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This thread for both Saturday and Sunday tips.
As you may or may not have deduced by the number of posts, I’ve got lots on my plate these days, and the weekend will be the same. So, if things are quiet around here, you know where to find the blogroll!

33 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Out of curiosity does anyone know why we in Canada did not get any coverage of the America’s cup this year?

  2. Considering that at least some of my previous video offerings have been well received at least by some, here for your interest if any is my just updated Video Archive at The Sagacious Iconoclast:
    sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2007/07/video-archive.html

  3. Out of curiosity does anyone know why we in Canada did not get any coverage of the America’s cup this year?

  4. I’m pretty sure, Western Canadian, that I saw some coverage of the 32nd America’s Cup on the TV behind the bar at the deli where I jentaculate, which being in Edmonton, would be in Canada. Of course, there’s plenty of good coverage at the following, which technically is in Canada, though you probably didn’t mean that 😉
    video.google.ca/videosearch?q=america+cup+32

  6. Thanks Vit, just wondered, in past Cup’s there was ample coverage, this time around almost nothing.

  7. Email jolt for the BCTF
    Electric cars are beginning to bloom. See today*s choices from Segway to Phoenix to Acura to Lexus RX-400H hybrid.
    alohatoystore.com/index-tours.htm
    TonyGuitar.blogspot.com
    AutoblogGreen.com
    Teachers teaching teachers in Ev conversions. One example:
    e-vanagon.blogspot.com/
    We have an Electric Vehicles conversion firm here on Vancouver Island: [25 years]:
    Canev.com Randy Holmquist Lantzville / Errington
    New battery tech advances makes EVs superior to TDI diesel, compressed air vehicles and makes hybrids redundant.
    Will the trades and automotive teachers be caught with their pants down? Will we be forced to import teachers from the USA to get us up to speed?
    We in the tech-net forums will be watching to see if Canadian BC teachers will doze through this opportunity to contribute to our economy or will be alert to take proper advantage of it.
    Many of us in the motoring public have perfectly good vehicles with damaged or oil-burning engines and we would like to convert them to battery pack EVs.
    See my Jeep at TonyGuitar.blogspot.com.
    The new Eon [AGM] Tech DRY battery is far more safe for automotive use than wet cell tech and reasonable too.:
    http://www.dcvelocity.com/products/?product_id=753
    The newest Lithium special anode batteries from A123 and from AlairNano are more costly but much lighter and have greater capacity with fire safety.
    Teachers for EV tech, get ready now! Contribute to our BC economy and avoid the shame of importing * California Experts* = TG

  8. Western Canadian asks, “Out of curiosity does anyone know why we in Canada did not get any coverage of the America’s cup this year?”
    I blame it on the Blacks and Muslims. Also liberals.

  10. Maybe the medical health system should begin to charge for surgery the way moving companies do: by weight.
    Hitting people in the pocketbook is a great incentive for being more more responsible and accountable. (I’m being ruthless as I clean up cupboards and storage space in prep. for our move…)
    As it is, most Canadians think that our health care system is “free,” and politicians have not disabused them of this falsehood.

  11. Apparently, moveon.org and dailykos, two very left blog sites, are actively campaigning against Fox News. They want advertisers to stop supporting the ‘right’ news station. Why? Because O’Reilly criticizes their blogs.
    Ahh, liberalism, how open to diversity, how progressive, how totalitarian.
    The real meaning of the liberal left is how intolerant and authoritarian they are to dissent, debate, questions – ie, all the basic operations of reason. The left rejects reason.
    So, the left will only permit ‘diversity’ when it is locked into cearly defined ‘minority groups’. These minority groups function as holistic populations, which promote their beliefs and behaviour without, themselves, questioning such beliefs and behaviour. But, viewed from the outside, these groups with their different beliefs and behaviour, function to provide the superficial veneer of ‘diversity’ promoted by the left. But no diversity is permitted WITHIN a population; it has to be isolated into a subgroup and kept isolate.
    The liberal left and postmodernism – two buddies in totalitarianism.

  12. ONE FOR THE LITTLE GUY:
    IRS LOSES CASE, FAILS TO PROVE INCOME TAX LIABILITY
    http://tinyurl.com/2qu73m
    “”The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer’s challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation’s income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher.
    “I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever,” lawyer Tom Cryer told WND just days after a jury in Louisiana acquitted him of two criminal tax counts.””
    Keep an eye on this one because apparently Canada’s income tax act uses the same fraudulent legal premise as the US act.

  13. Kathy Shaidle, Not sure of your response, tongue in cheek? Maybe it is just to elitist for our socialist press. It was definitely hidden this time around and I wonder why? Any other views?

  14. “INFIDEL” bumper sticker update. The thumbs up are outpacing the thumbs down by 3 to 1. The dirty looks are steady. One lady(in tye dye and birkenstocks) said that she was offended by it. I commented that her “hippie” look offended me, and that ended that conversation. As well, one key scratch down the rear quarter panel. All in all, about what I expected.

  15. WC, possibly there’s no money in it? How many avid yachtsmen are there out there, anyway?
    I think we should see coverage of the world High Power rifle championship. It would be like watching paint dry, and yet still so much better than most CBC programming.

  16. EL DORADO, Ark. — An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can later awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said.
    Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police he saw the robber while in his bedroom Wednesday night. Hill confronted Douglas B. Williams Jr., 24, of El Dorado, who struck the elderly man at least 50 times, knocking him out, police said.
    Hill, covered in blood from the attack, regained consciousness and pulled a .38-caliber handgun on Williams. Williams saw the gun and charged Hill, who fired one round, police said. The bullet struck Williams in the throat.
    When police arrived, officers said Williams told them, “I can’t feel my legs and I got what I deserved.”
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291231,00.html
    A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways flight at Milan’s Linate airport for nearly three hours after discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next to men they did not know.
    When none of the other business class passengers agreed to swap seats, the sheikh, a member of Qatar’s ruling family, went to the pilot, who had already started the engine, to complain, an airport official said.
    But the pilot ordered him and his travelling companions, the three women, two men, a cook and a servant, off the plane.
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4143477a4560.html
    A well-known Kingston hockey coach charged with fraud stemming from the operation of charity bingos that raised more than $200,000 won’t face a trial.
    Marty Abrams, dressed in a dark suit, sat quietly on the front bench of a provincial courtroom yesterday as a Crown prosecutor announced that charges against him were being withdrawn in a deal that will see him give roughly $47,000 to three charities.
    http://www.thewhig.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=631711&catname=Local+News&classif=

  17. *
    Tell me you didn’t see this coming…
    Carnival of Pissed Off Pinkos supports Shawn Brant’s
    unrepentant thuggery and theft
    “Buzz Hargrove, Maude Barlow and an array of academics have
    signed their names to a declaration in support of Mohawk land
    claims and the occupation of a Deseronto quarry.”
    You just know the Canada Palestine Association has to be
    somewhere in this puppy pile.
    *

  19. DEBKA Reports: Iran buys 250 long-distance Sukhoi fighter-bombers, 20 fuel tankers, from Russia …
    http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4449
    …Tehran and the Russian Rosoboronexport arms group are about to sign a mammoth arms deal for the sale to Tehran of 250 Su-30MKM warplanes and 20 IL-78 MKI fuel tankers. DEBKAfile’s military sources report Iran has stipulated delivery of the first aircraft before the end of 2007…

  20. Down in Smoke:
    Jack: I’m schizophrenic.
    Layton: So am I.
    …-
    Cannabis raises psychosis risk
    Cannabis users are 40% more likely than non-users to suffer a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, say UK experts.
    Writing in the Lancet, a team led by Dr Stanley Zammit from Bristol and Cardiff Universities said young people needed to be made aware of the dangers.
    In an additional article, experts said up to 800 schizophrenia cases a year in the UK could be linked to cannabis use….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873003/posts

  21. “A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
    Socialism, allied with unions such as CUPE, kills the civic square and fills the void with socialism. Think TO/Jamaica/Zimbabwe.
    “it is difficult to distinguish public from private any longer.”
    …-
    A Culture of Lies
    The Brussels Journal ^ | 07-26-2007 | Fjordman
    The always excellent writer Theodore Dalrymple, one of the most astute observers of Britain and indeed of the Western world today, has assessed the ten years under the leadership of former PM Tony Blair. According to Dalrymple, “Many in Britain believe that he has been the worst prime minister in recent British history, morally and possibly financially corrupt, shallow and egotistical.” One of the reasons for this negative view is the rapid growth of insecurity, ironically combined with the even more rapid growth of surveillance: “The typical Briton finds himself recorded by security cameras 300 times a day does not secure him in the slightest from crime or antisocial behavior, which remain prevalent in Britain, so no one feels any safer from the terrorist threat despite the ever-increasing government surveillance.”
    British citizens pay obscenely large amounts of taxes, but get less and less in return for this, except an increasingly hostile state: “The National Health Service, where bureaucracies have hugely expanded and entwined their interests so closely with those of private suppliers and consultancies that it is difficult to distinguish public from private any longer. Spending on the NHS has increased by two and a half times in the space of 10 years; yet it is hard to see any corresponding improvement in the service, other than in the standard of living of those who work in it.”
    He believes the inadequacies of the state are hidden beneath a web of lies of half-truths, and by confusing the public through corrupting official statistics. Unemployment rates are artificially kept down by classifying people as sick rather than unemployed, “and thus, by a single lie, is the population, the medical profession and the government corrupted.” Likewise, crime rates are kept down by encouraging the police not to record crimes. Through such measures, “the whole of society finds itself corrupted and infantilized by its inability to talk straight.”
    Dalrymple states that “We have come to expect dishonesty – of which this little lie was an example – at every level of society. The dishonesty is intellectual, moral and financial, and its root is self-interest conceived in the narrowest possible way. In modern Britain, probity is foolishness or, worse still, naivety.” He believes this corrupts the entire fabric of society: “When dignity requires illegality, there is something rotten in the state.”
    The media and the authorities have been deceiving the public for decades about Multiculturalism, EU integration and the true cost of Muslim immigration. Thus a culture of lies and moral and financial corruption is cultivated. It starts at the top and spreads downwards. If the state lies, cheats and collects money for services it fails to provide, why can’t average citizens do the same thing?
    According to Dalrymple, “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873030/posts

  22. NRSP’s first campaign is focused on dispelling the notion that Canada needs CO2 reduction plans. CO2 is very unlikely to be a substantial driver of climate change and is not a pollutant. click here

  23. Federal Liberal AdScam Chretien held his golf balls in his kleptocratic bony fingers.
    Ontario Liberals McGuinty and Colle held their cricket balls in their kleptocratic bony fingers.
    Q: Who got the Bony Finger?
    A: The taxpayers/citizens of Canada; of Ontario.
    Once a Liberal; always a thief.
    P.S. Liberal leader Citoyen Dion knows nuttink.
    …-
    “The front-page photo in Friday’s Toronto Star says it all. Colle, who resigned from cabinet for his role in the scandal, and McGuinty are shown smiling and holding cricket bats after cutting a massive cheque to the Ontario Cricket Association.”
    Liberal grants
    After the apology
    http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=b1ad992a-3762-4df5-9815-c021f5fa4890

  24. Stephen Taylor: conservatives a threat to Conservative party
    “However, over an extended period of time, as we’ve seen, the conservative movement is likely to tear apart the Conservative Party if it doesn’t see its ideological agenda fulfilled.”
    http://stephentaylor.ca/

  25. Our new commander in Kandahar tells us that the best way to ensure the safety of our Canadian troups is to get the Afgan Army to be first to take on the IEDs. It seems our new commander thinks that using the locals as cannon fodder is the way to save his Van Doos. What an insult to our troups and to the locals. Not bad for the first day on the job.

  26. Guess who’s running your city
    CUPE’s Power Handcuffs Mayors
    Terence Corcoran, National Post
    The taxpayers of Vancouver held hostage. The City of Toronto forced into budget crisis. Calgary teetering on the brink of municipal labour unrest. Montreal headed for a major metro-wide service-destroying city workers’ strike later this year.
    For all this and more we can thank the Canadian Union of Public Employees, the all-powerful radical labour group….
    tinyurl.com/2kjny5
    How many city of Toronto workers does it take to paint a hydrant?
    …two city of Toronto employees, paintbrushes in hand, slowly approach a fire hydrant across the street. I watched in awe as they both sat down, on opposite sides of the hydrant and then began to paint…
    canadafreepress.com/2007/weinreb072307.htm
    What do you call a municipal employee who makes almost $27 an hour to collect tokens and cash in a booth? A TTC worker, apparently
    …Nearly 50% of Toronto’s operating budget is spent on salaries and benefits….
    tinyurl.com/3xk5dt
    Litter picker – $21.11/hour
    Meter reader – $26.39/hour
    Cleaner/janitor (outside workers’ contract) – $19.56/hour
    Garbage collector – $24.14/hour
    First class firefighter – $33.73/hour
    Bus/subway driver (with 12 months experience or more) – $26.58/hour
    TTC token/cash collector (with 12 months experience or more) – $26.58/hour
    Gas pump operator – $21.79/hour
    Mail car driver – $22.68/hour
    Bylaw officer – $28.67/hour
    tinyurl.com/2kvz6p

  28. I think the Tinyurl’s assault on CUPE in regard to wages is misplaced. Don’t get me wrong, I’d be pleased to assist Sid Ryan in an early retirement back to his native soil, but the reality is, in the large cities, people have to eat, house and clothe their families, keep some kind of roof over their heads, whoever they work for. Large cities require services. Can they be more efficiently delivered? Likely. But the cost of labour is going to be the same, even higher, outsourced.
    As a federal civil servant in law enforcement, with duties similar to a municipal detective constable, I make about $15K less, falling between the bus driver and the bylaw officer. I work the Toronto area, but I can’t afford to live there, not in a single income household, and becoming a multi-income household is not in the cards.
    What you pay people is about as much about what it costs to live where they work as it is about what they do. And you can thank the “entrepreneurs” for that, in particular, the metropolitan real estate boards, with their stranglehold on property valuation and sales. The guys who like to crow about the “jobs they create”, also demand the services they ultimately have to pay someone to do, someone who has to pay bills in the same market the entrepreneur does. Not every is cut out to be “self-employed” (BTW, far more self-employeds go bankrupt than wage earners).
    Toronto’s problem with money stems not from the unions, but the amount of cash paid out to feather the image of the city and its proponents, usually done in guise of “attracting business to the city”. Sometimes this works, but as often, an entrepreneur gets the city to put up the venture capital for his own return on investment, not the cities, and leaves the city with the indirect costs. Miller recently spent time in a conference of North American democrat mayors, promoting, amongst other things, his idea for handgun bans, amongst like-minded mayors in the US. He even crowed about it in the national press. Did he pay for himself and his entourage for this political junket? Not bloody likely. Multiply this x1000 and its easy to find the cash leaks, not in the wages of ordinary people trying to simply live decently.
    Self-promotion of cities and their politicians and bureaucrats has become a huge industry paid for by the tax base, in preference to keeping services up to date. Want to fix the sewers and roads? Put a proposition on the next ticket that says not one red cent gets spent on games, trips, promotion, ephemera, festivals etc, until every road, sewer, utility gets fixed.

  29. Censoring al-Reuters/MSM.
    Give The Purple Finger to al-Reuters/MSM.
    …-
    Iraq 1 Saudi 0, ASIAN CUP FINALS
    Reuters
    JAKARTA (Reuters) – Iraq defied seemingly impossible odds to beat Saudi Arabia 1-0 in the Asian Cup final on Sunday, providing a fairytale ending to the tournament and a rare moment of celebration [censored].
    Iraqi captain Younis Mahmoud scored the winner in the 71st minute when he climbed above the defence at the far post and headed a perfectly-weighted corner from Hawar Mulla Mohammed into the net.
    Saudi Arabia had been bidding to become the first country to win the Asian Cup four times but were outplayed by an Iraqi team riding high on a wave of national support.
    Iraq’s unexpected victory not only captured the imagination of the sporting world but helped unify a country [censored]….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873271/posts

  30. Pace University Koran Case – Unbelievably Outrageous
    I’ve received an email from Stanislav Shmulevich, who has been arrested in New York for putting a Koran in a toilet at Pace University. And his case is even more outrageous than we first reported.
    First, Shmulevich was arrested and jailed for 24 hours. Second, he’s not facing misdemeanor charges—he’s being charged with two felonies, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment.
    Felonies. For putting a book in a toilet.
    Third, his income is on a borderline that disqualifies him for a public defender, so he stands to suffer incredible financial hardship as well.
    Fourth, his name and photograph were published in several newspapers in New York, and he and his mother were ambushed outside the court by reporters. In a case like this, clearly with the potential to enrage radical Muslims, this is so irresponsible of the media that it borders on criminal.
    Do we still live in a country that values free speech? This case is pretty good evidence that we do not. Mr. Shmulevich is caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare right out of the Soviet Union, and it’s all happening at the demand of the Muslim Student Association and the Council on American Islamic Relations.
    Stay tuned. This is not over. I’m setting up Mr. Shmulevich with an LGF account, and you’ll be able to discuss it with him in person….-
    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

  31. LIVING COSTS FUEL UNION DEMANDS
    Boom Towns; City Workers Seek Compensation For Rising Expenses
    James Cowan, National Post
    Published: Saturday, July 28, 2007
    In 1920, civic workers in London were granted a special allowance to make it possible for them to live in England’s most expensive city. Nearly nine decades later, the so-called “London weighting” still exists, adding as much as ?4,000 — or roughly $8,500 — to the salaries of civil servants, police officers and teachers. Now, Canadian municipal workers in boom towns are also demanding compensation that reflects the rising cost of living in their cities…
    …And it is the central tenet of a radio spot launched this week by the Canadian Union of Public Employees in British Columbia. With seven CUPE locals in the Vancouver region either on strike, poised to walk or ratifying fresh contracts, the union launched an Olympic-themed advertisement comparing city workers with Greek slaves….
    …Calgary’s paramedics, who were blocked from striking when the Alberta government declared a public emergency on Tuesday, are seeking a 30% pay hike over the next three years, far more than the 12% the city is offering….
    canada.com/nationalpost/news/canada/story.html?id=3cd4c103-3d1e-4ff1-8c46-68b890c1f4d6

  32. Sikhs use fear/shaming/guilt/intimidation on their own cult members.
    …-
    Minister blames Sikh name controversy on ambiguous documents
    OTTAWA — The federal government hasn’t forced potential Sikh immigrants to change their last names, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Diane Finley said Thursday, blaming the recent controversy on ambiguous documents being circulated by the Canadian high commission in New Delhi. …-
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=210171b2-3e4c-4ff3-9006-49109545e891
    No minority certificate if not ‘Kaur’
    NEW DELHI: How can you be a Sikh without Kaur? If you believed casteism is rampant only in Uttarakhand, Bihar or Madhya Pradesh, our Capital is not far from it. A student of Delhi University (DU) was asked to use ‘Kaur’ as a middle name so that she is eligible for a minority certificate.
    Nainpreet Narula, now Nainpreet Kaur Narula, was denied a minority certificate by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) because she did not have Kaur as a surname. Though not in favour, she was forced to make Kaur her surname as she has to submit her minority certificate for admission in Khalsa College.
    Narula insisted that she is a Sikh, but the DSGMC refused to entertain the request without the introduction of Kaur surname. “I told them that my family is from Sikh community. They argued that if I am ashamed of using Kaur as a surname or middle name, I won’t get a minority certificate from them,” stated Narula. …-
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/No_minority_certificate_if_not_Kaur/articleshow/2240014.cms

  33. frank talk from a muslim sex therapist.
    the lost angeles times
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873421/posts
    Comments include: “a troll, named Ali Mohammed Qa-eelbasi.”.
    …-
    The Three Billygoats Gruff
    Many years ago, in the Khwarism kingdom, the empire centered around the cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Gurgange in the territory now called Uzbekistan, there was a bridge across a narrow section of the Syr Daria river and this bridge was guarded by a troll, named Ali Mohammed Qa-eelbasi. …-

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