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(In keeping with the demands of the season, activity here will be slow over the next few days.)
Tips in the comments.
And thanks to all of you for the kind notes in the comments (as well as cards sent and tip jar donations!). Merry Christmas to you all, as well, and thanks for the tips and insights you’ve provided over the past year.

101 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Good evening ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Here’s Bing Crosby singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen on a 78 rpm recording from 1945:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-2gjo-uYJI
    Another quick reminder, if you’re looking for formatted for printing Christmas carol song sheets, I have some here:
    sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-carols.html

  2. Oh hi, it’s me again, Vitruvius. Over the last week I’ve spent some time watching some Charlie Rose interviews on the web. My understanding is that it is generally agreed that Mr. Rose interrupts his interlocutors a bit too much, yet as he is sometimes doing that for valid production reasons, and as I have a bit of that habit myself, I won’t hold it against him too much 😉
    It is also my understanding that it is generally agreed that he does interview a number of important and interesting guests. In my opinion, one of the the nice things about the Internet availability of Charlie’s interviews is that I can skip the interviews I’m not interested in. It is the case that there are certain topics I’m interested in, and it is nice to be able to study those directly rather than waiting for them to pass by in some broadcast schedule.
    One of the things I’m interested in is listening to substantive interviews with old people who have experienced events in the large and have developed aspects of wisdom that I think are worth studying. Since some of you may have some spare hours over the next week that you may wish to occupy with some of these sorts of studies, you may want to bookmark these four one hour interviews, which I have carefully selected to be potentially interesting to what I understand to be the more common natures of the Friends of SDA.
    Alan Greenspan
    video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8342614253746711839
    Milton Friedman
    video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2963837673813979186
    Henry Kissinger
    video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6468270690914589463
    Lee Kuan Yew
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0aBXPmFsFs
    I wish to take this moment to wish you all, and especially our most gracious hostess Kate, a Merry Christmas, peace on earth, and goodwill toward men.

  3. When you guys are all out celebrating in the next few days, take a moment to think about those folks who are working right through the holidays. Remember the police, the firefighters, the paramedics, and especially our soldiers.
    Merry Christmas!
    Chad
    (Who’ll be at Winnipeg Tower making sure all the Christmas travellers get home and away safely.)

  5. I get up every morning through the year, get a coffee, and turn on the computer. I check my Email, the market, then I click over to SDA to connect with the rest of the world.
    I cannot imagine what life was like before the internet and without the great input and debate brought right into my home courtesy of SDA.
    It is a great amount of work to operate a diverse, interesting, entertaining and informative blog such as this.
    I tip my hand to the great lady and hope for a long continuation of what I think is has become a national treasure.
    I hope not to be guilty of gross flattery, but I believe there are many readers and commenters on this blog who would agree with me.
    Merry Christmas Kate and thank you for everything you do to enlighten the public, squeeze the politicians and confound the MSM.
    Take the rest of the moment off and eat some turkey.

  7. I’ve been an avid reader of SDA for about three years, and just wanted to add my voice to the praise for Kate. What would we do without you?? Probably a lot more work, but…..
    Merry Chistmas to all, enjoy the eggnog and stay out of the ditch!!
    Cheers from Rocky Mountain House

  11. Merry Christmas Kate – Thankyou for hosting this incredable blog. Merry Christmas to all who read this post on Kate’s site. I second the good wishes of John West – you said, better than I, what I would like to say!

  14. What happens when the Conservative’s campaign promise to open up access to government informtion meets their desperate need to “control the message”? More of the same, only worse:
    theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071223.access24/BNStory/National/home
    Merry Christmas!

  16. Zimbobrae is a complete and total moron. Under his leadership, Ontario nearly tipped into bankruptcy. We are still living with his moronic legacy in Ontario today(from slashing funding for doctor’s education to his complete idiocy when he forced the mentally ill out of the institutions and onto the streets).
    One can only imagine what that pseudo-socialist in his $2000 suit would do to Canada if that jerk off ever became PM.
    Please, please, please, please, please. May we NEVER have to suffer under the leadership of that moonbat leftard again.
    BTW….merry xmas, and all the best to my fellow mouth breathing, knuckle draggin rednecks.

  17. Merry Christmas Kate and to all fellow SDAers who are probably just like me. Make coffee,then head here first thing to get the day started. Enjoy the holiday and God Bless our Troops.

  18. RUDY GIULIANI DEPICTED AS A “FACIST” ON CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE COVER
    http://tinyurl.com/ypsv9f
    “”Declaring Forever War
    Giuliani has surrounded himself with advisors who think the Bush Doctrine didn’t go nearly far enough.
    by Michael C. Desch
    Like most Americans, I knew little about Rudolph Giuliani, save that he had been the very successful mayor of New York City catapulted to iconic status for his cool-headed demeanor after the Sept. 11 attacks. (…)
    I was so appalled by the mayor’s simplistic message that terrorists were attacking us because they “oppose our freedom and … want to impose their ideology on us” that I ignored protocol and challenged him during the Q&A. (…)
    He ridiculed my call to disaggregate the terrorist threat, saying it ignored the fact that Yasir Arafat, whom, he lamented, we helped win the Nobel Prize, was responsible for “slaughtering 29 Americans” over the years. I learned later that Giuliani was so annoyed by my hectoring that he complained about it at the reception after the talk. He was reportedly shocked to learn that I was not some lefty professor but a member of the faculty at the Bush School.
    After this disheartening experience, I decided to look more closely at what Giuliani was saying about foreign policy and who was advising him. (…)
    The core of senior advisors includes former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, Martin Kramer (Middle East), Stephen Rosen (defense), S. Enders Wimbush (diplomacy), Peter Berkowitz (statecraft, human rights, and freedom), Kim Holmes (foreign policy), and perhaps Daniel Pipes. Giuliani’s chief foreign-policy advisor is retired diplomat and Yale instructor Charles Hill. In the face of controversy about how many neoconservatives were playing prominent roles, Podhoretz bragged to the New York Observer,“Giuliani doesn’t think that this is a liability.” “”
    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Rudy’s campaign team is a who’s who of MSM ME war cheer leaders…definitely a liability in this election.

  20. Merry Christmas, Kate.
    Thank you for all the hard work you have done over the past Year.

  22. Merry Christmas, all. Gotta drive up to Mississauaga today, but that’s pretty much the workday. Besides, my sister lives close by and I can drop off the presents.
    God bless. If anyone out there has family in Iraq or Afghanistan, our thoughts are with you. Makes me think of Josh Grobin’s “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”.

  23. Merry Christmas Ms. Kate, thank you for the great year 2007 was and looking forward to a socialism slaying 2008.
    To all who those on duty over the Christmas Holidays, at home and oversees, God bless & thanks to you for keeping us safe.
    Fred
    Vancouver

  24. Merry Christmas to one and all, but especially to Kate.
    (Via Institute for Counter-Terrorism, ict.org.il) The 63-year-old Algerian suicide bomber
    ALGIERS: As a suicide bomber he was most unusual. But the story of Rabah Bechla, a 63-year-old grandfather of seven who rammed a truck packed with explosives into a United Nations office here last week, killing at least 17, is in many ways the story of Algeria itself.
    Bechla’s age has puzzled a nation accustomed to terrorism – but a terrorism usually associated with the malleable impulsiveness of youth. If his associate that day, a 30-year-old former convict who triggered the other bomb, has been described as the textbook case of a young radicalized man, Bechla represents a break with stereotype.
    His case casts further doubt on the effectiveness of using profiling to detect Islamist radicals. As one prominent journalist here observed: “If a grandfather can blow himself up, anyone can.”

  27. Merry Christmas to Kate, one and all. I very much enjoy reading the postings and contributing in whatever constructive way I can. I hope you all have a blessed Christmas.
    And just now I read that actor Will Smith publicly said that he thinks Adoph Hitler was basically a good person. Sheeeeesh those leftards are just too much!

  28. Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year Kate (and the doggies)! Thanks for your dedication and hard work…it is greatly appreciated.
    To my compatriot SDA readers, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, too! And to the various trolls and lefties, Merry CHRISTMAS to you and my best wishes that you come to your senses in the new year.

  29. To all those who celebrate CHRISTMAS, I wish you a Merry Christmas and for those who perhaps do not,
    I wish you all the very best of good fortune and good health in the spirit of which I as a Christian celebrate.

  30. To all those who celebrate CHRISTMAS, I wish you a Merry Christmas and for those who perhaps do not,
    I wish you all the very best of good fortune and good health in the spirit of which I as a Christian celebrate.

  31. To all those who celebrate CHRISTMAS, I wish you a Merry Christmas and for those who perhaps do not,
    I wish you all the very best of good fortune and good health in the spirit of which I as a Christian celebrate.

  32. Merry Cristmas to all especially to the lady who yells at the radio,you are not alone, how wonderful it is to sit around our ‘village square” and share our thoughts “unfiltered” by the m s m I have had a lot of laughs and I hope for peace on earth but hey, isn’t it just a little ironic that Brian rhymes with lieing and ……wait for it Schrieber rhymes with …..briber this can not be a coincidence.
    Bubba the hard working boilermaker

  33. A long time lurker just wants to say “Thank you” to Kate for all the illumination she spreads. Yeah, there’s some pretty obscure Canadian political stuff I don’t get but I know a lot more now than I did before finding her site.
    Merry Christmas.
    Bill
    Brookings, Or

  35. Merry Christmas from the Maritimes. Suns out, +4, snow is melting and that is all right.
    Thank you Kate for the window.

  36. Merry Christmas to Kate, and to the SDA Community. I’m a Douglas-come-lately to SDA, but I’m glad to pour myself a cup of coffee and pull up a chair.

  37. Sincerest thanks to Kate,and to all the regulars here at SDA that make my oft times lonely days much more bearable.Because my hubby works away (mining) I spend 3 out of 4 wks,with only the company of my ‘boys’of the canine variety.My morning coffee is also shared with this little coffee-shop online,and lots of days it has been the bright spot of my day.There have been quite a few wasted sips of coffee,spewed with laughte, and at times with disgust,and outrage.
    I just want to say Thank-You,to all of you,especially Kate,for providing such a lovely little ‘Tim’s’ on-line coffee shop.I wish you all a blessed,Merry CHRISTMAS.And to the troops,the police,the healthcare providers,bless you all.
    To our Prime Minister my wish for you,is a majority gov’t..keep on keepin on.

  38. Merry christmas to all who visit Kate’s delightful site. As many here say, she starts our days off. The level of discourse here is world class and I salute you all. May 2008 be the year we remember most fondly.
    Helpful hint… When shoveling snow, maintain a steady heart rate. It should be a pleasure not a workout.

  39. Question Kate,
    Do you close off comments on posting after a set number of days after the original article has been made? And if so, what is the limit?

  40. Let me add my wishes for a Merry Christmas to Kate and all who visit here.
    Most important, thank you to all of you. Kate’s posts bring joy to my days, as do the comments here. I’ve stopped visiting many blogs because of the behavior of those who comment. The behavior here has been exemplary. When, for example, I’ve asked for information about things Canadian, people have responded with the information. Nobody has told me that I’m an ignoramus for not having it, or that anybody but an American would know it.
    God bless all of you.

  41. Merry Christmas to Kate and all SDA readers,
    from a Jew who loves Christmas
    I start and end my day with some SDA. Often I am jealous of all the folks who have been able to have heated debate here all day. At the end of a work day, the links and comments at SDA are more interesting, entertaining, and challenging than anything I could get on TV. Plus having grown up in Regina, I enjoy getting the doses of Sask politics. Thanks Kate and have a great Christmas.

  43. Merry Christmas to all and hope its a great day for you and yours
    full time reader somtimes commenter
    thanks

  44. Thanks Kate for another great year, I wish you & your family a Very Merry Christmas.
    Merry Christmas to all the contributors of SDA for an enjoyable year, We may disagree on certain topics but we all agree that Kate runs a great blog.
    And a Very Merry Christmas to all of our Brave Men & Women of the Forces and for those that are serving overseas we pray for your safe return to your families.

  46. Merry Christmas to Kate and all her readers.
    Our wish for 2008, a Conservative majority, Lizzie May suffers a humiliating defeat in NS, thus ending the Green Party being mentioned as opposition by the media, Dion takes a long walk in the woods, (he said that is his favorite winter thing to do) and keeps on going, the cbc is dismantled, that cbc talking heads have to get out and find a real job, that a Republican is elected Pres in Nov 2008.
    Notice I am not wishing for the impossible, like winning the 649 jackpot.

  48. “RUDY GIULIANI DEPICTED AS A “FACIST” ON CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE COVER”
    Is the Alberta, could’a- been-a-Conservative MP, ‘Jimbo’, the publisher?
    Merry Christmas to Kate and all at SDA.

  50. I just got a mailer from Stephanie D-Yawn in which it is written and I quote, “And now, the NDP are again trying to send Canadians to the polls. It seems they would be happy to see a Conservative majority if it resulted in a few more NDP seats.”
    Accusing the NDP of sending Canadians to the polls?
    A few more NDP seats?
    The NDP could quite conceivably hurt the Lie-berals significantly in the GTA and Montreal.
    The Lie-beral’s could be in for a shock if they don’t abstain from voting on the next budget.

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