67 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. maz2,
    Wyclef is from Haiti and has long done charity work in the country through his charity Yele ( I believe is the spelling)

  2. No Guff, your experience with failure in your attempt to mobilize your neighbours explains why socialists of the right or left variety are able infiltrate and take over democratic governments.
    People are just too busy working, watching the latest reality show, discussing who scored the winning goal in last nights game, to care what happens in the political world. That is, until it is too late and then they wonder what happened.

  3. I am looking to donate to the Haiti relief effort but am at a loss as to who will do the most good with my money. I wont give to anything with the UN letters in there name, such as unicef. Maybe someone can post a list of organisations who make a difference without 80 percent overhead costs. Who takes paypal, or cash? Half the problem is who to give to, and how.
    Posted by: wuberman at January 15, 2010 8:21 AM
    I donated to the Salvation army they have been in Haiti since 1950.
    http://www.salvationarmy.ca/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/

  4. “The Fall of Obama
    By Charles Krauthammer
    WASHINGTON — What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama’s approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent — and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president’s second year.
    A year ago, he was leader of a liberal ascendancy that would last 40 years (James Carville). A year ago, conservatism was dead (Sam Tanenhaus). Now the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in bluest of blue Massachusetts is surprisingly close, with a virtually unknown state senator bursting on the scene by turning the election into a mini-referendum on Obama and his agenda, most particularly health care reform.
    A year ago, Obama was the most charismatic politician on earth. Today the thrill is gone, the doubts growing — even among erstwhile believers.
    Liberals try to attribute Obama’s political decline to matters of style. He’s too cool, detached, uninvolved. He’s not tough, angry or aggressive enough with opponents. He’s contracted out too much of his agenda to Congress.
    These stylistic and tactical complaints may be true, but they miss the major point: The reason for today’s vast discontent, presaged by spontaneous national Tea Party opposition, is not that Obama is too cool or compliant but that he’s too left.”
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/01/15/one_year_out_the_fall_99907.html

  5. Just up at Jihad Watch regarding Google censoring and Islam:
    (…)
    “What’s more, what with Google’s influence as by far the premier search engine, the idea that Western non-Muslims must make special allowances for easily-offended Muslims sets a precedent that can only bear bitter fruit in the future. Ultimately Google, and every individual, group, business, and governing authority in the West, is going to have to decide whether it is going to stand for the hard-won principles of free speech and free inquiry, or kowtow to Islamic supremacism and intimidation. When the censorship is voluntary and self-imposed, as in Google’s case, it is all the more shameful.”

  6. For those who are looking for a place to give to Haiti try the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). My friend used to be the head of disaster services in Alberta. When the tornado went through Edmonton a bunch of men showed up fully equipped and asked my friend what they could do. He gave them a task which they did. He was amazed that they all had their own lunch and never complained about their work. At the end of the work my friend asked the leader who they were. “Oh we’re from the MCC”.

  7. Grace V. Jean, ‘Culture Maps’ Becoming Essential Tools of War
    The U.S. military has access to the world’s best topographic maps. It is now trying to build “culture maps” that include details such as a region’s tribal affiliations, ethnicity, religion and language.
    The commander of U.S. Central Command, Army Gen. David Petraeus, in a number of speeches has repeatedly said that “human terrain” is the decisive element in counterinsurgency operations…

  8. Arif Jamal, The Growth of the Deobandi Jihad in Afghanistan
    Three students from Karachi’s Jamia Uloom al-Islamia left their Islamic studies half way to completion and took a train to Peshawar on February 18, 1980 to take part in the nascent anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Anti-Russian passion was their only weapon, but they wanted to practice what they had learned in the classrooms of their madrassa… They decided to call their three-member group the Jamiat Ansar-ul-Afghaneen (Party of the Friends of the Afghan people) and chose Irshad Ahmed as their first amir. The three students who formed Jamiat Ansar-ul-Afghaneen while still in their teens would later have a tremendous influence on the rise of Deobandi jihadism in South and Central Asia and beyond…

  13. Via Drudge
    Dems Threat: Senate can pass healthcare with 51 votes.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPg2UfFaCh9c&pos=9
    This is well known. I believe when the bill finally passed through Congress the final Democrat to sign made a haughty speech on how she wasn’t voting for the bill, only to allow debate in the Senate. At the time all pundits agreed that if the bill passed Congress the Senate would be able to skirt around the 60 Senate votes an pass a bill with only 51 votes.

  14. This is scary, kids. Bambam’s chosen appointee to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (kinda Orwellesque already, innit?) Cass Susstein authored a paper (while at Harvard Law, who would have guessed) that advocates government infiltration of “conspiracy theory” groups and websites. Among the conspiracy theories he considers or considered dangerous are the 9/11 “truthers”, the Watergate conspiracy theorists, and “climate change deniers”. Of course, he recognized that the Watergate conspiracy groups were actually right, but he still thinks that other groups should be infiltrated by government agents, acting officially or unofficially and anonymously. (Er, didn’t we try that in Canada already?) He even muses about the efficacy of shutting down “dangerous” websites.
    The whole horrid story, along with many links, and some interesting comments from both sides is at:
    http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/01/14/2226219/Obama-Appointee-Sunstein-Favors-Infiltrating-Online-Groups

  15. OH NO,another ‘Canadian’ is in big trouble —http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/01/15/terror-mumbai-canadian.html#socialcomments —

  16. Attila?
    Health Minister Attila?
    From Transylvania?
    …-
    “Romania to introduce ‘fat tax’
    Health Minister Attila Cseke hoping to raise £860 million to finance nation’s battle against growing obesity”
    (TimesUK)

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