34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Not sure if that qualifies as a reader tip per se, but just posting on the fly on a CBC National report I’m curently watching, with Milewski saying — just like he did several weeks back re the Chinese — Harper has been scolded by Hilary Clinton on the “maternal health” issue. Funny, seems that the CBC uses a template of sorts with which to attack the “Conservative gov’t” (it’s just “the gov’t” or “the feds” or “Ottawa” when they are doing something positive, so as to not want mention the party brand, not wanting Canadians to give them credit). One has to wonder if this was several years ago, had a Bush official commented on the Martin gov’t’s position on same-sex marriage, for example. Instead of scolding our gov’t, the CBC’s narrative would’ve been that the Americans should keep out of Canadian affairs, no doubt.

  3. “My feet are small for the same reason my waist is small: things don’t grow in the shade.” -Dolly Parton.
    Yeah! That’s it! I knew I’d find a plausible explanation. You know, the ol’ roof over the toolshed…. Ha! ;o),

  4. Reader Tip:
    Check out the front page of the National Post under,
    “MasterCard offers card aimed at Muslims.”
    If your blood pressure rises, Rexall is opened until midnight.
    (For some reason, I’m leary of giving them something that made of “plastique.”)

  5. I don’t know if I agree with Mr Prager. Than again I,m not Jewish. As for Being a Christian, I believe the Bible word for word, completely literally. In its original language by the hand written autographs of the writers. So don’t run into liberal Christians much. Its an interesting article though.
    Leftism, the Religion
    Whence do Christians and Jews among the American Left get their values?
    By Dennis Prager
    http://article.nationalreview.com/429726/leftism-the-religion/dennis-prager

  6. Hi, Joe; Vitruvius here. I don’t much mind your nightly comments on the LNR shtick, and that is because ~ in some sense ~ that is part of your shtick (and to be fair, unlike some, your comments aren’t always negative complaining about one thing or another), and yet I must ask: would it have been so difficult for you, having gone to the trouble to post a comment about an MSM story in the first place, to have included a link thereto, like this?

    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2745449

    After all, or at least so it seems to me, it is difficult to claim that one is presenting a conservative perspective when one is insufficiently considerate of one’s responsibility to the SDA audience. Down that road (not that I’m accusing anyone of that at this point) lies the path of the self-aggrandizing inconsiderate behaviour of the entitlementalists, whose purpose is to self-abuse, on others’ paid-for blog property, and which is normally considered (at least as I understand it) to be misbehaviour, at least in these parts.

    And, please, let me be clear, Joe. I’m not mad at you, I’m not angry, you’re as welcome here as anyone else (within the general scope of the rules), but it is an interesting question ~ the behaviour of people who don’t bother to include the URL of their comment’s source material in their Reader Tips ~ don’t you think?

  7. I mention this because Richard Fernadez’s blog “Belmont Club” is listed on Kate’s Favorites – it has been deleted from Wikipedia, by one “Nihiltres”, a self-described “… science student living in Pointe Claire, on the island of Montreal…”.
    Richard has a most interesting post up about it all, titled “Into the Memory Hole”.
    If anyone cares to register their opinion, under their assumption wikipedia is worth saving from itself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nihiltres is one place to do so.

  8. Very good points, Vitruvius. I hope you didn’t use up all your daily allotment of tildes with that reply.

  9. Hmm, I’m not sure about that, Piper Paul. After all, there
    were four pairs of parenthesis, compared to only two pairs of
    tildes. Perhaps the lesson to be learned, typo-punctuationally,
    is the degree to which we’ve become inured to parenthesis.

  11. Belmont Club: http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/
    Y’all do realize, of course, that at some point I’m going to tire of providing your Reader Tips links for you, and them I’m just going to delete your comments as not being valid reader tips. And it won’t be like I haven’t made the axiological situation abundandtly clear: be responsible ~ link your source(s) ~ in your SDA readers’ tips.

  12. During discussion on Mr. Harpers 1.95 per vote elimination plans, nomdeblog on Jacks Newswatch brought out an interesting point on the funding of the Bloc.
    “We could win that under the Charter of Rights. As taxpayers we should not be mandated to pay for a political party that we cannot vote for because they don’t run a candidate in our Province. We are being discriminated against by the Bloc and we are humiliated and aren’t going to take it anymore.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/30/tories-seeking-grit-knockout-blow/

  13. During discussion on Mr. Harper’s 1.95 per vote elimination plans, nomdeblog on Jacks Newswatch brought out an interesting point on the funding of the Bloc.
    “We could win that under the Charter of Rights. As taxpayers we should not be mandated to pay for a political party that we cannot vote for because they don’t run a candidate in our Province. We are being discriminated against by the Bloc and we are humiliated and aren’t going to take it anymore.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/2010/03/30/tories-seeking-grit-knockout-blow/

  14. Joe Citizen, regarding the card designed for Muslims, it’s somewhat similar to a debit card, with incentives.

  15. RE: Pat at March 31, 2010 1:31 AM and 1:35 AM
    “nomdeblog…brought out an interesting point”? It’s been there all along.
    PiperPaul
    ex-Montrealer

  16. Noam Chomsky is on “Everybody Hates Steve”today.Solomon obviously likes this man,no surprise,he has a minor Chris Matthew moment when he sees Chomsky reading a book… Chomsky criticizes the U.S. for sending too many troops to Haiti,saying that they got in the way,and it would have been better to just send money,his daughter works for Oxfam BTW. Noam Chomsky is a fool or senile. Solomon drools throughout the interview. FIRE.THEM.ALL. The interview starts at about the 30 minute mark. The video is on this page,about halfway down on the righthand side.—http://www.cbc.ca/politics/ — Warning,Lizzie May is also on this show,but earlier.

  19. Al Gore’s Weather (AGW) Cycles: Poetry Edition.
    A Salute to “the Met Office”.
    “Oh, to be in England now that April’s there”.
    (Browning)
    “April is the cruellest month”.
    (T.S. Eliot)
    …-
    “Icy blast puts to flight all hopes for a sunny Easter
    Forecasters warned of treacherous conditions this morning as blizzards reduce visibility to zero in some areas.
    Northern Britain expected snowfalls of up to 60cm (24in), with bigger drifts piled up by 80mph winds.
    Last night 20,000 homes in Scotland and 15,000 in Northern Ireland were without power after winds brought down cables. The snowstorms are expected to abate by this afternoon but temperatures will remain low, with a damp Easter weekend predicted.
    Although freezing weather at this time of year is not uncommon — it snowed at Easter two years ago — a mass of low pressure from the Atlantic has chilled the country, with temperatures in England of about 4 to 6C (40 to 43F) yesterday, less than half what is considered normal for the time of year. The unsettled weather is expected to last until the second half of April. Even after that, the Met Office said that it may not be warm.”
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article7081804.ece

  20. O’narcissist: prisoner of I in the White House Prison.
    “One has only to go into a prison, or at least a prison of the kind in which I used to work, to see the most revoltingly high self-esteem among a group of people (the young thugs) who had brought nothing but misery to those around them, largely because they conceived of themselves as so important that they could do no wrong. For them, their whim was law, which was precisely as it should be considering who they were in their own estimate.”
    …-
    “Theodore Dalrymple on Self-Esteem vs. Self-Respect
    With the coyness of someone revealing a bizarre sexual taste, my patients would often say to me, “Doctor, I think I’m suffering from low self-esteem.” This, they believed, was at the root of their problem, whatever it was, for there is hardly any undesirable behavior or experience that has not been attributed, in the press and on the air, in books and in private conversations, to low self-esteem, from eating too much to mass murder.
    Self-esteem is, of course, a term in the modern lexicon of psychobabble, and psychobabble is itself the verbal expression of self-absorption without self-examination. The former is a pleasurable vice, the latter a painful discipline. An accomplished psychobabbler can talk for hours about himself without revealing anything.”
    http://incharacter.org/features/theodore-dalrymple-on-self-esteem-vs-self-respect/
    O’narcissist:
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  21. O’s Jesus Complex*.
    “‘What we have decided for now is not to join a single church, and the reason is because Michelle and I have realized we are very disruptive to services,’ he said.”
    …-
    “President Obama says First Family won’t join a D.C. church”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/248369/posts
    …-
    “*This is precisely the source of the fascination with Hitler, diagnosed by Erich Fromm – together with Stalin – as a malignant narcissist. He was an inverted human.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  23. > “MasterCard offers card aimed at Muslims.”
    Article is BS. This is nothing but good ‘ol secured credit card. Initially I too went up in arms, but after reading the first few paragraphs it became clear that MC simply marketed existing product in a different wrap.

  24. *
    Who killed “zero tolerance”?
    I’ll give you a hint… IT WASN’T that evil neocon Mike Harris…
    “The Liberal government’s Bill 212 was in response to a
    complaint launched by the Ontario Human Rights
    Commission regarding the extent to which “racialized
    students” and “students with disabilities” were
    unfairly treated through the zero tolerance approach
    to student discipline.”
    fwiw… that’s “zero tolerance” for violence.
    *

  25. The muslim credit cards are the same kind they issue to people that have gone through bankruptcy. Pay then buy. It re-establishes credit for the bankrupt and is acceptable to the religion. No biggie.

  26. “2010 Arctic sea ice sets record! (latest annual max extent on record)
    This is one story which will never be written by the MSM, and one thing Gore and the current envirowackos who run the gov’t in DC do NOT want you to know about.
    As most people know, the Arctic sea ice grows and wanes with the seasons, and in recent summers, has fallen far below its ‘historical’ (1979-2000) averages. This has prompted the likes of Al Gore to claim the North Pole would be ice free in the summer within a decade or so.
    A funny thing is happening on the way to the ice free Arctic, and that is the ice has been recovering each year since about 2005.
    This winter is particualarily interesting because those who follow such mundane things as maximum Arctic ice extent know that the ice in the northern hemisphere around the pole usually reaches its maximum extent around March 6. After that date, as the days get longer and the sun rises higher in the sky, the temps rise and the ice starts its inevitable melt.
    On March 8, 2010, the maximum Arctic sea ice extent was 14,375,000 KM2 (square kilometers). Most people thought that after the 8th, the ice would stop growing and begin its usual melt. I was of the opinion that the maximum would come later this year because of very cold temps around the Arctic, from Barrow, AK, to Iqaluit Ca, to Siberia. In addition the AO has switched and winds are favorable for more ice to remain bottled up in the Arctic. Lo and behold, after March 8, the sea ice kind of stabilized, and in the last week we have seen a spurt of growth. Yesterday, JAXA reported sea ice extent of 1,405,781 KM2.
    What makes this very significant is that the fact the ice is growing LATER into the year, at a time when it is typically shrinking, means the melt season will be shorter this year. This March 30 max annual ice extent is the latest annual max ice extent. If you look at the chart on the link for the last ten years, you will see 2003 had more ice as of today, but by the end of March it was shrinking rapidly. In another day or two, there will be more ice in the Arctic than has been there on April 1 in a decade.
    You will never see the MSM admit the ice is recovering, because how can you promote cap and tax if the world will not drown as a result of melting polar ice caps. Mother Nature is having the last word, and please pass this info along to your friends. Don’t let them and their children be deluded into thinking the polar bears are drowning.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2483856/posts

  27. When Dennis Conner won back the America’s Cup in 1987, his yatch Stars and Stripes sported a borrowed spinnaker, whose original crew dubbed a “dolly”, because of its shape when filled by the wind. Miss Parton was a good sport and sent a telegram:
    “Please accept thanks from a girl who, before you guys, used to think the America’s Cup was a 44-D.”

  28. Socialism’s Pyramid Scheme.
    …-
    “The cry from Haiti — ‘We want to escape misery to return to poverty'”
    “Haiti Offers Plan for Earthquake Aid Money
    CBS News”
    “Canada pledges $400M in relief to Haitian reconstruction
    Toronto Star – Chip East – ‎40 minutes ago‎
    NEW YORK — Canada is pledging another $400 million in money and debt relief to aid in the reconstruction of Haiti after January’s devastating earthquake.”
    http://news.google.ca/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q=haiti+money+canada

  29. The incomparable VDH
    http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2I0ZjNkYzBjMDBlM2IxMmM0NWYzNTU4MmNiYzgzZTc=
    Something else to note is that accusations of racism are increasing and going to increase. VDH points out that the polarization brought in by Obama is increasing, not only between political parties but also, ‘racially’. [I don’t believe, scientifically, in different ‘races’ but the term is in common use.]
    What’s going on now is that any disagreement with an Obama policy or action is not allowed. It simply cannot exist; the problem is YOU. The Democrats are asserting that IF you disagree with Obama, the problem is not the policy or Obama. No, you are disagreeing because YOU have a problem. YOU are a racist. Deep down; you may not know it; you may be unaware of it. But you are. That’s why you dissent and question Obama.

  31. Both CBC and Ctv are featuring stories about Guergis’s staff writing letters supporting their boss. Ignatieff is demanding her resignation,calling her a liar…. CBC regularly has former LPOC communication directors,Scott Reid,Susan Smith,and John Duffy commenting on political subjects without revealing their connection to the Liberals. Actually ,they cover up their past,identifying them as from Reid-Feshuk,BlueSky Strategies,and StategyCorp. When will someone call the Liberals on this much more despicable offense?

  32. Socialist Ontario McGuinty’s Pyramid Scheme.
    A dacha* for you, comrade commissar?
    …-
    “Ontario’s $100k club has 10000 more members this year
    CBC.ca – Dalton McGuinty – ‎1 hour ago‎
    The annual “sunshine list” of people earning more than $100000 in Ontario’s public sector is out, and it’s longer than ever, with 10000 more names this year than last.”
    (googlenews)
    …-
    “*Dacha – Kosmix : Reference, Videos, Images, News, Shopping . **
    Dacha () is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the … other members of the nomenklatura had their dachas built in the surroundings.Stalin …
    http://www.kosmix.com/topic/Dacha

  34. New York Times = Pravda.
    NYTimes is a mouthpiece for O’s regime.
    The O’Call Goes Out: Shoot the Kulaks*.
    …-
    “The Government and the Militia Movement
    By THE EDITORS”
    “The F.B.I.’s raids against members of a Michigan-based Christian militia over the weekend added to concerns about rising far-right activity across the country. Nine members of the group, called the Hutaree, face sedition and weapons charges in a scheme to kill law enforcement officers to incite an antigovernment revolt.
    As the government deals with the re-emerging militia movement, what did it learn from the experiences of the 1990s, from the disastrous sieges in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex., in 1993 to its handling of Oklahoma City bombing case?”
    http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/the-new-militias-vs-government/
    …-
    “*Time and again Yakovlev is able to quote orders Lenin issued: “One out of ten guilty of parasitism will be shot.” “Merciless war against the kulaks!
    http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6598-13.cfm

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