Reader Tips – Scottsdale

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An open thread for your readers tips. If all has gone as planned, I should be in the Miniature Schnauzer ring in sunny Scottsdale, AZ right about now. Wish us luck!

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  2. I’m predicting a new word is about to enter our political lexicon:
    “Dionaster”
    (noun) Suggested definition: The near-complete decimation of a formerly powerful political party at the polls as a result of the ascension of an inept, ineffective and incomprehensible new leader who couldn’t decide if it was punched or bored and, in addition to alienating the public, also alienated a significant segment of his own party.
    Related terms: Kimcatastrophe
    If anyone can improve on the definition, have at it…

  3. Newsweek April 28 1975
    //denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
    I remember the fear-mongering in the media during the 1970s. They were at it about ‘catastorific’ climate change. Except back then it was global COOLING !!
    I remember being very concerned. I wonder if the CBC would interview me?? You know, the poor victim, .. mental anguish and all that. Should have launched a class action.

  5. Do I have this correct ?? desmog blog is Suzuki’s attempt to smear reputable people ??
    But how come this smear on Canada’s own, best known Climatologist, Dr Timothy Ball, backfired on the fruitfly ?? I mean, just read the commenters defending Ball. On Suzuki’s site no-less.
    http://www.desmogblog.com/dr-tim-ball-on-cfcs-and-the-sponsorhip-scandal
    Tim said Environment Canada wasting Billions on Kyoto propaganda was much, much worse than Asdcam !! Some of it under Dion’s Enviro Minister’s watch.

  6. FYI:
    South Park: Most Quoted Episodes (“Manbearpig”)
    “Big Gay Al debuted in the first season (“Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride”), he appeared in several episodes, and he had a decent role in the South Park movie back in 1997. However, he hasn’t appeared on South Park since the “Cripplefight” episode in Season Five.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794747/posts

  7. They already have a name for dion’s accomplishments – they are called Pyrrhic victories. The next couple of weeks should be full of them.

  9. Did anybody read the editorial a few days ago supposedly penned by Mr. Dion and given wide exposure by the Liberal media?
    In my opinion, there is NO WAY Mr. Dion wrote this piece. His command of the English language may be atrocious verbally but you also do not write in an entirely different style from how you think.
    I read it over again and something dawned on me. It seemed a bit “Harvardish”. Could Iggy be ghost writing for Mr. Dion now?
    Who do you think wrote this?

  10. The plague of self-delusion
    “ In 1969 Nathaniel Branden’s The Power of Self- Esteem appeared and changed the landscape of our psychology and language. ——Self-esteem is synonymous with self-worth.
    ——85 per cent of parents think praising their kids is very important—
    But it turns out self- esteem can really be deceptive —
    Not only will too much praise lead to self-deception. It can be positively paralyzing.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_handler/20070303.html

  11. Scottsdale, Arizona? Lucky you! That’s a far cry from Snowy, Saskatchewan, n’est-ce pas?
    All the best to you and your doggies, Kate! (Do you say, “Break a leg” when it comes to dog shows? If so, then, “Break a leg!!!” and if not, forget I ever mentioned it…)
    GOOD LUCK…woof! woof!

  14. Tho’ Merlin sware the 60’s should come again
    The Oil Drum is suggesting that Saudi Arabian oil production is now declining due to depletion. It juxtaposes declining Saudi production against its rising recovery effort. They’re running harder but they’re slowing down. From the data, he reaches the conclusion that yes, the Kingdom is running out of oil. In particular Stuart Staniford concludes:
    * Saudi Arabian oil production is now in decline.
    * The decline rate during the first year is very high (8%), akin to decline rates in other places developed with modern horizontal drilling techniques such as the North Sea.
    * Declines are rather unlikely to be arrested, and may well accelerate.
    * Matt Simmons appears to be right in Twilight in the Desert, but the warning did not come until after declines had actually begun.
    [snip – keep it to a reasonable excerpt, maz ]
    Read more! posted by wretchard at:
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

  15. Visit Beautiful Downtown Riyadh!
    At the “International Conference on Tourism of Islamic Countries” in Tehran, representatives learned, much to their surprise, that tourists aren’t interested in visiting countries where they are regarded as infidels, pigs, and monkeys, and where they might end up with their heads separated from their bodies: Islamic countries capture only 13% of world tourism market: official.
    TEHRAN, March 3 (MNA) — Islamic countries capture only 13 percent of the world tourism market, Tehran City Councilor Ahmad Masjed-Jameii said here on Saturday. “Only 4 of the 25 countries which are frontrunner in tourism are Islamic countries,” Masjed-Jameii said in a speech to the “International Conference on Tourism of Islamic Countries” running from March 3 to 5.
    …
    And where else but in beautiful downtown Riyadh could you take in sights like the decapitated bodies of Sri Lankans, put on public display?
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A human rights group said Thursday that Saudi Arabia violated international law when it ordered the beheadings earlier this week of four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh.
    Now there’s a tourist attraction! …-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  16. Dionosphere
    1) A region of the brain affected by liberalism or substance abuse,
    2) A distorted idea or thought so far out of the mainstream as to appear ridiculous, lacking any grounding in reality,
    3) Orifice.

  17. Suzuki has apparently pull his poll that had gone horribly wrong. For him. The evidence, however, is sitting on desks all over the world.
    More than 66% voted to srap the whole Kyoto thing.
    Another 20% say we could comply domesticaly. (to hell with the UN’s carbon-credit scam)
    But what I think is so signifigant here is how the Internet and blogs, all over the world, are exposing the Mega-Hoax.
    Can you imagine if it were up to CTV, CBC, G&M,Star ect ??
    See no evil.
    Hear no evil.
    Speak no evil.

  20. … global climate change will destroy the Dionosphere. ? it’s going to be a Dionaster?
    yup.

  22. Legalize pot cultivation and use. Put packs of 10 or 20 joints on store shelves.
    I said we should do with pot what we did with booze. Make it a normal business so it can be taxed, so it can be quality controlled, so kids do not get switched to hard drugs by dealers, so a flood of revenue can be channeled into health care where druggies hit hospital emergency every day.
    Many well intentioned bloggers came down on these ideas very hard.
    It is looking like I was correct this time after all.
    Global Televisions*s Currents had a documentary about this and various long term law enforcement experts, coroner and others who explained the real logic of government drug regulation. Global would not risk this if it were poor or unsound logic.
    canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/globalcurrents/index.html
    Drugs are a business, but a black market business that promotes corruption of police, lawyers, judges and people in authority. Kingpins run auto theft rings, body shop franchises payday loan and various other main street businesses. Shootings and poisonings are the enforcement methods.
    Drug kingpins are deflated when the government regulated business replaces the black market.
    Lifting prohibition did deflate kingpins like Al Capone.
    This one change in policy would restore hospital emergency beds to decent numbers for starters. Not to mention the end of grow-ops. A few plants around the house. Much safer. And, yes, a return to community policing.
    = TG

  23. *
    “The Richmond, B.C. fire department is reportedly
    planning a major overhaul of its hiring policy by
    populating its ranks exclusively with women and
    minorities     over the next five years.”
    Because the poor dears obviously can’t make it…
    on their own    .
    *

  24. Angus Reid has a poll with the question
    do you blame global warming for the weird winter weather yes, no.
    To access this go to the g&m, world, and scroll down, and in very small print is the announcement of the poll. Click on it and vote. Then search the rest of the page, and you find that Angus Reid has paid pollsters, or survery takers. You must take part in 3-5 on-line surverys a year. You get paid for taking the surverys. What if a good majority of SDA posters signed up. Think it would make a difference in the results. Lets try it. I haven’t read all the rules and regulations, but I will.

  25. Feminazis begging for tax dollars.
    You say you are “insulted”? Such thin skins, girls. Get a job; earn your own money. Get off the pork, girls.
    Raise your own money, girls. …-
    Women’s Groups Lobby For Federal Support
    Representatives from a dozen women’s groups met with the federal Heritage Minister on Saturday to express their displeasure over government cuts.
    But they say Bev Oda isn’t budging on restoring the five million dollars the Harper government recently slashed from women’s programs.
    Feminist Alliance for International Action spokeswoman Shelagh Day calls it an “insult.”…-
    cfra.com

  27. “Feminist Alliance for International Action spokeswoman Shelagh Day calls it an ‘insult.’…” that Bev Oda won’t restore the $5 million the CPC has withdrawn from so-called “Women’s Groups” in Canada.
    Actually, the insult is Shelagh Day herself, a rabid anti-male, anti-women-who-love-men lesbian. Nothing she did in her tenure as the head of NAC/SOW helped women who live in the real world–you know? Women who are married and have children they want the best for?
    “NO!” looks good on these feminist, man-hating harridans. The Shelagh Days of this world worked for “women’s rights” only from the perspective of what they thought these “rights” should be–and their thoughts were/are completely divorced from those of the vast majority of Canadian women.
    Let them raise their own money for their own causes, an idea which makes me smile because it’s clear that there isn’t much support for their causes for the reason that they would benefit so few women in Canada.
    So why should the people of Canada, via government $$, pay for the agendas of people like Shelagh Day? Ask yourself that, Shelagh, then maybe you’ll understand why Bev Oda said “NO!” to you and your group.

  28. Baker Lake, NU
    Ice
    -41
    (cnews weather)
    The polar bears are hungry; jubilating, hunting in their warm, comfy, white fur. Why is their fur white?

  29. Wish we could have a write in vote of support for Bev Oda. I hear the cbc is getting a huge cut in the comming budget. Lots of comments in g&m the support nationalizing oil, guess they missed the nep fiasco.
    Comparing apples and oranges: what does a litre of starbucks cost as compared to a litre of gas. Anyone complaining about the cost of starbuck/cup.

  30. Todays Steyn column is the Chicago Sun times (available from his web site, confirms that his holiness is in fact buying carbon credits from his own company. The inconvenient truth is that “An Inconvenient Truth” is an infomercial for his snake oil.

  32. Last time I suggested pot should be commercialized, government regulated, the attack was frontal.
    canada.com/globaltv/globalshows/globalcurrents/index.html
    Guess this docu-logic is just too solid. = TG

  33. I see where Kooky Suzuki says that “most” Canadians are willing to pay more towards global warming.
    Guess he didn’t read his own poll on his website.
    Horny Toad

  35. Forced Conversions to Islam in Iraq
    How did this one ever get past the Islamist sympathizers at the BBC? For once, they’ve published an honest look at the Religion of Peace and Tolerance™, and the jihad against non-Muslims in Iraq: Iraq’s Mandaeans ‘face extinction’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
    The Sabian Mandaeans – one of the oldest religious groups in the world – are facing extinction, according to its leaders. They claim that Islamic extremists in Iraq are trying to wipe them out through forced conversions, rape and murder. …
    I meet Luay. He is too scared to be identified and does not want to use his full name. He was dragged off the street by armed men and forcibly circumcised – a practice not allowed in the Mandaean religion. …-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  36. Just visited litlegeenfootballs.com They have an incidence map article that takes you to a Google map that shows the current terrorist and suspicious goings on in the world and it is updated every 7 minutes.
    Very scary but very eye opening.
    Notice that Russia has very little activity.
    The terrorists know what will happen to them there.
    Perhaps a lesson there?

  37. Liberal MP Mark Holland was a guest on QP this morning. Jane Tabor mentioned that he was going to Alberta this week and asked whether he would be travelling with security due to his recent comments about nationalizing the oil sands. He said “Jane, the only person who thinks I said that is Charles Adler!”. “Mr. Holland, it was on the radio, I heard it”, was her hilarious response.
    Funny stuff.

  39. Firstly, there was Soozooky’s Diesel Emissions Bus Tour.
    Now, it’s Kyoto Dion’s Tour; CO2 Tour.
    But, first the Advance Man gets in front of the MSM.
    Kennedy, the Food Bank Manager , opines on the Liberal Party Policy Wonk leader, Citoyen Dion.
    No. Citoyen is not an attack dog/chien.
    “”He’s a man of great conviction but we think it’s better that he be presenting those convictions.”
    “”He is not (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper and thank goodness for that. We need people to appreciate who he is.”
    “Still, Kennedy says Dion is hamstrung”
    Here is the strategy: Dion is an interim leader!
    “It’s not so much that Dion, a policy wonk whose leadership campaign was brimming over with detailed policy proposals, needs ideas from the grassroots. The outreach effort is part of a broader strategy to renew and reunite the party after a decade of fratricidal infighting.
    Kennedy says the strategy is crucial to the Liberal party’s long term success, akin to having to build a solid foundation before trying to erect a new house.
    “The strategy is to build inside before we build outside and I guess there’s a cost to that,” he says.”
    …-
    More:
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070304/dion_tour_070304/20070304?hub=Canada

  40. I guess it is hard to be off topic in Reader’s Tips but could Kate give us an insider’s look at the dog breeding/showing business? When she gets back of course. Is there any real money in showing or is it more a labour of love? Regulars here know you are working with U of S on genetics but I’m guessing that it is a spin off of the business. Do any of your dogs end up as mere pets (not that there is anything wrong with that)?

  42. Socialism-communism has morphed into the Goreacle Syndrome. It’s made its way to the Phillipines Communist leader. It’s a man-made killer virus. …-
    “Jose Ma. Sison is enjoying life while his supporters are rotting like hell,”
    Gore and Jose Ma. Sison: Don’t do as I do; do as I say. …-
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
    Erry Christmas
    Manila newspapers today are giggling over details of the hard life of Jose Maria Sison, the head the Communist Party of the Philippines — an organization has been accused by an independent commission of of numerous extrajudicial killings. Sison is unlikely to be brought to trial although he lives near the Hague, the site of the International Criminal Court. The ICC is likely to be helpless because Sison is under the protection of the European Left.
    The military has criticized Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison for posting pictures of himself on his website singing and dancing with actress Ara Mina. Lieutenant Colonel Bartolome Bacarro, Armed Forces spokesman, said he chanced upon the pictures while browsing through Sison’s personal page which also contained the literary works of the communist leader. “Jose Ma. Sison is enjoying life while his supporters are rotting like hell,” Bacarro said.

  44. Just on CTV. Oliver Craig tried and tried and tried to get Joanne Genalais (former environment commissioner) to say PM Harper fired, threw her out, blah, blah.
    Joanne was having none of it. She calmly said nothing unusual happened. Craigy seemed stuned. Looked it too. What, what there must be something here ?? Nope, said Gelanais.

  45. The 10 finalists have been named for Hockeyville, and my small hometown of Warner, AB has made the list. 400 residents, so we need all the help we can get to come close to winning. If you don’t know, they were in danger of having their school closed, and come up with the idea of a Girl’s Hockey School. Been a great success, lots of donations and volunteer hours. Girls have come from across Canada and even Europe. Graduates have got scholarships to US schools. They started this the year Canada’s women won the Gold Medal in the Olympics. Please help us to win. cbc.ca/hockeyville is where you vote. Thanks.
    If your town is in the running, vote for it.
    The school has a web page. Google, warnerhockey and see what this small, mainly senior town has done.

  47. *
    With his proven track record of pandering to
    every Tom, Dick and Mahmoud who starts
    screeching out demands to turn back the clock
    of civilisation to the mid-fifteenth century…
    I say it’s time for Jack Layton to really pony up.
    *

  48. Cold and icy here, Kate.
    Good luck to you and the doggies. And enjoy the warmth!

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