30 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  6. “Russia will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites”
    Hmm.. Do we make rocket engines anymore? I thought the Russian engines (they had foolishly abandoned) were found to be so superior that we just dumped our design.
    BTW
    Ex Democrat Harman (she was on the Pelosi intel committee) was on the Sunday talk shows last week. She suggested that Russia should be nice & help the USA with Iran & Syria. It is obvious why!

  7. synchrodox
    Re: Peter Mansbridge
    I think the anti-Harper comments have finally come to haunt him!!

  11. “The number of Jews leaving France is steadily increasing. French people who have the financial means also leave the country. Most others expect the worst. Polls show that the French are now the most pessimistic people in Europe. They also show that more than 70% of the French are afraid of the rise of Islam in France: they expect that France will become a country under submission to Islam.”
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4306/france-submits-to-islam

  13. Ad$Scam NDP.
    Citoyen MulcairBloc’s Ad$cam scandal:
    “the misuse of taxpayer funds for partisan political purposes.”
    …-
    “Mulcair’s turn in the ethics spotlight”
    “After staking out the ethical high ground on the Senate Scandal, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has been caught in an imbroglio of his own, involving the misuse of taxpayer funds for partisan political purposes. Not surprisingly, both the Liberals and Conservatives are having a field day with the story.”
    “… the NDP has been running a satellite office in Montreal employing both party workers and Parliamentary personnel. Rent for the office was paid for by the party, but employees were on the payroll of MPs. The office also shared space with partisan staffers, who, according to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, sold party memberships, a charge the NDP denies. Conservative MP Blake Richards further charged that the office improperly was “being used for party purposes, fundraising seminars that they held, and being used as the address of some of their riding associations, for example.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/05/15/tasha-kheiriddin-mulcairs-turn-in-the-ethics-spotlight/

  18. The following article was written a year and a half ago but is very relevant because of its long range ramifications for America as well as we Canadians. It is lengthy, but worth reading.
    The Decline and Fall of the American Empire by Rabbi Pruzansky
    “That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues – the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness – no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate. The notion of the “Reagan Democrat” is one cliché that should be permanently retired.”
    http://rabbipruzansky.com/2012/11/07/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/

  19. “Economies of oil-rich provinces not only best in Canada, they are best in world: Conference Board”
    “In a new twist on its global report card, the think tank ranks Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland as the world’s only A-plus economies”
    http://www.financialpost.com/index.html
    …-
    “Air Canada to keep 25 Embraer jets in blow to Bombardier CSeries”
    “Montreal-based Air Canada had been evaluating the CSeries as a replacement for its Embraer jets since announcing in December an order to buy Boeing Co. 737 Max planes valued at $6.5 billion.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2014/05/15/air-canada-loss-widens-on-weak-canadian-dollar-rough-winter/

  22. I was just going to post that tip. Although I’m not entirely comfortable with government breaking contracts without compensation…I’m quite sympathetic to the idea of “live by the sword, die by the sword”. The government’s mangling of the energy industry through regulation and subsidies to benefit well-connected cronies needs to be corrected. Citizens, energy intensive industries, consumers and taxpayers have been taken to the cleaners by green energy lobbyists and environmental activists. If politicians can enact harmful policies then new legislation should be allowed to correct the problems/unintended consequences. If you get in bed with politicians then you should expect that you might get, well, you know.
    The best solution is smaller, less intrusive government that doesn’t interfere in the free market, of course. Government has far more failures than successes when it chooses to micromanage key markets – food, energy, housing to name a few.

  23. “China reverts to credit as property slump threatens to drag down economy”
    “China’s authorities are becoming increasingly nervous as the country’s property market flirts with full-blown bust, threatening to set off a sharp economic slowdown and a worrying erosion of tax revenues.
    New housing starts fell by 15pc in April from a year earlier, with effects rippling through the steel and cement industries. The growth of industrial production slipped yet again to 8.7pc and has been almost flat in recent months. Land sales fell by 20pc, eating into government income. The Chinese state depends on land sales and property taxes to fund 39pc of total revenues.”
    “We really think this year is a tipping point for the industry,” Wang Yan, from Hong Kong brokers CLSA, told Caixin magazine. “From 2013 to 2020, we expect the sales volume of the country’s property market to shrink by 36pc. They can keep on building but no one will buy.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2014/05/15/evans-pritchard-china-reverts-to-credit-as-property-slump-threatens-to-drag-down-economy-3/

  24. Citoyen MulcairBloc’s Ad$cam.
    “It’s the first time in Canadian history that an opposition leader has been ordered to testify at a committee, the Library of Parliament says”
    …-
    “Tom Mulcair defends NDP’s satellite offices during committee grilling as Tory MP calls him ‘evasive’”
    “Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth said that regardless, “having House of Commons resources working out of a partisan, political office,” creates a “poor appearance.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/05/15/tom-mulcair-grilled-at-house-of-commons-committee-over-satellite-ndp-offices/

  25. PET Cemetery Report.
    “But Jesus said suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew)
    …-
    “The archbishop of Toronto has sent a scathing letter to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau on abortion”
    “Margaret Somerville: Pierre Trudeau would turn in his grave if he saw his son’s abortion stance”
    “Trudeau Liberals say they will not change abortion position despite intervention from archbishop”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html

  26. “New York Times: How the American dream became the Canadian dream”
    “The Canadian dream
    The New York Times today laments the erosion of the “American dream,” noting how it has moved north.
    Columnist Nicholas Kristof’s piece – It’s now the Canadian dream – defines this as the quest for affluence and the opportunity to conquer issues such as social class.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/top-business-stories/new-york-times-how-the-american-dream-became-the-canadian-dream/article18678434/

  27. Yes, the USA still makes rocket engines. United Launch Alliance, a collaboration of Boeing and LockMart, make both the Atlas and Delta Family of rockets. They got a great deal on the old Russian RD-180 engines at only $10 million each (which was probably at or below cost for the Russians, who desperately needed the hard currency at the time), and now the Atlas uses the RD-180 exclusively. Delta still uses the Rocketdyne RS-68 engines.
    SpaceX has their own engines in the Merlin series and the upcoming methane-burning Raptor series.

  28. Trey Gowdy VS Michael Morell, former & sometime director of the CIA.. and asking how CNN is going to cover their past coverage of the Benghazi incident / terrorist attack.
    As interviewed on CNN, posted here because you know.. nobody’s going to see it if it’s just on CNN…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB13cBC_MjU
    It starts slowish, speeds up a bit in the middle, the last minute is gold if CNN isn’t your thing.
    #CNNbashing

  30. Trouble at the Top
    Chinese officialdom is in turmoil.
    In little over a year, close to 60 Chinese officials have died of unnatural causes, with most being suicides. The strong suspicion is that this epidemic of mysterious deaths among China’s elite is likely tied to the anticorruption campaign being led by Chinese president and party general secretary Xi Jinping.
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/trouble-top_791180.html

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