70 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. I, for one, care enough about my favourite blogger to say, hope you get well soon Kate.
    Or I’m just up late and drunk…

  2. Always make sure your food has lots of garlic, my Mom swears to this day that her family stayed healthy during the influenza outbreak because of her Mom making them eat garlic before they went to care for the sick. It must have worked, they never got sick.
    If I could send you my homemade chicken soup, I would. Get better.

  4. Lori, I am offended and appalled that you provided a link that featured a story about a subject I find abhorent.
    Now, does the HRC pay me directly or do I have to give a cut to rick warman first?

  5. Neo Citran and black rum works well, should you run out of garlic. (Just don’t plan on having to be anywhere for at least a day!)

  7. Canadian MSM being sued.
    …-
    Saputo launches defamation suit
    “Besides The Globe and Mail, owned by CTVglobemedia Inc., Le Journal de Montréal of Sun Media Corp., and La Presse, owned by Gesca Ltd., are also being sued.”
    http://tinyurl.com/3c5az7 (G-M)

  8. Ottawa considers enforcing law:
    March 04, 2008
    OTTAWA — The federal government said Tuesday it is considering new measures to stamp out Internet gaming sites based on a native reserve in Quebec, in a move that could spark conflict between Ottawa and Canada’s First Nations ahead of a second national “day of action” this summer.
    The government deems the 400 or so poker and sports-betting sites operating from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal to be illegal, but neither federal nor provincial governments have attempted to enforce the law. Now Ottawa is reviewing that position.
    “Following recent concerns surrounding Internet gambling in Canada, the Minister of Justice [Rob Nicholson] has asked his officials to examine whether the enforcement of the Criminal Code provisions could be assisted with other measures,” said Genevieve Breton, Mr. Nicholson’s director of communications.
    The “other measures” are understood to be moves to restrict banks and credit card companies from conducting financial transactions with illegal Internet operators. Similar legislation was enacted in the United States two years ago.
    The Mohawks of Kahnawake say these laws do not apply to them since they are a sovereign nation. They also cite section 35 of the Constitution, which was inserted to protect native culture. The Mohawks say that gaming has been central to their culture as a means of settling disputes through competition, not violence.

  9. http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1043065.html
    “A judge Monday accepted expert evidence that a Halifax driver suffered a mild concussion in a December 2006 car crash, leaving her with symptoms that police mistook for signs of alcohol impairment.
    “And with that conclusion, Halifax provincial court Judge Barbara Beach acquitted Chelsea Lynn Wells on seven charges of impaired driving causing bodily harm and one charge of refusing the breathalyser.”
    One can speculate about the reasons for this remarkable decision. Perhaps the judge honestly believed what the defendant and her lawyers claimed. Perhaps Chelsea’s family has some drag in the community. Perhaps the judge, who has a daughter roughly the age of Chelsea Wells, wanted to believe the young woman’s claim that the accident she caused (in which 8 people were injured) gave her injuries that led her to refuse the breathalyzer. Or have we reduced the legal blood-alcohol levels so far and made the punishments for low level impairment so harsh (in comparison to those for people who drive blind drunk) that judges are loath to convict people?
    Certainly this provides a contrast to the way the courts dealt with a former cabinet minister, Ernie Fage, who was involved in a minor traffic accident after consuming, in his testimony, three glasses of wine.

  10. Liberal Citoyen Dion’s Green Kyoto policy lies a-mouldering in the grave. Kyoto: bammed by Dion himself.
    Lizzy May/Red-Green weeps.
    …-
    That green scarf takes on a distinctly yellowish hue
    Stephane Dion sported a green scarf at the Liberal Party convention. He was the green choice, the former environment minister who was going to lead the Liberal Party into taking ownership of the Green agenda in Canada. Stephane Dion would lead the Liberals back to power on a wave of environmental sensibility.
    Stephane Dion was given the chance to take a stand. He was handed the opportunity to say that whatever else the polls say, Dion’s heartfelt commitment to a green agenda would break through to Canadians in an election, and bring the Liberals to power.
    Well, push came to shove, and Stephane Dion is showing his true colours. It isn’t green, but a very obvious yellow streak.
    Stephane Dion was given the chance to take a stand. He was handed the opportunity to say that whatever else the polls say, Dion’s heartfelt commitment to a green agenda would break through to Canadians in an election, and bring the Liberals to power.
    True to form, Stephane Dion scurried away:”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/257505.php

  11. I suggest that is the Liberal Plan, with regard to Dion. So far – how many ‘confidence votes’ have the Liberals dealt with by simply not showing up to vote?
    It isn’t Dion who is refusing to enable an election; I think, with his ego, he wants an election. He thinks he’d win. The Liberal Backroom Boys are the ones who are refusing to permit an election.
    They know he’d lose; they want to get rid of Dion. But, they don’t want to do it in a manner that would decimate their seat numbers in parliament. I suspect they think that an election with Dion, now, would cost them MANY seats. They can’t afford such a loss, even if it enabled them to get rid of Dion.
    So, the strategy is – to prevent an election. Isolate, marginalize and ignore Dion. Effectively, the Liberal Party is removing itself from Dion. It is going to build itself up around Bob Rae; that’s what they are waiting for; the March 17 by-election which Rae will win. If it had been a general election Rae might not win but he’ll win in a by-election (which is why Ignatieff wanted a general election).
    So, the Liberal Plan has several layers.
    1)Ignore Dion; let him make a fool of himself.
    2)Meanwhile, smear and mudsling the Conservatives and Harper. Constant, relentless. The fact that the allegations are spurious, false, lies, untruths is utterly irrelevant. What matters is the public image of the CPC as ‘maybe corrupt’.
    The Liberals have no policies. Ever. Their normal strategy of winning and maintaining power has always been propaganda – of fear, anti-Americanism, manipulation by bribes, by endless unkept promises, and flinging huge sums at identity political groups in return for their votes.
    The current manipulation, aided by their devoted followers in the MSM, is to brand the CPC as corrupt.
    3)Then, the Liberals will present Bob Rae as their genial, wise, squeeky clean, moderate, kind etc etc Real Leader.
    Dion will be totally ignored. The Real Leader of the Liberals will be Rae. They’ll let Dion do all the upfront attacks about COrruption in the House; they’ll let him abstain from votes. They’ll let him be the Bad Image. He’ll dissolve before he’s even aware he doesn’t exist anymore.
    Rae will be kept clean, squeeky clean, and always jovial, collaborative, open to ideas….It will be quite a show.
    4) This way, they don’t face the possibly severe loss of seats that might result in an election now, and don’t face having to rewin those seats. And don’t face the loss of time getting a new leader. They’ll keep their seats, and install a new leader, Rae, without any fuss.

  13. Boob Rae’s career record has not gone down the memory hole. Howard Hampton-NDP remembers MacDonald and Boob’s betrayal of him.
    “MacDonald felt many of the things he had worked to establish were ignored or virtually eliminated when Rae became Premier of Ontario and led an NDP government from 1990-1995.”
    “Giving up his seat in the Ontario legislature in 1982 to make way for Bob Rae’s switch from federal to provincial politics was one of the “greatest regrets” of former Ontario CCF and New Democrat leader Donald C. MacDonald’s life,”
    Ex CCF/NDP leader Donald C. MacDonald dead at 94
    http://tinyurl.com/2e6r9t (canpress)

  14. The Montreal Gazette in an editorial yesterday criticized the provincial Liberals for not supporting English rights. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! The Gazette has betrayed anglos for many years by supporting the ‘lamb lobby’, the groups who call for more appeasement versus the soft and hard nationalists.
    Nevertheless the main point is that Brent Tyler and and a group of parents will be able to argue before the Supreme Court of Canada that children who have spent a year in a private English school can then transfer to a public English school and that this right can be passed on to their siblings (this path is of course not open to all parents, but better than nothing).
    This defence costs a lot of money, so if anyone is interested in contributing, contact lawyer Brent Tyler who has done so much for minority rights in Quebec and has given many hours of his time. By the way, the Quebec government appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn the Quebec Superior Court judgment in favour of the parents, so these expenses shouldn’t be needed (we anglos as well are paying for this unnecessary appeal against our interests).

  15. ‘Hope you’re feelling better soon, Kate.
    I’m wondering how many dogs you have on your bed? When I was sick, my faithful shadow, a miniature apricot poodle, was by my side pretty much 24/7. It was comforting feeling his warm little body next to mine…’sort of like having a hot water bottle that you didn’t have to keep filling up…

  16. Homework for student council demagogues at our universities: Why can we not debate whether men can beat (or, at least, discipline) their wives? I believe Sharia Law –a legitimate topic of fairly recent public policy debate in Ontario — envisions husbands disciplining their wives. How could we intelligently debate whether to allow the use of Sharia Law in Ontario, as some Muslims have petititioned for, without addressing this topic?
    And, for Ms. Holloway at York University — unwarranted arrogance personified — a special assignment: Explain how the following statement by Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, in her 1988 decision striking down Canada’s abortion law, justifies your claim that the abortion debate is over:
    “The proposition that women enjoy a constitutional right to have an abortion is devoid of support in either the language, structure or history of the constitutional text, in constitutional tradition, or in the history, traditions or underlying philosophies of our society.”

  19. Hi Kate,
    Sorry to hear you’re under the weather. I’ve found, by accident, that if I take two Extra Strength Tylenol and one Advil Cold and Sinus, in about 30 to 40 minutes the symptoms have been put to rest for a while.
    Works for me to keep me going when I’m sick.
    Regards,
    Pat Patrick

  20. Sorry that you’re feeling poorly, Kate. I find that when I am under the weather I like to double my intake of narcotics, and read about three times as many articles about the gathering threat of radical Islam. That brings on the sweating…

  21. Islam’s Animal Gulag–Where are all the animal rights activists?
    FP: Robert Spencer, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
    Spencer: Thank you, Jamie. Always a pleasure.
    FP: An Iranian man was recently sentenced to 4 months in jail and 30 lashes for walking his dog in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran. What is going on here exactly? …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2y2hu3 (front page)

  22. Why oh why would the tools on Front Street be spinning to defend Eliot Spitzer?
    No link…. it’s just happening right now on the morning news.
    Singing praises of this arrogant POS and imagining HOW he will make a comeback!!
    Poor poor Eliot …………….
    No mention of course about his abuse of power that was the trademark of his rise through the political junk yard!

  24. It’s not enough that the march to biofuels, especially corn derivatives, has led to some of the planets poorest people not being able to buy or obtain food. Now we have this happy news.
    Ethanol production fuels environmental problem, experts fear
    “Run-off from corn fields is all but sure to increase the zone of oxygen-deprivation water in the Gulf that is toxic to fish…’It is going make what was already a difficult problem pretty much impossible to solve'”
    Oh well, as long as the “Volvo Socialists” are happy in their ethanol cars.

  25. Get well soon, Kate. I hope this brightens your day.
    Melanie Phillips, The mammoth global warming scam
    More evidence from the International Conference on Climate change last month which produced the Manhattan Declaration… of the way in which scientists who are sceptical about man-made global warming find their work is suppressed. A detailed piece on the website of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works reports:

    During the conference, scientists revealed the lack of tolerance science journals and institutions have exhibited for skeptical climate views…

    [Also on the linked page, we find this:

    Furthermore, a Canadian survey of scientists released on March 6, 2008 offered even more evidence that the alleged ‘consensus’ is non-existent. A canvass of more than 51,000 scientists with the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) found 68% of them disagree with the statement that ‘the debate on the scientific causes of recent climate change is settled.'” According to the survey, only 26% of scientists attributed global warming to “human activity like burning fossil fuels.” APEGGA’s executive director Neil Windsor said, “We’re not surprised at all. There is no clear consensus of scientists that we know of.”

    This is the first I’ve heard of it. Why am I learning about an APEGGA survey from the U.S. Senate?]

  26. More CHRC Shenanigans Exposed on Free Dominion
    http://tinyurl.com/2rqrod
    “”CHRC doesn’t like complainant, so Steacy calls the cops!
    In April of 2006, Andrew Guille’s complaint against Canadian Anti-racist Education and Research Society (CAERS), and their website http://www.recomnetwork.org was accepted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
    I have a copy of the complaint but I am not going to post it because the quotes from the recomnetwork site are some of the foulest filth I have ever seen. Suffice it to say, they went as far as to speak positively about black people hanging from trees.
    In any case, the reaction of the CHRC to this complaint is quite informative.
    (…)
    It is apparent that the fact that Richard Warman’s buddy Alan Dutton and his CAERS organization were friends of the CHRC, (and on the government dole) was far more important to Mr. Steacy than whether or not they had actually violated the Human Rights Act. “”
    What I found disturbing in this “investigation m was the dual standards displayed in CHTC investigations, also the horrible presumption of guilt by association…a riviting read…see the original complaint at the Free Dominion link.

  27. Another Fred column here.
    “AmRen, as we say, had invited me to talk about Mexico as it appears from the inside. The organization was alleged to be a vicious racist organization. The more easily frightened of my associates in the crime of journalism tried to warn me off. They told me that my mere presence at the conference would destroy my reputation. (Which reputation is that, I wondered?) I was given to believe that, at lunch, the conferees would form hunting packs and set forth to lynch children of color.”

  28. Michael A. Ledeen, All Iraqis, After All
    The resulting agreement–outlined in two dense pages called “The Copenhagen Accord”–is highly encouraging for anyone looking for signs that Iraqi leaders are increasingly determined to come to grips with their own problems and assume responsibility for the solutions.
    That they convened at all was significant, all the more so against the background of the latest violence in Denmark, wrongly but publicly attributed to Muslim rage against the republication of the cartoons featuring Mohammed. (In fact, the riots started when Danish police arrested some Muslim drug smugglers, days before security forces announced they had thwarted a plot to assassinate one of the cartoonists, the event that led to the republications.)

  29. Kate; my choice for a cold remedy is oil of oregano. It seems to have both anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. It really works. As for a sore throat, gargling vitamin C has a potent effect. Haven’t been bed ridden in over 15 years..get well soon.

  30. “Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s gambit puts dozens of Liberal MPs in the uncomfortable position of potentially reversing their support for a colleague in order to stick with Leader Stéphane Dion’s decision last month to back the government’s budget and avoid an election.”
    Globe-Mail does not allow comments on this report.
    Citoyen Dion: say someting about da “priorities”.
    …-
    “Kill RESP bill or go to polls, Liberals told
    Calling education tax shelter an irresponsible sop for the wealthy, Finance Minister ties it to looming budget-implementation vote”
    “The Conservative government is expected to table the budget implementation bill this week. All votes related to the budget are considered matters of confidence.”
    http://tinyurl.com/ywd8na

  31. Hey I had a flu a week or so ago.
    Luckily, Capta – er – Dr Morgan still makes house calls.
    Get well soon, the world needs people like you.

  32. This is the Motion:
    “Last week, the three Opposition parties used their superior numbers in the Commons to approve Liberal Member of Parliament Dan McTeague’s proposal to allow parents to claim income-tax deductions on contributions to Registered Education Savings Plans to a maximum of $5,000 for each child.”
    Now, I’m saying that this is purely and only a ‘Look At Us Liberals’ Motion. The Conservatives have in their budget, the $5,000 Savings Option beginning in 2009. Your contributions are NOT tax-free, but, the interest earned on this sum IS tax-free. The idea was enthusiastically received across Canada.
    I suggest that this is the Liberal strategy to get people to Look At The Liberals.
    Now, Flaherty is saying – as are others in the financial world – that this Liberal idea is a ‘no’. Why?
    Well, “the cost in lost revenue to $2-billion a year, according to Don Drummond, a former Finance official who is now chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank.
    That would consume all or more of Mr. Flaherty’s surpluses over the next two years. ”
    “Mr. Drummond, along with Jack Mintz, a tax expert at the University of Calgary and former adviser at the Finance Department, and Amanda Aziz, national chairwoman of Canadian Federation of Students, all said Mr. McTeague’s initiative favours richer families because poorer ones don’t have enough disposable income to benefit from the tax break.” (Globe and Mail).
    And, Flaherty’s making it yet another Confidence Vote, because it has become very clear that under no circumstances will the Liberal BackRoom Boys allow an election. They may permit Dion to go into the House by himself and vote. But the rest of the Liberal MPs will stay out in the hall until the vote is over.

  33. It may (or not) be interesting to know that Mark Steyn, Richard Warman, and HRC’s were the topic of conversation at a citizens meeting in Grand Cayman last night.
    In discussing the danger of adopting a ‘Bill of Human Rights’ in the Cayman Islands (which, because of our status as a British Overseas Territory, the British Gov’t is pushing for) the example of the case against Mark Steyn was used. The duplicity of Richard Warman was also used as an example of the lack of justice inherent in the whole concept of HRC’s.
    The conclusion of those present was that the best deal for us would be to NOT HAVE A BILL OF RIGHTS, but to suggest to the British ‘overlords’ that the status quo is superior to being subjected to ‘commissions’ with mores foreign to our own and , as pointed out by one of the speakers, a totally different way of thinking. (As he explained, while Caymanians are used to thinking in absolutes, considering that TRUTH exists, and that there is a ‘right’ and a ‘wrong’, the ‘outside world’ of post modern thought is relativistic…)
    Canadian HRC’s – an example to the world !

  34. What was written….: Well, “the cost in lost revenue to $2-billion a year, according to Don Drummond, a former Finance official who is now chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank.
    That would consume all or more of Mr. Flaherty’s surpluses over the next two years. ”
    This is a lie. The annual surplus, even with growth anticipated to slow to 2% over the next year, will still be in excess of the expected cost of the program, in multiples.
    $45 billion in budgetary surplus has been lifted from taxpayers over the past 5 years.
    And the ‘Conservatives’ are fighting against cleaning up a tax break on a complex, bureaucratic, selective tax that disproportionately benefits the wealthy.
    “Conservative” my butt. That little leprechan simply wants more gold for his pot. Taxpayers get screwed by selective, social engineering type tax breaks instead of the broad based, or even flat tax option that – once upon a time – was considered for policy.
    The Conservative are conservative, in name only.

  36. hardboiled – your rebuttal of ‘that is a lie’ isn’t enough to convince me that Mr. Drummond is lying. I think I’ll rely on his expertise in these matters.
    charles macdonald – thanks for the link about the lack of consensus among scientists about the allegations of AGW. All we’ve been treated to in the Canadian Press is reports about the apocalyptic results of AGW.

  39. “how many ‘confidence votes’ have the Liberals dealt with by simply not showing up to vote?”
    Excuse my ignorance, but I know someone will here will know the working of parliment and be able to answer my question.
    Are votes in the HOC scheduled, or could Harper arrange a situation where he calls for a vote on something like the gun registry right before or right after on of these mass absences by the lieberals. It seem like an effective way to push things through a minority house.
    I am sure the MSM would spin it as shady politics, but harper could counter with the fact that the lieberals are not showing up for work.
    I believe it was said that they are just hanging around outside the commons and not taking part in the vote, but it would be funny to see them scurry back in for a vote then scurry back out for the next vote.
    Perhaps we need to have a voting day with about 10 votes interspersed with about 5 confidance votes.

  41. re: low voter turnout, Lib abstention, Senate absentees
    Let’s pay the voter to show up, instead of paying the parties for each vote. Make it $10 per vote. Forget giving public $$ to the parties.
    Then carry that to the House of Commons and the Senate.
    $10 per member per vote. No vote, no munny. Call it bonus pay, for showing up and standing up, for Canada.

  42. geez must be the time change.
    what I meant to say wuz.
    I couldnt find anything on CBCpravda on yesterdays NDP non-confidence vote. the libs walked but Borat Dion stayed. I suppose pravda is busy chasing down cadmangate stuff while the libs wait in the hallway. any decent new agency would have film of the loafers milling about waiting for the vote to be over.

  43. The Bishop of Oxford receives head chopper threats? I wonder who that could be from?
    thetelegraph.co.uk
    The Bishop of Oxford has been sent death threats after backing plans for a Muslim call to prayer in the city.
    Having in principle backed plans for mosque leaders to make the loudspeaker call, the Rt Rev John Pritchard said the “dark underbelly of British society” made a number of threats against his life.
    He said: “I received extraordinary mail. One said, ‘resign’ six times in a large font. One called for me to be beheaded and another said: ‘I wish I lived closer so I could spit on you.’ The dark underbelly of British society was coming out.”
    A spokesman for the representatives from Oxford’s Central Mosque have repeatedly stated their wish to be able to play the muezzin’s (caller’s) traditional message to the Muslim faithful from speakers on a minaret.
    Dozens of residents near the mosque, in Manzil Way, have urged the council to reject the plan, claiming it will turn the area into a “Muslim ghetto”.
    ——————
    Holy Muslim Fridays, where the faithful saints chant death to Jews, death to infidels. Holy supremacist calls to prayer in Arabic five times a day, everyday, in your filthy kafir city. And death by beheading if you stand against it. What a wonderful ‘religion.’

  45. ET’s analysis of the Liberal strategy is interesting — excellent, in fact — but what happens to Ignatieff? Is he expected to just disappear into the sunset? I think a “crowning” of Rae involves risks to the Liberals, even though that may be what is planned for now. I also agree that the Liberals have no policies. I think this may prove a vulnerability as well — the “scandal” stuff that they keep trying to spin is not very compelling. Ignatieff was carrying on about the various “gates” yesterday on Duffy. I felt rather sorry for him because I believe he is more of a policy type. I think he is likely to get screwed by the Liberals. Regardless, the Liberals are still stuck with competing factions even after Dion bites the dust.

  46. A clear example of WHY you don’t want unelected bureaucrats governing….
    The EU MEP Scandal
    Notably …. our Lefty MSM has had NOTHING to say about this …… Liberal/Socialist/Statists stealing from the public with NO chance of being held accountable!
    Sound Familiar?

  48. Margaret Weiss, Weapon of Terror: Development and Impact of the Qassam Rocket
    Qassam rockets — unsophisticated weapons manufactured in garages and backroom laboratories — have transformed the strategic equation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These crude rockets give Palestinian terrorist organizations the capability to strike deep into Israeli territory, throwing the security assumptions behind future peace negotiations into doubt…

  50. LindaL – Yes, I agree that the question in my analysis is: What about Ignatieff?
    He doesn’t have a role in my outline and that might be a problem. After all, Ignatieff himself wants a role! I’m suggesting that’s why he wanted an election now, to prevent Rae’s coming in via a by-election.
    But, I see Dion as simply ‘dropped’ by the Liberal Party. They’re stuck with him; they can’t get rid of him without an election. But their worry is, even though he’d resign after a Liberal loss – the number of seats they’d lose in a general election would be extremely difficult to regain. I think the Liberals would rather hold onto those seats now, and ‘campaign’ for the next one and a half years until fall 2009.
    They’ll simply ignore Dion. He doesn’t listen to anyone; they’ve given up on him. They’ll stand back and let him ‘play in the sand’. Meanwhile, they’ll ensure that there is NO election. They can’t afford to lose those seats.
    And, they’ll work very hard with their buddies in the MSM to paint the Conservatives as corrupt. And keep Rae as the Squeeky Clean Poster Boy.
    That means that they’ve thrown Ignatieff out. Is he their Achilles heel? Will he put up with this? Is he going to fight against Rae? What’s their plan for Ignatieff?
    This also means that the Conservatives can get through all kinds of things in parliament, threatening each and every time that it will be a ‘confidence vote’.
    Now – the above Liberal Agenda is speculation but, I can’t think of any other scenario…

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