31 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Thanks for Oscar/Ellis/Brown, Vitruvius. Do you agree that in the Jazz realm he’s as readily identifiable as Glenn Gould is in the classical realm?
    Strange ethereal experience in the early 70s: was at the Beaverbrook Hotel in Fredericton and heard Oscar PRACTICING across the street at the Playhouse.
    Unwavering TASTE, eh? Economy of movement despite the pryotechnics.

  2. Juliet O’Neill , Canwest News Service
    Published: Monday, July 07, 2008
    “OTTAWA – The widow of former MP Chuck Cadman has contradicted public accounts by author Tom Zytaruk of what happened the day of an interview that is pivotal in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s lawsuit against the federal Liberal party.
    In a sworn affidavit submitted in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Monday, Dona Cadman says the journalist did not meet Harper in Cadman’s house and he was not introduced by the late MP’s wife.
    “Nobody came inside my house while Mr. Harper was in the house with me,” she said. “I did not introduce Tom Zytaruk to Mr. Harper on Sept. 9, 2005.”
    …Affidavits by Harper and two of his aides also say Zytaruk did not turn his tape recorder on and off as he interviewed Harper outside the house.
    The documents are aimed at providing what is described in the documents as “circumstantial evidence that Mr. Zytaruk is presenting a misleading and false account of the interview.”
    …Harper’s legal team earlier submitted analysis of a copy of Zytaruk’s tape recorded interview with Harper, then leader of the Conservative opposition, which concluded the tape was “incomplete and doctored.”
    …Harper’s lawyers plan to request, by the end of this week, a court order compelling Zytaruk, Cadman’s Surrey, B.C., biographer, to turn over the original tape recording to the B.C. Supreme Court for analysis, Conservative party spokesman Ryan Sparrow said Monday.
    Zytaruk refused a request last month to turn over the tape. His lawyer said in a letter he “does not want to lose ‘chain of custody’ over the tape and is still reluctant to let the original tape out of his possession, especially if it will be ‘analyzed’ by a third party.”
    3w.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ba115ea1-bf78-4020-b139-c0bf9d8e1e43

  5. You’re welcome, Me No Dhimmi, I’m glad you liked that tune.
    I don’t want to go into it detail, though, because that would get
    in the way of folks’ regularly scheduled kvetching.

  8. STOP THE PRESSES! Er.. STOP THE INTERNET!
    At the G-8 summit, US President George Bush called Canadian PM Stephen Harper by shouting “Yo, Harper!”.
    Canadian sovereignty assailed! Harper preparing to implement secret Bush agenda! Bush planning to annex Canada to extend term! Canadians outraged from coast to coast! um.. uh.. Bush planned 9/11! And the Holocaust! His dad was born on the day of the Halifax Explosion! Evil! Bad!
    .. um, that is all

  9. Socialism in Zimbabwe: A Pyramid Scheme where you swipe your debit card 74 times to buy groceries.
    Inflation = 000,000,000,000,000, >>>>
    In Canada, revolutionary socialist Citoyen Dion won’t say the word “screwed”; but, that is what he is offering to Canadians with his Green Shaft.
    In Dion’s Marxist-Leninist World, worse is better.
    Dion’s Wet Dream: Apres the Deluge, Moi.
    “Today what passes for revolution is often just despotism tricked out as a campaign to fight some supposedly great evil;”
    …-
    “Money, Money, Money
    Who says socialism doesn’t work? The country that has produced the most trillionaires in history isn’t America, but Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.”
    “Consider the travails of a man who simply wanted to buy groceries.”
    “Joshua Kipuru (not his real name, since he is concerned about reprisals for criticizing the government) told me via telephone that he gave up trying to get cash at his bank in Harare last week, since the lines were too long and slow moving. In the end Mr. Kipuru bought groceries with his debit card, which remarkably still works. The card, he explained, maxes out at just under 10 billion Zimbabwe dollars. So he had to run it 74 times, given that his food bill was nearly 730 billion Zimbabwe dollars.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/

  10. maybe he didn’t buy enough carbon credits ??
    “The US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating why a Midwest Airlines Boeing MD-80 carrying Senator Barack Obama was forced to make an emergency landing today.
    The crew of the chartered aircraft earlier today diverted to St. Louis, Missouri, during a flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Charlotte, North Carolina”

  11. Another “almost-free service” from/by socialism in Citoyen Dion’s own country, France.
    Here is the language of the revolutionary Liberal-socialist Citoyen Dion: “almost-free service”. Yuk, Yuk, Yuk.
    The Pedal Boom is going Bust.
    Here is the socialist Pyramid Scheme as she is run:
    “The city of Paris has made about €30 million profit in the first year but JCDecaux, the firm that supplies the bikes, is reported to have spent millions over budget because of greater than expected wear and tear, theft and vandalism.”
    …-
    “A year on, the cycle experiment has hit some bumps”
    “… the pedal boom has been attended by a jump in cycle deaths and injuries. Three vélib riders have been crushed under the wheels of heavy vehicles and about 70 have been injured since January this year. After a 35-year-old violinist was killed by a municipal bus in a bus lane in May, her father called on the Mayor to suspend the vélib scheme.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5lhc92 (times)

  12. Moore can’t take all the credit for the “anti-nuke” ideology.
    Weak-kneed pusillanimous politicians and cynical leftist governments kowtowed/played the dhimmis to the envirowackos.
    As the cliche says, the neutrons have come home to roost. Yuck, yuk.
    …-
    Moore: “”If it hadn’t been for us — the environmental movement of the ’70s — there’d be a lot fewer coal-fired power plants in this world today and a lot more nuclear plants not polluting the air and not leaking greenhouse gas into the atmosphere,” said Moore,”
    “Former Greenpeace leader now in nuclear power camp”
    http://tinyurl.com/56z3ke (edjournal)

  13. I noticed over at Cherniak’s site the cultists are trying to spin the “Green Shift” as a tax on pollution. Would someone with an account please kindly point out to the fools that CO2 is not, in fact, a pollutant. It is a naturally occurring gas, one which all mammals create by exhaling. It is an essential gas to the growth of plants. There are plenty of real polluters in Canada who won’t be punished by this stupid tax scheme. And what happens when industries start modifying their exhausts so they’re producing Nitrogen Oxides and Carbon Monoxides instead of CO2? They reduce their CO2 output, but increase their output of real pollutants! Anybody that believes this stupid tax will have any positive effect on the environment is a fool.

  14. Travers turn at the “knuckle dragging” name calling!
    3.thestar.com/comment/article/455933
    “Conservative knuckle-dragging on climate change in Japan this week is a national embarrassment. What it’s not is Canada’s biggest G8 worry.”
    Wonder if Travers read what others in the real world had to say about Canada, and this Conservative leader:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/07/dl0701.xml
    “Unlike the UN, G8 is not hobbled by bureaucratic stasis and immobilism. Its members are few, and similar enough in outlook to make concrete decisions and actualise them.
    We are not talking here about abstract goals like “curing poverty” or “tackling climate change”, but about achievable objectives…”
    And the best for last for the really notable man from The Star, who is unable to do much more than yap from the sidelines:
    “Of all the leaders, only Stephen Harper – the talented but curiously neglected Canadian prime minister – is able to point to a popular and successful record in office.
    Some will regard it as alarming that, in current times, world leadership should rest with Canada. But the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn.
    They have kept spending in check and reduced taxes. They are playing their full role in world affairs, notably in Afghanistan.
    Rather than canting about saving the world (Mr Harper, in his quiet and courteous way, is a Kyoto-sceptic) they have addressed themselves to curing remediable ills and, above all, to putting their own affairs in order.
    If the rest of the world had comported itself with similar modesty and prudence, we might not be in this mess.”

  15. Caroline Glick, Our World: The media and enduring narrative
    Last Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem was unique. Due to the fact that Husam Taysir Dwayat bulldozed his victims outside of Jerusalem Capitol Studios where many of the foreign television networks have their offices, his was one of only two attacks to have been caught live on camera…
    ON FRIDAY, the BBC published an apology for broadcasting the footage of Wednesday’s carnage. The film showed an unarmed, furloughed IDF commando climb onto Dwayat’s bulldozer just after Dwayat murdered Batsheva Ungerman by crushing her car. It showed the soldier grabbing a gun belonging to a security guard who was unsuccessfully trying to restrain Dwayat and shooting Dwayat three times in the head. The film did not show Dwayat or any of his victims dying. What it showed was the terror of the wounded, Dwayat’s murderousness and the soldier’s heroism.
    Yet, the network declared, “It’s not normally the BBC’s policy to show the moment of death on screen. These are always extremely difficult decisions to make. However, on reflection, we felt that the pictures featured on Wednesday’s News at Ten did not strike the right editorial balance between the demands of accuracy and the potential impact on the program’s audience.”

  16. Melanie Phillips, Sleepwalking into Islamisation
    Three years after the London Tube and bus bombings, it is alarming beyond measure to record that Britain is even now sleepwalking into Islamisation. Some people will think this is mere hyperbole. However, that’s the problem. Britain still doesn’t grasp that it is facing a pincer attack from both terrorism and cultural infiltration and usurpation…

  18. Mao Stlong plomises, porrution goody, goody for athretes and toulists.
    …-
    “Both men were shrouded in a grey veil of pollution, which skimmed the ground and limited visibility to a few hundred metres.”
    “IOC says it’s time for China to deliver on promises”
    http://tinyurl.com/6jp7ds (asspress)

  20. http://conservativequeen.blogspot.com/2008/07/perhaps-belinda-stronach-was-too-poor.html
    Perhaps Belinda Stronach was too Poor to Donate??
    Yesterday, I publicized the fact that Stephane Dion failed to donate to the Liberal Party in 2007, all while encouraging rank-and-file members of the Party to give generously. But, he’s not the only one; several prominent prominent members gave either nothing at all or very minor donations. So today, I’m going to unmask them as well. All data was obtained through Elections Canada’s searchable online records.
    Prominent Liberals who gave ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the Liberal Party in 2007:
    1. Belinda Stronach
    2. Denis Coderre
    3. Garth Turner
    4. Ralph Goodale
    5. Martha Hall Findlay
    6. Wayne Easter
    7. Dominic Leblanc
    8. Mauril Belanger
    9. David McGuinty
    10. Keith Martin
    Prominent Liberals who gave LESS THAN HALF THE MAXIMUM ($1100)
    1. Michael Ignatieff ($462.60)
    2. Ruby Dhalla ($462.56)
    3. Hedy Fry ($382.24)
    4. Paul Szabo ($255.27)
    In addition to the above mentioned names, 31 other Liberals gave zero dollars to their party and 16 gave less than half the maximum donation. Keep in mind that each of these individuals earns at least $147 thousand.
    How can the Liberals expect Canadians to support them financially when even they won’t write a cheque to their so-called Victory Fund?

  21. Your government at work:
    Montreal region ERs overwhelmed
    A number of emergency rooms in the Montreal area are absolutely swamped. The Jewish General and the Verdun Hospital are running at 160-percent of capacity. At Hotel Dieu, the ER is extremely short staffed and just one doctor is on duty during the daytime. Nightime closures are possible, as the staffing situation won’t be corrected until the end of August. And at the Mont Laurier Hospital in the Laurentians, the ER is at 260-percent of capacity.

  22. Eric Ormsby, The Koran: Scrutinising the Inscrutable
    Each new translation of Islam’s most sacred text offers fresh insights into its meaning. Yet there are still surprises in a book that is not only hard to read, but hard to know how to read, even for Muslims

  23. Heads up-
    David Frum will guest one-on-one on the CTS-TV Michael Coren Show, Thursday, July 10 at 8 pm Eastern, repeated next day at noon.

  24. From The Telegraph referring to the present G8 leadership:
    Of all the leaders, only Stephen Harper – the talented but curiously neglected Canadian prime minister – is able to point to a popular and successful record in office.
    Some will regard it as alarming that, in current times, world leadership should rest with Canada. But the Canadian Tories are a model of how to behave during a downturn.
    They have kept spending in check and reduced taxes. They are playing their full role in world affairs, notably in Afghanistan.
    Rather than canting about saving the world (Mr Harper, in his quiet and courteous way, is a Kyoto-sceptic) they have addressed themselves to curing remediable ills and, above all, to putting their own affairs in order.
    If the rest of the world had comported itself with similar modesty and prudence, we might not be in this mess.

  25. Ontario’s “Human Rights” kangaroo courts are ready/willing/eager to focus you.
    Socialist Commissar Hall is eager/willing/enabled to discriminate against you.
    You have no recourse.
    These ‘roo courts are a power unto themselves.
    …-
    “OHRC releases report focusing on housing as a right”
    “TORONTO – The Ontario Human Rights Commission released a report today aimed at bringing attention to the discrimination faced by the province’s housing tenants.
    The “Right at Home” report outlines 37 recommendations for various levels of government and decision makers to help prevent discrimination by landlords.”
    (canpress)

  26. Shell scraps plans for Sarnia refinery
    (http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=640867)
    “Shell had been studying the feasibility of a new plant in St. Clair Township in southwestern Ontario over the past two years to process crude from its expanding Alberta oil sands operations. The refinery was to have processed 150,000 to 200,000 barrels a day.”
    ….
    “Surging costs and a stretched labor force have hit projects throughout Canada’s oil and gas industry, forcing some to be delayed in recent months.”
    Norway canceled an upgrader in Alta a short while back for the same reasons.
    Read the article. The lack of refining capacity is going to kill us economically. As I said before, this issue is going to bite us in the butt.
    Instead of Harper going “green” at the G8, he should be providing the incentives for the refining industry to remain viable in Canada.

  27. The empty headed media is making a big deal of George Bush calling out “Yo, Harper” as if it means the two are just a little too cozy.
    Well I would much prefer this friendly, familiar type of banter than the cold shoulder given to Crouton by Bush, being that he was the ONLY major world leader NOT to be invited to the Bush ranch at Crawford, Texas.

  28. California glacier growing : http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/growingglacier.ap/index.html
    “Climate change has cut the number of glaciers at Montana’s Glacier National Park from 150 to 26 since 1850,”
    “The Sierra’s 498 ice formations — glaciers and ice fields — have shrunk by about half their size over the past 100 years, said Andrew Fountain, a geology professor at Portland State University.”
    They don’t seem to mention which industry was responsible for the shrinkage that occured 50 to 150 years ago. Perhaps it was the livestock brought to California in the mid-1800’s. Go figure.

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