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Sad news from the music world today: George Jones, one of the all-time great voices in country music, has passed away at the age of 81.
Whether he was delivering a heartfelt, romantic love song perfect for a bride and groom’s first dance, or an all-time classic tearjerker, you always knew that you were listening to “The Possum”, and that he was born to sing.
RIP
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  1. No relation, actually…
    One story that I hope comes out, is that unscrupulous promoters would seize on Jones’ well-deserved reputation as “No Show Jones” to book shows his managers never even knew about, then pocket the money when he didn’t show up to a show he wasn’t supposed to perform anyway.

  3. “He Stopped Loving Her Today” is one of my favourite country songs. A classic!
    R.I.P. George Jones.

  5. Thanks! I first listened to George Jones in my 54 Ford V-8. Heaven just won a great country singer today!!

  7. Is anyone else puzzled by Justin Trudeau being sent to Siberia for a week? Shouldn’t he be in Ottawa leading? Clearly, someone else is running the show, while Justin is sidelined. Does he realize he is being sidelined? Is Bob Rae running the show? Do Canadians know the are being manipulated?

  10. A big fan of SDA has passed at an early age of 52 from cancer.Some of you might recognize his handle as Multirec.Being his twin I think he wouldvé appreciated me posting this as he was a daily visitor.RIP Randy

  12. National Post, Friday, Apr. 26. First letter on the page, defending (somewhat obliquely) the Canada Post monopoly.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/04/26/today/
    letter: “… rural Canadians and people in small towns still need the post office to receive mail, bills and parcels.”
    Rural Canadians need a postal delivery service of some sort, not the government monopoly Post Office.
    Small towns usually have a variety store that sells sundry goods most of which are brought in from far afield, and no one suggests a government monopoly is necessary to provide vital food and supplies. Why do we need one for mail?
    There is no reason to have to provide daily mail service to those who live outside big cities. Sometimes settling for a bit less comes with the territory.
    letter: “[to enable continued communication with the rest of the world] we still need Canada Post, not as customers but as citizens.”
    Same comment – we need a postal delivery service, not a government monopoly Canada Post.
    The “citizens-not-customers” angle is a slight variation on the hoary old “citizens versus consumers” drivel that gets trotted out to make people feel guilty for wanting good products, service and prices under capitalism instead of letting the government run rampant.
    Remember: to the left, a “citizen” is a person who, when the government says “jump!”, answers, “how high?”.

  13. John 14:1-6
    “Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms;”
    Well Randy (aka Multirec) is in luck as I believe we have a room for him…
    RIP
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  16. Paul Wells shamelessly ascribes to Justin Trudeau powers he doesn’t actually have: Justin Trudeau: The man who makes Stephen Harper tremble.
    Seriously. Yet one more “insider’s” transparently fawning attempt at launching a Justin image-rehabilitation campaign.
    Btw, we’d better get used in the months and years to come to blatant false-equivalence tactics like this one: last Saturday, in a piece with the mindfully misleading tactic/title Stephen Harper’s search for the root causes of terrorists (in effect, “See? Stephen Harper’s view is no different than Trudeau on this issue, and yet he’s criticizing young Justin!”) Wells attempted to conflate the government’s Kanishka Project, which looks at how to protect Canadians by learning about terrorist’s tactics and mindset, with Justin’s “root causes” blather about these mass-murderers’ putative feelings of “exclusion”, etc.
    Studying the indoctrination/mindset of Islamists, their “perceived suffering”, their tactics, and their insane belief that the western world is “at war” with Islam in the interests of trying to figure out how to best protect Canadians from such slaughters isn’t the same thing, of course, as implying that it’s our fault, as Justin Trudeau did, but then neither are the Conservative ads against Trudeau the equivalent of Adscam, as Susan Delacourt remarkably claimed in her recent Twitter skirmish with Kate.
    Let’s hope most Canadians aren’t stupid enough to buy the mindfully-constructed crap that the media party will continue to peddle.

  17. I’m sorry to hear about the death of your twin, Stuck with the Canucks. A very sad day for you and your family. May light perpetual shine upon him(?); may he rest in peace.

  19. His Arrogance never ceases to amaze
    http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/obamas-hubris-problem-90650.html?hp=l13
    Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself. No press or other intruders allowed.
    Except the White House photographer.
    That Obama assumed Americans would want an iconic photo of him privately mourning the victims of the bombings was emblematic of a kind of hubris that has enveloped the president and his White House as the president commences his second term.

  22. OZombie’s colours keep showing:
    “God bless the abortionist”
    “As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way. Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.”
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/04/god-bless-the-abortionist.php
    The POTUS is a moral pygmy. The devilish vacuity of his oxymoron “God bless you” is breathtaking. How can God bless the murder of the innocents — in the millions?

  23. “The Thin Red Line”
    “Chemical weapons — the ‘red line’ which President Obama said he would so resolutely oppose — have emerged in Syria. Blood tests have confirmed the exposure of patients in hospitals to these weapons. Readers will recall that President Obama issued a stern warning against their use. Now they’ve been used. The problem is now how ignore them. The National Journal’s article is headlined: “Obama Is Looking for Reasons to Delay Response to Syria’s Chemical Weapons Use.””
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/04/25/the-thin-red-line/
    …-
    “The Thick Red Line”
    “Syria’s use of nerve gas against civilians ends any justification for Barack Obama’s policy of indecision”
    “Civilians have been killed with chemical weapons this month in Syria. The appalling spectacle of victims foaming at the mouth after apparent exposure to sarin gas marks a point of no return for all sides in a war that has created a humanitarian catastrophe and threatens to leave a failed and fragmented state at the heart of the Middle East.”
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/leaders/article3750405.ece
    (paywalled)

  25. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family, Stuck with the Canucks. I will miss your brother’s presence here at SDA.

  26. “‘Peak Fossil Fuels’ in 2030? Chart Says Yes”
    (bloomberg business)
    …-
    “The Rise of Big Data”
    “How It’s Changing the Way We Think About the World”
    http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139104/kenneth-neil-cukier-and-viktor-mayer-schoenberger/the-rise-of-big-data?page=show
    …-
    “René Guénon: The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times”
    “The Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the world, as it appears from the point of view of the ‘ancient wisdom’, formerly common both to the East and to the West, but now almost entirely forgotten. The author indicates with his fabled clarity and directness the precise nature of the modern deviation, and devotes special attention to the development of modern philosophy and science, and to the part played by them, with their accompanying notions of progress and evolution, in the formation of the industrial and democratic society which we now regard as ‘normal’. Guénon sees history as a descent from Form (or Quality) toward Matter (or Quantity); but after the Reign of Quantity – modern materialism and the ‘rise of the masses’ – Guénon predicts a reign of ‘inverted quality’ just before the end of the age: the triumph of the ‘counter-initiation’, the kingdom of Antichrist.”
    http://www.arktos.com/rene-guenon-the-reign-of-quantity-and-the-signs-of-the-times.html

  28. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    “its meetings are secret”.
    H/T Lizard May.
    …-
    “Federal politicians use non-partisan climate group to meet in ‘safe space’ behind closed doors”
    “The committee has met on a monthly basis for about two years. But its meetings are secret and its members are reluctant to say who attended and what they discussed.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/27/federal-politicians-use-non-partisan-climate-group-to-meet-in-safe-space-behind-closed-doors/
    …-
    “Is The Warmth Here to Stay in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast?”
    “a cooler, moist and damp pattern will set up multiple times over the next month.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/is-the-warmth-here-to-stay-in/11205627

  29. RIP Randy, somehow mere words cannot express the condolences and feelings I have for your family.
    George Jones always seemed to affect my allergies as I always get misty eyed with “He stopped loving her today”.

  30. “The Thin Red Line”
    “Chemical weapons — the ‘red line’ which President Obama said he would so resolutely oppose — have emerged in Syria. Blood tests have confirmed the exposure of patients in hospitals to these weapons. Readers will recall that President Obama issued a stern warning against their use. Now they’ve been used. The problem is now how ignore them. The National Journal’s article is headlined: “Obama Is Looking for Reasons to Delay Response to Syria’s Chemical Weapons Use.””
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/04/25/the-thin-red-line/
    Animal House had the most serious solution, gasp:
    “Double Secret Probation”
    A big stick indeed.

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