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I’m suffering from a bad case of eye strain, and this computer monitor isn’t helping matters. So, things may slow down a little around here until that’s resolved.
Your tips in the comments.

60 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Charles Adler tears a strip off of Pierre Poilevre and the Conservatives for the In and Out scandal and their obvious lies in trying to spin the story, especially for attempting to claim there is some sort of conspiracy of bias out to get the paranoid Conservatives.
    Yet another example of the amateur spin doctoring attempts.
    As Paul Wells puts it: “Charles does unto Pierre Poilièvre what Poilièvre has lately done with the facts: gets a little rough.”

  3. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in honour of JET’s reference to Pliney the Elder in regard to Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ~ tinyurl.com/4skjnz ~ here is the inestimable Goon Show performing The Histories of Pliny the Elder on March 28’th, 1957:
    tinyurl.com/5r42ax

  4. I think it’s not too out of line to believe that CPC officials thought they were OK with the “In and Out” scheme since the Liberals practiced the same thing regularly.
    Page A14 National Post Editorial of 22 April: “When the Liberals were in power and flush with campaign cash, they engaged in similar practices, known as an “in-andout” scheme. The key is to edit the national ads enough that the party and its candidates can argue convincingly they are no longer national spots, but really local ones. The national campaign also may not redirect funds to its local candidates specifically for the purpose of buying air time or newspaper space for these ads.”
    They should have known it would be one rule for them and another for the Liberals.

  5. The Province of saskatchewan is ripping off the taxpayers of Saskatoon. The Government in Regina gives large grants to the city of Regina for the Center of the Arts and the Museum in Regina but gives very little or nothing to the city of Saskatoon for there facilities. The taxpayers of Saskatoon cary an unfair burdon. The Dept of Education in Regina gives more money on a per student basis for students in the Regina School Systems than it gives to the Saskatoon School Systems. IS THIS FAIR? Come on Mr. Wall fix this rip off of Saskatoon TAXPAYERS.

  6. If it doesn’t get better in the next day or so, make sure you get your doc to make sure it’s not a bacterial infection or even bruising from contacts. Those can mimic computer “eye strain” in my experience.
    Rest up and be well.

  9. Kate,
    If you do not have one already, switch to an LCD screen.
    The whites may not be as “bright” as on a regular tube screen but they are also easier on the eyes,
    and there is no rapid flickering or “stroboscopic” effect which is what makes the eyes and brain work so hard on a regular tube screen.

  10. “The fierce winter cold” is linked to “Freak weather linked to global warming” linked to “freezing winter temperatures” is linked to “one expert” is linked to “One expert said: “It was too cold” is linked to “”This year was exceptionally cold,” is linked to “climate change” is linked to “”There are definitely changes taking place in Afghanistan.”
    Wow! It’s the MSM linked to lying lies.
    …-
    “Freak weather destroys Afghan poppies”
    http://tinyurl.com/59bk8r

  12. An oldie but a goody, and one to watch:
    http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=126794
    “Mr. Bill Casey (Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, CPC): Thank you very much. There are so many questions we have to ask, I don’t even know where to start. I just read the paper today that has a quote about funding in Quebec. Somebody has to be responsible to answer these questions, and somebody has to be responsible to hold people accountable. It’s a complicated process that you run, and we’re all looking to you to help us with direction.
    But if you read the quotes, they say: “Mr. Béliveau said he later received $75,000 to $100,000 in an envelope full of $20 and $100 bills from Mr. Corriveau.” “Mr. Béliveau said the rest of the money–$200,000–was given to another Liberal organizer in Eastern Quebec….” “In addition, Mr. Brault has told the inquiry that he gave about $1 million in various contributions to the Liberals between 1996 and 2002….” It just goes on and on and on.
    You hold me accountable. You drive us crazy, literally, about every nickel and dime in our return. We have to account for everything. Yet here we’re talking about $300,000 in cash in paper bags in $20 bills and nobody is accountable for that? I don’t understand how Elections Canada can stand on the side and say, “We don’t have any responsibility here for this, but for you, Mr. Casey, you have to account for every single nickel and dime.” I’m just frustrated by this.
    I don’t see Elections Canada involved in this debate, and it seems to me it should be. There are people here, probably, who were elected only because of criminal activity. There are members of Parliament who could be here…. I mean, $300,000 in $20 bills–that’s four full independent MPs’ election funding. I just find it frustrating that Elections Canada is not involved with this and is not protecting us and not protecting other MPs.
    So could you tell us what role Elections Canada has in all these paper bags full of money that are affecting elections? These are electing people illegally, if they’re true. Does Elections Canada have an ounce of a role here, or who does?
    Mr. Jean-Pierre Kingsley: Through you, Mr. Chairman, Elections Canada is responsible for auditing what it receives as reports and for enforcing the statute. Until December 31, 2003, the statute said that any prosecution of infraction of the statute had to be undertaken within a year and a half of its commission. As of January 1, 2004 the law was changed. It said that from this point on–because there is no retroactive legislation in this country–any infraction will be counted for a year and a half from the moment its disclosure becomes public, by which time the commissioner must undertake prosecutory action. There is a seven-year timeframe now associated with that, so it must be undertaken within seven years.
    Those two things were modified as a result of Bill C-24. We have applied the statute fully. If there were any role for Elections Canada, we would have undertaken it by this time.”
    Funny how Elections Canada just threw up their arms at the prospect of investigating tens of millions of taxpayer funds stolen and put into campaigns.
    Funny also given that possession of proceeds of crime is a CONTINUING OFFENCE, such that when one actually got it, is irrelevant for limitation purposes. As long as one possesses it, it’s an offence.
    Funny how Elections Canada didn’t bother to investigate whether those funds were used within the time they were allowed to charge. It’s possible, even likely that such proceeds of crime were utilized within the acceptable charging period.
    Funny that.

  14. Global warming is a fear-mongering hoax which the MSM attempts to perpetuate. Ask/see the bees/beekeepers for a parallel.
    …-
    This by MSM from 2008.
    “Beekeepers worry over declining hive populations”
    “”On Earth Day it’s important to remember our environment is a system and it’s under great stress,” Replogle said.” (ctv)
    …-
    This from 1991!
    “The tracheal mite situation parallels many disease and pest situations in beekeeping which appear to ebb and flow through the years.”
    “TRACHEAL MITE ENIGMA
    There are a good many beekeepers and scientists scratching their heads about tracheal mites. Nobody seems to be able to reconcile why high mite levels last fall did not necessarily translate into large colony losses this spring.”
    http://apis.ifas.ufl.edu/apis91/APjun91.HTM

  16. Liberal spin crashes. Adlerbrained MSM/TORedStar eats crows … cawcawcaw …-
    “Kandahar chief hails Canadian ‘friends’
    Governor shows no ill will over Bernier’s call to oust him, applauds work of Afghan mission (TORedStar)

  18. Shaidle-Sullivan-Fornier free speech Matriacy Podcast
    Is now available on the Political Vindication podcast page here:
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/politicalvindication
    top of the list…play or download
    I urge anyone interested in the internet free speech issue to listen to the whole podcast. It is the best open candid discussion of this issue so far….and it makes us shudder to think if this was brodcast from a Canadian server some fed would be trolling the chat with an entrapment motive to shut it down.

  19. Friend of USA, Checkers deserves a much higher ranking than #88. I think there was some jiggery-pokery with the votes from Chicago on that one.

  20. One other note about LCD screens Kate, they can “strobe” as well as they are defaulted to 60 hz refresh rate, much like a fluorescent bulb (66 hz). Push the refresh rate above 72 hz as high as the LCD allows and your eye strain will never return. Also 22 inches is great for sitting back and reading text from a reclining position as it is much larger, also saves the back/neck

  21. Get this story! Crazy. Found in the Independant
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/freak-weather-destroys-afghan-poppies-814072.html
    These reporters have no shame. Exceptionally cold weather… linked to global warming. For the past year the mantra has changed from Global Warming to Climate Change. But this is too funny! Fierce winter cold… linked to global warming!
    jvp
    Freak weather destroys Afghan poppies
    By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
    Wednesday, 23 April 2008
    Faltering British efforts to tackle Afghanistan’s poppy crop have found an unlikely ally – in the weather.
    Freak weather linked to global warming is expected to reduce parts of the country’s opium harvest drastically. Scientists believe freezing winter temperatures followed by late rains and a possible drought may cut this year’s yields, with some farmers losing half of their crop.
    The fierce winter cold – which claimed hundreds of lives across Afghanistan – is thought to have stopped millions of poppy seeds from germinating. Late rains have then stunted many of the plants that survived.
    One expert said: “It was too cold in some areas for the seeds to come alive.

  22. Sling,
    wave your hand in front of a regular tube screen,
    you will see the strobe effect,
    and then wave your hand in front of an LCD screen,
    there is no perceptible strobe effect with the LCD screen.

  23. The strain was probably caused by working on artwork under magnification. It just hurts to look at the monitor.

  24. Friend of USA
    They missed Diefenbaker from the TV series Due South. Maybe he’ll be in next year.

  25. The strain was probably caused by working on artwork under magnification. It just hurts to look at the monitor.

  27. Glad to see Kyoto, dijon’s wonder dog didn’t make the top 100 list although you can’t blame the dog for a stupid master.
    Also sad to see Frankie from Men In Black didn’t make the cut.
    btw, the eye strain might be due to the subliminal messages Lucy is posting. If you haven’t heard a good conspiracy theory by noon, start one.

  28. Friend of USA
    My purchase of a new 22 inch LCD recently demonstrated they can strobe as I suffered from the effect until I moved the refresh rate up to 75 hz. Annoying strobe has disappeared, more prolonged reading on the world and it’s people has returned. Not all LCD’s are the same.

  29. Sling,
    Sorry but the 60Hz refresh rate explanation is wrong,
    … … …
    from staples.com
    Q: Is it true that LCD monitors are easier on your eyes?
    A: Yes. Unlike CRT monitors, the images on LCD monitors refresh a pixel, rather than an entire line, at a time.
    The images on CRT monitors (as well as televisions) are redrawn at a rapid rate not usually discernable to the eye. This is why photographs of television and CRT screens don’t turn out (and why when you look into a dark room brightened only by a television there seems to be mild strobe effect on the walls of the room).
    This refreshing of CRT screens (measured as frequency) can cause eyestrain for some people. LCDs do not flicker and often cause less eyestrain.
    … … …
    In that FAQ they also do not recommend LCDs for people who intend on playing or watching fast action packed videos because the images refreshes at a slower rate than on a CRT.

  30. From Wikipedia,
    Much of the discussion of refresh rate does not apply to the liquid crystal portion of an LCD monitor.
    This is because while a CRT monitor uses the same mechanism for both illumination and imaging, LCDs employ a separate backlight to illuminate the image being portrayed by the LCD’s liquid crystal shutters.
    The shutters themselves do not have a “refresh rate” as such due to the fact that they always stay at whatever opacity they were last instructed to continuously, and do not become more or less transparent until instructed to produce a different opacity.
    … … …
    More from Wikipedia,
    Computer CRT displays usually operate at a vertical scan rate well over 60 Hz (modern ones are around 100Hz), and can thus be considered flicker-free. Other display technologies do not flicker noticeably so the frame rate is less important. LCD flat panels do not seem to flicker at all as the backlight of the screen operates at a very high frequency of nearly 200 Hz, and each pixel is changed on a scan rather than briefly turning on and then off as in CRT displays.

  32. Very interesting information.
    Perhaps my LCD is faulty in it’s backlighting.
    Something for me to look into. My changing the mode of it did cause the strobe/flutter to disappear. Sigh…I guess it’s just me with faulty technology. As a certified technician, I could tell you stories about how text books & theory can be wrong about technology and it’s limitations and along with humans jumping-to-conclusions. That is why we have to check to see if the computer is plugged in before one should call computer geeks/noobs like me. Sigh again…

  33. Premiums for health care in AB will be gone by Jan, giving all those who pay them some extra money. What about the savings for employers who pay part or all the premiums for their employees.
    That will be a huge saving and increase to their bottom line. It is surprising how many employees do not realize that they pay taxes on what their bosses pay for them. By taking taxable benefits off their earnings they will save a few dollars in taxes. But will any of these savings by employers be passed on by lowering prices, I doubt it.

  34. (Via The Times Faith Central) Shiraz Maher, When Muslims become Christians
    There’s a widespread belief that the penalty for leaving Islam is death – hence, perhaps, the killing of a British teacher last week. But Shiraz Maher believes attitudes may be softening.

  35. This is a year old and thus not fresh roadkill, but it may still amuse right-thinking people. The trolls and leftards no doubt have it memorised already.
    How To Blog Like A Moonbat, Module One.
    Welcome to the THB Moonbat Writing Tutorial, M1. In this first lesson we will go over the style and content guidelines for writing like a true left-wing Blogger. You only need to learn a few simple rules and you can be up and howling at the moon like all your buddies!

  37. The first thing that popped into my head when I read “Freak weather destroys Afghan poppies” did not have anything to do with global warming.
    It was a). this: “Is Allah trying to tell the Taliban something?”
    and b). this logical equation:
    No poppies -> no opium/heroin -> no money -> no explosives -> no jihad.
    In regards to this story, please think of our soldiers before Al Gore. Thank you very much.

  38. Melanie Phillips delves into the Stygian depths of “progressive” reasoning:
    The Open Society And Its Enemies
    The single most important thing for left-wingers — what defines them in their own eyes as people of moral worth — is the fact that they are not ‘right-wing’. For ‘the right’ is a place of unmitigated evil. Only the left is good. So this is how it goes in the left-wing mind.
    To be not on the left is evil.
    To be not on the left is to be on the right.
    Therefore everyone who disagrees with the left on anything is automatically an evil right-winger.

  39. Mehdi Khalaji, Iranian Parliamentary Elections and Ahmadinezhad’s Discontents
    On April 25, a second round of voting will determine the remaining eighty-eight seats of the Iranian Majlis. The first round, held on March 14, decided 202 seats and was considered a defeat for both the reformists and President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad. His reaction to the setback — the dismissal of Interior Minister Mustafa Pur-Muhammadi, responsible for conducting the election — is indicative of the difficult times ahead for the president and his allies, whose public and official support is steadily diminishing.

  40. Nuke the coal mines? The Slimes belches more CO2 crap.
    …-
    Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising Alarms on Climate (Beware of mandatory barfs!)
    NY Times ^ | April 23, 2008 | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
    CIVITAVECCHIA, Italy — At a time when the world’s top climate experts agree that carbon emissions must be rapidly reduced to hold down global warming, Italy’s major electricity producer, Enel, is converting its massive power plant here from oil to coal, generally the dirtiest fuel on earth.
    Over the next five years, Italy will increase its reliance on coal to 33 percent from 14 percent. Power generated by Enel from coal will rise to 50 percent.
    And Italy is not alone in its return to coal. Driven by rising demand, record high oil and natural gas prices, concerns over energy security and an aversion to nuclear energy, European countries are expected to put into operation about 50 coal-fired plants over the next five years, plants that will be in use for the next five decades.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005581/posts
    Wiki says:
    “Nuclear power in Italy
    “Nuclear power in Italy was closed down following the Italian nuclear power referendum in November 1987, which rejected the expansion of the nuclear power industry. Subsequently, the Italian government decided in 1988 to phase out existing plants, with the last power reactor closing in 1990.
    However, as of 2007 Italy imported approximately 10% of their electricity from nuclear-dependent France. An earlier agreement to become part owner of the second EPR, to be built in France, having been rejected by the French, Italian utilities are investing heavily in nuclear capacity in central Europe.
    In January 2008 a think tank, Energy Lab, started a feasibility study for construction of three or four new nuclear power plants in Italy as a part of a new debate on nuclear power in the country.[1] The April 2008 win of the Forza_Italia party, which strongly supports nuclear power[2], makes these plans more likely to be realized.”

  41. Sling,
    I am a (college) certified technician too, in both electronics and mechanical engineering, I worked for the multinational 3M, was trained in Minnesota on microfilm repro-graphic equipment,
    but I never mentioned it because that is not what makes me right,
    The technology of LCDs which is different from CRTs does not cause a strobe effect, it is a scientific fact and not my opinion.
    The screen does not turn on and off like it does on a CRT screen, that is a fact and not my opinion.
    The only time there is something vaguely similar to flickering on an LCD is when the images move too fast and some mildly “flickering” ghost image can be seen as a trail, but not the whole screen is affected, only the trail of the moving image.
    but even this mild and very localized “flickering” is not comparable to a CRT flicker, it is more a blurry trail than a flicker.
    This is not global warming,
    there is an actual and real concensus on what makes an LCD different from a CRT screen, on why the absence of flicker and strobe effect on an LCD does not cause eye fatigue.
    If you are a certified technician then you should understand why the technology of an LCD does not have a strobe effect like a CRT does.

  42. But will any of these savings by employers be passed on by lowering prices, I doubt it.
    Posted by: MaryT at April 23, 2008 11:06 AM
    I think you’d be right MaryT.
    To me, the larger issue is, after $72 Billion cumulative surplus over the past 8 years, ‘Ol Ed is kind enough to drop a regressive tithe – and claim that ‘this is equivalent to a 12% income tax cut.
    Such crap that is.
    Instead, there is some $300 million in targeted pork in the remaining ‘tax cuts’, along with a growh in spending of 11%.
    Conservative my butt. These drunken liberals are expanding the nanny state as fast as a socialist, all with a straight face.
    Seeing the opportunity lost is painful.

  44. “Harper plays the oil card with skill
    L. IAN MACDONALD, The Gazette”
    (http://tinyurl.com/57lgzd0
    “At the three amigos’ summit in New Orleans yesterday, the Canadian media’s first question to Stephen Harper was about the Elections Canada-RCMP “visit to your party headquarters.
    Well, there’s nothing like washing Canadian laundry on the world stage. But the reporter was only doing his job, and asked the question in a circumspect manner, referring to a visit rather than a raid. And Harper’s response was as dignified as the question permitted: “Elections Canada thinks that some of our local expenditures should be considered as national expenses and we do not agree with that, and that’s why we went to court with this issue and in the interim we will respect the law and the interpretations of the law.
    He didn’t need to get into allegations of accounting irregularities from the perspective of elections officials, or from his own of the police carting off boxes containing the Conservative Party’s entire legal case in its civil suit against Elections Canada. This raises a huge issue of attorney-client privilege, a sacrosanct principle of law.
    But never mind all that. Harper and his two North American colleagues in the Big Easy – George W. Bush of the U.S. and Felipe Calderon of Mexico – made some other news with their comments on the North American Free Trade Agreement.”

  45. Kate and Friend of USA I concur the switch was necessary for me as well.
    No eye strain since only using LCD. As it was explained to me, continues eye strain can cause you eyes to bulge, thus damaging your vision, and can cause microscopic debris -(from protein or plaque) – aka ‘floaters’ that can get stuck to the inside of your eyeballs lenses. AND there’s not much that can be done for it once they’ve established themselves. Also don’t wear contacts for extended periods for this reason.
    Check at the pharmacy to see if they have the eye drops that help with the inflammation. I think you can get them without a Rx now, but I’m forgetting the name of the medication that I used, at this moment.
    Hope you feel better soon Kate.

  46. Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought is anathema to left-liberals, socialists and Taliban Jack Layton-NDP.
    …-
    “Afghan TV station defies Taleban and President Karzai and keeps Bollywood soaps on air”
    “Saad Mohseni, director of Tolo TV, said: “There is a political agenda here but it is also an attempt to end the free media and re-Talebanise Afghanistan.””
    http://tinyurl.com/5q7qrl (times)

  47. Toyota edges out GM in first quarter sales:
    http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080423/gm_global_sales.html?.v=8
    And this news doesn’t bother me in the least. GM and the rest of the Big 3 got too comfortable during the 70’s and 80’s ignoring the consumer.
    You have to hand it to the Japanese. 60 years ago their country was obliterated by war. They made quite a comeback. North American manufacturing was quite content to become fat and lazy and remain that way. For GM, it will now be hard for them to catch up to the lead racehorse when thier horse has two broken legs and a jockey (autoworkers union) that’s grossly obese.
    Disclaimer: One of my vehicles is a Toyota Camry! (The other is a Hyunda Santa Fe) 41 m.p.g. with the Camry, while with the Santa Fe I’ve got as high as 33.
    I really want to buy a Chevy Avalanche to replace the Santa Fe, but I think it will end up being a Toyota Tundra.

  49. The CBC and Radio-Canada have been on the Fed. Conservative’s butts since Stephen Harper was elected. There’s hardly a moment when you turn out the Cbc-R.Can news that they aren’t bashing the Conservatives.
    Other media sources have followed suit. The Regina Leader-Post for example will often ommit letters to the editor that lean to the right. The Western-Producer edits letters, they do however publish both sides of the coin.
    We need more SDAs.

  50. “EARTH DAY 2008: PREDICTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER WERE WRONG
    Another Earth Day has passed, so this is a good time to look back at predictions made on the original Earth Day about environmental disasters that were about to hit the planet, says the Washington Policy Center (WPC).
    Most Earth Day predictions turned out to be stunningly wrong. In 1970, environmentalists said there would soon be a new ice age and massive deaths from air pollution. The New York Times foresaw the extinction of the human race. Widely-quoted biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted worldwide starvation by 1975.
    More predictions of impending disaster:
    * “…civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970.
    * By 1995, “…somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970.
    * Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,” Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.
    * The world will be “…11 degrees colder in the year 2000 (this is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age),” Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970.
    More fearsome prognostications:”
    http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=16404

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