Reader Tips
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 Eurythmics performing Here Comes the Rain Again (1983, 4:44).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
The Sound Of Settled Science
“Millinocket, Maine once had its temperature station in a parking lot until it was run over by a car.”
Y2Kyoto: Earth begins to kill people
Delightfully plainspoken: Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate.
h/t.
I’d Gladly Give Up My Right To Vote
If I could take Antonia Zerbisias with me.
h/t BCF
Hope And Change
The Senate and Congress are controlled by Democrats.
The majority of state governors are Democrats.
Nearly every big city mayor is a Democrat.
So, tell me again – why are they waiting for Obama?
Related:
With Friends Like Garth (Bumped!)
I am coming to believe that there is no such thing as “too much” Garth Turner…
As for Dion, he will move from Calgary to Edmonton, where he’s to have an open, Town Hall meeting on his climate change plan. You might not agree with everything the man says, but you have to admire this about him. He stood up once to the self-aggrandizing, hostile, me-first, greedy, macho, selfish and balkanizing separatist losers in Quebec. I guess he can do it again in Alberta.
Get this man a bigger megaphone!
(h/t to Neil.)
Update
In case you missed it, I’m in trouble again. On Friday afternoon I began receiving lots of emails in French from folks in Quebec telling me what I could do with myself, and what they’d like to do to my sister. That co-mingled with messages from Albertans reminding me that they have the oil and we have the problem. I did some battle on the radio, on Charles Adler’s rant, with people in the oilpatch who think this climate change talk is crap. And, just to cap things off, Stephane Dion called and chewed me out.
But don’t expect him to roll!
Lizzy May, stand by for an important call…
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, in our continuing Friday night crime detective old time radio feature, here is the short Restaurant With No Customers episode of Calling All Detectives (the casebook of Jerry Browning, private detective, 1948, 8:20, MP3 ~ and note, this one has a rare kind of surprise ending for this genre 😉
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
They’re Getting Smarter
Google Bombed
… has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there.
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For every video on YouTube, the judge required Google to turn over to Viacom the login name of every user who watched it, and the address of their computer, known as an I.P., or Internet protocol, address. Both companies have argued that such data cannot be used to unmask the identities of individual users with certainty. But in many cases, technology experts and others have been able to link I.P. addresses to individuals using records of their online activities.
More here – Viacom loses legal bid to review Google’s computer search code.
Tony Blair’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and stoning, flogging or amputating hands – is ‘out of the question’;
The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance.
He declared: ‘Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’
Throwing The Anti-War Left Under The Bus
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Obama said at his first news conference that he planned a “thorough assessment” of his Iraq policy when he visits the country later this summer. “I’ve always said that the pace of withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability,” he said. “That assessment has not changed. And when I go to Iraq and have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I’m sure I’ll have more information and will continue to refine my policies.”
Obama has long spoken of consulting with commanders in the field as part of his plan for a phased withdrawal from Iraq, but his shift in emphasis in the way he spoke about the situation on Thursday – after weeks in which Republicans and even an outside Iraq-policy adviser to the Obama campaign argued against a withdrawal along the lines he had proposed – fueled speculation that he might not be wedded to his timetable.
Bwwaaaahaaaaa!
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans, Con’t.
After driving through southeastern Saskatchewan this afternoon, I decided it was a good time to place this post in some context…
For our readers who are unfamiliar with Saskatchewan, we are the trapezoidal province in the center of Canada. To provide a sense of scale, I’ve placed England (red) in the north central portion of the province.
The Bakken Play is represented in blue.
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson performing Ring of Fire (2:24).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Update: Oh, zot. I was head down over the lab bench in the shop and just popped up to post Reader Tips, and I didn’t notice, ’till commenters reminder me, that tonight’s show date coincides with the celebration of Independence Day by our good neighbours to the south. With my belated apologies, I offer our best wishes from here in the SDA LNR studio to the citizens of the United States of America. As Yukon Gold notes in the comments, “Better neighbours we couldn’t ask for”.
Not Watching For The Asteroid
Y2Kyoto: Never Before In The History Of Man !!!
h/t to Fred.
More at Climate Audit – “Sea Ice – the stretch run”
Iraq: “The progress is astonishing”
From the hard core bastion of right-wing, pro-Bush reportage – Spiegel;
Pork is available in Baghdad once again. Not just in the Green Zone, where US diplomats can enjoy their spare ribs and Parma ham, but also across the Tigris River, in the real Baghdad, at “Al-Warda” on Karada Street. Bassim Dencha, 32, one of the few Christians remaining in Iraq and the co-owner of Baghdad’s finest supermarket, has developed a supply line from Syria. As a result, he now has frozen pork chops and bratwurst arranged in his freezers, next to boxes of frozen French fries and German Black Forest Cakes. And the customers are buying.
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Two kilometers down the street, business is booming late into the night at Ali Lami’s roadside snack bar. Before the war the establishment, a Baghdad institution, was a favorite hangout for former dictator Saddam Hussein’s henchmen and United Nations weapons inspectors alike. Today professors and students from the university, which is once again open every day, come here to eat shawarma, an Arab fast-food dish consisting of shaved meat and salad served in pita bread.
This fall the manager, Rassak Rashid, 44, plans to open an outdoor seating area in a grove of palm trees behind the snack bar. The lanterns are already hanging in the trees. “Maybe then the police will stop telling our customers to get off the street,” says Rashid.
It’s a link worth passing along to your friends, and those email addresses they provide at our local and national media outlets. Let them know that you know what they don’t want you to know.
h/t Bookworm Room.
It’s Like Justin Trudeau Meets Canadian Idol!
To honour Canada’s glorious historical celebration of all things lackluster and second-rate, LWOT Magazine proudly presents:
Columbian Hostage Rescue
According to Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos in his Bogota news conference, Colombia infiltrated FARC’s 1st Squad and Secretariat. How that infitration contributed to the commando operation was not specified, beyond apparently providing the geographic location of the hostages. Whatever the mechanism — government agents run inside FARC? — Colombian intelligence tricked the FARC into believing that the hostages, who had been divided in three groups by the FARC, should be brought together in a single group to be handed over to FARC leader Alfonso Cano for a possible diplomatic, negotiated solution to the hostage crisis that would achieve FARC political objectives. As a result, FARC’s high command agreed to travel with the hostages as a means of transferring them to Cano on a helicopter that actually belonged to the Colombian military and was actually manned by Colombian intelligence personnel.
According to Minister Santos, not only were all of the hostages safely rescued, but two senior FARC officials and some 15 other FARC soldiers were arrested in the process, also without violence.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and Web news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales…