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Taken at Davidson, SK.
I’ll be spending most of the day catching up on work (when I’m not watching the game against Hamilton) so until I have more to post about, the thread is open for your general tips and/or Rider-CFL commentary.

46 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. YAAAAAY Go riders!!
    Riders clinched a playoff spot yesterday!
    And it is possible to clinch that home date this very afternoon with a win for us and a loss for the little red horsies. (no I will not be cheering for Winterpeg… is it possible for both teams to come out with a loss?? 🙂
    Should be a great game today. Hamilton is finally showing some sparks and the Riders have been whacked with injuries and absences (again)
    Go riders!

  3. Hard right wing agenda evident?
    (said tongue in cheek)
    Ignatieff urges investment in military
    Oct 14, 2007 04:30 AM
    MONTREAL–Canada needs to build up its military, buying new helicopters and other equipment, so the country can play a more active role on the world stage defending human rights and preventing genocide, deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff says.
    “We’ve got to be committed to sustained, year-on-year investment in military capacity,” Ignatieff told a conference on genocide prevention here yesterday.
    “We do this, and we will be taken seriously.”
    Speaking before a crowd of academics and diplomats from around the world, Ignatieff said western nations have a responsibility to come to the aid of those whose human rights are being abused.
    But there is little point in sending military help if the soldiers are not properly equipped, he said.
    “We can’t send people out to protect citizens and stop genocide with just blue berets and side arms,” he said.
    “We must never, ever put RomĂ©o Dallaire in that situation again.”
    Dallaire was the Canadian head of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda in 1994 when the ruling Hutu launched genocide against the minority Tutsi people and moderate Hutus that saw 800,000 people killed in a matter of months.
    Poorly equipped and with firm restrictions on the actions he could take, Dallaire could do little more than witness the unfolding tragedy as the UN and world leaders ignored his repeated requests for a stronger force.
    Ignatieff said the political will to intervene in such cases will only come when voters put pressure on their leaders to take action.
    “A politician like me is not going to do anything until you raise the price of doing nothing,” he said, adding that military solutions must always be a last resort.
    Canada is already well respected on the world stage, Ignatieff said, and building up the military would only enhance its influence and better enable the country to intervene when human rights are abused.
    “It won’t come cheap, but we have to be prepared to pay that price,” he said, but did not provide any cost elements.
    Ignatieff cautioned that he is not talking about building an army capable of invading and occupying foreign countries, but one that is better able to intervene when human rights are being abused.
    “If we want to have robust interventions, we must have the capability,” he said.
    http://www.thestar.com/News/article/266642

  4. More bs bafflegab from Librano$ Jeancula.
    His method was bribery, aka AdScam. Elsewhere, Jeancula describes AdScam as a mouse; some mouse. AdScam is the Mouse That Reared AdScam Martin and the Librano$ out of office.
    Liberal Prime Ministers of Canada Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, Jr.,: forever branded as Liberal AdScam Chretien and Liberal AdScam Martin.
    …-
    Chretien was ready to fight separatists
    OTTAWA – Jean Chretien would not have meekly accepted the breakup of Canada if separatists had won the 1995 referendum on Quebec independence, the former prime minister reveals in his memoirs….-
    canoe news

  5. Interesting that Ignatieff is moving to the Harper Agenda of support for human rights and the Harper Agenda of rebuilding our military and the Harper Agenda of positioning Canada back onto the world stage as an active agent.
    What was his position when Harper was openly chastizing China for its violation of human rights, and the Liberals were, on the other hand, ranting against Harper for doing so – because that would, they said, ‘harm our economic trade with China’.
    Is this a movement to the right of one section of the Liberal Party, the Ignatieff Bloc, while Dion and Rae remain left?
    By the way, ‘intervention’ usually involves some form of invasion and occupation. Otherwise, it’s just rhetoric – as Dallaire found out.

  6. Could this be the visible opening shot in an Ignatieff-Dion power struggle? Dropping this position so close to the throne speech is more than coincidental I bet.
    Either that or Ignatieff was caught off guard by the reporter and rambled on without thinking.
    It beats me.

  8. Some light weekend reading:
    Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Yaalon, Ethical Dilemmas in Counterterrorism
    http://www.azure.org.il/magazine/magazine.asp?id=406
    Uriya Shavit, Old Fears, New Threats: Europe’s fears of Islam are reminiscent of the old anti-Semitism–but not as much as some people think
    http://www.azure.org.il/magazine/magazine.asp?id=405
    Israeli ‘smart’ system prevents blood and drug transfusion errors
    “The simple and easy to use system…ensures that transfusions can only be administered to a patient once five predefined conditions are met. With some 35-40 percent of all medical errors in hospital due to mistakes in IV administration, Pro-IV Medicals solution is already sparking great interest with investors and customers alike.”
    http://www.israel21c.org

  9. Update from the UK on po’ tormented Goreacle.
    These snips sets the tone of the agit/prop from the Times: “THE tormentors of Al Gore”; “Channel 4’s The Great Global Warming Swindle has become one of the most notorious documentaries of the year”; “the New party, a right-wing group”; “right-wing Washington think tank, the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)”, etc. Is it satire? Irony? Sarcasm?
    More: Red-Green Alert! Synthesis Report coming! Funded by the UN, natch.
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the Nobel prize with Gore, is preparing a Synthesis Report. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, said the report would show that the earth faced a catastrophic temperature rise within the next century.”
    Warning: A synthesis report is where the worms (AGW lies) are gathered into one ball and stored in the can, aka can of egregious lies; packaged by Goreacle on a DVD and sold for rip-off profit$$$$$ as The Truth (Pravda).
    …-
    Please, sir – Gore’s got warming wrong [Brits at war with Gore]
    The Times
    Please, sir – Gore’s got warming wrong
    THE tormentors of Al Gore, who last week won a legal victory against his film, An Inconvenient Truth, are to step up their battle by sending British secondary schools a documentary attacking the science of global warming. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911047/posts

  12. Tomax, there’s nothing good about the Riders.
    The Bombers, on the other hand, are god’s own warriors. Hand-picked from the two greatest nations on earth, the valiant Bombers travel to the town of inflated house prices today to play the Stampeders. That’s the real story.

  13. NEWS FLASH!! THIS JUST IN FROM CITOYEN DIJON HQ:
    In light of the CPC polling numbers this last week Stepane Dion has decided to change his dog’s name to “Toto”….he was later seen in the Librano compound’s courtyard wearing a new pair of red Florsheims and clicking the heels together 3 times while muttering “there’s no place like home” while the ELO song “No, I cant get it out of my head.
    Now my old world is gone for dead” plays on his cell phone ring tone.
    These actions have sent rumblings through Librano ranks.

  17. From Nat News:
    http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22585778-23109,00.html
    “US soldiers burnt Koran: report”
    THE US military said it would investigate claims that its soldiers had burnt a copy of the Koran in Afghanistan, as angry locals demanded action and threatened retaliation.
    Allegations that troops tore up and burnt the Muslim holy book during a raid in the eastern province of Kunar yesterday led several hundred villagers to demonstrate the same day, blocking a main road for hours.
    Locals repeated the charges at a heated meeting today in the provincial capital Asadabad of representatives of the US military, Afghan officials and more than a dozen men from the area near the raid site in Narang district.
    “You have desecrated our religion,” resident Azim Khan told the US delegation.
    “If the perpetrators do not apologise to Afghans and to all the Muslims of the world, and if they are not brought to justice and punished for what they have done, we will stand against you, you will see an uprising,” he said.
    US Captain Jason Coughenour said the allegations would be treated seriously.
    “We respect your religion,” he said.
    “We will launch an investigation and find out who has burnt the Koran. If it has been done by an American, we will punish him.”
    The US-led coalition yesterday confirmed the raid in which four men were arrested but denied that any religious articles were desecrated.
    Afghanistan is a deeply devout country and allegations of abuse of Islam have in the past touched off protests that have turned deadly.
    There are about 55,000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan, about half of them from the United States, helping Afghani security forces fight back an insurgency by the extremist Taliban movement that was in government between 1996 and 2001.
    ——-
    Freedom of speech is what militaries are supposed to be fighting for, no?

  18. ‘You Sneeze, You’re Dead Man’: Texas Man Humiliates Burglars With 12-Gauge
    Fort Bend County, TX – Source: KHOU-TV
    “And I walked out of the house and I went around and confronted those guys on the side of the house. So, I aimed at him and said, ‘You sneeze, you’re dead man.’ And I called the other guy out of the garage. I watch a lot of movies it sounded like a good thing to say. It got his attention.”
    VIDEO
    Speak softly and carry a 12-gauge …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910687/posts

  19. Linda Leatherdale, the financial analyst for the Toronto Sun has heard a rumour from the Ontario Liberal finance department that McSquinty is set to raise the PST from 8 to 10%. Harper is expected to drop another percentage point from the GST in the throne speech and of course the Liberals will take that tax benefit from you before you can even receive it!
    Happened before when the federal Lieberals stole Harris’s tax cuts by the largest increase in CPP ever.
    Mayor Miller noted that since Ontarians obviously support tax increases in that the Liberals were overwhelmingly returned to office he will proceed with his own tax increases.
    That scurring sound you hear is Ontarians packing their stuff and moving out west.

  21. but…but…wait…didn’t McSquinty say he wouldn’t raise taxes?He wouldn’t lie would he?
    Thanks again La L’otario!!At least I don’t live in Tranna.And added to that scurrying sound will be the businesses that are still trying to survive in this socialistic paradise.

  22. “Tories looking for mandate from Throne Speech
    The Conservative minority government wants a mandate to govern, and it’s up to the opposition whether an election is triggered, says a senior Tory cabinet minister.
    “We want to be clear that the alternative that is not available is obstruction in the House of Commons,” Industry Minister Jim Prentice told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday.
    The broad areas that Tuesday’s Throne Speech will address are economic management, criminal justice, the environment and Afghanistan, Prentice said.
    If the opposition approves the Throne Speech, the government will recognize that as a mandate to govern, he said.” […]
    Here’s Dion wid da Librano$ values: Not on da trone; but, wanna be on da trone. Citoyen wants da left hand on da trone. Citoyen wants a “Liberal throne speech”. Merde, Citoyen! You ain’t gonna get it. Go to sleep; you’re bammed.
    Dion says “a very right-wing, radical Throne Speech” blah, blah; thus, a right-wing, radical Throne Speech is acceptable to Citoyen. Maudit.
    You ain’t gonne get it, Citoyen. Wake up, Citoyen; you’re bammed.
    …-
    Citoyen:
    “If it is a Throne Speech that we don’t fully agree because it isn’t a Liberal throne speech but it has been done in a reasonable way,” his party would likely support it, he said.
    “If we have a very right-wing, radical Throne Speech, it will be different.” …-
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071014/qp_thronespeech_071014/20071014?hub=Canada

  23. Before anyone should be allowed to post re tax increases in Ont, they should have to answer a question, DID YOU VOTE LIBERAL, if yes, live with it and no bitching. If answer is NO, head west.

  25. Mary T, I’ll answer your question. I worked as a volunteer for John Tory and questions on McSquinty’s tax increases and lies were hardly mentioned. When I asked people don’t you care about your money, blank stares. I will be moving out of Toronto early next year.

  26. OK you guys. My wife is a life-long Ti-Crap fan. I am not. I’ve spent the last hour preparing dinner while she watches the game. I don’t know the score but based on the number of “Yeahs” or “F@#Ks” emanating from the TV room, my guess is that the Riders are ahead.

  28. You know how Liberals, especially “It’s not fair’ Dion blame everybody but THEMSELVES for any of their pitiful failings.
    This quote by Jim Prentiss today on CTV QP hits the nail on the proverbial head:
    “There’s been no attempt to put the Liberals into an impossible position. The Liberals, led by Mr. Dion, find impossible positions all by themselves,” he said.
    Touche and, Mr. Harper, don’t ever take your foot of the neck of a Liberal snake.

  29. Lorraine…please tell us the rest of the story: what was the reaction from the Lib cheer leaders? Was it Taber and Oliver today?

  33. Missed the giggles show today, pre-empted for a US football game. No tv sports fans in this household.

  35. W00T! Riders win. I’m going to the playoff game at home.
    I hope they do better than their last home playoff game. I was at that game in 1988, and still remember BC pulling away in the 4th to win going away.
    Go Roughriders!

  36. Georgia? Jimmah Carter comes from Georgia. Check.
    Stalin, aka Koba was from Georgia. Check.
    lberia, Stalin’s pervert/executioner was from Georgia. Check. Spartacus.schoolnet says Beria was from Russia. No check.
    Georgia is now an ally of the US. Check.
    Find what Sergeant Koba [sic] Oshkhereli says about Putin the bear.
    …-
    Georgia becomes an unlikely U.S. ally in Iraq
    The United States has found an unlikely ally in the struggle to block what U.S. commanders contend is Iranian weapons smuggling in this rural agricultural region south and east of Baghdad: soldiers from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
    At a time when other countries are pulling troops out, Georgia has more than doubled the level of its forces here, from 850 to 2,000 soldiers, and redeployed them from the Green Zone in the capital to a region along the Iranian border.
    After a ceremony to mark the formal start of their mission Monday, during which Georgian soldiers knelt and were sprinkled with holy water by their Eastern Orthodox priest, the tiny Caucasus Mountain nation has become the United States’s second-largest ally in Iraq…
    …Georgian soldiers said in interviews that they understood their service …was directly linked to their own security – as a means of helping Georgia join NATO to protect against a resurgent Russia.
    Sergeant Koba Oshkhereli, interviewed as he peered out the dusty gate of Forward Operating Base Delta at the trash-strewn streets of Kut, said he understood the rationale for his deployment here in these terms: “The bear was sleeping. Now the bear is awake and stomping his feet.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911200/posts

  37. ‘Phantom’ residents to lose status
    Cut-off looms for workers in Gulf states who have Canadian landed status but don’t actually live here
    As the first of Canada’s new Permanent Resident cards hit their expiry date, immigrants who haven’t spent the required length of time in Canada – 730 days out of five years – face losing their landed status in the next few months.
    The looming cut-off means hundreds, perhaps thousands, of “phantom” residents – some of whom settled their families here and then went back to well-paying jobs in China, India or the Middle East’s Gulf states – will be out of luck.
    A large number of them came through a single Canadian visa office: Abu Dhabi.
    A government internal report estimates that a whopping 98 per cent of “permanent residents” processed in Abu Dhabi, which serves the Gulf region, had no intention of remaining in Canada after their initial landing.
    Currently, 80 per cent of the permanent resident travel applications in the United Arab Emirates capital are for people who have failed the residency requirement.
    As a result, they must return to Canada to appeal the revocation of their status…
    http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/266633

  38. Mission Accomplished.
    …-
    Shiite leader visits Iraq Sunni province in a major reconciliatory gesture
    BAGHDAD – In a major reconciliatory gesture, a leader from Iraq’s largest Shiite party paid a rare visit Sunday to the Sunni Anbar province, delivering a message of unity to tribal sheiks who have staged a U.S.-backed revolt against al-Qaida militants.
    Ammar al-Hakim’s visit was the latest sign that key Iraqi politicians may be working toward reconciliation independently of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, which has faced criticism for doing little to iron out differences between the country’s Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis.
    Sunni Arab Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi visited Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, last month at the holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad. The visit amounted to an unprecedented Sunni Arab endorsement of al-Sistani’s role as the country’s guardian. …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/10/14/4576612-ap.html
    Mission Accomplished
    With most Sunni factions now seeking a deal, the big questions in Iraq have been resolved positively. The country remains one, it has embraced democracy and avoided all-out civil war. What violence remains is largely local and criminal. […]
    he argument of this article—that with nothing more to resolve from political violence, Iraqis can now settle down to gorge themselves at the oil trough—is based on two premises: Sunni acknowledgement of the failure of their insurgency and the need to reach an accommodation with the new Iraq, and a conjunction of interests between the coalition on one hand and the Kurds and Shias on the other. …-
    http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9804

  39. Citoyen Dion, Son of Jeancula.
    “He [Chretien] then schooled Mr. Dion like a son.”
    …-
    “Mr. ChrĂ©tien reveals how he kept his distance from the members of his cabinet, all except StĂ©phane Dion, whom he brought to Ottawa on a whim after seeing him debate separatists on TV. He then schooled Mr. Dion like a son. Mr. Dion became his favourite minister.” …-
    Fuelling discontent in a party racked by it
    By LAWRENCE MARTIN
    Monday, October 15, 2007 –
    Jean Chrétien waited a long time for this moment. He was never the type to leave an enemy standing. Too much blue collar, too much Laurentian Shield brute force in his makeup for that. Score to be settled? You take the guy down.
    http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20071015/BIOGRAPHY15/Columnists/columnists/columnistsNational/1/1/2/
    Citoyen Dion, Son of Jeancula
    http://multimedia.thestar.com/images/assets/178289_3.JPG

  40. Citoyen Dion, Jeancula’s Son, is now Dithers Martin’s Son.
    Fratricide in the Liberal Party is now parricide: Son kills Father.
    …-
    Heavy criticism of Martin riles Liberal ranks
    OTTAWA — Liberal Leader StĂ©phane Dion sided with Paul Martin yesterday for calling an inquiry into the sponsorship scandal in spite of suggestions in Jean ChrĂ©tien’s new autobiography that it wasn’t necessary. …-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071015.wbook15/BNStory/National/home

  41. Citoyen Dion apes Father AdScam Martin:
    Martin’s Son : I knew nuttink. Moi am clean; not guilty of corruption and crimes. “Clarified”? Not.
    But, dose udders, “some people”, will “face the justice system”.
    Citoyen Dion, give the Canadian people the names of those “some people”.
    Will AdScam Chretien “face the justice system” while he is still above ground?
    A criminal investigation must now be carried out into the Liberal Party by a special investigator empowered with the law of perjury and contempt of court, with testimony given under oath. This investigator must be empowered to mete out criminal charges.
    …-
    “The Gomery inquiry happened and it showed very clearly that ministers like me were not involved in anything wrong,” he said. “That’s been clarified. Some people did the wrong things and they will face the justice system.”
    …-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071015.wbook15/BNStory/National/home
    Heavy criticism of Martin riles Liberal ranks

  43. For you Rider fans; you may have noticed a certain Ontario boy (Andy Fantuz) contributing to your team’s win. Who says nothing good comes from Ontario?

  44. I’m happy for the Riders fans, but I also feel sorry for them too, because I know they’ll get smoked by the Stamps in the playoffs.

  45. Jimbo
    you mean the Calgary team that is 2-5 on the road and comming here to play the west semi?
    Playing BC, Montreal and Winnipeg?
    Where the Riders play Hamilton, Edmonton and Toronto.
    Better get your playoff ticket in Regina. 🙂

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