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Drop your tips here so we can all enjoy.
Apologies for the delay in getting this up, busy day. Today was Delisle’s Garage Sale day and the pit is open for free dumping. Everyone is cleaning up their yards and generally visiting with their neighbours. I’ll probably think it was a good day once my oh-so-tender blisters turn into callouses and my back stops hurting.
Pittsburgh beat Philly, which isn’t how I think the rest of this series is going to go. Detroit walked all over a tired Dallas, which is how I think the rest of this series is going to go.
An hour until the puck drops on Dallas again. Hmm, is it too early for a beer?
Cheers,
lance

47 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. It is never, ever, to early for a beer! If sport’s or bbq is involvled then two or more are the regulation amount.

  2. I have been sick with worry all day,about how Brenda Martin slept last nite..have her bowels moved?What did she eat for breakfast? C’mon MSM,fill us in.

  3. The University of California has a lecture series called Conversations with History that is available via YouTube. Their 2007 Nimitz Lecture was given by Mr. Mark Steyn, with host Harry Kreisler, at UC Berkeley. The conversation is 56 minutes long, and is, in my opinion, the best in-depth interview with Mr. Steyn that I have seen to date.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K375rwCgTSs

  4. I agree with Royalist..never too early for a pint of lager!..are you set up for intravenous? heh!

  5. My new brother in law had beer on tap at his wedding party location
    He’s been so impressed with the whole idea of having beer on tap that he’s considering adding a beer tap to his upcoming kitchen renovation.

  6. Heh, I have two kegs on tap downstairs that are usually filled with beer. Unfortunately I haven’t brewed in a while so they’re empty.
    That must be blasphemous somewhere.
    Cheers,
    lance

  7. Mike Duffy and Donald Low are talking about WASHING YOUR HANDS on Mike Duffy Live!!
    (the story of the sickness on the train)
    Are they crazy?
    (If you haven’t looked up the CHRC decision concerning “washing of hands” better do so!)

  8. Has anyone commeted on Premier Ed banning the cbc from any lockups or prior access to information for a year. Seems one of them broke protocol and made a call to someone, who then phoned Calgary city hall with leaks of what was in the budget.
    Cheers for our Premier. The sooner PMSH does the same on the federal level the better.
    Cutting their funding by about 60% would be a better idea.

  9. lance: Kimmo Timonen – arguably the most important player on the flyers next to biron is out for the year with a blood clot. Pens in 4.

  11. Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/1850248
    “A Seattle Times editorial notes that the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal will put author Mark Steyn on trial for his book ‘America Alone,’ which has angered Muslims in Canada. Steyn is a columnist for the Canadian magazine Maclean’s. According to the editorial, British Columbia bans all words and images ‘likely to expose a person… to hatred or contempt because of race, religion, age, disability, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.’ Steyn is unapologetic, and is advertising his book as a ‘Canadian Hate Crime’ and daring the tribunal to ‘pronounce him bad.'”

  12. Oh my! A beer discussion without OMMAG…where could he be?!
    Go Wings!!!
    Sammy…that was good!
    neo @ halls of macadamia has a link to P.J. O’Rourke speech.He’s a former hippie turned conservative. A good message to the grad class.

  13. This is weird, but interesting!
    fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
    Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
    i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
    The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
    it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are,
    the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
    The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
    Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
    but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

  14. Barff Alert!
    “Brenda Martin defends herself from critics” (ctv)
    …-
    This tells the rest of the story: Martin is not a Canadian.
    Martin: “”I hope eventually to be in Toronto. I am a Torontonian.”” (TOSun)

  15. Liberal MP Holland is Citoyen Dion’s Liberal critic of […] Procurement.
    To wit:
    “Subject: Send your office’s pass to Young People F#*%ing our way!”
    …-
    “[Liberal] Mark Holland’s office looking to score…
    …some tickets to a special screening.
    This email was sent to all of the Conservative MPs and their assistants on the Hill today. A few people passed this on. (thanks, guys)”
    ” From: Holland, Mark – Assistant 1
    Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:05 AM
    To: – CONSERVATIVE ASSISTANTS CONSERVATEURS; – CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS/DÉPUTÉS CONSERVATEURS
    Subject: Send your office’s pass to Young People F#*%ing our way!
    It came in the mail in the last couple of days. If you’d like to get rid of it, our office will find a happy user. Please send to the below address.
    Thanks,
    Office of Mark Holland, M.P., Ajax-Pickering
    Liberal Critic, Public Works and Procurement”
    http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2008/05/mark-hollands-office-looking-to-score/

  16. Are you saying that Pittsburgh is gonna choke? How do you see the rest of the series?
    For having three starters under the age of 25, they’re doing pretty good. And, pretty much every US cable sports channel is saying the same thing – if Pittsburgh can overcome Philly’s luck…
    and, oddly, they’ve won the last 9 out of the ten games they’ve played…. definite ‘choke’ material… yunz

  17. Vitruvius: Thanks for the link to the Mark Steyn interview: Conversations with History series at Berkley.
    I agree. It’s the best interview I’ve seen to date. Notice how both interviewers managed to insinuate not even the slightest hint of their own world views, neither in words, facial expressions, nor body language. That is so rare today, eh?

  18. Bob Rae has asked the PM for help finding anti-semites on the opposition benches. I’ve found a few for him here
    Also, from what I understand, the drinking hour begins at 4pm on Friday, and ends at 2am Sunday – so I think you’re ok for a beer Lance.

  19. The Mark Steyn case has made Slashdot.
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/10/1850248
    The Slashdot readership tends to tilt left-wing or libertarian depending on the topic (about the only thing the groups can agree on is they all loathe the Republicans) but the comments making their way up to +4/+5 on the discussion thread are tending to slam the case and the concept of “hate crimes”. Libertarians seem to be winning this one.

  20. I ignore all previous posts.
    The Pens weill winj because of Malkin, the hottest undiscovered talent of all time. He plays second fiddle to Crosby???
    However, Detgoit will win. They are too dominant.

  21. “Hmm, is it too early for a beer?”
    I always wait until the first pitch, kick off or puck drop. But it’s not a moderation thing, it’s just so I won’t be too hammered to follow the last part of the game. Or maybe go out afterward…for a beer.

  22. Yes, Me No Dhimmi, I did notice the behaviour of the interlocutors in the Steyn ~ Conversation with History, in particular because they are professors of history and international studies at Berkeley. Once again we see that the opprobrium heaped be some, without existential quantification, on all members of some set X, even the set of professors, even history professors, even at Berkeley, is not always appropriate.
    Once again, folks, that’s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K375rwCgTSs
    Also, Ian, I noticed that in the Slashdot thread too.

  23. Here is how it rolls out:
    Wings over Dallas – 5
    Penguins over Flyers – 5
    Penguins over Wings – 7
    7th in overtime with Malkin setting up Crosby for the winner. MVP Malkin.

  24. *
    screw darfur… we’ve got a humanitarian crisis
    right here in canada…
    “You’re in a dorm with 30 people, no windows open,
    people are farting, you’re breathing in their farts, it’s
    just really, really inhumane.”
    *

  25. Yes, Vitruvius, I had intended to add the remark, “especially considering the interviewers are from Berkeley”. Or would I be proving your point? 🙂
    Not the slightest hint of a personal world view, nor any of those dreary cut and paste comments like, “now, Mr. Steyn, surely you’re not suggestng that ALL Muslims are ….”.
    I’m especially appreciative of auto-didacts like Steyn. They’re more grounded and have a healthy dose of humility. He is a most charming cat. He makes you feel good I’ve always thought.
    I will say, however, that I cringed a bit during the TVO interview (The Agenda) where I thought he got dangerously close to buffoonish at times, which quite disturbed me. Did you feel that way at all?
    Keeping the link fresh:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K375rwCgTSs

  26. My rule for beer drinking,and when it’s proper…somewhere in the world,it’s after five!
    Proof that Craig Oliver has gone daft:the other day (Thurs) when the whole ‘bikerchickgate’story was planted and PMSH made the busybody comment,the pundits were discussing on MDL.Duff said PMSH was ‘sticking by his man’and Oliver argued that PMSH wasn’t really…said he didn’t stand up in QP and back up Bernier.Well Craig,PMSH wasn’t even in the House that day! The media(cbc) made a big deal about PM’s hastily called on the stairway news conf,to make his busybody remark,then went to TO to give speech.
    Again on MDL on Fri.,Oliver and Greg Weston handled the ‘punditry’ and Craig repeated and got bit argumentive,that Harper didn’t get up in QP to defend Bernier.Helloooo Craig..it was Fri,and PM isn’t in QP on Friday ! Weston looked at him like WTF??? But,I guess that msg got out there,to people that don’t watch CPAC.

  27. Yes, MND, especially at the beginning, yet I think there was a hustle and bustle at play there that, at least judging by the responses in the blogosphere and the formal media to date, Mr. Steyn finessed quite successfully indeed. More importantly, I think, is your note regarding his auto-didactic nature. While not the recipient of a formal education in the classics, he has acquired an amazing amount of breadth and depth on his own ticket, as a result of which he stands out as a rare renaissance man among the ceaseless superfluity of the over-educated but under-knowledgeable and over-agendized.
    The way I see it, his sorts of features come together in that rarest of behaviours, a really smart person who remains quite self-deprecating. I see that sort of behaviour in people like Rex Murphy and Robert Fulford, and, interestingly perhaps, those are just the sort of rare people who when I find that I disagree with them, I wonder whether or not it might be one of those rare cases when I’m wrong. Not that I always change my mind, of course, but compared to most pundits, who I simply mouse-wheel past, I truly value their considerations.

  28. William, that is amazing – I can read the whole thing quickly and without difficulty.

  29. The Mark Steyn Berkeley interview was excellent. I could have listened to him for another 56 minutes and got the feeling the hosts could have as well. Says alot when the Berkeley professors themselves still want the conversations to go on.

  30. RW: Malkin is hardly an “undiscovered” talent. He has long been thought of as the next greatest russian to ovechkin – he was drafted second to AO in 2004. and he was voted MVP in the ’06 world juniors (via WIKI). He is Messier with less of an edge and more natural talent.

  31. At 7:46 p.m., William posted the following quote:
    “fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
    “Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
    “i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
    The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
    but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!”
    Yes, this is very interesting. (Thanks, William for the post.)
    As a teacher of language, my ideas on what’s going on? Without a firm grasp of conventional spelling, one would be unable to decipher the above passage. (E.g., One perceives a human face in Picasso’s abstractions only because one already has a mental template of the real thing.) So, far from “proving” that spelling is irrelevant, this passage demonstrates its indispensability to effective written communication, re both encoding (writing) and decoding (reading).
    NB: Conventional spelling is still very important and should be methodically taught!

  34. Next tax? We will proceed by reductio ad absurbum, because we want to negate the antecedent of the conclusion; Humans will be metered/taxed for their CO2 emissions.
    …-
    “Fart tax on cattle
    Estonian authorities have slapped a flatulence tax on farmers to compensate the country for the methane gas produced by cows.
    Farmers this week received their first ‘fart tax’ demands asking them to pay for the greenhouse gases their cattle produce.
    A single cow is thought to produce on average 350 litres of methane and 1,500 litres of carbon dioxide per day from flatulence and burping.
    It is thought that cattle are responsible for up to 25 per cent of methane gas emissions in Estonia.
    Opposition politicians have slammed the tax however. Jaanus Marrandi, spokesman for the opposition People’s Union of Estonia said: “This is unprecedented in any EU country.”
    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2846457.html?menu=

  35. How do they measure the amount of gas expelled by one cow. Just wait till they go after dogs.
    Giving away my age, but does anyone remember that woman from years ago who campaigned across Canada to put diapers on cows and horses. Yes, it happened. Back in the days of black and white TV.
    CBC did a clip of her trying to diaper the animals in a barn. Wonder if she is a relative of Gores. Happy mothers day to all mothers, grandmothers and g/grandmothers out there.

  38. “Proof that Craig Oliver has gone daft….. PMSH didn’t stand up in QP and back up Bernier (maybe cause he WASN’T THERE???)…. Weston looked at him like WTF???
    Posted by: Sammy at May 10, 2008 10:39 PM”
    …WTF really?
    Craig’s a c^nt, we all know that,and a media STAR!. His next stroke can’t come soon enough, frickin s&tforbrains!

  40. Sammy; I to have been worried sick about the lack of coverage of Brenda Martin, like this is like totally the the story of the year, and we like can’t get enough. I even think old Diddler online and the weekend dufus Green, who I used to respect, will have to surrender their private pictures of her and move on, the conservatives that, they so hate in media, got it done, now you media morons have your own canadian rodney king, just watch this woman get into more trouble.

  42. William: “I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!”
    It is: for the 45% whose brains can’t read and simultaneously unscramble the mixed-up letters.
    I guess I’m one of the 55% who can–and it wasn’t that hard. But, as a teacher, I’m going to ride anyone who doesn’t spell rghit.

  43. William: “I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!”
    It is: for the 45% whose brains can’t read and simultaneously unscramble the mixed-up letters.
    I guess I’m one of the 55% who can–and it wasn’t that hard. But, as a teacher, I’m going to ride anyone who doesn’t spell rghit. 😉

  44. Can’t wait for QP to start today…Oliver on ctv newsnet last eve refers to Bernier as a disgrace,so most likely he and Giggles will have a grand time hacking him to bits,along with their Lib.friendly ‘pundits’ Giggles will have our daily Brenda Martin update (like anyone really cares),as well as hint strongly to Brenda that some legal action against PMSH and the Cons.gov’t should happen…maybe they could drag out Greenspan to give some free legal advice!Gotta get my beer and popcorn and settle in for the show.

  46. The Khadrs and the Canadian terrorist organization, the Muslim Student Association:
    “Radicalized in Ottawa”
    The Khadr family’s dark journey into terrorism began with its patriarch’s experiences at U of O, a new book reveals
    (The Ottawa Citizen)
    Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
    By Michelle Shephard
    Thirty years ago, in 1978, the man who would become the patriarch of Canada’s first family of terror was living in Ottawa.
    Ahmed Said Khadr, then 30, was a master’s student in engineering at the University of Ottawa; his new wife, Elsamnah — the couple had met the year before at a Muslim summer camp on Lake Erie — came to join him in the city that spring.
    Khadr had emigrated to Canada three years earlier against the wishes of his father, an Egyptian civil servant.
    At the time, there was nothing in his sheltered background or shy bearing that would lead anyone to suspect Khadr possessed a radical’s mind. But all that began to change in Ottawa.
    During his years at the University of Ottawa, Khadr joined the Muslim Students Association which had been founded, in part, by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group opposed to Egypt’s secular government.
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=54471bed-68ae-40fb-8a55-1c3b83e3d8f9

  47. irwin daisy:
    Most interesting. To your knowledge are those three young muslim lawyers members of the MSA — has anyone had the termerity to ask them?
    Something for you:
    A leading Israeli anti-zionist “new historian” Benny Morris supports the view that vis-a-vis Israel the Arabs are motivated primarily by jihad:
    Failed Jihad 1948: The Real Naqba

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