53 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  4. From the trend-spotting files:
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the WSJ: “Article 239 of the Honduran constitution states that any president who tries for a second term automatically loses the privilege of his office. By insisting that Mr. Zelaya be returned to power, the U.S. is trying to force Honduras to violate its own constitution.”
    Hugo Chavez: “With Obama we can talk….He’s intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him.”

  6. I hsve to say the film by the two French brothers who happened to be doing a documentary on a ‘newbie’ firefighter in New York City is the most amazing of the films about the attack.
    The version on DVD cut out the part about the French filmmakers cooking up a meal for the firemen (they didn’t make nearly enough!) during the boring month when nothing was happening for their film. Then all hell broke lose…

  8. Yup! Just as I thought, Leonard Cohen still can’t sing, can’t carry a tune, and is at best, a mediocre poet.

  11. Just checking here, in response to cal2’s post…
    Does anyone remember a political scoop that CBC had without being fed it from the Liberal party?

  12. BO made his joint address tonight. regardless of what he said he was going to have to throw one of two groups under the crowded bus (no GOP people there yet):
    If he retreated on the government-run ‘option’ the daily KOS, Huffpo and ‘progressives would have tasted rubber. If he stuck to it the democrat members of congress would be faced with either ramming the bill through with nil votes from the GOP or abandon the bill altogether – either way they get waxed in november 2010.
    It looks like the democrats congress have the tiremarks on their backs. And the split in the party between the moderates and the far-left is now plain to see. Look for BOs numbers to plummet over the next couple of months.

  14. 9/11 – The Filmmakers’ Commemorative Edition (2002) directed by Jules Naudet. They used to show it around 9/11, but probably not this year.

  15. an interesting choice EBD. I am not amongst his fans, but some of his work seems to truly sum up the moment and is very much appreciated… Thank you Leonard.

  16. Barack Obama gave his health care speech to Congress tonight.
    Mission accomplished!
    “Thanks to the bold and decisive action we have taken since January, I can stand here with confidence and say that we have pulled this economy back from the brink.”
    As you know, I’ve made it absolutely clear how imperative it is that we act without delay on the matter of health care reform. After we’ve taken action, we’ll decide what those actions should be…
    “We know we must reform this system. The question is how…”
    On the matter of the thirty thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle he contentiously dumped on America’s linoleum, enraging virtually half of the country…
    “While there remain some significant details to be ironed out, I believe a broad consensus exists…”
    Let’s talk. It’s important that we talk – unless, of course, you disagree with me, in which case…
    “I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it…”
    The Brooklyn Bridge is a very very fine bridge. And if you buy in the next twenty minutes….
    “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period. And to prove that I’m serious…”

  17. Israel’s prime minister made a secret trip to Russia in Moscow ( socialist-comonist) this week to discuss Russian arms sales to arch-foes Iran and Syria, a report said on Wednesday amid speculation over the premier’s mysterious disappearance.
    Continued here:
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090909/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticsisraelrussia_20090909073914
    JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel’s prime minister made a secret trip to Moscow this week to discuss Russian arms sales to arch-foes Iran and Syria, a report said on Wednesday amid speculation over the premier’s mysterious disappearance.
    Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Moscow on Monday, the respected mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said, citing anonymous sources.
    Asked to comment on the report, Netanyahu’s office reiterated that the premier had spent Monday at the headquarters of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency.
    No immediate comment was available from the Russian authorities.
    Netanyahu’s hours-long absence from public view on Monday has sparked furious rumours in the Israeli media as to where he spent the day, with a secret visit to an Arab country topping the speculation.
    Israel has for years tried to convince Russia not to sell S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, which the Jewish state fears Tehran could deploy around its controversial nuclear sites.
    Russia reportedly agreed to sell the systems to Tehran several years ago. Following an August 18 visit, Israeli President Shimon Peres said that he had secured a promise from his counterpart Dmitry Medvedev that Russia would review its decision.Then they should not be worry if this promise done
    Widely considered to be the Middle East’s sole if undeclared nuclear power, Israel suspects Iran of trying to develop an atomic bomb under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme, a charge Tehran denies.
    Israel considers Iran to be its arch-enemy following repeated statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state is doomed to be “wiped off the map.”
    http://where-is-my-vote.org/israel-pm-made-secret-russia-trip-over-iran-report-afp-via-yahoo-news/
    solution: made the peace process finishe first and let building built with high rise to put more people from both side to live there and do not allow Isreal to talk with Iran at all in any shape for another 2 years to calm down areas first

  18. Well…seems the City if Calgary is going through it’s own ‘pesticide ban’ consultation process right now. As it’s given, the hairy tongued socialists are all over this – or at least the most vocal 15 of them. The same 15 who thought banning DDT in Africa was a great idea.
    So, while a long time poster – but occasionally unloved here 🙂 – I am reaching out to SDA ‘readers tips types’ from Cowpatch to respond to a City input poll about the banning of pesticides here in the Bow River City. I’ve included a link to an online poll commissioned by the City, and a response I left – one of heartfelt honesty.
    I am community oriented, but only received this request for input simply because of past community involvement. In other words, unless you are one of ’em, they don’t want to hear from you.
    I ask and reach out to SDA readers from Cowpatch to assist in making this an accurate opinion of Canadians, and not an echo chamber for the socialist nanny state. It is a 5 question poll, trying to validate a complete ban on pesticide/fungicide/herbicide use within City limits.
    Thanks for your attention.
    HB
    5 question poll – last question:
    Please provide any other comments or suggestions that you feel would help with the proposed City of Calgary Pesticide Bylaw.
    My Answer: Scrap it. This activity is for bureaucrats to breed bureaucracies, and an extension of the Nanny State. Spend taxpayer dollars with fiduciary care, please don’t waste them on utopian fantasy. Chemical use to control weeds, rodents, and insects are safe and effective if used responsibly. Please direct your resources to educate the public on appropriate use of pesticides, and provide resources and information about such use. Any other action demeans the voter, and the concept of citizen responsibility.
    Calgarians are adults. Please treat as such.

  21. Thanks, EBD. The 11th is a big day for many professions, especially the firemen, police, ambulance and first responders.
    But, as an air traffic controller, the day has special meaning for me, too. I’m not sure I could come back from something that evil. Intentional evil.

  22. I’d never thought about it Yukon Gold, but it must have been absolutely horrifying for air traffic controllers, too, who hold such enormous responsibilities on a daily basis, to watch it all unfold that day.

  23. My reader tip: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead and Leonard Cohen is still over-rated. Why some people have such a lust to cling to cheesey Canadianna is beyond me.

  24. Larry: “Just as I thought, Leonard Cohen still can’t sing, can’t carry a tune, and is at best, a mediocre poet.” — No, actually, that’s Bob Dylan. Leonard Cohen is a brilliant singer, performer, poet.

  25. From the leftist “one rule for me, another for thee” files, here’s an excerpt from a WSJ piece by Robert Bryce entitled “Windmills Are Killing Our Birds: One standard for oil companies, another for green energy sources”:
    “A July 2008 study of the wind farm at Altamont Pass, Calif., estimated that its turbines kill an average of 80 golden eagles per year. The study, funded by the Alameda County Community Development Agency, also estimated that about 10,000 birds—nearly all protected by the migratory bird act—are being whacked every year at Altamont.
    “Altamont’s turbines, located about 30 miles east of Oakland, Calif., kill more than 100 times as many birds as Exxon’s tanks, and they do so every year. But the Altamont Pass wind farm does not face the same threat of prosecution, even though the bird kills at Altamont have been repeatedly documented by biologists since the mid-1990s.”

  26. Brothers and sisters: we are not many, but…
    “ Bacterial society is based on a chemical language called quorum sensing. To detect how many of its own species, or members of another bacterial species, are in the immediate vicinity, each bacterium secretes a certain molecule into the environment. The greater the number of molecules it can sense, the more fellow bacteria it knows are out there…”
    That one’s for you, Eskimo! It’s my fondest, soaring hope that you enjoyed it!

  27. Thanks for posting this EBD. I have always enjoyed L. Cohen, he puts thought into his lyrics. This song is very appropriate for the deep sadness that all of us felt in the days after terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre and murdered thousands of innocent people – directly and indirectly.
    The anger came after the horror, followed by the overwhelming sadness…

  28. Thanks for your comment, Jema, nice to hear from you again. The question Mr. Cohen ends the song with does succinctly express the essential cultural issue which continues to linger long after the event.

  29. hardboiled, I responded to the 5 questions. The long an short of my answers was to tell the city to get stuffed with nanny-state nonsense such as pesticide bans.

  30. Obama called a “Liar”
    Posted by: Curious at September 9, 2009 11:36 PM
    Oh, that was a wondrous moment. Seeing the look on Pop-Up Pelosi’s face was worth a million bucks!

  31. Dennis Dale on the media treatment of those who showed up at town halls to express their views on Obamacare:
    “Of the accusatory adjectives used to describe the crowds, old and white, the first remains a furtive and facile appeal to an ancient prejudice, but the second has become a pejorative in its own right, encouraging a new sort of bigotry–one not so much sanctioned as it is required. All else being equal, ‘White’ is now a moral failing into which one is inescapably born. How we arrived at this perversion of both Christian and Enlightenment values (in the name, alternatively, of both) remains shrouded not in mystery but coercion. One is not allowed to ask.
    “Media bias, liberal or not, is nothing more than the aggregate of the influential class’ prejudices, fantasies, and phobias. It is not action but drift. Its predictable nature creates the illusion of direction and control. But once set in motion, round and round it goes, where the narrative stops, nobody knows.”
    Link shamelessly poached from edwardmichaelgeorge.blogspot.com

  32. At least they won’t run out of clowns …
    “The Canadian founder of the Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté
    […] will be Canada’s first space tourist, for $35 million, blasting off for 12 days aboard a Russian Soyuz.
    “He’s calling the flight a “Poetic Social Mission, Moving Stars and Earth for Water.”
    Linked up with this will be a series of performances in 14 cities
    […]The link to space isn’t that clear
    […] Al Gore, David Suzuki, Shakira and U2 will be part of the show, opening in Montreal.”
    http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/cirque-de-soleil-water-fundraiser.php

  33. Hmmm, them folks at Cirque are mighty athletic, but they can move stars and the Earth?? I would be mighty surprised if they could move the bulk known as Algore.
    Who knew?

  34. Hey, were Leonard Cohen and Al Pacino separated at birth? ‘Could have sworn I saw that face in Serpico.
    Thanks, EBD. I love Cohen and his gravelly voice. He’s a great poet, a great interpreter of his own songs, and he has a spiritual core. He gets it.
    More, please. Maybe “The Future.”

  36. No surprise there Matt. After all the family owns the paper, not likely to keep him on the side lines for long.
    BTW, that would be the Telegraph-Journal, not Halifax-Journal. Halifax only has one paper these days, The Chronically Horrid….err Chronicle Herald.

  37. A 3rd poll this week & third poll indicating a Conservative lead & a conservative minority if election held today.
    Also CBC is reporting of a leaked video of Stephen Harpers closed door speach in the Soo, In which the PM says a majority is needed in order to stop another Coalition that could be in the making.
    The vid was secretly taped & sent to the Libs who inturn sent it to their “War Room, the CBC”.
    Majority government in reach: Harper
    cbc.ca
    Must read the comments on the article The looney left alive & well at the CBC.

  38. hardboiled
    I did the poll. Vancouver has implemented a pesticide ban and it shows. If they had an amazing race to get crack cocaine or a watered down liter of 2-4-D in Vancouver put your money on the team that was going for the crack.
    When did Cow Town become Cow Patch?

  40. It doesn’t seem it was that many years ago the towers fell. I was at work when it happened so I did not see the disaster until I got home.I phoned a colleague and told him. He thought it was a joke and I said turn on your TV. He asked which channel and the reply was I didn’t think it mattered. He was shocked. When I saw it the punch was still there. I will never understand that day. My heart goes out to those that survived or had loved ones perish. My thoughts are with those that raise the children of the men and women whose only fault was going to work or getting on a plane.

  41. My apologies EBD, but the jist of my post was that it must be Canadian law that when someone even whispers Cohen’s name, reference must be made to the fact that he’s Canadian. Or William Shatner. Or Michael J. Fox. Once someone makes it big stateside, why the burning desire to remind everyone that that person is from Canada? Like that is somehow the reason for thier success. We despise the USA but also suffer with a form of patriotism penis envy. They fought a bloody independence and civil wars and built a superpower. We think a beer commercial or Tim Horton’s coffee is what defines us. Or UN peacekeepers passing out chocolate to doe eyed refugees from far away places with strange sounding names. Good grief. I don’t give a rat’s ass if Cohen is from Montreal or Foggy Nuts.

  43. More bad news for the Liberal$:
    Headline on National Post Web site: “Canadian Economy recovering quicker than thought: Bank of Canada”
    The Bank of Canada indicated Thursday that it has become more confident about the economic recovery in this country and abroad, and added that growth in Canada in the second half of this year could exceed previous expectations.
    http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1979270

  44. Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism
    AEI Bradley Lecture
    8 September 2009
    In the September Bradley Lecture, Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review, and author of the new book The Death of Conservatism (Random House, 2009), will discuss the current state of conservatism, examined from a historical and philosophical context. Mr. Tanenhaus argues that for seventy-five years, conservatives have been split into two factions, the “realists” who believe in the virtues of government and the “revanchists” who distrust government and society. He argues that the “revanchists” have won the argument about conservatism and that this has caused conservatism to falter. Steven F. Hayward and Henry Olsen of AEI will respond to Mr. Tanenhaus.
    [Full webcast available at the link.]

  45. Posted by: batb at September 10, 2009 10:11 AM
    Thanks for that link ‘batb’.
    Great selection ‘EBD’. Always did like ‘LC’ style.

  48. “Run away, run, run, run away
    Camille Paglia is afraid that it may be too late for Barack Obama to turn his Presidency from an impending debacle brought about, she thinks, from a series of unperceived missteps.
    Why unperceived? Because of groupthink, collective blindness and a failure of critical thinking among the comrades. Most of her article in Salon is devoted to examining what went wrong.
    I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration’s strategic missteps this year. … letting Congress pass that obscenely bloated stimulus package … a cap-and-trade bill whose costs have made it virtually impossible for an alarmed public to accept the gargantuan expenses of national healthcare reform …
    Why did it take so long for Democrats to realize that this year’s tea party and town hall uprisings were a genuine barometer of widespread public discontent and not simply a staged scenario by kooks and conspirators? First of all, too many political analysts still think that network and cable TV chat shows are the central forums of national debate. …
    Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly line of competitive college application to schools where ideological brainwashing is so pandemic that it’s invisible.
    The Democratic brain has been marinating so long in those clichés that it’s positively pickled.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/09/09/run-away-run-run-run-away/

  50. Some parent outrage over “I Pledge” video. Principal even admits she made a mistake playing it:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOtjqnNAb9U
    These zombie Hollywood types spout off every left-wing cause imaginable in this video. Looks like they got the message from the National Endowment for the Arts/Obama administration meeting a couple weeks ago that Glenn Beck exposed last week.
    Like I said, get your barf bags ready. Great, more actors I will find hard to watch in movies or on TV.

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