we’re getting. And that’s causing people to feel fearful, and upset and angry. And, really, it’s that emotion, the psychology that’s contributing to our economy right now in a negative way.
SNOW: To fall on our sword here a little bit, do you think part of it’s our fault, the media’s fault for constantly talking about how bad things are?
YARROW: I do actually. Yeah, I have to say some of it does there. Everything is described as a crisis. And you know there’s been a preponderance of information coming at consumers, I think just the volume of it. And, it’s described in anecdotal terms as well, which causes consumers I think to feel especially fearful. When you describe an individual’s personal situation, I think people empathize with that, and it makes them feel really afraid for their security as well.
SNOW: How much is about expectations though also, in terms of, things have been going so well for so long, do we sort of think that’s what we deserved, and now things aren’t going maybe quite as well, we suddenly think it’s terrible?
YARROW: Absolutely. It’s very well put. So I think we’ve become quite entitled to a sense that we’re going to have continued prosperity, and, you know, if we hadn’t had it so good for so long, I don’t think there would be this level of emotion that’s causing us to drawback on our spending. It’s really more like, we expect it to be great growth, and you know any sort of normal growth is considered a catastrophe now.
Suddenly, the left gets huffy about tastelessness in political satire. Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Heh.
h/t Tim Blair
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 Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic performing Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92 (33:31).
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… leading climatologists and meteorologists met in New York at the Energy Business Watch Climate and Hurricane Forum. The theme of the forum strongly suggested that a period of global cooling is about emerge, though possible concerns for a political backlash kept it from being spelled out.
However, the message was loud and clear, a cyclical global warming trend may be coming to an end for a variety of reasons, and a new cooling cycle could impact the energy markets in a big way.
Words like “highly possible,” “likely” or “reasonably convincing” about what may soon occur were used frequently. Then there were other words like “mass pattern shift” and “wholesale change in anomalies” and “changes in global circulation.”
Noted presenters, such as William Gray, Harry van Loon, Rol Madden and Dave Melita, signaled in the strongest terms that huge climate changes are afoot. Each weather guru, from a different angle, suggested that global warming is part of a cycle that is nearing an end. All agreed the earth is in a warm cycle right now, and has been for a while, but that is about to change significantly.
Zinnlandia is in Amerikka – that racist, capitalist land of injustice, sexism, specieism, lookism, theism, militarism and homophobia. As a material and cultural Marxist, and skillful propagandist, Zinn – a master of sieving American history for its worst nuggets – is the perfect avatar for the self-flagellating white inhabitant of this land.
A Zinnlandian I met on this trip, a WASP physician endowed with the best education much money can buy, told me that he does not celebrate July 4th because the Declaration of Independence had been written by a slave owner and signed by other slave owners. He was just as hotly critical of the “racism” of Americans in dealing with the growing Muslim immigrant minority. The conversation unfolded over a bottle of Oregon Vino Pinko, with the likeness of a notorious Cuban mass murderer on the label.
