104 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Any info about the “2008 Baby Seal Slaughter” season planned this year? How’s the ice? When does it start? What’s the quota?

  2. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in honour of The Misogynisphere, we have for your delectation Mr. Carlos Santana and the boys performing their classic Black Magic Woman in 1971:
    video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1281281204175092927

  5. wannabe_newfie_clubber >
    “How’s the ice?” Thick but slippery, wear steel cleats.
    “When does it start?” TBA usually the first week of April.
    “What’s the quota?” TBA 2007 was 270,000 – 2006 was 335000!
    You could probably get more volume per day if you skin them on the ice and pack them like sandwiches. Opposed to skinning them in the bath tub at home.

  6. Iberia. What’s your point? That movies should not get tax credits. I agree. Why should I subsidize some flake making a crappy movie. Cancel all gov’t funding for movies for all I care, not just pornographic ones. And while you’re at it cancel CBC funding too. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
    Steven Harpaar

  7. PS/ Rick Mercer just ain’t that funny. He’s not witty, he’s not intelligent. He’s ascerbic. I’ll give him that. And a socialist. But that’s not much going for him. In the real world I suspect he would be bagging groceries. He really should be a lot more appreciative of all that the Cdn government has done for him. He should be licking Stephen Harpers shoes that he still has an income.

  12. SDA readers will not be surprised to learn that the CBC’s morning news carried a piece on the low voter turnout in the recent Alberta election. The report emphasized the calculation that Premier Stelmach won the support of only 22% of eligible voters and interviewed a representative of some worthily named but unknown think-tank predictably rabbiting on about proportional representation.
    Despite the rejection of p.r. by the voters in a couple of provinces, the great and the good and, I suspect, a majority of political science professors, are in love with the idea of p.r., and like those partisans of the European Union, will keep bringing the issue back after every election they lose.

  13. I’m with you, johnboy, on Mercer. I’ve heard he’s gay and I think he lives near the Danforth, so he’s got two trendy bona fides to his name.
    But humour? No. ‘Just what passes for humour at the ol’ Mothercorpse.
    Boy, I wish we could put a lid on the CBC, the no-news, no-humour, all-propaganda, all-paid-for-by-the-poor-beleaguered-Canadian taxpayer broadcaster.
    No one’s laughing but Mercer–all the way to the bank.

  14. Proportional representation is the battle cry of the sore loser.
    Kate: Congrats on nearing 8,000,000! This place has become my ‘morning coffee’.

  15. the CBC, 1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars goes to subsidize this entity, WHAT would you rather have? the CBC or 1 BILLION more for HEALTH care

  16. What was Liberal Citoyen Dion’s budget policy?
    What was the Liberal “strategy”?
    Empty seats; cut’n’run; hiding behind the curtains.
    “Only key Liberals showed up for the vote, including Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion, deputy leader Michael Ignatieff, House Leader Ralph Goodale, and whip Karen Redman. They were surrounded by a sea of empty green chairs where their colleagues usually sit.”
    “They were surrounded by a sea of empty green chairs where their colleagues usually sit.”
    The Liberal Party = the Hollow Party.
    …-
    “”That was the strategy,” the CBC’s Susan Bonner said, reporting from Parliament. “A lot of empty seats. Most of the Liberals were in the lobby behind there, they just weren’t in the Commons itself for the vote.””
    Susan Bonner-CBC

  17. Speaking of CBC “comedy” shows, we have old and tired Air Farce, This Hour has 22 Minutes, and new farcical Little Mosque, all so CBC, something for everyone even across ethnic lines but mostly stuck on anti Conservative satire.
    Mercer must have felt he had to jolt the Liberals into reality because his recent video on the Liberals was pure genius and right on the mark.
    The all have plenty of material for political satire in the HOC as the Liberals play gotcha games and keep losing.

  18. Glad this is finally getting some attention!
    CBC has been using every possible minute of our tax-paid air time to bash the bill that cuts tax breaks for the offensive crap…er…so-called art.
    Ghomeshi(sp) would have us belive that all the amazing so-called artists owe their lives to these tax breaks and how would they survive without these tax breaks?( I check in to CBC occasionally while driving)
    I have heard the rant on several CBC programs, and of course the artists had the audience in a rage at the Genies.Whine friggin’ whine!!
    Mercer and the gang are getting ready to fight.Mercer has a great wit.Too bad he’s indoctrinated with CBC mentality. His best lately was a vid on the Libs, “We are adaptable”
    Joel at PTBC has enlightened us over the years on most of the crap that comes from the CBC on our taxes. It’s time to stop it!
    If they are so artistic they can survive on their own without tax breaks.That goes for all artists. My son is trying to make a career in media, he’s actually competing with these socialist sap suckers.

  19. Funny how the msm couldn’t get enough of the author of the Cadman book,eating up his every word as the gospel truth..now that the second ‘alleged’ date of Cadman mtg with Cons.’operatives’ had to be removed from his book, he’s not so popular!C’mon Boag,go question author now,cbc seems to have lost his phone number.Haven’t heard a word this a.m. on the “news”networks about this latest revelation,but not surprising seeing as it confirms what PMSH has been saying all along.
    I can’t wait to see the next strategic move that PMSH makes to show the Libs for the gullible fools they are!

  20. “What is Fascism and Who is a Fascist?
    by Thomas Sowell (February 18, 2008)
    Those who put a high value on words may recoil at the title of Jonah Goldberg’s new book, “Liberal Fascism.” As a result, they may refuse to read it, which will be their loss — and a major loss.Those who value substance over words, however, will find in this book a wealth of challenging insights, backed up by thorough research and brilliant analysis. This is the sort of book that challenges the fundamental assumptions of its time — and which, for that reason, is likely to be shunned rather than criticized.
    Because the word “fascist” is often thrown around loosely these days, as a general term of abuse, it is good that “Liberal Fascism” begins by discussing the real Fascism, introduced into Italy after the First World War by Benito Mussolini.”
    http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5117

  21. Right,bluetech, Mercer’s video on the Liberals “We are Adaptable” was hilariously poignant and continues to be apt.
    Kate, how about posting the video from Mercer’s site?

  22. You may have caught the news briefly in The National Post and on CTV News about the meeting of the minority rights (mostly English) Affiliation Quebec provincial party that was disrupted by the thuggish ‘Jeunes Patriotes’ group.
    The Montreal Gazette quoted two paragraphs from these thugs who invaded the lobby of the hotel Ruby Foos on Decarie in Montreal (where our meeting was being held) and pushed a senior citizen to the ground, banged on the walls of an adjoining meeting room and called us, including elderly Jewish participants, ‘fascists’ and ‘racists’.
    Needless to say the Gazette didn’t quote any of the words of our speakers who are urging Quebec ‘angryphones’ to work for future election of real representatives of our community in a minority government. In the past the English community had four independent members in the National Assembly to counter the soft nationalism of the Liberal government.
    Following the subsequent day’s Gazette editorial which urged anglos to support only other ‘calm’, appeasing representatives (subsidized in millions of dollars by the federal government, by the way, through the Quebec (English) Community Network group, I have cancelled my subscription to the Gazette. I urge others to do so as well, since this only major English daily in Quebec (the Sherbrooke Record is a local paper) refuses to fight for anglo rights, in a vain hope to appease hard and soft nationalists here.

  23. Duff Connacher of Democracy Watch says he doesn’t think Harper can win his case. The Liberals will be eating that and spewing it in the HOC today. He’ll be their new hero of the day.

  24. From The Wall Street Journal Europe:
    Islam and Its Critics
    The latest clash between the West and the Muslim world is taking place in the Netherlands, where a yet-to-be-released film critical of Islam has already stirred protests in Afghanistan and caused a world-wide outage of YouTube when Pakistan tried to block a brief clip. No one wants a repeat of the Danish cartoon controversy, but suppressing the film, as some in Holland and the Muslim world are urging, amounts to political blackmail.
    The film is by Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration Member of the Dutch Parliament who has warned about a “tsunami of Islamization” in the Netherlands, home to nearly one million Muslims…

  26. “Proposed Tax Cuts will cost Health Care-Premier”
    ctv.ca
    The war of words between Dalton & Ottawa just got better, Dalt says that if he cuts Corp Tax that this will effect Health & Education, How many time do we hear that line.
    Well Dalt i guess if You actualy “Applied the Health Tax” to “HealthCare” maybe corporate Tax Cuts would not effect it as much as you say.

  28. The Liberal Party have a clear strategy to get them out of a Libel Lawsuit re Cadman-Harper.
    They are deflecting the situation by setting up the Canadian taxpayer as the ones who will lose in a lawsuit. Not them- for their libelling of Harper. The taxpayer. How?
    They are asking that the taxpayer fund their legal defense. Not the Liberal Party. The taxpayer.
    The Conservative Party is funding Harper’s legal case. Not the taxpayer. [Though, the MSM are already, following the Liberal strategy, claiming that since political parties are also funded by the taxpayer (1.75 per vote) then…the taxpayer is indirectly funding Harper.
    So, the Liberal Party strategy to get out of responsibility for libel, is to claim that the taxpayer would have to pay for (be responsible for) the legal bill..and that IF Harper goes ahead, then, Harper is ‘taking taxpayer money for his own nefarious…etc etc.’.
    Neat strategy. That means that the Liberals can libel and defame all they want without taking responsibility, because they’ll simply slough such on to the taxpayer…

  29. “The professor was not surprised by any of this; in effect, he had spent much of his life in a Laputan effort to extract sunbeams out of cucumbers.”
    …-
    An Ill For Every Pill
    by Theodore Dalrymple (March 2008)
    I once had a conversation with an eminent professor, of great and even intimidating erudition (though, of course, erudition is not quite the same thing as talent), about the degree of man’s self-understanding. I maintained that it had not increased in any fundamental way, notwithstanding our startling technological progress, and that, in this respect, the neurosciences were greatly oversold, as in the past physiognomy, phrenology, social Darwinism and other doctrines had been oversold. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2upuo8

  30. And the Letter of the Week Goes Too – “Tiff on the Left” and look Who wrote it.
    Today’s (03/05/08) Toronto Sun comments
    Beaches-East York Liberal MP Maria Minna has been passing out phamplets in her riding Re: Budget 08
    “The sooner we remove Stephen Harper the sooner we get our country back on track”
    “She (minna) will not stand Idle by while this Dismanteling is Happening”

  31. ET: I saw that, too and rubbed my eyes.
    Is the LPC so … morally and monetarily bankrupt that they have to use our taxpayer money to fund their disgusting smears? I thought it was Dion et al. being sued, the people, not the members of the government. Fine line, I guess…
    And I also find it funny how the media are all rah-rah for the Libs directly using taxpayer money for their defense, but are all tsk-tsking the Conservatives for indirectly using taxpayer money.
    Now was I reading correct (last night–been too busy this morning) when I thought I saw that we the taxpayers would only pay for the Libs’ defense if they won? I can’t remember. Either way, though, this is silly. You’re correct in stating that “the Liberals can libel and defame all they want without taking responsibility, because they’ll simply slough such on to the taxpayer…”

  32. (Via CSP) Wide support for SEAL tapped to lead JSOC
    The move to put an admiral in charge of Joint Special Operations Command, the military’s most secretive joint headquarters and long the domain of Army leaders, has been met within that community with a level of cross-service endorsement that might surprise those who expected responses rooted in rivalry.
    That owes largely to the broad respect Rear Adm. William McRaven, commander of Special Operations Command Europe, has established within the spec ops community…
    JSOC is responsible for hunting “high-value individuals” such as Osama bin Laden and is heavily engaged in the fight against al-Qaida in Iraq.

  33. James Taranto, The Limits of Fanaticism
    See if you can guess the publication in which this report from Baghdad appears:

    After almost five years of war, many young people in Iraq, exhausted by constant firsthand exposure to the violence of religious extremism, say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach.
    In two months of interviews with 40 young people in five Iraqi cities, a pattern of disenchantment emerged, in which young Iraqis, both poor and middle class, blamed clerics for the violence and the restrictions that have narrowed their lives.
    “I hate Islam and all the clerics because they limit our freedom every day and their instruction became heavy over us,” said Sara, a high school student in Basra. “Most of the girls in my high school hate that Islamic people control the authority because they don’t deserve to be rulers.”

  34. Malaysia: Teapot worshipper jailed
    Kamariah Ali, 57, who was jailed yesterday, fell victim to the apostacy laws in the country which prevent people born as Muslims from converting. Followers of the Sky Kingdom cult believe their leader, Ayah Pin, to be Jesus Christ, the prophet Muhammad, Buddha, and Shiva. They also believe he will return as the imam Mahdi…

  35. An interesting portrait:
    (Via ICT) Failed bomber reaches out to Israelis
    Six years ago, Shifa al-Qudsi was plotting to strap on explosives under a maternity dress and blow herself up among Israelis. Now she says she wants to meet them.
    Just released from prison at age 30, the former hairdresser insists she has no regrets, but says times have changed. “I hope to join a peace group,” she says. “I am ready to talk to Israelis, to get closer.”

  37. ET: I saw that, too and rubbed my eyes.
    Is the LPC so … morally and monetarily bankrupt that they have to use our taxpayer money to fund their disgusting smears? I thought it was Dion et al. being sued, the people, not the members of the government. Fine line, I guess…
    And I also find it funny how the media are all rah-rah for the Libs directly using taxpayer money for their defense, but are all tsk-tsking the Conservatives for indirectly using taxpayer money.
    Now was I reading correct (last night–been too busy this morning) when I thought I saw that we the taxpayers would only pay for the Libs’ defense if they won? I can’t remember. Either way, though, this is silly. You’re correct in stating that “the Liberals can libel and defame all they want without taking responsibility, because they’ll simply slough such on to the taxpayer…”
    Posted by: Johann at March 5, 2008 10:47 AM
    Why do partisans only live on a one way street? Politicans of ALL political parties wrap their lips around your wallet, and begin suckling the minute a vote is dropped on them. Most all litigation is handled by the public purse for these gerbils whle they are in office. It’s ‘because of their job’ you see.
    Gads, if any of you partisans actually looked into fact…

  38. Johann – yes, the Liberals are both morally and monetarily bankrupt.
    But it’s both individuals, Dion, Ignatieff and Goodale, plus the Liberal Party, who are under threat of a libel suit.
    That strategy was, I think, to prevent the individual Liberals (Dion, Ignatieff, Goodale) from trying to slither out of responsibility for their words by saying they were actint ‘as the Liberal Party, ie, they were spokesmen for the group. Harper prevented them from making such an evasion.
    But, you are right, the MSM says NOTHING about the reprehensible act by the Liberals to try to get the taxpayer to pay their legal fees, but sneers at the fact that ALL political parties are funded by vote (1.75 per vote). This would mean, unless those particular dollars and cents are marked with red paint and the CPC could stash the taxpayer money into a separate box, that some of the money to pay the lawyers might come from the taxpayer. Again, it might not. Why not?
    Because the CPC has its own money, privately given by individual donors. So, if let’s say the bill for the lawyers came to 100 dollars (heh), and the CPC coffers include $400 from the taxpayer, and $600 from its own fundraising, or even 50-50, then, who is to say where that $100 came from?
    Oh- I know, the MSM will tell us.
    The Liberals are responsible for their libelling of people. They won’t, now, say a word outside the House. I find this unacceptable. It cannot be the case that in one part of our country, our laws are not applicable. Our laws of defamation are not applicable in the House. Why not? Isn’t the House a part of Canada? Aren’t its members Canadian citizens?

  39. Librano, Tory, same ‘ol police interference:
    In a statement to the Citizen on Feb. 8, Mr. Baird’s office said: “As a result of serious misinformation that was being reported in the press, the minister’s chief of staff called the OPP for clarification,” said Garry Keller, Mr. Baird’s communications director….Mr. Baird’s office has declined to elaborate on how media interviews with a senior OPP officer were founded on “misinformation” before Mr. Baird’s office contacted the OPP.
    Sheesh. At least the Libranos owned the RCMP as it’s private militia. Maybe the CPC is trying to get the OPP onside as a way to further break into the 905.
    Politicians calling armed militias, all while ultimately controlling their budgets. For a banana federation, that’s pretty top shelf right there.
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=b8c7c74f-8a5c-4083-82be-0631e5202e7e

  41. Men Not Allowed
    Harvard University has instituted women-only access times to its school gymnasium in order to accommodate female Muslim students. A Boston University student newspaper reports six hours per week have been set aside in which men are prohibited from working out — after requests from the Harvard Islamic Society and its women’s center.
    One male student says the women-only hours are inconvenient — discriminate against men — and are impractical and purely symbolic measures to further a useless policy.
    But an officer with the Islamic Society says the new policy does not discriminate against men — and is not a case of minority rights trumping majority preference.

  42. Ahh, the benefits of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration:
    “Radical Muslim preacher caught on film giving advice on how to ‘hoodwink’ the Government over benefits”
    (dailymail.co.uk)
    A radical Muslim preacher has been filmed talking about fraudulently claiming benefits and giving advice on how to cheat the Government.
    Self-proclaimed extremist Abu Waleed was speaking at the London School of Shariah event in preparation for Ramadan, during which he also made jokes about Muslims taking backpacks on to the Underground.
    The British-born radical retold fables from the koran before encouraging his audience to hoodwink the Government.
    After a story about a wealthy man, he said: “There was one man, he had a lot of money – just like us, we have a lot of money today from the income support and the incapacity benefit.
    Radical preecher Abu Waleed was caught on video encouraging people to ‘hoodwink’ the Government regarding benefits
    “Obviously when you have the incapacity benefit, you want to make sure you walk with a limp when you leave the house just in case there’s someone taking pictures.

  43. If the Conservatives are supposedly funding their legal bills with the $1.75 per vote funds, then the Liberals can do so as well. They should not be allowed to obtain direct funding from the taxpayer for their own political legal bills. This legal issue has nothing to do with government law making. It is politics which is not a “government” function, it is a party function.

  45. Here’s a theory – Dion is holding back on mea culpa/apology over Cadman libel suit because, until after 17 Mar byelection. If he apologizes now, he could hurt himself. It’s possible Grits could lose two of four byelections (even though they held all four seats). If that happens, Dion can kiss his a** goodbye. If they lose one, he will be in trouble, too. Worst case is if he wins all four – he will think he’s on a roll and force election – with resultant humiliating Lib loss.

  46. @Lydia 1:10 AM:
    “Finnish cartoonist Seppo Lehto films himself drawing Mohammed as a “pig pedophile prophet” and posts it on Youtube.”
    Looks like YouTube has taken the video down. No surprise since only this week YouTube rolled over and said they would remove any offensive materials after a cyber-attack on their networks from Pakistan.

  47. Is this what Harper meant by more accountability in government?
    —————–
    Repeated appeals to the Prime Minister’s Office since the Chuck Cadman affair surfaced have failed to yield direct answers to the following questions:
    1. Did anyone from the Conservative party, or connected to the Tories, offer Cadman a $1-million life insurance policy?
    Refused to directly answer the question. Tory MP James Moore has repeatedly said officials only offered to take Cadman back into the party.
    2. What did Stephen Harper mean when he said in a 2005 interview that “an offer” that included “financial considerations” was made to Cadman?
    Conservative party spokesman Ryan Sparrow said Monday the offer Cadman mentioned in a TV interview was a repayable loan to the local riding association.
    3. If Tory officials Tom Flanagan and Doug Finley offered a repayable loan, what was the amount and what were the terms of repayment?
    No answer.
    4. Why did the Prime Minister’s Office and the Conservatives first deny an offer had been made to Cadman, only to later say a repayable loan was offered?
    No answer.
    5. Why didn’t Harper reveal last week that he told Dona Cadman more than two years ago that he didn’t know about the alleged life-insurance offer?
    No answer.
    6. What motivation would Dona Cadman, a Tory candidate in her husband’s former riding, have to fabricate a story about the life-insurance offer?
    No answer.

  48. Is this: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080304/cadman_questions_080304/20080304?hub=QPeriod what Harper meant by more accountability in government?
    —————–
    Repeated appeals to the Prime Minister’s Office since the Chuck Cadman affair surfaced have failed to yield direct answers to the following questions:
    1. Did anyone from the Conservative party, or connected to the Tories, offer Cadman a $1-million life insurance policy?
    Refused to directly answer the question. Tory MP James Moore has repeatedly said officials only offered to take Cadman back into the party.
    2. What did Stephen Harper mean when he said in a 2005 interview that “an offer” that included “financial considerations” was made to Cadman?
    Conservative party spokesman Ryan Sparrow said Monday the offer Cadman mentioned in a TV interview was a repayable loan to the local riding association.
    3. If Tory officials Tom Flanagan and Doug Finley offered a repayable loan, what was the amount and what were the terms of repayment?
    No answer.
    4. Why did the Prime Minister’s Office and the Conservatives first deny an offer had been made to Cadman, only to later say a repayable loan was offered?
    No answer.
    5. Why didn’t Harper reveal last week that he told Dona Cadman more than two years ago that he didn’t know about the alleged life-insurance offer?
    No answer.
    6. What motivation would Dona Cadman, a Tory candidate in her husband’s former riding, have to fabricate a story about the life-insurance offer?
    No answer.

  49. I have been hearing a lot of advertising on the radio about this year is Monterals 400th birthday. My question is how gives a $#!t ??

  50. RobC
    Your hearing is off, It’s Quebec City’s 400th anniversary.
    But you don’t have to give a shit about that either. The anniversary that is, not your hearing.

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