40 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Spent the afternoon listening to Jason Kenney. He had no notes, no prepared speech and just came in and started speaking. Very gifted politician I thought. He could have just taken the easy road with the immigration file and instead started reforms that you would think would have been extremely dangerous politically. Instead, he’s grown the party. Once he’s done with immigration he needs to be sent in to the Ministry of Heritage to see what can be done about the CBC.

  2. The US space program kinda petered out after all our former Nazi rocket scientists either retired or died.

  4. I think I just finished the internet. Dumb cat photos from the 1870s. (And be sure to check out “The story of radioactive super-scientist Marie Curie, as told by finger puppets”. Plus I think there’s something about Ben Franklin being a serial killer, but that seemed boring so I didn’t click it.)
    Stolen from Ace of Spades, as usual.

  6. Now the National Post is regurgitating this silly Leger online poll about the AB election, “Too close to call” blah blah blah. Who on earth thinks an online poll w 650 votes means anything? SDA could have linked to it and had Wildrose up 30 points.
    I thought Leger was the French word for “lightweight”, not “lazy” or “incompetent”.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/14/still-a-coin-toss-between-alison-redford-and-danielle-smith-following-alberta-election-debate-poll/

  8. In advance of the ‘Summit of the Americas’ (yeah, I’m laughing too), 12 – count ’em, 12 – Secret Service agents were sent home for allegedly consorting with some Colombian ladies of the evening, and then skipping out on the bill.
    I was pretty sure that honour was dead, but chivalry too?!
    And, from the numerous comments at Zerohedge, most too ribald to repeat here, I have purloined the following:
    The comely escort drew President Bambam into her chamber, and, falling to her knees, unzipped his pants and reached inside. A look of confusion crossed her face, but after a moment, understanding dawned. ‘Oh, that’s right.. you’re only half-black.’

  9. No video today. It was just a small gathering of “hardcore conservatives”. If you ever get invited to a chat put on by him I recommend going. You doubters that think these guys are going soft need to hear people like him speak. It takes time to turn around this crazy ship.

  10. Congrats to the Canadian Women’s Hockey team on their come back OT win over USA tonight at the World Championships. It’s been a long 3 years w/o the title.

  11. Turtle, as part of something else I’m working on and which you’ll likely see on SDA within a few days, I came across this listing of ALL the polls surrounding Alberta politics. The changeover in popularity from ABPC to WR has been stunning … no matter how much the National Post or anyone else in the Media Party wants to deny it.

  12. It looks like, as the lights of the election were sohne on the PC’s in Alberta, their warts were exposed to the electorate.
    Redford reminds me of Obumbum.An outright liar and damn dangerous.

  13. Turtle and Robert… the Toronto Ford/Smitherman mayoralty race was “neck and neck” also. It wasn’t until after the vote that that every news organization except The Sun was shown to have badly flawed polls. I look at it this way, if the media project defeat for their ‘chosen ones’ in advance, the half-hearted supporters might not bother to vote at all. This would elliminate even the chance of their faves rebounding on election night.

  14. Three articles at G&M on Alberta election.
    1)A 7 page spread with the headline “Danielle Smith: Is she Alberta’s Sarah Palin, or the future of Canada?” (1368 comments hehe)
    (2)Wildrose’s behaviour bonds aim to nip ‘bozo eruptions’ in the bud (211 comments)
    (3)Ex-premier Lougheed rises to Redford’s defence (Not your parent’s PC Party??? had good laugh at that one, 73 comments)
    The arrogant, condescending, ignorant attitude coming from the resident G&M readers is understandable considering the bombardment of misinformation and bias they are exposed to on a daily basis.

  17. @red jeff: and Frank Graves’ polls didn’t exactly predict the liberal evisceration last May…

  19. the end result is going to be the same, unless western civilization grows a survival instinct, but at least we can watch the islamists kill each other along the road…two examples of ‘muslim fraternity’ or is that fratricide ? Cain meet Abel…
    (Reuters) – The race for the Egyptian presidency took a dramatic turn on Saturday when the authorities disqualified front-runners including Hosni Mubarak’s spy chief, a Muslim Brotherhood candidate and a Salafi preacher whose lawyer warned that “a major crisis” was looming.
    Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, the Salafi, was disqualified because his mother held U.S. citizenship, the state news agency reported, confirming previous reports fiercely denied by the Islamist who says he is the victim of a plot.
    Abu Ismail’s lawyer, Nizar Ghorab, told Reuters he expected “a major crisis” in the next few hours.
    http://somalilandsun.com/index.php/somalia/535-al-shabaab-execute-al-amriki
    (Somaliland Sun) — The al-Qaeda-allied group al-Shabaab executed US-born jihadist Omar Hammami on April 5th, according to unconfirmed Somali media reports.
    He was reportedly beheaded on the spot and buried somewhere between Marka and Baraawe.
    A group of foreign fighters and other top al-Shabaab members, including Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, also known as Fuad Shongoole, reportedly fled to the Galgala Mountains following the news of the execution.
    Other leaders who left upon hearing the news include Hassan Dahir Aweys and Mukhtar Robow, Gedo Online reported.
    Aweys recently accused other al-Shabaab leaders, including Godane, of shedding the blood of Muslims and murdering innocent civilians in the name of Islam. He described the actions of al-Shabaab’s leaders as far removed from Islam.
    Somali analysts say the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab group is on the verge of splintering due to deepening internal divisions exacerbated by recent military setbacks.

  21. expect the dhimmi court in Britain to block extradition on the grounds that he might be found guilty…
    Leading British Muslim leader faces war crimes charges in Bangladesh
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/9204831/Leading-British-Muslim-leader-faces-war-crimes-charges-in-Bangladesh.html
    Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, director of Muslim spiritual care provision in the NHS, a trustee of the major British charity Muslim Aid and a central figure in setting up the Muslim Council of Britain, fiercely denies any involvement in a number of abductions and “disappearances” during Bangladesh’s independence struggle in the 1970s.
    Mohammad Abdul Hannan Khan, the chief investigator for the country’s International Crimes Tribunal, said: “There is prima facie evidence of Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin being involved in a series of killings of intellectuals.
    “We have made substantial progress in the case against him. There is no chance that he will not be indicted and prosecuted. We expect charges in June.”
    Mr Mueen-Uddin could face the death penalty if convicted.
    Mr Mueen-Uddin, then a journalist on the Purbodesh newspaper in Dhaka, was a member of a fundamentalist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, which supported Pakistan in the war. In the closing days, as it became clear that Pakistan had lost, he is accused of being part of a collaborationist Bangla militia, the Al-Badr Brigade, which rounded up, tortured and killed prominent citizens to deprive the new state of its intellectual and cultural elite.

  23. The Joel:
    Warren Kinsella calls Danielle smith a liar in his blog – I called him on it.

  25. Warren Kinsella Calls Danielle smith a liar on his site, I call him on it and get banned.
    So much for the myth that the Left is Tolerant.
    Here’s what i posted on the sun webpage:
    “My name is Gord Tulk. I am a very frequent commenter on Warren Kinsella’s own blog (warrenkinsella.com) site and have been commenting there for at least three years. I am probably his most frequent commentor and site visitor. And even though I am very much a conservative and vigorously disagree with mosy of Warren’s views, he permit almost all of them to be posted.
    Until this morning.
    This morning Warren posted a snip of the above column along with a link to this page as he regularly does but with a headline that read(s):
    “In today’s Sun: Danielle Smith is Lying”
    I responded in a comment that I have known Danielle for about five years and have had private conversations with her about Abortion and SSM and that I can attest that she is not lying.
    Mr. Kinsella promptly banned me from posting on his site.
    so much for the tolerance of the left…”
    http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/04/13/smith-changes-her-tune-and-is-completely-off-key

  26. Odd, we are always told we hold this grand title. I guess someone needs to go there and instruct everyone on how they should eat and I have just the person in mind.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129799/Qatar-named-fattest-nation-earth-HALF-adults-obese.html
    Also from this article The nation also suffers from a high rate of birth defects and genetic disorders – which experts put down to the custom of inter-marriage between close family members and cousins.

  27. just another Sunday for the ‘religion of peace’
    KABUL, Afghanistan — A series of blasts have gone off in a neighborhood of the Afghan capital that is home to embassies and a NATO forces base. Sunday’s explosions were followed by gunshots. The site of the blast was not immediately clear. Sirens could be heard through the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood. Pedestrians in the streets took cover as shooting continued.
    At least seven large explosions and automatic gunfire rocked the central diplomatic area of Kabul and embassy alarms were sounding. Gunfire appeared to be coming from various directions in the heavily barricaded diplomatic area of central Kabul close to both the U.S. and British embassies.
    Neither embassy were immediately available to comment.
    Multiple blasts and gunfire have been heard in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul. The central district is home to a number of international embassies, although the site of the violence is unclear. Residents were reportedly running for cover and sirens wailing in the Wazir Akbar Khan district.
    Unconfirmed twitter activity:
    thomas_wiegold ‏ @thomas_wiegold RT @ruthowen: Zanbaq square near German embassy, on the way to GMIC and MOFA. Apparently attacks in Karte Se, Darulaman Road also. #Kabul
    Omid Farooq ‏ @OmidFarooq 4 heavy explosions happened in Zanbaq Square near to Kabul Star hotel #ToloNews
    Kabul Pressistan ‏ @Pressistan Kabul attack update: Kabul Star hotel on Charhi Zanbaq is on fire. More gunshots and blast are heard
    Kabul Pressistan ‏ @Pressistan More gunfire and blasts. Witnesses say it’s near Kabul Star hotel near camp eagers, palace, UN office and US embassy
    Graham Bowley ‏ @Graham_Bowley Exchange of gunfire in central Kabul. And more explosions. Sirens. Another bombs, shaking the windows. RPGs. Machine guns.
    Reuters India ‏ @ReutersIndia FLASH: Loud explosions rock central Kabul, sporadic gunfire continuing: Reuters witnesses
    Kabul Pressistan ‏ @Pressistan Kabul incident update: More witnesses report “blast and gunshots” in Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan area

  29. the real ‘bamanomics…the best gov’t money can buy
    Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges ‘Quid Pro Quo’ for Access to White House
    Access to the Obama White House is in direct correlation to the amount of money donated to the president’s reelection effort and the Democratic party, the New York Times reports today.
    The Times reports: “those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others. Among donors who gave $30,000 or less, about 20 percent visited the White House, according to a New York Times analysis that matched names in the visitor logs with donor records. But among those who donated $100,000 or more, the figure rises to about 75 percent. Approximately two-thirds of the president’s top fund-raisers in the 2008 campaign visited the White House at least once, some of them numerous times.”
    But the most explosive allegation in the news story comes from former Democratic congressman Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Ted Kenney, who calls what the Obama White House is doing “quid pro quo.”
    Patrick J. Kennedy, the former representative from Rhode Island, who donated $35,800 to an Obama re-election fund last fall while seeking administration support for a nonprofit venture, said contributions were simply a part of “how this business works.”
    “If you want to call it ‘quid pro quo,’ fine,” he said. “At the end of the day, I want to make sure I do my part.”
    Mr. Kennedy visited the White House several times to win support for One Mind for Research, his initiative to help develop new treatments for brain disorders. While his family name and connections are clearly influential, he said, he knows White House officials are busy. And as a former chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, he said he was keenly aware of the political realities they face.
    And Kennedy admits that folks in the White House are checking out the donor records:
    “I know that they look at the reports,” he said, referring to records of campaign donations. “They’re my friends anyway, but it won’t hurt when I ask them for a favor if they don’t see me as a slouch.”
    Literally translated, “quid pro quo” means “something for something.” As in, if you want something from the Obama White House, then give something (e.g., cash).

  30. ” Mr. Kinsella promptly banned me from posting on his site. ”
    Warren now has a posting up celebrating the banning of Mr. Tulk.
    The regulars are taking their shots. Kinsella is such a classy guy.
    I applaud SunNews for having a Liberal point of view on their newscasts,but couldn’t they find someone with a bit more integrity.In the past,Kinsella’s blog used to have the message that an e-mail address was required to posr comments,and the e-mail would not be disclosed. But Warren would publish your e-mail and your IP address if you upset him.
    He’s an over the hill never-been punk. He’s not a stupid man,he’s just not a man.

  31. The cbc has done another exemplary job of bringing Canadian the facts.
    They have this article headlined ” Harper’s baseball trip hit taxpayers with $45,000 tab “. They are also running the story on their news channels.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/13/harper-baseball-trip.html
    First off,it appears that whenever the PM leaves the country for an international meeting,the cbc runs a hit piece to deflect from the PM’s trip. It would be interesting to find out how long they have had this info.
    Next,and more important. The cbc arrived at the $45,000 total by calculating the expense of the Challenger jet at a little over $10,000 an hour. That is very misleading,actually it’s BS to use that figure.
    The $10G an hour number comes from the total cost of the jet over it’s lifetime,whether it is in the air or not,and even then it is likely the wrong number.That figure includes the purchase cost,maintenance,hangar cost,pilot salaries,etc.
    I do hope that the first cut is NOT the deepest.
    FIRE.THEM.ALL

  32. @wallyj
    Yeah I find it very difficult to read anything on the CBC web site , just too much raw sewage it annoy’s me to no end , knowing my tax dollars go to this garbage!
    So good on you for being able to read that crap .
    It is no surprise that kinsella would do this , it is how he is . It’s o.k let em spew all they want cause I along with the binary block of voters in Alberta have made up our minds as to who we are voting FOR!!!!

  33. Aw, hell, I just found out that the cancer link I posted on the 8th in the tips thread had been posted yonks ago by Black Mamba, making everything I wrote in that thread insane/redundant.
    #betterluckthistime:
    “The Population Control Holocaust: Remarkable essay on disturbing history, politics of the population control movement”
    via @The Browser
    b.rw/IxmmhO
    It describes government sponsored attempts across the planet to forcibly sterilize the disenfranchised, mostly women. It makes the point that the right to choose should also include the right to choose to have children.
    “On May 15, 1982, New York Times foreign correspondent Christopher Wren offered an even more devastating exposé. He reported on stories of thousands of Chinese women being “rounded up and forced to have abortions,” and tales of women “locked in detention cells or hauled before mass rallies and harangued into consenting to abortion,” as well as “vigilantes [who] abducted pregnant women on the streets and hauled them off, sometimes handcuffed or trussed, to abortion clinics.” He quoted one Chinese reporter who described “aborted babies which were actually crying when they were born.” The horror became so open that it could not be denied. By 1983, even Chinese newspapers themselves were running stories about the “butchering, drowning, and leaving to die of female infants and the maltreating of women who had given birth to girls.””
    In any case, it is an interesting article, and I do not think it has been posted already.

  34. All you have to know about the mentality of the left is in Obama’s statement:
    In calling for a hike in income tax to 30% on those who make more than $1-million a year, Mr. Obama told Florida university students this week that, in America, “prosperity has never trickled down from the wealthy few. Prosperity has always come from the bottom up.”
    So the Ford’s, Weston’s, Job’s, Edison’s, Carnegie’s and Rockefeller’s never created the millions of jobs at their companies nor the millions of related jobs in their suppliers and provided the source of wealth that gave the greatest prosperity for the greatest number of people in the history of the world, it was really those at the other end of this scale, who knew!
    Notice all these industrialists were in the private sector and actually made things. Today’s Wall Street rich, in collusion with their government friends, like Obama, make their personal wealth from shuffling paper that creates nothing except more paper.

  36. At the end of the day, all of the attackers will be dead, there will be few casualties on the gov’t side, no ground will be held by the taliban and the media will claim it’s another ‘Tet’.
    Which I dearly hope it will be. After Tet, the viet cong had lost so many men that it ceased to exist as a fighting force and the NVA was forced to take over openly instead of from the shadows. It’d be good for people to see who the real ‘behind the scenes’ power is on the jihadist side…
    (Guardian) — Kabul and several other key locations in Afghanistan were rocked by gunfire and explosions on Sunday as the Taliban-led insurgency launched its largest coordinated attack in its 11-year struggle.
    The onslaught began at 2pm local time, with gun and rocket attacks on high profile buildings in Kabul, including the British embassy and several other foreign missions, parliament and Afghan government ministries. Simultaneous strikes were launched in the nearby provinces of Logar and Paktia, and on the airport in the eastern trading city of Jalalabad. Five hours later, as dusk fell in the capital, gun battles were still raging. A Taliban claim to have attacked President Hamid Karzai’s palace could not be immediately confirmed.
    The attacks in Kabul resembled the audacious assault in September last year when gunmen stormed an abandoned, half-built tower from where they fired rockets on to the US Embassy, prompting a 20-hour siege by Afghan special forces.
    Only this time the scale of the attack in the capital alone was even greater. At least seven sites across the heavily guarded city were attacked, raising worrying questions about the Taliban’s continued potency despite intense US efforts to degrade them on the battlefield.
    Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said the attacks proved the movement’s strength. “The puppet government and its foreign backers claimed the Taliban would not be able to launch a spring offensive, but today’s attacks were the start of our spring offensive.”
    In the south-west of the city gunmen managed to climb a five-storey building site from where they fired on the Afghan parliament, the Commerce Ministry and the Russian Embassy.
    Some members of parliament, which is full of battle hardened former mujahideen commanders who fought a guerrilla campaign against Soviet occupying forces in the 1980s, grabbed weapons and joined parliamentary guards to try to repel the attack.
    Pamir Patang, chief of staff at the neighbouring Commerce Ministry, said one of the fortified guard positions at the corner of the large ministerial compound was destroyed by a rocket propelled grenade.
    “There appears to be quite a number of attackers who are well positioned inside the building and they are targeting us from there,” he said. “They used to just target the Afghan security agencies but now they seem to be deliberately targeting the country’s economic institutions as well.”
    He said various foreign advisers working for the British company Adam Smith International were still stuck inside the sprawling compound and would probably not leave until the area had been secured.

  37. Netanyahu to moonbats: “Have a nice day…somewhere else.”
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-flytilla-protest-real-problems-like-syria-iran/
    (Times of Israel) — The thousand “flytilla” participants expected to arrive in Israel Saturday night and Sunday will be greeted by a large police presence and an official letter telling them to “go to Syria and Iran.”
    “First solve the real problems in the region,” like the situations in Syria, Iran and Gaza, the letter reads, “and then come back to Israel to share your experience with us.”
    Members of the Prime Minister Office’s PR department will distribute the letter to protesters on arrival. It declaims them for choosing to “protest against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, where there is equality for women, a press critical of the government; where human rights organizations are free to act, everyone enjoys freedom of worship, and minorities do not live in fear.”
    The letter also wishes the ‘flytilla’ participants a pleasant flight, before they are deported back to their home countries.
    Earlier on Saturday, several European airlines canceled pro-Palestinian activists’ flights to Israel in advance of Sunday’s stand-off in Ben Gurion airport.

  38. Our CBC’s Suzuki AGW News.
    …-
    “Alberta, Saskatchewan called environmental ‘laggards'”
    “Some provinces are closing their coal-fired generating plants and introducing economic incentives to reduce their citizens’ reliance on fossil fuels.
    CBC.ca”
    “Icebreaker helping with Straits ferry crossings
    CBC.ca – ‎Apr 14, 2012‎”
    “The Canadian Coast Guard is providing help this weekend on the Strait of Belle Isle to help clear a backlog of travellers trying to get between Newfoundland and Labrador.”

  39. still more from the ‘religion of peace’
    TIMBUKTU, MALI (ANS) — A Christian leader has been beheaded and others are being threatened with similar treatment as Islamic militants run amok in Mali, West Africa.
    Christians have fled the town of Timbuktu in the north of the country where harsh Sharia Law has already been imposed amid reports that churches in Gao, 200 miles to the east, have been completely destroyed.
    The news comes in the wake of a military coup in the country, one of the effects of which is that sanctions applied from outside has cut off electricity supplies, further delaying reports of the latest upheavals along with desperate pleas for help.
    Among those affected is British Bible college graduate Timothee (Tim) Yattara, who recently returned home to his home country in a bid to help spread the gospel in this remote – and now dangerous – part of Africa located on the edge of the Sahara.
    Tim has fled with his family to Bamako, the country’s main city some 400 miles away in the south-west, but without the money to rent a house.
    “We have escaped in the wake of horrible death threats as the Islamists have a list of all the Christians in Timbuktu whom they intend to execute by beheading. As proof of their intentions, one leader has already been killed in this way and some churches in Gao have been demolished. Most Christians have already fled for safety, but Sharia Law has been imposed all over the north.

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