26 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Former London mayor, current mayoral candidate, and general embarrassment Ken Livingston:
    “I want to spend the next four years making sure that every non-Muslim in London knows and understands [Mohammed’s] words and message. That will help to cement our city as a beacon that demonstrates the meaning of the words of the Prophet.”

  2. “Over 30 Jewish graves were vandalized in a cemetery in the city of Nice in southern France, media outlets reported Saturday, five days after three schoolchildren and a rabbi were murdered in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse….The large cemetery in the eastern part of the city has some 600 graves, but the damages were only inflicted on graves in the Jewish section, the district’s head of investigations told reporters.”

  3. This story about a Nigerian Albino woman in Vancouver taking the Earl’s restaurant chain to the BC “Human Rights” Tribunal over its “Albino Rhino” beer was first posted in an earlier thread by ‘derka’.
    The next time you hear a Leftard arguing in favour of any HR commission in Canuckistan, throw this story at them.

  5. A really excellent piece on the apriori methodoloy of Austrian economics.
    Praxeology Over Positivism

    “If the correct way to proceed is from concrete to abstract,” then it is the Austrian methodology, praxeology, that approaches economic questions aright. Murray Rothbard often observed this distinction between economics and, for instance, physics. In Praxeology as the Method of the Social Sciences, he noted that “the economist is in the opposite position” from that of the physicist, that the former may proceed deductively from axiomatic premises that can be known with certainty. The approach or methodology of the Austrian School thus proves to be among its distinctive, defining characteristics, central to its superiority over neoclassical systems.
    [SNIP]
    The efforts of today’s court economists, forever enjoining still more state intervention in economic life, to abstract data away from any conceptual context are perfectly consistent with “the fatal conceit” Hayek warned of. There is a singular arrogance immanent in the notion that the right data (of course culled and interpreted by the right technocrats) is all that is necessary to properly modulate the economy through public policy. It should therefore come as no surprise that the advocates of totalitarian societal planning favor empiricism in economics; it ends up providing the rationales and justifications for what Hayek labeled “Cartesian constructivism,” the idea that society and its institutions should or must be deliberately and purposively plotted, as against simply emerging from the interactions of free people. To the totalitarian mind, the idea that anything rational or valuable to society as a whole could materialize absent a deliberate design is as laughable as the idea that economics ought to be examined using axiomatic principles that can be known a priori.

  6. I gobble up anything I come across by Gary North, a brilliant writer on Austrian economics. He has his own site but it’s behind a subscription wall.
    This piece, via Lew Rockwell.com, is about what it euphemistically called Quantitative Easing (QE). The first paragraph contains a link to what Mr. North thinks is the best short video he’s seen on the subject.
    Will Bernanke Become ‘Hurricane Ben’?

  8. Re-set for the CIA’s drone program in Pakistan:
    “The diplomatic furor threatens to halt the CIA’s drone program, which in the past eight years has killed an estimated 2,223 Taliban, al-Qaida and other suspected militants with 289 strikes, peaking at 117 strikes throughout 2010, reducing al-Qaida’s manpower, firepower and reach, according to Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal website, which tracks the strikes. U.S. officials say his figures are fairly accurate, and they would not give more precise figures.”
    Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120326/pakistan-cia-drones-120326/#ixzz1qHUMPlHi

  9. I’m in Alberta where an election was called this morning, and I just sat through the most offensive robocall “poll” you can imagine.
    As soon as I pressed “2” to indicate that I was planning to vote Wildrose, the questions changed to a personal attack: “Press 1 if you are opposed to proper health care, Press 2 if you think students don’t deserve to go to kindergarten, Press 3 if you think that people should be allowed to drive drunk up to the legal limit without consequence, etc., etc.
    I was shocked. And I’m getting emails from friends that got the same poll, it was apparently widespread and clearly from the PCs. Desperate times for them here.

  10. I just (about 9:00 pm Monday night) checked both the ctv.ca and cbc.ca websites, and searched both sites for “muslim book” and “how to beat your wife” and got no relevant hits anywhere. I guess Canada just doesn’t care about a Toronto bookstore selling out of books for muslim husbands on how to beat their new brides. See the previous stories here on SDA or the numerous stories on the Sun News website if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

  12. A new proxy method of temperature measurement disproves the IPCC’s contention that the Medieval Warm Period was limited to Europe.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120512/Global-warming-Earth-heated-medieval-times-human-CO2-emissions.html

    Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up.
    It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.
    A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ‘consensus’, the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.
    In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica – which means that the Earth has already experienced global warming without the aid of human CO2 emissions.

  13. Re: Bye Bye Blackbird.
    Great tune to be listening to on the radio while driving around the city on a rainy night–with a black 66 Mercury Montery 2 dr. Hardtop, a mickey of Captain Morgan in the glove box, a beautiful girl by your side and a reverberator on the rear speakers.
    (Listen to Julie London`s version.)

  18. Since prostitution is now all legal and stuff, should the workers join a union?
    CUPE comes to mind.
    Canadian Union Of Pubic Workers.

  20. Occam how can the anchors keep a straight face on that one. Is it seriously illegal to point your fingers at the police now?

  23. Just watched a thing of beauty on CNN! jeff Toobin,their legal èxpert`telling Wolf Blitzer that Obamacare in `grave danger`of being struck down in Supreme Court!! Poor Wolf is shattered,keeps trying to find some way,any way that this just can`t be happening.

  24. The cuts are rolling in drips and drabs. Word is Katimavik is being cut to ZERO. Never heard of it until now. Good riddance, it’s some Trudeau terrorist youth volunteer thing.

  25. but you can’t ask for proof of identity to vote…
    cue the moonbat mewlings of ‘raaaacist’….
    ontent.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/photo-id-to-be-required-to-take-sat-act-exams/1#.T3HfFdlnBh4
    All students taking the SAT and ACT college entrance exams this fall nationwide will have to provide photo IDs on their applications in a major security upgrade prompted by a widespread cheating scandal in New York’s Long Island, the Associated Press reports.
    The new testing requirements include making students upload a photograph of themselves, or mail one in, when they register for the college entrance exams, testing officials and a New York prosecutor announced today.
    The student will then receive an admission ticket, containing the scanned photo, to use to get into the testing site.

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