31 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Come on now. We just have to bail-out the media – essential industry, ya know. After all, they are our only source of information. Non-biased, no-spin info. Much, much more important than say .. food production.
    Canwest:
    [Shares in the Winnipeg-based company fell nearly seven per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange to 85 cents Wednesday, a drop of close to 90 per cent this year alone.] CTV
    http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CGS-A.TO#symbol=CGS-A.TO;range=2y

  3. Rumour has it that the Bush staffers will be removing all the “o”s from keyboards just before Barry takes over. True?

  5. Win One For the Messiah!
    Excuse me if I remain unmoved by the misguided religious fervor.
    By Victor Davis Hanson
    Just one punch of the ballot is all it took. Now suddenly almost every one, here and abroad, is supposed to appreciate the newfound morality of the American people, change their own prior wicked ways, and do what they must for newly elected Barack Obama.
    Some columnists are now putting Europe, Russia, China — and the whole world — on moral notice: we Americans did the right thing in electing the first African-American president and a charismatic, hip, commander-in-chief. They must now, too — or else!
    More At: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTBhN2JlYWY1ZmFjOTFhMzExYzhlMzU4NWRkNjVlNGM=

  7. Will all the legal ride-sharing please step forward? Whoa whoa, not so fast there pickuppal.com !
    In Ontario, carpool matching service pickuppal has lost a lawsuit brought against it by a bus company. Apparently it’s illegal to carpool unless you at the very least comply with all the following:
    1) only go between work and home
    2) not cross a municipal border
    3) ride with the same driver every day
    4) pay the driver no more than once a week…
    Say what?
    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/11/12/ride-share-program-to-cease-ontario-operations.aspx

  8. The Spike Lee video wasn’t available to me on youtube, but I did find a rather hilarious version by The Muppets…AS for the “chosen one” why does every person of colour all of a sudden think things are going to be better now….don’t they realize he hasn’t done a damn thing..

  9. A video of Spike Jones would have been a hoot watching then stumble through the lyrics with a straight face.
    Of course with pulling up a U-Tube clip one tends to wander down the menu on the right side, leading to long forgotten delights like Spike’s ‘Never Hit Your Grandma With A Shovel’
    and of course the Muppets version.

  10. Recently a York U prof put his employer through the HRT wringer because he wanted to teach his classes on Jewish holidays, many of which the school shuts itself down in observance.
    Now there’s a strike on with no end in sight – in fact the two sides aren’t even meeting.
    Does anyone know if the good prof is taking the union to the HRT, seeing as his god-given right to teach is once again denied?

  12. Any official confirmation as to whether the Governor General’s husband attended any part of the the Remembrance Day ceremonies on Parliament Hill? He was never in range of the cameras if he was. His wife walked about with her daughter, he was not with them.
    As they arrived on the Hill, Duffy acknowledged the GG and her daughter, adding “and of course her husband”, but he was not to be seen. Duffy went on reporting with no further mention of the husband. Unless he’s had a makeover, he was not there.
    Perhaps he was showing his respects elsewhere. Let’s hope so.

  13. Someone, probably Jennifer Lynch, did lay a wreath at the Remembrance Day ceremony on behalf of the HRC (see the pic on Ezra’a blog)- just as she promised in a self-promotional press release. Wouldn’t you know – right next to the Jack Layton/caucus wreath.
    The organizers and our politicians who allowed/acquiesced to this should be hanging their heads in collective shame. This is a desecration of the memories of all those who fought and are still fighting for freedom.
    It is disgusting, reviling, and ….. that the HRC, an organization that has been incrementally doing what it can to in fact take away one of our most basic rights – that of freedom of speech, was allowed to do this.

  14. A Maginot mentality in energy?
    (Via SWJ) David Charters, Power supergrid plan to protect Europe from Russian threat to choke off energy
    A supergrid of power supplies to protect Europe’s energy from the threat of a Russian stranglehold will be announced today.
    The building blocks of the proposed supergrid would be new cables linking North Sea wind farms, and a network patching together the disparate electricity grids of the Baltic region and the countries bordering the Mediterranean, according to a blueprint drawn up by the European Commission and seen by The Times.
    EU states will also be asked to pay for at least two ambitious gas pipelines to bring in supplies from Central Asia and Africa…

  15. (Via SWJ) Thomas Erdbrink, Facing Obama, Iran Suddenly Hedges on Talks
    Since 2006, Iran’s leaders have called for direct, unconditional talks with the United States to resolve international concerns over their nuclear program. But as an American administration open to such negotiations prepares to take power, Iran’s political and military leaders are sounding suddenly wary of President-elect Barack Obama…
    For Iran’s leaders, the only state of affairs worse than poor relations with the United States may be improved relations…

  16. Leon Aron, The Georgia Watershed
    On August 8, following Georgia’s reckless attack on the Russia-supported separatist enclave of South Ossetia, Russia invaded Georgia. For the first time in post-Soviet history, Russian troops crossed the internationally recognized border of a sovereign neighboring state. Yet there were several other lines that may have been crossed. This short war looks more and more like a culmination and an emblem of the troubling evolution in the Kremlin’s values and priorities and, by extension, its vision of the country’s national interests. It may have heralded the onset of a distinct, and profoundly disconcerting, agenda both inside and outside the country. What has been said and done by the Russian authorities since last August strengthens this impression…

  18. Climate change, aka GW brings “temperatures in Junín were registered lower than the long-term average.” to the Peruvian jungle.
    Amazing. Warming brings cooling.
    …-
    “Torriential rains, hail, flooding and strong winds lash Peruvian jungle, destroy homes and leave 5 injured
    Flooding triggered by torrential rains, hail and strong winds struck Peru’s Amazonian department of Junín earlier this week, leaving 5 injured and over 70 damaged homes, the regional civil defense coordinator said.
    Adolfo Prialé blamed the damage and injuries from Tuesday’s storm on climate change, telling state news agency Andina that rain levels are abnormally high and temperatures in Junín were registered lower than the long-term average.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6dxt7s (perutimes)

  19. liz j – duffy later said that the GG’s separatiste husband was ‘in France’ that day, ‘paying his respects’. Heh.
    Here’s hoping that when her term as GG is up, that Harper appoints someone who genuinely has served the Canadian people and thus, genuinely deserves the position. [If it’s even retained]

  20. Canada’s very own terrorist Professor. Take that Obama!!
    ——————
    PARIS (Reuters) – A suspect in a bombing that killed four people outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 was arrested in Canada on Thursday, a judicial source said.
    The source confirmed a report on the website of the French magazine L’Express, which said Hassan Diab, a man of Palestinian origin in his 50s, was arrested in the town of Gatineau in Quebec.
    […]
    L’Express said Diab had dual Lebanese and Canadian citizenship and was a sociology lecturer at a university in Ottawa.
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081113/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_france_bombing_arrest_2

  22. “He was very charismatic,”.
    Socialism’s dead-enders.
    …-
    “Jim Jones’ followers enthralled by his skills as a speaker
    The key to understanding the tragedy that was Jonestown lies in the oratory skills of the Peoples Temple founder, Jim Jones.
    “He was very charismatic,” Leslie Wagner-Wilson, a Jonestown survivor, says of the Rev. Jim Jones.
    With the cadence and fervor of a Baptist preacher, the charm and folksiness of a country storyteller and the zeal and fury of a maniacal dictator, Jones exhorted his followers to a fever pitch, audiotapes recovered from Jonestown reveal.
    As he spoke, they applauded, shouted, cheered. One follower who survived the “revolutionary suicide” at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, said that Jones was the most dynamic speaker he had ever heard.
    Like all powerful speakers, Jones’ greatest asset was his ability to determine what listeners wanted to hear and give it to them in simple language that appealed to them on an almost instinctual level.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131586/posts

  23. In&OutFighting/betrayal/jealousy etc., in the Big Tent T&R Tepee.
    It’s a good novel plot.
    No, too ughly.
    …-
    “LaForme says moral code was behind resignation
    In his first public appearance since resigning in October as chair of the residential schools truth and reconciliation commission, Mr. Justice Harry LaForme said that within months of taking the job, his fellow commissioners tried to usurp his authority.”
    (nnw)

  25. Its official CTV.ca is in love with Iggy, He has been their main story now since his annoucement.
    This is all we will see from them and others from now on, Iggymania.

  26. “The Futile Quest for Climate Control
    Robert M. Carter
    The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels—the essence of the Greens’ theory of global warming—has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
    Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof—of which history offers so many examples—that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. If people are in need of religion, why don’t they just turn to the genuine article?
    —Paul Johnson
    Climate change knows three realities: science reality, which is what working scientists deal with every day; virtual reality, which is the wholly imaginary world inside computer climate models; and public reality, which is the socio-political system within which politicians, business people and the general citizenry work.
    The science reality is that climate is a complex, dynamic, natural system that no one wholly comprehends, though many scientists understand different small parts. So far, science provides no unambiguous evidence that dangerous or even measurable human-caused global warming is occurring.
    The virtual reality is that computer models predict future climate according to the assumptions that are programmed into them. There is no established Theory of Climate, and therefore the potential output of all realistic computer general circulation models (GCMs) encompasses a range of both future warmings and coolings, the outcome depending upon the way in which they are constructed. Different results can be produced at will simply by adjusting such poorly known parameters as the effects of cloud cover.
    The public reality in 2008 is that, driven by strong environmental lobby groups and evangelistic scientists and journalists, there is a widespread but erroneous belief in our society that dangerous global warming is occurring and that it has human causation.
    William Kininmonth (“Illusions of Climate Science”, Quadrant, October) has summarised well the nature of the main scientific arguments that relate to human-caused climate change. Therefore, I shall concentrate here a little less on the science, except as background information that relates to how we got to where we are today. My main aim is to explain the need for a proper national climate change policy that relates to real rather than imaginary risk, a policy position that neither the previous nor the present Australian government has achieved. Instead—in response to strong pressure from lobby groups whose main commonality is financial or other self-interest, and a baying media—our present national climate policy is to try to prevent human-caused global warming. This will be a costly, ineffectual and hence futile exercise.”
    http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/451/the-futile-quest-for-climate-control

  27. Bacon and Freud Hoax.
    …-
    “Art boom over as auctions fail to bring home Bacon
    When a Francis Bacon triptych became the most expensive contemporary artwork sold at auction earlier this year it fuelled hopes that the art market might be credit-crunch proof.
    Six months later the failure of another important Bacon work to attract a single bid at auction in New York has underlined what the leading auction houses have long feared and recently suspected: the art boom is over and it will not be back any time soon.”
    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5151071.ece
    More Bacon:
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/5cvzhx

  29. I was in Ottawa for the Remembrance Day observances at the Cenotaph. The Governor General’s husband was most definitely not there. However, her daughter, who looked like a mini Rosa Parks in ROOTS-like garb–everyone was wondering who the short, light blue and white, snowflake attired person was–trotted along. Does her mother, Ms Jean, have no sense of occasion?
    The PM and Mrs. Harper were there, sans leurs enfants, which seemed appropriate.
    The GG seems to think her tenure is there for self-expression: as if the Cenotaph Ceremony were some “Take Your Child to Work Day” Disney Theme Park special. I was NOT impressed.

  30. John Podhoretz, Obama’s Triumph, the GOP’s Calamity
    An ocean of ink, India and printer’s and virtual, has been spilled in celebration of a black man’s ascension to the presidency of the United States. We have read, and read again, about the historic nature of Barack Obama’s triumph, the new voters he helped bring to the polls, the young people he has inspired, and the participation on November 4 of the largest number of voters in American history. We have been told that, owing to the decisive nature of Obama’s victory and the enhanced power of his party in both houses of Congress, a new political era has dawned. What happened was more than an election: it was, to quote the Democratic lawyer Lanny Davis in the Wall Street Journal, “the Obama realignment,” only the sixth such moment in American history (the others being the elections of 1800, 1828, 1860, 1932, and 1980).
    That November 4 marked the emphatic end to one period in American political history and the no less emphatic beginning of another is a proposition no one seems to doubt. Obama is indeed the first Democrat to win an outright majority since Jimmy Carter in 1976, and will be working with a Democratic Congress that has only grown in strength thanks in part to the size of his victory. Given the emotions generated by election day and the understandable exhilaration of the winning side, it might seem churlish to doubt that a wholesale partisan and ideological shift has occurred. And yet one cannot but note that the mighty ocean of celebratory ink evaporates into a puddle when it comes to describing just what this new era might actually be…

  31. BTW, all the political party wreaths at the Cenotaph only mentioned the party. But, the NDP wreath said, “Jack Layton and Federal NDP Caucus”.
    What a shameless self-promoter that very little man is.

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