22 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Where is EBD ?
    Anyway I hope he/she is just busy with life. But if not my thoughts and prayers go out to this person.

  4. The dips have had considerable candidate withdrawal in Alberta Saskatchewan and probably coming up in Manitoba due to social media ” problems”

  5. Publicity stunts like the most recent one at the remote northern Ontario aboriginal community Atawhatdafuk became inevitable when the Lieberals announced they would be more ‘aboriginal friendly’ than the Cons if elected. It worked to mobilize the aboriginal vote and along with the urban-eloi-millennial-twitter vote, it gave them the margin to form a government. Now every aboriginal group is clamoring for media attention to leverage a bigger slice of Lieberal-Government-Pie.
    Atawhatdafuk certainly deserves recognition for the innovative attention-getter of an alleged children’s group suicide pact, and for it’s utter shamelessness. “Give Us More Money – Do It For The Children”. The aboriginals saw how a media flogged image of an allegedly drowned Syrian refugee child mobilized Canadians and the government to give money like it was a crisis that only more money could fix. They understandably want that money spent on aboriginal first immigrants, not on Jafar-Come-Lately Middle-Easterners.
    So grab a comfortable seat and a bowl of popcorn as the 2016 Aboriginal Victim’s Compensation Games begin. We’re off to a good start and it’s not even Pow-Wow season yet.

  6. “The law signed in Mississippi last week allows people with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and permits employers to cite religion in determining workplace policies on dress code, grooming and bathroom and locker access.”
    What on earth is the problem? The issue is freedom of association, and no one’s rights are being violated.
    Private organizations who provide wedding services have the right to work with or not work with anyone they want, whether over religious objections or not. That recent Oregon situation was a travesty of justice.
    Employers have the right to determine their workplace policies on all these matters, again, whether for religious reasons or not.
    Decades ago, the leftists wanted to end race-based violence against blacks, and without question they were right.
    More recently, they wanted same-sex marriage, and that’s fine too, provided it’s a state initiative and they don’t try to impose it on religious organizations.
    But now when they want to allow men to use women’s bathrooms, they’ve gone too far, and they should be informed in no uncertain terms.
    And you can bet they won’t stop there.

  7. Anyone with a handicap that confuses them about their gender can use the handicapped washroom. That’s what they’re there for. Every weirdo minority does not need special treatment.

  12. “Why not leave as much of our money in our pockets as possible so that we can better mould the services we seek and the goods we buy to our own individual tastes and, into the bargain, greatly ease your budgetary woes, saving untold billions of governmental expense at a stroke by not having to pay extra pointless intermediaries first to take in, then to pay back out, then to police both the taking in and paying out of vast swathes of our what were our own monies to begin with? Robbing Peter to pay Paul is bad enough. Robbing Peter to hire Paul to put money back in Peter’s pocket and then Percy to check it was done correctly is sheer idiocy.” – Sean Corrigan, commenting on the Panama Papers. Excellent rant.
    Read the whole thing at:
    http://www.cobdencentre.org/2016/04/avoiding-the-issue/#sthash.XTluwIwc.dpuf

  14. EBD signed off a few months ago, due to business-life commitments that didn’t allow him the time to continue with RT. I miss him, too!

  15. Sorry, Jean, but I find your post particularly insensitive. The teen suicides are very tragic and reflect the reality of these people’s lives. They are not a political ploy. The situation should not be trivialized.

  16. Distributing a Suicide Crisis Kit like this one would go a long way to actually solving the problem.
    Do you have a Suicide Crisis? Have you attempted suicide and failed like with everything else in life? We have an app for that.
    Install this free app in your i-phone, i-pad, i-whatever, and get step by step instructions for 100% success every time.
    Use the tried and true method most successful suicides employ. Leave minimal mess, and a body good for open casket service.
    Guaranteed to work first time every time, or your money refunded.
    Instructions include rope selection, tying noose and bowline knots, selecting the best tie off, picking the right size stool or chair, setting the noose, kicking the chair.
    This may seem insensitive on the surface but it forces one to make a decision, and not continue playing with the suicide fantasy because it brings attention to someone’s bored, empty life. Someone thinks they want to opt out? OK here’s how, see ya. If they can’t do it, then they must confront the fact they want to live, and therefore face what do they want to do with their life.
    Yes, a few will actually suicide. Statistics show they were going to keep trying till they were successful anyway. Best to do it humanely and not make a mess. We should use our limited mental health resources to help those who want to help themselves.

  18. Simply lowering taxes doesn’t interest many politicians. As Glenn Reynolds points out at Instapundit, there are insufficient opportunities for graft

  20. Don’t infer that my comments trivialize teen suicide. The comments are directed at the latest scam from the aboriginal community of Attawapiskat. You may remember the stunt by their obese Cadillac SUV driving Chief who went on a ‘hunger strike’ and became even more obese. They announce some form of crisis every year to solicit media attention.
    The story that got the media all agog Monday morning was an allegation that eleven people ‘attempted suicide’ in the community over the weekend. However as the story unfolded, there wasn’t any real suicide attempt that weekend. Not unless one counts the usual cases of people drinking or drugging themselves into unconsciousness that happens in every aboriginal community. Then the story became an alleged ‘suicide pact’ by eleven kids. Suddenly the community got the media attention they wanted and off it ran. It’s a scam using people’s misconceptions of ‘suicide attempt’ to prey on people’s emotions to get more media attention so they can leverage more money for Chiefs and Councillors to spend with no accountability. The foolish Lieberal govt. is quite willing to oblige.

  21. AGW RIP.
    Knock, knock! Who’s there? Canuck. Canuck who?
    “… open the door for cold air from Canada to seep southward across the eastern Rockies and western Plains.”
    …-
    “Powerful April snowstorm to bury Colorado Rockies, High Plains this weekend”
    “While wild changes are not uncommon this time of year, it will still be a shock for many,” Adamson said.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/powerful-april-snow-storm-colorado-rockies-high-plains-denver-cheyenne-wyoming/56695537

  22. You mean this entire flap was over eleven kids drinking themselves unconscious? When I was in high school, we called that “the weekend”.

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