72 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. A little out of the ordinary for a reader tip, but last night I was trying to play a CD of jazz standards played by Oscar Peterson called Jazz ‘Round Midnight. Outstanding disk. I can highly recommended it.
    Anyway, long story short it wouldn’t play because my kids had accidentally scratched it up. I tried cleaning it until it was spotless, still wouldn’t play.
    Turns out you can polish the coating on a CD with Brasso, that’s right, the stuff your mother used to polish her bronze candle holders.
    It took two polishes, and then it played perfectly.

  3. Even though I love The Moody Blues….I think you could put an Obama speech together by stringing random Moodies lyrics together.
    Get the same positive sounding but meaningless rhetoric

  4. One of the first keyboard pieces I ever learned from the radio.
    But … Vito …. I believe you are repeating yourself…..

  5. From the album Days of Future Past which was played constantly on the common cassette deck as we studied for our pilots license in 1973. I always thought Knights in White Satin was the best of album.
    Does anyone even write letters on paper anymore? Not meaning to send….

  7. How many of you recall the 8 track tape?? Remember the neat “ka-tack” sound they made when they changed tracks? How about “Quadraphonic” sound??
    Did you ever hear a “reverberator” on the rear speakers of a Ford or Chevy?? It made the interiour of the car sound like a huge hall. How about red “sex lights” under the dash and blue “anti-glare” lights on the windshield.
    The rarest thing I ever did see however was a jobber 45 RPM record player under the dash of a 51 Ford. Nothing had better sound than a Flathead Ford V-8 with dual “Hollywood” mufflers, mixed in with “Fats Domino” and “Blueberry Hill!”

  8. Caught the Moodies three-four weeks ago in Vancouver.Audience was mostly Veteran Cosmic Rockers .A fair number had teens in tow to expose them to “The Clasics”. An excellent show , Ray,the flautist is no longer able to tour but his capable replacement brings a bit of (actually a lot) of bounce and life to the show.

  9. Caught the Moodies three-four weeks ago in Vancouver.Audience was mostly Veteran Cosmic Rockers .A fair number had teens in tow to expose them to “The Clasics”. An excellent show , Ray,the flautist is no longer able to tour but his capable replacement brings a bit of (actually a lot) of bounce and life to the show.

  11. Joe: “Does anyone even write letters on paper anymore?”
    I do. ‘Wrote one yesterday, as a matter of fact.

  14. I came across the old Days of Future Passed cassette the other day and after I found a cassette deck that still worked I listened to the wonderful music of my youth, hiss and all.
    LindaL I assume your husband is much older than you?
    batb I assume you only write on paper for the romance?
    LOL
    I must confess that on the occasions when I hand write a letter I never send it because the person I address could never read it!

  15. I am Moody, and I have the Blues.
    I am saddened that the United States has been hijacked by socialists,communists and radicals.
    I miss the ideals of that the US was built upon.
    How did this happen???!! Obama…BAH!!
    I have been sitting here watching episodes of Glenn Beck’s series called “The New Republic: America’s Future” on You Tube (I don’t have Fox News Channel on cable) and I am seriously mourning the loss of the United States of America.
    It is frightening that the masses have been lulled into complacency. It is also frightening that the MSM has not addressed any of the issues that Beck has been raising…
    This new series is amazing. It talks about the czars and the interconnectivity between radical groups and those individuals advising Obama.
    Thank god for Fox, the internet and talk radio.
    And god bless Kate for SDA!
    At least there is a venue to assist us in keeping our heads screwed on straight.
    Here’s hoping the U.S will rise again.

  16. How Deep Senora Lafsky?
    “We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.”
    “Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.”
    “Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
    What’s a dead girl worth, if it furthers a political agenda??
    More here:
    http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/27/quotes-of-the-day-143/

  17. Joe Citizen 11:41. I recall all that stuff except the 45 record player. WOW I am getting old. 59 going on 18.

  18. Recent summer reading (I still enjoy the printed word on real paper), “Gandhi and Churchill, The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age” by Arthur Herman.

  19. Joe C,
    8-tracks, you just reminded me: my father and I took “the brown bomb” to a scrapyard about 20 years later than we should have. It was a 1976 Chevy Caprice Estate extended wagon with all the faux woodgrain trimmings and naugahyde seats (whatever they were, they were cold in the Calgary winters and could blister you in the summer) or polycarb ’cause there were cracks all over…
    As we rode along, dad found an old 8-track under the (bench) seat and popped in something like Perry Como, Engelbert Humperdink, Ray Conniff and the Love Singers, The Carpenters, Roger Whittaker – I dunno, pick one. Trouble is, he always used to turn the volume down when he didn’t like a song. You wouldn’t believe the look in his eyes as I pressed the button and we heard the ‘ka-tack’ sound, as you say. All he said was “what did you do?!?”
    The last ten miles were spent listening to ‘ka-tack’ as opposed to whatever music we could have.
    (Oh, and dad was a professional electrical engineer who worked with computers since the early ’60s)

  20. I was just over at the cbc website reading the comments on the senate appointments. The commenters,not all but many, are ridiculing the appointment of Demers because of his literacy problems. Simply disgusting,these a-holes that profess to be so caring,and love to call PMSH a hypocrite,really do need to take a look in the mirror.—-http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/27/senate-harper.html#socialcomments

  22. I liked the Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin – I prefer classical overtones im my rock music. The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony is another song along White Satin lines, but not quite as darkess.
    On a completely different subject. Have you heard?
    CABLE NEWS RACE
    MONDAY, AUG. 24, 2009
    FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,440,000
    FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,937,000
    FOXNEWS BECK 2,810,000
    FOXNEWS GRETA 2,450,000
    FOXNEWS BAIER 2,066,000
    FOXNEWS SHEP 1,860,000
    MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,114,000
    CNN KING 1,063,000
    MSNBC MADDOW 885,000
    CNN COOPER 827,000
    MSNBC HARDBALL 640,000
    http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2009/08/25/cable-news-race-monday-aug-24-2009/

  23. Found this site today. For those that like to see the net used to its fullest potential, this place is a pretty good example.
    Ever wonder about shipping? Probably not..lol
    BUT, for those that like myself who can geek out on a occasion… Here is a site that allows you to track almost every cargo/tanker/passenger etc ship on the oceans. This place gives you the ship’s name, size, cargo, last and next port of call, its track, course, speed and pictures of the vessel.
    http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
    AIS is the shipping equivalent of the transponders that commercial aircraft use to give their hight, speed, position, course etc.
    It is a relatively new innovation in the shipping world and has been a real aid for the navys and coast guards of the world in keeping track of who is where when.

  24. Ha!! I love it. The “boycotted” Beck at 5 in the afternoon has more viewers than the entire MSNBC prime time lineup combined.

  25. Breaking: From Korea.
    Send your torts to the North American MSM.
    Have you seen this in the MSM?
    …-
    “S. Korea: Lawyers Worldwide Struggling Under Recession
    Lawyers Worldwide Struggling Under Recession
    During the Great Depression of the 1930s, U.S. law firms downsized by laying off their attorneys. Lawyers who lost lucrative contracts to big law firms went after petty dispute claims, such as divorce settlements, but work was hard to find. They were lawyers in title only, and their life was no better than that of beggars. In New York, 1,500 lawyers were only able to receive social welfare benefits after they formally declared they were destitute.
    Perhaps that is why American lawyers are infamous for jumping at any opportunity if money is there.
    Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz opens his criminal law lectures by telling his students that statistically most of them are more likely to end up being defendants rather than legal counsels in criminal cases.
    In his book “The Best Defense,” Dershowitz wrote that half of hundreds of clients who sought his services over the past 40 years were lawyers who had either received bribes or embezzled money — and that most of them caved into the temptations of money.
    On Feb. 12, 2009, referred to as “Bloody Thursday,” eight major U.S. law firms axed 739 lawyers. During January to March of this year, 3,000 lawyers were laid off. Since last year, a total of 20,000 lawyers have been shown the door. The downsizing “axe” has returned to the U.S. legal market for the first time in 80 years.
    Korean lawyers who have been operating in the United States are also feeling the pinch and returning home. Law firms in Korea are said to be inundated with resumes, with applications up five to six-fold compared to last year.
    With the exception of a few large law firms, the situation is no different in Korea.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326457/posts
    …-
    “Ottawa’s criminal defence lawyers are poised to join a spreading boycott of high-profile legal-aid cases.
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Ottawa…join+legal…/story.html”

  26. O’gOOfy dOrky?
    “The President appeared to be the only one with no helmet.”
    Who’s braindead? The liberal-left is braindead.
    …-
    “Bike-Safety Groups Take President Obama Head on After Ride Without Helmet
    Perhaps President Obama didn’t want to look uncool on his bike ride Thursday, but his decision to skip the helmet had safety experts banging their heads.
    Obama, on vacation with his family in Martha’s Vineyard, joined the First Lady and his daughters yesterday for a ride in Aquinnah, a town at the western, most rural end of the island.
    The President appeared to be the only one with no helmet.
    Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group in New York, speculated the President might have been concerned about his image.
    “Helmets look goofy – you look a little dorky,” he said. “When you’re the leader of the free world you have to look tough.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326445/posts

  27. Here is a link from you tube for Glenn Beck’s “The New Republic: America’s Future.
    Reasonable Questions for an Unreasonable Time,” series this week. If you want to start watching it from the beginning.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiy0hCWwfQA&feature=related
    And as Atlantic Jim and No-one have stated he has been crushing his competition!
    Here is an article about the boycott and Beck’s audience.
    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/08/as-boycott-continues-glenn-becks-audience-swells.html
    Enjoy!

  30. Obama has yet another agenda – one which I find extremely disturbing. He wants what he calls ‘a civilian national security force’ – just as powerful and well-funded as the military.
    Is he kidding? What the heck is such a force focused on? The military’s job is to protect the United States against foreign aggression. Internally, the police deal with internal criminal and civil aggression. So, what’s the function of a ‘civilian national security force’?
    To whom do they owe their allegiance? To the US or to…Obama? Is Obama intent on creating his own set of rabid, armed, loyal followers?

  32. Media in Winnipeg are reporting that Gary Doer will be next ambassador to US.
    Although I’m not a big fan of socialists in general, Canada could do a lot worse as ambassador, and it should leave Harper bulletproof as well as patronage charges go.

  33. Re WelcomeWagon’s 9:07 post last night:
    http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Four+charged+huge+credit+debit+fraud+seizure/1936665/story.html
    [begin quote]
    According to police the seized evidence could have been used to steal thousands of PIN and credit card numbers and millions of dollars.
    Fadl Nasser, 19, Elias Capro, 29, Marc Abaskharoun, 22, Mohand Seghir Kaddour, 29 [all connected to organized crime in Quebec] were charged and police say additional charges are pending.
    [end quote]
    Courtesy of PET’s Multicultural Canada.

  34. Love that US Cable News race chart. The people know what they want to see and hear and it is not what most of MSM wants to shove down our throats. Too bad we only have choices of left and lefter in Canada.
    CBC? Is it still around?

  36. Obummer….’No Helmet’
    His helmet was on his posterior- you know, where his brains are!

  37. Harper the Liar
    Libservative or Coniberal – they’re all licking the same bowl…..
    Harper dubbed ‘patronage king’
    PM names new senators Prime Minister Stephen Harper has filled more seats in the Senate with Tory allies, after once calling the Senate a “dumping ground” for political cronies. (Aug. 27, 2009)
    Appointment:
    Don Plett
    Manitoba
    The president of the Conservative Party of Canada, Plett, 59, is a businessman and lifelong resident of Landmark, Man. Plett and wife Betty have four sons and six grandchildren.
    Doug Finley
    Ontario
    Finley, 63, is director of political operations for the Conservative party. The former aircraft industry executive served as campaign director for the party in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections and is married to federal Human Resources Minister Diane Finley.
    Liberals, NDP brand PM a hypocrite after latest round of Senate appointments
    Aug 28, 2009 04:30 AM
    Comments on this story (23)
    Richard J. Brennan
    OTTAWA BUREAU
    OTTAWA–Prime Minister Stephen Harper was labeled Canada’s political “patronage king” and a “hypocrite” yesterday after tossing aside for the second time his promise not to name unelected Canadians to the Senate…..”

  38. “Helmets look goofy – you look a little dorky,” he said. “When you’re the leader of the free world you have to look tough.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326445/posts
    Posted by: maz2 at August 28, 2009 8:32 AM”
    this just in: it is reported that president Obama has had an accident on his bicycle whilst taking the family out for another sightseeing and apparently had a blowout and struck his head on the pavement. when asked if he was hurt the president said “aaarrrkkkuuurrrrrmmm”
    LOL !!!

  40. “(I don’t have Fox News Channel on cable)”
    Tigerpants
    You can watch Fox for free 24/7 on your computer:
    http://www.blinkotv.com
    Then click your choice on the left of the middle box.
    For Fox Talk radio:
    affiliates.foxnewsradio.com/radio/player.html
    For Micheal Savage:
    am1280thepatriot.com
    ENJOY!

  41. Hey, hardboiled, what are you TALKING about?
    Liberal senator$ forced the PM to appoint senators to fill vacancies, for a number of reasons, but chief among them is their refusal to even entertain Senate reform. Too bad for them.
    Check out this post by Gabby in QC, over at Stephen Taylor’s blog:
    Hey, hardboiled, what are you TALKING about?
    Liberal senator$ forced the PM to appoint senators to fill vacancies, for a number of reasons, but chief among them is their refusal to even entertain Senate reform. Too bad for them.
    Check out this post by Gabby in QC, over at Stephen Taylor’s blog:
    … Perhaps this bill has escaped your notice and that of your oracle [addressing a troll making the same points as yours], as well as that of those critical of the fact the PM has filled senate vacancies.
    http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/Senate/Bills/402…
    S-224
    “Second Session, Fortieth Parliament, 57 Elizabeth II, 2009
    SENATE OF CANADA
    BILL S-224
    An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act (vacancies)
    First Reading, February 5, 2009
    The Honourable Senator Moore
    SUMMARY
    This enactment amends the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act with respect to filling vacancies in Parliament. With respect to vacancies in the Senate, the enactment amends the Parliament of Canada Act to require the Prime Minister to recommend to the Governor General a fit and qualified person for appointment within 120 days after a vacancy happens. ” [my bolding]
    In other words, the Liberal senator, I imagine with the support of other Liberal senators and other great Liberal thinkers, were ready to compel the PM to fill existing vacancies.
    Now that he has done so, they cry foul.
    Would they have complained if the PM had appointed Liberal hacks and bagmen?
    As I posted elsewhere …
    If you were entrusting someone with an important task, whom would you choose to undertake it?
    1. those who have criticized practically every proposal you’ve ever made?
    2. those who have referred to you (or by proxy) as a right-wing extremist neo-conservative whose values do not reflect Canadians’ values?
    3. those who agree with your philosophy and trust your judgment?
    It doesn’t even have to be a question asked in a political context.
    Whom would any sentient human being choose to join them in carrying out an important task?
    Their enemies?
    Or their friends, or at least people who share their POV?
    Getting back to the PM appointing senators …
    • Is appointing senators one of the PM’s duties? Yes.
    • Does the PM want to appoint elected senators? Yes.
    • Have there been elections of senators in the provinces, from which he can draw the names of candidates? No.
    • Were there vacancies in the senate that needed to be filled? Yes.
    • Should the PM have refused to fill those vacancies in the name of rigid ideology? No.
    • Is the PM showing the flexibility and pragmatism necessary for a good PM? In spades!

  42. “Would they have complained if the PM had appointed Liberal hacks and bagmen?”
    Posted by: batb at August 28, 2009 11:30 AM
    No, Harper appointed Con hacks and bagmen.
    The Libranos appoint Librano hacks and bagmen.

  43. Descent into cronyism
    The Ottawa CitizenAugust 28, 2009
    It’s a sad day when the Conservative party defends its own descent into cronyism by saying it’s no worse than what Jean Chrétien did.
    This from the party that was going to sweep Ottawa clean, and show itself to be cleaner than the Liberal party. Well, that didn’t last long. It seems Stephen Harper is running out of principles to abandon.
    The prime minister just named a batch of new senators. Among them are the current president of the Conservative party, Don Plett; Harper’s recently retired aide Carolyn Stewart-Olsen; and Conservative strategist Doug Finley.
    Harper doesn’t believe Senators should even be appointed. Before he can reform the Senate, though, he has to make sure his attempts won’t be blocked by an anti-reform majority of senators. So, paradoxically, he has to appoint more senators before he can scrap the tradition of appointments. It should not be difficult, though, to find potential senators who support reform and who are also qualified candidates for the job. If Harper is going to work within the current system for now, then he should at least do so in good faith……….”
    Yet, he doesn’t.
    Libervative or Coniberal, they’re licking the same bowl, and the hands are in the same wallet.
    ….silly partisans….

  45. hardboiled, link to Ottawa Citizen article please.
    Who wrote it? One of the Librano$’ toadies? So convincing. Whoever the writer is, s/he sounds like a Liberal hack, the same old, same old.
    Yawn. zzzzzzzzzzzz

  46. Hey genius: How exactly is the nation best served when partisans get into power to simply raid the till, and support their followers?
    Is that selfless service to the nation? Or self enrichment on the backs of others?
    Go back to the (any) Party’s website where you can have your beliefs constantly reinforced, and have someone else do your thinking for you.

  47. Harper the Liar is starting to make Cretin look flexible and pragmatic as well…
    Harper’s ‘dumping ground’ – Updated: 27th August 2009, 7:10pm
    Less than a year after Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed 18 new senators to the upper chamber — after saying he would do no such thing — he’s at it again.
    With the appointment of nine new senators yesterday, Harper shows he truly has given up on his promise to leave seats in the Senate vacant until reform has introduced an elected body.
    It was just five years ago when Harper said, “Despite the fine work of many individual senators, the upper house remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister.”
    But that was then and this is now, and Harper seems to have no problem making sure that “dumping ground” is filled with his friends. Among yesterday’s appointees are Harper’s former communications aide, his election campaign chair, and the president of the Conservative Party of Canada……”
    http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/editorial/2009/08/27/10641111.html

  48. Blind hatred = Blind partisanship.
    Coniberal – doesn’t make sense. “Coneral”, “Conit” = Con+Grit.
    Get creative, “hardboiled”!
    P.S., John Williamson has (to use a hardboiled phrase) “gone over to the dark side”.

  49. IF the rest of the provinces would have elected future senator candidates then the PM could have appointed what the people elected. Until then he has no choice but to appoint people who would even the playing field in the Lieberal dominated Senate so as to allow legislation from the duly elected members from the HofC. Unless of course, Hardboiled has a better idea.

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