43 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Some days ago I mentioned here Prof. Hans Rosling’s talk from TED 2006. Since then I’ve sent it to my mailing list and discussed it via email with a few readers and commenters here at SDA. The response has been larger than usual, and it has unanimously been: Wow.
    So, though multiple comments recommending the same link are something I try to eschew, in this case I do urge you to watch Hans’s twenty-minute presentation on the ways the global quality of life have been improving for the last fifty years. Not only will, I’ll bet, the data surprise you, the graphical display of complex data will blow you away. Just ask Edward Tufte.
    video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2670820702819322251

  2. Vitruvius, I took up your suggestion yesterday and felt it was well worth the while. Thanks.

  3. It’s a tale of socialism. Bury socialism as socialism buried its hundred millions of dead humans.
    Bury Tommy Douglas deeper and deeper.
    …-
    National Post | In Regina, the glass is running over
    For a year and a half, Regina residents have been conscientiously dropping their glass containers in recycling bins at three malls, only to discover that every single one of those containers has been going to a landfill. …-
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/canada/story.html?id=c77c24b1-662e-4930-a7bf-23571d13c34d

  4. Another tale of Big Government, statist folly.
    Get the loathing inherent in this phrase: “weeding out private-sector providers who aren’t playing by the rules.”
    Individuals cast as weeds? Not playing by the rules? Whose rules? Peoples not getting with the “program”. “Restoring credibility”. LOL
    Big Government fails again.
    …-
    Globe | Boat licensing falls below board
    VANCOUVER — A program designed to make recreational boating safer has come under such widespread criticism that Transport Canada is moving to restore credibility by tightening up testing standards and weeding out private-sector providers who aren’t playing by the rules….-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070803.wboating0804/BNStory/National/home
    More loathing and gov’t bee-esss.
    “Critics say the pleasure-craft operator card is being hawked by providers”
    ““We want to help bring credibility back to the program. We have been having some problems,” said Krista Kendall, a policy and standards development officer with Transport Canada’s marine safety division.”

  5. Please respect M. Strong. Do not josh/mock/satureyes Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo. Do not mock Mo. Do not swear “F-Word” Mao. No mass cursing? Mass cursing in Mandarin? How who? No bullslyt on the streets of Beijing?
    …-
    Beijing Police Out in Force to Limit Barcelona Abuse
    Posted by JACKRUSSELL
    On 08/05/2007 6:15:19 AM PDT
    China View ^ | August 3, 2007 | Xinhua
    (BEIJING) — In their latest effort to tackle crude behavior ahead of the Olympics, Beijing police say they will punish or even detain football fans who yell out the “F-Word” (the Chinese equivalent) at Sunday’s friendly match between Beijing Guo’an Football Club and Barcelona. “Those who initiate swearing or goad the crowd into mass cursing at the game will be ejected from the stadium or even face detention and a 12-month ban from attending football matches,” LiuChunjiang, a spokesman with Beijing police’s Fengtai District Branch told Xinhua on Friday. Fengtai police, responsible for security at Sunday’s game between Beijing Guo’an…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876622/posts

  6. Thanks Vitruvious, I’m sure that Bono, Geldof, or any of the MSM would not have passed on this interesting bit of data. Graphical representations do wonders at putting things in perspective.

  7. Thanks Vitruvious, I’m sure that Bono, Geldof, or any of the MSM would not have passed on this interesting bit of data. Graphical representations do wonders at putting things in perspective.

  8. Thanks Vitruvious, I’m sure that Bono, Geldof, or any of the MSM would not have passed on this interesting bit of data. Graphical representations do wonders at putting things in perspective.

  10. *
    Flashback 2003
    “Who seriously believes 25 million Iraqis would not be better off
    if Saddam were overthrown?”
    Apparently not Michael Ignatieff… anymore.
    One last thought… can you imagine the mindless leftbot shitstorm
    if scary Stephen Harper even once bypassed the Canadian media
    to send a major policy message in the New York times?
    *

  11. It’s nice to see there is a place for mass therapy for conservatives. I’m sure the group hugs are restorative. Unfortunately, except for similar coffee klatches, the right barely registers in Canada. A mere convenient whipping post for the left’s next foray into our lives and pockets.

  12. Vit,
    great vid. Thanks.
    Still getting mileage out of the Red Deer River flow data. Thanks again.

  13. Socialist governments: Hi! We’re from the socialist government.
    We’re here to shoot/bury your livestock and confiscate your feed stocks to feed them.
    …-
    Farmers, not feds, control wheat board fate: Measner
    In the wake of the Conservative government’s defeat in its attempt to end the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly on barley sales, the former head of the board says its fate lies in the hands of farmers, not politicians….-
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070803/qp_wheat_070805/20070805?hub=TopStories
    One socialist government monopoly for farmers in Canada.
    Another socialist government monopoly for farmers in Britain:
    …-
    Government lab linked to foot-and-mouth outbreak
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070805/cattle_disease_070805/20070805?hub=TopStories

  14. Anyone catch Question Period today?After that mess..I am totally convinced it is sponsored by Lib.Party.Talk about a Harper Hate-In,and the tag-team of Owlface Oliver,and Fife(my nose is up the Lib’s a**)..along with the always ‘non-partisan’team of Travesty,and Giggles,it was a real hoot.Disgusting to say the least.Fife especially,grovelling to Measner,mocking Strahl..then to hear the whole group talk about the media,and try to spin how the Cons.are wrong in their perceptions of them was Comedy channel-worthy.
    Question for any farmer out there:if the wheatboard is so great,how come nothing east of Man.is forced into participating?How come no media asks that?

  16. Talk about the simple servants invading everything. The other day we went out for a relaxing day boating, not so. All we did all day was listen to two RCMP yahoo’s turn their siren on every ten minutes. Now that we have Sidney spit as part of the National parks we also have a great influx of simple servants of every variety doing their part to keep us safe from ourselves. I can stay home and listen to goddamn sirens night and day, I go out on the water to get away from that. Anybody else coming or going from Sidney to Pender Island get stopped? One thing I did notice, was that several sailboats went by and not one was stopped, I wonder why? In the last 15 years I may have been stopped 3 times, the last 3 outings I have been stopped. To all you carbon foot print pr—s in the simple service, may you all drown.

  18. Sammy, did you fortify yourself with gravol or something before tuning in to QP?
    I’ve sworn off the watching such tripe for the summer.
    We have to realize there is NOTHING good to talk about regarding their man Dion’s summer hot dog run so they’re left with attacking where the action is, Harper and Conservatives.
    Giggles, Travesty, Blondie Fife and Ollie Owl are a real Comedy troupe at the best of times.
    They’re all at the end of their run, let ’em rag away.

  19. Hey Liz,the gravol would be a wise idea indeed!But no,I watch mainly to see how truly bad it can get,and ‘they’ never disapppoint with their outright hate.i thot Fife would burst with his venom today…the absolute worst I think I’ve seen for awhile.Am off to get a family size bottle of gravol..and maybe a 40 of whiskey so I can forget.

  21. Canadians in the province of Ontario have learned that their government handed out $32.5 million of their tax dollars during the 2006-2007 fiscal year, in a manner that was “not open, transparent, or accountable.” According to a damning report from the province’s auditor-general, James McCarter, the money was given in grants through the province’s Immigration and Citizenship Ministry, to various cultural, religious and ethnic groups who would be likely to support Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty in the upcoming (October) provincial election.
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2293

  23. No piggies for Mao. Bob Rae’s oinkle Mao say: no mockery; it’s insensitive. Penalty: Cows will be confiscated in socialist Heaven.
    …-
    China bans crude, insensitive family planning slogans used by rural officials
    BEIJING (AP) – China has banned crude and insensitive slogans promoting the country’s ‘one-child’ family planning policy, such as “Raise fewer babies but more piggies,” which have stoked anger in rural areas, state media said Sunday.[…]
    Among the slogans that were forbidden were “One more baby means one more tomb” and “Houses toppled, cows confiscated, if abortion demand rejected.”…-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/08/05/4396118-ap.html
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/08/05/4396118-ap.html

  24. Sammy and Liz; did you last in QP until the end? – dyed hair Fife smirked to Oliver oil that at the upcoming Premier’s meeting Que. and Ont. would turn on the DEMANDS for HARD caps and carbon credits DEMANDED from the (hated) Alberta oil sands. Fife let his skull turn into a vampire carnature. The hate and envy spewing from his long toothed, over the hill, sneer/gushing smirk. It was pathetic, but very funny. I laughed out loud that someone his age could be so child- like (as in spoiled brat) mentally. He is a rival for that pathetic Mercer in the ‘Big old seven year old act’s up’ contest.

  25. “Roughly 92 per cent of the world’s heroin comes from
    opium poppies grown in Afghanistan, according to the
    2007 World Drug Report, released in June by the United
    Nations Office on Drugs.”
    What’s Taliban Jack gonna negotiate with these guys…
    a free trade agreement?

  26. Silly you. You thought/said GW was all ’bout $$$$$$. Wrong! It’s all about floating.
    …-
    Pennsylvania County Considers Floating Global Warming Bonds
    If you had any questions concerning the future financial potential of selling global warming alarmism, an idea being researched by a Pennsylvania county will provide all the answers you need.
    As reported by The Intelligencer Saturday (emphasis added throughout):
    Montgomery County officials are looking into whether a bond can be issued to pay for greenhouse gas reduction projects as part of a larger strategy to fight global warming.
    Picture becoming clearer? If counties can borrow money to fund green projects, mightn’t the media and the left start pushing state and federal governments to do the same thing?
    Just imagine the possibilities:
    Although local governments regularly float bonds to pay for large long-term projects, it’s not clear if cutting global climate change fits into a pre-existing category.
    “The county can only do what the Legislature said it can do in writing. … We just can’t willy-nilly do whatever we want,” Montgomery County Commissioners’ Chairman Tom Ellis said at Thursday’s meeting.
    Be afraid! Be very afraid!…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876792/posts

  27. Brookings: IRAQ INDEX [Civilian fatalities down significantly] in Post-Saddam Iraq
    Iraq at the End of July
    After a trip of 8 days one of us (O’Hanlon) took to Iraq this July, revisions are needed in some key numbers in the Iraq Index. This is in part because fresh data have recently become available, and in part because the U.S. military and Bush administration have not done a sufficient job getting data into the American public debate. It required a trip to Iraq to get access to some information that really should be widely available on this side of the Atlantic.
    A more thorough accounting will follow in the coming days, but in short, civilian fatality levels in Iraq now seem to have declined substantially more than previous Pentagon reports or data had indicated. In particular, the monthly civilian fatality rate from sectarian violence appears about one-third lower than in the pre-surge months. That is still far too high, and remains comparable to violence levels of the 2004-2005 period, but it nonetheless reflects progress….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876776/posts

  29. Lawrence Solomon explains how the biggest fraud the world has ever seen may just be a case of someone ‘jumping to conclusions’.
    [For being “the grandfather of the greenhouse effect,” as he put it, he was awarded the National Medal of Science by the first President Bush.
    Roger Revelle’s most consequential act, however, may have come in his role as a teacher, during the 1960s at Harvard. Dr. Revelle inspired a young student named Al Gore.]LS
    Al Gore thought the world of Roger Revelle. (When it suited his agenda, that is.)
    [Calling him “a wonderful, visionary professor” who was “one of the first people in the academic community to sound the alarm on global warming,” Gore thought of Dr. Revelle as his mentor and referred to him frequently, relaying his experiences as a student in his book Earth in the Balance, published in 1992.]LS
    But then;
    [Gore’s warmth for Dr. Revelle cooled, however, when it became clear that he had misunderstood his former professor: Although Dr. Revelle recognized potential harm from global warming, he also saw potential benefits and was by no means alarmed, as seen in this 1984 interview in Omni magazine.]LS
    Did Gore “misunderstand” or did he just want to believe what he wanted to believe ?? First step to becoming a fanatic ?
    [While Gore in the late 1980s was becoming a prominent politician, loudly warning of global warming dangers, Dr. Revelle was quietly warning against taking any drastic action.]LS
    But now Gore would not listen to his mentor. It was no longer about the science —- it was a religion.
    In 1991 Dr. Revelle died of a heart attack. It was Al Gore’s big break. His former mentor was now out of the way — could no longer counter Gore’s alarmism.
    [One year later, with Al Gore running for vice-president in the 1992 presidential election, the inconsistency between Gore’s pronouncements — he claimed that the “science was settled” then, too — and those of his mentor became national news. Gore responded with a withering attack, leading to claims that Dr. Revelle had become senile before his death, that Dr. Singer had duped Dr. Revelle into co-authoring the article, and that Dr. Singer had listed Dr. Revelle as a co-author over his objections.]LS
    Fanatics have no scruples. But this one had to admit he was fraudulent back then.
    [The sordid accusations ended in a defamation suit and an abject public apology in 1994 from Gore’s academic hit man, a prominent Harvard scientist, who revealed his unsavory role and that of Gore in the fabrications against Dr. Singer and Dr. Revelle.]LS
    Is another admission of fraud coming soon ?
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=58e0c50c-1631-46ca-8719-778c0973526e

  32. The Brookings Report on Iraq (at August 5, 2007 8:07 PM)
    The Brookings Institution Iraq Index for July 30, 2007 contains an update of the indicators measured since 2003. […]
    It is the ethnic conflict which makes the American presence in Iraq, while unwelcome, seem a necessary evil. By themselves the US might not be very popular with the Sunnis. But for keeping al-Qaeda killers and Shi’ite death squads away they very useful indeed.
    Counterintuitively the majority of the Iraqis polled do not want to go their own separate ways but hold out hope for a single unitary or federated country. This is hardly what one would have expected to find in a country supposedly wracked by civil war? How can this persistent desire for some sort of political cooperation among ethnic communities which supposedly hate each other be explained?
    There are two probably reasons for this desire for unity. The first is that Iraq is potentially rich and nobody wants to deal himself out of a rich country; and the second is that compared to Iraq’s neighbors it is comparatively free. For all the problems that followed the removal of Saddam many people remember what a despot he was. First to the rich part. …-
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/08/brookings-report-on-iraq.html

  33. MSM posts a Body Count from the socialist land of TO.
    …-
    Toronto suffers 50th homicide of 2007
    Canada.com – 1 hour ago
    A blood-splattered stairwell in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood Sunday afternoon was the scene of the city’s 50th homicide of the year. …-

  34. “15 Footballers Go Missing in Denmark”
    http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6764549.stm
    “The Homeless World Cup is an annual competition that aims to use football as a way to maximise social impact for the players involved – socially excluded, homeless people and people living in poverty.”
    And they are surprised this happened?? Well, duhh!

  35. Conservatives lead fundraising, rake in $8.9-million in six months
    Liberals raised only $1.79-million, out-fundraised by NDP
    The minority governing Conservatives led fundraising again in the first two quarters of the year by raising a total and whopping $8.9-million from 82,000 donors and out-fundraised all other parties combined….-
    http://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php

  36. “MSM posts a Body Count from the socialist land of TO.
    …-
    Toronto suffers 50th homicide of 2007”
    How interesting, now Google “Murder Capital of Canada” and ask yourself why the three prairie provinces are consistently the home to the most murderous cities per capita in Canada.
    More good reading
    http://canadaonline.about.com/od/crime/a/abolitioncappun.htm
    James Roszko wasn’t from Toronto

  37. More idiocy from the left-socialist bureauc-rats in the socialist land of TO.
    How much is this ‘rat paid for this moronity?
    …-
    Another summer day, another heat alert in Toronto
    CBC News – 2 hours ago
    Dr. David McKeown, the city’s chief medical officer of health, said the heat alert will be in effect until further notice.(google news)

  38. Sweden: Dying; moribund; falling into the bloodsoaked clutches of Islam.
    Sweden is a socialist-fascist state ripe for the plucking by the barbarians of Islam.
    …-
    The Death of Sweden
    The Brussels Journal ^ | 07-31-07 | From the desk of Fjordman
    “The primary reason why I write so much about Sweden is because it is the most totalitarian country in the Western world, and should thus serve as a warning to others.”
    “The Swedish nation is currently on its deathbed. We can only hope there is life after death after all.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877041/posts

  39. What’s the special today, Mao?
    Mao: Pekin duck.
    Goody. That’s my favourite dish when I’m here in Beijing. Tank you, Mao.
    …-
    No more crispy duck served at toilets
    BEIJING (Reuters) – Food stalls attached to Beijing’s public toilets will be removed in good time for next year’s Olympics, state media said Saturday. Complaints over toilets with poor sanitation and toilet operators turning them into commercial operations led to the ban, which comes into force in October. “It is not proper to sell soft drinks or snacks right at the toilets,” the Beijing News said, citing sources within the Beijing Municipal Administration Commission….-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877207/posts

  40. Well there’s your problem maz2, your reading too much “freerepulsive”. That stuff will rot your brain, if it hasn’t done so already. Pick up a nice book and go have a lay down until this freep stuff wears off. May I suggest the latest Harry Potter or how about “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy” by Noam Chomsky

  42. I notice alby has recommended two works of fiction to Maz2. Noam Chomsky is a laughingstock, his papers are not even first term poli sci undergraduate quality. He backs up zero what he says. He’s just another Ward Churchill type – full of their own bluster, who don’t shut up long enough to see their ignorance or bogus arguments.

  43. Oh Shamrock I’ve noticed that you are hardly a one that should be passing judgement on such a man as Chomsky. Chomsky is considered by his fellow intellectuals as one of the greatest living minds today. You on the other hand, well let’s say can’t even dream to be in the same league as he is in.

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