97 Replies to “Reader Tips – Monday Edition”

  1. I would like to bring to your attention the plight of Dr. Oscar Biscet, a Cuban dissident, fighting for his life in jail. He is a Christian, a human rights activist and a pro-lifer. He was sentenced to 25 years in jail for a number of crimes, one of which was flying the Cuban flag upside down.
    There is a movement to free Dr. Biscet. Cuban jails make Guantanmo look like a luxury hotel. The food is inedible and the health care is inadequate. The families must bring food and medicine for the prisoners to survive.
    Please Read this article and pass on the news. Biscet is one of Cuba’s leading dissidents, but the mainstream media has hardly breathed a word about it. He is fighting the good fight in oppressive conditions, even having gone to jail and been tortured for his quest for freedom.

  3. The main thing Biscet has in common with thousands of others incarcerated/tortured/executed by Fidel over the past 48 years is that the MSM didn’t report on them either.

  4. More Goreacle: Do as I say; not as I do. …-
    Seal hunt film snares activists
    MIKE DE SOUZA, CanWest News Service
    Published: Monday, March 05, 2007
    Animal-rights activists are outraged they were caught on tape ignoring a dying seal for more than an hour in a documentary on Canada’s commercial seal hunt, Quebec filmmaker Raoul Jomphe said.
    The anti-seal-hunt activists were filming a promotional segment for a fundraising campaign when the incident occurred, he said.
    Jomphe said Rebecca Aldworth, the Canadian director of wildlife issues for the Humane Society of the United States, called him to complain after she discovered he had captured the incident on film.
    “She was really mad at me,” Jomphe said.
    That made him question her tactics as he put together his documentary, which examines the annual spring hunt in Atlantic Canada.
    “I find it to be hypocritical,” Jomphe said, after a special screening of the movie -Phoques, le film (Seals, the Movie) – last week at the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
    In the documentary – which is scheduled to air this month on the CBC’s French-language all-news network, RDI, and Atlantic Radio-Canada stations – theanimal rights activists pulled the dying seal out of the water as it tried to escape, and continued filming their promotional video. It is not known for sure how the seal came to be wounded….-
    http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=f646ccd2-192d-42b5-a930-890cfef85905
    (via Bourque)

  9. Re: There is a movement to free Dr. Biscet.
    For six decades the civilized west has been unable to assuage the atrocities occuring in Cuba. My heart bleeds for the courage and self-sacrifice of fighters such as Dr. Biscet, and all those throughout the world and history who have put themselves in harms way in the fight against evil. I thank God to have been born in the best of times in the best of places.
    Suzanne, what are you expecting of us? letter writing, sending money? We can do both, but it all seems so useless. The oppressed world needs its own “French Revolution”. That was after all the most civilizing moment in modern Western history. Can it ever happen again?

  10. Alan, thanks for that fascinating post. That invention holds tremendous implications in many areas. I hope Rensselaer got a good, airtight patent on that-it could make them billion$.

  11. Right now, the best thing to do, in my opinion, is publicize the story. If you post on a message board or on an email list, pass the story along.

  13. SUZANNE…have you tried getting a hold of Justin Trudeau. I understand that the Turdeau family are good friends with Fidel Castro and would surely be able to get him to stop torturing and wrongfully imprisoning people including Dr. Biscet. I think it would be interesting to see the media cover what the long time trudeau friend is up to and what the Turdeau familia is willing to do to. Then again I could be wrong…maybe the trudeau family are typical libranos and are only concerned with power.

  14. Keeping up with the Electric car and the battery types that make them possible.
    TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

  15. Mark Steyn has excellent article on Conrad Black in Macleans
    http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazine/article.jsp?content=20070312_103140_103140
    —->
    But beyond the losses to investors in two countries and readers on three continents are more basic questions. What has been done to Hollinger International is astonishing, and has very worrying implications for anyone with a public company in the United States: Hollinger International was not an Enron or WorldCom — a failing business of worthless properties fleecing its employees’ retirement plans. The most that can be said against it was that it had a sluggish stock price. Yet, on that basis, courts and regulators have removed a company from its lawful controlling shareholders and delivered it into the hands of a small group of usurpers with no equity in the business, who sidelined the owners and proceeded to gut the enterprise, sell off the assets and even change the corporate name, all the while compensating themselves on as lavish a scale as the allegedly profligate regime the courts and regulators used to justify the usurpation. If this is “corporate governance,” let’s cut to the chase and adopt relatively straightforward Afro-Marxist confiscation.

  16. cbc interviewing the son of Jim Jones, re a new documentary coming out re the Jonestown Massacre.
    All those kyotologists should watch this and pay attention to what happens to those who follow an ideology without thought. This happened in 1978, so many of the followers of gore and suzuki probably don’t even know about it.
    Could it happen again-yes, when people are led by fear and anger and manipulation- says Jim Jones son.
    The documentary will show on Vision tv, next week.

  17. Mary T….that is an excellent comparison to the followers of Gorizuki. People that follow this scam tend to be simple minded people who desperately want to belong to a movement and feel like they are capable of doing something significant in their insignificant lives.

  18. Before anyone says all the kyotologists are not in one place, so it couldn’t happen, there was another cult that committed suicide en masse, with some of the victims found in Quebec. Can’t remember the name, or where the rest were. Then there was also Wacko. BBC is doing a documentary to show that algore is out to lunch.

  19. ~~ THE BIG GREEN FUEL LIE ~~
    “… One estimate is that corn needs 30 per cent MORE energy than the finished fuel it produces. ”
    //news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2328821.ece
    The Hoax that is the so-called bio-fuels.
    Next Solar (will believe the “no-reflective invention when it is up and running)
    Wind power costs twice hydro, coal, ect.
    Kyoto and it’s carbon credit scam,… and on and on.
    Did someone mention Jimmy Jones ?? The power of cults is amazing. Even so-called green ones.

  22. 3w.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1466943.ece
    Big brother?? or excessive state paranoia:
    “March 04, 2007
    Children of 11 to be fingerprinted David Leppard
    CHILDREN aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal.
    The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports.
    Under the new passport and ID scheme, everyone over 16 who applies for a passport will have their details — including fingerprints and eye or facial scans — added to the National Identity Register from next year.
    From October 2009, ID cards will be issued alongside new passports. Initially these will not be mandatory, but Tony Blair has said that if Labour is reelected it will make them compulsory
    Children under 16 will not be part of the ID card scheme. But the documents show that from 2010 they will still have to be fingerprinted for a new passport. ”
    A VOICE OF REASON:
    ” David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: “This borders on the sinister and it shows the government is trying to end the presumption of innocence. With the fingerprinting of all our children, this government is clearly determined to enforce major changes in the relationship between the citizen and the state in a way never seen before.”
    >>> Totally agree…in the civil relationship between government and a citizen in a constitutional democracy under rule of law…presuption of innocence is a civil right…this is why only CONVICTED criminals have their fingerprints kept on file…to fingerprint an entire nation and make it manditory to cary bio metric ID the state has broken faith with constitutional civil liberties and the roll of the citizen…an un fingerprinted and tracked person is a citizen…a finger printed and tracked person is a ward of the state or a prisoner/slave.

  23. Hoax,
    Any of the hoax fuels like corn – E85 and re- refined restaurant fats and oils are going to get a short run until the Electric car ends it all, simply because they do displace some fossil fuel imports. = TG

  26. Mary T,
    Similarly, is this article by Michael Crichton, who parallels the popular acceptance of ‘eugenics theory’ (and it’s horrifying result) in the early 20th century to the GW hysteria we see today.

  28. The Fiends of Medicare will be spinning in their walkers over this column.
    3w.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/4601334.html
    “Don’t look to Canada for the best fix on healthcare” She says what I have been trying to say for years now. Dead Tommy be damned. There are many better healthcare systems out there that Canada could look to or model in order to fix the system because it really is broke.

  30. paladin said:”The oppressed world needs its own “French Revolution”. That was after all the most civilizing moment in modern Western history.” …-
    The above is pure, unadulterated bhjjdfyt.
    Robespierre and Mao: The evil progeny of the “French Revolution” here: Hell on Earth. …-
    John Kekes
    Words to Die By
    A new series resurrects some of history’s bloodiest manifestos.
    Maximilien Robespierre led the phase of the French Revolution called the Terror. It lasted a little over a year. He gave the orders that resulted in beheading, drowning, shooting, or burying alive about 20,000 men, women, and children. Mao Zedong ruled China between 1949 and his death in 1976. During his tenure, his followers murdered, on a low estimate, 20 million people. These two men were among the handful of great mass murderers of modern times, in the same class as Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot, and Stalin.
    Both Robespierre and Mao seized control of and radicalized revolutions that they did not start. In each case, the revolution destroyed the previous corrupt regime and replaced it with hell on earth. …-
    http://www.city-journal.org/html/rev2007-02-20jk.html
    More Hell on Earth:
    SUICIDE FOR SOCIALISM?
    – Maurice Brinton
    Part One
    THE RELEVANCE OF JONESTOWN
    ‘We’re gonna die for the revolution. We’re gonna die to expose this racist and fascist society. It’s good to die in this great revolutionary suicide.’ The words uttered by two young men in Jonestown (Guyana) a few minutes before they, together with hundreds of others, poisoned themselves were reported in the Los Angeles Times (November 26, 1978) by Charles Garry of San Francisco, attorney for the Peoples Temple. Garry was no critic of this particular cult. He was the trendy leftist lawyer who, referring to the Guyana commune, had written in the Peoples Forum, journal of the Temple: ‘I have seen Paradise’. …-
    uncarved .org

  32. “And in these volatile times, the PM singling out a brown-skinned man in a turban during a discussion about terrorism makes for some troubling optics.”
    Why can’t PM Harper be more like Jimmy Carter, Stephen Lewis, Bob Rae, and…. Jean Chretien and AlGore … and AdScam Paul Martin, Jr., and AdScam Alfonso Gagliano and AdScam Citoyen Dion… and …
    Answer: Harper is a bully and a racist. …-
    Harper’s a bad boy
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Giese_Rachel/2007/03/05/3698542-sun.html

  33. A friend e-mailed me this item.As a firearms owner & not a michael moore fan,thought I would share.
    DARRELL SCOTT TESTIMONY:
    Guess our national leaders didn’t expect this, him?
    On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton , Colorado , was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
    They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well.
    It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert!
    These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.
    The following is a portion of the transcript:
    “Since the dawn of creation there has been both good and evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.
    “The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field.
    The villain was not the club he used. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association.
    The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain’s heart.
    “In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA.
    I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA – because I don’t believe that they are responsible for my daughter’s death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel’s murder I would be their strongest opponent.
    I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy–it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. “I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best. This was written before I knew I would be speaking here today:
    Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
    Your words are empty air.
    You’ve stripped away our heritage,
    You’ve outlawed simple prayer.
    Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
    And precious children die.
    You seek for answers everywhere,
    And ask the question “Why?”
    You regulate restrictive laws,
    Through legislative creed.
    And yet you fail to understand,
    That God is what we need!
    “Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and reek havoc.
    Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation’s history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact.
    What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence.
    And when something as terrible as Columbine’s tragedy occurs — politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA.
    They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws.
    Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors.
    No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.
    “As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes–He did not hesitate to pray in school.
    I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person inAmerica, and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools.
    Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain.
    Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA– I give to you a sincere challenge.
    Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!
    My daughter’s death will not be in vain!
    The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!”
    (Amen Amen – br)
    Do what the media did not – – let the nation hear this man’s speech

  37. Waiting for Big Government; a quest for fool’s gold.
    Why doesn’t the government do something? Well, government has; look around you. …-
    Smiths Falls Pleads For Government Jobs
    Officials from the town of Smiths Falls are asking the Ontario government to help replace hundreds of jobs vanishing with the closure of the community’s Hershey chocolate factory. (national newswatch)
    …-
    Gatineau women wait up to 5 months for breast cancer test
    Hospital needs seven to 10 more X-ray technicians: health authority (cbc)

  38. robert Latimer, a Canadian farmer languishes in jail while Canadian activists try to right the oppressions of others thruout the world.
    He has 4 years left of his 10 year sentence for doing a mercy killing of lhis 12 year old quadraplegic daughter who was in constant pain and the medical profession was going to do lfurther operations for experimental purposes on her. He lhad the kguts to do lwhat I know should have been done but I wouldn’t have the guts. Latimer did and ktold the authorities.
    Our justice sywstem is a kljoke. a man with 56 praevious convictions was discharged as the judge said he didn’t think kljail would do any good. Twio murderers in quebec were just discharged on a technicality. the aiar india whitewash saw the murder of over 300 people and the liberals aquashed further investigation.
    So Latimer, by god we will make him pay as Canadians when it comes down to it are sheep like and don’t much care for llthere own if they aren”t immigrant arabs. We give Arer 111/2 million for being a year in a jail we didn’t send him to but by god that klfarmer has got to lpay, what is 10 years, especially when the wife and kids you are supposed to support can live on air. I am kashamed of klSask kpeople who let this travesty carry on

  41. Greyburr, thanks for that post. It is so true.
    It is strange that whenever tradegy stikes you get the talking heads asking How could God allow this to happen in a school. The answer is, it is the sp interest groups, legislators, etc who have taken God out of school. It is these groups that have said it is against their law to believe in God or show your faith. Can’t say a prayer in school, before the game, at Christmas or in or on any public place. But, you can bend over backward to allow muslims to have prayer mats in jail, and their koran. But, they ban the bibles in hotel rooms. I often wonder if muslims are so religious, why do they end up in jail. Of course, if the politicians and sp interest groups had to accept that there are Christian values, or Jewish values, it would mean they have been wrong all these years in forcing their nonvalues on us. And, yes, they have forced their nonvalues on us via the CCP, SOWS, SCC. I think all the attempts to not offend anyone or anything, has offended more cdns than any other act by any govt.
    As a young girl in school I envied all the jewish kids, they got way more school holidays than we did, and they also got all our holidays. Notice that the survivors of that bus crash all said they PRAYED during the ordeal. Survivors of the WTC said they PRAYED.

  42. I’d categorize this one under “good intentions by a narcisistic rock star gone horribly wrong”.
    The “red” campaign intiated by Bono in support of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and malaria has reportedly seen the partners of the intiative spend an estimated $50 to $$100 million on marketing costs…amount raised for the fund? $18 million.
    Details at:
    http://adage.com/article?article_id=115287

  44. Re. greyburr: Wow… Pretty powerful.
    Re. neilthompson: I agree with you that our justice system is screwed up, but in fact that’s the nature of the beast. It’s designed to be a corrective which intervenes when human beings freely chose to do wrong. The justice system is a perpetual mop up operation. Of course it’s gonna be ugly. It just is. And of course it doesn’t provide (or restore) justice. That’s an impossible ideal. I’ll go as far as to say the justice system merely exists as a placebo for justice. You might even say that it’s a mechanism of societal restraint: we exact our pound of flesh, quench our thirst for revenge, and then move on. Prevents anarchy, etc. (Or whatever. I dunno….)
    In the specific case of Latimer, yes it’s tragic, but it can’t be argued that he shouldn’t be in jail. He’s an admitted murderer. Brutal, unfair, tragic circumstances, true; but it’s a much too slippery slope to conclude that murder can be okay under certain circumstances. Either it’s wrong or it’s not. And lest you get the wrong impression, don’t think that I’m unsympathetic. I grieved for Latimer along with the rest of the world. But the standard cannot be to compare him to other criminals who have been set free by irresponsible hug-a-thug judges (of which there are far too many). The standard, pure and simple must always be right and wrong.

  45. Ooops. Just realized I left my flank wide open with my unqualified “either murder is wrong or it’s not” statement. There are ethical exceptions. I.e. when a police sharp shooter takes down a hostage-holding maniac. Etc.
    I should also add that I don’t want to address war in this part of the conversation since I don’t consider battlefield killing to be synonymous with murder.

  47. Going back to the first post … How is it possible to hang the Cuban flag upside down? It is symetrical. Not sure I trust that news source…

  49. cherenkov:
    The red triangle with the white star has to be on the hoist side of the flag. So it would be upside down if the triangle and star were on the free side of the flag.

  50. Re: the “The Independent” article on the costs of biofuels. (via National Newswatch)
    It only took Dubya being _for_ something for the MSM to be against it, or at very least look at the costs involved. What else might this be applied to?

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