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 Hans Andre Stamm performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542, on the Trost organ in Waltershausen, Germany (6:28).
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Enter the Palin-hating fever swamp. Read the comments below the post, the most disturbed group of sociopaths I’ve ever seen:
http://wonkette.com/404013/hey-kids-check-out-lil-trigger-in-his-elephant-costume
Mark Steyn on Obama, unique and precise as usual.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjE3OTEzNmI1NTEzOGIzNTU3ZWRmNzdmZmY3MTY5OTA=
One of the scarier things floating round this Hallowe’en was an article in the Toronto Star by Annie Kidder, who runs something called People for Education, described as “an independent parent-led organization”, but which often comes across like a front for the teachers’ unions and certainly the social engineers (as will be evident from reading the article).
She writes, “Do we want to live in a country of engaged citizens who feel that they ‘belong’ to something? Do we want to be a nation of innovators contributing to the rest of the world with strong environmental policies, our dedication to global citizenship and our examples of social responsibilty? Do we want to harness the power of our population’s diversity? Or do we want to continue to lead the world in our rate of consumption? Do we want to watch passively as the gap between the rich and everyone else continues to grow …”
I have been saying for a while that a “citizen”, as defined by the left wing, is “a person who, when the government says ‘jump’, answers ‘how high'”. Life isn’t about ‘belonging’ to anything, it’s about looking after one’s own interests first of all (which only oneself can properly do), and advancing one’s position by trading with others in the full knowledge they are doing the same. Any attack on consumption from self-styled advocates of the poor is a fraud, because what they are trying to push is greater consumption by the poor. There is nothing wrong with higher incomes for the poor, but we know by now they don’t come from attacking the rich, and promoting “equality” is not the same as eliminating poverty.
Diversity, in a world of jumbo jets, is pretty much a fait accompli and is not going anywhere, but it doesn’t have any particular “power” to harness that I am aware of.
Here’s some more: “Our schools are doing a pretty great job in their drive to improve students’ literacy and numeracy – test scores are up, Canadian students are among the top 10 OECD countries in reading, writing, math and science … But is that enough? … Are they the kinds of thinkers and innovators that we need? Do they have a sense of citizenship and social responsibility? …”
The only way to determine the “kinds of thinkers and innovators that we need” is to let the free market figure it out. No one other than a social engineer would propose anything different. And as for “citizenship and social responsibility”, I would repeat my earlier definition of ‘citizen’. We have had increased social spending for a long time, i. e., giving money to people who (for whatever reason) are not currently producing anything, which is why incomes have been stagnating for decades, and it has not improved the lot of the genuinely poor, or diminished their number. The best social program is a job, which means free market wages and the “raging torrent of progress” that is capitalism.
The article was written following a forum put on by P4E and the Canadian Education Association. Kidder goes on, noting that during said forum, “… everyone agreed that the shift in our collective thinking about schools – from viewing them as something that was good for the country to something that was more of a private good, focused on individuals’ economic success – was part of the problem”
Note the twisted collectivist thinking: schools can somehow be “good for the country” without actually helping students plan their futures, i. e., without teaching them to read, or imparting at least a couple of marketable skills.
And the “solution”? “We have to redefine success in education beyond simplistic targets for test scores, because they don’t tell us much about the overall health of our education system. We have to look critically at our focus on literacy and numeracy and make sure that political targets haven’t got in the way of truly educational ones”
There are a few grains of truth in the notion that test scores by themselves are far from indicative of a well-functioning school system (or fully educated students). But the last sentence in the quoted paragraph indicates that Kidder thinks literacy and numeracy are “political targets” while citizenship and social engineering are “truly educational ones”. That is scary, Hallowe’en or not.
One more quote: “In the UK, for example, citizenship is taught as a fundamental ideal. They challenge students to be critical thinkers, they get them to solve real problems and debate scary things like values and politics. They assume that young people can think independently and can participate in effecting change”
The term “critical thinking” is often used to whitewash a Marxist analysis of alleged social problems, i. e., a false analysis. And note the last clause: “participate in effecting change”. Change from what? Maybe the system doesn’t need “change”. Capitalism certainly doesn’t, except for lower taxes and a lot of regulations put into the trash can.
Why doesn’t Annie Kidder change the name of her organization to People for Social Engineering?
Barack Obama a real life Chauncey Gardener
The Democrats’ choice of Barrack Obama’s for its presidential candidate seems strangely reminiscent of an old movie. In a 1979 Hollywood produced a movie called Being There, starring Peter Sellers. He played Chauncey Gardener, a simple gardener, who had been isolated from American society until middle age. His total social and cultural education came from watching television and his sole work experience from tending a garden. While wandering the streets outside his home for the first time in his life he is taken into the home by a wealthy couple who have considerable influence in Washington. He is dapperly dressed, soft spoken and polite. When he speaks about gardening “Young plants do much better if a person helps them.” those around him decline to take him literally but prefer to take his words as metaphorical gems of wisdom. Soon everyone from, the President on down to TV talk show audiences, are taken in by his mundane musings about gardening.
When interviewed about the state of the economy he responds as follows; “if you give your garden a lot of love and if you work very hard and have a lot of patience, in the proper season you will see it grow to be very beautiful.
.. ..It is the gardener’s responsibility to take water from the flooded area and run it to the area that is dry.”
The audience applauds him but two in the audience retort, “It didn’t make any sense to me at all. I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about…, It wasn’t meant for us, he was talking to the masses. He was very clever, keeping it at a third grade level – that’s what they understand… “
Ironically the black maid that raised Chauncey Gardener comments on his television appearance by saying, “Gobbledegook! All the time he talked gobbledygook! An’ it’s for sure a White man’s world in America, hell, I raised that boy…. Yes, sir – all you gotta be is white in America an’ you get whatever you want! “
Jerzy Nitodem Lewintopf , author of Being There, survived the holocaust in Poland in part by taking a Catholic name, Kosinski, to hide the family’s Jewish identity. He mastered play-acting and fabrication for survival. Kosinski became an expert actor and storyteller. He moved to the U.S. in 1957, where “He loved to tell outrageous lies, particularly to the rich, intellectual and famous. They were so eager to be entertained, that they willingly suspended disbelief, and they were so confident of their superiority that he thought that they deserved to be played for fools.” His supporters included the New York Times.
Near the end of the movie, two Washington power brokers discuss whether Chauncey would be a suitable winning candidate for President, “But what do we know of the man? Nothing! We have no inkling of his past!…, Correct, and that is an asset. A man’s past can cripple him; his background turns into a swamp and invites scrutiny.
A while back I thought that that the revelations about Obama’s past might handicap his stage show as well but now we will have to wait and see how the show ends. Will this election season’s comedy play out as a farce or perhaps even an outright tragedy?
Finally, Mockely and Lidicule of Mao Stlong’s Grobar Walming.
More, please.
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“Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Mock Global Warming
I saw this tonight on TV during commercial break for an episode of The Simpson’s and looked it up, just to make sure it wasn’t a joke. It isn’t. Here’s the ad specs”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/02/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-mock-global-warming/#more-3985
A voice from moderate Islam.
Islamism, quite distinct from Islam, is a fascist ideology that needs to be countered with equal force at each step of its numerous incursions into civil society.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=cf0fd94c-7a3c-4b1f-b742-def044c4937d
In a nutshell, what concerns me about an Obama Presidency is that he may become the next POTUS merely because he is black. Colour of skin is no good reason to make someone the head of the most powerful country in the world.
Obama’s lack of experience running ANYTHING, his dubious connections, and his posing and posturing, two things he’s really good at which essentially make him successful only at being a stuffed suit, make his becoming President of the U.S.A. a scary prospect.
Then, look at his handlers. They’re even more scary.
The “lobbying experts” bewail.
Leger wails the “budget knives”.
The gravytrain is crashing up.
The porkers are squealing.
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“Lobbying industry could be hard hit in economic downturn
If Canada’s current economic downturn continues into a deep recession, the lobbying industry could be hard hit as consulting and government relations budgets are some of the first to go for firms that are losing money, say lobbying experts.” (nnw)
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“Beware: Federal budget knives are coming out
Leger” (nnw)
Obama’a popularity is all about race. He is black therefore all blacks will vote for him. Ditto the “progressives”, members of academia and the young idealists.
His blackness will be his downfall however. Whites will eventually realize his politics are too socialistic and the blacks will be sorely disappointed that he can’t give them everything they expected him to do. They will eventually accuse him of being an Uncle Tom and reject him as being in the pockets of the white elite.
This election is all about race and I believe that instead of healing the rift between races in the US, it will further divide it.
flaggman,
Read some of the comments on wonkette. More proof the left is marginalizing itself. The most vile, filth has taken over, pushing any rational, moral person out. Just more of the same company for the Prince of Darkness though.
Cal,
‘Being There’ is one of the great all time pictures. However, Chauncey Gardner wasn’t a pathological liar, practicing an advanced form of taqiyya and shameless reverse racism, in order to trojan horse his radical socialism onto an unsuspecting American public.
Not all blacks will vote for Obama.
There are a couple of black firearms owners and shooting competitors at my club…
They are not going to vote for him. It’s not just words either. You can see the dislike and distrust for him in their faces.
To say “all blacks” is too general and misleading.
Re-post – Off Topic; Citic Pacific Corp., subsidiary of Power Corp. that was set up in Hong Kong with the help of Brian Mulroney issued a cease trading order on Oct. 31st pending some announcement.
This was the outfit that were going to build coal fired power plants in China, as well as invest in infrastructure and aviation manufacturing according to the company website.
Wonder what will be the contents of that announcement? Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Citic Pacific Ltd. tumbled the most in 18 years in Hong Kong trading after predicting HK$15.5 billion ($2 billion) in losses from unauthorized currency bets.
New post;
The unit of China’s biggest state-owned investment company dropped 55 percent to close at HK$6.52. The company ousted Financial Director Leslie Chang, 54, and Financial Controller Chau Chi Yin, 52, and said yesterday in a filing its parent would help to arrange a $1.5 billion loan.
“The company may face bankruptcy if it doesn’t secure the loan from its parent as banks probably won’t dare to lend money to it under the current credit crunch,” said Liu Yang, managing director at Atlantis Investment Management Ltd., which oversees about $2 billion in China assets. “The incident shows the company has real problems in risk management.”
BDS has mutated to VWSBSFUCD:
“It could be called “Victory Will Still Be Snatched From Us Compulsive Disorder”.”
“said Stephanie Harper, 32, as she walked towards the rally with thousands of others. “My doctor says she is treating lots of Democrats for anxiety and depression, because of their obsession with this election and their fears that Obama will lose.””
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“They are dancing and cheering, but Barack Obama’s army is sick with anxiety
Fears over victory being snatched away by ‘some ghastly trick’ has sent many supporters to the doctor”
http://tinyurl.com/5at386 (timesUK)
“Michael Savage diagnoses “the mental disorder of liberalism” — and offers a comprehensive cure-all
Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder”
http://www.conservativebookclub.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6621
Different venue, same problems when it comes to natural hazards.
(Via SWJ) Walter Pincus, Wanted: Falcons, Handlers For Mission in Afghanistan
The U.S. Air Force, a high-tech wonder of precision missiles and pilotless surveillance drones, is looking for a few good falcons.
Live falcons, that is, ones with feathers and talons, the kind that hunt mice and small birds.
U.S. aircraft at the sprawling Bagram air base in Afghanistan are coming under increasing attack — not from al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters but from “many small songbirds, pigeons, Magpies, Hawks and Black Kites,” according to a bid request for a “bird control services” contract issued by the Army last month…
(Via SWJ) Peter Wilson, Situation normal, all fouled up
About 40m away another flagpole fluttered with a more surprising ensign, the green and yellow boxing kangaroo that became famous during the America’s Cup campaign of 1983. When I asked the diplomat who was leading me to the US ambassador’s apartment for a press briefing what that flag was doing there, she hesitated for a few seconds, then lied. “Oh, it’s just a gift some Aussies gave us,” she said. That did not sound right, so three times I asked again, and each time she insisted the flag was flying there for no particular reason.
The truth is that Australia’s embassy works out of the US embassy and American diplomats have been asked not to tell anybody….
The coyness surrounding our secret embassy says much about the state of the conflict in Afghanistan. The war is going poorly, its popularity is falling in Australia and there is widespread uneasiness about Washington’s leadership…
Michael J. Totten, Killing a Crocodile
Last week the United States military conducted a raid inside Syria and killed Al Qaeda leader Abu Ghadiya in a shootout in the village of Sukariyeh. Syria’s government raged against the violation of its sovereignty and staged a massive anti-American protest in downtown Damascus. But, according to the Times of London, the Syrian government itself may have quietly green-lighted the raid in advance…
BT Blogger Steve Janke is a scheduled guest panelist on tonights CTS-TV Michael Coren Show at 8pm Eastern, repeating at noon tomorrow.
Other panelists are former NDP MP Peggy Nash and Monday regular,the National Posts John Turley-Ewart.
What “credibility” did the “blue helmets” from the UN ever have?
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“UN Peacekeepers’ Credibility Is Damaged
By Horand Knaup in Nairobi
It is the UN’s biggest and most expensive peacekeeping operation ever. But when things got serious in the Democratic Republic of Congo the blue helmets failed to defend the population from rebel troops and instead concentrated on protecting themselves.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,588091,00.html
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An eyefull Ivory Tower of ‘painful’cuts? Tch-tch-tch! Better than cuts to the arts.
Hope the tenured profs are not cut.
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“Universities eye ‘painful’ cuts in wake of crisis
With endowment funds taking a beating, student aid, scholarships, hiring and academic programs could all be on the chopping block” (g-m)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBMdWxcFXQg
Deja vu
Obama gives McCain and his supporters the bird(‘>
Ontario is officially a have not province, starting next year. They will receive equalization for the first time.
““organizers” who will work in “communities” and use “audacity” to bring about “socialism” in America.”
Hope and Change.
Don’t sweat it: O says he’s just another Clinton.
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“Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper
Zomblog has obtained an extremely rare copy of the first issue of Osawatomie, a newspaper published by the Weather Underground in 1975. Noteworthy passages are reproduced below, along with exact transcriptions. The full pages, with each passage in context in high resolution, are found at the bottom of this post.
Much of Osawatomie, which was written at a time when the Dohrn-Ayers wing of the Weather Underground was transitioning from terrorism to “working from the inside” for revolution, concerns itself with the need to encourage “organizers” who will work in “communities” and use “audacity” to bring about “socialism” in America.
Don’t believe me? Read the quotes for yourself, and see them in context on the full pages below.”
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=70
(Via Crown Center) Lisa Blaydes and Lawrence Rubin, Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt
The phenomenon of terrorism undertaken in the name of religious fundamentalism is one that has had an impact on both the Western and Islamic worlds alike. Egypt has used repression in combination with negotiation and ideological reorientation to combat terrorism committed by religious extremist groups. Egypt’s two fiercest Islamic militant groups, first the Islamic Group and then Islamic Jihad, not only ceased their violent activities but also recently produced and published doctrinal revisions regarding the impermissibility of violence. While we cannot causally attribute the groups’ decisions to lay down arms and pursue non-violent politics to a particular regime action, the Egyptian experience is highly suggestive. First, it suggests that the ideology of religiously-based groups is not exogenous and fixed, as is often assumed, but rather endogenous and flexible. Second, one may infer that ideological reorientation enjoys a long-run efficacy compared to rival approaches; this is particularly apparent when contrasted with repressive strategies which both scholarly and journalistic accounts suggest may actually increase levels of religious radicalism in a country…
How bad is it?
CTV newsnet is reporting that ONTARIO will accept equalization payments from the federal govt!
Ontario will get a few hundred thousand next year while Quebec will continue to get about $8.0 billion per year.
See, socialism does pay in Canada.
BTW, GM car sales are estimated to be down 40% this yr and total US car sales will be in the 10 million/yr range.
Down from the 18 million/yr range of the last few yrs.
Selling only 10 mil cars per year was last done in 1983.
Lordy, this is going to get messy.
No, all blacks won’t vote for Obama. Black firearms owners probably won’t AND deeply committed Christian blacks who believe in the sanctity of human life won’t.
Obama’s made it very clear that children in the womb–and even outside the womb if born alive after a failed abortion–are of no value. They are expendible.
For many black Christians, Obama’s pro-abortion stand will be a line in the sand which they’re not willing to cross.
“We shall overcome” goes far deeper than skin colour.
The Goricale effect:
Save us
Snow fell on London this last week, a beautiful blanket of snow — the first to fall in the month of October since the year of grace 1922 — while the Mother of Parliaments gave third reading to an extraordinary piece of legislation, which will put a huge new bureaucracy in place to monitor and fight global warming, sucking taxes from a shrinking British economy.
This is an example of what is now called, in urban parlance, the “Gore effect,” after the Nobel-prize-winner and former U.S. vice-president. It is defined as, “The phenomenon that leads to record cold temperatures wherever Al Gore goes to deliver an important statement on global warming, or by extension, to sharp temperature drops wherever a major discussion of global warming takes place.”
More at:
http://davidwarrenonline.com/
EUropia wins The Recession ‘stakes.
Always in the vanguard, EUropia is.
Kudos to EUropia.
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“Recession hits Europe as Club Med debt worries grow
The European Commission has slashed its economics forecasts, warning that the eurozone is now the grip of full recession for the first time since the launch of the euro and faces a deep slump for another two years.”
http://tinyurl.com/6db3ld (telegraph)
By e-mail:
Republican Jewish Coalition
Concerned about Barack Obama?
You should be.
This weekend, Democrat Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) confided that Barack Obama stayed a member of anti-Semitic, anti-American Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years for “political” gain. And that Obama, “didn’t have the political courage” to leave.
Watch the video of Rep. Nadler’s comments by clicking here.*
If Obama doesn’t have the courage to do the right thing here at home, can he stand up to dictators and tyrants who seek to do us harm?
We should all be concerned about Barack Obama.
Paid for by the Republican Jewish Coalition. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
*[Link changed. This one works.]
Related:
Jake Tapper, Nadler Criticizes Obama’s ‘Courage’
“Think of the history here,” says the six-term New York congressman. “You have a guy who’s half-white, half-black. He goes to an Ivy League school, comes to Chicago … to start a political career. Doesn’t know anybody.
“Gets involved with community organizing — why? Because that’s how your form a base. OK. Joins the largest church in the neighborhood. About 8,000 members. … Why did he join the church? … Because that’s how you get to know people.
“Now maybe it takes a couple years,” Nadler says, suggesting that soon Obama starts to think of Wright, “’Jesus, the guy’s a nut, the guy’s a lunatic.’ But you don’t walk out of a church with 8,000 members in your district.”
Suggests a woman: “You don’t walk in though.”
“He didn’t know it when he walked in, presumably,” said Nadler.
And then, the line that may haunt Nadler for four years or longer: “He didn’t have the political courage to make the statement of walking out.
“Now, what does it tell me?” Nadler asked. “It tells me that he wasn’t terribly political courageous. Does it tell me that he agreed with the reverend in any way? No. It tells me he didn’t want to walk out of a church in his district.”…
(Via SWJ) Obituary: John W. Ripley
A Virginia native, Colonel Ripley was best known for a daring feat during the Easter Offensive of 1972, when he dangled for three hours under a bridge near the South Vietnamese city of Dong Ha to attach 500 pounds of explosives to the span, ultimately destroying it. His action, under fire while going back and forth for materials, is thought to have thwarted an onslaught by 20,000 enemy troops and was the subject of a book, The Bridge at Dong Ha, by John Grider Miller…
Earlier this year, Colonel Ripley was inducted into the U.S. Ranger Hall of Fame at Fort Benning, Ga., an honor that he added to his many decorations. They included the Navy Cross, the second-highest combat award a Marine can receive; the Silver Star; two awards of the Legion of Merit; two Bronze Stars; and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. His tale is required reading for every Naval Academy plebe. In Afghanistan, a forward operating base was named for him…