42 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. I don`t know if you all noticed, however that particular video received over 10 million hits! Not bad for a blind man!

  3. As you browse some of the links below, thinks back a few weeks to when that sanctimonious self-promoter Duff (by name … by nature) Conacher was going on about the excellent and *transparent* US website, recovery.gov that allowed all Americans (and worshipful Canadians) to track every article of spending on the Obama stimulus plan. Why, he asked, were the evil Tories not able to come up with a site that was as helpful.
    http://www.freedomfoundationofminnesota.com/content/stimjob.php
    http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2009/11/16/there-are-8-congressional-districts-in-maryland/
    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/obama-joe-biden-economy-.html
    http://newhampshire.watchdog.org/2009/11/obama-administration-gives-new-hampshire-three-new-congressional-districts/
    http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/11/16/california-the-54th-state-creating-or-saving-lots-of-jobs/
    http://watchdog.org/2009/11/16/the-list-just-keeps-on-growing/

  5. A blind man gets 10 million hits for “Hit the Road Jack”.
    A white tail deer hunting gal gets 15 million hits for “Small Dead Animals”.
    Lets see now how can we combine “Hit the Road Jack” and a “Small Dead Animals”?
    Ah ha, Eureka I’ve got it!!
    Kate start up your pickup!!!
    That should combine for at least 25 million hits!
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  6. I’m waiting for Iggy to role out the new slogans based on CBCpravda support and the support of downtown Trona.
    it starts with an appeal for Omar Khadr.
    Mr. Obama , open this gate , Mr. Obama release our bearded boy.

  11. I dont recollect promoting any film on SDA but holey jamoley I just watch the 2004 German production ‘Downfall’ about Hitler’s last days and the Battle of Berlin.
    very realistic. nice to see present day German’s will own up to their past.
    reunification cost West Germany a trillion dollars.

  13. Thanks Vitruvius for the Charles? Have you ever seen him live? I had the privilege twice.
    TIP:
    A neat tie-in for a couple of recent threads: Intellectual property (IP) + Ayn Rand (who went way overboard on this issue).
    From mises.org. If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others?
    Contains a startling contrast between Harvard (hard core IP) and MIT (open source) vis-a-vis professors’ notes.
    The Harvard prof contract with students is hilarious.
    As a libertarian, I’ve struggled with this subject. I’ve come to believe that you can’t copyright IDEAS only specific works and that PATENTS are generally bad things.

  14. Christopher Hitchens does a good job on ripping into the Fort Hood baloney, but then this is the same man who savaged Mother Teresa. The man would hate your daughter for believing in the Tooth Fairy!

  16. I just heard Dennis Prager’s podcast from today, where he interviewed National Review’s Andy McCarthy. Wow! If what McCarthy is saying is accurate then there’s going to be a civil war in the U.S.
    Here’s his article that they were discussing.

  17. Obama’s screw ups have gotten so bad that even the investigative journalists are starting to notice:
    “Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
    When it comes to stimulus spending, could the wheels of government bureaucracy be grinding too quickly for once?
    There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. ”
    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853

  22. Re: hitchens
    1. while he was/is to the left on fiscal and social issues he has always been a very arch hawk on radical Islam. (as you might expect in view of his very arch secular opinions).
    2. As for mother Teresa he makes some very excellent points on her vanity and self-promotion and general failure of her programs to actually really help those it was supposed to.
    (note: I think ghandi was a very bad person too)

  25. today in republican history, who said this in 1973?
    “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook”.

  26. “Nidal Hasan acted on his Islamist belief as did the 19 Arab-Muslim terrorists on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. He should be considered a war criminal and not a tragic victim of some mental illness and what he did was treason against his country.”
    “Jihad sparked accused Fort Hood killer
    Salim Mansur
    The massacre in Fort Hood, Texas, was an act in the war the Islamists declared some three decades ago against America, the great Satan in particular, and the west in general.
    At what point in his life Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan — 39 years of age, Muslim by birth to a Palestinian-American immigrant family and a psychiatrist serving in the U.S. military — became in his own mind a loyal soldier of the global Islamist jihad (war) is highly relevant as are other details of his private life in piecing together the psychological profile of this accused mass murderer.
    It seems there can be no mistaking that Nidal Hasan went out as an Islamist warrior to kill as many infidels before he found his martyrdom.
    A majority of Americans and most people in the west for any number of reasons, including multiculturalism and political correctness, are dismissive of the view that a war is being waged against them by a segment of the global Muslim population that seemingly has no political standing anywhere in the world.
    This would not be the first time the liberal fallacy — the idea that since war is irrational, no rational people will deliberately ignite war — endangers a country against those dedicated to the politics of violence, as are the Islamists in our time.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2009/11/14/11743111-sun.html

  28. Robert W.@12:55AM – excellent post, McCarthy lays it out well for those of us who are bit confused (me) about what this is all about. I like to think that this could be the beginning of the end for this administration.
    Gord Tulk@6:39AM – You claim that Hitchens does a good job of pointing out this nun’s vanity and self-promotion! Well he’d know something about that wouldn’t, he? Teresa failed at nothing, if she consoled on human in their death throes, she succeeded in everything she put her hand to. Wonder what Hitchens will answer to the God he disbelieves in, when asked what he did for is brother and sister?

  29. (PDF warning) Andrew F. Krepinevich, The War in Afghanistan in Strategic Context
    General McChrystal’s review was followed by a request for additional troops to execute the strategy, and this request is being reviewed by the president. The decision on whether to honor this request would seem to center on the answers to two questions: first, “What level of force is needed to achieve our war objectives?” and second, “What risks do we incur in providing this level of support?” Put another way, if the risks of providing the support outweigh the benefits of achieving our objectives, or if some previously unknown major flaws in the strategy have emerged, then the strategy might have to be reconsidered…

  30. (PDF warning) Cori E. Dauber, YouTube War: Fighting in a world of cameras in every cell phone and Photoshop in every computer
    Insurgents making use of terrorist techniques are fighting to shape the attitudes and perceptions of the public to undermine the public will to fight. In a modern age, this is done by shaping media coverage. It is not going too far to say that terrorist attacks are, in fact, media events, designed to draw the attention of the press since, without a larger audience, a terrorist attack will have accomplished very little.
    This monograph, by Dr. Cori E. Dauber, argues that terrorist attacks today are often media events in a second sense: information and communication technologies have developed to such a point that these groups can film, edit, and upload their own attacks within minutes of staging them, whether the Western media are present or not. In this radically new information environment, the enemy is no longer dependent upon the traditional media. This is, she argues, the “YouTube War.”

  31. So, what exactly is the punishment for a government minister/department lying to the public? Is it:
    a) immediate apology, acknowledge the ethical breech, and resign
    b)Discover the offending parties, fire them, and send remaining staff for remedial ethics and professional training
    c) hunker in the bunker, and await the next news cycle
    d)pass the motion, make a photo-op, then never put forward the legislation
    “I’ll take ‘D’ for millions in taxpayer cash Alex, and put it off for another 5 years….”
    Transport minister opposed passenger rights bill contrary to public stance
    By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News ServiceNovember 16, 2009
    OTTAWA — The federal transport minister’s office privately pleaded with Canada’s big airlines to step up their lobby campaign to kill a proposed passenger bill of rights even as the minister publicly rallied behind the popular initiative, according to internal documents obtained by Canwest News Service.
    The motion by Newfoundland Liberal MP Gerry Byrne, calling on the government to bring forward a bill to entrench a passenger bill of rights into law, passed in the House of Commons unanimously last year, but only after a high-ranking political operative in then-transport minister Lawrence Cannon’s office tried to scuttle the whole thing.
    The effort to kill the motion is revealed in correspondence sent from the minister’s office to top executives and lobbyists at Air Canada, WestJet Airlines and Air Transat. The government intended the block the release of these passages and others in response to an Access to Information request, but the full, uncensored documents were sent to Canwest News Service — apparently by mistake.
    “Gentleman, you’re going to have to do some lobbying to stop this motion in its tracks,” the minister’s senior policy adviser at the time, Paul Fitzgerald, told officials at Canada’s largest airlines in March 2008.
    “If you don’t lobby the Grits and the Block (sic), we’re going to find ourselves in a position where we are outvoted by the opposition parties.”
    http://www.canada.com/news/Transport+minister+opposed+passenger+rights+bill+contrary+public+stance/2229449/story.html

  32. Hans Rupprecht, I’m on the file.
    All together now:
    “Hit the small dead animals on the road, Jack! And don’t you come back…”
    Hmm. Needs work.

  33. *
    “CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein asked
    the public broadcaster why it should be allowed to
    collect money from consumers, if the idea was
    approved, since the TV and radio broadcaster
    already gets more than $1-billion in federal
    funding     for its various operations, and also
    collects advertising revenue on TV.”
    *

  35. Did I hear correctly? Did the Conservatives just announce that they won’t move forward with Carbon $$ until there is some type of international consensus? I heard something along those lines on NTR during the news break. That is excellent news!

  38. Don Martin:
    H1N1 hysteria eases amid Grit Fearmongoring
    Nov 17/2009 Calgary Herald
    *Don Martin points out, the liberals fearfactor & creating falsehoods over h1n1.

  39. “Vaclav Havel attacks Russia on anniversary of Velvet Revolution
    Vaclav Havel, the dissident who led Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, has used the 20th anniversary to warn Russia remains a threat despite the demise of the Soviet Union.
    The 73-year-old who played a pivotal role in freeing his country from communist rule in 1989, said that the Russian government had mastered the art of manipulating its population while maintaining democratic façade.
    “The era of dictatorships and totalitarian systems has not ended at all,” he said.
    “It may have ended in a traditional form as we know it from the 20th century, but new, far more sophisticated ways of controlling society are being born.
    “It requires alertness, carefulness, caution, study and a detached view.”
    His warning came as Czechs took to the streets of Prague in their thousands to celebrate the Velvet Revolution that swept the socialist state into the history books in a few weeks.
    Thousands of people retraced the path taken by a student demonstration in 1989 that proved to be a turning point in the country’s history.
    On the night of November 17, 1989 about 15,000 students, emboldened by the collapse of the Berlin Wall two weeks before and demanding change, found themselves penned in and attacked by hundreds of riot police.
    The savage assault that left scores injured galvanised the Czech people and triggered a series of mass demonstrations.
    On November 25 an estimated 800,000 protesters poured onto Prague’s streets in a massive show of strength of defiance against a government that had little authority over its people by that stage.
    Two days later a two-hour general strike supported by around 75 per cent of the population prompted the resignation of the government and the end to 41 years of communist rule in the then Czechoslovakia.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388453/posts

  41. If True? Dane Geld anyone?
    Look where that got England!
    Danegeld, by Rudyard Kipling
    IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
    To call upon a neighbour and to say:
    “We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
    Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
    And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
    And the people who ask it explain
    That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
    And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
    It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
    To puff and look important and to say:
    “Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
    We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
    And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
    But we’ve proved it again and again,
    That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
    You never get rid of the Dane.
    It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
    For fear they should succumb and go astray,
    So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
    You will find it better policy to say:
    “We never pay any one Dane-geld,
    No matter how trifling the cost,
    For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
    And the nation that plays it is lost!”
    Army tells its soldiers to ‘bribe’ the Taleban
    British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6919516.ece

  42. Re: “Wonder what Hitchens will answer to the God he disbelieves in, when asked what he did for is brother and sister?”
    Maybe his brother and sister weren’t completely helpless and could look out for themselves?

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