23 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Thanks for the music Robert. This group is my favourite. Interesting detail about Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the dark red-haired lady, is that she was daughter of a German soldier who returned home and did not realize that his Norwegian girlfriend Synni Lyngstad was pregnant. Synni died two years later and Frida’s grandmother raised her and moved to Sweden.

  4. Re: What Will Qaddafi’s Death Teach Our Enemies?
    October 20, 2011 11:28 A.M.
    By Mark Steyn
    No one should weep for the pock-marked old drag queen’s vicious end. But, if ‘twere done, ‘twere better it had been done by the Americans after Lockerbie, or by the Brits after one of his diplomats shot and killed a London policewoman, Yvonne Fletcher, in St James’s Square, or by any other western nation after one or other of his many provocations twenty years ago.
    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/280772/re-what-will-qaddafis-death-teach-our-enemies-mark-steyn

  8. Of AGW and Mastodons: Extinct.
    Going quietly into that dark night of extinction.
    …-
    Mastodons:
    “Old American theory is ‘speared'”
    “”You know, the Clovis-first model has been dying for some time,” he finished. “But there’s nothing harder to change than a paradigm, than long-standing thinking. When Clovis-First was first proposed, it was a very elegant model but it’s time to move on, and most of the archaeological community is doing just that.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15391388
    …-
    AGW:
    “Terence Corcoran: Climate issue off the agenda”
    “On eve of UN meeting, reports reveal an overwhelming urge to do nothing
    It’s been 23 years since I first wrote about the greenhouse effect and climate change for the Financial Post, on June 29, 1988. The column began:” […]
    “As a result, climate-change policy and carbon-emission controls are rapidly moving off the policy agenda. Benign neglect appears to be back in vogue.
    In the United States, a New York Times environment writer last Sunday lamented the fact that global warming has lost momentum. “America has turned agnostic on the issue,” it said. The article quoted Andrew J. Hoffman, director of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Sustainable Development: “In Washington, ‘climate change’ has become a lightning rod; it’s a four-letter word.””
    “A lot of policy and science talk but little action has marked the greenhouse gas issue since 1989. As economic turmoil and sovereign-debt crises spread, no government or politicians can seriously entertain major carbon adventures. Having made a mess of economic intervention, governments are not yet ready to do it all again over climate.”
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/10/20/terence-corcoran-climate-issue-off-the-agenda/

  9. A “thank God the trial has begun moment”:
    Father, mother and son finally on trial for killing Dad’s first wife and his 3 daurs, ages 19, 17 and 13 in Kingston by “pushing” a car into one of the locks at Kingston Mills.
    What the villainous trio didn’t know was that the car they returned to Montreal in was wired and, after pleading innocent, they heard this in court yesterday:
    At one point, said Lacelle (crown attorney) Mohammad Shafia is heard saying in a surveillance recording that they “betrayed us immensely.”
    “Even if they hoist me up to the gallows, nothing is more dear to me than my honour. There is nothing more valuable than our honour,” Lacelle quoted from a wire tap transcript.
    In another recording Shafia says, “May the devil shit on their graves.”
    Aren’t we proud we let those girls into Canada where they could be free from the dark-age tribal customs of their God-forsaken country?

  13. It never gets a mention in the media that dear Mr. Shafia is a polygamist as well as a murderer. As Mohamed and his brother Mohamed push for polygamy rights we can remember that before murder lots of abuse (honour) comes the way of the veil.

  14. OMG! no-one told me! Oh my so much to do, Ive got to get to the Beer Store, Oh my has anyone told those poor souls down in Toronto(the centre of the Universe) at the Occupy Toronto. Oh My, Oh My so much to do!
    Friday is Doomsday? No signs of such an event
    Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111021/friday-rapture-111021/#ixzz1bQKOapHU
    SAN FRANCISCO — A California ministry has again predicted the end of the world is at hand.
    The Oakland-based Family Radio International that stirred a global frenzy when it predicted the rapture would take 200 million Christians to heaven on May 21, now says the cataclysmic event will destroy the globe on Friday.
    This time, the ministry and its 90-year-old leader, Harold Camping, have avoided the media and perhaps a repeat of the international mockery that followed when believers awoke on May 22 to find themselves still on Earth.
    “I’m sorry to disappoint you, but we at Family Radio have been directed to not talk to the media or the press,” Camping’s daughter Susan Espinoza wrote in response to an email request about Friday’s doomsday scenario.
    Calls to the ministry in Oakland Thursday went to voicemail and were unreturned. Several followers who were contacted also declined comment.
    More…

  15. JJ – the polygamy aspect is being reported because it is thanks to the first wife of Mohammad Shafia that the police have such a tight case against them. Rona kept a diary and also telephoned relatives in Paris telling about her plight.
    Hopefully other immigrant women will hear the details of this case and will at least try to protect themselves as much as possible. It’s for certain that the system set in place will fail them, as it did in Montreal in this case.

  17. Another AGW fraud collapses.
    …-
    “Electric car UK sales sputter out”
    “Figures show that only 106 electric cars were bought in 2011 third quarter through ‘plugged-in car grant’ scheme”
    “Hopes that £5,000 government grants would make 2011 “remembered as the year the electric car took off” have been dashed with the release of new figures showing uptake of the greener cars has sputtered out.
    Only 106 electric cars were bought in the third quarter of 2011 through the “plugged-in car grant” scheme, launched in January. It marks a significant slump in demand on already sluggish-take-up, with 465 cars registered through the scheme in Q1 and 215 in Q2.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/21/electric-car-uk-sales-sputter
    “1 Jan 2011
    UK government launches £5,000 electric car grant scheme”

  19. “It never gets a mention in the media that dear Mr. Shafia is a polygamist as well as a murderer. As Mohamed and his brother Mohamed push for polygamy rights we can remember that before murder lots of abuse (honour) comes the way of the veil.”
    Posted by: JJ at October 21, 2011 9:32 AM
    This is my wife Aisha, and these are my other wives Aisha.

  22. Be kind to Hope and Fear.
    Socialism will never die as long as it remains a dead horse.
    …-
    “Euro crisis: Flogging a dead horse (till flayed and bloody)”
    “In almost two decades as a professional economist I cannot recall witnessing as much confusion and policy incompetence as this last week has shown,” said global economist Paul Donovan of UBS. “Regardless, we must hope that the euro can be made to work. The alternative is too hideous to contemplate.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/euro-crisis-flogging-a-dead-horse-till-flayed-and-bloody/article2203169/
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    “Fear is gobbling up politics”
    “Out of fear and ignorance, the politicians have been trying since the beginning of the financial crisis to beat the financial markets with their own weapons – and they can still flourish many trillions of euros more. But if they can’t remember to go back to playing by the rules of politics, they are bound to lose the arm-wrestle.
    Brigitte Fehrle
    Since the great financial crisis started several years back with the bankruptcy of the relatively small Lehman Brothers Bank, politicians have been living in fear: fear of an enemy they do not know and whose rules they are not familiar with. Since the crisis began, they’ve been trying to understand those rules that the banks, the hedge funds, the stock markets and the speculators play by. But not just that. Ever since the start of the crisis they’ve been trying to beat the banks and markets with their own weapons.
    That’s how the disaster got underway. Not that there hadn’t been similar crises before, like the tulip bubble in the 16th Century, when the speculation in perishable bulbs ruined a whole nation. In the Middle Ages, countries went bankrupt, and dynasties – the Welsers, the Fuggers, the Medicis – gave themselves up to the big banks. In the 1930s the Great Depression unleashed destructive forces around the world. In 2011, we do not know yet where the financial crisis is leading us.
    We know only – no, we feel – that the politicians are at a loss, that they’re as clueless as we are. We see politicians, economists and supposed experts asserting their convictions and handing out the answers, and yet all the while a sense of helplessness is written over their faces. And the simpler their answers get, and the fewer the doubts they express about the correctness of one or another path, all the greater is the sense of mendacity hanging over whatever it is that is being proposed.
    Political suicide
    Politicians seem to be powerless. Well, they are. They are powerless because they are playing by the rules of their opponent. Democracy thrives on transparency and openness, lives by its convictions and by citizens being enlightened about what their democratically elected representatives are up to, even if they do not agree with it. But the politicians today have pushed democracy to one side. They are behaving as if they were a player in the anarchic international financial markets, which obey only the logic of making money. The politicians have embarked on a trial of strength they are bound to lose.”
    http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1078321-fear-gobbling-politics

  23. Grecians ‘fraid of fear*? Her sister is Maria.
    Socialism sucks, surveys say, experts agree, the economic science is settled Grecians know.
    MSM’s headline uses “crippled”. That’s not pc.
    The Flight of the euros/fiat money.
    …-
    “‘Fear of the unknown’ strikes at heart of crippled Greece”
    Maria’s secret could get her fired. The manager of an Alpha Bank branch in Athens has been yanking money from her account even as she puts on a good face to customers, assuring them that the bank is safe.
    “I took out 50 per cent a week ago and put it in a safe deposit box in the bank,” she said earlier this week, a day before massive protests engulfed the city, emphasizing that her bosses were unaware of her non-confidence manoeuvre. “I am worried that all of the banking system will collapse.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-news/european/fear-of-the-unknown-strikes-at-heart-of-crippled-greece/article2210003/

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