44 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. “Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.”
    Lets put that to the test. Earlier today Jim Flaherty announced deficit for this year will rise to $55 billion and the deficit over the next two years will rise to $100 billion. I won’t provide a link but you can easily find this info everywhere except a conservative blog.

  3. The Test? What test? Why would that comment not be welcome? It’s a reader tip, and although it’s borderline rude, we’re generous here. It’s probably going to be proven wrong anyway, after all, as Niels Bohr said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”. Still, not bothering to provide a link is bad form, old chap.

  4. I dunno about that being “a tip” Robert McClelland. It’s a bit difficult to avoid this information in the mainline news networks, as well as at the other Canadian heavies in the news business, CBC, CTV, National Post, bourque.org nationalnewswatch.com and my local rag the Calgary Herald. I glanced at globeandmail.com but it was simply a regular story, not “above the fold”. Maybe this last bit is the tip you were alluding to? That the Globe didn’t view this as the most important story of the day?
    I had thought that reader tips, was a means of viewing items of interest that are typically not front and center of our normal news carriers here in Canada, not items you’d have to purposely avoid reading in order to not know of them… Otherwise, why not simply cut and past the entire front page of whatever your local rag is and be done with it.

  6. I always like a band named after the inventor of the seed drill, and the author of “horses, hoes, and husbandry”.
    (If memory serves me correctly)

  8. Yeah, like, so, I’ve been watching the 1941 Maltese Falcon movie
    on YouTube while waiting for comments to trickle in per tonight’s
    show, and at 05:09 in part IV Bogart as Sam says to the two coppers:

    Is that the hot tip that brought you
        up here at this ungodly hour?

    Serendipity is a funny thing.

  9. I hope this isn’t a repeat but i posted it about ten minutes ago and it seemed to vanish , —http://www.sootoday.com/content/news/full_story.asp?StoryNumber=41573 —the video kid , apparently somebody was nice to him and invited him , but beibg a typical liberal …

  10. Vitruvius – interesting video!
    We (or should I say “I”?) have lost our connection with the land.
    I had a superficial appreciation for the show “Dirty Jobs” hosted by Mike Rowe – until I saw him in a TED lecture – he made me appreciate “real work” on a deeper level, and also realize how we are at risk for a bubble in “higher education” (this links in with husbandry IMHO).
    http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.html
    Now, straying off the reservation even further, reflecting back on my previous comments, I commented on your video long ago about fatiguing a plane to fracture (wings), and wondering about the purpose of that in the real world.
    Since then, I have watched two interesting videos, the first was regarding a highjacked FedEx flight, as follows
    (here’s part I on youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVfCtPXDj0&feature=fvw)
    Summary
    “FedEx Flight 705, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, was a case of a FedEx Flight Engineer who, facing a dismissal, attempted to hijack the plane and crash it into FedEx Headquarters in order for his family to collect his life insurance policy. After being attacked and severely injured, the flight crew was able to fight back and land the plane safely. In order to keep the attacker off balance and out of the cockpit the crew had to perform extreme maneuvers, including a barrel roll and a dive so fast the airplane couldn’t measure its speed. Had the crew not been able to exceed the plane’s flight envelope, the crew may not have been successful.”
    The second was an Errol Morris documentary re Denny Fitch, here is the first link, watching the rest is up to readers of course
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPu0chBQeUk
    If I’m in trouble for the long post, I’ll still think it’s worth it!!! -)

  11. Horace Walpole, “The Three Princes of Serendip”
    I posted a long message – held for a while – sorry Vitruvius – covered a lot of ground . . . .

  12. oh my.
    freezing the accounts of cesar’s family members?
    if this is proven to be warranted there goes the last particle of vestige of any remnant of conciliatory thought I had for the venezuelan president-for-life.

  15. I refuse to believe that ‘Living in the Past’ was from 1969. I could have sworn it was much later.
    Good God, I’m old.

  21. http://makehistory.national911memorial.org/
    “New amateur footage of 9/11 emerges
    Rarely seen amateur footage of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York has been released on as part of the launch of a new website, that aims to bring together images and stories from the day.”
    “The rarely seen views of the attacks, one of the most recorded events of all time, are among hundreds of hours of amateur videos, images and stories gathered by the foundation building the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
    The foundation’s website has photographs, video and audio recollections by professional photographers, fleeing trade centre workers and witnesses who recorded what they saw with cellphone and digital cameras.
    Each photo is juxtaposed against current Google “Street View” photos of various locations.
    Users can click on locations, themes or time of day to view the footage or images.
    The graphic images of hijacked jetliners crashing into the towers are among the accounts that will become an exhibit in the 9/11 museum when it opens in three years.
    One victim’s family member said the images wouldn’t keep him away, saying the story of September 11 must be as realistic and complete as possible.”
    http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1088742/Museum-scours-world-for-new-videos-of-9/11

  22. In Memoriam
    “Honours
    Canadians who died in the
    September 11, 2001 Disaster
    Friends Forever
    We honour the 24 Canadians who died (or are missing and presumed to have died) in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.A., according to families and the official list of Canadian victims as released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:”
    http://www.members.shaw.ca/kcic1/cdnwtc.html
    …-
    “The War on ‘9-11’
    By Walid Phares
    The Jihadi attacks against New York and Washington created an unforgettable date in the collective psyche of Americans: this nation was bled by men indoctrinated by an ideology that, both in its texts and in its actions, knows no mercy for free societies. The terrifying three numbers and a hyphen 9-11 took their place in the country’s national identity, alongside Pearl Harbor in the high drama of American history.
    But 9-11 became also a benchmark to other nations and regions of the world. In Europe, Russia, and India, civil societies began identifying the date 9/11with their own subsequent traumas. Madrid had its own 9-11on March 11, 2004. Russia had a sister horror on September 6 of the same year in Beslan. London encountered its 9-11 on July 7, 2005. The rest of Europe prepared for the forthcoming “ones.” India’s two Mumbai attacks are perhaps the equivalent of their own 9-11.
    So what is the first meaning of this symbolic date, deeply embedded in the minds of millions of people around the world? Despite the denial by intellectual elites in all of these countries (at least since the end of the Cold War), there is a Jihadi global movement espousing terror as a means, seeking violence against what it perceives as kuffar countries, and making no room for international law.
    Contradicting what academia stubbornly has asserted since the end of the Cold War in 1990, Bin Laden’s Ghazwa (Jihadi raids) on America shattered not just buildings, but also houses of denial; it killed thousands of civilians, but also wrong teachings. It planted the seeds of a cultural revolution where the American People was forced by blood to wake up to new world realities resulting from the Soviets demise.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/the_war_on_911.html

  23. “Edmonton pyramid climber falls
    Woman was with group of friends in early morning when she decided to climb landmark structure”
    urlm.in/daan
    “Alleged ‘ghost hunter’ falls to her death at U of T”
    urlm.in/daao
    “Death of a Ghost Hunter” film trailer”
    urlm.in/daap

  24. Goreacle Report:
    Ask me no “nasty questions”; I’ll tell you no nasty lies.
    “Prof. Latif says he expects warming to resume in 2020 or 2030. “People will say this is global warming disappearing,” he added. According to him, that is not the case. “I am not one of the skeptics,” he insisted. “However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it.””
    …-
    “Global warming takes a break
    Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn’t marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?
    Or if Don Cherry claimed suddenly to like European hockey players who wear visors and float around the ice never body-checking opponents.
    Or Jack Layton insisted out of the blue that unions are ruining the economy by distorting wages and protecting unproductive workers.
    Or Stephen Harper began arguing that it makes good economic sense for Ottawa to own a car company. (Oh, wait, that one happened.)
    But at least, the Tories-buy-GM aberration made all the papers and newscasts.
    When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it’s usually newsworthy.
    So why was a speech last week by Mojib Latif of Germany’s Leibniz Institute not give more prominence?”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1982899

  25. MSM uses “bombshell”.
    Let’s use it here: Bombshell from Liberal AxWorthy: Ban The Bloc!
    Ban The Bloc! says Liberal-socialist Axworthy.
    Imagine the uproar/hellabaloo from the left-liberals and its MSM if Preston Manning said that.
    How will The Separatist Coalition react/respond?
    Liberal reacts: ““That causes me a little discomfort,” said Mr. Robinson,”.
    …-
    “Report calls for overhaul of political debates
    Tom Axworthy would ban Bloc from English debate and make participation mandatory for other leaders, while taking control away from TV networks”.
    urlm.in/daar

  26. Has Tom Axworthy been separated from the flock and living in a non-polluted atmosphere?
    He’s not being helpful to the Liberal cause in La Belle Provence. Boo-hoo Mr Robinson…..

  27. Air Canada sues Obama- Vancouver Sun
    Nothing he can’t do ? Or
    A juxtapose with fawning Canadian media? Or
    Iggy still his big pal? Or
    Whatever, lots there.

  29. TheStar.com has a poll just begging to be visited.
    It already isn’t going the way they would prefer.
    I hope everyone spends a minute in silence today for the victims of the jihadists.

  31. The stinkbomb is really the innumerate leprechaun buying car companies and selectively bailing out pension plans….
    The rush to bury a stink bomb
    John Ivison, National Post Published: Friday, September 11, 2009
    The Conservatives rush-released their fall fiscal update yesterday, claiming it was a sound plan to bring the budget back into balance.
    In fact, the update was neither sound nor a plan — rather, it was an attempt to give some solidity to pure gas and bury the bad news that the deficit has grown by another $5-billion.
    The closest Jim Flaherty, the Finance Minister, came to specifics was his pledge that the Conservatives would come up with a course of action to restrain program spending and eliminate the deficit “when the time is right.” Since this is like asking an alcoholic to burn down a brewery, don’t hold your breath.
    The real reason for rushing out a cobbled-together jumble of best guesses dressed up as an exit strategy is that the government is obliged to deliver a third report to Canadians on the nation’s financial state later this month and does not want this particular stink bomb going off in the middle of a possible election campaign……”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=01f957fa-da85-4e88-8f88-4e278504cfd7

  33. “Run away, run, run, run away*”
    The non-epic story of a Liberal Denier, aka Denialist, aka Truther.
    Iggy: I-Iggy am not now; nor, have I-Iggy ever been a member of the Separatist Coalition Party. I-Iggy shall never be a member of the Separatist Coalition Party.
    >>> MSM uses “schemes” instead of Iggy’s secret agenda.
    …-
    “Blunting Harper’s attack, Ignatieff rules out coalition
    Liberal Leader vows not to cut a deal with NDP and Bloc after leaked video offers preview of PM’s stump speech
    ““The Liberal Party would not agree to a coalition. In January, we did not support a coalition. And we do not support a coalition today or tomorrow,” Mr. Ignatieff said.”
    ““I have a certain credibility on the coalition issue. I could be standing here as the prime minister of Canada. I turned it down. We turned it down in January,” Mr. Ignatieff said today.
    ““That’s not what Canadians want. I agree with Canadians.””
    urlm.in/dabx
    *Go here for an analysis of the left-liberal mindset. I-Iggy is specimen # One.
    http://www.pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/

  35. This should be THE lead story for ‘Not Watching For The Asteroid’
    CNN TV breathlessly reported on the Coast Guard pursuing a boat on the Potomac near a security zone…radio traffic monitored…10 shots fired.
    Turns out it was a planned exercise.
    White House Press Secretary- “My only caution would be that before we report things like this, checking would be good,” Gibbs said.
    Apparently there then followed an on air ‘heated’ egg-on-the-face session.
    The whole article is good and has a few gems about he whole ‘rush to report the blood’ tone and some upbraiding.
    Good stuff, it looks good on CNN!
    One question I still have is why would there be an exercise with shots (blanks presumably) fired on Sept 11 near the security zone where the president commemorated the Sept 11 attacks.
    http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/CNN_takes_heat_for_Coast_Guard_report.html

  36. Rock-star reception
    Trudeau charms and inspires students at Glace Bay High School
    By TERA CAMUS Cape Breton Bureau
    Fri. Sep 11 – 4:46 AM
    GLACE BAY — You’d think he’s the rock star of politics given the response he got Thursday from students at Glace Bay High.
    Quebec MP Justin Trudeau, son of the late prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was immediately surrounded by dozens of adoring mostly female fans and teachers after his half-hour speech that centered on the need to enter politics and serve society……”
    Just like a Librano to go to children in this country, make attendance mandatory, and tell them they should go work for the government and get paid by taxpayers.
    Just like the old man….

  37. Apparently shots were not fired in the Coast Guard exercise. The stupidity of holding an exercise like this on Sept 11 remains.

  38. CBC.Ca–Sept. 11-09
    The CBC is running a story with the headlines,
    “Justin Trudeau stars in French Conservative Attack Ads,”
    Slight problem–the CBC is limiting comments on this story. Now can you see the irony here folks??
    Trudeau is starring in a Conservative attack ad–but the CBC is protecting him from “attacks” (aka comments) on their web site! Anybody have a name for this??

  39. Joe Citizen: “Anybody have a name for this??”
    Double standard?
    Same old, same old?
    What’s new?
    ‘Shocked and appalled?
    Crap and corruption?
    HERE’S the Mother Corp[se]?
    Whadj’ya expect?
    Should I keep going? 😉

  42. Joe Citizen; I would call it ‘business as usual’. What is surprising is that no one has outed these unglorious basfarts yet……Someone out there in the cbc world must know and must OUT these people. What is cbc’s unwrittten policy? One of those who have been denigrated and/or demoted for not toeing the company line has to stand up and grab the remaining piece of integrity that languishes alone in their pit of self-worth and speak up. It will be ignored by the MSM,but I believe that if enough people type, and enough news resources ,like this one,shout out loud,we will be heard.

  44. There’s a name for a person who has to “serve society”: a slave.
    How many politicians can we name who act as our masters rather than our servants?
    I’m not surprised Kim Justin-Il doesn’t get it.

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