34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. For those who missed Maz2‘s note in yesterday’s Reader Tips, and who otherwise haven’t seen this before or would like to view it again, here are Penn & Teller performing the Environmental Hysteria, Part 2, Part 3 episode of their Bullshit television show on Showtime (and as you might expect from the title of the show, a minor language warning is suitable here).

  3. Politically correct or does the HA logo on the front cover sell more papers?
    Not that I’m a fan or anything.
    Results 1 – 10 of about 5,930 for “The “Vancouver Sun”+”hells angels”. (0.24 seconds)
    Results 1 – 10 of about 219 for “The “Vancouver Sun”+”Asian gangs”. (0.30 seconds)
    Results 1 – 10 of about 155 for “The “Vancouver Sun”+” Indo Canadian gangs “. (0.16
    seconds)
    http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/index.html

  4. “These Eyes”? I’ve already heard it a billion times, no thanks to the ridiculous Cancon regulations, i.e. cultural fascism. How about one of their lesser known tracks, like “When Friends Fall Out” or “Running Down The Street”?

  6. Bernie: I’m sure that the HA logo sells papers. This paper is also one of the enablers, although in a very small way, of the gangland situation in the Lower Mainland. If you follow the “Broken Window” theory, we have done everything to create the situation we are now in. Light sentences (one thug had 128 convictions), free needles, dope addicts laying in doorways and alleys, a News Paper that constantly parades shoot-em-ups before the public but was a Leader in the demand for gun control, grow op tenants not charged, prison escapes, panhandlers: I could go on…

  9. “How Can The New York Times Be Worth So Little?
    This part of the story is unsurprising, given how the Street is slamming any newspaper stock. What’s startling is something else: If you back out much of the rest of the company’s portfolio, you arrive at a surprisingly teeny valuation for the vaunted New York Times itself, despite all the respect the brand commands.
    Wall Street is saying there is no future to a lot of media companies.”
    http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jul2008/pi20080725_458084.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_news+%2B+analysis

  11. Recycling is a Green Myth. Recycling is not garbage?
    The myth is exposed here.
    The NDP version of recycling is an endless loop; a nirvana where stuff goes around’n’around and around’n’around forever, Amen.
    …-
    “After the by-elections, the signs will be taken down and saved for the future in case Lagacé Dowson runs again. Artists and those looking to insulate their cottage also reuse the material. “Our last option is to recycle them. They never go in the garbage,” Gebert said.”
    “NDP posters: Now you see ’em, now you don’t”
    http://tinyurl.com/6g9urz (mgazette)

  12. # LG Says:
    July 26th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
    The media would have the body politic chasing the soccer ball around the field like a bunch of 8-year olds. “This issue!!!”, then “no, this issue”, and then “this issue”, and then the next, and the next, and the next, as though our resources are infinite.
    The plain, bold, raw, and unkind truth is that resources are not finite, and we have to make choices. It’s called prioritizing. If everything is priority one, then nothing is a priority. Our media likes to makes its favorite issue, Priority One For The Nation, and drive the political process. It’s called Power, and they love it.
    I’m sorry, but segregated schools and basketball courts and soft jihad HRC complaints and offended lesbian comedy club patrons and hard core drug users and sociopathic drug dealers and gun-loving numbskulls and red-collar criminals (on the reserves, stealing the band’s money) are not priorities.
    A truly useful and competitive education, stable families, reasonable infrastructure, reasonable healthcare, freedom of speech and thought, preservation of wealth built up over a lifetime – these are priorities.
    John Tory failed because he didn’t read the fundamentals. McSquinty succeeded only because Tory failed. The Green Shaft will fail, and take the Puffins far out to sea, because it is not aligned with our true priorities.
    We’re under stress in the west, you see, and under stress, people retreat to their core values.
    What puts us under stress? Being attacked by a viscious, hideous death cult in September 2001 is a stress. Seeing our children’s future job prospects return to China in an empty container stresses us. Seeing flim flam artists tell us we’re all going to drown, or die of thirst in a desert is a stress. Seeing our life’s savings evaporate because of fast-talking, high living pin-stripes partying stresses us.
    Politicians who fail to recognize the stress levels of their constituents are going the way of Brown.
    We’ve got to get up off our hind legs and figure out how to compete, and how to brush aside the charlatans and scammers and flim-flammers that want to tell us how to live, and get busy making sure we can eat, heat our homes, and fund ourselves through a lifetime. Maybe its too late for this generation, but not for the next. Stuff the political correctness, we’ve got to make sure our children have core skills – science, language, and above all, the ability to think critically, which is, unfortunately, the last thing the MSM wants them to do.”
    …-
    “Gordon Brown, Stephane Dion and Barrack Obama…
    …What do they all have in common?”
    http://tinyurl.com/557fhp (jacks)

  13. “Stephane Dion directs people to Jennifer Wright’s Green Shift Inc”
    …-
    Liberal Green Shafter, aka Citoyen Dion, say,
    You wan your carbon printfoot to save you taxes?
    Go to our “calculator” at greenshift.ca.
    http://greenshift.ca/
    Try it. It’s free.
    …-
    Citoyen Dion:
    “You have the possibility to get the exact number if you go to greenshift.ca — there is a calculator there which will give you the exact amount of money you would have in tax cuts. It’s very, very good for families because you have more costs when you have kids.”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/269386.php

  14. http://greenshift.ca/greenshift_unwanted_politics.html
    “July 18, 2008
    Use of the term ‘Green Shift’
    The Liberal Party of Canada tries to discount our trademark by saying that is a very common term. We knew this was not true and have performed regular internet searches to monitor and prevent it from becoming so but a Montreal-based media monitoring and analysis company (Influence Communication), completed an exhaustive 12-month scan of all newspapers (14 000+) in 159 countries to discover that ‘green shift’ as a term has been encountered in only 62 occasions; this from over 15 million articles/editorials directly or indirectly related to the environment/climate change…etc. As they said to us, “this appears to contradict recent affirmations expressed by certain political leaders”.

  15. It’s great to see The Guess Who. I’ve only seen them once and that was at the SARS Benefit Concert in Downsview Park, Toronto in 2003 (which was massive).
    A friend of mine who was a sound engineer actually saw and met The Guess Who circa 1970 and he was impressed by how good and original they were. He said that Cummings had real presence at the time – which is probably what you need (maybe even more so than talent) to make it.

  17. MSM ‘push’ to have Kid Khadr come home seems to be failing miserably!
    The coverage of the big ‘protests’ varies..from the Tor.Sun,’about 200 people showed up’ to big show in TO,the Torstar says ‘even monsoon like weather and the sight of a well-guarded American Consulate couldn’t dissuade some 300 protesters from taking to the streets.Shouts and cries filled the street,along with howling winds and a lone pipers lament as protesters raised placards calling for Khadr’s release’…makes me teary just thinking about all this!
    And,from the Ottawa Sun,only a ‘few dozen’ showed up in that city!
    where is this ‘overwhelming’ support for Khadr the cbc continually tells me about?Where were Layton,any of the Dippers..where were the Lib.MP’s to show there support?Guess they care as much as majority of Canadians about bringing poor Omar home!

  18. Mao Stlong say, Gaia, play fol us now; and, at the houl of oul Led Orympic porrution. Play fol Led-Gleen Shaft, too.
    …-
    “Drastic efforts to curb pollution include pulling half of Beijing’s 3.3 million vehicles off the roads, closing factories in the city and in a half dozen surrounding provinces, and halting most construction in the capital. Some 300,000 heavily polluting vehicles, such as aging industrial trucks, have been banned since July 1.
    Experts have said that while the measures are sure to reduce pollution, they are not a guarantee for blue skies during the games. Wind can blow pollution to Beijing from thousands of kilometres away, while a lack of wind can cause chemicals and particulate matter to build up in the city.
    “There’s only so much you can do with local emission reduction,” said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. He is leading a team that is studying the impact of Beijing’s pollution reduction measures.
    “You’re basically at the mercy of the winds,” he said.”
    “Air pollution still a problem in Beijing
    By Anita Chang, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS”

  19. Over the years, I’ve read many complaints about waiting times in Canada’s ER’s (and experienced five to ten hour waits myself on occasion). Many people, including some who post here, blame Medicare and point to the US for a better solution. The following article from Slate might convince them that the problems are just as bad down south as they are up here:
    http://www.slate.com/id/2195851/

  20. Did the news anchor just just say it snowed in Sidney Australia?
    First snow since 1836 or something.
    Kids are having a great time in the snow.
    Must be global warming. If it keeps up we are all eventually gonna freeze . . . eh? = TG

  21. From RCP…Trust the Uk media to dig up what the American media won’t:
    http://stuckon-stupid.com/2008/07/26/barack-obamas-empty-promise-to-his-fathers-african-village/
    “He told the assembled press, local politicians (who included current Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga), and students: “Hopefully I can provide some assistance in the future to this school and all that it can be.” He then turned to the school’s principal, Yuanita Obiero, and assured her and her teachers: “I know you are working very hard and struggling to bring up this school, but I have said I will assist the school and I will do so.”.”
    “But the Evening Standard has heard that the promises he made to help the school as well as a local orphanage appear to have been empty.”
    This hits at the very heart of Obama’s empty rhetoric and hypocrisy.

  22. Haroon Siddiqui on Obama in Europe:
    http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/467740
    Oh, yes. If only US had a president who was ideologically like them. After all, when Clinton was president, America was loved throughout the world, especially in Europe, and there was no such thing as anti-americanism, nor were there any attempts to attack US homeland courtesy of AQ Islamic fascism.
    What a fool that Siddiqui is. What an Islamic and hard leftist cheerleader he is; quite pathetic really.

  24. Mao Stlong’s Red Orympics is a *”Potemkin village”.
    …-
    “Could protests derail Beijing Games’ plans?”
    “With the Olympics just weeks away, China is racing to clean up and clamp down, working quietly and fervently to present the best possible face to the world.” (ctv)
    …-
    Potemkin village:
    “A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century.” (wordreference)
    “a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition. Also,Potem’kin Vil’lage.
    Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.”

  25. It looks like somebody out there has been reading the “Not waiting for the asteroid” series and is intending to do something about it:
    Praying for newspapers
    Lots of people get mad at reporters. But have they ever prayed for them? A website called Praying For Papers has been set up to pray for those who are being affected by the massive changes taking place in the news industry.
    “This is a troubling time in the newspaper business,” the home page says. “Every day we hear stories from papers that are laying off employees and struggling to stay afloat. Our idea at Praying for Papers is to encourage anyone who is touched by this shift in our industry to include it each day in their prayer life.”
    The website can be found at http://www.prayingforpapers.com.
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/faith/story/4204720p-4796753c.html

  26. Hi. Regular “listener”, first (or second? third?) time caller. It really would be nice if Vitruvius changed up the wording of his “late night radio” segment. If I have to read “for your delectation and persuant to our” one more time, I think I’ll just quit SDA for good.
    /rant

  28. How ’bout, Johannes, if I change the opening shtick to “Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for those who don’t know how to spell pursuant, here are…” ?-)

  29. A while back, the National Post would run the occasional letter from some malcontent objecting to the Post’s including articles from convicted felon, Conrad Black. The malcontent would threaten to cancel his subscription if the Post kept running Black articles.
    The next day about four or five letters would appear, each author threatening to cancel their subscription if the Post ever discontinued the Black articles.
    To me, and to many others, the Black articles are one of the great highlights in the Saturday National Post. Similarly, “delectation” and “pursuant” are important trademarks in SDA Late Nite Radio. I don’t always agree with your selection, Vit, but I almost always check it out. Keep up the good work.

  32. Sandy [below] deciphers Citoyen Dion’s Green Shaft; it’s “*pay and pollute”. She is “outraged”.
    …-
    “In India, growth trumps sustainability
    Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post
    India loves the UN’s climate change policies and so does India’s representative at the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri.
    Why the love-in? The Indian government’s new “National Action Plan on Climate Change,” which Pachauri helped craft, plainly explains why: The UN formally establishes that global warming is a matter of secondary importance to India, allowing the world’s largest democracy to pursue its own best interests.
    As the National Action Plan unapologetically puts it, the UN’s climate change convention “recognizes that ‘economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of the developing country parties.’ Thus, developing countries are not required to divert resources from development priorities by implementing projects involving incremental costs.”
    And India doesn’t. Throughout its National Action Plan, India demonstrates that it will divert precious little of its scarce resources to solving the climate crisis. Where greenhouse gases will be curbed — for example, by aggressively building hydro dams or modernizing industry — the curbs will be a by-product of India’s national security concerns or economic development plans.
    The UN’s climate change convention is even better than that — it’s a money-maker for India and a lever with which to obtain western technology.”
    http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=681236
    …-
    “UN climate change policy on India utter hypocrisy!”
    Sandy: “I am outraged.”
    I am outraged. Here I have a new blog devoted to gardening and the environment (where I hoped I could be non-political) and what did I come face to face with yesterday upon reading Lawrence Solomon’s Financial Post column?
    I read that the threat to our planet is not really about climate change and global warming at all, but wealth redistribution and the alleviation of poverty from developed to developing nations — based not so much on science but on who are members of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
    “However, I now clearly understand what Environment Minister John Baird means when he refers to the Canadian Liberal Green shift as a “pay and pollute” approach. Because clearly, that is also the approach being promoted by the UN.
    In other words, if you happen to live in a country that the UN deems “developed” you pay and work on reducing greenhouse gases. But, if you live in a country the UN defines as “developing” then you not only don’t have to pay, but you can go right on polluting — unless the West pays and provides the technology.”
    http://www.mybutterflydiaries.com/archives/246
    (H/T Minister Baird)

  34. “Two for freedom
    “Parliament is on its extended summer holiday but news comes nonetheless of two government MPs who are opposed to the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s abuses and corruption.”
    “The first news is from John Williams, the Conservative Member of Parliament from Edmonton-St. Albert.”
    “Rick Casson is the Conservative MP from Lethbridge. He is the chair of the Commons National Defence Committee, and is an associate member of the Justice and Human Rights Committee, amongst others.”
    “Reforming — or even abolishing — the CHRC is no longer a radical idea when men like Williams and Casson say what they’ve said this month.
    Summer is a slow time in politics. But the CHRC’s infamy is well-enough publicized that it’s now become conventional wisdom.”
    http://ezralevant.com/2008/07/two-for-freedom.html

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