Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Delerium performing Heaven’s Earth (Matt Darey Remix, 2000, 8:11). Please note the provisos below.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Ahem. Here in the studio we realize that some of the genres of music we appreciate are nevertheless not broadly appreciated by the SDA LNR audience, and therefore we generally avoid them. On the other hand, one of our guiding principles is breadth of scope; ergo there from time to time arise exceptional cases in said genres that are at least notable in their own right, and so at a minimum are at least potentially interesting for study. And it is Saturday night, so culture-o-normatively speaking, it’s time to dance.
Tonight’s house/trance crossover selection was one of the top after-hours dance nightclub classics in 2000, and I know this because I was dancin’ there then. I mean, let’s be honest, you don’t think that there’s so much danceable music at SDA LNR because we in the studio don’t like dancing, do you? Yes this tune was a global success, yet the exceptional thing about this tune in particular, in relation to our context here, is its additional high score on the Canadian content metric.
Not only is Delerium out of Vancouver, but this is Sarah McLachlan’s one good song! Her best lines ever are at about 5:35 to 6:00, which notably don’t actually contain any, like, you know, words, because every time she tries to put words together she doesn’t actually make sense. But she can squeal real good. And one final proviso, this tune is designed to be listened to at about 110 dBa with headroom (you’re supposed to feel the bass, pneumothoracically), so if your hi-fi can’t quite pull that off, once again, my apologies for the limitations of this medium.
So I’m driving home from a dear Uncle’s funeral today, when I notice some cattle on opposite sides of the highway.
The pasture on the north side has only white and light coloured animals, the pasture to the south black cattle.
Fueled by the recent decisions of HRCs all across this great Dominion, the fury built within me. You sanctimonius white beasts I yelled, I’ll show you you can’t keep your dark brethren from your pasture.
So I opened both gates. Figured they’d get it sorted by themselves.
No need to say thanks, it’s just such an uplifting feeling to help end needless segregation.
It has the CBC logo.
He claims to be Neil Macdonald.
The headline;
* Free speeh, eh? Why is Canada prosecuting Mark Steyn? *
(not my spelling mistake)
“There is no chance whatever that either Mark Steyn’s or Mohamed Elmasry’s utterances would be censored here[US].
Here, they’d be left to argue with one another and the public might be better informed for having listened.” NM
Neil Mac seems to be in Mark Steyn’s corner but he still had to take unrelated shots at PMSH. WhY ? Just can’t help it – indoctrinated journalist.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/13/f-rfa-macdonald.html
Back of the Mike (1938)
“This video gives us a behind the scenes look at how they made all those great sounds effects.”
http://tinyurl.com/67qax3
For years, I’ve patronized a small roadside burger joint. The kind of place where people gather for a burger and fries, fried chicken etc. They were always opened until 10:00 PM..
Traditionally it was owned by “white people.” Recently it was sold to an Asian family who have no experience in cooking and or operating a burger joint. Tonite I pull up there, it’s 9:05 PM. I ask for a coffee. The Asian boy looks at me, and in a broken English says, “We have no mow coffee!” I have a quick temper. I look at the guy and ask, “There’s 55 minutes until closing time, can’t you make a new pot??” I didn’t wait around for an answer, I walked out the door, and yes I was fuming. Guess what guys?? I am now considered as “racist.” Welcome to the club!!
Back of the Mike – 1938
This video gives us a behind the scenes look at how they made all those great sounds effects.
tinyurl.com/67qax3
No, Ranger, you are simply a dissatisfied free market customer. This is not a monopoly market we are fighting, pick another joint! I once patronized a joint owned by one particular so-called identifiable so-called racial so-called sub-set, and then it was purchased by another one, and it went down hill. On the other hand, once the opposite happened, and it went up hill. Life’s like that; don’t let it ruin yours. Or am I missing the point, and you had some previously arranged contract to be provided in exchange for consideration coffee after 21:00?
You know, I was thinking about this a bit further, and I’m not sure, Ranger, that my previous comment was entirely adequate. You asked him if he would make a fresh pot of coffee, and then you stormed out before he could answer? You didn’t say, like, you know, hey buddy, I’ve been a regular here for years, I and other regulars spend and tip well, how ’bout makin’ a deal and let’s make this new venture of yours work out. No, according to your own testimony, you fumed out the door. Perhaps, Ranger, it’s just the case that you are an aszhole, not that that would be an unusual sort of thing to encounter in blogs, where there is no face-to-face reality check. And on that note, good night everyone, best wishes, and as always, thanks to our lovely hostess, Miss Kate. Catch ya on the rebound, as the cats say.
Vitruvius: in my community the outright hostility of visible minorities – a hostility that is explicitly stoked and encouraged by the government – is a significant impediment to GDP growth. These people do not:
-Say hi
-Announce the total of your purchase
-Announce the amount of change
-Say please or thank you
-Offer a good day
My community – Ottawa – has a Lebanese population that precedes Trudeau. We’re not new at dealing with minorities here. What is new is the hostility and lack of respect. And these people aren’t big on transacting business until the posted closing time, as Ranger notes, among other challenges to commerce. This is a significant issue causing real harm to the economy, not to mention disharmony in society, that needs to be discussed, not dismissed.
The AB HRC has just released 60,000 brochures that are apparently being directed at newcomers to Canada. ezralevant.com has a good discussion going and I think we should all have a look at just what this is all about.
Should you feel a response is needed, once again the addresses are:
Linsay Blackett – Minister i/c the AB HRC
ccs.minister@gov.ab.ca
Premier Ed
premier@gov.ab.ca
Marie Riddle – Director of AB Human Rights Commission
marie.riddle@gov.ab.ca
My e mails have gone and I hope many of yours will go as well. As each few days go by, the tale of the HRCs just keeps getting more bizarre.
One of my points was to ask for the count (by group) of all telephone calls, faxes, e mails, and letters that have been received by the HRC since Jan/08 and which are negative towards the AB HRC.
The number of phone calls directed at the premiers office on Friday re the huge pay raise was made public very quickly. So should the number of negative complaints against the AB HRC be made public.
Re posts above: What we have in Canada is multiculturalism run rampant, a kind of rogue multiculturalism.
The Librano$’ immigration policy was not about a harmonious gathering of the races, a melting pot of ethnicity, a “just society,” it was all about–and nothing more than– getting VOTES, and LOTS OF THEM, so that the natural ruling party (sic) could stay in power ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
So, Canada now has multiculturalism–“the envy of other nations”–which is unprecedented nearly anywhere else in the world. That may be true, but is it something to be proud of? I think not. It’s been mismanaged and has had the effect of pushing out those of us whose families have been here for hundreds of years: I mean, if you are of British/Judeo-Christian background, all public policies and initiatives are decidedly NOT supportive of our culture–and, in fact, have effectively deep-sixed it.
“Multiculturalism” in Canada is a misnomer, as it effectively excludes the host culture (that is, unless you’re Francophone), while it lionizes and subsidizes all of the other newly arrived cultural groups now part of our ethnic/racial/cultural mosaic. It’s a highly dysfunctional model, and has created a great deal of societal friction and injustice.
Multiculturalism, Canada-style, has also led to higher rates of criminal activity, as our police and judicial systems are loathe to be called “racist,” and therefore veil in secrecy the perpetrators of criminal activities which should be named and prosecuted. But, wait a minute, that’s “racial profiling,” isn’t it? That’s a no-no, even when it could mean catching the gang members doing drug deals–on our streets–and shooting up innocent people–on our streets. In Canada. I’m not making this up.
Living in Toronto, one is aware of a tinder box about to explode. Moro…er…Mayor Miller seems not to understand that it’s not guns we need to get off the streets (they don’t have arms, legs, or trigger-happy fingers, do they?) but CRIMINALS.
Now, if he and Toronto’s finest would commit to removing criminals from Toronto’s mean streets, we’d be getting somewhere. Otherwise, all the gun removals will be in vain–as it’s the law-abiding citizens they’re taking guns away from, not the thugs illegally toting guns.
These days, law-abiding citizens are penalized, while gang members, packing illegal weapons and murdering innocent people, are given a pass. Ottawa/Toronto, we have a problem–A BIG PROBLEM.
“The only EU leader so far to admit that the treaty is dead is Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president, who declared the entire project “finished”.”
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“No 10 admits EU treaty is finished
Gordon Brown is privately ready to sacrifice the Lisbon treaty rather than allow the Irish no vote to create a two-tier Europe.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4138792.ece
A heads-up
Ezra Levant will be the one-on-one guest of the CTS-TV Michael Coren Show, Tuesday, June 17 at 8 pm repeated at noon next day (all Eastern times).
Had a bellyful of multiculturalism? Celebrate our redneck culture with this 1969 performance by the original Ragin’ Cajun, Mr. Tony Joe White:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw
http://tinyurl.com/58ocx3
Defeating Silence – Real Clear Politics, very good!
AND: Happy Fathers Day to all!
BATB, went for a bike ride yesterday here in Toronto. Having lived all my life in this city and growing up at Harbour and St. George, home to the University of Toronto I love to ride around the area. Over the years used to like visiting Chinatown on Spadina and rode over to see it again.
This area and the Kensington Market location has to one of the filthiest parts of Toronto now. The graffiti is so vast that it is hard to find the name of the restaurants and stores. I pity any business owner in this area as nice restaurants are desecrated and the city in their wisdom fines the OWNER if they don’t clean it up, which is impossible. Stores are empty and boarded up and the whole area is run down. As predicated making the Spadina streetcar right-of-way as a barrier at least a foot high so pedestrians can not cross except at the cross streets has cut Spadina into two areas and drastically reduced pedestrian traffic.
As the former mayor of New York stated graffiti is a sign of a city on the decline and it has made Chinatown a dirty and scary place to visit so the tourists stay away. Contrasting this with Hong Kong where it is extremely clean with zero graffiti and inviting to wander around makes it crystal clear where we are heading catering to the scum destroying our city. The message sent out to the world by Singapore that you vandalize our city and we will give you the lash has kept this city as a jewel and beautiful at very little expense save to the sore asses of these POS.
Lorne Gunter has a very strongly worded piece in todays (Sunday) Edmonton Journal re the AB HRC/Boisson issue.
Kudos to him for writing and to the Edmonton Journal for printing.
Socialists hope to kill human rights lawyer?
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“Runoff election could be start of another chapter in Zimbabwe’s crisis
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: Andrew Makoni wants change in Zimbabwe, his homeland. But he won’t be there to vote for it. Instead, the human rights lawyer will be in neighboring South Africa, hiding from government-hired killers he says have targeted him.”
http://tinyurl.com/62kg8x (iht)
CanCanSociety admits, at last, what it’s been doing with its billions of $: investing its money.
Into the stock market? The bond market? Overseas?
Invest: “to invest money; make an investment: to invest in oil stock.”
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“Cancer survival rates continue to improve
While Ontario faces a possible cancer crisis due to our aging and growing population, the good news is that we are making progress against cancer, in part due to the Canadian Cancer Society’s investment in top research across the country.”
http://tinyurl.com/6d23cg (wstar)
Global Warming update from Washington State
I just want to second Calgary Clipper’s recommendation — I hope everyone reads today’s column from Lorne Gunter. He tells the truth — that the HRC’s are political, and not about Canadian values — like it actually matters up here.
Superb.
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/columnists/story.html?id=7a9bfaa3-2e76-4ddf-9835-d8691ed21098
“The commissions are not ‘human rights’ defenders. They are political traffic cops deciding which groups and opinions are acceptable and, more frighteningly, which are not.
“No state is capable of making such decisions in anything approaching an objective manner, so no state should be entrusted with the power to try…”
Read the whole thing.
http://tinyurl.com/448tjk
According to Williams, Harper drew himself up to announce: “I don’t need Newfoundland and Labrador to win an election.”
In that moment of potential hubris, what Williams heard was every pompous politician from away who ever treated the good people of Newfoundland and Labrador with arrogance and disdain. People here know what it is like to be the underdog, rubbed raw by outsider superiority in the years since they voted in a squeaker (52-48 per cent) to join Canada.
Meet the new boss, same as the old bosses.
The Old Politics of National Socialismus:
Alles ist verboten.
Mao Stlong aglees; stlip away the bourgeois possessions.
Next up: the intellectuals.
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“First Zimbabwe’s townships, now suburbia must learn to fear the mob
Times Online – 2 hours ago
President Mugabe’s lawless militias crossed a psychological boundary last week as they extended their violence and “re-education” campaign from the poor townships into the well-off suburbs.”
So it begins:
“ISP’s confirm ‘2012: The Year The Internet Ends'”
Update: Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP’s all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These ‘other’ sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet.
Dylan Pattyn *, who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren’t in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.
maz2: re your comment of 2:20pm
You got a point? What’s your issue? As far as I know funding research has ALWAYS been considered an investment, by those putting in the money.
Methinks your definition is lacking parts.
irwin daisy,
Don’t be so worried. Any group that thinks that they are going to control anything are clearly delusional. If the Russian mob decides to put up satellites and get global subscribers who is going to stop them … Telus? … Bell? … CRTC? … UN? … a Times junior “reporter”?
You’re going to have to come up, Irwin, with better evidence than those two paragraphs to get me to pay attention to what was said in those two paragraphs.
Dave, I’m not sure about the boarded up properties in Kensington Market and China Town, but I agree that they’re pretty squalid. ‘Not saying I don’t enjoy the “funkiness” of Kensignton Market, but I sure wouldn’t want to live anywhere near it.
Toronto has the feel, as I’ve said before, of a woman past her prime, having come upon hard times: its parks are a mess, with weeds sprouting profusely and garbagae everywhere; its streets are full of potholes; traffic–pedestrian, bicycles, vehicles–is chaotic with all sorts of traffic infractions and no police presence in sight (oh yeah, except for the speeding ticket I got a few weeks ago!); emergency vehicles are frequently in evidence; civility on the streets is at a premium. I could go on.
Toronto used to be a law-and-order place, but no longer. It seems that anything goes and that no one’s in charge–except the grifters, shysters, and con artists.
The murders of two young men in an idling SUV on a downtown street early Friday morning–still with lots of unanswered questions–seem to be indicative of the chaos that Toronto’s become.
Isn’t Toronto known as “the most multicultural city” in the world?