33 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  4. I knew in my heart of hearts that the MSM didnt have the idea of CO2 in the ocean correct. CO2 is part of the carbon cycle and there were too many large carbonate deposits that were not shellfish skeletons, what they called massives
    so someone called Norm Kalmanonvitch put a letter to the editor in the Herald that gave the true explanation and the sensible one too. I retype it here in its entirety.
    Pure Water has a pH of 7, Acids have a pH below 7 bases have a pH above 7.Sea water has a typical pH oh 8.2 so it is a base, not an acid. Sea water is SATURATED with the carbonate ion which means it is saturated in CO2.Soda water is acidic because it is pure water with just CO2 which forms carbonic acid.Soda water is bottled at 2.5 atmospheres , has a pH or 3.7 making it quite acidic, but if left standing at 2 degrees C at atmospheric pressure ,the CO2 will bubble off leaveing a saturated solution with a pH of 5.6
    If the soda water is left standing at room temperature more CO2 will bubble off leaving a saturated solution with a less acidic pH of 5.7.
    CO2 saturation is dependent on temperature and pressure , and in sea water the amount of CO2 dissolved is a function of depth and pressure . In all cases seawater is saturated in CO2 , but as seawater is basic, any acidity changes due to CO2 really have no effect because of the overwhelming predominance of dissolved salts that make the seawater basic. People are entitled to their opinions but they are NOT entitled to misrepresent the fact as continually been done promoting the bassless human-caused global warming issue.
    more importantly, there is no acidizing of the saturated oceans. in fact CO2 likely causes precipitation of carbon locking limestones in the ocean.
    the MSM lied , people died.

  5. small potatoes.
    since so many of the blog watchers here are from Calgary
    here is a comparison for folks. The Bow River on a June day flows and average of 85million bbls/day . so all the oil production in the world is the same size as a relatively small river.
    the MSM talks about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. a nice warm bioactive zone , 5000bbl.day is small pototoes. the slick may be the size of jamaica but it is less than 1 mm thick.

  6. I know you don’t like dumps here, but I can’t link to this, as a paid subscription is required. From Richard Russell of the Dow Theory Letters:
    “The big bad Wall Street Journal is coming out with a special NYC section five days a week. The Journal has just added a glossy magazine section. The Journal is sinking its teeth into the throat of the choking New York Times. I’m afraid the Times is stuck in the grey journalism of its past. It’s change or die baby, and I don’t know if the dull Times knows how to change. The way it’s going, I give the Times two more years and then it’s change or die or be bought out.
    As for my second target of anger at publications, Time magazine is it. Its latest special big issue, Time features “The 100 most important people in the world.” And right on the cover they place Sarah Palin as number one. First I thought I had lost my mind, but then I realized that Time magazine had lost its marbles. From a great news publication started by Henry Luce, Time has become a leading anti-intellectual sheet pushing all its worth for religion. Time wants to turn the US into a religious nation. Secular (as per the US Constitution) is out. The way it’s going, I give Time possibly five more years to exist. Maybe they should change its name to Time-Palin or “Our leading national religious publication.”

  7. re. KevinB – if I understood how the magic glowing internet-box worked, I would be tempted to start a death-pool on the NYT.

  8. cal2 “the slick may be the size of jamaica but it is less than 1 mm thick”
    Side question. How much does it take to kill a bird, shrimp, or oysters? Let alone a human ingest it?
    It may not be thick, but is it enough to wipe out 6th biggest income generating economy in the US?
    Plus the lowlands are not open area for waves and low oxygen to break up the oil, that 1mm might hang around for a long time no?

  9. oysters beds are on the bottom. katrina did more to wipe them out than this every will. more wave action is more dispersment , more bacterial action. this stuff wont last two months in tropical gulf of mexico waters , its perfectly organic.
    you could drink 1mm of oil on a glass of water. and you could drink more than 1mm of oil on 50 or a hundred feet of water.
    anyway the community organizer couldnt get it together anyway, any how.
    http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/fire_boom_oil_spill_raines.html

  10. Cal2, so you’re saying this warning of business and seafood loss is being overblown? As well as it hanging around the lowlands? I read somewhere there isn’t much wave action there except for the odd hurricane.

  12. John Brooks:
    I read your link. It specifically says that the booms only work in waves of three feet or less. My understanding from the reports coming out is that the waves were much higher than that last week when the spill occurred.

  13. absolutely overblown.
    this will be history in a few weeks and even CBCpravda wont be covering it.

  17. Just a quick note this morning to mention that if you are in Halifax or Victoria this morning, be on the look out for 1000 sailors marching through your cities, flags unfurled, bayonets fixed to accept freedom of the city on the occasion of Her Majesty’s Canadian Navy’s 100th Birthday.
    Ready Aye Ready!

  18. I read cal2’s link (although cutting and pasting the link didn’t work; I had to go to nationalpost.com and click on the story there), but I also found an amusing link on the same page to a story by Johnathon Kay. Apparently, each year, Reader’s Digest puts together a list of 50 prominent Canadians, and asks another group of Canadians to select the single most trusted individual from the list.
    I know all SDA’ers will sigh when I note Dr. Fruitfly was the choice of most, with 193 of the 1205 votes cast, but I think the idiot sincerely believes his own BS. That makes him stupid, but not duplicitous. (Alas, Mr. Kay didn’t say where Don Cherry placed.)
    Of current politicians, Harper placed 8th with a mere 48 votes, but then most (me included) know that politicians will lie when they need to, and take everything they say with a few grains (a pound or so?) of salt.
    But Harper trampled all over the other federal leaders. Moonbat May and Taliban Jack got 11 votes each, to tie for 28th out of 50.
    But the capper was Iggy. The Count managed 3 – count ’em, 3 – votes out of 1205, and zero from women. That put him into a tie for 40th with Kim Cattrall, aging sex kitten, and Daniel Negrenau, of world p*ker tour fame. Not exactly the company I would want to be included with on the basis of “trust”. I mean anyone who’s watched Negrenau on TV (and I enjoy the guy) knows he lies frequently to increase his winnings.
    I thought Dion was an idiot like Dr. FF, but I believe he believed his Green Shift BS. I don’t think Iggy believes in anything but his imminent coronation.

  19. Free advice to Liberals:
    >>>> Recall Citoyen Dionky.
    Don Martin nails up Liberal Ziffy’s plaque.
    Here is the inscription on Ziffy’s plaque on the PET Cemetery Wall of Infamy:
    “Ignatieff abuses Harper’s trust”
    “It makes him appear an untrustworthy blabbermouth,”.
    …-
    “Ignatieff abuses Harper’s trust”
    “Mr. Ignatieff, who has never seen a high road he couldn’t take into a muddy ditch, issued a Sunday news release demanding the Prime Minister give Ms. Jean a one or two-year extension.
    With that move on his first anniversary as Liberal leader, Mr. Ignatieff performed a multi-tasking gaffe that should go into a record book somewhere. It makes him appear an untrustworthy blabbermouth, kills any (very) faint hope of Ms. Jean’s term actually being extended, makes Jack Layton appear discreet in handling a private consultation privately and gives Mr. Harper a dignified look for seeking outside input on the vice-regal appointment.
    It takes a lot of misguided effort to botch it on so many fronts.”
    Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2982505#ixzz0mxLLhHKS
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/05/03/mr-z-is-not-prime-minister-material/#comment-81173

  20. Socialism vs the Debt Inspector.
    The natural end result of socialism.
    …-
    “The Mother of All Bubbles
    Huge National Debts Could Push Euro Zone into Bankruptcy
    Greece is only the beginning. The world’s leading economies have long lived beyond their means, and the financial crisis caused government debt to swell dramatically. Now the bill is coming due, but not all countries will be able to pay it. By SPIEGEL staff.
    Savvas Robolis is one of Greece’s most distinguished economics professors. He advises cabinet ministers and union bosses. He is also a successful author and a frequent guest on the country’s highest-rated talk shows. But for several days now, it has been clear to Robolis, 64, the elder statesman of Greece’s left-wing academia, that he no longer has any influence.
    His opposite number, Poul Thomsen, the Danish chief negotiator for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is currently something of a chief debt inspector in the virtually bankrupt Mediterranean country. He recently took three-quarters of an hour to meet with Robolis and Giannis Panagopoulos, the president of the powerful trade union confederation GSEE. At 9 a.m. on Tuesday of last week, the men met behind closed doors in a conference room in the basement of the Grande Bretagne, a luxury hotel in Athens. The mood, says Robolis, was “icy.”
    Robolis told the IMF negotiator that radical wage cuts would be toxic for Greece’s already comatose economy. He said that the Greeks, given their weak competitive position, primarily needed innovation and investment, and that a one-sided fixation on cleaning up the national budget would destroy the last vestiges of economic strength in Greece. The IMF, according to Robolis, could not make the same mistake as it did in Argentina in the early 1990s. “Don’t put Greece on ice!” the professor warned.
    But the tall Dane was not very impressed.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,692666,00.html
    …-
    “Shock troops of bankruptcy
    Greece’s largest public-sector union is taking to the streets to wage a “social battle” against austerity measures. This is very unfortunate news for austerity, since it has never fought a battle — social or otherwise — with the unions in Greece that it hasn’t lost in a rout.
    Although this time the stakes are much higher — a debt crisis with global implications that The Economist has dubbed “Acropolis Now.”
    The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have extended Greece a $145 billion bailout over three years in exchange for a budgetary clampdown so severe it would make even fiscal ascetics yelp in pain. As the financial analysts say, there’s considerable “implementation risk.” In other words: Don’t hold your breath.
    (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2506151/posts

  22. Western civilization is indebted to Israel, the ancient Greeks, and Christianity.
    The end is not nigh.
    …-
    “Did the ancient greeks ever mention the israel(sic) civilization in their writings?
    The Israel Museum unveiled today a unique 2,200-year-old stele (inscribed stone block) that provides new insight into the dramatic story of Heliodorus and the Temple in Jerusalem, as related in the Second Book of Maccabees.
    “The Heliodorus stele is one of the most important and revealing Hellenistic inscriptions from Israel,” said James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum. “It contextualizes the Second Book of Maccabees and provides an independent and authentic source for an important episode in the history leading up to the Maccabean Revolt, whose victorious conclusion is celebrated each year during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.”
    The stele documents a correspondence in ancient Greek between Heliodorus and King Seleucus IV, ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 187 to 175 BCE, who was succeeded by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (best known from the story of Hanukkah). In his letter, King Seleucus announces the appointment of an administrator to oversee the sanctuaries within the province that included the Land of Israel.
    Source(s):
    JS
    http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/21_heliodo…“
    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071030092501AALrBkb

  23. This is a report from Right Pundits
    http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6169#more-6169
    “An Islamic terrorist named Faisal Shahzad is the Time Square bomber according to media reports. He is Muslim of Pakistani heritage with dual citizenship in the United States, a registered Democrat in the state of Connecticut who may be an Obama donor. He was recently naturalized as a U.S. citizen under the Obama administration’s lenient open door policy.
    Shahzad Faisal as identified by NBC News, or Faisal Shahzad as identified by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, is a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin. He was arrested at JFK airport in New York trying to flee the country back to Pakistan via a connector flight to Dubai, India on flight UAE 202. He was taken off the airplane sitting on the runway, promptly read his Miranda rights, and presumably went silent.”
    “Faisal Shahzad had apparently been placed on the do-not-fly list earlier in the day, so a match was made against his passport when he tried to board an international airplane flight. This is a good win for the department of homeland security. We’ll leave the incompetence at preventing the attack for others to analyze.”

  25. This is devastating(nice MSM word) to the Ad$Cam Liberal Party.
    Canadian MSM has dumped Ziffy.
    The Liberal Party is finally buried in the PET Cemetery.
    Will Liberal Hezbollah Coderre rise up again?
    Liberals should take this free advice to heart:
    Recall Citoyen Dionky.
    Dump Ziffy.
    MSM/Globe has dumped Ziffy.
    Ziffy voodoo dolls are now on the market, c/w Free pins.
    ChattyZiffy is bigger than ChattyKathyJaney.
    Get your order in here: voodooliberalIffydoll.caca.
    “The Governor-General should not be appropriated as a Grit darling”.
    …-
    “Michael Ignatieff tries to make Michaëlle Jean a partisan issue”
    “The Governor-General should not be appropriated as a Grit darling”
    ” … Mr. Ignatieff sought to make the Governor-General into yet another partisan issue. Having studiously ignored the chatter around choosing a new governor-general for more than a month, he seized on the consultation as an excuse to publicly line up the Liberals into the Jeanist camp. He cranked out a news release and called a news conference to praise the job done by Ms. Jean, singling out her race and gender, and demanding that her appointment be extended. “I am calling on Stephen Harper to reconsider his decision to replace her,” Mr. Ignatieff said. The consequence of his action has been to effectively and permanently compromise Ms. Jean. He has taken an official meant to be above the political fray, and who may have to arbitrate during a constitutional crisis, and made her out to be a Liberal darling.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/michael-ignatieff-tries-to-make-michalle-jean-a-partisan-issue/article1555497/
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/05/03/mr-z-is-not-prime-minister-material/#comment-81185

  28. Reader Tips filter troubles. (Seemed like a delayed reaction snag?)
    Even the NY Times is back-pedaling on the oil spill doom&gloom.
    [“The sky is not falling,” said Quenton R. Dokken, a marine biologist and the executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation, a conservation group in Corpus Christi, Tex. “We’ve certainly stepped in a hole and we’re going to have to work ourselves out of it, but it isn’t the end of the Gulf of Mexico.”
    …
    After the Ixtoc spill 31 years ago, the second-largest oil release in history, the gulf rebounded. Within three years, there was little visible trace of the spill off the Mexican coast, which was compounded by a tanker accident in the gulf a few months later that released 2.6 million additional gallons, experts said. ] NYT By JOHN M. BRODER and TOM ZELLER Jr.

  32. Jordin Kare, Backyard Star Wars
    Build your own photonic fence to zap mosquitoes midflight
    Wood, a veteran of advanced weapons development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, and one of the scientists behind the Strategic Defense Initiative (otherwise known as ”Star Wars”), had suggested trying a similarly high-tech approach against malarial mosquitoes—to take advantage of inexpensive, low-power sensors and computers to somehow track individual mosquitoes and shoot them out of the air. If it could be done cheaply enough, this might offer the first really new way in many years to combat malaria, as well as other diseases transmitted by flying insects, such as West Nile virus and dengue fever….

  33. Liberal Ziffy is shocked! Shocked he says.
    Look at all these cuts to the arts, Ziffy moans/groans.
    …-
    “Harper government axes funding for 11 women’s groups
    CTV.ca”
    …-
    “Ottawa getting out of reactor business
    Selling entire stake in Candu; Struggling nuclear industry has cost taxpayers $1.74 billion since 2006″
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Ottawa+getting+reactor+business/2982440/story.html
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/05/04/fuddle-duddle/#comment-81227

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