Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation & pursuant to our regularly scheduled Wednesday night comedy feature, here is the inimitable Mr. Charlie Callas performing his famous Shooting sketch (5:10).
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Climate Change through Color Change;
… the two models show the areas of warming and cooling to be occurring in widely different sections of the United States. The [United States Global Change Research Program’s] solution to this conundrum was to alter the temperature color scale by eliminating yellow and green, and extending the color orange into negative temperature ranges as low as -1.0°F, thereby implying warming, when in fact the models were showing no temperature change or cooling for some localities.
Related: “Painting by numbers” – a video showing the USHCN adjustments in action.
For Canada’s “Best Prime Minister We Never Had”;
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has favoured former police and corrections officers for new appointments to the National Parole Board since the Harper government took office in 2006, government records show.
Of the 36 new members Day has named to the board since he became minister that year, 23 are retired police officers or former federal and provincial corrections staff.
The John Howard Society is livid, which is always a good sign.
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again!
I just sent you a paypal donation of $100.
The $100 represents the proceeds I received from the BC government pursuant to the ridiculous “carbon tax” initiative, a tax which virtually everyone concedes will do abolutely nothing to solve the mythical global warming “problem”.
Initially, I was torn between two options. Option 1: take the cheque outside, set it on fire, and enjoy the fleeting moment of seeing just that much more CO2 wafting up into the atmosphere. Option 2: use the money to fill my tank, and then embark on a completely useless, unnecessary trip to burn up the gasoline.
In any event, I chose option 3…giving it to you in the hopes that it will help you fund more of your inciteful attacks against the Gore/Suzuki fraud.
Whew….I feel so much better now that I have rid myself of this ridiculous, hypocritical “carbon rebate”…
It will be my pleasure to do so. Thank you, Mr. “B” and thank you Gordon Campbell!
The American broadcast industry is rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit, yet again, by Rush Limbaugh, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
In what is being described as an unprecedented radio contract, Limbaugh will keep his syndicated show on-the-air and e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e through 2016 with CLEAR CHANNEL and PREMIERE RADIO.
Already host of the most lucrative hours since radio’s inception, Limbaugh’s total package is valued north of $400 million, according to media insiders.
Gord Tulk – “Does that give him enough to buy the NYT?”
Heh.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, so much for the Queen’s English;
Pupils are being rewarded for writing obscenities in their GCSE English examinations even when it has nothing to do with the question.
One pupil who wrote “f*** off” was given marks for accurate spelling and conveying a meaning successfully.
His paper was marked by Peter Buckroyd, a chief examiner who has instructed fellow examiners to mark in the same way. He told trainee examiners recently to adhere strictly to the mark scheme, to the extent that pupils who wrote only expletives on their papers should be awarded points.
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The chief examiner, who is responsible for standards in exams taken by 780,000 candidates and for training for 3,000 examiners, told The Times: “It would be wicked to give it zero, because it does show some very basic skills we are looking for – like conveying some meaning and some spelling.
“It’s better than someone that doesn’t write anything at all. It shows more skills than somebody who leaves the page blank.”
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb performing Rifftide (8:02).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat.
That sounds like a bumper sticker!
1. The 2500
2. Spotless
3. AGW Million Dollar Man
4. Pop goes the Ozone
5. Get a Shrink
Put your AGW linkery, AGW comedy, and AGW mockery in the comments.
An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.
The boy’s school says he has violated the children’s rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.
Let’s just castrate every little boy at the age of 5, and be done with it.
Happy Canada Day, folks!
If you’re raising a glass in celebration today, remember to raise one in remembrance too. For on this day in 1916, The Royal Newfoundland Regiment went over the top in the Battle of the Somme at Beaumont-Hamel.
Of the 780 men who went forward, only sixty eight were available for roll call the following day.
So raise a glass and say your thanks for this great nation, and save a thought for those who gave their all to make it so.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in honour of Canada Day, and for those of us who celebrate it, Dominion Day, 2008, and for your delectation, here is the 1979 version of the National Film Board’s production of Wade Hemsworth’s classic: The Log Driver’s Waltz (3:04, lyrics, hat tip to Gunney99).
Also, the 2008 Q2 Top 100 SDA Commenters statistics are now available.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
In all your garble about “alternative” energy technology coming to Saskatchewan on the gentle green wings of Liberal faeries, it appears you’ve fallen victim to an embarrassing oversight.
So if you would, Mr. Dion – copy this down and post it to your caucus Energy Star fridge door;
1. Saskatchewan floats upon lakes of oil.
2. The beaches of those lakes are comprised of endless glistening dunes of coal.
3. Wafting over the scene are massive cumulous clouds of natural gas.
4. We have a population density of well under 2 persons per square km.
You see, Saskatchewan doesn’t need no stinking giant fans. We don’t need no stinking giant mirrors. We don’t need no stinking puny hybrids. (We don’t need no stinking nuclear power, for that matter, though we’re positively glowing with that, too.)
In short, Saskatchewan is not in danger of “running out” of conventional energy. Not many Liberals seem to know this. I believe they may have us mistaken for Ontario.
We have enough conventional energy in Saskatchewan to power every electrical grid, fill every SUV, and idle in every drive through in the province until long after the remainder of the world has ground to a halt. (In fact, we should probably make drive-through’s mandatory just to burn off the stuff that bubbles up from the ground on its own.)
So you won’t be taking our money to build over-priced, underperforming “alternative energy” crap we don’t need. You can use your money to build over-priced, underperforming crap we don’t need.
I hope this has helped clarify matters.
Thank you.
One more thing – if we’re the ones doing all the polluting…
…then how come Toronto has all of the smog?
Brian Stewart and CBC News decided to question the accountability of JTF 2 the other night on The National. So I decided to look into what was really knotting their knickers:
Stewart and Mansbridge ask a lot of questions, but don’t provide many good answers. But that certainly doesn’t stop them from making insinuations and giving inaccurate impressions to their viewers.
For starters, look at Mansbridge’s introduction to the segment:
Canadians are told their soldiers are rebuilding Afghanistan, fighting to defend the lives of the Afghan people. But elite Canadian soldiers are also carrying out secret military raids, raids which have resulted in the deaths of Afghan civilians. The United Nations is demanding answers. But the Canadian military is neither talking nor offering any accountability…
There’s so much spin packed into so few words, it’s going to take some effort to unpack it. Stay with me, here…
I’d like to think the whole thing is worth reading, since I’m the one who wrote it. But if you’re interested in what happens when clueless, self-important journalists bump up against real OPSEC issues affecting the lives of those serving overseas and the success of a mission, this is a great example of the petulance that ensues.
P.S. Given what Labatt is doing for the CF this Canada Day, I’d encourage you to go buy some Blue for Canada Day tomorrow.
Just a quick service announcement for the handful of motorcyclists who didn’t already know how bad the road is;
The Saskatchewan government is warning motorcyclists heading down to a big annual rally in South Dakota to avoid a potentially hazardous stretch of highway.
Each year, the Sturgis, S.D. motorcycle rally — the largest of its kind in the world — attracts thousands of visitors from Saskatchewan and other parts of Canada. Sturgis is about 863 kilometres south of Regina.
Many of the Canadian visitors have traditionally taken Highway 35, which runs due south from Weyburn.
However, this year the province is telling riders to take a different route.
The problem is a two-kilometre section of highway near the Saskatchewan-North Dakota border, which is being rebuilt.
That route has been treacherous for years, and it’s good to see work finally being done on it.
Actually, I’ve always thought Highways should install “motorcycle caution” signs at major intersections leading to highways with degraded pavement, gravel stretches, or significant construction as a matter of policy.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and today from the Ministry of Naughty Holes;
Officers collected information from businesses, obtained samples of fish and chips, measured salt content and ‘carried out experiments to determine how the problem of excessive salt being dispensed could be overcome by design’.
They decided that the five-hole pots would reduce the amount of salt being used by more than 60 per cent yet give a ‘visually acceptable sprinkling’ that would satisfy the customer.
The council commissioned Drywite Ltd – a catering equipment company based in the West Midlands – to make five-hole shakers and bought 1,000 of them at a cost of £2,000, giving them away to fast-food outlets in their areas.
Drywite confirms that it has since received orders for the shakers from at least five other councils, including Rochdale Borough in Greater Manchester.
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
A reader who prefers anonymity writes;
I have attached a brief math exercise of what I think may be the impact of the green shift tax. While I fully expect people to dispute the numbers that I used, i.e. the mark up percentages, I think that the basic logic is sound to support my calculations. I do not know what the real impact of the carbon tax will be but I do know that $15 billion of tax will pull a lot more money out of the economy than the initial $15 Billion, it seems that no one has analyzed this tax from a business model perspective.
Check it out.
“FF_Canuck” examines the gas tax angle;
As you know, Dion’s new Green $haft includes a direct tax on diesel, but not gasoline. This is obviously going to have a disparate effect on Saskatchewan and Alberta, where we use more diesel in proportion to total fuel consumption, but I wanted some hard numbers, so I went to the Natural Resources Canada website here: (See Table 2.2)
Turns out that Alberta and Saskatchewan are responsible for 20.7% of total automotive fuel consumption, and 27.7% of national diesel consumption. OTOH, Ontario and Quebec are responsible for 58.1% of total automative fuel consumption, but only 55.5% of national diesel consumption.
So, thanks to Dion’s cynical exemption of gasoline, we pay tax on 133% of our total fuel consumption, while Ontario and Quebec pay for 95% of theirs.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Bunny Berigan, Fats Waller, and Tommy Dorsey performing Honeysuckle Rose (1937, 3:19, audio).
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