113 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. I saw this link over at Michelle Malkin’s page:
    “http://consumerfreedom.com/images/ads/fullsize/print_peta_blood.jpg”. Apparently PETA kills about 90% of the dogs & cats under its care. About 14,000 in the period 1998-2005 at its Virginia Head Office. But the really, really interesting info was in the comments, where we find a link to the Last Will and Testament of PETA’s founder, Ingrid Newkirk “http://www.peta.org/feat/newkirk/will.html”. It seems that while she wants most of her flesh to be barbequed (no, not cremated, barbequed!), she is saving some of the body parts and we, Canada, get an ear! I’m not making this up!

  3. Swedish court smacks down anti spanking law.
    In a decision that will no doubt make people who believe that they know how to raise your children better than you do, a Swedish court has decided that spanking is not child abuse.
    Don’t tell socialists.
    If it went through should I sue for getting the strap in school? Maybe everyone who did should get a million dollars,…

  4. H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
    Status: Passed house, in committee
    DEFINITIONS.
    “”VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization’ means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.”
    http://tinyurl.com/26gj8m
    Hmmmm someone should clue the amending committee into the fact that the founding fathers of their nation would be convicted under all the terms of this act
    The Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn’t trust. The US Declaration of Independence proclaimed the right to dissent and declared it a duty of citizenship to alter or abolish bad government….by force of arms if needed.
    Funny how bipartisan DC autocrats seem to think disagreeing with them is “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention”

  6. It’s the “hinterland”, stupid; the places where the rednecked, knuckle-dragging, morons live in their tents, or caves.
    Multiculturalism is dead. The elites are stonedeaf, blind, dumb. Ha labels Herouxville’s revenge as “infamous code of conduct”. Ha, wake up; climb down from your cloud; throw your halo way. The jig is up. We don’t buy your MSM/Slop-Pail BS.
    Two more things, Ha: the veil is a jail; and,
    it’s Herouxville’s famous, not infamous, code of conduct.
    Here is the condescension condensed, aka the contempt of the elites for the people of Quebec/Canada:
    “After touring the mostly immigrant-free Quebec hinterland for the past three months,”
    …-
    ‘We’re living in a time of hysteria’
    TU THANH HA
    […]
    “I want to say that I’ve never stoned my wife,” said Bangladeshi-born Abdul Muttalib, alluding to the infamous code of conduct of the village of Hérouxville that explicitly forbids the stoning of women.”
    “”You say you need immigrants. We’re here. And yet we’re labelled. We have to deal with racism,” said Farrah Abdill, from Somalia.” […]
    “Born in Turkey, Sibel Ataogul learned to speak French in eight months and became a lawyer. “We’re living in a time of hysteria,” she said. “We’re in a situation of global Islamophobia.”
    “I’m not a terrorist; I’m not a religious extremist,” said Imen Lajmi, who said her decision to wear her veil was personal and not a form of Islamic oppression against women.” …-
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071121.waccomodate21/BNStory/National/home

  7. On a related note, In an interview with Laura Ingram on Fox News last night, it seems that the American Humaine Society is against the hunters donating food for the homeless campaign. Although, interestingly enough the real reason this director (speaking for the AHSA) was against it was that he was a vegan and like the PETA wacko, wanted to be bbq’d.
    As a believer and supporter of humaine societies and hunting, I find that these idiots drive away supporters and are doing more harm than good with their beliefs.
    BTW, it will be real turkey not tofu on my plate tomorrow.

  8. The Religion of Peace ™ in action again.
    I can hardly wait until some lefty drops by to point out that “not all Muslims do this.”
    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22793111-2703,00.html
    “Meanwhile, horrifying new details emerged last night of the attempt by suicide bombers to kill Ms Bhutto on her return home from exile last month.”
    “Investigators from Ms Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party said yesterday they believed the bomb, which killed 170 people and left hundreds more wounded, was strapped to a one-year-old child carried by its jihadist father.”
    “They said the suicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Ms Bhutto’s vehicle as she drove in a late-night cavalcade through the streets of Karachi.”
    “At the point where the bombs exploded, Benazir Bhutto herself saw the man with the child and asked him to come closer so that she could hug or kiss the infant,” investigators were reported as saying. “But someone came in between and a guard felt that the man with the child was not behaving normally. So the child was not allowed to come aboard Benazir’s vehicle.”
    “Ms Bhutto is said to have told investigators she recalls the face of the man who was carrying the infant. She has asked to see recordings made by television news channels to try to identify the man.”

  10. Today’s National Post, Terence Corcoran, Battle of the Nobel climate horror disaster movies.
    There should be a CONTEST to see who can come up with the word or phrase that best describes these UN climate change scare mongering freaks meeting in Bali, Indonesia.

  12. Hitman wants to unionize Quebec Prisoners
    I translated an article from French and posted it on Free Dominion.
    It starts:
    The prisoners at the Drummondville penitenciary have begun the process of unionizing with the CSN (Confédération des syndicats nationaux), tired of working for a bite of bread and a bit of water. Their “union leader” is a former hitman for the Hell’s Angels. There is no question of striking or picketing, it is assured.

  14. “Mulroney admits taking cash a ‘colossal mistake’
    Former PM worried about income when he took money from Schreiber, aide says”
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=0d2cf487-0345-49aa-8f95-7e9b3c9420d3&k=47644
    “he had money pressures since he was “not a rich man” at the head of a young family with certain lifestyle expectations”
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
    to repeat
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    Almost fell off my seat on the bus today on that one. All you nice people here who think a very connected career lawyer – with a fully indexed non-revocable Priminister-ial pension – has the cohones to state that Ben needed new hockey equipment every year – is just guilty of bas judgement – give your head a shake.
    This guy stinks as much as Cretin.
    Mindless partisanship is mindless people.

  15. A BC court is set today to rule on Aboriginal Title to 2,000 square KM of land West of Williams Lake in BC. The court is expected to declare that aboriginal title exists but without much to define what that is. For starters, it is expected that Provincial Laws, like the forestry act, will not apply as Natives are the sole responsibility of the Federal government. Further, land sold to non-natives may be forfeit as Government had no legal right to sell land owned by natives. Expect evictions in Mugabe-like fashion.
    As 110% of BC is claimed in similar cases by BC’s natives (overlapping claims!!) it is possible that the courts will rule all of it is owned in aboriginal title. What then?

  16. Meanwhile in Gordon Browns Britain the tax dept loses all the personal information for half of the population. They were on 2 disks sent thro the mail 3 week ago and not tracked.
    Chirac of France is under investigation for fraud when he was mayor of Paris.
    No links just heard it on Hong Kong TVB Pearl news

  17. exactly hardboiled. and mulroney isnt a CPC either, both him an Cretian were quebec politicians of the first order bred in the fine tradition of Quebec politics, all handshakes are with the palm up.
    Mulroney walked into a nice mansion in Mont Royale costing a cool 2 million at the time. Cretian demonstated that by walking out of politics for only about 4 years you could make several million dollars just owning a share of a golf course near a federal grant. the rest of us canajuns are just fodder for the horses of the ottawa/toronto/montreal polical elite. Cretian and the lot took it to new heights by bypassing the grant system and directing the money directly through thier adscam buddies.

  18. The Gore brainwashing has hit small,very rural Manitoba school kids.I work with young kids,and was struck yesterday,while having lunch with a pair of Gr.2,and Gr.3 siblings.Out of nowhere,came the well memorized,brainwashed rhetoric we hear from the fearmongerers.I listened to these kids talk about how ‘we are killing all the polar bears’ and if we don’t stop the ‘smoke from all those big chimneys’that ALL the cities will be flooded out.I was stunned,as these kids are somewhat intellectually ‘challenged’ but they had the spin down pat.I would really like to know,how frequently this is being drilled into kids heads at school,and is there any other view being presented? I asked these kids about which teacher was telling them these half-truths..they responded..”all of them”when I attempted to challenge some of what they were saying,I was quickly denounced with,’that’s not true..our teacher said some people lie’ Stunning,that this GW b.s is being indoctrinated into the heads of kids so well,that even the ‘special’kids are eating it up.

  20. I see that KHS has also named Cretian contempory Marc Lalonde as another one of his payola boys. the libs may not like it when the find KHS , the cash only man was meticulous with notes and letters to go along with that cash.

  21. Is Luc Lavoie Mulroney’s unofficial spokesperson? It may be a tactic, after all, he is a friend of his.
    What’s the bet the only people who’ll get tarred and embarrassed after this is over will be the Libranos?
    Their actions in committee yesterday is a good example of their desperate tactics. They couldn’t run a two-holed outhouse. They must be getting guidance from Marlene Jennings, one of the biggest mouths in the HOC, along with exhibitionists like Dhalla and Holland.

  22. “a different Bob” so you’re saying I better go get some victory coffee and wake up.
    I can’t find the edit button, 🙂
    Oh well,
    PS
    Here we go Bombers, here we go
    Here we go Bombers, here we go
    Here we go Bombers, here we go

  23. several new protected areas in the arctic were mentioned in the calgary herald this morning. neither CBCpravda or CTV(tass) has found it within their agenda to mention something like this from the “Harper Tory Regime”

  25. dino – if the “(Bomb-ers) ever dreamed that they would beat the big Green Machine this Sunday, they would wake up and apologize! Actually I was referring to the first sentence of your posting of 9:33am. It is grammatically incorrect.

  27. *
    socialism in france… not dead enough
    “France’s high-speed TGV rail network has been damaged by a
    “concerted campaign of sabotage”, the SNCF state-owned rail
    operator has said.
    It said acts of sabotage overnight, including fires, caused huge
    delays to TGV services already hit by a long transport union
    strike over reforms.
    *

  28. The ‘rats/MSM yeah-butters are eating crow … caw … caw …-
    ‘Morning Joe’: Yeah-Butting The Good News From Iraq
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Thanksgiving is a time for reconciliation, so let’s start with some sympathy for our liberal media friends. It’s been a tough 24 hours for them. Yesterday, articles appeareared in the New York Times and LA Times reporting the dramatically improved security situation in Iraq.
    Today brings another blow, as Thomas Friedman suggests that beyond the military successes, there might be an informal kind of political accomodation going on in Iraq that he refers to as an “ATM peace.” That would be a real setback for the MSM, given its fall-back position that “there might be military progress but there’s been no improvement on the political front.”
    But the MSM are a resilient bunch, and we’re already seeing the outlines of their plan to deal with the current unpleasantness. Call it “yeah-butting.”
    First, Scott McClellan’s excerpt from a book months away from publication is manna for an MSM starving for bad news. We’ll see how much mileage the “Bush lied, people died” crowd can wring from it.
    Then, as David Shuster and Mika Brzezinski demonstrated on today’s “Morning Joe,” there’s no good-news Iraqi lemon they can’t press into bad-news lemondade.
    View video here. (link)…-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928788/posts
    Taliban Jack/Citoyen Dion are masticating crow, also.
    …-
    Afghan police killed 50 militants [aka,Islamist Taliban]
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 21 (UPI) — U.S.-led forces and Afghan police killed 50 militants during an operation in the southern province of Uruzgan, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
    The ministry did not release further information about the operation, though it said that no coalition or Afghan forces were killed in the attack.
    Meanwhile, Afghan police reportedly killed a Taliban commander and his four bodyguards Tuesday during a separate operation in Uruzgan, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
    Uruzgan, along with Helmand and Kandahar Provinces, are known Taliban strongholds and have been the target of intensifying operations in recent weeks by coalition and Afghan forces. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928906/posts

  29. Hi , I’m the Ranting Tory at the sootoday.com web site under the columns section. I’m the Conservative voice in an NDP strong hold , so you can imagine the rhetoric I face daily over there.I have taken a liking to your stuff. Would you be objectionable if I were to post to the odd piece or two from your blog?
    If you like , you can create a registered login and post it over there yourself.
    Boy those Liberals are really making asses out of themselves , I would agree.

  32. This may be my favourite op-ed of the year….
    – – – – –
    “Affirmative Action,” hyphenated Americans, and other conundrums
    By Roger Kimball
    What is your favorite bit of Orwellian Newspeak? Near the top of my list is “affirmative action.” It’s such an emollient phrase, so redolent of cheeriness (savor the word “affirmative”) and practicality (“action”). What it really means is “discrimination on the basis of sex, skin color, or some other item in the contemporary lexicon of victimology.” But you can—almost—forget that while the pleasing phrase “affirmative action” echoes in your recollection.
    I had occasion to ponder this anew last week when I attended a dinner in New York following the latest Intelligence Squared debate. If you do not live in New York, you may not know about this splendid series of live debates organized by Robert Rosenkranz and the Rosenkranz Foundation. The resolution this evening was “It’s time to end affirmative action.” To me, the question is a no-brainer. Of course it is time to end “affirmative action.” But that is not how some of my dinner partners saw it. Nor, as it happens, did the audience for the debate. Much to my surprise, they voted heartily against the resolution (44% against, 34% for, and 22% undecided). My surprise was only increased when I looked over the transcript of the debate (I had to miss the event itself): I thought those arguing for abolishing the practice of “affirmative action” had all the good arguments.
    Alas, debates are not always won by the better arguments—a fact I know to my sorrow. When I participated in an Intelligence Squared debate last year on the motion “Hollywood has fueled anti-Americanism Abroad,” I went to the debate thinking my side, which argued for the motion, would lose. But then we argued so much more persuasively than the other side (or so I thought) that I awaited the audience’s vote with confident equanimity. It was a misplaced presumption, unfortunately, since we lost by a considerable margin. As I noted at the time, “in order to win an argument, you must appeal to the audience’s emotions as well as their reason. What people yearn for, what they fear, is often more important than what they think in determining how they vote.”
    Notwithstanding the results of the IQ2 debate, it seems an opportune moment to step back and reflect on the phenomenon of “affirmative action” and its ideological comrade in arms, multiculturalism.
    A favorite weapon in the armory of multiculturalism is the lowly hyphen. When we speak of an African-American or Mexican-American or Asian-American these days, the aim is not descriptive but deconstructive. There is a polemical edge to it, a provocation. The hyphen does not mean “American, but hailing at some point in the past from someplace else.” It means “only provisionally American: my allegiance is divided at best.” (I believe something similar can be said about the feminist fad for hyphenating the bride’s maiden name with her husband’s surname. It is a gesture of independence that is also a declaration of divided loyalty.) It is curious to what extent the passion for hyphenation is fostered more by the liberal elite than the populations it is supposedly meant to serve. How does it serve them? Presumably by enhancing their sense of “self-esteem.” Frederick Douglass saw through this charade some one hundred and fifty years ago. “No one idea,” he wrote, “has given rise to more oppression and persecution toward colored people of this country than that which makes Africa, not America, their home.”
    ….continues.
    http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/rogerkimball/2007/11/18/affirmative_action_hyphenated.php
    – – – – –

  33. Awesome post cal2 ..
    Something less intellectual …. yet still stimulating:
    The Blog Readability Test !
    Do we strive to be readable? Accessible? Erudite?
    How do we judge the results?
    If we simply look at equivalent results from this test it puts us in some very LOW company.
    I think it matters More the Why than the Whether!
    Food for thought in any case….

  34. How about an organized boycott of the sponsors of CBC’s “Fifth Estate.” (Airs tonight-topic-KH Schreider-Mulroney.) Question: How many brown enveloppes were delivered to the CBC in the making of this program?

  35. “I’m not a terrorist; I’m not a religious extremist,” said Imen Lajmi, who said her decision to wear her veil was personal and not a form of Islamic oppression against women.” …-
    Yes a personal political statement about the importance of her religio-ethnic ideology and disdain for the customs of her adopted land.
    A firm denunciation of the Islamic radical agenda would be more convincing than a defense of what amounts to the wearing of a flag.
    Imagine the tone of an article where the interviewee was wearing a Stetson!

  36. Fascists in Wolfville NS have outlawed smoking in cars carrying children. Fascists in Ellice Manitoba will expropriate a farmer’s land. Municipal governments in Canada – a domain of leftist government paid activists – are using their power to undermine our rights.

  37. Citoyen Dion: “He [Duplessis] was no friend of professors.” Is STOPIGGY included?
    What is an idiot savant?
    …-
    Over to Angry:
    If Stephane Dion screws up this Karlheinz Schreiber thing…
    Some people are seeing signs that not only is the Karlheinz Schreiber controversy not connecting with Canadians, who by and large aren’t buying into the Liberal argument that this is a scandal that involves the current government, but they are also seeing signs that Stephane Dion’s Liberals might find themselves embroiled in scandal instead.
    I’m not sure that it can go that far, but I’m pretty sure that if there is any blowback at all, Stephane Dion is finished. The Liberal Party can put up with only so much incompetence. …-
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/247235.php
    …-
    Over to Goar: It’s Egghead Dion’s, How I Won My War on Poverty. Not Ad$cam?
    Citoyen Dion is gored by Goar @ TO Red Star.
    Read Steffi’s Rags to Riches story. It’s his bedtime story, even better than Bam, The Dog. The last few words are golden sarcasm; but, true.
    Lines include: […]
    “”You don’t know what it was like for a family with five kids living under Maurice Duplessis (Quebec’s 16th premier),” the Liberal leader said. “He was no friend of professors.” (Dion’s father, Léon, an eminent intellectual [aka Egghead], taught at Laval University.)
    “We were the last in our neighbourhood to get a TV, the last to get a car. My parents had headaches about how to pay for the house.
    “It wasn’t until my father’s books were published in the ’60s that we could afford a comfortable life.”
    In any case, Dion says, he wants to be judged on the substance of his poverty reduction plan, not on his background.”
    Here is the apogee of Dion’s childish Ego:
    “I’m confident they (the provinces) will co-operate,” he says. “I have more experience as minister of intergovernmental affairs (a post he held from 1996 to 2003) than any prime minister since Confederation.”
    Goar’s last line: It’s Cruella Goar’s cruellest cut:
    “What is not clear is how he will pay for his plan, how he will reconcile it with his commitments to cut taxes and greenhouse gas emissions, and how much he really knows about living in poverty.”
    http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/278290

  38. The RCMP budget is $1.2 billion, about the same as CBCpravda.
    how about a referendum to see which one the canadian public would rather cut?
    and the winner gets to taser kneel mcdonald in the middle of an antibush rant.

  39. At the risk of offending anyone, the Globe & Mail plays it safe with it’s latest poll:
    Is your employer holding a seasonal celebration?

  42. Union dirty laundry: SGEU locks out CEP 481
    http://sgeustrike.blogspot.com/
    *Wages. SGEU is offering 0%, 1%, and 2% as wage increases over the same three-year period when most SGEU members received a total increase of 10.1%. SGEU’s offer does not even match the cost of living, which has been increasing at between 2-3% in each of those same years.

  43. So, Dion says his professor father’s fortunes were reversed in the 60’s when he publiched his books. Dion is how old? Is it 45 or so? So was he born yet when they were so called “living in poverty”. Sheesh.
    This is the same Dion who claimed his favourite childhood memories were off going to the woods and talking the the little animals with a friendly old neighbour – and that old guy says he does not remember him and isn’t even sure he even met him?
    Bam the dog indeed.

  44. CBC scabs
    Writers’ strike may help the CBC
    Timing couldn’t be better for new lineup, programming chief says
    “Who’d have thought that we would have benefited from a strike – someone else’s strike?” Kirstine Layfield, the CBC’s executive director of network programming, said…
    …”the strike is perfect timing for our January launch. It’ll give Canadians an opportunity to go and watch something different rather than watching reruns of American shows…

  45. CBC scabs
    Writers’ strike may help the CBC
    Timing couldn’t be better for new lineup, programming chief says
    “Who’d have thought that we would have benefited from a strike – someone else’s strike?” Kirstine Layfield, the CBC’s executive director of network programming, said…
    …”the strike is perfect timing for our January launch. It’ll give Canadians an opportunity to go and watch something different rather than watching reruns of American shows…
    http://www.thestar.com/article/278403

  46. Regarding the upcoming PETA barbecue, maybe John Prine had the idea:
    John Prine – Please Don’t Bury Me lyrics
    Woke up this morning.
    Put on my slippers.
    Walked in the kitchen and died.
    And oh what a feeling!
    When my soul went thru the ceiling.
    And on up into heaven I did ride.
    When I got there they did say John it happened this way.
    You slipped upon the floor and hit your head.
    And all the angels say, just before you passed away, these were the very last words that you said.
    Chorus:
    Please don’t bury me, down in that cold cold ground.
    No, I’d druther have em’ cut me up and pass me all around.
    Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.
    And the deaf can take both of my ears if they don’t mind the size.
    Give my stomach to Milwaukee if they run out of beer
    Put my socks in a cedar box just get em’ out of here
    Venus de Milo can have my arms look out! I’ve got your nose.
    Sell my heart to the junkman and give my love to Rose
    Repeat Chorus:
    Please don’t bury me, down in that cold cold ground.
    No, I’d druther have em’ cut me up and pass me all around.
    Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.
    And the deaf can take both of my ears if they don’t mind the size.
    Give my feet to the footloose careless, fancy free.
    Give my knees to the needy don’t pull that stuff on me.
    Hand me down my walking cane it’s a sin to tell a lie.
    Send my mouth way down south and kiss my ass goodbye.
    Repeat Chorus:
    Please don’t bury me, down in that cold cold ground.
    No, I’d druther have em’ cut me up and pass me all around.
    Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.
    And the deaf can take both of my ears if they don’t mind the size.

  47. There was a touching photo in the papers today of Chavez and Achmadinejad together at the OPEC meetings in Riyadh.
    Mahmoud said we should expect $200 a barrel oil soon.
    Government would outwardly condemn this yet,
    Both Government and the Exxon gang would be rubbing their hands over the double size of their golden egg cash flow.= TG

  49. hardboiled at November 21, 2007 10:46 AM
    You said,
    * * This guy stinks as much as Cretin.
    Mindless partisanship is mindless people.* *
    ======================================
    Liberals in pain will grasp at anything.
    A little hardboiled thinking and one realizes that palm greasing for huge contracts is normal business every day.
    The money is NOT Canadian tax revenue.
    300K fades into nothingness when you consider the 200 plus DOCUMENTED Liberal scams that did suck up our tax dollars.
    [Google Scamslist or BendGovernment.blogspot.com ]
    And the grand Liberal spending continues. . .
    ================
    Top 5: MPs With The Largest Telephone Bills
    For the fiscal period dated April 1, 2006 – March 31, 2007:
    #1. Liberal MP Irwin Cotler $38,642
    #2. Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla $26,558
    #3. Liberal MP Joe Volpe $26,101
    #4. Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj $25,940
    #5. Liberal MP Mario Silva $24,357
    ========================= [ Thanks, Maz2 ]
    One has to think a little before tossing insults.
    Did you say, ** Mindless partisanship is mindless people. ** ? = TG

  50. …Kathy Shaidle & Jonathan Kay outdo themselves…
    That’s hilarous. Too bad Shaidle hadn’t been an invitee at the conference.

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