33 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Watch Sarah Palin, politician and mother, tear a piece off of NBC’s truly pathetic Matt Lauer in this video.
    Question: Have any more women’s groups spoken up beyond that first one or are we just hearing utter silence???

  2. Thanks Vit – Steam Engines really are cool!!! My grandfather worked for CP back in the day.
    There’s a great column on the revelation that western forces in Afghanistan will now have to give “Miranda” rights warnings to suspected terrorists.
    http://townhall.com/Columnists/RichGalen/2009/06/12/miranda,_terrorists_and_lawyers
    “One of the issues with reading a terrorist his Miranda rights in Afghanistan is … how do you know whether the terrorist speaks English? Maybe we will have to issue Miranda Warning Cards in English, Arabic, Pashto, Dari, Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi and Pashai which, according to the CIA World Factbook are languages spoken in Afghanistan.
    And that’s only if you determine that the terrorist you have just arrested by saying: “Freeze!” or its equivalent in Arabic, Pashto, Dari, Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi or Pashai is Afghan…
    If he is Pakistani the card would also have to contain the Miranda warning in Punjabi, Sindhi, Siraiki, Pashtu, Urdu, Hindko, Brahui, and Burushaski.
    If he is from any of the other countries bordering Afghanistan like Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, or Turkmenistan then you would have to add Persian, Turkic, Kurdish, Luri, Balochi, Turkish, Tajik, Russian, or Uzbek. ”
    But he solves the problem at the end with a win-win dealing with the lawyers.

  3. My grandfather worked for CP too, as a brakeman in the Winnipeg yard. In those days, little boys like me could ride for free (until some age), and my grandparents could ride for free since after years of service he had a pass, as a result of which I enjoyed at least a dozen trips from Edmonton to Winnipeg and back, and a couple visits to the round-house there too.
    There’s something about rail, I think, that strikes to the core
    of the human experience, over and above road, sea, and air.

  4. I remember the steam engines and their wonderful sounds, and although I never traveled on one, I remember the water towers and their spouts and the clinker strewn tracks we walked to school, and passing the beehive burners and the fast disappear-
    ing grain elevators along the route.

  8. When I read “metal monsters”, I thought you had video from Oz Fest. Oh well, trains are cool too.

  9. Ah, Vitruvius. So you’re a CP brat – that explains a lot. [My Dad was with CNR, and I too crisscrossed the West on free passes.] The rails do indeed stay in the blood. As the poet asks..”How can you get to sleep when the whistle don’t moan?”

  10. “The Committee of Public Sensitivity: An Interview with Ezra Levant
    Insights on freedom from the man who refused to bow to Canada’s thought police.
    The current rush to socialize the American economy will bring more and more of us in touch with bureaucracy in all of its incompetent and uncaring forms. Canada’s ahead of us in the process of eradicating individual liberties. Indigenous to the Great White North is a breed of totalitarian we seldom see here outside of a university. They reside within the confines of their human rights commissions (HRCs) and enforce political correctness throughout the land. They make their living by hiding from the electorate their true purpose while terrorizing those who are too poor to defend themselves.
    Luckily, in the midst of a routine matanza, the committee mistakenly selected a victim with the will and the resources to fight back. Indeed, his spirited defense now endangers their entire existence. The name of this person is Ezra Levant and he is a lawyer, journalist, public intellectual, and former editor of the Western Standard. Previously, he authored Fight Kyoto, Youthquake, and The War on Fun.
    After republishing in 2006 the infamous Danish cartoons of Mohammed, he soon found himself facing one of the HRC tribunals. We are fortunate that he filmed the event and posted the proceedings online for the sake of posterity. Watching him vivisection a dull minion of the state is quite pleasurable. This particular desk-jockey ran into a lawyer who, unlike herself, possessed talent and zeal. His struggle and the state of affairs in Canada are described in great detail in Levant’s recently released book, Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights.
    BC: Congratulations on the success of your book, Mr. Levant. For those who are unfamiliar, what exactly is a Canadian human rights commission (HRC)? Do they function independent of the regular court system?
    Ezra Levant: Thanks. In Canada, HRCs are government agencies. There are fourteen of them in the country — one for every province and territory, and one national HRC. They’re “quasi-judicial tribunals” — that means they’re sort of like courts. They have the power to hold hearings and issue rulings — including fines and other punishments, such as forced apologies. Their rulings are filed at real courts and take on the force of law. To ignore a human rights commission order is to be in contempt of court — for which the punishment can include prison.
    HRCs lack crucial elements of natural justice; they resemble kangaroo courts. But it’s not just their procedures that are un-Canadian (and un-American). It’s their substance: they prosecute “human rights” cases that aren’t real human rights at all — like the counterfeit “right not to be offended.” I was prosecuted for 900 days under that one.
    BC: Are the HRCs an example of a good idea gone mad or were they never a good idea in the first place?
    Ezra Levant: I think it’s a good idea for us to get along, regardless of race or sex, etc. But most of life’s little grievances and setbacks are too trivial to be arbitrated by the government. We shouldn’t criminalize mere rudeness or offensiveness. And we shouldn’t dress up a political action committee as a neutral arbiter of justice.
    BC: You had two tactics in fighting back: “1. Denormalize the commissions; and 2. Press legislators to act.” What do you mean by denormalize? And could conservatives make more use of your methods as a means of combating PC orthodoxy?
    Ezra Levant: I think most debates are won or lost before they’ve even begun. That’s because one side manages to define the terms of the debate and even the vocabulary. Take the very name “human rights commission.” How could you possibly argue against something so saintly? And me? I was accused of “hate speech.” Who could possibly support me?
    Time to turn that around. I was actually the defender of human rights — freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, property rights. The HRCs were violating my rights. I wasn’t a hater; I was merely publishing the news. But, as it turns out, many staffers of HRCs are so radical, their own politics can reasonably be called hate. Etc. My point is: I decided not to let the other side have all the good words. That’s a story about political correctness. But it’s about something much deeper than that; it goes back to George Orwell’s Newspeak and 1984. I wasn’t about to let some petty fascists tell me I was abnormal. They were. And it was my goal to prove it.
    Page 1 of 2 Next ->”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-committee-of-public-sensitivity-an-interview-with-ezra-levant/

  12. “China imprisons ‘hero’ for crime of giving out Bibles
    Man praised as model citizen gets three-year sentence for violating publishing law”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/650301
    …-
    Google censors request.
    These words were entered into google search: bible class home fined.
    Google censored/answered with this:
    “We’re sorry…
    … but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.”
    urlm.in/cpek

  13. “the next generation after Winston Smith”.
    “the life of “the next generation after Winston Smith” – the generation that did not know that a human is capable to think and to reason.”
    “If you haven’t figured it out yet, – I was born in the Soviet Union. It was the largest prison in the world, where the prisoners were either unaware that they were prisoners, or were deeply aware of it and therefore were eliminated by the government.”
    …-
    “Growing Up Without Guns(Soviet Union)
    Washington, D.C – -(AmmoLand.com)- While growing up, I knew there were guns and other arms, because the army and police had them. Us, ordinary people didn’t need them. The saying was “my police protect me”. I don’t think I ever saw a gun except in movies or those carried by police on the streets. Some people in remote mountain villages had small rifles and a limited amount of ammunition – mainly to shoot predator animals to protect their farm animals. At 13, police were going door to door at night, pointing guns at my family and other neighbors. Later I witnessed how government ordered army and tanks to the streets of my city under the cover of the night, killing dozens of innocent people. Not a very good experience to base your opinion about guns.
    When I came to America, I was prepared to see the abundance and wealth, and knew I would need to learn lots of things. As an immigrant, I looked into various laws – those that applied to immigration, employment, and travel. I never looked into the laws about guns. There was not a single “drawer” in my brain dedicated to firearms; the only knowledge I had was “guns are bad.” In 2002 there was a sniper on the streets of Virginia, but I never thought about how I could protect myself. I was simply glad the sniper was not frequenting my area, and I stayed home.
    In all my searches for good shopping stores, I never even considered that … gun stores exist. No one tells you that at the border control at the airport, and unless I came across someone who took the time to talk and explain the facts to me, I still would never have thought any different. I give full credit for my re-education to my husband (boyfriend at that time) who was the first person I would hear to frequently use words, “the Constitution actually says …”, “the local rules do not require you to…”, “have you read Common Sense?” These were very different conversations from the ones I had at work or with my girlfriends.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270989/posts

  14. Maz had this in lastnite’s tip’s @ 8:20pm
    Jennifer Lynch CHRC refuses to be on Tom Clark’s “Power Play” with Ezra Levant
    Watch the vid at ctv.ca Power Play Quite an explanation & quite an Interview with her delegate Who also refuse’s to have debate with Ezra, What is she afraid of, What is the CHRC afraid of? Canadians hearing the Truth!

  16. BTW: meant to add a Big Thanks to Maz for the Tip on this interview as iam sure Alot of Canadians were either watching Roy Halliday’s surprise Exit last nite in the 4th(they are speculating groin)
    & the final game of the Stanley Cup(no Comment)

  17. Maz; any news on the Huffin Puffin yet? Is he or isn’t he going to bring down Steeeeven Harper, [as the losers in the MSM call him]. I heard on Fri. that the great Russian Huffin Puffin was really mad and going to have to read 234 pages of stimulus stuff thus ruining the possibility of using his own stimulus package for the weekend, he might just as well watch Letterman and stick to his own kind for the weekend anyway. Lieberals make me puke!

  18. Unbelievable!
    Only in a country like Canada!
    Read it and weep.
    …..or laugh.
    —
    Liberal government imported,disease spreading whore wins appeal of criminal conviction of 2 years,reduced to 2 years less a day,is allowed to stay in Canada.
    —
    Toronto Star::”Former stripper with AIDS wins appeal”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/650339
    A no doubt Liberal Party appointed judge,has by reducing the criminal sentence of a disgusting AIDS spreading prostitute forced the government to halt deportation and removal proceedings against her.

  19. Notice how Obama deftly turns a single incident, on one demented 89 year old man (shooting at the Holocaust museum) into a suggestion that we, the general public, must cleanse ourselves of prejudice.
    We must, he said, remain ‘vigilant against prejudice’. How the heck does one do that? He was an old man, locked into his beliefs, which are his by any human right. The fact that he flipped and moved to violence was his own personal story. Not the story of the population.
    Or, is this a deft political strategy by Obama, that if you reject or even criticize his choice of Sotomayer for the SC, then, you might, ahh, not be ‘vigilant’ in suppressing your own, ahh, prejudice? The fact that she, herself, openly displays prejudice..hmm..that doesn’t occur to Obama. His agenda is control. Over us who dare to question him.

  20. Thanks for that video, Robert W., of Sarah Palin’s countering MSM toady Matt Lauer’s lame-duck defence of David Letterman.
    There is no valid defence of Letterman’s very unfunny “joke” about a Palin daughter’s rape by a New York Yankee.
    Palin came out swinging. What a classy lady: ‘flight attendant slut, my foot. She even told Lauer that Letterman should lay off slagging flight attendants.

  21. Have attempted twice to post this; however, it will not pass the pc filter.
    The report has more re ET’s post above.
    urlm.in/cpeo

  25. See any dots to connect here ?
    Paul Martin, Feb 10 2009
    Canadians should give up some sovereignty so we can “save” ourselves.
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=54772491
    July 21 2003
    [ According to CanWest: “Sources say Mr. Strong is expected to begin his new job at the end of this year or early next year, after the Nov. 15 Liberal leadership race, which Mr. Martin is expected to win handily. Sources have also said that Mr. Martin is preparing for an early election, possibly in the spring of 2004.”
    The spectre of Maurice Strong running Canada goes far beyond media hype. Hanne Strong, his wife, told CanWest from her Colorado ranch that they have bought a condo in downtown Ottawa, and intend to move back to the capital as early as November.] Judi McLeod
    [ In 1991, Strong wrote the introduction to a book published by the Trilateral Commission, called Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World’s Economy and the Earth’s Ecology, by Jim MacNeil. (David Rockefeller wrote the foreword). Strong said this:
    “This interlocking…is the new reality of the century, with profound implications for the shape of our institutions of governance, national and international. By the year 2012, these changes must be fully integrated into our economic and political life.” ] Henry Lamb

  26. One for Vit. John Deere, engineers and musicians builhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=244_1244859111d an automated instrument.

  27. Enjoy the big machines while we have them. By the end of this century we will be back to coal powered steam for our machinery. The oil will be gone. Only hope so far is fusion reactors. We will also run out of uranium at some point too. The laser fusion thingy. I don’t know what powers that or how it can be adapted to heat my home or run a machine.
    Anyone?
    Re Strong and Rockefeller … google the Bilderbergers or Daniel Estulin, or Alex Jones. Those dudes are the scariest of all.

  28. NYSlimes mocks/ridicules O’Narcissist.
    …-
    “Wide Reverberations as Door Is Slammed on Hopes of Change
    New York Times”

  29. Socialism is an anti-semitic religion. Its members include the Democratic-socialist Jimmy Carter and socialist von Brunn.
    The natural end result of socialism here: anti-semitic hatred, Death.
    …-
    “Carter honored by Palestinians
    The Associated Press – ‎1 hour ago‎
    RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – Former US President Jimmy Carter was honored by the Palestinian government Saturday and pledged to support the Palestinians’ campaign for independence to the end of his days”
    …-
    “Washington Post – ‎22 minutes ago‎
    By Bill Turque The son of James von Brunn calls his father’s actions at the Holocaust Memorial Museum “unforgiveable” and the hatred that consumed him a plague that ruined his family’s life”
    …-

  30. So glad Palin is finally responding to the lame lefty antics, and she challenged the so-called feminists to step up to the plate. They won’t tho, because their agenda is not about women and respect, it is about attacking the Judeo-Christian family pattern. Sarah Palin stands for those values so in their puny minds she doesn’t ‘deserve’ their voice.
    Really she doesn’t need their voice.
    Michael Coren rips lettermen as only Coren can.
    http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/michael_coren/2009/06/13/9784631-sun.html

  31. I know hockey ended last night, sadly, since I’m a Wing fan, but for those following the Balsillie-Bettman issue I found this quote in the TO Sun quote of the day:
    Balsillie says: “Barack Obama has no idea what to do.The only thing some (leaders) are good at is giving the illusion they know what they are doing.”
    Jim Balsillie is the Blackberry millionaire.
    A hardworking, industrious business man.
    Smart man.

  32. Canada’s motto:
    Peace, Order, and Good Government.
    Here** is some positive news from PM Harper’s Conservative government.
    Of course, the MSM attempts to hide the source by saying the “Feds”: “Feds move to ban conditional sentences for serious crimes”.
    This information frightens/spooks the crime-friendly illegitmii, aka Iggy’s LibSocialists.
    …-
    >>> **”The federal [Conservative] Attorney General, today, said he will introduce legislation Monday that will disallow judges from imposing conditional sentences on offenders for serious crimes.
    North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton, parliamentary secretary to the President of the Treasury Board, delivered the government’s message in Vancouver for Attorney General Rob Nicholson.
    “Our government believes that sentences passed in our courts must be meaningful, and they must reflect the severity of the crime committed,” Saxton said.
    Saxton said the bill that will be introduced Monday will seek to tighten up the current legislation,”
    urlm.in/cpfe
    …-

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