40 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. I always loved the Symphony numbers 7. Used to listen to it when I was quite a lot younger than I am now. The theme of it is quite a lot happier sounding than lots of Beethoven’s other stuff.
    Thanks for the link.

  3. If you want real music, go on Youtube, bring up Billy Walker and “I’m Drinking Milwaukee Dry,” and/or, “Cross the Brazos at Waco,” and/or, “Charlie’s Shoes.” YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME>>>>Hi-Yo Silver….

  4. Real music? You have the social skills of a newt, Lone Ranger. Look, if you and others like you think it’s such a good idea to run around randomly telling people to check various things out without even having the common good grace to provide some sort of links to the material you are purporting to find interesting, then why don’t you start your own blog and see how many Google-it-yourself readers you get there, instead of polluting the waters here at Small Dead Animals. Do your homework before you post. Consider your readers. The odds that anything you post will change anyone’s life are within epsilon of zero. Get over it. Or are you a sociopath?

  5. “Vitruvius” Are you forgetting that this is supposed to be a blog for “the right.” I don’t know if I’m a sociopath, but I am smart enough not to try and pick the cheese from a mousetrap!! And I thought you had brains!! Hellooooo! Duhhh, It was a joke!!

  6. PS: Mr or Mrs “V” You’re broadcasting copyrighted material and you’re questioning my ethics! Wow!! I’ve seen it all!!

  7. http://tinyurl.com/6joqlk
    The real reason behind T. Boone Pickens wind farms.
    TG, I know you are an admirer of T. Boone, quite the shell game he played on these Texans and the environmentalists who have been supporting his billion dollar wind farms.
    Found the link from Business Week over @ watts up with that Kate linked to earlier regarding globull cooling.
    Flyboy, I listen to classical music on youtube, either from Vit’s links here on SDA Late Night Radio or from my own searching. CBC is obsolete and costs us bilion plus a year, youtube is free, for now. The fact that you try to justify that expenditure with the ease with which it enabled you to feel and look important in the eyes of a record shop owner shows us righties how useless the CBC really is. Thanks for the reminder.

  8. flyboy, apparently, a fan of classical music—good for him—then writes, “feel free to bash CBC radio o righties”. And, like CBC listeners from all parts of the political spectrum, not too happy with the changes, why shouldn’t we?
    Considering that CBC Radio 2 is throwing out nearly all its fine classical music programs that have huge and faithful followings (CBC thinks the young will abandon their iPods and flock to the CBC?), and replacing them with more “eclectic” offerings, with “funky”, younger announcers, like the self-referential (and bad singer), Gregory Charles, and the grating (like nails on a chalkboard) and really self-referential Katie Malloch, why wouldn’t righties, who love classical music, be miffed?
    It seems that flyboy’s a little off base here: the overwhelming majority of opinion on the CBC’s own website re the cancellation of such programs as Sound Advice (Rick Phillips), I Hear Music (Robert Harris), and Music for a While (Danielle Charbonneau), to name only a few, has been negative. To quote Lumiere from “Beauty and the Beast”, “If it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it”! Here’s one quote from a blog entry at CBC: “Radio 2 continues to be gutted and dumbed down to where it sounds like any regional rock/smooth jazz station, complete with stupid liners: ‘CBC Radio 2 where ever the music takes you,’ oh please, tell me also that the clock on the wall tells me the time.”
    My sentiments exactly, and those of the majority of other Canadians and maybe even some Americans, who wrote in to express their disgust at the CBC’s attempt to “get with it”. Being a “rightie” has nothing to do with it, except, perhaps, for the fact that we tend to have a pretty good nose for when the “progressives” are trying to pull a fast one.
    Methinks CBC’s cutting off its nose to spite its face: having quite thoroughly alienated its loyal classical listeners, I predict that its audience share—minuscule, at best—will continue to plummet. E.g., My husband and I intend to buy a satellite radio so we can access the kind of classical programs our national broadcaster has chosen to deny us. What arrogant, out of touch dolts.

  9. P.S. It obviously hasn’t occurred to flyboy, in his “leftie” bubble, that the loss of classical programming on the CBC will have serious negative consequences for the knowledge and love of classical music (many kids learned to appreciate this kind of music by listening to CBC) and its performers in Canada. For a person who claims to be a classical music buff, I can’t imagine why he’d be disturbed by criticism of the CBC for making the momentous and damaging decision it has: to set classical music adrift. (To do this, when it’s clear we’ve been overtaken by a homogenized, dumbed down culture, is, IMO, cultural suicide.)
    Many Canadian musicians—composers, conductors, and countless performers—as well as commentators have relied on the CBC for exposure and, for some, a substantial portion of their income. The CBC has been an essential conduit for musical education and a performance venue, which exposed a large number of Canadians to classical music, often written and performed by our own artists. flyboy seems to think it’s just fine for CBC to amputate its classical limb: strange for someone who claims to be a fan . . . (Or is this just one more “right” conservatives are to be denied? HRC hearings for not kow-towing to CBC groupthink?)

  10. I have heard that the federal subsidy for Bombardier jobs is $350 million and that the provincial subsidy is $125 million. Harper used to be against these kinds of bribes.
    Anybody else heard these figures?

  11. I just heard on the radio that the Quebec government is giving a ‘loan’ to Bombardier of $117 million.

  12. Gee whiz Vitruvius, you really got the leftoids angry today. The lonestranger (a copyrighted trademark???) accuses you of “broadcasting” material although I’m not certain giving a link is “broadcasting” and fryboy thinks that dissing the CBC political spin is the same as knocking their classical music programs.
    As for Billy Walker music, my music includes everything except rap crap which isn’t music in the first place.
    btw, I still like Beethoven’s 9th the best. The Sydney Olympics version was truely inspiring.

  14. Me thinks that Vit, Tex and LR need to take a step back and stop taking themselves so bloody seriously.
    Yer starting to sound like RW, JC and WK.

  15. “Summer Snowstorm Kills 2 on Bavarian Mountaintop
    A fast-moving snowstorm took hundreds of “extreme” runners by surprise during a race in the Bavarian Alps Sunday, killing two and sending six more people to the hospital with severe hypothermia.
    Tragedy struck on a Bavarian mountaintop Sunday as bad weather claimed the lives of two runners and nearly killed six more.”
    “The two men were running up the mountain along with more than 500 others when a sudden change in the weather brought temperatures below the freezing point. The snap storm also brought strong gusts of wind and even snow. The storm took the participants in the race – many of whom were clad in nothing more than shorts and T-shirts — by surprise.”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/5nccjb

  17. Hannah Strange, 86 people charged over Turkey ‘coup plot’
    Turkish prosecutors have charged 86 people with terrorism over an alleged plot by militant secularists to overthrow the Islamic-rooted government.
    Retired army officers, politicians and journalists are among those named on a 2,500-page indictment filed by Chief Prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin today, following months of speculation over a case which has fuelled political tensions and rocked financial markets…

  18. Michael Sheridan, Olympic crackdown: China’s secret plot to tame Tibet
    Internal Communist party documents have revealed that China is planning a programme of harsh political repression in Tibet despite a public show of moderation to win over world opinion before the Olympic Games next month.
    A campaign of “re-education” has been outlined in confidential speeches to meetings of Communist party members by Zhang Qingli, the hardline party secretary of Tibet…

  19. Classical music, Billy Walker’s “Charlie’s Shoes,” and even Baptist Preachers need two things to survive on radio, TV, and the “Net.” A copyright, and money. Do you really beleive that we can go to Youtube. and download anything our heart desires, and that sooner or later the people who hold the copyrights to well known song and music won’t react. As for Vitruvious, or whatever your name may be, get a life! Lone Ranger was just having a good time!

  21. I have heard that the federal subsidy for Bombardier jobs is $350 million and that the provincial subsidy is $125 million. Harper used to be against these kinds of bribes.
    Anybody else heard these figures? Posted by: Nicola Timmerman at July 14, 2008 8:12 AM
    Year over year, the Harper government directs $22 billion in indirect subsidies to business interests. Cumulative annual grants, subsidies, and cute, well wrapped, colour matched boxes of taxpayer money is given to business (welfare cases in suits), to purchase critical political support, engender future donations to the Party, and buy regional voting blocs.
    Annual amounts of taxpayer funds given to Bombardier are approximately $1.7 billion dollars, consisting of previous and current commitments by the previous Librano, and now, Con governments. The amount of which you mentioned Nicola will add to that figure.
    We have not had a conservative government in this nation for quite some time. Just some cobbled together Red Tories and social conservatives that – when put together – sound the right notes but govern the same as any centrist liberal. Those who think otherwise are deluded.

  22. Charles,
    Interesting article, but had he chosen a Toyota with a manual transmission, the Prius would not be such a clear winner.
    Anyone who knows a bit about cars knows that automatic transmissions consume energy, and when a car has a tiny engine then this makes the car inneficient because a good percentage of the energy is used pumping the transmission oil etc…
    Cars with very powerful engines that have a lot of HP and torque, such as v-8s that produce over 200 or even over 300 HP are not affected as much by an automatic transmission, but a small car with about 80 horsepower is very much affected.
    I think the guy wanted the Prius to look better and that is why he chose a Toyota with an automatic transmission.

  23. The wording in the rant of “flyboy” above (at 2:10 am) SURE looks similar to that of a previous rogue poster (he who must not be named). I would caution everyone to resist responding to “flyboy”.
    As for Beethoven, I much prefer his 6th Symphony (the Pastoral). Beautiful!

  24. Liberal, Tory, same old story….buying votes and political donations with taxpayer cash. One with a calculator should be able to figure out the per capita levels of this orgy….
    “Quebec ministers Lawrence Cannon and Jean-Pierre Blackburn have been leading the summer spending in their province, where there have been 31 announcements so far totalling more than $1.1 billion. Ontario, too, is another crucial political battleground for the Tories and the pace of handouts there has been almost as hectic as Quebec – 27 announcements for better than $360 million.
    But between Winnipeg and the eastern fringes of Vancouver, where Ralph Goodale’s seat in Regina is the lone Liberal outpost, spending has been more muted. In Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba combined, there have been 25 funding announcements totalling just $62 million…”
    http://tinyurl.com/5koaup
    There are people out there who actually believe we have a conservative government, rather than a bunch of politicians looting the treasury for their own gain.
    Hey, it’s hardly a new concept. And for all the mindless partisans out there…you’ve been summed up before far more eloquently. As P.T. used to say….. ‘there’s one born every minute….’

  25. THE MICHAEL COREN SHOW
    Cable 36 (channel 9 in Toronto), Cable 25 in Ottawa, ExpressVu – 651/Star Choice – 355/Look – 19.
    TUESDAY, July 15, 8-9 pm Eastern, repeating next day at noon –
    One on One with Ross McKitrick, who challenges conventional views on global warming.

  26. My point, Lone Ranger, Texas Canuck, AtlanticJim, Jack Nimble, et al is that if you expect people to listen to Billy Walker, or anyone else for that matter, or read an article or essay or author you find interesting: provide a link. Instead of expecting thousands of readers to spend minutes each trying to find what you are referring to, take a few minutes to do the work yourself and so provide some sort of service for all this no-cost-to-you space, time, and bandwidth you are consuming.
    As I said, I am of the opinion that those who are incapable of considering the readers of their comments, those who are incapable of preparing, editing, and formatting their comments for the benefit of the readers of SDA (rather than just considering their own self-enjoyment posting wank-off tripe), suffer from a kind of sociopathy. Contrawise, notice the excellent job Charles MacDonald does in every one of his Reader Tips. So don’t be so danm greedy, and people might yet actually listen to whomever this so-called Billy Walker is.

  27. newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/07/13/news-blackout-nyt-ignores-momentous-pro-jewish-court-case-win-fr
    “France TV 2 has lost a major court case in France that makes the lie to a major piece of Palestinian propaganda. In 2000 an incident occurred in the Palestinian areas that has since been used as propaganda for the Palestinian cause all across the world …
    ….During the early stages of this attack France 2 TV, a state run television station, aired what it claimed was a video of a child and his father being shot and killed by Israeli security forces.
    Mr. Karsenty had to prove to the French court that his claims that the film is a fraud are legitimate claims. Karsenty presented enough evidence for the French court to rule against a state operated entity….
    …Karsenty had several experts come to his aid as technical witnesses that the whole thing did not add up but the French court also at last had a look at some more of the film that France 2 TV had steadfastly refused to show up until this point. It clearly showed Palestinian operatives staging a faux fight between themselves and the far off Israeli security forces. It revealed fake rescues of unharmed people, fake casualties and staged injuries. What the court saw was the creation of Palestinian propaganda. In other words, the “death” of Muhammad al-Dura was a staged lie, invented as theater by Palestinian operatives …”
    …..

  28. Spengler, Midnight in the kindergarten of good and evil
    Is morality possible without religion?
    …Most atheists still want to know how to tell right from wrong, however. They are alarmed by the return of religious wars and the violence associated with religious fanaticism. Sadly, the withdrawal of the philosophers has put the secular morality project into the hands of mere mechanics, the so-called brain scientists. Those who think abstractly about thought, the metaphysicians, can offer no secular solution, and the matter has gone by default to the lab technicians.
    Call it the kindergarten of good and evil…

  29. Well Vit, why does someone who is joking around have to live up to your guidelines of posting for the completely lazy?
    For the record? Never once have I clicked a link to any of your linked videos or wiki research.
    You really need to stop taking yourself and this little corner of the net so bloody seriously.

  30. Michael Knox Beran, Obama, Shaman
    In rejecting the Anglo-American politics of limits, Obama revives a political tradition that derives ultimately from Niccolò Machiavelli. In the Discourses on Livy and The Art of War, Machiavelli argued that it is possible to create a communitarian republic like the one whose outlines he glimpsed in Livy’s (highly romanticized) version of Roman history—a polity in which citizens, forsaking their own swinish pursuits, would become happy in the pursuit of a common good. Wise laws, he maintained, would “make citizens love one another.” The virtuous res publica of the Romans could be conjured anew…

  31. Of course they don’t have to, AtlanticJim, that was
    just my comment, and I said I am of the opinion that.
    Perhaps you should stop taking me so seriously 😉

  32. Okay everyone, let’s all step back and take a deep breath… gee a flame war over classical music, who would have thunk it, eh.

  33. …Despite three failed deportation orders and tough talk from government, Singh has lived the past few months relatively unmolested at the Kalgidhar Darbar Gurdwara in Abbotsford…..
    …Kurland described the tradition of sanctuary as “a societal safety valve that, as long as it’s not abused, is a good thing.” But he said he personally doesn’t agree with Singh’s continued presence in Canada. “It’s unfair to everyone else waiting patiently their turn to come to Canada,” he said. “It will also breed illegality. Rewarding illegality breeds more illegality.”
    If one looks into the anuerism & ‘paralyzed’ part, there’d even be less sympathy for this guy – I recall seeing something a month or two back about the actual seriousness of the condition, but it looks like the MSM has buried it. Shame on the Cons for appeasing ethnic mobs…
    http://tinyurl.com/6brswa

  34. I don’t think it’s a flame war, and I don’t think it’s about classical (or any other) music, Texas Canuck, rather, I think it’s about a comment I made on the matter of my opinions about the quality of some, arguably many, comments, in respect of which some apparently think that the way to counter my opinions is to post additional low-quality comments. But that’s ok, isn’t it, after all, if you got rid of all the low-quality comments in blogs, there wouldn’t be much remaining, comment-frequency-wise, would there?

  35. Charles; Some thoughts on your link on the Prius vs the olser Corolla, I think the comparison has a flaw. The older car has already accounted for it’s “pollution/carbon” imprint and in buying it you would not be contributing to another batch of “pollution/carbon”. Another fact known by every Service Station owner: when gas is cheaper people drive more. The Prius would be driven more than the Corolla; just natural economizing. I don’t believe, based on my experience with storage batteries, that the first set of batteries would last for 170,000 miles/275,000K.
    Another point to remember, although seemingly unrelated, is that they pump Co2 into Greenhouses because it is a fertilizer. If we actually succeeded in reducing “Green house” gases, human caused or not, would we eventually contribute to increased desertification? We should run that concept up the Chicken Little flagpole.

  36. Vit;
    Well, sorry then old chap. I do believe my brain is in Monday mode. I was completely wrong about why you were annoyed about the comments. Me bad.

  37. Monday mode or not, Texas Canuck, if I was hard to understand,
    I probably didn’t explain myself well enough. Sorry about that.

  38. “ASSAD VISIT ANGERS VETERANS”
    “Bastille Day Parade Marred By Tensions”
    http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1242121,00.jpg
    Citoyen Dion is to the left of ASSAD. Look for his Green Shaft.
    Citoyen Dion: Joyeux Bastille Day.
    “”The sense to be a citizen of the planet has always been, in my case, a strong motivation,” Dion said. “Yes, I’m a proud Quebecer, a proud Canadian, but I’m a human being above all.””
    http://tinyurl.com/6hh2fp (canpress)

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