75 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Alby
    Give it a rest…this slimeball should have been killed years ago.
    It is a known fact that 68% of Canadians support the death penalty. YOU are on the wrong side AGAIN!

  3. Citoyen Dion: Attention/Attention. Dig this.
    …-
    The Glory of the France
    BG Robert Doughty (USAR Ret), a former history instructor at West Point, claims to be the proud owner of the largest collection of French Army jokes in existence. That’s ironic because he and Professor Michael Neiberg of the University of Southern Mississippi have just brought the French Army of 1917 back to life, and reminded the audience of the fact that during the Great War that army was widely regarded as the epitome of self-sacrifice and valor. The image of the French as cheese-eating surrender monkeys is a revisionist portrait, minted long after the fact. In reality French defenses of 1917 featured “suicide trenches”, manned only by volunteers, far in advance of the main line of resistance, who did not expect survive. One of the most evocative anecdotes was of Georges Clemenceau in tears after an inspection of a suicide trench, remarking that of all the marvels a man might hope to see in life, nothing could compare with that.
    I will post a few more observations after the presentation on the German Army.
    Nothing follows.
    posted by wretchard at 11/01/2007 04:52:00 PM
    33 Comments:
    NahnCee said…
    THat was then.
    This is now.
    What has France done for the world lately, other than inflict their pedophiliac soldiers on third world victims, allow their Muslims to multiply and run amok with the barbecue every night, and try to screw America and act as a “counterbalance”?
    France has got a lot of making up to do before I’ll even admit they’re human, let alone having “valor”.
    In the meantime, bring on the jokes.
    11/01/2007 06:14:00 PM
    chigalum said…
    Suicide Trenches? That’s gotta be a French Military joke right?
    Sorry Wretchard, most of us will resist any attempt to rehabilitate France’s reputation.
    …-
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/11/glory-of-france.html

  4. louise…out of respect for kate I know we should ignore the trollbird, so I’ll direct this to you:
    Let’s ask CBC:
    When did CPC ‘start’ opposing death penalty for convicted murderers abroad?

  5. I think that someone should open an inquiry to have the Chretiens explain why Powercorp purchased a 2 million dollar mansion for them a few months after papa jean left office. This little gift was also put in Aline’s name for some reason or other. Hmmm….

  6. We’re forgetting: the victims deserve to die because they’re part of our big bad SOCIETY that marginalized the killers, etc., etc.. The killers need understanding and sympathy.
    Rehabilitation, not punishment! And if the rehabilitated guy gets out and kills again, too bad so sad. The victims and their families just have to suck it up. We’ve got an ideology to protect here!
    Innocent people killed via capital punishment by bloodthirsty conservatives? I’m sure there were a few, and I hope DNA and other technological advances turn those few into nil. Victims killed by liberal ideology that releases killers back into society? Hundreds. But they don’t count. Ideology does.

  7. What Stickwell Day said is that Harper’s government will no longer lobby to have the self-confessed murderer brought to Canada to serve his term here. He never once said that he would stop lobbying to commute the death sentence. Just another LIEberal misrepresentation of the the truth.

  8. Liberalism is not a mental disoreder as some have avowed, it is evident by the repeated posts from the likes of alba, ted, et al that the liberal cranial space has been voided and then filled with the red “kool-aid” jelly. This mush prevents then from being able to participate in a discussion of any nature. Why do you people even bother to try and debate with them. Is it not apparent that they are beyond hope. They cannot accept the fact that for more than fifty years they have been voting for nothing but charlatans, and con-men. The National Energy program, Wage and Price controls, the promise to abolish the GST, capital punishment, samesex marriage, abortion on demand, HR scandal, Radwanski scandal, Adscam, helicopter fiasco, submarine purchase, relocation allowances, My Gawd the list is endless. People that keep voting liberal or keep espousing liberal ideals cannot be reasoned with therefore it is better to let them crawl away into their own little world where they think everything is beautiful and let them shrivel away in peace.

  9. Louise at November 3, 2007 7:03 AM
    How exactly do you see that as misleading?
    =================
    Because it leaves out a very critical part of the CPC’s position, which is described in the article, namely:
    “We will not actively pursue bringing back to Canada murderers who have been tried in a democratic country that supports the rule of law,
    …
    “It would send a wrong message. We want to preserve public safety here in Canada.”    ”
    and it then goes on to spend almost the entire article explaining and defending the Liberal Pary position.
    I want my tax dollars back.

  10. “when proponents of the death penalty can come up with a convincing proposal to make for 100% flawlessly accurate verdicts ALWAYS, then I will consider my opposition to it.
    steven truscott,
    guy paul morin,
    and a big fat bunch of others who would not be here
    if the bloodthirsty right wing conservatists had their way.”
    Truscott was convicted decades ago. Guy Paul Morin was aquitted because of advancements in DNA testing. This same testing is being used to verify someone’s guilt. With technology today, I have no problem convicting and carrying out the sentence when the science proves guilt, or in the case of Paul Bernardo where guilt is admitted.
    And all you left-wingers the ones who rant about the science of Al Gore, surely your not going to discount the science of DNA testing?

  11. Circumcision on Decline in Africa Due to Global Warming
    ===================
    Which the climate fascists will take as further proof of human caused global warming.

  12. Glob-Pail is decoupled/disconnected from reality. OTOH, Glob-Pail may be deliberately lying, you think?
    …-
    [Headline]
    Dollar’s climb sparks fears of economic disconnect
    Globe and Mail – 11 hours ago
    The rocket-propelled Canadian dollar flew past $1.07 (US) yesterday, fuelled by strong economic data that have many forecasters wondering whether the economy is decoupling from its troubled southern neighbour.
    …-
    America’s Amazing Long Boom Turns 25
    US News & World Report
    TheLineMustBeDrawnHere
    As this week’s economic events show—the second straight quarter of nearly 4 percent growth in gross domestic product and job growth twice what Wall Street expected—betting against the American economy is one of the all-time losing wagers. Mortgage mess, credit crisis, high oil prices—whatever. The boom keeps booming.
    Over the past 25 years, the United States has enjoyed a marvelous stretch of almost uninterrupted economic growth. In fact, November marks a wonderful double anniversary. The current six-year economic expansion dates from November of 2001, while the long economic boom dates from November 1982.
    So what explains this extended period of growth and prosperity?
    To a great extent, surprisingly, there is not a lot of debate about this, at least concerning the broad strokes of economic success. “We did something really radical,” says Lawrence Lindsey, a former director of the National Economic Council for President Bush. “We decided to let markets work.” Deregulation, free trade, and tax cuts were all just different facets of the same basic idea: a bit less government, a bit more markets. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920253/posts

  13. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOSSSS!!!!
    (sorry Kate, but we’ve a Grey Cup to win)

  15. “Liberalism is not a mental disorder as some have avowed”
    No. However, leftarditis is a disease:
    Lynda Hurst
    Feature Writer
    Toronto Star
    It emerged this week that Karl Marx, the father of communism, suffered from a chronic and excruciating skin disease with known psychological effects that might have had an impact on his political theories.
    The 19th-century revolutionary thinker had a condition called hidradenitis suppurativa, in which the sweat glands in his armpits and groin become blocked and inflamed and his skin covered in boils and carbuncles.
    Or so argues Sam Shuster, a professor of dermatology at Britain’s University of East Anglia.
    “In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty, hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem,” writes Shuster in the current British Journal of Dermatology.
    “This explains his self-loathing and alienation, a response reflected by the alienation Marx developed in his writing.”
    But does it also explain communism? Could Marx’s anger over the class struggles of history and the ongoing oppression of the proletariat have been fuelled by his disease?
    Marx published Das Kapital in 1867, the same year in which he wrote to his Communist Manifesto co-author Friedrich Engels that “the bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day.”
    Though hardly known for it, was Marx joking? Entirely?
    He started complaining about pus-discharging boils in 1864, when he was 46. Shuster says that hidradenitis, which causes swelling, skin thickening and scarring, could also explain a number of his other physical ailments, among them joint pain and a painful eye condition. His attempts at treatment, which included arsenic and lancing, would hardly have helped his concentration or his mood.
    Shuster based his retrospective diagnosis on Marx’s correspondence with friends in which he frequently wrote about his ill health, describing his skin lesions as “curs” and “swine.” His only consolation, he said, was that the carbuncles were “truly a proletarian disease.”
    ———————–
    “This explains his self-loathing”
    A symptom that sounds all too familiar.

  17. …don’t forget this weekend/tomorrow is Daylight Saving Time.
    Snooze happy. Fall back, Spring forward.
    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/03/time.change.ap/index.html
    Their study of risk to pedestrians is preliminary but confirms previous findings of higher deaths after clocks are set back in fall.
    It’s not the darkness itself, but the adjustment to earlier nighttime that’s the killer, said professors Paul Fischbeck and David Gerard, both of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
    Fischbeck, who regularly walks with his 4-year-old twins around 6 p.m., is worried enough that he’ll be more cautious starting Monday.
    “A three times increase in the risk is really dramatic, and because of that we’re carrying a flashlight,” he said.
    Fischbeck and Gerard conducted a preliminary study of seven years of federal traffic fatalities and calculated risk per mile walked for pedestrians. They found that per-mile risk jumps 186 percent from October to November, but then drops 21 percent in December.
    They said the drop-off by December indicates the risk is caused by the trouble both drivers and pedestrians have adjusting when darkness suddenly comes an hour earlier.

  19. Dierdre McCloskey has written an interesting comparative review of two books, one new and one old, concerning two parallel figures – Joseph Schumpeter and John K. Galbraith.
    The first book (the new one) is about Schumpeter; the second one (a reissue of the pre-personal-computer bestseller The New Industrial State) is by Galbraith, and introduced by his son.
    Both of these men were middle-class gentry. Schumpeter got the patronage of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, who considered him (with some justification) to be a brilliant lad, and Galbraith was swept up by the Roosevelt Administration. I don’t have any explicit backing for it, but I have a hunch that the young Galbraith was a scholarship student at Upper Canada College in his youngsterhood – one those “I can be Leacock” admissions.
    Both worldviews, despite their incompatibility, have an underlying similarity. I rather suspect that the people who support government monopolies (which is what social democracy basically is) think that they can schmooze the government monopolists more easily than they can private businesspeople, whether monopolists or not. Perhaps a social democrat can be sent on his/her way with one of these two retorts: “So, some of your best friends are bureaucrats, are they?”; “So, you want to hob-nob with the Ottawa man, do you?”
    Schumpeter did let the cat out of the bag in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy but he couldn’t go far enough with the implications: to the gentryperson, business is a great place to be from, not in. Social democracy gets much of its staying power through plain snootery, which is backed up by the relative lack of a particular kind of family in our civilization: the “business family” in which the scion is proud to go into the ancestor’s business.

  20. Two items from the Sunday Times:
    Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror:
    The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers
    It was an occasion for tears and celebration as the Knights of Martyrdom proclaimed on video: “Our brother Turki fell during the rays of dawn, covered in blood after he was hit by the bullets of the infidels, following in the path of his brother.” The flowery language could not disguise the brutal truth that a Saudi family had lost two sons fighting for Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
    …
    An analysis by NBC News suggested that the Saudis make up 55% of foreign fighters in Iraq. They are also among the most uncompromising and militant.
    Half the foreign fighters held by the US at Camp Cropper near Baghdad are Saudis. They are kept in yellow jumpsuits in a separate, windowless compound after they attempted to impose sharia on the other detainees and preached an extreme form of Wahhabist Islam.
    In recent months, Saudi religious scholars have caused consternation in Iraq and Iran by issuing fatwas calling for the destruction of the great Shi’ite shrines in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, some of which have already been bombed. And while prominent members of the ruling al-Saud dynasty regularly express their abhorrence of terrorism, leading figures within the kingdom who advocate extremism are tolerated.
    Hillary Clinton puts her war room on attack
    Clinton has recruited rapid rebuttal experts to take on what she calls the “Republican attack machine”, but they are proving equally lethal against her Democratic rivals.
    Their philosophy is similar to that of the mysterious unofficial website http://www.Hillaryis44.com – a reference to her would-be status as the 44th president – which warns darkly that one of the clearest threats to her election will come from “Democrats who repeat Republican propaganda to undermine Hillary”.
    The pink website, which looks beguilingly amateurish while being deadly professional, solicits confidential tips on her rivals and is believed to be a “back door” into her war room.
    …
    Hillaryis44.com provides some intriguing hints about what may be to come. It includes a list of questions for Tim Russert, the moderator of last week’s debate and host of NBC’s Meet the Press, to ask Obama when he next appears on the show. They include such topics as Obama’s alleged ties to shady financiers and friends of the mob in Chicago and other supposed ethical and political lapses.
    As Clinton herself has said, “When you are attacked, you have to deck your opponent.”

  21. Re-Al W at November 3, 2007 1:34 PM
    Are you actually trying to quote an on line poll as being valid?

  23. Thousands return to safer Iraqi capital
    yahoo ^ | 11/3/2007 | STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
    BAGHDAD – In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.
    Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital’s more dangerous districts — west Baghdad’s largely Sunni Khadra region.
    The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920559/posts
    The Petraeus Curve
    The Times (London) 11/03/2007
    Is no news good news or bad news? In Iraq, it seems good news is deemed no news. There has been striking success in the past few months in the attempt to improve security, defeat al-Qaeda sympathisers and create the political conditions in which a settlement between the Shia and the Sunni communities can be reached. This has not been an accident but the consequence of a strategy overseen by General David Petraeus in the past several months. While summarised by the single word “surge” his efforts have not just been about putting more troops on the ground but also employing them in a more sophisticated manner. This drive has effectively broken whatever alliances might have been struck in the past by terrorist factions and aggrieved Sunnis. Cities such as Fallujah, once notorious centres of slaughter, have been transformed in a remarkable time…
    The current achievements, and they are achievements, are being treated as almost an embarrassment in certain quarters. The entire context of the contest for the Democratic nomination for president has been based on the conclusion that Iraq is an absolute disaster and the first task of the next president is to extricate the United States at maximum speed. Democrats who voted for the war have either repudiated their past support completely (John Edwards) or engaged in a convoluted partial retraction (Hillary Clinton). Congressional Democrats have spent most of this year trying (and failing) to impose a timetable for an outright exit. In Britain, in a somewhat more subtle fashion admittedly, Gordon Brown assumed on becoming the Prime Minister that he should send signals to the voters that Iraq had been “Blair’s War”, not one to which he or Britain were totally committed.
    All of these attitudes have become outdated. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920527/posts

  24. The Liberals couldn’t, wouldn’t do a bloody thing about commuting sentences passed down in the US. This is about as lame an issue as it gets to get mileage out of when about 68% of Canadians still support the death penalty for proven murderers so if it’s votes they’re after,they’re barking up the wrong tree.
    So too is trying to get something going on the Mulroney-Schreiber issue which we paid dearly for thanks to desperate Liberals.
    It’s time they look inward and clean up their fractured party. They can’t just boot Dion until he runs in an election. They can thank the verbal diarrhea inflicted Gerard Kennedy for crowning Dion king and also depriving us of a real Opposition in the HOC.
    We now have 95 butts sitting on their hands while giving us nothing but bluster and buffoonery.

  25. Mazz. I too read the article by Mr. Byfeild. It made me angry enough to send a comment to the Alberta PC’s. Basically to say they have lost mine and my families vote. along with anyone I can convince. A still proud albertan reduced to watching a supposed Conservative government act like the NDP. For shame.

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