A photo collection.
h/t Ed S.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. It’s not every day that the fourth of July is a Saturday (actually, it averages out to be about 14.287 days out of every 100 years, when the fourth of July is a Saturday), so tonight, for your delectation and without further ado, here are Chicago performing Saturday in the Park, live at the Arie Crown Theater, in Chicago, in 1972 (3:51).
Meanwhile, tonight’s SDA LNR cheese selection is Appleby’s Cheshire, and I must say, it really is quite good. I mean, I like pulling on the cheese snobs’ chains as much as you do, yet this Appleby’s product really does stand above the other Cheshires I’ve measured. Ask for it by name at your local cheese monger’s shop, I say; you won’t be disappointed.
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Blog Notes
I’m doing normal stuff this weekend with family, so things are going to become quite slow around here until I’m back sometime Sunday. So, check out the links on the blogroll and if that fails, turn off the computer and go enjoy your weekend!
Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough
His work continues to spread beyond our shores…
Hospital Patient So Shocked At Dirty Ward She Climbed Out Of Bed To Clean It Herself
Speaking of whom… now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!2004 – “The Greatest Canadian”
2009 – “19 per cent could identify the father of Medicare”
Don’t Think Of It As A “Party”
Think of it as a celebration of the life of Charles Darwin.
Or a damned good argument for bringing back mandatory quarantines.
Or forced sterilization of stupid people.
This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Humane Society
If you donate to a “humane” organization that engages in activism, you need to stop.
The Humane Society of Canada is asking Canada’s broadcasting regulator to phase out the airing of Calgary Stampede events.
The animal-welfare group believes rodeo events during the 10 days of Stampede violate the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) code by glamourizing cruelty to animals during programming.
And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…
The Humane Society of Canada does not run shelters – these are not the people who take in lost pets. This is hard left animal rights fund-raising media centric activism in the tradition of Greenpeace. (Until 1995, they were directly controlled by the Humane Society of the United States.)
In the meanwhile, the HSoC website is offering a poll (link fixed) that’s asking to go horribly wrong. To get a sense of the level of real world public support this organization has, note that the poll has received just 355 votes in the nearly two months it’s been up.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are three of the funniest minutes of slap-stick comedy ever preformed: the inimitable Mr. Tim Conway‘s Dentist Sketch ¤, on the Carol Burnett Show (which we previously visited here ¤ at SDA LNR).
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Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Peggy Joseph – “I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage.”
GOP.gov – “The bill (H.R. 2454) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide monthly cash payments, or “energy stamps”, to low-income households for their estimated “loss in their purchasing power” resulting from the Democrats’ national energy tax. The bill establishes a national standard of eligibility (covering everyone under 150% of the poverty line). Energy stamps would reach an estimated 65 million individuals (about 20 percent of all US residents) – making it a larger program than welfare, food stamps, or even Medicaid. (H.R. 2454, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Sec. 431, p. 1193)”
So, How’s That Working For You?
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Do you suppose anyone in Ottawa has bothered to check? And by “anyone”, I mean those Keynesian worshiping idiots in every party.
Actually, I’d like to take that part about “Keynesian worshiping idiots” back. Canadian “recovery” spending is more apt to be the product of last week’s polling twitch than last century’s economic theory.
Besides, “ignorant servile scum!” has a much better ring to it.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few”: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.”
As California Goes
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
June 29, 2009 – “While promoting his new cap-and-trade energy tax bill, which passed the U.S. House last week, President Obama revealed in a White House address on Monday his model for the nation’s economy – California.”
July 1, 2009 – “GM to Stop Making Cars in California”
Honduras Defiant
The Chavez wannabe remains persona non grata;
Enrique Ortez, interim foreign minister, said Zelaya would be arrested if he came home and that the interim authorities were sure Zelaya had been removed in a legal process.
“We are not negotiating national sovereignty or the presidency,” he told Reuters in an interview. “There is no chance at all” of Zelaya coming back to power.
Poor and tiny Honduras faces the full wrath of the United States, United Nations, and much of the rest of the world, while nothing is done about Iran. On Iran, Obama and the world acted with the utmost
deference, and there were no efforts by the Obama administration at international action. None.
But Honduras, enforcing its own laws against a renegade wannabe President-for-life, for some reason warrants the full force of the United States government and international community. Honduras gets condemnation from Obama, while Chavez gets hugs and Ahmadinejad gets deference. Wonderful. No, horrible.
“And to think that there are rumors circulating that Obama has a law degree.”
And yes, this is embarrassing – Canada’s “Made in America” foreign policy finally gets off the ground for real. You’d think the left would be livid.
More at Faustas Blog.
Losing Helen Thomas
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Transcript
More – “What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”
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Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio.
What would happen if a group of all-time gospel greats casually assembled in one room and then broke into song? Tonight we find out, as the late Rev. Donald Vails, on piano, is joined by a who’s who of inspirational singers spanning several generations including Jessy Dixon, Walter Hawkins, the Barrett Sisters, Bishop Richard White (aka Mr. Clean), former Chicago Duncanaire Delores Sykes, and surviving members of The Caravans, including Albertina Walker. Fans of the Beatles and Rolling Stones may also recognize the organ player in the red sweater as Billy Preston.
Here then, without further ado, the aforementioned join in an emotionally cathartic performance of Thomas Whitfield’s Only A Look.
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Happy What The Hell’s Happened To Our Dominion? Day
When the concept of multiculturalism was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”;
As the rest of Canada celebrates the nation’s 142nd birthday today, a Vice President of the Canadian Arab Federation has labelled the country a “genocidal state” and the described its national day as “F**k Canada Day.”
Omar Shaban, who lives in Vancouver, BC made these comments on his Facebook page, declaring, “It’s finally Canada Day … Couldn’t be more ashamed to be Canadian.”
Yesterday, the Facebook status of the CAF vice president welcomed July 1, 2009 with the slogan, “Happy Genocide Day Canada.”
The First American Prime Minister In Waiting
Not to be confused with Quebec…
“Canada has to be out of the asbestos business. We should not export it and we should not produce it”.
(Plus a “he was quick to add” bonus link!)
The Sound Of Suppressed Science
Canada’s top authority on polar bears is barred from ….
……an international meeting on polar bears, of course!
Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.
Dr Taylor agrees that the Arctic has been warming over the last 30 years. But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 – as is dictated by the computer models of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and believed by his PBSG colleagues – but to currents bringing warm water into the Arctic from the Pacific and the effect of winds blowing in from the Bering Sea.
He has also observed, however, how the melting of Arctic ice, supposedly threatening the survival of the bears, has rocketed to the top of the warmists’ agenda as their most iconic single cause. The famous photograph of two bears standing forlornly on a melting iceberg was produced thousands of times by Al Gore, the WWF and others as an emblem of how the bears faced extinction – until last year the photographer, Amanda Byrd, revealed that the bears, just off the Alaska coast, were in no danger. Her picture had nothing to do with global warming and was only taken because the wind-sculpted ice they were standing on made such a striking image.
Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week’s meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming. The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor’s, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: “it was the position you’ve taken on global warming that brought opposition”.
Dr Taylor was told that his views running “counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful”.
By the way, the average temperature in the arctic this year is still below zero, “the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping”.
But don’t expect our Canadian mainstream fact-filterers to notice.
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