49 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Ariel Sabar, Return to Jewish Kurdistan
    Contrary to popular belief, Kurdistan—not Babylonia—was the birthplace of the Jewish diaspora. According to the Second Book of Kings, the Assyrian king who banished Jews from northern Israel, or Samaria, in the 8th century B.C.E. marched them across the desert to “Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.”
    Translation: He deported the Israelites to Kurdistan…

  4. Basin Street Blues is definately still available and viewable. However, I notice there is a message on the YouTube page saying they are “performing site maintenance”, so perhaps some videos might momentarily disappear as they switch over a server or something like that. I’d say try it again and see what happens.

  5. Calgary police shot and killed a man a couple days ago after a domestic incident. The couple recently arrived from overseas to seek a better life. It seems the woman thought a better life would be without him and gave him the heave-ho..He disagreed and stabbed her to death.He then phoned the police to brag about his deed. They responded,he would not drop the knife and then was put down like the mad DOG he was…Another domestic murder or another honour killing. The man’s middle name is….wait for it…Muhamed. Go figure.

  7. If you could vote for anyone, who would you vote for?
    Barack Obama 26%
    Stephane Dion 5%
    Sarah Palin 12%
    Stephen Harper 37%
    Hillary Clinton 13%
    John McCain 7%
    Total Votes for this Question: 2409
    Looks like Stephen Harper = Barama+Shrill

  8. wallyj, with respect, this incident would have been just as tragic and senseless if the husband’s middle name had been Walter, or Yang, or Eli. It’s sad when life doesn’t work out the way people had hoped. Full stop. Nothing more to be said.
    The ethnicity or religious beliefs of those involved in unfortunate incidents like these, while they may due to cultural practices make certain behaviours that seem stand-offish in the North American context more likely to occur, don’t really enter into it, do they? Two people who had hopes and dreams just like you do are, pointlessly, dead.
    Further, most police officers take no pleasure in the necessary shooting of mad dogs, let alone deranged humans, and the tragedy is compounded by the fact that somewhere in Calgary there’s a cop who’s grappling with the emotional impact of having been obliged to kill a man in the course of doing his job.
    Nothing to celebrate in this. No fingers to point. No “Ya see? Exactly what you’d expect from “these people””. It’s just a shame all around. Can you feel that, at all? You’d be closer to being justified in feeling that you are a more civilized and evolved kind of person than these dead recent immigrants if you could.

  9. St. Joseph, the Patron Saint of Carpenters.
    http://www.luckymojo.com/saintjoseph.html
    …-
    Today’s man-bites-dog story: A Canadian union actually stands up for Israel
    National Post ^ | September 08 2008 | Jonathan Kay
    September 8, 2008, Victoria, BC – Canada’s Carpenters’ Union, meeting at the 7th Biennial Canada Council of Carpenters Convention in Victoria, has voted in favour of a new resolution that will have a profound effect on organized labour around the world. With a membership of more than 60,000, the Council unanimously adopted a resolution denouncing the characterization by a limited number of other Canadian unions of Israel as an apartheid state. The resolution calls for greater understanding of the plight of Israeli citizens, who face continual waves of attacks and threats from the vast majority of their neighbours.
    “Unlike many neighbouring countries, Israel has an active trade union movement that participates freely in Israeli society,” explained Ucal Powell, President of the Carpenters’ District Council of Ontario. “Supporting a boycott or sanctions against Israel risks reinforcing terrorist groups and does little to encourage the wellbeing of workers in the region.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077593/posts

  10. Heads-up
    Today on CTS-TV Michael Coren Show blogger panel 8pm Eastern, repeats tomorrow at noon-
    James Curran
    Jason Cherniak
    Steve Janke
    Andrew Prescott

  11. Liberals say, It’s Turner time! “It’s every man for himself now.”
    They are laughing at Citoyen Dion.
    …-
    “No shortage of warnings for Liberals
    Lack of readiness for campaign trail raises anxiety level
    It’s a bad sign in an election when they’re laughing at you off the top.
    From the perspective of veteran Liberals, Election ’08 for leader Stéphane Dion already has shades of John Turner’s fumbled campaigns of the 1980s. They began badly and got progressively worse.
    “We’re all hoping it doesn’t go there, but it could be bad,” says a GTA Liberal privately. “I don’t know. It gets harder to turn it around.”
    Of the plane flap that began the Dion drive, he says: “We were caught with our pants down. It’s incompetence … It’s every man for himself now.”
    http://www.thestar.com/FederalElection/article/495717

  12. Citoyen Dion is the man of steel = Stalin.
    The Liberals are hoping to “re-brand” Citoyen Dion as “a man of steel”. Incredible!
    Stalin is the man of steel. Can lberia be far behind?
    Watch the Man of Steel here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euDH9avUE10
    …-
    “Liberals show ‘another side’ of Dion
    Online rebranding effort meant to counter Conservative bid to portray him as less manly, less decisive and more aloof than Harper”
    “The site also shows a man of steel”
    http://tinyurl.com/6hqarb (g-m)

  13. Exeter,with due respect. The religious beliefs may enter into this. Of course it is a tragedy,but blindly closing our eyes to the barbaric practices of others under the guise of tolerance will result in more tragedies.It may be ‘just’ another jealous scumbag,there is enough of them,but then again maybe not.

  14. CTV poll
    Which party has the best opportunity to win over undecided voters?
    Bloc 102 votes (1 %)
    Conservatives 9809 votes (56 %)
    Greens 1789 votes (10 %)
    Liberals 3309 votes (19 %)
    NDP 2382 votes (14 %)
    Total Votes: 17391

  18. I tell you the Dion campaign looks more and more like the Titanic. He better hope global warming melts those ice bergs and keeps those polar bears away.

  19. Spengler, A Comedy of Areas
    The fact is that there won’t be any Georgians or Ukrainians in the not-too-distant future. By coincidence, Washington’s two favorite beacons of liberty happen to be the two countries with the world’s fastest rate of population decline. By mid-century they will have barely half as many inhabitants as they do today, and half of those who remain will be elderly. Hardly [any] men of military age and women of child-bearing age will remain. Their economies will implode long before the mid-century mark, as soaring retirement costs crush state budgets, and young people emigrate to escape the burden of supporting the elderly…

  20. “it will have an impact, but it is not to be applauded.”
    What is not to be applauded?
    Mockely of Mao Stlong, Liberal Boob Rae’s Uncle Mo?
    Mockely of the Dionky?
    Applaud mockely? Hoolay fol Mockely. Mole mockely, prease.
    …-
    “Anything that can be done at all that can get younger voters to mock, tease, laugh about Dion will only help Harper in the election,” said Robert Jackson, author of Politics in Canada. “It is to be expected, it will have an impact, but it is not to be applauded.”
    “Tories find inspiration in South Park”
    http://www.ottawasun.com/canadavotes/news/2008/09/09/6708376-sun.html

  22. (PDF warning) William S. McCallister, Sons of Iraq: A Study in Irregular Warfare
    Iraq’s mainly Shia central government appears intent on limiting the power of the U.S. military backed Sons of Iraq (SOI) and its approximately 100,000 armed security volunteers. The SOI has been credited by the Coalition Forces for helping turn the tide against al-Qaeda in Iraq and as of this writing remains on the U.S. military pay roll in return for providing security in local neighborhoods throughout the country… The rationale of the Maliki government to limit the power of the Sunni auxiliary forces is much more complex and nuanced than causal reasoning would lead us to believe and expresses a unique blend of Iraq’s unique culture and historical experience.
    This paper will address the types of behavior and political relationships shaping the current political and security landscape in Iraq. Included is an introduction to the uniquely Arab institution of neighborhood watch and tribal security…

  23. “What Obama does not understand is that he is being Swift-boated.”
    Att: Conservative “War Room”. Swift-boat Dionky.
    …-
    Too Cool to Fight? (Liberals going bonkers over wimp Obama)
    “Thank God for Sarah Palin. Without her jibes, her sarcasm, her exaggerations, her smug provincialism, her hypocrisy about family and government, her exploitation of mommyhood and her personal attacks on Barack Obama, the Democratic base might never be consolidated. This much is certain: Obama could never do it.
    What Obama does not understand is that he is being Swift-boated. The term does not apply to a mere smear. It is bolder, more outrageous than that. It means going straight at your opponent’s strength and maligning it. This is what was done in 2004 to John Kerry, who had commanded a Swift boat in Vietnam. Kerry had won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star and had emerged from the war a certified hero. It was that record his opponents attacked, a tactic Kerry thought so ludicrous that he at first ignored it. The record shows that he lost the election.”
    Commenter says: “The truth is being told by the liberal Richard Cohen…Obama cares about Obama, and nothing else. That even liberal columnists from the Wash Post are writing about this means the ‘bitter folks in small town America, clinging to their guns and religion’ have figured that out already.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078037/posts
    …-
    British leftist bonkers American leftists:
    “When Barack’s berserkers lost the plot”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/uselections2008.republicans2008

  24. “With a .50-caliber, you can take the wall out.”
    (Via CSP) Kris Osborn, U.S. Army Buys Heavy-Caliber Weapons
    Unlike the Army’s new single-shot M203 grenade launcher, the 72-pound, 40mm Mk19 fires 300 to 375 rounds per minute out to 2,000 meters.
    “The Mk19 gives a military unit a heavy volume of close, accurate, continuous fire which can be used against hovering enemy aircraft and lightly armored vehicles by providing devastating fire into an engagement area,” Audette said…

  25. Swift-boating Dionky!
    You wan goody carbon tax on evelything?
    …-
    “Harper to unveil new tax measure today: CTV
    The Conservatives will unveil a new tax measure today that will affect virtually every product but does not involve the GST, CTV News has learned.
    The new measure is going to be broadly-based and will bring down the price of consumer goods, CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Tuesday.
    “Clearly, this is going to have a large impact on the campaign,” said Fife.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5s88uz
    From comments:
    “Mark
    Let me get this straight. Mr. Harper has cut the GST and now has some plan to decrease my taxes further? He wants to get tough on crime, improve Canada’s soverignty, strengthen our (Liberal) gutted military, protect families…
    May I vote now please?”
    JDC
    I love Harper. That is all.”

  26. bryanr: “‘Liberals sputter out of Gate’
    Don Newman-National Post”
    Surely you mean Don Martin? (I just checked and Don Martin is the author of this article.)
    For a second, I thought “wait a minute”! Is Don Newman diversifying his portfolio? Has he started writing opinion pieces in anticipation of the day his BRAWWWWWDCAST is given the pink slip by a CPC majority?
    For the second it lasted, it was a sweet thought!

  27. The bastard children of socialism:
    communism > feminism > environmentalism > scientism > liberalism > nazism >>> Fascism
    …-
    “Italian politicians ‘praise’ fascist era of Benito Mussolini
    Two of Italy’s most senior politicians have sparked a debate about the country’s dark past and uncertain future after voicing sympathy for the fascist era of Benito Mussolini.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5lr57w (telegraphUK)

  28. F. Stephen Larrabee, RAND Corporation, Ukraine: The Next Crisis?
    The Russian invasion of Georgia has sent shock waves throughout the West and the former Soviet space – especially Ukraine. Indeed, Ukraine could be the next potential crisis.
    Georgia’s increasingly pro-Western course, including growing ties to NATO, has been a thorn in Moscow’s side. But it did not pose a serious threat to Russian security. Georgia’s army is small, ill-equipped and no match for Russia’s, as was amply demonstrated this month.
    Ukraine’s integration into NATO, by contrast, would have far-reaching strategic consequences, ending any residual Russian hopes of forming a “Slavic Union” composed of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine – a dream that still beats in the breast of many Russians. It would also have important implications for the Russian defense industry, notably air defense and missile production…

  29. (Via SWJ) Matthew Rusling, For the Military, a Future of ‘Hybrid’ Wars
    At the Defense Department, there is much pressure to figure out what’s next after Iraq and Afghanistan. Will it be another counterinsurgency campaign? Or a conventional war against a modern industrialized nation?
    The future, according to military strategists and scholars, is likely to be somewhere in between. Opponents may not fall into the predictable categories of low-tech “irregular” combatants or technologically advanced military powers. A consensus is emerging that U.S. forces should prepare for “hybrid” wars where they may face unconventional fighters or insurgents, who are likely to be equipped with modern weapons and information technology.

  31. (Via WSJ) John B. Judis, Creation Myth
    In truth, however, if you examine carefully how Obama conducted himself as an organizer and how he has conducted himself as a politician, if you consider what he said about organizing to his fellow organizers, and if you look at the reasons he gave friends and colleagues for abandoning organizing, then a very different picture emerges: that of a disillusioned activist who fashioned his political identity not as an extension of community organizing but as a wholesale rejection of it. Indeed, the most important thing to know about Barack Obama’s time as a community organizer in Chicago may not be what he gained from the experience–but rather why, in late 1987, he decided to quit…

  32. (Via Comment Central) James Bennett, Sarah Palin is not such a small-town girl after all
    Far from being a reprise of Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Palin was a clear-eyed politician who, from the day she took office, knew exactly what she had to do and whose toes she would step on to do it.
    The surprise is not that she has been in office for such a short time but that she has succeeded in each of her objectives. She has exposed corruption; given the state a bigger share in Alaska’s energy wealth; and negotiated a deal involving big corporate players, the US and Canadian governments, Canadian provincial governments, and native tribes – the result of which was a £13 billion deal to launch the pipeline and increase the amount of domestic energy available to consumers. This deal makes the charge of having “no international experience” particularly absurd.
    In short, far from being a small-town mayor concerned with little more than traffic signs, she has been a major player in state politics for a decade, one who formulated an ambitious agenda and deftly implemented it against great odds…

  34. While I always appreciate the news tips, I think it might be a good idea to ask for honesty, especially from the partisans and party propagandists.
    Any posters in here in a paid or volunteer capacity with any of the political parties, or expect to be in such positions, during the election or within 6 months after this election?
    My money would be on xiat and maz2. But then again, political parties are about themselves, and I wouldn’t expect honesty, even from the Cons.

  35. It is vital to the enemies of freedom and liberty to ensure the population remains in fear. The similarities in the article between Canada and the U.K. are many.
    “The story of Milly, an eight-year-old cat who disappeared out of window in Whitstable two weeks ago, has much to tell us about the petty-minded forces that have come to replace proper policing in this country. Her owners, Stephen and Heather Cope and their son Daniel, 13, searched high and low for Milly, then, failing to find her, did what any normal person would do: put up posters to see if anyone had seen her. The next thing they heard was from one of the local council community wardens, who rang the telephone number on the poster and threatened them with a £80 on-the-spot fine for antisocial behaviour.
    Seldom can there have been a more officious, twerpish enforcement of the law, but this kind of action is now one of the established parts of this dreadful government’s legacy.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/justice.police

  37. And have no doubt at all, the small minds infesting government and political parties love control. Above all else…
    “A council used controversial anti-terror laws to spy on a crew of refuse collectors after receiving a tip-off that they were incorrectly emptying a dustbin. Officials set up an undercover surveillance operation in an attempt to prove the three binmen were being bribed by a newsagent to take away trade waste when he had not paid the extra fee for it to be collected.
    Bury Council in Greater Manchester said the investigation proved that the men had removed trade waste – and it also claimed they had used their refuse truck for ‘pecuniary gain’ because one accepted a bottle of strawberry-flavoured mineral water from the shopkeeper. As a result, the refuse collectors, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were suspended on full pay for ten months and then sacked.
    But now they have won more than £100,000 between them in an out-of-court settlement after claiming unfair dismissal.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1053039/Council-use-anti-terror-laws-spy-binmen-accused-accepting-strawberry-pop-bribe-away-trade-waste.html

  38. CTV reporter Graham Richardson is the guy to talk to if you want to find out what Dion will do in the future.
    Richardson:
    I don’t think Dion will take more money from Canadians.

  39. Jack Layton thrilled – Gets Taliban endorsement
    ———-
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A Taliban spokesman says he’s well aware of Canada’s looming election and he supports whichever party is more likely to pull Canadian troops out of Afghanistan.
    Qari Muhammad Yussef says the election is why insurgents have stepped up attacks on Canadians in Afghanistan.
    He says that includes the most recent roadside bomb attack in Panjwaii district that killed Sgt. Scott Shipway on Sunday.
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080909/taliban_canadian_election_/20080909?hub=TopStories

  41. Here is the Red-Green socialist threat from Citoyen Dion.
    “I will”, “I will”, “I will” …
    *”I will affect their life”.
    “People need to know that, because I will affect their life – if, as I hope, they choose me as their prime minister and the Liberal party as their government.” (canwest)
    …-
    *The Chinese Gulag.
    Introduction to China’s Laogai
    By their nature, all totalitarian political systems will establish a repressive mechanism aimed at eliminating political dissent and consolidating their power so that absolute control may be maintained. From ancient to modem times, history provides us with no exceptions to this rule. Two examples from this century illustrate this point: the concentration camps run by the Nazi Party in Hitler’s Germany and the gulag system in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Both systems resulted from the actions of party leaders operating within a single ideology, catalyzed by the will of a single leader.
    The Laogai camps were established by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao Zedong. The Laogai has outlived Mao, just as the Soviet gulag continued long after Stalin’s death. The Laogai, like the gulag, has continued as an instrument of Party rule. The gulag only ended when the Soviet Union itself collapsed.
    Despite many societal advances in the People’s Republic of China, the dictators in Beijing continue to depend upon its Laogai system as a tool for suppression. Far from abandoning it, the Chinese Communist party is constantly strengthening its forced labor system.

  42. Another Dead Tree falls. Did you hear it fall?
    …-
    “Letter from Gannett U.S. Community Publishing president Robert J. Dickey
    September 9, 2008
    Dear Fellow Employee,
    Given the job reductions across our division in the past month, I wanted to share with all of you our reasoning and plans for the future under a new structure we are implementing beginning today.
    Like many businesses, the weakening economy has had a significant effect on our financial performance. Hardest are the classified categories – real estate, employment and automotive, where our year-over-year classified losses are in the 25% range. But it does not stop there:”
    http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13583

  43. Ali Alfoneh, The Revolutionary Guards’ Role in Iranian Politics
    Almost three decades after the Islamic Republic’s founding, former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders are infiltrating the political, economic, and cultural life of Iran. Half the members of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet are former IRGC officers, and he has appointed several IRGC officers to provincial governorships. The IRGC’s rise has been deliberate…

  44. Sebastian Junger, Return to the Valley of Death
    On the night of July 12, 2008, a group of Taliban fighters crept into the town of Wanat, in northeastern Afghanistan, and began telling the locals to leave. According to one internal U.S. military report, they were led by a local commander named Maulawi Usman, who was under orders from higher-ups to destroy an outpost that American soldiers had just established. With the locals gone, the Taliban quickly filtered through the streets and set up fighting positions in the deserted houses. They also moved along a riverbed west of the base and set up machine-gun positions on the flank of a hill…

  46. Taliban Jack Layton’s (NDP) head did not explode.
    His Facebookers’ heads exploded and turned on him.
    But, Fearless Taliban “stood his ground”; no cut’n’run Jack?
    Will Taliban Jack “rectify this situation”?
    …-
    “NDP Facebook supporters blast Layton over debates
    REGINA – NDP Leader Jack Layton stood his ground Tuesday as he found himself bombarded in an online attack over his refusal to support Green Leader Elizabeth May’s participation in the upcoming televised leaders’ debates.”
    “”I am very disappointed at your lack of support for the inclusion of the Green Party of Canada in the leaders’ debate,” wrote Josue Martinez. “I am a card-carrying member of the NDP and for the first time I am unhappy with one of your decisions. Please rectify this situation.””
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/features/decisioncanada/story.html?id=3391c803-282b-4d1a-8d3d-ddc408fddea8

  47. Does anyone still have the links to the Green Party candidates who were questioning 9/11? John Gormly is supposed to be having Elizabeth May on as a guest sometime this week and I think she needs to answer to this….I don’t see the story posted anymore..so if anyone still has it, maybe forward it to John..his email is linked at newstalk650.com

  48. Q: Where are Liberals Boob Rae and STOPIGGY?
    Relaxing and enjoying the Puffin show.
    Boob, Iggy, Ontario McGuinty, TO socialist Mayor Miller, even Hezbollah Coderre, and all the Liberals have hung Citoyen Dion out to dry.
    …-
    “Jack: “Little Bird”
    “Like rats leaving a sinking ship”…so the Liberals this day abandon their leader and remain “silent”. Hoping that they will lose and Dion will be yesterday’s news. Nothing from the “big guys” as a little bird shits on Dion’s shoulder. Not a peep as their “leader” flounders…no plane…no pre-arranged “Rah, rah, rah – zis boom bah” as he makes his appearance.
    Nothing at all except from Harper who said…”that wasn’t nice”.
    “Poof, you’re gone!”
    What a kind, thoughtful, family man!
    Where was “Iggy” when all this was going on? He started it. Where was “Bobby” (he who likes to run around naked and reminds me of “The streak“) who prefers to pontificate on Canadian politics regularly?
    Where are these “heavy hitters” from the Liberal pary of Canada?
    “I’ll tell you where they are.”
    They are all hiding and praying that Dion loses big time. And when he does they plan to replace him.”
    http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/09/09/jack-little-bird/

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