48 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Horowitz, – brilliant. Not so brilliant and increasingly unreadable, David Frum in yesterday’s N.P. It is probably true that Sarah Palin is not presidential material but by Canadian standards she’s a class act; more balls than most of the men, and easier to look at and listen to than most female M.P.’s . And more to the point her book is likely to outsell anything Frum has ever put on the market.
    Meanwhile at the G&M they are worried that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, if executed for his crimes, would only fulfill his wish to die as a “martyr”. I want, more than anything to see his wish fulfilled. Though in the end, he will die like the coward he is.

  2. Let’s be perfectly clear about a few things:
    – David Frum HATES Sarah Palin
    – David Frum dislikes conservative women generally
    – David Frum is a Democrat posing as a RINO
    If I were an American I’d pretty much vote for Palin just because David Frum would not!!
    Remember the old adage, “What would Jesus do?” The modern version of that should be, “What would David Frum do? Best to do the opposite of that!”

  4. did CBCpravda news world just put this out on November 15? little slow on the uptake for sure. Iggy made these ads in downtown Toronto in the summer. takes them almost 5 months to get to promoting Count Iggy , and they send this out when Iggy has gone catatonic.

  5. re: david frum. is the NP still publishing? funky.
    anyway, the last refuge of a scoundrel is saber rattling. that’s one thing hugo and dubya have in common:
    ca dot news dot yahoo dot com/s/reuters/091115/world/international_us_colombia_venezuela

  6. That’s really quite curious George. It would seem to me that G.W. Bush did more than merely rattle sabres, and twits like Hugo Chavez shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath with those who have been elected and dismissed by the will of the people.

  7. If I were an American I’d pretty much vote for Palin just because David Frum would not!!
    Posted by: Robert W. (Vancouver) at November 15, 2009 9:56 PM
    I’m amazed at the undue influence David Frum seems to have on you.

  8. SYF – I know, I know, but I really can’t stand that guy. I’ve followed his rantings via comments of his former colleagues at NRO. I think he has betrayed a lot of people in what seems to be an effort to make himself popular with the MSM.
    Larben – I wasn’t aware that GWB had been running for a 3rd term in 2008? Please enlighten us.

  9. You’re right of course Robert; my bad. I guess it was the way he was treated by Washington in his last weeks and by the media. “The nightmare is over..” etc. The Clintons went out with accolades, even after looting the White House; little was it mentioned in the MSM.

  10. Take with a grain of salt this is AP after all.
    Obama urges Congress to put off Fort Hood probe
    By PHILIP ELLIOTT (AP) – 1 day ago
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwYEFasV3WqznkJoN2-BwTxAN4fgD9BV8RHG1

  11. Continuing on the lamentable matter of David Frum,
    am I mistaken in thinking he backed Chris Buckley’s dastardly assault on the still warm remains of his mother and father?

  13. Excellent choice, Vit. Thanks. (And for the previous Dvorak and Bruch as well.)
    There is a very interesting story about Stalin and this work:
    “Shostakovich once spoke, with the greatest respect, about a quite remarkable deed by the pianist Maria Yudina. Stalin had taken a shine to a particular Mozart piano concerto (No. 23) which he heard her play on the radio. Having received a specially made copy of this performance from the Radiokomitet, the Leader ordered her to be sent 20,000 roubles. Maria Veniaminova’s reply was as follows: “I am very grateful, Iosef Vissarionovich, for your help. I will pray night and day for you and beg God to forgive you your sins against your people and country. God is merciful, he’ll forgive. As for the money, I shall give it to a charity at the church I go to.” Shostakovich rightly called this letter “suicidal”. The warrant for Yudina’s arrest was duly prepared, but on this occasion, for some reason, Stalin did not sign it.”

  14. I liked Horowitz’s tie and his playing. It made me forget about David Frum’s ranting for 6 minutes and 54 seconds.
    These days David Frum would probably vote for Joe Who.

  15. Re: “Khalid Sheik Mohammed, if executed for his crimes, would only fulfill his wish to die as a ‘martyr’.”
    Then what we have here is a “win-win situation”.

  17. wow curious, so why is it that Obama took Hugo “The Rattler” Chavez’s side in the Honduras situation?

  18. Goreacle Report.
    …-
    “Walt:
    We have all known for some time that former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Albert Gore has made millions through his venture capital firm by investing green, and that he stands to make hundreds of millions more if the carbon cap and trade heist gets passed by the Dems in the dead of night. Mr. Gore has denied he has used his green credentials to make money, saying, via satellite phone from his private jet on its way to his Swiss chalet, that his interest is solely in saving the planet from the horrors of global warming, or climate change as it is now called since it was found the planet was cooling, not warming. No one begrudges Mr. Gore making money, or getting fat off his ill-gotten gains, but we can hope that he would please spare us the boring lectures about how greedy we all are in wanting to continue living the good life, especially since both we and Al know that the global warming crisis is a fraud and a scam designed to strangle the economy of the United States while enriching the likes of Al Gore.
    I know it’s often pointed out
    The sun doth rise each morn
    And fill the world with light and heat
    E’er since the earth was born
    We know a little bit just how
    The sun doth get its glow
    It’s hydrogen and helium
    For those who’re in the know
    Unlike our Al who seems to think
    The sun has naught to do
    With temperature on this fair earth
    He thinks it’s me and you
    Who cause the temps to fluctuate
    But always up, not down
    And since it’s always up he claims
    The world will shortly drown
    As ice caps melt and seas do rise
    And coastal cities flood
    And mountain sides and fertile lands
    Get covered up in mud
    A Nobel Prize is what he got
    For nonsense such as this
    And now he’s sitting pretty in
    A monetary bliss
    Just thinking of the why and how
    His life had turned out thus
    From riding shotgun from back seat
    Of Billy Clinton’s bus
    To losing to the hated Bush
    To making people sweat
    He smiles a smile and wonders how
    Much better can it get”.
    …-
    “High Society”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/11/15/high-society/#comments

  19. Another cut to the arts.
    …-
    “Salem: A TV show so Canadian, you could cringe”
    “I’m not saying it was unwatchable … well, not all of it, anyway. Okay, let’s be honest, all of it. Including the commercials.”
    “I haven’t seen the figures yet on how many people actually tuned in to the Calgary-based broadcast, but I’m going to assume that you, dear readers, were probably not among them.
    I’m happy to have taken the bullet. And even happier to share the pain.
    Let me break it down for you:”
    …-
    The unwatchable:
    http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/726183–salem-a-tv-show-so-canadian-you-could-cringe

  20. Yeah maz2 but it looks like Fat Albert has suffered a setback. Seems it is a generally accepted fact that this Copenhagen climate thing is over before it even starts. Even the world’s saviour, Chimpy McBama says so.

  22. Re Copenhagen
    This time everyone is taking it seriously, as opposed to the PR exercise thta Chretien engaged in. This means they are looking at real effects of committments, how serious things need to be and no pollyannaish attitudes. That last point means, no cuts just to acheive a moral high ground. This is a serious negotiation being conducted by serious players.
    Dion would be playing poker like a freshman frat boy, as would Iggy. The other players around the table are protecting their pots and their economies, we would be wise to do the same, as we appear to be.
    Bottom line though, I suspect there will be a deal, it is just that everyone is downlplaying expectations so that whatever deal emerges wont be subject to withering fire from envronuts, who want the whole world to go “back to the garden”.
    Its times like this I welcome pirates like the Chinese to the world. They arent subject to fits of ideological insanity, having had their fill of it about 50 years ago.

  23. Yahoo News UK: Actor Edward Woodward dies aged 79
    Veteran actor Edward Woodward, who was known for his roles in The Wicker Man and The Equalizer, has died…
    He had quite the voice, too. Here he is singing The Soldiers of the Queen.

  25. Nice bit of culture and class there Maz2 and Charles MacDonald. Should be a little more common outside of Vitruvius’ efforts to calm the beast.

  27. PET Cemetery* announces: New Temple open.
    Liberal Iffy’s Temple of Multiculturalism is now open for busine$$.
    Monitors wanted: apply here*.
    BYO kerpan.
    …-
    “Police to monitor charged presidential vote at Sikh temple The Province”

  28. Larben – I wasn’t aware that GWB had been running for a 3rd term in 2008? Please enlighten us.
    ~Robert W.
    I was paying attention to the U.S. election in 2008 and it was glaringly obvious that Obama and the other Democrats were running against George W. Bush, not the existing slate of Republican candidates.
    Truth be told, they are still running against Bush and his record, as understood by the Leftist mindset, and will still be running against it for a while to come because they can’t run on their own records.

  29. “*Many slaves captured from the African interior died on the long journey to the coast.”
    Many of the slave drivers were Muslim Arabs. Slavery is still alive in Islam.
    …-
    “White South African granted refugee status (In Canada because of his color )
    An Ottawa man has been granted refugee status after an immigration board panel ruled he would be likely be persecuted if he returned back to his native South Africa — because he is white.
    A Canadian immigration and refugee board panel ruled Thursday that Brandon Huntley, 31, could stay in Canada because he presented “clear and convincing proof of the state’s inability or unwillingness to protect him.”
    “I find that the claimant would stand out like a ‘sore thumb’ due to his colour in any part of the country,” tribunal panel chair William Davis said in his decision to grant Huntley refugee status.
    It’s likely the first time a white South African has been granted refugee status in Canada claiming persecution from black South Africans, said Russell Kaplan, Huntley’s immigration lawyer.
    “There’s a hatred of what we did to them and it’s all about the colour of your skin,” Huntley said of the violence wrought by black attackers on many white South Africans”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387432/posts
    …-
    *”African slavery apology ‘needed’
    Traditional African rulers should apologise for the role they played in the slave trade, a Nigerian rights group has said in a letter to chiefs.
    “We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless,” said the Civil Rights Congress.
    The letter said some collaborated or actively sold off their subjects.
    The group said it was time for African leaders to copy the US and the UK who have already said they were sorry.
    It urged Nigeria’s traditional rulers to apologise on behalf of their forefathers and “put a final seal to the history of slave trade”, AFP news agency reports. Civil Rights Congress president Shehu Sani says they are calling for this apology because traditional rulers are seeking inclusion in the forthcoming constitutional amendment in Nigeria.
    “We felt that for them to have the moral standing to be part of our constitutional arrangement there are some historical issues for them to address,” he told the BBC World Service.
    “One part of which is the involvement of their institutions in the slave trade.”
    He said that on behalf of the buyers of slaves, the ancestors of these traditional rulers “raided communities and kidnapped people, shipping them away across the Sahara or across the Atlantic”.
    Millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas over a period of about 450 years from the middle of the 15th Century.
    More than a million people are thought to have died while in transit across the so-called “middle passage” of the Atlantic, due to the inhuman conditions aboard the slave ships and brutal suppression of any resistance.
    *Many slaves captured from the African interior died on the long journey to the coast.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384564/posts

  30. Goreacle Report: No problem as Prince Chuck is safe at home and is knitting bootees for penguins.
    …-
    “British ‘penguin tourists’ trapped in Antarctic ice
    MORE than 100 penguin-loving tourists including dozens from Britain are trapped by ice off Antarctica aboard a Russian ice-breaker cruise ship…
    The Kapitan Khlebnikov is in a bay near Snow Hill island, located off the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula, and cannot leave as the bay is sealed off with ice…
    Everything is calm aboard the ice-breaker, nothing is threatening the passengers and crew…
    There were 105 passengers aboard the vessel …The ship has been at its current location for four days.
    “To put it plainly, the ship got stuck between an island and an ice massif.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387473/posts

  31. The hysteria knows no bounds. Not even the UN can resist peddling unfounded fear to advance their leftist agenda.
    UN chief calls for global climate deal to ensure food security
    http://www.chinaview.cn 2009-11-16 20:36:45
    ROME, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for a global deal on climate change during a three-day summit on food security held here at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters.
    There could be no food security without climate security, the UN chief said at the summit, where more than 60 heads of state are gathering to discuss measures to eradicate famine and solve the ongoing food crisis. He urged the world leaders to take concrete measures to eradicate world famine and forge a deal at a Copenhagen meeting next month on global warming.

  32. Right on, Oz, I had the same perception I guess, funny thing is I “liked” Bush, but then again, I liked Nixon too.

  33. In furtherance to the issue of sexual abuse we find an ad for amazon.ca in the G&M that describes a CD for sale called “Sacrificium” which pictures, one supposes, a demasculated young man, asking us to “Explore the lost jewels of the Baroque era as Cecilia Bartoli uncovers the extraordinary world of the Castrati and sings the glorious music they inspired”.
    Talk about insensitivity and flippancy over the abuse of young boys!

  34. “Dion would be playing poker like a freshman frat boy, as would Iggy. The other players around the table are protecting their pots and their economies, we would be wise to do the same, as we appear to be.”
    Nice analogy. Dion, Iggy and BO are better suited to the funny-money tables because that’s who they remind me of. I’m often hard pressed not to ridicule someone spouting their success at these no-risk tables. These people truly believe they have experience and skills even though they don’t have the ballz to put their money where their mouths are. The poker term “fish” definitely describes the aforementioned Liberals in this context. Thank-goodness we’ve got an astute man managing our chip stack.

  36. Thank-goodness we’ve got an astute man managing our chip stack.
    Posted by: Indiana Homez at November 16, 2009 1:02 PM
    That ‘astute man’ holding our chip stack is instituting a carbon tax next year.
    This is to transfer wealth among constituencies, and, attract the inevitable vote buying that attends it.
    Iffy and the (other) Professor are marginal in any analysis, but they both support, and desire a carbon tax/green shift in a sparsely populated, northern country (ie: energy = life).
    As does Harper.

  37. Blackpeace is the newO?
    O’narcissist* is Out.
    “*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    The Red-Greens are in retreat.
    …-
    “Greenpeace to take poverty focus”
    “*He said Barack Obama no longer reflected the urgency about the planet he had during his election campaign.”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8362202.stm
    *O’narcissist:
    “The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist.
    This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  38. I don’t disagree with your sentiments, Oz but there were LOTS of factors that affected that election not the least of which was McCain’s ineptness.
    Note: If Obama had lost I would similarily not have said that it was a victory for Bush.

  40. From JoNova
    The rise of the Unskeptical Scientist
    I’ve done it, I’ve finally solved the dilemma of how to refer to scientists who actively promote a crisis due to carbon, but can’t provide the evidence that carbon causes major warming. Not Team-AGW, not alarmist, A far better one has come to me.
    Once upon a time, a scientist and a skeptic used to be one and the same thing. Actually, it still is. The motto of The Royal Society — the longest lived scientific association in the world, is Nullius in Verba — “On no one’s word” (take no one’s word for it). The Climate Industry marketing has tried to turn “skeptic” into a dirty word. So in perfect symmetry, if we are Skeptical Scientists, they are obviously:
    the Unskeptical Scientists
    (or “Unskeptics” for short).
    http://joannenova.com.au/2009/11/the-rise-of-the-unskeptical-scientist/

  43. That being said Hard, it doesn’t hurt nearly as much when I dump chips into my wifie’s stack.
    Speaking in strictly poker terms, you can actually control the some of the action in a hand using this method. You can over bet your hand pushing a stronger hand out knowing that your chips will go to your “partner”. This is a legitimate way to create an advantage for yourself at a poker table.

  44. Peddling fear used to be the media’s full-time job (anyone recall ‘if it bleeds, it leads’….?). Now, it’s the job of endangered UN apparatchiks and terminal bureaucrats.
    But obviously, climate change – at least in this stage of the game – is as yet isolated to
    UN chief Achim Steiner warns of high cost of climate delays
    • Plea for world leaders to avoid Copenhagen failure
    • Deadlock poses enormous ‘human and financial risks’
    * Damian Carrington, John Harris and Suzanne Goldenberg
    * guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 November 2009 20.09 GMT
    The likely delays in sealing a global deal to fight climate change would have a “human cost”, and increase the risks of great harm to the planet and the economic costs of dealing with it, the head of the UN environment programme said today.
    Achim Steiner also said there was an “extremely high” risk that the UN-hosted talks would drift into deadlock if the summit in Copenhagen next month failed to deliver a meaningful agreement. “The world has been focused on this moment for years,” he told the Guardian.
    “There have been hundreds of meetings and summits and workshops. If you then take that momentum out you run the risk of entering into an open-ended process and before you know if it you are in the same situation as the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation talks.
    “There is a moral hazard in any attempt to further delay action on climate change,” he added. “Political leaders in Copenhagen will have to explain in a credible way to the 2bn-3bn people who are living on the frontline of climate change why they could not reach a deal.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/16/un-chief-copenhagen-climate-talks
    So many workshops, so little tax dollars to support….

  45. “….made up of itinerant politicians and bureaucrats who occupy their own world.”
    What’s wrong with this city and how it can be fixed
    By Mohammed Adam, The Ottawa Citizen November 16, 2009 12:44
    Long dubbed Fat City for thriving on federal largesse, Ottawa may be ripe for a new moniker: The city that just can’t think or act big.
    The fractious debate over Lansdowne Live has exposed a harsh truth: Ottawa seems incapable of anything grand or complex…….
    ……Andrew observes that standout cities thrive because they can draw from deep leadership pools that include an engaged private sector. In Ottawa, the pool is limited because the city’s largest employer is the federal government — made up of itinerant politicians and bureaucrats who occupy their own world.
    “The leadership that makes other cities work is bigger than the public sector. It is a coalition of the private sector and civil society, which Ottawa doesn’t have,” says Andrew, director of the University of Ottawa’s Centre on Governance.
    Taylor says the private sector in Ottawa is either too small or too disengaged to make significant contributions to the development of the city.
    For instance, when the Chamber Music Society tried to raise $8 million from the private sector for a concert hall, no one answered the call.
    “You have a business community that’s not committed to the city. We got one leader from high-tech (Larry O’Brien) and he didn’t understand how municipal government works,” he says.
    “Where are you going to recruit the leaders?”
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/What+wrong+with+this+city+fixed/2222065/story.html

  46. For the “Britain…where the foxes caper unmolested” thread
    ————————
    Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.
    […]
    Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6917328.ece

  47. Steve Coll, What if we fail in Afghanistan?
    Last week, I found myself at yet another think tank-type meeting about Afghan policy choices. Toward the end, one of the participants, who had long experience in government, asked a deceptively simple question: What would happen if we failed?

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