41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. It’s celebrity night at the Broom. Elton John says “Lets!” to the rest of the world, while the Film Actor’s Guild has sent on of their finest to Venezuela — seems Sean Penn is visiting. Chavez read aloud a letter from Penn in which Bush, Cheney and Condoleeza Rice were described as “villanously and criminally obscene people.”
    Which is exactly how a lot of drunks describe them.

  2. Hi folks, it’s Vitruvius here. I’ve been slowly working through the TED conference videos available on-line over the last six months, and I’d like to recommend to you Hans Rosling’s talk from TED 2006 on Visualizing Recent Global Improvements. Before you completely buy into Mark Steyn’s “America Alone” thesis, and let me be the first to note that I have great regard for Mr. Steyn’s work, I urge you to consider the evidence in Mr. Rosling’s studies. Mr. Rosling’s talk is available here:
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2670820702819322251
    I admit, it’s 20 minutes long, but let’s be honest, I don’t run around here recommending 20 minute long talks without due consideration.

  3. Ahhhh yes. They are meddling again.
    Top Tory to head search for CBC execs.
    Nice catchy headline,until you get to the first sentence.
    OTTAWA–The Conservative government is facing charges of political meddling in the selection process for a new president and chief of news operations at the CBC.
    And it just gets worse as the “alarm” is raised.
    If I was PMSH, I would say fine. To remove ANY signs of improprities, the CBC will be immediately disbanded as a Crown,taxpayer sucking leech, and I hope they have their new sponsers all lined up!!!

  5. Anyone else concerned that the CRTC is forcing a new Christian radio station to run programming reflecting alternative religious views? Presumaby this station is funded by Christians and targets a Christian audience. I think this is an example of extremely poor judgement on the part of the CRTC. Story here: http://tinyurl.com/3df56s

  8. I do hope that no one out there feels the least bit sorry for this sick (in the head) SOB.
    A man who set himself on fire after allegedly crashing an explosive-laden Jeep into Glasgow Airport died in a hospital on Thursday, Strathclyde Police said Thursday.
    Kafeel Ahmed, 27, had been in the hospital for a month with critical burns from the alleged attack on June 30, which followed a day after two failed car bombings in London. The other man in the car, Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah, has been charged with conspiring to set off explosions.
    Ahmed, an Indian national from Bangalore, suffered burns to 90 per cent of his body and had been in a coma throughout his stay at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
    Kafeel Ahmed’s brother, Sabeel Ahmed, 26, also faces trial after being charged with withholding information that could prevent an act of terrorism. He was arrested in Liverpool on the day of the Glasgow attack. Jordanian doctor Mohammed Jamil Asha is the other man facing charges over the botched attacks.
    Mohamed Haneef, the 27-year-old cousin of the Ahmed brothers, was arrested and charged in Australia over the attacks. But he was released after police were forced to admit they did not have enough evidence to hold him

  10. Chairman Maulice Stlong’s Red Purge takes to Cyberspace. Mao’s Cultural Revolution lives on.
    No voting necessary; kill the opposition; they are corrupt; not Mao.
    …-
    China enjoys anti-corruption game
    An online game in China that allows players to eradicate corrupt officials has proved so popular its website has crashed, state media reports.
    The game was devised by a regional government in east China to highlight the problems of corrupt officialdom. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875617/posts

  12. Goes way back: This has been Russia’s prized goal for centuries. It’s an old story.
    …-
    Russia seeks navy presence in Mediterranean
    Russia’s navy should have a permanent presence in the Mediterranean Sea, navy chief Admiral Vladimir Masorin said on Friday, Interfax news agency reported. “The Mediterranean Sea is very important strategically for the Black Sea fleet,” Masorin said during a visit to the base of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol. Masorin did not say where Russian ships would be based in the Mediterranean Sea, where Russia has no coast. (Reuters)…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875681/posts

  13. Remember, one has to be nice to the Russians. The old ‘evil” empire would never hurt a sole. Just ask any of the pseudo, wannabe socialist moonbat idiots who troll here every day. Uncle Ivan is our friend, it is those big bad Americans who are the enemy. You know, the country that supplies us with the majority of our manufacturing base. The country that is our biggest trading partner. Yet, for some reason, the ruskies get a free ride from our leftard “friends”. Strange world indeed!

  15. justthinkin……
    That squealin sound you hear is the Hogs in their pens on Front Street…
    tnx for the link too!

  17. OTTAWA–The Conservative government is facing charges of political meddling in the selection process for a new president and chief of news operations at the CBC.
    changes ? who is charging them other than the CBC?
    If I were head of the CBC I would ban lactating mother stories and make all the birkenstock sect shave their legs.
    and I would make Jeff Collins in Calgary play music that someone somewhere would actually recognize the artist , and no more reporting on Rufus Wainwright.and Julie Van Dussen would have to comb her hair and Peter Pansbridge would have to wear a rug.

  18. UN censors question to U.N. chief on Tibet
    At the press conference, Jean-Claude Buhrer, a former correspondent for Le Monde and the author of several books on the United Nations and human rights, told UN officials he intended to ask Mr. Ban about “the UN’s inaction concerning Tibet.” The officials proceeded to take questions for the Secretary-General from seven other journalists, but refused to call on Buhrer, an accredited journalist at the UN who now writes for France’s Politique Internationale.
    http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1317481/k.96E7/View_From_Geneva/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp

  19. Re the CBC…
    Because slinging muck at the conservatives and “Informing” Canada about really important issues like lactation is what they do…..
    I want my money back!

  22. Want to waste 5 minutes of your life? Read this emetic. It’s a barfer. It’s ad copy for the left liberal-socialists.
    …-
    Concluding paragraph:
    “These findings are, we think, rather surprising. All in all, they suggest that Bush and the rest of the U.S. government would be regarded at least no worse, and perhaps even better, if U.S. citizens had spent the past three years watching The National and CTV News with Lloyd Robertson rather than NBC Nightly News.” …-
    The Credentials:
    Stephen J. Farnsworth is the 2006-7 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and associate professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. Stuart Soroka is associate professor in political science and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University and director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive. Lori Young is a graduate student in political science at McGill University, and MA fellow at the Observatory on Media and Public Policy. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875835/posts
    The Gut Wagon:
    1. Bush might be happier if he watched Canadian TV(Could US network news be biased?)
    The Star (Canada).
    2. The IRPP.

  23. Williams fuming over Harper’s unannounced visit
    Stephen Harper is in Newfoundland to visit areas damaged by post-tropical storm Chantal, but Premier Danny Williams is fuming that the prime minister didn’t tell him he was coming.(national newswatch)
    Newfie to Mainlander, “Do you know why Newfie jokes are so simple?
    So Danny can understand them.
    To wit:
    The Humber Log
    My great aunt Sarah, from Benoit’s Cove, was a little hard of hearing. A newspaper telemarketer called her and asked her if she wanted to buy the Humber Log. She replied “What in the Jaezuz am I gonna do with a hundred logs?” and promptly hung up. Another time, the parish priest called her up and said “Hello, Sarah, it’s Father Gash”. She replied, “You sassy b@stard!” and hung up on him. Father Gash then calls Nan asking her to check on her, explaining that he had just had a strange dialogue. Nan calls, Sarah, who was very upset, explaining “This man just called me up and said `Hello, Sarah, can I fondle your @ss'” …-
    http://www.durham.net/~kburt/jokes.html

  24. Could this be one of the reasons for Harper to shuffle his cabinet?
    Federal MP Carol Skelton Not Running Again
    August 03, 2007
    Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar Member of Parliament Carol Skelton is not going to run in the next federal election.
    Skelton has been through three election campaigns and has spent the last seven years travelling back and forth to Ottawa.
    She says most people know that they have sold their farm, that her husband is looking to semi-retire and she plans to semi-retire with him.
    Skelton is the first woman MP from Saskatchewan to be named to cabinet. In 2006, she was made the Minister of National Revenue and Western Economic Development.
    Skelton says she\’ll stay on as the Minister of National Revenue until there\’s a cabinet shuffle.

  25. Re Westjet:
    One of the schools my son went to gave him to another parent who I only saw once before. She just was nice and wanted to take my kid home, because he was playing with her son at release time. It did not matter much that she did not know where we lived.

  27. Global Warming Propaganda Factory
    By Christopher J. Alleva
    I have often wondered how the media are in such lock step on Global Warming. Well, I wonder no more. Recently, I came across a website for the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). http://www.sej.org/ This website is veritable tool box for any budding reporter assigned to the global warming beat. If you’re an editor at the Palookaville Post, all you have to do is send your cub reporters to this site and they’ll have everything they need to write an article that fits the template and action line perfectly. […]
    n January of this year, the SEJ published what they call Climate change: A guide to the information and disinformation. The guide is neatly organized into twelve chapters. Except for the seventh chapter titled with the freighted descriptive: “Deniers, Dissenters and Skeptics”, the guide is a one sided presentation that resoundingly affirms global warming and puts down anyone with a different point of view. The site is a virtual digest of the global warming industry. If you’re looking for a road map to the special interest groups behind the hysteria, this is the place to go. The journalist members of this association have obviously abandoned all pretense of objectivity. …-
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/08/global_warming_propaganda_fact.html

  30. South of the Border:
    …The $111,180 that the average federal employee received in pay and benefits last year is more than double the $55,470 average earned by U.S. workers in the private sector.
    Chris Edwards, the Director of Tax Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, has looked closely at the new government data and notes that “Looking just at wages, federal workers earned an average $73,406, which is 60 percent greater than the $45,995 average earned by private sector workers.”…
    …”Perhaps the most important benefit of federal work is the extreme job security. The rate of ‘involuntary separations’ (layoffs and firings) in the federal workforce is just one-quarter the rate in the private sector. Just 1 in 5,000 federal nondefense workers is fired for poor performance each year. All these federal advantages in benefits suggest that, in comparable jobs, federal wages should be lower than private-sector wages. A market indicator of the adequacy of federal pay is the quit rate. The rate of ‘voluntary separations’ (quits) in the federal government is just one-quarter the rate in the private sector. That suggests that pay in most federal jobs is more than adequate, and workers could be attracted with reduced compensation.”….
    fedsmith.com/articles/articles.showarticle.db.php?intArticleID=1325

  31. Message to Taliban Jack Layton-NDP/Citoyen Dion, et al:
    No detainees. …-
    U.S. strikes Taliban in Afghanistan (leadership strike)
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – U.S.-led airstrikes hit a Taliban gathering in volatile southern Afghanistan and killed at least three senior figures of the militant group, government officials said Friday.
    The ministry said its intelligence reports indicated three militant leaders, including Taliban commander for Helmand province Mullah Rahim, were among those killed Thursday. The Taliban commander for all of southern Afghanistan, Dadullah Mansoor, was at the scene but his fate was not immediately known, Azimi said.
    A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, denied Rahim was killed.
    The U.S.-led coalition would not confirm Azimi’s account. But a coalition statement said it carried out a “precision airstrike against two notorious Taliban commanders conducting a leadership meeting in a remote area of the Baghran district.”
    “During a sizable meeting of senior Taliban commanders, coalition forces employed precision-guided munitions on their location after ensuring there were no innocent Afghans in the surrounding area,” the statement said. The coalition gave few other details and no word of casualties….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875982/posts

  32. G&M, not content with inventing another defence controversy, now wants to use disinformation to get rid of O’Connor, whom their Liberal friends have set their sights on for a long time:
    http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070803/COHILLIER03/Headlines/headdex/headdexComment/1/1/7/
    Such breathtaking incompetence, arrogance and bias. Sorry, you can invent whatever scandal you like, your backbackboy isn’t going to win any election, despite Conservatives being “stalled” at 34% (way ahead of everyone else, especially on leadershi questions) in polling of disinterested voters, it being summer and not election campaign.
    If they feel Tories on run and losing support, why don’t Liberals, given their power no matter what orientation, force an election?
    Maybe because they don’t want one, and are marking time, hoping for some disaster to befall Canadians, which they can blame on Harper.

  33. *
    it just wouldn’t be the long weekend… without an aboriginal standoff.
    About 12 Natives are now occupying a housing development
    in Brantford. Inspectors were threatened at noon by Natives
    at Brookfield Homes on Johnson Rd.
    This development currently has a model home and foundations
    for 210 homes of which 50 are pre-sold. The Natives have put
    up signs saying it is their land.
    via caledoniawakeupcall.com
    *

  34. Seems that Cal2 has issues with lactating mothers getting information. Must have been a bottle baby, eh.
    The fact that someone in a position to help select CBC royalty might be of conservative mind has journalists the CBC in a fair tither. I look forward to the unbiased reporting of that story… not!

  35. Check out Canadian Blue Lemons blog for a story about Avi Lewis(CBC) and his interview of the writer of “Infidel”(Ali).

  36. Just got this by e-mail, it’s been passed around before, but here it is again.
    The latest Canadian Rant
    My name is Dave and I AM CANADIAN
    I am a minority in Vancouver, Toronto and every casino in this country.
    I was born in 1958, yet I am responsible for some FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE
    BEING SCREWED OUT OF THEIR LAND in the 1700’s.
    I pay import tax on cars made in Ontario.
    I am allowed to skydive and smoke, but not allowed to drive without a seat
    Belt.
    All the money I make until mid July must go to paying taxes.
    I live and work among people who believe Americans are ignorant. These same
    People cannot name this country’s new territory.
    Although I am sometimes forced to live on Kraft dinner and don’t have a pot
    To piss in, I sleep well knowing that my taxes helped purchase a nice six
    Figure home in Vancouver for some unskilled refugee.
    Although they are unpatriotic and constantly try to separate, Quebec Still
    Provides my nation’s prime ministers.
    95% of my nation’s international conflicts are over fish.
    I’m supposed to call black people African Canadians, although I’m sure none
    Of them have ever been to Africa, or east of Halifax for that matter.
    I believe that paying a 200% tax on alcohol is fair.
    I believe that the same tax on gasoline is also fair.
    Even if I have no idea what happened to that old rifle my grandfather gave
    Me when I was 14, I will be considered a criminal if I don’t register it.
    I believe spending $15 billion to promote the French language in the rest
    Of Canada is fair when the province of Quebec doesn’t support or recognize
    The English language.
    I believe that paying $30 million for 3 Stripes (“The Voice of Fire
    Painting in Ottawa) by the National Art Gallery was a good purchase, Even
    Though 99% of this country didn’t want it or will ever see it.
    When I look at my pay stub and realize that I take home a third of what I
    Actually make, I say “Oh well, at least we have better health care than the
    Americans.”
    I must bail out farmers when their crops are too wet or too dry because I
    Control the rain.
    My national anthem has versions in both official languages and I don’t know
    Either of them.
    Canada is the highest taxed nation in North America, the biggest Military
    Buffer for the United States, and the number one destination for fleeing
    Terrorists.
    I am not an angry white male. I am an angry taxpayer who is fucking broke.
    My name is Dave, and I am Canadian.

  38. Alby, for further clarification the crew that went down in 807 was from 418 Sqn (reserves). June 14, 1986 I believe.
    SAR techs don’t need a runway to get on the ground as they jump out of perfectly serviceable aircraft.

  40. Lots of comments re lactating mothers. Are you aware that baby bottles have been banned in NY and by 2050 all babies will be breastfed. The cbc is just getting all young girls ready for this.
    It is now illegal for baby formula samples to be given out in gift baskets.
    How many liberals are on HRC boards, how many conservatives. And the cbc is complaining about conservatives playing politics re appointments.

  41. Just read somewhere that Ont had to import power from that awful USA to keep the a/c and lights on. Did all those envirowackos in TO turn off their lights, a/cs etc instead of using that awful US power. What would happen if the US decided to ban the export of power to ONT, until Dalton smartens up and quits shutting power stations down. Nice to appear to be green, while paying megatons of money to the US.
    Just proves that those envirowackos say one thing and do another. NIMBY is their motto, along with, You do it, not ME.

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