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34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Cognitive Dissonance
    The media is betting that the public will beome bored(we are) with this whole kyoto thing and the issue can then be forgotten. And the media will escape unscathed. It hopes.
    Why does the media keep on promoting the fraud ? Philip Stott nails it;
    “They are terrified that the public may begin to question everything if climate is acknowledged, on air and in the press, not to be playing ball with their pet trope.”
    Yes, many of us already question ‘EVERYTHING’ the MSM puts out !! And, I might add, it has served us well.
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/08/19/media-exhibit-cognitive-dissonance-over-global-warming

  3. California’s version of unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of semen.
    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-supreme19-2008aug19,0,2388017.story
    I did not realize that insemination was an essential medical treatment, without which a patient’s life or health would be adversely affected.
    Justice Joyce L. Kennard wrote that doctors “remain free to voice their objections, religious or otherwise, to the prohibition against sexual orientation discrimination.”
    How very generous of her. Speech actually is permitted. With a court like this, who needs HRCs?

  4. Can anyone explain the logic behind safe injection sites for drug addicts? Where’s the common sense in helping drug addicted people to continue with the habit that’s wasting their lives? What action is taken to get them cleaned up, off drugs and become productive citizens by basically telling them it’s OK to take illegal drugs if they use clean needles.
    Vancouver is sited as having the highest rate of HIV among druggies so they need medical and mental help not clean needles to continue the path of destruction of their lives and spreading disease by their lifestyles.
    The drugs they’re taking with them to the injection sites are illegal, bought from pushers who the police regularly bust and we call this acceptable?
    Am I missing something here?

  5. “The ‘Napster’ Of Magazines Has Publishers Furious And Losing Money Online
    Remember all the trouble the recording industry had with Napster?
    Now it’s the magazine industry’s turn.
    A new website that asks users to copy and upload magazines to its servers is creating a big backlash among some rich and powerful publishers. And like their old recording counterparts, there may not be much they can do about it.
    The site is called “Mygazines.com” and it allows users to sign up for free and read all the articles in popular publications ranging from Vogue and The Economist to People.”
    http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_25897.aspx

  6. *Un Spectre hante le Canada: Jeancula et Les Librano$.
    …-
    “Personal financial interest behind Chrétien* attack on PM’s China policy, Kenney says
    OTTAWA — Former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s criticism of Canada’s current China policy reflects his personal financial interest in clients who do business there, not Canada’s interest, Conservative cabinet minister Jason Kenney says.
    And Mr. Kenney, the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, asserted that when he was in office, Mr. Chrétien’s China policy was influenced by his post-politics business plans, and the interests of rich and powerful friends.
    On Monday, Mr. Chrétien delivered an indictment of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s conduct of relations with China, saying that Mr. Harper’s failure to attend the Beijing Olympics and his meeting with the Dalai Lama threatened good ties with the rising economic power.
    Mr. Kenney noted that Parliament unanimously voted to make the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen, and said it is disturbing to think that Canada would let a foreign power dictate whom it should honour.
    “I think it reconfirms that Mr. Chrétien and the Liberals have always pursued a policy in this area calculated to their own personal financial interests and those of rich and powerful friends,” Mr. Kenney said yesterday.
    “It’s no mistake that Mr. Chrétien was calculating his retirement income in his relations in this area. [It was] a few weeks after he left the premiership that he was being signed on as a consultant to multinational companies with commercial interests in this area. …”
    Mr. Kenney was clearly referring to Power Corp., the conglomerate founded by Paul Desmarais Sr. His son, André Desmarais, now the co-CEO, is married to Mr. Chrétien’s daughter, France, and Mr. Chrétien’s long-time campaign manager and adviser, John Rae, is a senior Power executive.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5pa3qh
    *Jeancula: http://archives.vigile.net/05-4/13-cornichon-jeancula.jpg

  7. “Edwards Scandal: Blogosphere Leads Investigation That MSM Neglects
    As NewsBusters editor Matthew Sheffield recently wrote, the John Edwards scandal demonstrates why the public is moving to the web for news. A big reason for the public relying more and more on the web for news is that the blogosphere is willing to do the investigative footwork that the mainstream media often neglects. A perfect illustration of this are the revelations made today by the DBKP blog about the suspicious aircraft leasing arrangements made by John Edwards’ moneyman, Fred Baron:”
    http://tinyurl.com/5hqdm3 (newsbusters)

  8. Mao Stlong say, Jeancura my Commissal. Jeancura goody goody. Ten Gord medars fol Jeancura.
    …-
    “Chinese paper reports Harper snub
    BEIJING – In an apparent sign that the Chinese government is indeed miffed over Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to skip the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Games, English-language state media ran former prime minister Jean Chretien’s criticism of Harper on the front page Wednesday.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5bph9j (global)

  9. To echo a post from ET a few days back.
    maz2, your childish attepmts at caricature wrt Chinese speech does nothing but show your backside to the world.

  10. Corroborating DEBKAfile’s report on the weekend:
    Assad says Syria may host Russian missile batteries
    Syrian President Bashar Assad has pledged to support Russia in its conflict with Georgia and said that Damascus was ready to consider deploying Russian Iskander missile systems in its territory, in response to the US missile shield in Europe…
    The Iskander missile (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a short range, solid fuel propelled, theater quasi-ballistic missile system.
    The system is intended to use conventional warheads for the engagement of small and area targets, such as hostile fire weapons (missile systems, multiple launch rocket systems, long-range artillery pieces), air and antimissile defence weapons, especially those located in relatively fixed sites, command posts and communications nodes, critical civilian infrastructure facilities and other vital small and area targets.

  12. (Via SWJ) Christopher Hope and Duncan Gardham, BBC’s Children in Need funded 7/7 terrorist propaganda, says Newsnight
    Thousands of pounds raised by Britons for the BBC’s Children in Need charity could have been used to recruit and train the homegrown terrorists involved in the 7/7 terror attacks on London.
    Some of the cash could also have been used to fund the propaganda activities of the suicide bombers who killed 52 people in July 2005, according to an investigation by BBC 2’s Newsnight…

  13. In today’s Red Star (from National Newswatch), Stephane Dion opines that the Conservatives are about to call an election because they are “racked with major ethical problems”, are awash in the wake of broken promises, and are severely sliding in popularity.
    Huh????
    No Steffi, the Conservatives are going to work their way around the fixed 2009 election date and call it for this fall because you are without a doubt the weakest leader in Liberal history and the Tories are going to take full advantage of that fact.
    We all knew you were that weak but we were not aware you were that stupid.

  15. Joseph Loconte, Christian-Muslim Crosstalk
    …As the Muslim letter put the matter: “The future of the world depends on peace between Muslims and Christians.”
    The future of the world depends on no such thing. The existential threat to international peace and security is not a religious war between Islam and Christianity. The global threat today is a faith-based version of European fascism—a re-emergence of the totalitarian impulse, animated by the theology of radical, Islamist jihad. This ideology of bloodlust and martyrdom claims millions of adherents worldwide, inspires terrorist cells across entire continents, and is obsessed with acquiring the world’s most destructive weapons to unleash against civilian populations….
    There is simply no equivalent to this perverted religion anywhere in the Christian world—it is a crisis within Islam, a moral and spiritual malaise that has grown unchecked for decades. It is incumbent upon the Christian leaders engaged in this dialogue to ask why this is the case, and what their Islamic interlocutors intend to do about it…

  16. Mao Stlong is a Dead Again Communist.
    …-
    “Indeed, not even the presence of George W. Bush prevented the Communists from arresting well known underground church pastor Hua Huiqi on his way to a church service with the President on August 10.”
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    “China’s Bible Problem
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | August 20, 2008 | Kathy Shaidle
    Amid the medal-bedecked pageantry of the Beijing Olympics, it’s easy to forget that China holds another, less savory distinction: It maintains one of the more repressive regimes of religious persecution. As the recent travails of one missionary group demonstrate, even with the world watching, the host country remains as intolerant of religious freedom as ever.
    On Sunday, August 17, members of the Sheridan, Wyoming, mission group Vision Beyond Borders arrived at Kunming Airport in Yunnan province with 315 Bibles they planned to give out to Chinese Christians. (Similar Bibles can sell on the black market in China for the equivalent of six months’ salary.) The group’s leader, Pat Klein, told reporters that customs officials seized the Bibles even though they were printed according to strict Chinese requirements.
    “The authorities at the airport kept asking us to leave and producing pieces of paper which they said proved that bringing more than one Bible per person into the country was illegal,” Klein said. “But it all looked bogus to us.”
    So Klein and his two traveling companions staged a sit-in at the airport in protest. They were videotaped and awakened during the night. The next day, Klein was told their Bibles would be returned to them when they left the country, but the group didn’t believe these assurances and abandoned their protest empty handed.
    Ironically, last year China denounced “false rumors” that Bibles would be banned from the Olympic Games, insisting that 10,000 Bibles would be distributed in the Olympic Village. However, there are no subsequent reports confirming they went through with their promise.
    And so, the airport standoff between American Christians and Chinese officials has ended, having lasted only 30 hours. Chinese Christians, on the other hand, struggle day in and day out to observe their faith under tyrannical Communist rule. Unlike their American brethren, persecuted Chinese Christians don’t have a free nation they can return to.
    With this eposide, therefore, the Beijing Olympics have helped cast international focus on a serious and much ignored issue: the plight of Chinese Christians and other religious believers in the People’s Republic. Indeed, not even the presence of George W. Bush prevented the Communists from arresting well known underground church pastor Hua Huiqi on his way to a church service with the President on August 10. Hua was beaten unconscious last year for trying to assist residents whose property had been seized to make way for Olympic construction, and then served six months in jail.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064836/posts

  17. “I’ve decided to vote Liberal
    I’m voting Liberal because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
    I’m voting Liberal because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
    I’m voting Liberal because when we pull out of Afganistan I trust that the
    bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people.
    I’m voting Liberal because I believe that people who can’t tell us if
    it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away
    in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.
    I’m voting Liberal because I believe that business should not be
    allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as IT sees fit.
    I’m voting Liberal because I believe three or four pointy headed
    elitist socialists and judges need to re-interpret the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would NEVER get their agendas past the voters.
    I’m voting Liberal because I believe that when the terrorists don’t
    have to hide from us over there, they will come over here and I don’t want to have any guns in the house to fight them with.
    I’m voting Liberal because I love the fact that I can now marry
    whatever I want. (I’ve decided to marry your horse.)
    I’m voting Liberal because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but, the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 21% isnʼt.”

  18. Danny signs Hebron Oil deal with Chevron/Exxon. First glance looks very promising. Interesting that the Feds will receive 8+ billion from this project alone. I wonder how much the Feds receive from all that renewable Hydro money in Kaybec?
    http://tinyurl.com/62uzty
    In at press release, it states that based on the Budget 2008 oil price estimate of $87 per barrel — with a two per cent allowance for inflation — the provincial government estimates that the 20-25 year project could generate about $20 billion for the province and that the federal government and other provinces are expected to receive more than $8 billion in revenues from the project.
    At today’s prices, and allowing for inflation of two per cent, this could be a project worth approximately $28 billion to the province, the release states.
    “The Hebron project will provide the opportunity for as much work as our fabrication facilities, including Bull Arm and Marystown, can handle,” Natural Resources Minister Kathy Dunderdale said.
    “The Gravity-Base Structure (GBS) will be constructed in the province and is expected to generate over four million person hours of construction employment alone.

  19. “I’m voting Liberal because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but, the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 21% isnʼt.”
    I’m voting Conservative in Alberta, because I believe that “Fast Eddy” deserves to dictate what the private sector that drives his economy “gets”, while his government “takes” more off the top, putting average working Albertans’ jobs in jepardy because the economics aren’t there for the companies who hire them.
    I’m voting Conservative in Alberta, because Ed thinks that government employees aren’t getting their “fair share” and rewards them with a pension top-up, on my dime.
    I’m voting Conservative in Alberta, because Ed thinks he’s doing a fine job of rewarding “his” employees, at my expense and then gives himself a big fat raise, again at my expense. he didn’t even have to ask me for the raise!
    I’m voting canservative in Alberta, because Ed thinks that the AHRC is “a good thing” to use to dictate what the media, out of favour religious groups and anyone else with a non-PC gripe, get to think, speak,or publish.
    I’m voting for the Conservatives in Alberta, because with all that izzy money they make ISN”T being spent to improve the highway to Ft McMurray, presently the economic engine of Alberta, to widen it to prevent the vehicle deaths of Newfoundlanders who choose to drive it at their own risk, to get to work.
    Aren’t our govvernments fun to “work for”?

  21. BREAKING!
    STEPHANE DION WILL BE ONE ON ONE FOR A FULL HOUR ON THE MICHEAL COREN SHOW (CTS) THURSDAY THE 21 AT 8PM EASTERN (REBROADCASTS NEXT DAY AT NOON EASTERN TIME). CHECK YOU LOCAL CABLE OR SATELLITE PROVIDER IF YOU ARE NOT SURE IF YOU HAVE CTS TV.

  22. Liz J: Re Vancouver injection sites, “Am I missing something here?”
    Yeah, Liz. Get with the lib/left/socialist/good-is-bad-and-bad-is-good program. And put on your socialist spectacles, all the better for seeing with, my dear.

  23. The drugs they’re taking with them to the injection sites are illegal, bought from pushers who the police regularly bust and we call this acceptable? Am I missing something here? Posted by: Liz J at August 20, 2008 7:47 AM
    Yes Liz, I think you are.
    People are difficult to control. Unless they are brought in and indoctrinated to a particular line of thought (liberalism versus conservatism), belief (Islam v. Christian v. Bhuddism), anyone with a differing value structure is ‘generally’ condemed, criticized, or stereotyped.As well, there are behaviors that society does not wish to condone: ie: drunk driving, bank robbery, and injecting opiates into one’s veins. These are primarily defined by societal mores and our construct of right and wrong.
    So, from a public health standpoint, and because of secular governance and the Charter, what is the best approach to mitigating societal harm in the above examples? In the first two, lives and/or property is destroyed, and incarceration has been deemed an appropriate level of response to try and modify that behavior.
    In the case of addiction, where is the victim? The lost soul who comes into hard times, and lacks the stregnth to deal with it? The party kid who didn’t have the stregnth in the first place, and abdicated all personal responsibility in chase of a thrill? How about a runaway who didn’t get their act together, and now has to turn tricks to feed the dragon?
    Now, my point is that drug use in and of itself is typically not injurious to society, with some exceptions: stealing/crime to support the habit, long term disability and disease, and perhaps the odd body left lying around.
    Now the criminal code deals with the crime part. But what about Hepatitas A/B, aids, or other blood borne diseases? Transmission rates are high among the street types, where education and judgement are low or absent in the individual.
    As well, methodone is a poor treatment option for heroin addiction – much like nicotine replacements have lower rates of success than cold turkey does. Not dealing with the problem is not dealing with the problem, if you know what I mean. I know several addiction counsellors, and they tell me that a treatment option for chronic heroin users is to keep them alive – research has found that most long term users will ‘mature out’ by their late 30’s early 40’s.
    And the vector that has the most influence upon mortality is blood borne contagions.
    So, since people are gonna do what they want to do (it is a free world after all), the presence of an injection site, funded with taxpayers money, really rails the moralists and hand wringing ‘know what’s best for humanity’ types that want to dictate how others live. It also challenges what we percieve to the the role of the state.
    So, the concept of an injection site is to minimize the spread of blood borne illness (by stopping sharing of needles), and to provide a point of contact to medical care and exit point for those who desire.
    Because, these people are going to do it anyway. At the very least, what could we say about our society by simply ignoring them and doing nothing? Is the role of the state to be that moralist and only help certain types of individual failings, and condemn others? Honestly, hearing a politician lecture the Canadian Medical Association over ethics is pathetic. A politician no less.
    But that is how politicized drug policy is in this country, and how irrational any discussion about it is. Unfortunately, that same tenor spills over into reporting facts about the success or failure of having an injection site as public policy. Because even if it is ‘successful’, in terms of reducing disease and helping clean up those who want to, and ultimately reducing harm to society, the moralists and temperance crusaders won’t accept it anyway. And also why its’ hard to get any non-spun information on the topic.
    I think there are alot of parallels between this and AGW – and sadly, the same fact-free information available.
    Myself, I don’t have a view on injection sites, but that is my understanding why they are being attempted as public health policy.
    Bear with me here, this is going somewhere…

  24. David Warren makes a good point in a recent column about the drafted College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) policy to curtail the right of doctors to act on their consciences:
    “…human rights were traditionally conceived as the individual’s legal and moral resort against the arbitrary power of unaccountable organizations. In the new definition, ‘human rights’ become a device by which unaccountable organizations may crush that individual. ‘Human rights’ have been ideologized, and collectivized. They now belong to groups, exclusively, and include principally the right not to be ‘offended’ by the existence of an individual with a mind of his own.”
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=f71e60ff-6885-4f5b-b306-78857961af5d

  25. Why haven’t the Left got Georgia on their minds?
    Pity I was away last week. I must have missed the march through London against the Russian invasion of Georgia. What a magnificent sight it must have been – half a million protesters standing firm against tyranny and supporting freedom and democracy.
    I’d have loved to have heard Red Ken denouncing the bloodthirsty gangster regime in Moscow, George Galloway comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler and Tony Benn declaring it was all about oil.
    What’s that you say? There was no such rally? I suppose they must all have been too busy demonstrating against Chinese oppression in Tibet and demanding a boycott of the Beijing Olympics.
    Or perhaps not. Funny how the Not In My Name crowd always overlooks aggression by Communist or ‘former’ Communist regimes.
    There’s no such reticence when it comes to portraying George W. Bush as the new Hitler or daubing swastikas on the Israeli flag. Look at the protests against the wars in Iraq and Lebanon.
    The same people who can’t wait to burn the American flag in Trafalgar Square are only too happy to ignore Russian, Chinese and Iraqi genocide.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046576/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Why-havent-Left-got-Georgia-minds.html
    ———–
    Read it all

  26. “Indeed, not even the presence of George W. Bush prevented the Communists from arresting well known underground church pastor Hua Huiqi on his way to a church service with the President on August 10.” (ibid)
    …-
    The Arrest of Hua Huiqi.
    “And they laid hands on Him and seized Him.”
    Mark 14:46.
    God Bless George W. Bush.
    God Bless Hua Huiqi.

  28. What’s Up With That !?
    [They could be looking for secure places to make resource-related investments now that the U.S. dollar seems to be recovering. In recent months Buffett said he favours investing in the Canadian oilsands because it offers a secure supply of oil for the United States.
    Gates and Buffett made the trip partly out of curiosity, but also “with investment in mind,” a source said.]
    mmmmm anything to do with
    [Billionaire investor George Soros said the fallout from the U.S. subprime crisis will bring about the end of the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency.]
    oh, ya ? What about this
    [Dramatic gains by the dollar that took it to its highest for five months against a broad range of currencies sparked predictions from economists that it is embarked on a long-term recovery, after a five-year run of unrelenting weakness.]
    or perhaps B&W see some falling out of favour coming
    [Germany once thought biofuels would help the country meet its climate protection goals and invested heavily, both financially and politically, in the idea. But it hasn’t turned out that way — German cars won’t run on a planned gasoline-biofuel mix.]
    and other Big-Wheels soon to take a bath
    [Pickens said oil prices may drop even further, to $110, sometime in the next few weeks, but won’t dip below $100, {some predicted RISING to $200 only a few weeks ago} and that the price will dog the United States for decades unless it adopts a plan and sticks to it. The United States dropped ambitious plans for solar and wind power after petroleum prices fell in the 1980s.]
    or maybe Bill & Warren saw the writing on the wall
    [Reuters.com is reporting that a new poll shows John McCain has taken a five-point lead over Barack Obama in the race for President.]
    Bill & Warren did not get rich by being stubborn – or hang on, no matter whats – or it’s a matter of principle guys.

  30. Vitruvius’ Cheese Plate: But I had my heart set on some Tomme de Savoie and a little Manchego Anejo…. The Drumloch’s always good, though, if one can find it.

  31. Hardboiled, I think you’ve been too long in the water. Sanctioning an illegal act so as to make it less of a social mess, all with taxpayer’s dollars is plain stupid. Maybe we can provide hookers for pedophiles so they can try and change too. Armed robbery is illegal too but if we have a program where would be fellons can get training on the proper use of a gun or knife then they would be less likely of accidentally hurting themselves.
    Canada is a country where the authorities can come into your home and confiscate a gun without a warrant or probable cause but can’t or won’t raid a facility that they know has illegal drugs.
    Yes Canada, a country where you can get a half million tax bill forgiven and then get appointed as a government “ethics commissioner”. I’ll stop now while my blood pressure is still within range.

  33. I’ll stop now while my blood pressure is still within range. Posted by: Texas Canuck at August 20, 2008 5:46 PM
    Good on you, stay safe out there. There are many, many governance issues out there desperately needing guidance and leadership. Drug policy is one of them.
    I don’t see that offered by the Cons. Nor the Libranos. Nor the Communists. Nor the TinFoil Hats.

  34. bit late in the day I know …. but:
    University of Illinois is now helping to keep a lid on O-Bimbo’s Weatherman connections documented in papers at the schools archives.
    First they were for telling everyone everything now they are against it!

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