39 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. J.R. Dunn at American Thinker:
    “To avoid a state of permanent crisis, it will be necessary to dismantle the Obama presidency while it still exists. The new Congress will put a halt to much of the programs already in motion and must also move to assure that the levers of power are moved out of Obama’s reach. The Supreme Court will step in regarding a number of questionable decisions and programs. The sheer pressure of democratic checks and balances, so blithely ignored by Obama up until now, will begin to squeeze like a vise.
    “His own cronies, with no honor among them, will peel off as the downward spiral becomes evident. They will move to save themselves — cut their deals, make their testimony, cop their pleas. We will learn a lot we don’t now know about why certain decisions were made. The collapse will accelerate.
    “Thanks to the Gulf blowout, we know that Obama’s crisis mode is to retreat. And retreat he will, until he can retreat no farther….”
    The whole thing here.

  2. Dave, McGuinty will promise that he’ll not bring it back if re-elected. And he’ll promise not to break that promise. He’ll even put it in writing so he can’t break his word. Oops. My bad.
    What he should do is amend the City of Toronto Act and impose it on Torontians only, just like the other provincial-taxes-by-proxy that’s contained with in that act already, allowing Mao Miller to pick our pockets even further. That way, he can guarantee himself a Liberal sweep of all of the city’s seats in the next election, knocking off the 2 or 3 NDP held seats he wants so badly.

  3. I was on Dennis Miller’s radio program today, talking about Canada’s faux human rights. Not my best performance ever but I think I got across the basic ideas about what’s happening with our “human rights” commissions these days – which is nothing short of dreadful. 🙁

  4. Risky Business: Mothers Against the Madness
    Women help restore the America we’ve known and loved.
    We don’t like this fundamental transformation, and we’re going to do something about it.” With that line, in her savvy “Mama Grizzlies” video, Sarah Palin may have captured not only the political mood of much of the country, but also why women seem to be getting ready to make tea — and political hay — this year.
    http://article.nationalreview.com/438250/risky-business-mothers-against-the-madness/kathryn-jean-lopez

  5. Erik, one of my Canadian friend in Seattle was just discussing Conrad Black with me. He may be arrogant but that shouldn’t have put him behind bars. My own mother thinks it was sufficient reason though – man, she’d be a tough judge!!

  6. Robert W – I must say that the National Post is one of Black’s great gifts to Canada. The columnists are great – and believe me, I’ve seen such a shift in the last few years – they are actually talking about things you could only previously find on blogs. The columnists – Black, Barbara Kay, Rex Murphy, George Jonas, Lorne Gunther, all of them – are fantastic.

  7. Victor Davis Hanson:
    “Why is this recovery L-shaped? It is not just what Barack Obama has done, but far more what he most certainly would like to do in the future. When business people look at the confiscatory government in Venezuela, crony capitalism in Russia and China, democratic socialism in Greece, and sky-high taxes in most of the European Union, they do not see a connection between those policies and individual prosperity and freedom. So even the faintest hint that America is no longer exceptionally at odds with state-run systems, but may in fact wish to emulate them, simply stuns private enterprise into inaction.
    “That is mostly where we are now, as an unpopular president tries to convince the wary, time-out private sector that what he said so emphatically in the past is now not quite what he really meant to say.
    “Good luck with that.”
    The whole thing here.

  8. I also posted the video on my Facebook account (I’m providing the link, for any SDA’er who would like to add me as a friend, I’d be most honoured to accept!). Turns out a friend of mine in Burnaby (a suburb of Vancouver) is experiencing a Human Rights charge of her own. Apparently a woman moved into her co-op building, knowing full well that it contained a mixture of smokers & non-smokers. That relatively new tenant has now decided that she doesn’t want ANYONE in the building smoking and has gone to the BC Human Rights Commission to get her preference set into law.
    I’m not a smoker, never have been, and never will be but I find this absolutely outrageous!

  9. I just received an e-mail from an American YouTube friend of mine. It concerns this video that he just posted. Here’s what he wrote as well:
    Let your eyes feast on the hypocrisy. Were you expecting anything but? Where are the windmills, the solar cells, the solar bras, or even the exercise bikes to power the TV. Any of those? No. What do you have instead? Stinky, polluting diesel generators, running all day long, for days.
    Hooray for hypocrisy! I love it. Where’s Al Gore and his convoy of limousines and his private jet?

  10. Robert W, good job.
    It would seem to me we have a human rights kangaroo court and we know what it is. The Americans on the other hand have a whole legal system that is no better and are completely unaware. The Conrad Black case proves the point to me.

  11. Swine Flu Fraud Is Dead.
    …-
    “WHO may declare end to H1N1 pandemic: Report
    NEW YORK – The World Health Organization’s emergency committee intends to convene as early as Tuesday to review data and declare an end to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, Bloomberg News reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.
    WHO Director General Margaret Chan must determine whether the swine flu still calls for extra vigilance in the absence of any indication it has become more lethal or developed a resistance to drugs that fight it.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/07/20/14764071.html

  12. harper gov’t obstructionist? say it isn’t so . . .
    cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/07/19/rotor-tipple-public-work-.html

  13. Robert W, thanks for the great links. Hopefully the HRCs are reigned in before they totally destroy freedom.
    Re the diesel generators. But, they are painted green.

  14. Robert W – please let us know what happens with this Human Rights smoking argument. I can’t see that it has any chance of success for that woman.
    I don’t know what her argument would be. Sure, she can claim health but that’s a weak argument since she can’t claim causal injury to herself, and she knew, in advance, about the smokers in the building and had the choice not to move there. Furthermore such a claim would mean that one could claim the right to control what other people do ‘just because’.
    That is, the grounds would no longer be discrimination against you on the basis of your religion, ethnicity, gender…but on the basis of your personal preferences…i.e., you don’t like smokers.
    Keep us informed.

  15. Another Our Enemy, the State Fraud.
    PM Harper: stop throwing our tax dollars into Big Lies from the left-liberals.
    The Big Lie words from MSM: “launch”; “new initiative”; “spearhead the fight”; and the Mother-of-all propaganda:
    “safe, effective, affordable and globally accessible HIV vaccine.”
    It’s all left-liberal bee-ess.
    Another left-liberal Tax-Spend ripoff.
    …-
    “Canada announces new plan to co-ordinate HIV research
    Vancouver Sun – ‎49 minutes ago‎
    The Canadian government announced the launch of a new initiative on Tuesday intended to spearhead the fight against AIDS and make Canada a leader in the development of a safe, effective, affordable and globally accessible HIV vaccine.”
    (googlenews)
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/07/19/ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it-part-2/#comment-86409

  16. EBD – thanks for the Dunn article. It is really excellent.
    More and more criticisms of Obama are in the public eye – and watch the result. His gang will accuse any and all who criticize of racism. Thomas Sowell is writing about that.
    http://article.nationalreview.com/438368/race-card-fraud/thomas-sowell
    I think Obama’s polarization of the country is going to increase and even lead to dangerous situations. So far, it’s been all verbiage, dangerous as that is; I think it will turn violent – and that’s what Obama wants.

  17. Well, put Sinatra and Nelson Riddle together and you can’t help but get a fantastic presentation! Thanks, EBD.
    OTOH, I find these rather bombastic “big band” arrangements — much like Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me” — a little loud. I prefer something like “Moonlight in Vermont,” also arranged by Nelson Riddle!!:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONdz41xH4NM

  18. Sinatra the Philosopher, in his preamble to Moonlight in Vermont (above link):
    Why a song can be a tranquilizer, your quiet pill. Yes, sir, bless the musician, because without him, the great darkness would come over the land, our emotions would fold their tents and silently steal away …
    Amen, more or less!

  19. The Democrats are admitting that the real reason for their lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law – is votes. Not the law. Votes.
    http://www.thefoxnation.com/arizona-immigration-law/2010/07/20/obama-aides-privately-admit-truth-behind-ariz-lawsuit
    “President Obama and his political aides privately acknowledge that the government’s decision to sue Arizona over its new immigration law is helping to fuel an anti-immigration fervor that could benefit some Republicans in elections this fall.
    But White House officials have concluded that, over the long term, the Republicans’ get-tough message is a major political miscalculation. They predict it will ultimately alienate millions of Latinos, the fastest-growing minority group in the nation.
    West Wing strategists argue that the president’s call for legislation that acknowledges the role of immigrants and goes beyond punishing undocumented workers will help cement a permanent political relationship between Democrats and Hispanics — much as civil rights and voting rights legislation did for the party and African Americans in the 1960s.”
    But this is different. Civil rights was acknowledging the equality of black and white.
    The Arizona law is trying to acknowledge the equality of all peoples who want to immigrate to the US. You must all do so legally.
    The Democrat lawsuit is about unequal acts of immigration. It acknowledges and permits hispanics to immigrate illegally while all others must come to the US legally. The Democrats view hispanics as basically people who will do things illegally. That’s insulting.

  20. I don’t know if this has yet been reported here on SDA but it looks like the barber shop in Ottawa has already caved.
    Can’t really blame them. Who wants to spend several years and upwards of $100,000 in legal costs to fight such a complaint?! To do so might very well spell the end of the business.

  21. Whither Al Gore (WAG)? (Formerly AGW)
    WAG’s Death Watch.
    “There are no stables for the animals as temperatures usually do not drop that low.”
    …-
    “175 people killed in South America cold spell
    At least 175 people have died in the coldest winter in South America in recent years, officials in six affected countries said, dpa reported.
    The cold was worst in southern Peru, where temperatures in higher altitudes of the Andes dropped to minus 23 degrees Celsius. Officials said Monday that since the beginning of last week 112 people died of hypothermia and flu.
    Argentina measured the coldest temperatures in 10 years. Sixteen people froze to death and 11 died of carbon monoxide poisoning due to faulty heaters.
    In Bolivia, 18 people died, in Paraguay five and two each in Chile and Uruguay. Nine people died of the cold in southern Brazil.
    Thousands of cattle also froze to death on their pastures in Paraguay and Brazil. There are no stables for the animals as temperatures usually do not drop that low.”
    http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1723309.html
    H/T: WUWT?
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/20/new-methodology-improves-winter-climate-forecasting/#more-22260

  22. EBD: I read that piece before your link (the need to dismantle the Obama presidency after November.)
    I hope I’m wrong but I very strongly suspect that even if the Repubs win both houses these monstrous bills WILL NOT BE rescinded. As someone observed, the Repubs were pissed because the Dems got to pull off his historic coup of nationalized health care. And not the Repubs. What was it someone said abou the NDP: Liberals in a hurry.
    In fact I’ve been actively considering making a large SDA donation bet on this.
    I think Obama’s polarization of the country is going to increase and even lead to dangerous situations. So far, it’s been all verbiage, dangerous as that is; I think it will turn violent – and that’s what Obama wants.
    Agreed on every word here.
    In other words, Obama is not just a academic marxist but an actual (Kate’s word) communist revolutionary, not a mere actual socialist. Like his appointee Van Jones and others. All along I’ve felt that Obama is a Chavez with American characteristics. All along I’ve felt that his stammering is time delay translating commie speak into liberal speak for ready consumption.
    Absolutely fascinating to watch the communist White House, NAACP and MSM (call it the commie complex) co-ordination of the anti-Tea-Party agit prop, viz., the alleged “racism” of the Tea Party absent ANY proof whatsoever. We are aware, presumably, that Breibart has offered a reward of $100,000 for any evidence of racism. No takers.
    THE BIG LIE.

  23. How many times can “Right Wing” be uttered in a scary way in one interview segment?
    You can listen to CKNW’s Bill Not So Good discuss the new “right wing” Canadian TV station with Monty Paulson and Norman Spector. The fun begins at 19:00.

  24. Remember the coup attempt here. The same happen only it succeded in Israel.
    This whole interview is beyond belief.
    It accords real nicely with what Kate posted the other day in that excellent Article. Seems our power elites World wide have the same attitude. Particularly Courts. People are now just food.
    This is a audio stream.
    The Eidelberg Report, “It doesn’t matter who you vote for in Israel “.
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2388

Navigation