Reader Tips thread, and a few pointers for the regulars to avoid having comments caught in the spam filter.
a) include no more than three URL’s in any comment.
b) avoid use of characters like &, =, +
c) avoid use of words like “poker” “online” “viagra” if you can
d) if you receive a message that your comment is being held for approval, don’t post it again! I will get to it when I can.
Finally, when quoting content from elsewhere, please keep it short.
The point of quoting is to provide a teaser, and then let readers decide for themselves whether to visit your link. A sentence or two is usually sufficient.
(I don’t have objections to longer comments of original content that arise out of normal discussion).
Looks like Guite’s going to spill the beans to try to save his hide. He got Renaud to infer that you don’t get Corriveau without Chretien, we all know that the lot of them are thieves that should be doing time with Brault.
Thank you for posting!
No tip, sadly.
Thanks Kate for the comments suggestions. I try to manage comments as best as possible given that I don’t have all the tech savvy.
I particularly refer to those items where a couple of underlined or coloured words point to a URL. Could have used one lately when wanting to point to an entertaining interview on CTV’s Question Period between Craig Oliver and Bob Rae. The actual video URL was 3 lines long.
Man Beaten in Own Home
Josh Pringle
Sunday, May 7, 2006
A 91-year-old man remains in hospital after being allegedly bound and beaten in his south-end home Friday night.
Ottawa Police say Harold Hyde’s son found him Saturday morning. … cfra.com
These home invasions have got to stop.
A 91 year old man in one and two children, 8 and 6 years old in another.
I know no form of penalty seems to work in the States and they have horrific crimes there, too.
I was around when the last of the sentences for the paddle were given out – I was a little too young to recall the last of the lashes being given out. But, the knowledge then was that the lash and the paddle were given out for sexual assaults on women (then called rape) and there was no recidivism. …
http://www.voy.com/178771/9571.html
A tip for those wishing to post a URL rather than posting a lengthy cut & paste (which uses up more bandwidth). Just go to this website and it will do it for you.
CBCpravda filtered out the latest story on teens murdering in Alberta because its first nations. and it doesnt fit the idealized utopia of first nations that they want to portray. instead of the complete meltdown of morals and care that is rampant.
My Shahiro PERKS…Shaspearo…Bernard says ok to Sens agme…wholost?
“Charmaine Crockett, a spokeswoman in Hill’s office, confirmed the whip had attended the game as a guest of Bell Canada, but said Hill received approval from ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro to attend the game.”
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13277.17
Milblogger Bill Roggio will be embedding with Canadian troops in Afghanistan
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/05/embedding_in_afghanistan_1.php
Clinton’s first act as …. (abortion pill)
“- President Clinton ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FDA to coordinate the marketing of RU-486 as his first official act in office. Within one month, the FDA Commissioner had met with the RU-486 manufacturer and parent company.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629357/posts
Clinton’s fastest act…… .
Clinton’s last act as … brother pardoned
Bill Clinton – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Official Presidential Portrait of President Bill Clinton. … On Clinton’s last day in office, he pardoned over 200 convicted felons, including his brother …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton – 198k – 8 May 2006 –
I thought I could complete the Census online but it appears I can’t because I don’t use a government approved operating system.
http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/05/04/233250.shtml?tid=136&tid=2&tid=132
“In 2006, Canadians can fill out their census forms online for the first time — but not if they use GNU/Linux, or are free software advocates who prefer not to install a proprietary version of Java.”
Most Windows users won’t be able to access the census online either unless they have the appropriate level of Java Virtual Machine installed. So much for web neutrality and equal access for all!
Apparently the right politics is a pre-requisite for U.S. government contracts.
Islamist terrorists in Canada…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629390/posts
Adnan El Shukrijumah alias confirmed!
CFP newspaper | May 8, 2006 | Judi McLeod
Posted on 05/09/2006 1:42:40 PM PDT by GPersaud
Train, who was the superintendent of the David Apartments at 47 Duke St., Hamilton, Ont., where El Shukrijumah lived between 1995 and 1998 as Ciro Vitolo, said he had no doubt about making the identity, exclaiming upon seeing the FBI-posted photo, “That’s him, that’s my tenant!”
“He was always sweating and had these shiny ears. The ears are even shiny in the photo”, Train said.
Last Sunday evening, (CFP) discovered a photograph identified as “Ciro Vitolo”–a dead ringer for El Shukrijumah–in a framed picture with the graduating engineering Class of 1998 on display in the hallway of the third floor in McMaster University’s John Hodgin’s engineering building.
CFP had been following up on a story heard at last weekend’s Washington, D.C. symposium on terrorism, sponsored by America’s Truth Forum in association with Basics Project.
More…………. canadafreepress.com
Commenter: GPersaud:
There’s a $5-million bounty on the head of El Shukrijumah, who is being sought by the FBI and CIA in connection with a plot to detonate a dirty bomb–a conventional explosive laced with radioactive material. El Shukrijumah has been described as “the next Mohammad Atta” by American authorities.
Canada’s new Universal Child Care Plan delivers choice, support and spaces to Canada’s families
May 3, 2006
OTTAWA — Human Resources and Social Development Minister Diane Finley today announced details of Canada’s Universal Child Care Plan which was formalized in last Tuesday’s Federal Budget.
http://www.universalchildcare.ca/en/home.shtml
Re a), b), and c) above: I plead not guilty to any of these variables in my comments. However, they are now quite routinely held up. Any suggestions?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “I Wonder What You Are Doing Here?”
Miss Kelly turns in an excellent report on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s appearance at Harvard’s JFK School of Government: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘I Really Wonder What You Are Doing Here at Harvard’.
The Q&A afterwards demonstrated the forces that Ayaan is working against….
Excerpt:
One business school student (Muslim male) asked “If Islam is so oppressive to women, how can you explain that Muslim countries like Pakistan and Indonesia have had women prime ministers?” Her response to that was deadly: “In some Muslim countries such as Iran and Afghanistan, under sharia, women are forced to wear hijab, adulters are stoned (mostly women, not the men), daughters get half the inheritance that sons do, and a man can easily get a divorce, while it’s very difficult for women to get divorced. In secular Muslim countries like Turkey and Indonesia, fundamentalist Islam is on the rise. Twenty years ago, Indonesian women did not go around in hijab, now it is commonplace. There is an attitude of denial in the face of a great deal of empirical evidence about the oppression of women. Anyone who denies this evidence is personally contributing to the subjugation of women.” (That means YOU, Dude).
via LGF
http://misskelly.typepad.com/miss_kelly_/2006/05/ayaan_hirsi_ali_1.html
at:
http://www.BlackFive.net
Small Town Veteran
… When a mad dog comes into your yard you don’t try to reason with it or calm it down, you kill it. period, before it has time to bite anyone.
That’s just the situation we’re dealing with here. How long are we going to put it off?
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See, my opinion is shared. Two days notice to clear Iran*s citizens and then precision bombing *Madmud*s* underground nuke concentrators. TG
Down with “bilingualism”.
This heinous policy has not prevented the province of Quebec from being unilingual “French only”.
Shoot the sacred cow of “bilingualism”.
Tory bilingual record blasted
OTTAWA (CP) – Past Conservative musings about bilingualism have Canada’s commissioner of official languages calling on the new government to boldly defend the principle of linguistic duality
cnews
Att: E. Thompson. Have your pen & writing pad with you at all times; put them under your pillow; remember: scoop is spelled republican george harper stephen bush.
Lead sentence for you here:
George Harper & Stephen Bush, root causes of Attack on Parliamentary Press Gallery by “insurgents”. Muffy and me survived while …
We now know that we have ‘homegrown’ terrorists in our midst … and now we can expect these terrorists to attack Canadians and probably soon … and I expect it to be in the National Capital Area – Ottawa.
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Al Qaeda attack on Canada ‘probable’
May 9, 2006. CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — While the threat from Al Qaeda remains strongest overseas, a terrorist attack on Canadian soil is “now probable,” the head of Canada’s spy agency has quietly advised the government.
… http://www.voy.com/178771/10028.html
Blacklisted by the CBC: Michael Coren
Last Thursday evening, I received the following e-mail from a CBC researcher/ producer named Ghazala Malik: “I am mailing you from CBC News Sunday — hosted by Evan Solomon and Carole MacNeil. I was wondering if you would be available to take part on our Political Panel this Sunday the 6th of May
via nealenews
To all the Svends: Stay under yer covers; keep ypur heads down, guys. … There are Joooss under your beds, too….. yer surrounded….
Missiles to be fired in military exercise
SIDNEY, B.C. (CP) – The first surface-to-air missile tests on Canada’s West Coast are part of the massive Trident Fury military exercise underway off Vancouver Island. Full Story
New Democrat: NORAD debate too late
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan for a Commons debate and vote on renewal of the North American Aerospace Defence (NORAD) Agreement is coming under fire as too little, too late.
via cnews
Be a “Cindy”; get away from the cinders, Ella.
This is a neat, savage, put-down of the MSM: truth -telling? Lazy, dumb/stupid, clueless, reporters. LOLOL…
“If you want a reporter to cover your story, you have to do all their work for them.”
This will not create a “buzz”-CAW- in the PPG (Parliamentary Press Gang).
Activist wants to lead Greens
Toronto Star – 7 hours ago
Long-time environmental activist Elizabeth May stirred a bit of a buzz by declaring she’ll seek its leadership. Reporters and camera crews covered the event — a major step forward. The leadership contest has been open for weeks. … via googlenews
Join the Red-Green, aka communist party. May shows how:
HOW TO BE AN ACTIVIST
by
Elizabeth May
The author, who has no academic credentials for activism, has based the following on over 30 years of campaigning. She is currently Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada.
How to be an Activist
There is no formal school for activists. No university degree qualifies the graduate to practice grassroots organizing. Environmental activists, like many other practitioners of social change, come in all shapes and sizes, from all walks of life, and even from all political parties. And all of us learn from experience. On the other hand, we should be able to benefit from the experience of others. Unfortunately, more often than not, people suddenly find themselves in a situation that requires a certain moral heroism. They had not planned to become activists. …
Modus Operandi …
The mainstay of your information and awareness campaign is going to be the news media. Hence, the environmental movement and the news media have an awkward and symbiotic relationship: they need us for stories, and the environmental movement certainly needs them. But environmentalists get frustrated with the superficiality of news coverage of issues that threaten planetary survival, and the news media get sick of hearing what they often regard as predictable whining from the greens. So how can you, with little or no media experience, be expected to break through to reasonably accurate coverage of your concerns? First, you should understand a few things about the news media.. Noam Chomsky’s analysis (“Manufacturing Consent”) notwithstanding, you can get your issue in the public eye.
It helps if you are able to see the story from the reporter’s point of view. There are very few newspapers or electronic networks with a full time environmental reporter. You are trying to get a reporter, who has to cover everything from tax hikes to crime on the street, interested in your story.
There are no Woodwards and Bernsteins. Calling and telling them there’s a big story out there if they do some really good investigative reporting will get your message consigned to the waste basket, (or, in an environmentally aware newsroom, the recycling bin.) If you want a reporter to cover your story, you have to do all their work for them. Think it through. Where’s the angle? “A local group of environmentalists are organizing to save the environment” is hardly an earth shattering story. Remember the old adage, “Dog bites man” is not a story. “Man bites dog” is.
Tie your issue to other political events, like elections or previous campaign promises. What are the financial issues? Is taxpayers’ money being wasted? Are jobs being lost? Are the environmental alternatives better for the economy? (They usually are.) Make it interesting to someone who doesn’t give a hydro-electric dam.
Fill in the “5 W’s” : Who, What, When, Where and Why. Make sure all your facts are absolutely accurate.
Write your own press release. It should read like a news story, not like your group’s manifesto. Put in quotes from group representatives. Be sure to include phone numbers so that reporters can call you to get more details and re-work your press release into their own story. …
http://www.sierraclub.ca/activist-publication/
Thanks Bruce for the tech info.
Here is Question Period interview between Craig Oliver and Bob Rae.
Oliver and Rae
Kate, It’s so good to see your site working again. It sucks when you have computer problems, I too was dealing with computer snakes. Back up in time to get caught up on your site. Your missed when things aren’t going right with your site. Good work on staying on Caledonia.
I also appreciate when you post your site rules. It helps us make your job easier. Take care.
Little known; Hizbullah whupped France and US both!
Wha.? A few paragraphs about when two big guys backed off from Hizbullah in Lebananon a while ago.
I condensed this to an easy to read short form, but the link to authority is there for the full picture.
http://TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
Gives you the gist, but saves a wading through history. TG