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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is Mr. Bob Newhart performing his classic Stop It! sketch (6:16).

Update: in the comments, PiperPaul mentions that Mr. Newhart’s Stop It! sketch reminds him of Monty Python’s Argument sketch. Indeed, the Argument sketch is a classic. You may also enjoy, from said troupe: the Job Interview sketch, the Communist Quiz sketch, the International Philosophy Match sketch, or even, perhaps, the Mrs. Premise & Mrs. Conclusion sketch, featuring (as his wife Betty-Muriel puts it) Mr. John-Paul “Bourgeoisie This & Bourgeoisie That” Sartre, yet another French philosopher.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

81 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Could we possibly, vitruvius, use those ten words to the esteemed Mr. Ignatieff with regard to his ‘necessary if necessary but not necessarily’ coalition?

  3. some conservative blogger has to start the process of diggin up the dirt on iggy. he has written 16 books. he must have said some pretty offensive things. Katie, Canada is counting on you and your readers. Harper has seven days to be nice, then when iggy refuses to commit not to take down the government, we will be in full attack mode. Bloggers need to start digging up dirt now, independant of the party. THEY NEED OUR HELP NOW. Every blog post for the next 7 days needs to be user tips on iggy dirt. post the best quotes from his books and his bbc past, and any other sources at the end of the seven days. we need to define this guy while Canadians know little about him. the game starts now and it is a fight for Canada.

  4. some conservative blogger has to start the process of diggin up the dirt on iggy. he has written 16 books. he must have said some pretty offensive things. Katie, Canada is counting on you and your readers. Harper has seven days to be nice, then when iggy refuses to commit not to take down the government, we will be in full attack mode. Bloggers need to start digging up dirt now, independant of the party. THEY NEED OUR HELP NOW. Every blog post for the next 7 days needs to be user tips on iggy dirt. post the best quotes from his books and his bbc past, and any other sources at the end of the seven days. we need to define this guy while Canadians know little about him. the game starts now and it is a fight for Canada.

  7. Neo, sorry but I don’t agree with you. I carefully watched that videotape. Sorry, but those RCMP officers were negligent in his death.
    I have always been a huge supporter of the police and detest the Pivot Legal Society but in every profession people make mistakes from time to time. A big one was made there.

  9. Actually, ET, sometimes I feel like I could use Mr. Newhart’s two (or ten) words to respond to seven eighths of what I read pursuant to blog topics, their often absurd discussion comments, the bloviating commentariat, the ponzi-scheme aparatchiki, life in general, and French philosophers in particular (with the exception of Cartesius, of course) yet that seems to me to be, at best, just petulant, so I don’t bother.

  10. Hey, you can buy Iggy books for as little as $1.62!
    That is, if you are into that kind of reading.

  12. Fortescue: Here’s one I found for you:
    From Page 30 of The Needs of Strangers:
    “Kings in the fullness of their power do not have to speak the language of need. Theirs can be the pure and unjustified language of desire: ‘Do it, for it is my wish.’ Kings do not have to justify their desires. The most inconsequential of their whims has the force of a command.”
    MOST Interesting, no, in light of recent events in the Liberal Party of Canada?!?

  13. *
    “robert w says… sorry but I don’t
    agree with you.”
    or the b.c. integrated homicide
    investigation team     either, huh?
    well robert, it’s a free country.
    *

  15. “some conservative blogger has to start the process of diggin up the dirt on iggy. he has written 16 books. he must have said some pretty offensive things.”
    If your intention is to help out the Conservative Party, I’d look for something more productive to do. I guarantee they’re already well advanced with this research. Iggy has left an immense paper trail, and I can assure you that the Conservative researchers will be striking a mother lode. We’ve already seen one or two of the gems on this site. “Iggy on torture,” “Iggy on assassination” and “Iggy on the Iraq War” are among his greatest hits.

  16. “We Americans” … should be enough to sink The Torture Master’s Liberal barge … {{{{SCARY}}}}
    Count Dracula … Lord of the Nesfaratu … I VANT YORE BLUUUD … ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

  17. [ The list of big-name economists, commentators and forecasters who hung their hats — and their investment plans — on variations of peak oil theory is too big for this page, but some day somebody should post it prominently for all to see.] Terrence Corcoran
    Apparently some eviro inclined funds took a huge bath.
    [ Back in June, 2006, Prof. Smil wrote a commentary for FP Comment dismissing the peak oil crowd as a “new catastrophist cult.” In 2000, he warned in a science journal that the experience of long-range forecasting, especially in energy, had been dismal. He predicted more. “There will be no end to naive, and … incredibly short-sighted or outright ­ridiculous, predictions.”] TC
    aka people have short memories. Is the reason for the Cult A Decade Syndrome.
    [ .. ]
    [ What the 2008 price trend suggests is not the peak of oil but the ravages of an inflationary bubble. Oil at $147 a barrel was a monetary and financial phenomenon, not a manifestation of fundamental changes in the supply of oil. If the chart above is any guide to the future (Prof. Smil would never let anyone get away with this), the long-term trend for the price of oil, excluding geo-political conflict and other drivers of bad government policy, is toward the $20 to $30 range, with upward adjustments to accommodate the cost of new technologies] TC
    $20 or $30 bucks !!
    Now lets see. Canadians use about 40 billion liters of gasoline a year. From a peak of about $1.40 down to maybe $0.50
    40 billion X (1.40 – 0.50) = $36 Billion (in consumers pockets (*) )
    One he** of a stimulation (**) package !!
    (*) Some of that $36 Billion was recycled back in our RRSPs, pension funds. So not a total loss to consumers during the spike)
    (**) Perhaps the spike in oil prices is what clobbered the world’s economy in 2008 ? Has happened before.
    This century, virtually ever recession was preceded by an oil price spike.
    The spikes were often caused by goings on in the Middle East.
    We are too damn dependent on ME oil.
    Could the greens be responsible for slow fossil fuel development in First World countries ? Absolutely.
    Drill !
    http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/12/10/terence-corcoran-the-price-of-oil-returns-to-normal.aspx

  18. Iggy is meeting with other big brains financial advisors to help him put together the Liberal/coalition budget.
    If anyone ever ever ever wondered about media talking head pundit darling Don Drummond from TD Banks’ political leanings wonder no more.
    Not only do the Liberals always quote Drummond whose utterings they use as front page fodder to beat up conservatives with now Iggy has retained him as advisor.
    All of you Conservative TD Bank shareholders – how does that make you feel?
    Oh, his other advisors? McCullum, Scott Brison and the ONTARIO Finance Minister.
    No Western perspective needed in a Liberal budget I guess.

  19. More on Iggy drafting a Liberal budget with his little crew of raging partisans:
    Question: How many people does it take to put together a comprehensive realistic and doable Federal budget?
    Answer: More than 800 finance department officials and advisors consulting with all provincial finance departments, ministries and Premiers; consulting with hundreds of stakeholder groups over months; in consultation with G8 and G20 nations, the World Bank, major think tanks from around the world in months and months of analysis and forecasting and a review of all existing federal budgets and programs and projections.
    Question: What is the earliest a Federal budget has ever been presented?
    Answer: It is usually presented near the end of March with the new fiscal year beginning on April 1st.
    PM Harper will be presenting a Federal budget on January 27 which is the earliest ever in the history of the country.
    So, Iggy is going to make PM Harper “walk down the hill because he is not the man for the hour” when this budget is presented is he? Because he and Don Drummond and Scotty Brison know better than all of the experts put together and will “deem” the budget “bad” for Canada???
    Anybody see how desperately shallow this whole thing is?

  20. I received a card from the Chief Justice of Canada today. I think it’s a Christmas card but I can’t really tell.
    No trees, snow, wreaths, peace, joy,etc.. no…nothing wintery at all in fact. Instead, the card is a picture of:
    FOUR WHITE MEN IN BLACK SUITS in front of a marble staircase ALL LOOKING AT THEIR BLACKBERRIES. (none are actual Supremes). Inside it says Compliments of the Season but in French it says Joyeuses Fetes et Meilleurs Voeux.
    I am appalled.

  22. ‘Neo, sorry but I don’t agree with you. I carefully watched that videotape. Sorry, but those RCMP officers were negligent in his death.’
    Robert, the reason that I think that those officers were not in the wrong is that I do not believe that they knew that they were dealing with a very stressed out chain smoker who had quit the DAY he traveled to Canada! I am a smoker so I know that stress makes me crave tobacco – I am not a chain smoker but I know that if I arrived in a foreign airport expecting my Mom to meet me and she was not there and no one spoke to me to inform me why she was not there, if I were ‘trapped’ in a tank where no one spoke my language (Polish/Russian are too foreign to peace together sentences in English or French), if I had lived my entire life in a Communist foreign military occupied state where set ups were common and thousands of people just ‘disappeared, if I was chewing multiple nicorettes to try and calm my fears for the fate of my mom and myself; if, if, if….I do not think the police would have tasered that man if they had been informed that he was a chain smoker suffering from a nicotine deprivation fit or an overdose of nicotine via nicotine drugs. The latter puts major stress on the heart and nerves. The police would have known that a jolt from a taser would be fatal. I do not believe that they considered any of the above because I think that they were probably not informed when they were called to restrain this man.
    I could be wrong but I don’t think I am. You maybe did not know about the chain smoking thing Robert. The msm has done their best to bury it. I was in Communist Poland in 1983 – everyone smoked – I had an idea that this could have been the reason for the death – I found a Polish magazine article that mentioned that Mr. D. had been a chain smoker and he quit the same day that he died.
    The airport should have a smoking area for people who smoke tobacco – it is legal in this country. I blame the anti smoking people for this man’s death.

  23. “Question: How many people does it take to put together a comprehensive realistic and doable Federal budget?”
    Answer: Just STFU and DO IT NOW! RIGHT AWAY! BEFORE ANYONE SENSIBLE HAS A CHANCE TO THINK OR CAREFULLY CONSIDER!
    We’ll make up the details/explanations/excuses later. Sort of like Kyoto, but faster.

  24. With the idea of digging up stuff and posting it on a blog, I’m not sure that it’s a good thing.
    I read a thing the other day where the CBC was asking for suggestions of what needed fixing and where the problems were with the coalition. Seems to me they were asking me to do their research for them.

  25. In my opinion, it takes zero people to put together a comprehensive and realistic and doable Federal budget, because in practice, that is to say, in polis, there is no generically axiologically valid such Federal budget that is all of comprehensive and realistic and doable. While it no doubt remains possible to achieve an indeterminable number of subsets of such a grandiose abstraction, the utopian concept is, in and of itself, nonsense.

  26. Jema et al, please know that I was just expressing my opinion. I never said or thought that yours was “wrong”. But I watched the video over & over and absolutely believe that the 4 officers badly mishandled the situation. I think to date that this is the only time I can remember being non-supportive of a specific police action but I stand firm in my beliefs.
    On a lighter note, scroll down 4 paragraphs here and you’ll see Olivia Chow’s ideal poll: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-radical-left-conducts-polling.html

  27. OK, apropos of nothing except I am sick of seeing these ads on TV:
    Has anyone else seen (and been nauseated by) the ads for the Canadian Museum on Human Rights? Could someone, PLEASE, explain to me what f***ing difference this white elephant is going to make? Do they think Taliban thugs in Afghanistan are going to stop throwing acid at little girls going to school, or that Somali girls are going to have their clitori spared mutilation, because we’ve built a god-forsaken museum in Ottawa?!
    I mean, I know I’m an uneducated, neanderthal, right-wing, knuckle-dragging, drooling Conservative for God’s sake, but it seems to me that this “museum” is just another boondoggle designed to use taxpayer money to provide jobs for 100 or so Librano friends in perpetuity while doing sweet f-all about the actual problem. Would someone please explain why I’m wrong?

  28. I’m with you, Kevin! But if Harper et al were to try to pull the funding now, the MSM would kill him with negative PR for weeks. You can see it now, “Proof Positive that Stephen Harper doesn’t care about Human Rights” + “Further Evidence of his Secret Agenda”. And on & on it would go.

  29. Robert, “everyone” already knows that Harper is a meanyhead.
    Not sure if I should have put ‘everyone’, ‘knows’ or ‘Harper’ inside the scare quotes. ‘Tis language, y’see, and subtle nuances are used all the time to tilt interpretation and influence the subconscious.
    Actually, I’m quietly influencing people reading this right now, they just don’t know it. There is a secret message below, but you’ll only see it if you’ve been influenced.

  30. Isn’t the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg?
    Even now, hundreds of charter buses descend upon the place, disgorging droves of Leica-toting tourists.
    /

  31. “Could the greens be responsible for slow fossil fuel development in First World countries ? Absolutely.
    Drill ! ” (Tks rik)
    I was talking to friends tonight along the same line,but I don’t think it is greenies per se. NIMBY legislation is more their style. I want to dump this on Marice Strong et al but I can’t connect the dots.
    Its almost mid Dec, the entire northern hemisphere is freezing up and oil prices haven’t rebounded. Stunning. Remember the gas price hike every Oct. when gas priced upwards due to refineries switching to heating oil? Not this year.
    The big “O” healed the oil factor before taking office?

  32. The “Museum of Human Rights” I suspect could more accurately be called the “Museum of White Liberal Guilt” Without having seen the place I would bet it will be all about how evil whitey is and what a horribly backwards country we were before Trudeau and multiculturalism.

  33. Re Christmas cards: I have a beautiful one from Senator Anne Cools—one very cool lady (despite what Lucy thinks).
    There is a beautiful, black and white wintery scene, with fir trees, from Major’s Hill Park, in Ottawa, showing the east wing of the Centre Block of Parliament, which houses the Senate. (The Parliament Buildings look like a castle in Narnia!)
    Inside, it says, “a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours”. And, also included, is a passage from Ephesians 3: 16-19. Anne Cools is a strong, independent minded, highly intelligent, God fearing/loving, out-of-the-closet Christian woman. At last, she’ll have some worthy company in the Senate, where she’s been surrounded by Liberal jackals for decades. (When she saw the error of her left-leaning ways and reclaimed her conservative—and classical liberal—roots, like many others, she certainly found out that the feminist agenda has absolutely nothing to do with equality or fairness: it’s all about power and one-upman—whoops!-ship.)
    Anne Cools has truly been a voice of “sober second thought”, often crying in the wilderness of a Senate drowning in Liberal political correctness and skulduggery. Bless her. Although she now sits as an Independent, after a disagreement with Mr. Harper, I hope and pray that he will have the wisdom to appoint more Anne Cools to the Senate—people of INTEGRITY.
    On that note, I’m delighted PMSH is making the appointments: just seeing the usual suspects go ballistic over this is worth it!!

  34. I think PM Harper should rethink appointing Senators at this time. If I were Ignatieff I would bring down the government on this because people absolutely hate the Senate and he can say the Conservatives were completely partisan in appointing only or mostly Conservatives.
    In tough times no one wants to hear that someone else is getting these plum jobs. This is cut the subsidy, part II.
    Also better for the Liberals to go to the people before they find out what a pr**k Ignatieff is.
    I think PM Harper is playing with fire again. People aren’t going to go for the nuances that it is out turn to appoint Senators, he had tried to reform the Senate but was blocked, blah, blah, blah….

  35. I couldn’t disagree with you more, Nicola. PMSH’s appointments are needed to just BEGIN to bring some balance to the Senate.
    He’s also going to require each appointee to sign a pledge to step aside in the event that true reform occurs–his wish, stymied at every turn by the Liberals–if senators are to be elected.
    Going too far? That’s what the lefties have done over and over–the cliff! Mixing my metaphors, it doesn’t matter what PMSH does: he’s viciously savaged by the lefties. So, re his agenda, I say damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!! The sooner, the better, too!

  36. fortescue,
    Can we dig up the ‘clean’ on Iggy as well? Or are you just interested in painting a lop sided picture?
    You have to realize that your request is why conservatism is in the toilet floating around with all that other stuff one sees in the bowl after wiping.

  37. Nicola Timmerman It sounds like you would rather have the lieberals NDP and seperatists appoint the senators. If you don’t think they would be all over this you havn’t been paying attention to these clowns for the last 30 years.

  38. Nicole if the liberals & co. defeated the govt in january what do you think the first order of business would be?
    You could count on it the backroom boys would pressure to do the senate appt’s.
    But what Really gets me is how the MSM uses the term STACK the SENATE! to stack the senate would be to hold a majority,eg: Stack the Deck. These appt’s will still not bring it to a even par, So yes the PM is doing the right thing. Ya ya ya we all know what the PM said about electing, Well the opposition also said during an election they would not form a coalition.

  40. The PM should have filled the Senate seats long ago. Sure he wants to have them elected by the provinces then appoint them but that process will take decades to put in place. All provinces may not be on board either. It would take Constitutional change to do anything else.
    This is the system we have, he has to work within that system. All Senate appointments are considered patronage by those not making them.
    It’s certainly not a healthy balance for this democracy to have the Chamber stacked with one Party appointments, which happens to be Liberals now.
    Let them scream and shout, the Dippers want to abolish it so there’s no chance of one of them taking a Senate seat. The Liberals own it as it stands now. Time to work on balance in that place and fill every vacancy with a Conservative for the foreseeable future.

  41. “Secularism Will Triumph in the Arab World;
    Terrorism’s Crimes ‘The Death Struggle of Fundamentalism’
    Al-Nabulsi: Secularism Will Triumph in the Arab World; Terrorism’s Crimes Are ‘The Death Struggle of Fundamentalism’
    On May 15, 2008, the liberal Arab website Aafaq.org published an interview with prominent Jordanian-American liberal author Dr. Shaker Al-Nabulsi. In the interview, Al-Nabulsi discussed the meaning of secularism and its importance to the future of the Arab world.
    The following are excerpts from the interview: [1]
    “‘Secularism’… [Is] In the Interest of Religion – To Keep the Sacred (Religion) Apart from the Profane (Politics)”
    Interviewer: “What is your concept of secularism?”
    Nabulsi: “‘Secularism’ means the separation of religion from the state, excluding the clergy from politics, and not permitting religious political parties. These measures are all in the interest of religion, to keep the sacred – religion – apart from the profane – politics.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147477/posts

  42. Kneehillgord:
    You may well be right that the CHRM is in Winnipeg; the ads never say where it is, so I just assumed it would be in Ottawa. (And you must get awfully well-heeled tourists if they’re hauling Leica’s around; in Toronto, it’s mostly cheap Canons and Kodaks!)
    Regardless, I somehow suspect that the 100 brave men and women who have fallen in Afghanistan have done more to promote human rights than any museum anywhere will do.
    On the lighter side, a well respected Wall St. fund manager is charged with a nearly $50 billion fraud – now repeat the following three times:
    “Bernie Madoff, with my money.”
    “Bernie Madoff with my money?”
    “Bernie Madoff with my money?!”
    As Boris Badonov would say “Hoo boy!”

  43. The conservative senators can sign pledges, but all the public will see is that 18 Conservatives are getting plum jobs in tough times.
    For sure I don’t want the Liberals or Dips to get these positions, but Harper should believe in present polls and wait until after his government is reconfirmed before appointing Senators.

  44. I have to agree with Robert W re the Dziekanski case.
    Those cops didn’t even TRY to diffuse the situation. There was no escalation of force, just an immediate jump to a measure that’s one level below jerking their guns and blowing him away. It almost looked as though with one mind they were thinking “airport duty is so boring…finally some action!”. They’re not fit to wear the uniform. I hope they’re all transferred FAR AWAY from the Lower Mainland.
    The other problem too is the RCMP brass essentially LIED about the events that took place. One has to wonder how many other cases like that there are that don’t have the benefit of video replay.
    BTW normally I too am more inclined to side with the police. For example, that cop in Maple Ridge who hit that fleeing nut with his car, the nut who was threatening to blow up bridges, did the right thing.

  45. I think Harper should very publicly auction off all 18 senate seats to the highest bidder. Then he should very publicly take the money and put it into the fund that pays BQ, Libs and NDP their $1.75 per vote. In this way he can ridicule both the senate and the welfare bum parties.

  46. If the Senate is needed to pass legislation then not making appointments is similar to not calling bi-elections in the House of Commons. Distasteful as it is it is required until another method is determined. In a minority situation changing the method requires the support of the opposition of which there is none.

  49. Whats her name monk ndp strategist was on Duffy last nite complainging as the the Cost per Year (In tough times) for the appt’s,
    But not one word of what the cost to the Taxpayers in Tough Times of their Political Welfare Cheque.

  50. There is an article in today’s Toronto Sun decrying the fact that there is only 6 toys for over a 1,000 kids at the St. James Town complex annual toy drive. While this is truly sad it is just the culmination of years of anti-Christmas attacks by all the usual suspects, primarily teachers and their boards.
    I have hardly heard any Christmas carols this year on the radio and even shopping. Yesterday I scanned the entire radio dial in my car and could not get one carol being played and this is the big week supposedly for shopping for Christmas, not one.
    The economic downturn is being used as a trigger for many companies and individuals to cut out Christmas parties and celebrations and once they are gone they wont come back. Christmas has just become a commercial selling tool and the spirit has been lost to sales numbers. The lefties are winning and will kill this celebration of this joyous time of the year and an ancient and wonderful tradition.
    My wife’s company, a large accounting firm, had their annual party this year with over 3,800 guests in Toronto. There was not one reference to Christmas, no tree, decoration or anything to what used to be a spectacle at the Royal York that I looked forward to as a warm and super festival of Christmas cheer. She even wished one of the partners “Merry Christmas” and he said that is not politically correct so she said “Well, don’t have a Merry Christmas then!”
    I know we bemoan this every year but this tradition is disappearing at an accelerated rate, how sad.

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