68 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. It amazes me how the political pundits can be so wrong (Alberta election) without a trace of embarrassment.

  3. I’m not terribly excited about the lopsided Conservative victory in Alberta but, I couldn’t resist smiling this evening at the nearly tearful CTV reporting of the affair. I fully expected the on site newsperson to drop her mike and run screaming from the field of view.

  9. A Muslim’s Way Out of Islam
    Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Hossain Salahuddin, a poet, essayist and an ex-Muslim who is the author of several books…
    …What always struck me the most was that Islam is another form of Arab colonialism in disguise. In South-east Asia you will see people constantly cry about the British Colonialism and how they are still a victim of it. However, no one ever talks about the Arab colonialism which is very active in every single non-Arab Muslim country. Islam is in its origin an Arab religion, and it is not a religion of conscience, private belief or spirituality; it is very political and imperial. Its holy places are in Arab lands, its sacred language is Arabic, and its historical figures are all native Arab. So what happens to a non-Arab convert’s mind is very interesting….
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E93CD8A1-6AB7-4D87-9F3F-873D6E275867

  11. Customer Reviews
    15 Tips On How To Be a Good Leftist
    So humurous and true that it’s sad, April 17, 1999
    By A Customer
    As a person who prided herself on her progressive and liberal beliefs for most of her life, I must say that it hurt me to read this book. It is funny and completely true what the author is satirizing. Funny, I guess, at the expense of people like me who actually entertained beliefs for a long period of my life that I never really examined or thought through. The book hurt in that the author shows that, when you really think about it, the socialist idea is absolutely ludicrous and, worse still, part of a profound sickness. It is a sickness of the soul. Now that I really think about it, I can’t think of one of my former Leftist friends that was actually well-adjusted in society. Every single one of them had some kind of a really serious problem. But we never talked about our problems. It was always about something larger. Something larger had to be fixed and then we would be okay. 15 Tips cuts to this main point in a very painful manner — for me and for my memories…..
    http://www.amazon.com/review/product/1886442126/ref=cm_cr_pr_link_next_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&pageNumber=2&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

  12. ***NEWSFLASH: Heinous domestic slaying involves non-Muslim perpetrators, therefore of no interest to SDA readers.***
    Details here: 3w.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,334350,00.html

  13. Stephi and his gang are ignoring the Harper notice of litigation and will continue to make accusations and smear the reputation of a dead man in the only venue they have, the HOC.
    Could their lust for power be clouding their thought process, or are they gone completely off the rails into morbid insanity? Howling like Banshees in the HOC is not a good sign.

  14. ““All the others,” Konrád writes, “ended up as ashes.””
    Memory as Homeland
    “PERHAPS THE most idiosyncratic characteristic of twentieth-century despotism was its obsession with historical revision. When considered against history’s many brutal tyrants, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, and Stalin stand out as pathological rewriters of personal and state history. If, as Stalin said, a totalitarian regime imposed ideological consent through the engineering of human souls, then much of this effort was spent creating and enforcing elaborate counter-histories. “Day by day and almost minute by minute,” George Orwell wrote in 1984, “the past was brought up to date.””
    http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1000

  15. Anyone catch Neil MacDonald on the National?
    Neil was trying to pin Obama’s lies about scapping NAFTA on an unnamed source from ‘inside’ the Harper Government.
    Basically:
    – he was pissed that CTV got the scoop on the memo;
    – he was pissed that the Obama strategy of lying at the expense of Canada to win votes was exposed;
    – and he was pissed that he was unsuccessfully trying to substantiate the claim that Canada was interfering in the US election!
    In fact, the reality IS that Obama was bashing Canada and NAFTA to win votes that his guy claimed was mere posturing to Canadian officials.
    Obama has watched South Park too many times – Blame Canada!
    Neil is as sad as the guy his brother Norm played in Dirty Work. Not that many people saw that flick… much like the fact that fewer and fewer people bother to tune in and watch Neil.
    Sad Canadians have to pay for his smug spin.

  16. CHRC internet “spying” and entrapment about to be exposed
    http://tinyurl.com/38h6h4
    “OTTAWA : Shockwaves are rattling through the befuddled Section 13 pre-crime enforcers at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, as a monumental decision was handed down by CHRT (Tribunal) Vice-Chairman Athanasios Hadjis. The ruling forces CHRC senior Investigator and internet spy, Dean Steacy to return to the witness stand to answer questions under oath on his internet spying operations against Marc Lemire and the popular conservative website – FreeDominion.”

  17. “It amazes me how the political pundits can be so wrong (Alberta election) without a trace of embarrassment.”
    And today their explanations are that low voter turnout was the reason. WHAT? Well whatever makes it OK in your head.
    Um – wouldn’t it make sense that voters who actually wanted change would have actually gotten out to vote. I believe that those who stayed home would have voted conservative anyway and the Libs and ND’s would have lower numbers today.

  19. Well, Well, Well – given what happened in
    Alberta last night – Kate’s nemesis predicts
    “What does it all mean? It means more election-night surprises. To get specific, here in Ottawa, I think it means Harper is ahead by more than a lot of hacks and flaks realize.”
    For once, I totally agree with WK.

  20. Interesting column by Stephen Maher at Chronicle Herald(link at NN)..all about leaks re Cadman story.Sounds like the cbc ‘sat’ on the story,had to release it when G&M got wind of it.Who leaked (??Libs),and did cbc deliberately wait for more opportune time,to help the flailing Libs?This demand of PMSH to get access to the communications records of Libs could prove to be the most interesting aspect of story yet.

  22. There was a CWB motion tabled in the House yesterday. Easter tried to block it from even being tabled by saying that it was illegal because the CWB directors were not consulted and the farmers did not vote on the specific text. Speaker to rule later on that fluff.
    Anyone know where to find the text of the proposed legislation?

  23. Bret Stephens, An Inordinate Fear of Terrorism?
    …if recent experience in Iraq demonstrates anything, it’s that nothing is likelier to deter future terrorists than the defeat of existing ones. In letters captured by U.S. forces in Iraq late last year, al Qaeda “sheikhs” lament how the flow of foreign suicide bombers has dried up as the likelihood dims that their “martyrdom” will result in anyone’s death other than their own. There is, said one of these sheikhs about his dwindling minions, “panic, fear and an unwillingness to fight” ever since U.S. and Iraqi troops went on the offensive.

  24. (Washington Post — registration required)
    (Via CSP) Joe Lieberman, A Surge To Help Afghanistan
    In the run-up to the NATO summit in Bucharest next month, the Bush administration has launched an intensive diplomatic campaign to persuade our European allies to send additional combat troops to southern Afghanistan, where the Atlantic alliance has been struggling against a resurgent Taliban.
    Persuading our reluctant partners to increase their commitments in Afghanistan is important — both for the sake of the war effort and for the viability of NATO itself.

  25. (PDF warning) Clifford G. Gaddy and Andrew C. Kuchins, Putin’s Plan
    In the eyes of most of the outside world, at least those of Europe and the United States, the Russian electoral process so far has failed to measure up to benchmarks of democracy and free choice of policies and personalities. Rather, this process has been about legitimizing the notion of entrusting the country’s future to something called “Putin’s Plan,” thus ensuring preyemstvennost’ politiki (continuity of policy) beyond the scheduled end of Putin’s term of office in May 2008.
    What exactly is Putin’s Plan, and from where does it come? What are its goals? What are its implications for Russia’s domestic and international relations?
    …Putin’s concept of planning is nothing like [the Soviet Five Year Plans], and it has very different roots. Its roots lie not in Marxism-Leninism but in Western business theory via a book with which he most likely became acquainted during his KGB career….

  26. MEMRI promises that further coverage is forthcoming:
    Release of New Book by Ayman Al-Zawahiri…
    On March 2, 2008, jihadist websites posted a new 188-page book by Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The book, titled A Treatise Exonerating the Nation of the Pen and the Sword from the Blemish of the Accusation of Weakness and Fatigue, is a polemical defense of Al-Qaeda against its most prominent Islamist critic, the imprisoned jihadist Sheikh Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif…

  27. Daniel Pipes recently argued (using Muslim cynophobia as an example) that Islamists invariably back down if they face determined opposition. Here’s an interesting snippet on the response by Tariq Ramadan and the Muslim Weekly to the threat of a libel suit:
    “Muslim Weekly” Apologizes to Daniel Pipes

  28. Check out the website of the Hearland Institute…they are sponsoring the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York March 2-4. Glenn Beck has very good coverage however our Canadian MSM is too busy chasing Conrad Black in Florida to report on this conference. Al Gore and the Dr Fruit Fly were invited but declined.

  31. Brussels ….. Launches OFFICIAL Broadcasting Network ! where the bureaucrats assure the public that all will be independent, fair and balanced….
    Sound familiar?
    Well after we are done housecleaning the crypto commies out of the CBC …. they will have someplace to go … eh?

  34. Charles MacDonald: Thanks again for the great links.
    Just finished “Brother Tariq: The Double Speak of Tariq Ramadan” by Caroline Fourest. In my opinion, a MUST read for a good grip on the methodoloy of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is widely considered a “moderate Muslim” by western intellectuals, even a Islamic Martin Luther. NOT.
    I first became interested in him when a born-again Christian friend — who is very worried about the cultural jihad — sent me a link to a CBC interview with Ramadan as a example of “interfaith dialogue”. NOT.
    I introduced him to the concept of taqiyya of which Ramadan is a past master!

  35. Looks like the Dutch government is still trying to appease the crocodile in hopes it will eat them last…
    From today’s National Post online edition:
    Amsterdam The Dutch government is looking into whether it can stop a politician from releasing an anti-Koran film, fearing attacks on its citizens and businesses. Government lawyers are studying whether there are legal grounds to ban the film Fitna by antiimmigration lawmaker Geert Wilders, who has likened the Koran, pictured, to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, De Telegraaf reported. The newspaper said the coalition government was divided, with Christian Democrats more in favour of a ban and Labour pushing freedom of expression and calling on Muslim countries to prevent violence against t he Netherlands. Last week , Jan Peter Balkenende, t he Dutch Prime Minister, warned the country risked economic sanctions and attacks against its troops because of the film.

  36. Networks Ignore, Newspapers Mock N.Y. Climate Change Conference
    Networks continue trend of ignoring scientists who challenge ‘consensus,’ while newspapers find plenty of environmentalists to mock them.
    All three networks’ evening news broadcasts utterly ignored a gathering of hundreds of people – scientists, economists, other experts and interested lay people – aimed at dispelling the media myth that there is “consensus” on climate change’s causes, potential effects, and suggested solutions.
    ABC’s “World News,” CBS’s “Evening News” and NBC’s “Nightly News” couldn’t find time in the half-hour broadcasts March 3 to mention the International Conference on Climate Change, which runs through March 4 in New York City.
    Two major national newspapers mentioned the Heartland Institute’s conference, but relegated the story to deep within the papers and downplayed the gathering’s credibility and significance.
    In fact, none of the sources quoted in the major newspapers’ stories addressed substantive points made during the first day and a half of the conference – which ranged from the sun’s effects on the Earth to oceanic cooling cycles and the effects of limiting energy use in developing countries. Instead, newspaper reporters addressed – and distorted – the Heartland Institute’s funding, labeled attendees “deniers,” “flat Earthers” and “lost” and compared the meeting to “Custer’s last stand.” But debunking actual claims made at the conference – well, that might have involved a little work. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/24wkch
    By Nathan Burchfiel and Amy Menefee
    Business & Media Institute

  40. The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, is at http://www.heartland.org
    Of course the left will ignore this conference, because this meeting is based on the realities of the climate, while AGW has nothing to do with the climate but is a UN-socialist scheme to have the Western nations pay for the industrialization of China and India.
    There is absolutely no data that either implies or proves AGW.
    The meeting agreed:
    “that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method;
    Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;
    Recognising that the causes and extent of recently observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‘consensus’ among climate experts are false;
    Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing, human suffering;
    Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder:
    Hereby declare:
    That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO2 emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity’s real and serious problems.
    That there is no convincing evidence that CO2 emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.
    That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO2 will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.
    That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.
    That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.
    Now, therefore, we recommend —
    That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as “An Inconvenient Truth.”
    That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO2 be abandoned forthwith.
    Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008″

  41. The Heartland’s funding of the International COnference on Climate Change is available at their site.
    Sorry, no oil or tobacco or other evil companies.
    Also, the full list of speakers is available. Heck- they seem to know what they’re talking about. They’re scientists and experts; not like Al Gore and Suzuki.
    Hopefully, the fight against the UN’s latest money laundering scam is well underway. Again, there’s no such thing as AGW.

  43. I haven’t seen anything on the news about Dion’s apology. Has he decided? Is there a time limit for this apology? If I was Harper I would give him a day or two and then withdraw the escape clause and go for it. One more question ,Does Harper write the apology or does Dion? it would be great if some of the people here could write it……I am not really a reho,in fact I am……….

  44. For the engineers and mathematicians out there:
    Eureka moment solves 140-year-old puzzle
    The Schwarz-Christoffel formula was created in the 1860s as a tool to help designers to work out if the structures they wanted to create would stand up to stress or fall apart.
    It proved invaluable in the design of countless buildings, bridges and aircraft but was limited because it would not work for irregular shapes or those with holes.
    Professor Crowdy, a specialist in applied mathematics at Imperial College, London, has now succeeded in completing the formula that eluded scientists for 140 years…

  46. wallyj,
    From what I read of the papers served Dion et al., the apology to be read is included in the papers. I didn’t see a french translation, though–the papers state that an apology is to be in both languages.

  48. wallyj,
    From my understanding Dion had until yesterdays question period to read out the statement prepared by Harper`s lawyer. So i would assume the papers would be filed with the courts today.
    If you want to read the statement go to Stephen Taylor`s website…he has it posted.

  49. “Minister Verner. “This important new legislation will afford protections to women and children living on-reserve that are similar to those now available to women and children living elsewhere.””
    Canada’s Government Introduces Legislation to Provide Matrimonial Real Property Rights on Reserves
    Ottawa (March 4, 2008) – The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, and the Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, today introduced legislation to resolve the longstanding issue of on-reserve matrimonial real property. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2nggge (govcanada)

  50. What is Liberal Citoyen Dion’s scandal today/scandale du jour?
    Vote/z Conservative/Conservateur.
    The real scandal is the defeat of the Liberal Party/Dion: a party without chests; hollow scarecrows.
    …-
    “Tories set to survive final vote on budget”
    (Canpress)

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