75 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Good evening, ladies & gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. While it’s still a day early, there may not be a “Reader Tips” show tomorrow night, so here for your delectation is a special Valentine’s Day show that I’ve uploaded for you:
    sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/02/st-valentines-day.html

  3. Danish papers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon
    “Berlingske Tidende, one of the newspapers involved in the republication, said: “We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper always will defend,” in comments reported by The Associated Press.”
    http://tinyurl.com/3449mh (cnn)

  4. TO Red Star/Walkom surrender: Citoyen Dion unfit to govern.
    Liberals/Citoyen Dion are not fit to govern.
    We told you.
    …-
    Liberal `compromise’ is really a retreat to Harper’s position
    “On Afghanistan, the Liberals are in full retreat. Party leader Stéphane Dion presents his solution to the Kandahar quandary as a compromise. It is not. In effect, the country’s major opposition party has signalled that in all major respects it now supports Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s handling of the war.
    While designed to finesse the tricky Afghan issue, this remarkable about-face may simply convince voters that Dion and his band of confused MPs aren’t yet fit to govern.”
    “By signing on to Harper’s policy under the guise of statesmanship, the Liberals are hoping they will so confuse the public that no one will notice that they have capitulated.”
    http://tinyurl.com/ysfoxn (TO Star)

  5. maz2, you beat me to it. How about them Danes!!! Do they have balls or what!!! Something is wrong in the state of Denmark and it ain’t the Danes.
    Danish Papers Reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon
    “Newspapers in Denmark Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the
    Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.
    The cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked widespread outrage in the Muslim world
    two years ago.
    The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people who allegedly were plotting a “terror-related assassination” of Kurt Westergaard, one of the cartoonist behind the drawings.”
    Berlingske Tidende, one of the newspapers involved in the republication, said: “We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper always will defend…”

  6. Black History Month in the US…. Make-Up History Month in Canada.
    LOL, Kate. I thought the link was going to be to a link to a very-made-up Ontario ‘Black History Month’ article.

  7. In the National Post Issues and Ideas section, Christopher Hitchens takes off on Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury: “This sheep-faced cleric casually throws away the work of centuries of civilization”.
    So true. Canadians don’t seem to realize how open we are to allowing Sharia through our Charter and Multiculturalism. It’s a perfect set-up to allow what amounts to abuse of women in our civilized society.

  8. One has to love the dipper/moonbat revisionism when it comes to “blue helmet” diplomacy.
    Let me state, for the record, that my family has a few years experience wearing that blue bucket.
    So let’s examine this great “peacekeeping” myth that most jerk offs on the left like to invoke.
    Golan – still a mess
    Cyprus – is there really peace there?
    Somalia – please
    Rwanda – good job boys!
    Congo – ya, let’s go there for a family vacation
    Balkans – hmmm, I think they needed more firepower
    I could go on, but why bother. One cannot keep the peace, if there is no peace to keep. And, sorry to say it leftards, the only language that these tinpots, mad mullahs and commies understand is brute force achieved by superior firepower!
    Monnbat retards!
    GO ARMY
    77-85

  9. You have to wonder if the Alberta Human Rights Commission didn’t push the Muslim Imam to drop his complaint against Ezra Levant. I could see them telling the Imam that they were on the verge of ruling against him and in favor of Levant. With the Danish law authorities thwarting a murder plot by muslim extremists against the cartoon artist it sure would put the AHRC in an awkward position if they decided to rule against Levant. As if they weren’t on the defensive already in this whole fiasco.
    This HRC by the Imam had already blown up to a much bigger issue when Levant decided to go toe-to-toe with the commission. I would not be surprised in the least to see the same outcome with the CHRC complaint against Mark Steyn. That would be the right thing to do. In a way though, it is too bad that Levant’s case didn’t come to a decision. It would have been useful to have the Commission rule against the Imam so that some sort of precendence could be set for allowing that kind of free speech. Leaving the situation the way it is invites this same kind of thing to be repeated all over again.
    Here we have a situation where had all of these issues been dealt with in a Muslim country, well, Levant and Steyn would have long ago been swinging on the end of a rope. That is providing they had a neck left to swing from. It appears that some Muslim extremists decided that this kind of justice should happen in Denmark. Sure hope that there are no Islamofacists planning the same treatment for Levant or Steyn here in Canada.
    Now Levant is saying he is going after the Imam to recover tens of thousands of dollars spent defending himself from this bogus complaint. Go get ’em Ezra.

  10. kingstonlad: Good Post You nailed it, My son-inlaw(22yrs) & my best freind(mwo, 33yrs) were posted to 2 of those situations, One they still don’t talk about.
    Did anyone see last nites Duffy Interview with Ignatieff & the Clip of Layton reading off a quote of Pearsons.
    Layton lives in a dream world, I was no fan of Pearson but quoting from him! Give me a break, Pearson at least had some balls.

  11. “One cannot keep the peace, if there is no peace to keep.” I totally agree with that, kingstonlad. I’ve never been a strong supporter of peacekeeping – at least, peacekeeping in conflict zones. Never has made much sense, on practical side. Oh, and yes kingstonlad, I’m a leftie.
    I’m of the opinion that to deal with conflict zones, you need the hardest, toughest, meanest, most heavily armed soldiers you can find. We had ’em, of course, until the Libs dibanded the Airborne Regiment – a horrific mistake, imo.
    I’m on the fence regarding Afghanistan: I think the mission is right, but the problem comes, as it always does when dealing with terrorist and non-state-aligned insurgents, that they’re actually quite hard to wipe out -thus making a long-term stay extremely costly, from a human, financial and moral standpoint. How long is enough? How long is too long? How do we measure success? Etc. I’m not against the mission, but these are questions no one can seriously answer to my satisfaction, and until they do, I find it difficult to hand our leaders a blank cheque on the mission.
    Oh yeah, Harper promised to bring back the Airborne Regiment. What’s going on with that? Has he announced anything?

  13. Rewrite headline: Canadian Liberal Hezbollah Coderre in mourning.
    Hezbuddy killed by Israelis.
    AP, aka El-AssPress, says it’s George’s fault.
    …-
    “Top Hezbollah figure wanted by U.S. is killed
    BEIRUT, Lebanon: Imad Mughniyeh, one of America’s most wanted fugitives implicated in a series of infamous attacks against U.S., Israeli and Jewish targets in Lebanon and abroad, has been killed by Israeli agents, Hezbollah announced in a statement Wednesday.” http://tinyurl.com/2eq5gs (IHT)

  15. Dion’s Afghan compromise with Harper boils down to, “Am I not turtly enough for you? Turtle, Turtle Turtle”.
    You must admit though Jack Layton has heard of East Timor which is pretty good for a Toronto City Councillor.

  16. A fact/a lesson on low taxes that will be lost on most liberals; 20,000 Americans a day relocated to a lower income tax State last year!
    from the Wall Street Journal,
    States of Opportunity
    February 12, 2008; Page A16
    An old adage says high taxes don’t redistribute income, they redistribute people[…]
    […]A record eight million Americans — some 20,000 people every day — relocated to another state last year.
    […]But one reason to conclude that taxes are also a motivator is because the eight states without an income tax are stealing talent from other states.
    […]Politicians who think taxes don’t matter might want to explain the Dakotas. North Dakota ranked second worst in out-migration last year, while South Dakota ranked in the top 10 as a destination. The two are similar in most regards, with one large difference: North Dakota has an income tax and South Dakota doesn’t.
    […]Meanwhile, next door, Nevada was second among the states in new families — and a big percentage of the new arrivals are Californians. Nevada has no income tax. High income Californians can buy a house in Las Vegas for the amount of money they save in three or four years by not paying California income taxes
    […]For the exception that proves the tax rule, we should also mention Vermont, a high-tax state with a big net influx last year. Maybe these folks like the Ben & Jerry’s lifestyle,
    […]Our friends on the left say Americans are willing to pay more taxes to get better government services, but their migration patterns reveal the opposite. Governors would be wise to heed these interstate migration trends as they try to cope with what may be one of the worst years in recent memory for state finances.
    The people who tend to be the most mobile in American society are the educated and motivated — in other words, the taxpaying class. Tax them too much, and you’ll soon find they aren’t there to tax at all.

  17. “This sheep-faced cleric casually throws away the work of centuries of civilization”.
    Good quote. There are a depressing number of leftist people who seem to think these are new ideas we should try, maybe so we can be “progressive”. They’re not. They’ve been around for centuries and the west rejected them and fought against them.

  18. CBC/MSM: Crime expert blasts Suzuki
    Canadian taxpayers defrauded
    CBC suing Suzuki for millions of taxpayers’ $$$$$$$$
    (Not) …-
    “David Suzuki deals a devastating blow to his climate-change cause
    … when an auditorium full of university students vigorously applauds a reckless and brutal ideal that is at the core of totalitarianism, we may soon face a problem much more serious than a couple of degrees Celsius in one direction or the other.
    Contact criminologist John Martin of the University College of the Fraser Valley at John.Martin@ucfv.ca.”
    http://tinyurl.com/yvo5n7 (vanprovince)

  20. I wonder if the HRC made a deal with Soharwardy to get him to withdraw the complaint against Ezra. The HRC were trapped – because of the publicity that Ezra had created. More Canadians knew about the violation of our freedom of speech, in Section 13.1 of the HRAct, more knew about the aberrations of justice within the HR process, more Canadians knew about the hapless victims of the HRC.
    The HRC, if they made a decision, would have had to conclude in favour of Soharwardy. Otherwise, since they’ve found in favour of the CJC cases (Richard Warman) in every case, they’d be accused of bias against Muslims.
    However, the basic nature of the HRC as a violation of our freedoms had been exposed. The publicity had been widespread; it started in the blogs but spread to the main media, with interviews on CNN, with interviews and/or debates in various TV shows (TV Ontario, Michael Coren, Mike Duffy). Opinion columns and editorials in the major newspapers. A private member’s bill in the House to remove that Section 13.1
    The HRC were trapped. If they found in favour of the Muslim group, which they had to because of their past history of finding in favour of the CJewish Congress – they’d be exposed even more as violators of our freedom. They might even be out of a safe, pensioned, benefitted bureaucratic job.
    So- they had to persuade Soharwardy to drop the case. I wonder how they did this?
    The rhetoric used by Soharwardy in his public announcement that he was dropping the case is pure HRC bureaucratic talk; it’s not his voice.
    “I believe Canadian society is mature enough not to absorb the messages that the cartoons sent. Only a very small fraction of Canadian media decided to publish those cartoons.”
    That’s not Soharwardy’s voice; that’s bureaucratic talk. After all, wasn’t our society mature enough two years ago when he launched the complaint?
    But, today, take a look at Ezra Levant’s site; he says things are not quite so simple. He says that the Edmonton Muslim Assoc’s complaint still exists; it hasn’t been removed.
    Ezra says that Soharwardy dropped the suit because he, Soharwardy, was being publicly exposed as himself a bigot; that women attending his mosque were filing HR complaints against him, and he doesn’t like the publicity.
    Ezra says that Soharwardy can’t get away with his two years of harassing Levant; that he can’t claim to have suddenly ‘seen the light’. Ezra is going to file an ‘abuse of process’ against Soharwardy. Good. Great. Excellent. He writes:
    “My aim is to file an abuse of process claim in the Court of Queen’s Bench within the month. Whether or not I sue the commission itself, and its inquisitor Shirlene McGovern, is something I haven’t discussed yet with my lawyers.
    When the chief complainant in a two-year censorship exercise admits the whole thing was improper, an abuse of process suit is not just about recouping my losses. It’s about holding a little fascist, and the government agency he hijacked, to account, and having grown-ups — that is, real judges in real courts — tell them that what they’ve been doing is morally and legally wrong.”
    Excellent. Thank god we’ve got Ezra to fight the HRCs. Their long decades of harassment against people who couldn’t afford to fight back and who didn’t have the legal smarts to know that the whole thing was a violation of their rights – is being exposed.

  22. (Via CSP) Reuel Marc Gerecht, A New Middle East, After All
    George W. Bush staked his presidency on his response to 9/11: on the proposition that the United States had to defeat the virulent forces loose in the Muslim world directly and militarily. In his last State of the Union address, delivered shortly after his first and only grand tour of the Middle East, Bush reaffirmed his intention to continue the fight everywhere he has committed American arms. It is way too soon to give the president a final grade, and it is surely tempting to flunk him, given the high-wire act the country has endured in Iraq. The denizens of the Middle East, however, will remember Bush as the most momentous American leader since an angry Thomas Jefferson sent men-of-war in pursuit of the Barbary pirates. His successor will not be able to walk away from what he has wrought. Let us consider the issues one by one…

  23. There are regiments in Canada that are parachute capable , without officially having the politically charged moniker of ‘airborne regiment’
    I for one would love to see a regiment raised dedicated to that task as a rapid reaction force, Canada’s hammer that they can drop anywhere, anytime, at a moments notice..
    I believe there is one in the works, that has as its cadre core many members of JTF-2, though this article also mentions a marine commando unit
    http://naval.review.cfps.dal.ca/forum/view.php?topic=11
    The newest battalion raised is the Canadian special operations regiment..some good reading here..

  24. Is the hijab less an issue for Pakistani women cricket players than for teenage girl footballers in Canada? Only two of the team members appear to be wearing it:
    Members of Pakistan’s Women Cricket Team Pose for a Group Photograph in Lahore Prior to Their Departure for South Africa to Participate in the World Cup Qualifying Round

  25. “Online Valentine Card May Contain Worm”
    The FBI is warning of this Destructive Trojan Horse in the form of a Valentine E-Card, If you recieve Do Not Open.
    Read more about this at National Newswatch. Feb.13/08

  26. kingstonlad: thank you for your service, and great comment.
    I have to agree with you, the Libs love to turn losers into some kind of sick perverted winners, a complete flip of reality. Just look at the rock-star type worship of Dallaire. Does Canada really love losers more than winners? It sure seems so.

  27. National Post today has printed one of the “offending” cartoons on page two, it’s a Muhammed likeness with a fuse on his head.
    It’s part of a Page one story “Trio arrested, accused of plot to kill cartoonist” in Copenhagen.

  28. Da beggarly wimps in TO.
    Snow in their streets. In TO.
    Taliban Jack whines/pleads: Call in da army.
    …-
    ‘Give us a break,’ begs snow-weary Toronto
    National Post – 1 hour ago
    The city of Toronto was hit with yet another wallop of snow last night, meaning drivers in the older parts of the city will struggle to get around on streets that get narrower by the snowfall.

  30. Political correctness has gone amok in McGuinty’s Ontario. The Leftard idiot has now opined it’s best to do away with starting government proceedings with the Lord’s prayer in favor of something more universal in recognition of the multicultural diversity of the province.
    Another chink in the foundation of this land. Everything we stand for and were built on will soon crumble at the hands of the Social engineering of the Liberal/Leftards.
    That Bugger is in for four more years and he’ll head us down the path of no return. The people who elect someone on one issue as Ontario did, are the biggest threat to this country.

  31. maz2
    I live within spitting distance of Big TO and we got much more snow than they. Up a bit earlier this morning-snow cleared from driveway, sidewalk-
    roads plowed- everyone off to work/school as is normal. Those people just don’t know haw to cope with anything outside of their tiny dreamworld.

  32. This sterling piece of literature gleaned from CBC website of yesterday.
    “What’s not to love about Valentine’s Day? Well, how about cultural offensiveness, emotional insensitivity, rampant consumerism, and even encouraging date rape? And those are just a few items from the charge sheet.”
    Fortunately I wasn’t near the keyboard when I read it.

  33. Soharwardy drops his charges. The Hezbollah chief is dead. The MoTune assassins are arrested. And now this:
    HOMELAND INSECURITY
    Embattled Muslim aide to leave Pentagon job
    Hesham Islam’s ‘resume didn’t add up,’ official says
    Posted: February 11, 2008
    WorldNetDaily
    In a stunning turn of events, a high-level Muslim military aide blamed for costing an intelligence contractor his job will step down from his own Pentagon post, WND has learned.
    Meanwhile, his rival, Maj. Stephen Coughlin, a leading authority on Islamic war doctrine, may stay in the Pentagon, moving from the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the office of the secretary of defense.
    —————-
    All in all, a pretty good day so far.

  34. Lewis MacKenzie’s take on the Liberal amendment:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080213.wwcorules13/BNStory/Afghanistan/
    Followed by a first paragraph denial at Cherniak’s, which he totally destroys with his last paragraph:
    Just because Stéphane Dion is not choosing Afghanistan as the election issue, it does not mean that Afghanistan will not motivate his decision on whether to force an election over the budget. Indeed, it is at that point that we will learn whether he really wants to end the combat mission. The exact words of a wishy-washy Parliamentary motion are all but meaningless. An attempt to change the Government of Canada, however, would be telling.

  35. That’s an interesting comment by Jason Cherniak, rat. It’s tautological.
    He says that ‘just because’ Dion isn’t choosing Afghanistan as the election issue (now), doesn’t mean that he won’t choose it as an election issue at budget time (later, not now). Hmmm. I like it when you can deny the reality of an issue now and yet resurrect it later.

  36. Just heard the news item that Liz J refers to re Premier Dalton McGuinty suggesting that the Lord’s Prayer be replaced in the Legislature by another prayer since the population of the GTA is more than 50% foreign born.
    These are the same people that tried to hide the Christmas tree at Queen’s Park and almost brought in Sharia Law.
    Maybe they should consider renaming the Ontario Liberal Party the BOO Party (Bend Over Ontario).

  37. We all knew this was going to be the response:
    “Birth defects warning sparks row”
    BBC
    Mr Woolas warned the problem was “the elephant in the room”
    A minister who warned about birth defects among children of first cousin marriages in Britain’s Asian community has sparked anger among critics.
    Phil Woolas said health workers were aware such marriages were creating increased risk of genetic problems.
    The claims infuriated the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) which called on the prime minister to “sack him”.
    MPAC spokesman Asghar Bukhari said Mr Woolas’ comments “verged on Islamophobia”.

  39. Re: Peacekeeping. We need to keep this simple for Jack.
    Peacekeeping doesn’t work when you are the target.
    Peacekeeping has its place, but frankly, there hasn’t been a situation for the blue berets in quite some time. Both sides have to be separated, have a will for peace, and can control their nutbar elements. This has never applied where Islamists are involved.

  40. Wow. This is going to take up some space.
    “freedom of speech, that the principle is sacred and holy in our society” Yeah, but not HIS society.
    “not to absorb the messages that the carttonns sent” WTF? We all got the message YOU sent, Sewerhardy!
    “received a number of “hateful email messages””
    Loike the ones sent from muslim students at a Calgary high school? Publish the ones you got, Sewerhardy!

  41. “Over the two years that we have gone through the process, I understand that most Canadians see this as an issue of freedom of speech, that that principle is sacred and holy in our society,” said Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada.”
    Steven Harper and Conservative Party of Canada don’t belong to the majority of Canadian and didn’t see this as feedom of speech issue.

  43. Melanie Phillips, Princess Obama
    I suggested in a post a few weeks ago that American Obamania displayed key similarities with Diana Derangement Syndrome, a mass epidemic of which broke out in Britain upon the death of Princess Diana when it was revealed to be the defining disorder of contemporary British society. The main characteristics of DDS are the replacement of reason, intelligence, stoicism, self-restraint and responsibility by credulousness, emotional incontinence, sentimentality, irresponsibility and self-obsession…

  44. Another Agent from NUANCE.
    It’s Pablo: Citoyen Dion’s Liberal Agent #99.
    Here’s a sample, interpreted by MSM:
    “But Rodriguez says that won’t wash.”
    …-
    “”The nuance is very important,” he said.”
    Liberal MP says big gap remains with Harper on Afghan mission
    http://tinyurl.com/27cv34 (canpress)

  45. AMERICANS STANDING UP
    Washington DC
    Saturday March 15, 2008
    On March 15, Gathering of Eagles will conduct a march in honor of America, our troops, remembrance of our fallen, MIA’s and all families. The march will begin at the Ellipse (south of the White House), march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the US Capitol. Flags, banners, patriotic signs, troop support messages, patriotic dress, et al is the reflection needed. For details – check the GOE website for location and time:
    gatheringofeagles.org/2007/12/25/americans-standing-up-call-to-arms-for-dc-troop-rally-15-march/
    ============== GatheringOfEagles.org
    = TG

  46. Whens white history month or am I racist for even thinking there should be one even though not having one exposes me to hatred and contempt.

  47. Hey Dinosaur,you can celebrate White History mo.right after Black history mo,and in between our new Manitoba stat holiday..Louis Riel Day.

  48. dinosaur, White History has gone the way of the “dinosaur” didn’t you hear? Dead White Males ring a bell? :~D

  49. Caution: You may get an Email. .
    Postmaster (2) notice of delivery failure..
    There will be a link ending .cn
    Delete it… don*t be tempted. = TG

  50. “48 “To the Mosque-man, sexe is sinne
    49 So as to staye in his goode-graces
    50 Cover well thy wenches’ faces”
    Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte.
    An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale
    With apologies to Geoffrey Chaucer
    1 Whan in Februar, withe hise global warmynge
    2 Midst unseasonabyl rain and stormynge
    3 Gaia in hyr heat encourages
    4 Englande folke to goon pilgrimages.
    5 Frome everiches farme and shire
    6 Frome London Towne and Lancanshire
    7 The pilgryms toward Canterbury wended
    8 Wyth fyve weke holiday leave extended
    9 In hybryd Prius and Subaru …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2sflpx (iowahawk)

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