107 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Neocitron is good, two packets and a shot of rum and you will not know your name, let alone that you have a cold!..
    Stay away from the cherry stuff though..ghastly stuff, that….

  2. Coming from good Ukranian country,all the old ‘babba’s’ swear by garlic…whole cloves!No danger of spreading the germs around after taking this ‘medication’ no one can get close.Be well Kate.

  3. Oh, sorry to hear that Kate. Garlic, soak in a sauna full of garlic, it will open up all your pores and flush the bad bugs, not great smelling, even your dogs will ignore you for days, but it works, also a big shot of rye while you are soaking. Neocitron is fake medicine. Get better!

  6. It’s NeocitrAn out here in B.C., but I am sure it is the same product. My dad chews a clove of garlic when he starts to feel sick, and swears by it. I tried it once — never again. Those prairie boys grew up tough it seems. I would rather be sick.
    Vitruvius — I never liked Tom Snyder much. Loved Don Rickles though. Nice link. Thanks.

  7. I don’t know who that “mound of sound” blogger is, but in the comments to the post Kate linked to, he suggests Louise Arbour ride in on her camel – er, white horse – to take over as Liberal leader. He’s dead serious, too.

  9. Two Extra Strength Tylenol and One Advil Cold and Sinus, take them together in the morning and 20-40 minutes later, you’re functioning. Does nothing for the cold, only treats the symptoms.
    ….short of that, bats blood boiled with leaves of a dwarf crab apple that grows in a cemetery and then add…..can’t tell you any more the leathery winged and scaly creature is talking to me about revealing secrets.
    Get well soon. Try not to get too tired out, it’ll come back with a vengance.
    Best regards,
    Pat

  10. OK Kate – here it is. For what you have this works every time. Take Neo-citran, vit C, Cold FX (or as my mother-in-law would say – Cold Fed Ex). Take all that faithfully for 7 days. Or…. you could take nothing and your cold/flu should be gone in about a week.

  11. ‘Stephane Dion’ – a great punchline! Oh wait…. There has to be a joke first?

  12. Is oil in bubble territory ??
    I was told that at $50 … and $75 .. and $100
    Oil has doubled in price in a short time period.
    Pension funds, hedge funds, ect are pouring mucho cash into oil futures.
    Hard to believe – in 1998 oil was less than $10
    Huge oil find in the Falkland Islands. Per capita income may surpase Kuwait !?
    Best region for upside potential — Sask ?

  13. Regarding the US recession as it pertains to the housing crisis.
    The crisis is that a lot of people bought houses with money they didn’t have and would never be able to keep the house in any case. These people who would continue as they did, to continue taking consumer loans against the rising equity. What did they do with money? Take vacations, buy new cars and big screen TVs.
    I read on a Breitbart link that a very large number of the home loan processors were of course poor black and low end white folks. These are people who are simply to stupid or irresponsible to be home owners at the best of times. That is why the built trailers.
    I remain convinced that you cannot help the poor by enabling them. Some will smarten up and take advantage of the copious opportunities in North America to work and save and plan and stop buying every shiny object they see.
    Most folks with brains or at least some common sense will survive this dip and the people who thought they could have a free house can go back and live in their cars and trailers where they were before.
    Who was it that said “the poor will always be with us”. People in the US and Canada are poor mostly because they are ignorant. We should seriously refrain from rewarding such stupidity. Our financial institutions took huge advantage of stupid people and now stupid governments are tossing out buckets of other people’s money to try to bail out (reward) the losers and the greedy.
    I will tell you what is going to make a lot folks a lot poorer and more desperate … the idiotic folly of taxing the shit out everyone to save the planet. Next to the Islamic terrorists, the Greenies are biggest threat to the security and well-being of our nations.

  14. Ron in Kelowna,
    If there is an oil bubble it’s made of carbon steel. It will not burst for a very long time if ever. Things have changed. There is China now. There is India now. The demand for oil is not only the domain of the USA any more. The train has left station and it ain’t comin back.
    The tech bubble of the 90s was an American market thing. The housing bubble was created to replace the tech bubble burst. Now there is an energy bubble, but as stated this a bubble that will hard to burst. The rest of the world is becoming more prosperous and they are building cars and houses faster than ants built an ant ant hill.
    Yes, our world is now swarming with consuming pismires.
    Trudeau stated once long ago on a Xmas interview on CTV that we are going to become a “society of less”. It took a long time to come around, but on that point (and it may be the only one) he was right.

  15. Regarding equalization. Today I found this site:
    http://www.canadawithoutquebec.ca/
    It is good to see some anglo people promoting quebec separation. That will solve the equalization problem. Quebec will stop sending 60 billions+ per year to Ottawa.

  17. ron in kelowna:
    Oil is not busting up any time soon.
    Higher demand out of India, China, etc. will prevent that. Further the subprime has helped to keep the US dollar low relative to other commodities.
    The silver lining is that US exports for manufactured goods will pick up handsomely. In some ways I think the US dollar decline has been engineered for long term competitive purposes.
    Golds and resources near term should do well as liquidity is pumped into the system. Eventually, when discipline returns to the mortgage system in the US we will see a dollar recovery but that is some ways off as yet. The doom and gloomsters are correct that some pain will be felt. However, the pain will be localized to US banking and housing sectors. The US export sector should gradually be picking up the slackening in the housing areas.
    IE. Intel should be eating other chip producers lunch with the decline in US dollar. The US has always held out its manufacturing expertise to the world that will not likely diminish anytime soon.
    Those goods are now on a foreign exchange basis 30% cheaper, which would indicate a significant uptick in the US export sector going forward.
    Cheers

  20. “It is good to see some anglo people promoting quebec separation. That will solve the equalization problem. Quebec will stop sending 60 billions+ per year to Ottawa.”
    Talk about ungrateful. Quebec has been a net winner under equalization for decades. Tens of billions sent by Canadians out of the goodness of their hearts to Quebec. And what do we get in return? 90% of Quebeckers sincerely believe that *they* subsidize *us*. Newfoundlanders believe this too.
    So what’s the point? Ship billions to people who hate you and deny the very fact that you’ve just given them billions of dollars without so much as a thank you? A nation of ill mannered beggardly ingrates?
    The only problem I have with Stephen Harper as PM is that it delays the inevitable. Canada is not a country.

  22. Speaking of By-elections, Martha Hall Findlay is calling for HELP. Should we read anything into that?
    Are some folks around Toronto WAKING UP?

  24. The Lib commenters on that link are desperate….wondering why ‘the scandals’ don’t stick, even the ‘Mulroney-Schrieber’ stuff doesn’t stick.
    Duh!!
    For them it’s all about mudslinging and ‘who’ should be at the helm. They are so desperate they want the Cretin or Martin back!Dion is only part of the problem, according to them.
    What eludes the Libs is the fact that there has been absolutely NO POLICY for Canada that has come from the Liberals…it’s all about smashing PMSH and the CPC.They offer nothing to Canada.It’s all about them and their COTU complex.No wonder they do well in Toronto.

  25. Kate: Don’t forget chicken soup!
    If that doesn’t work, just skip straight to the rum: lots of it and you’ll forget you’re sick. 🙂

  26. Nice job, baby boomers. You’ve raised the skankiest and most veneral diseased generation in the history of mankind.
    Posted by: fdsafsaf at March 12, 2008 7:11 AM
    Actually, that would be Gen X’s kids if you were to use your brain. Oops, bad assumption there.
    I do wonder though, why it would concern you. Perhaps this isn’t the only trolling you do?

  27. Phil …I was thinking chicken soup too, but the best part about chicken soup is having it served.
    Kate you are private about that but I hope you get some TLC with that chicken soup.

  28. Chantal Hebert has pretty good column today.Sounds like Dion/Libs have some ‘splainin to do over this RESP business,and where the money will come from.(link at NN)There is another column on same site re same.I think that cooler heads,and some more solid analysis is starting to show that this is just a Lib.stunt,and not thot out too well.

  30. atheist quebecois separatiste:
    60 billion out, 68 billion (at least – EI needs to be included) back in. Net -8 billion.
    You guys don;t have a prayer on your own if your math is this bad.
    …
    Yes there is a bubble in oil. It will fall back somewhat as the US dollar recovers some of its value.
    And it will slowly lose air over the next several years as huge new reserves are brought on-line all over the world. Really we have only been looking for oil onshore up until now but the wolrd is 65% covered by h2O so there is lots to find.
    As well the oilsands production methods will be revolutionized by new technology decreasing costs, timelines to production and increasing reserves by an order of magnitude or more.
    All of this is predicated on improved political conditions over the next decade in places like Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran etc. I am optomistic on most of those fronts.

  31. Jim Travers of the Star writes:
    ” Conservatives were as skilfully swift in positioning Dion as an impotent environmentalist as they were framing him as a weak leader.”
    No, Mr. Pro-Liberal MSM pundit, Dion’s position as an impotent environmentalist and weak leader isn’t due to the Conservatives. It’s due to himself.
    I went to an all candidates meeting in Toronto Centre last night. The St. Lawrence Theatre takes over 500, and it was packed. At first I thought I’d wandered into a British SitCom.
    There was a troop of medallion bedecked grannies singing Songs of Peace.
    Various impoverished and earnest activists, looking like Bertie Worster Without Jeeves – handing out flyers insisting that a basic income and house are a Human Right (particularly if both are provided by the Working Taxpayer. A deeply committed 9/11 Denier (It was Bush Who Did It). Others Against The Imperialist USA. Unreal.
    Rae, on stage, is smug, smooth and polished. He deals with his Years of Deficit by removing it from criticism..by beginning his comments by a joking reference to it. That acknowledgment, which turns it into a joke, removes it from the table. How does he deal with Dion?
    He deftly turns the tables. He accused both the NDP and CPC of having brochures that depict Dion in unflattering images, as weak, as.. The NDP countered that the images weren’t altered. Rae then acknowledged Dion as a ‘nerd’ but continued that it wasn’t ‘nice’ to focus on such personal things.
    This ignores that he defines the CPC as The American Republican Party.
    I got the impression – but I’m possibly biased as it is actually my opinion – that the Liberal Party is acknowledging Dion as a nerd and leaving him outside to play on his own in the sandbox. They can’t do anything about him. They dare not have an election now (to get rid of him) because their loss in seats would be far more disastrous to the Party.
    So, they’ll let Dion make a fool of himself, with his claims that ‘we can’t have an election now because it’s snowing’. Or, ‘because it’s Easter’. But they won’t let him have an election (which he wants) because of that disastrous seat loss.
    Therefore, they’ll put up with him, and even, isolate themselves more and more from him. Token acknowledgments as Our Leader. But, I’m saying the Real Leader is going to be Rae. And the image he’s going to present will be Experienced, Wise, Smooth and above all, Genial, Friendly, Open. Above all- open. In contrast to Harper’s shyness and ‘coldness’. Rae is going to be The Peoople’s Man.
    Their other strategy is to define the CPC and Harper as Corrupt. Their tactic is endless accusations. All unfounded. But they don’t care; the Public Image promoted by their faithful MSM friends is all that matters.
    As for colds, I think that the esteemed values of Cold FX (and I swear by it), and Astragalus and garlic – are all viable BEFORE the cold finds its happy home in you. Once you’re ill, I think it’s time and chicken soup (homemade of course). Get well, kate.

  33. AEI, 12 March 2008, 5:00 p.m. EST
    What if Reagan Had Not Run and the Soviet Union Still Existed?
    The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Two Speeches That Changed History
    In two powerful speeches that took place twenty-five years ago this March, President Ronald Reagan dealt what would ultimately prove to be lethal blows to the moral and material foundations of the Soviet Union. On March 8, 1983, Reagan described the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and as “the focus of evil in the modern world,” and fifteen days later, on March 23, Reagan unveiled his vision for the research, development, and ultimate deployment of a missile defense shield that would one day end the vulnerability of America and her allies to Soviet nuclear attack. While both speeches were widely ridiculed at the time, they are today rightly hailed as having made decisive contributions to bringing about the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union a little less than nine years later. Join AEI senior fellow Newt Gingrich as he reflects on the lessons these two speeches hold today for presidential leadership and U.S. national security and why it is that only one person, Ronald Reagan, could have possibly delivered these two speeches, which so powerfully contributed to ending the Cold War.
    Links to text and audio of the Reagan speeches here.

  34. “My feelings are hurt, if you must know, all that effort, thought and good intentions.””
    The left’s sickness from da ex-Judge. Whiner Gomery.
    Da Liberal Gomery, aka da whitewasher, who exonerated AdScam Martin, Jr.
    Next thing he’ll want is an apology.
    …-
    http://tinyurl.com/3y7shv (jacksnewswatch)

  36. Web Search, EU-Style
    The European Union is putting up $152 million to fund a search engine that will compete with Google.
    Who was that snickering in the back of the room?
    OK, maybe it was me. I can’t help it. I’m picturing an EU-approved search engine, and I can’t stop giggling.
    EUgle! Bwa ha ha!
    Commenter:
    “It’s just like Europe.
    GPS wasn’t good enough; they’re developing their own. They thought they could get industry to help finance it, but companies know a waste of money when the see it, and want funding.
    Same thing will happen here. And then, there will be all the political problems. Germany won’t let any info on the Nazis, France will insist it be equally in French; the Swiss will want it in all their languages; and it will be a huge money sink that won’t be done before we have quantum computers.
    Meanwhile, instead of taxing and spending government money, the US will put the money to productive use.”
    http://tinyurl.com/2zdo8m (LGF)

  37. The view that Quebec provides more to the federation than it receives, is a basic Quebec Urban Myth. These people insist that ‘if only’ they didn’t pay anything to the federation, they’d be Perfect, and they consider that the federation effectively steals their money.
    They totally, completely, ignore that this isn’t a valid scenario. That it’s a myth. That their federal taxes do not cover their expenditures that are covered by the federal govt.
    These include funding for their many universities (they have more than Ontario has despite having a lower population) and remember, their tuition fees are the lowest in the N. American hemisphere and are available to any foreigner as long as they are francophone. ‘Canadians’ have to pay higher fees.
    These include funding their transportation, roads, bridges, etc, etc. Subsidizing their industries. Setting up new industries since so many won’t work in Union-Heavy Quebec. Subsidizing their welfare, their unemployment. Quebec federal taxes simply don’t cover their costs.
    But, the Quebec Myth is that any and all money sent to Ottawa is pure and simple theft. They feel no obligations to the Rest of Canada; they consider that any monies coming to them is theirs by Inherent Right. And they absolutely refuse to acknowledge that they receive billions more than they send to Ottawa.
    And then, when others in the ROC support their leaving, support their ‘going on their own’ – they feel offended! Heck, the sooner the better. We in the ROC, will save a huge bundle of money by not having to support The Quebec Socialist Lifestyle. I wonder who they’d go to, to get those billions they don’t have? France? The USA? I have a feeling neither country would jump at the ‘chance’ of subsidizing and supporting Quebec’s insistence on More Money, More Money.

  38. The new road to serfdom
    […]
    “The new Left that emerged via Brundtland, Rio, and Kyoto has thus co-opted a huge coalition of self-interested or naive supporters, who are attracted by the prospect of preening as saviours of the planet. Together they are threatening to carry the globe down a new road to serfdom.”
    Peter Foster, Financial Post http://tinyurl.com/ywqklj
    Where is Mao Stlong in this?
    “Rio was organized by Brundtland commissioner Maurice Strong, a long-time committed Canadian socialist who was the strategic mastermind of the new environmental Left. From Rio emerged the processes that led to the Kyoto accord.”

  39. So Martha is calling for help. Didn’t she step down for Belinda. What bribe did she take to do that.

  41. The CBC/MSM Liberals have added necrophilia* to their menus. Sickos.
    …-
    “The Cadman affair was also jumped on by the cast of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.”
    Frustrated Liberals poke fun at Cadman scandal
    http://tinyurl.com/257zqt (sun)
    *an erotic attraction to corpses. (dict.com)

  43. Re equalization….
    I think it is time that the shell game ends to prevent silly things like the examples cited.
    The money Ontario has poured into equalization, I am not forgetting Alberta I just live in Ontario, has driven me crazy for years. At the end of the day Ontario didnt get much out of it. When I think about Newfoundland it pisses me off. So I am happy to end equalization and let the provinces keep their oil and gas revenue….My bet, Alberta will do some reasonable things with the surplus and Newfoundland will blow it like a sailor on shore leave.
    More importanly I want my Ontario taxes lower or at least my roads fixed in a reasonable time…this winter is getting tough on them.
    Time for equalization to end. You want to help PEI….have it join Newfoundland. Quebec will always be the problem. But it might help surface the issue that they are actually paid something.

  44. cure for a cold, I dont recommend boiling oil but a simpler version. but the referances are old.it uses the bodies defence mechanism with a little enhancement.
    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742341,00.html
    dont do this if you have heart trouble or a weak bladder.
    take a couple of ASA , wrap yourself in a couple of green garbage bags, a couple of blankets , and a down sleeping bag, drink two pots of hot tea and elevate your temperature to 107 plus for about half an hour.

  45. ET
    I think you are right on in your estimation.
    Rae will be the ‘Obama-wannabee’…for all the masses who are not interested in policy…they just want the fluff.
    I will continue to hope that Ontario will remember the Rea-days…a socialists dream, a hardwoking tax-payers nightmare. Rae has never received the criticism that he deserved for leaving Ontario in a mess, just as Harris has never received the thanks he deserves for getting Ontario out of the mess.
    So Rae called Dion a nerd…will that make MSM?

  46. cal2: the potential fields that lie along the subsea continental edges are huge – the falklands 60BB reserve is just one of several most of them are in ice-free areas or, like the orphan basin off of NL, are in water deep enough that make the berg risk much easier to deal with.
    The global oilsands reserves that can be unlocked by technolgies like this one – http://www.petrobank.com/hea-thaitechnology.html –
    will unlock reserves that run into the trillions of barrels for (far) less cost and effort than SAGD, etc.
    The key element is time – things like ill-concieved royalty and carbon tax measures could lengthen the timeline to production considerably.

  47. Who was it that said “the poor will always be with us”.
    John 12
    1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
    2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
    3 Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
    4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,
    5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?”
    6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
    7 Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
    8 “For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

  48. That “pound of mound” is one truly lame site.
    It’s encouraging; knowing, this is the opposition
    “If we bring Louise Arbour back to Canada and make her our idol of worship she would be the first elected woman prime minister.”
    The comments section is fun though.

  50. bluetech/ET:
    It is an interesting theory – sort of like the neutron bomb play – they are trying to kill off SD without destroying any of the party structure.
    There are two key impediments:
    1. Iggy – the party is still split and Iggy is working just as hard if not harder than Rae to succeed SD.
    2. The irrelevance of the LP in Que. Unless they think that the pop changes are sufficient that they think they can win with the urban vote in Que (15 seats?) and toronto and vancouver. (it is ironic that they may be the first federal party to turn its back on QUE) Doubtful, and twits like trudeau won’t let them do it quietly.
    And of course no one in the party has an answer to Rae’s ontario legacy. With liberal Dalton working on meltdown #2 – the echoes of Rae’s folly will become increasingly poigniant. As anyone who spend time talking to ontarions can attest, the memory of Rae has hardly faded at all.
    And Rae’s laughing it off will be about as effective as Ted making jokes that he no longer drinks and drives.

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