34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Who lost Turkey?
    You have to hand it to Turkey’s Islamist leaders. They sure know how to get their way. In the seven years since they first took power, the Islamist AKP party has successfully transformed Turkey from a staunch ally of the US and Israel and a member of NATO into a staunch ally of Iran and a member of NATO.
    http://www.carolineglick.com/e/

  3. “Sanctimonious bigots at heart.”
    Barbara Hollingsworth in the Washington Examiner:
    “Prof. Fred Gottheil…compiled a list of 675 email addresses from 900 signatures on a 2009 petition authored by Dr. David Lloyd, professor of English at the University of Southern California, urging the U.S. to abandon its ally, Israel. Prof. Gottheil discovered that six of the signers, who hailed from more than 150 college campuses, were members of his own faculty.
    “’Would these same 900 sign onto a statement expressing concern about human rights violations in the Muslim Middle East, such as honor killing, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and violence against gays and lesbians?’ he wondered. ‘I felt it was worth a try.’
    “The results? ‘Almost non existent,’ he told Front Page editor Jamie Glazov. Only 27 of the 675 ‘self-described social-justice seeking academics’ agreed to sign Gottheil’s Statement of Concern – less than 5 percent of the total who had publicly called for the censure of Israel for human rights violations….”

  5. Albertaardvark has a good catch on how the CBC’s Don Newman has a conflict of interest.
    He’s working for a corporate PR media spin group and taking our tax dollars to report the news.
    Keeping his clients out of the news isn’t exactly what we give him our tax dollars for, is it?
    I wonder if the Liberal party is a client?
    He owes us an explanation and a resignation:
    http://thealbertaardvark.blogspot.com/2010/09/don-newman-bluesky-and-cbc.html
    “Here is what Bluesky claims they can do for their clients:
    In the headlines – or staying out of the headlines.
    Our unparalleled relationships with bureau chiefs, columnists, producers, editors, members of the National Parliamentary Press Gallery and an extensive network of media contacts across the country make Bluesky’s reach vast.
    We have been on both sides of the camera and understand what makes news.
    Our team takes our clients’ issues and shapes strong messages that put them in the news or help them stay out of it!”

  7. Thanks for your posting; cantuc. The figure is $66 million, and not the $4 million being bandied about by the press and the Chiefs. $4 million is the amount they claim they saved with greater efficiency in running the long gun registry.

  8. thats where the MY ASS part came from gunney , guess i should have put it up there but been a long day . Thought i saw it somewhere else a couple of days ago but nobody seemed to pick up on it . probly too late now to have much effect though.

  10. Charity Broadcasting Corporation (CBC):
    Send after-tax dollars to CBC c/o Free Friends of CBC.
    Clients include: Cancer Industry, Mao Stlong Fliends of Red China, Liberal Ad$Cam Librano$, etc.
    …-
    Charities paid $762M to private fundraisers
    Canadian registered charities paid $762 million to third-party fundraisers between 2004 and 2008, all of it deducted from donations and often dwarfing guidelines set out by the Canada Revenue Agency, a CBC investigation has learned.
    In more than 200 cases, charities paid more than half the money they received from donors to external fundraisers, according to documents obtained from the CRA, which regulates Canadian charities.
    The CRA recommends that no charity spend more than 35 per cent of revenue on fundraising and can revoke the registered status of any organization whose expenses seem disproportionately high.
    Yet the CBC found examples in nearly every province in which local, provincial and national charities for years spent upward of 70 or 80 per cent of their revenues to recompense the companies that organized their fundraising drives, including:
    * The Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan, which paid $96,849 for a campaign that raised just $95,812.
    * The Children’s Leukemia Research Association Canada, which raised $4.2 million over the last four years but paid $3.2 million of that to its external fundraiser.
    * Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers, which raised $2.8 million between 2003 and 2009 — of which $2.2 million, or 79 per cent, went to pay its fundraiser.
    The $762 million over five years is a small fraction — less than 10 per cent — of the approximately $8.2 billion donated by Canadians annually, a level that earned them a third-place worldwide ranking for charitable giving by the British-based Charities Aid Foundation.
    “When that phone rings, and it’s a charity asking for money, we have traditionally just given,” said charity analyst Kate Bahen. “You’ve seen the results of what happens when we just give without asking questions, without getting information.”
    Dilemma for small charities
    Ten years ago, the fundraising sector was worth $800 million, said Bahen, the managing director of Charity Intelligence Canada, an Ontario-based non-profit that analyzes charities.
    Today, it’s a $2.8-billion business and growing, with an average 35 cents of every dollar donated to charity going to pay fundraising costs, she said.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/09/21/con-charities-fundraisers.html

  11. Anti-semitic editorial cartoon in La Presse. The author says he was just doing a quick sketch of the clock of the Peace Tower, but the caricature shows a star of David on the clock face of the Peace Tower dominating Parliament as if a Jewish cabal runs the federal government.
    Usually it is the Journal of Montreal that has caricatures of Jewish people in its cartoons with men in Hasidic dress such as sidecurls and large hats when it wants to illustrate its sporatic campaign against Jewish private schools which supposedly don’t follow the Ministry of Education’s curricula (a few hundred students vs. the millions of Quebec students).

  12. Don’t know if Rick Mercer mentioned it when he visited the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, but the Pavilion cast $58 million plus operating costs. ‘Course this might be a bargain compared to the Australian’s record $83 million for its pavilion.

  13. Mao Stlong’s Indulgences For Sale. Prices to choke you.
    Buy Indulgences for Gramma/Grampa/Friends/Neighbours. Don’t be cheap ’bout it.
    Don’t forget Canadian “Liberal leader” MP Bob Rae is Uncle Mao Stlong’s nephew.
    A vote for Liberal Bob RaeZiffy is a million $$$$$ for Mao Red China.
    …-
    “Denmark allows Chinese Co2 scam
    The Energy Board allegedly turns blind eye to swindle with Chinese CO2 credits.
    The Danish Energy Board – among others – is alleged to be turning a blind eye to what is being dubbed by researchers as one of the biggest climate scandals ever in connection with artificially low Chinese CO2 credits.
    In Danish terms, major companies such as Mærsk, DONG, Aalborg Portland and Nordjysk Elhandel are in the eye of the storm as a result of inaction by the Board in reporting the alleged fiddle.
    “The fiddle is allowed to continue because businesses have a major economic benefit from them,” says Prof. Michael Wara, an expert on environmental law and policy at Stanford University of the agreement that the Danish Carbon Fund entered into in 2006 with Danish companies and two Chinese production factories.
    Under the agreement which runs until 2013, the DCF and Danish companies receive each year some 300,000 CO2 credits from China, each credit allowing them to emit one tonne of CO2.
    In return for the DKK 180 million the agreement costs, Chinese coolant producer Zhonghao New Chemical Materials and Jiangsu Meilan Chemical have undertaken to keep their production of HFC-23, also known as fluoroform, below an agreed level.
    But the Chinese factories do not keep to their end of the bargain.”
    http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/1065634/denmark-allows-chinese-co2-scam/
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/09/21/betrayal-and-disillusionment/#comment-90514

  15. With apologies to EBD, I am outing myself to the world and I thank SDA, Kate and EDB for the opportunity on Reader Tips.
    Below is my email this morning to the Woodstock ONtario Chamber of Commerce:
    ………………………………………
    Attention Martha Dennis
    General Manager
    Woodstock District Chamber of Commerce
    I AM Joseph Molnar
    (Clip)
    I am contesting a “City Only” Councillor seat in the upcoming Civic election on October 25.
    I am running a low budget campaign without lawn signs and a tiny newspaper ad simply directing voters to my web site.
    My platform is very simple and I unsure at this point in time whether I will take part in the ALL candidates public meeting planned for October 13 at Goff Hall.
    I am relying solely on the internet and email to get my message out.
    I got emails yesterday from business people I know in both Strathroy and Orillia and heard of my platform.
    Both people said in this recession their business is off … and had to lay off staff to help survive, yet their municipal taxes are expected to rise.
    I suspect Woodstock and Oxford County businesses are similarly affected.
    MY platform resonated in Strathroy & Orillia business minded folks and I think it will here as well.
    I have contacted a number of current incumbents as well as the prospective Mayoral candidates asking them to adopt my plan for Woodstock and Oxford County.
    Below is my election platform.
    1. Freeze the remuneration (Pay) of Mayor and Councillors in Woodstock and Oxford County at the current rate they now receive for THE NEXT FOUR YEARS as a motion or by-law as required.
    2. ZERO increase in taxes in the first budget year of the four year mandate of both councils
    No more than 2% increase the second year.
    And no greater increase than the rate of inflation in years three and four of that councils’ mandate.
    That shows resolve and leadership in a municipality in a recessionary time in our community.
    I will not be drawn into any other discussion, except to say if elected I would bring the “retention” pay and the downtown methadone clinic to the fore.
    I am hoping the question of freeing of the pay to the elected issue would be publicly put to all CANDIDATES in order for that issue to be a campaign issue in MSM.
    I thank you for any attention the Chamber can give to that matter.
    With respect,
    Joseph (Joe) Molnar
    Post Script:
    This is my website to which I will be adding some personal background later this week, but this morning I am going to my once a week job as “STARTER” at Cedar Downs Golf course.
    J.
    http://www.joeforwoodstockcouncil.ca/

  16. O’Huey (snort). Come back, Huey*.
    …-
    “Black Panther case roars back to life
    New evidence undermines Justice Department spin
    Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is in big trouble. The public-interest group Judicial Watch yesterday released a 62-page index of documents regarding the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case that undermines the credibility of Mr. Perez and of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
    For more than a year, The Washington Times has been reporting that Mr. Holder’s top political appointees intervened to force the abandonment of serious sanctions against the Black Panther members who threatened voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008. The Justice Department denied the claim, with spokesman Tracy Schmaler asserting to the contrary that only “career employees” engaged in what supposedly was a decision based entirely on “the facts and the law.” On May 14, Mr. Perez swore under oath before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that there was no “political leadership involved in the decision not to pursue this particular case any further than it was” and that it was only “a case of career people disagreeing with career people.”
    As was seen when a host of outsiders accused the George W. Bush administration’s Justice Department of firing U.S. attorneys in order to interfere with ongoing investigations, it is improper for cases to be dismissed for purely political reasons. The Obama administration should be held to the same standard.
    Rather than cooperate with requests for more information, the Justice Department claimed that all its documents related to the Black Panther case were “privileged.” A court ordered it to provide Judicial Watch a list of withheld documents with an explanation for each “privilege” asserted. Even the attenuated list sheds new light on the situation. By our count, Deputy Associate Attorney General Sam Hirsch, not only a political appointee but previously a top, cutthroat election attorney for the national Democratic Party, sent or received 58 e-mails about the case. The “description of withheld information” provided by the Justice Department indicates that Mr. Hirsch weighed in on the decision to drop the cases.
    At least a dozen of Mr. Hirsch’s e-mails went back and forth up the chain of command to Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, not down to people that the department now calls “career employees” (who themselves at the time were filling political positions).”
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/20/black-panther-case-roars-back-to-life/
    …-
    *Huey:
    ” * Founder of the Black Panther Party
    * Drug dealer, rapist, and murderer
    * Murdered an Oakland police officer in 1967
    * Murdered a 17-year-old prostitute in 1974
    * Was killed by a drug dealer he had failed to pay
    Born the youngest of seven children on February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana, Huey P. Newton turned his Oakland, California street gang into the Black Panther Party (BPP) — originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — in 1966. Because of its obsession with guns and “self defense,” the organization caught the political fancy of Sixties radicals who considered themselves to be at war with the United States. The Panthers were termed “America’s Vietcong” by Tom Hayden. As onetime Panther Eldridge Cleaver would acknowledge in a 1998 Sixty Minutes interview: “If people had listened to Huey Newton and me in the 1960s, there would have been a holocaust in this country.”
    As a teenager and into his twenties, Newton worked as a pimp, committed armed robberies, burglarized homes in Berkeley Hills, and ran short-change scams. In 1962 he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six months in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Fellow Panther Bobby Seale later recounted how Newton would often lurk outside the emergency room of an Oakland hospital, and when patients were taken inside for treatment, Newton would steal from the vehicles in which they had been transported.
    Newton justified such actions as follows: “I felt that white people were criminals,” explained Newton, “because they plundered the world. . . . [T]o take what the white criminals called theirs gave me a feeling of real freedom.””
    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1524

  18. I’ve tried several times to get the NP’s gun registry numbers in the CBC thread but I’m not having much luck. Wonder why? Made my day before noon. 😉

  21. Thanks EDB for posting more modern (Although Pink Floyd is over 40 years old!) musical talents, it’s refreshing…
    My favorite Floyd tune is “Comfortably Numb” not to be confused with ‘comfortably dumb’ which is simply prerequisite to being a liberal.:>

  23. WAGore Report: 2010 The Year With No Summer.
    ““We leaped from spring to fall.””
    …-
    “Southern California’s summer to end with a chill: It was the coldest in decades”
    “The last day of summer is Wednesday, but meteorologists say the season barely bothered to show up in the region this year. So cooler fall will make an almost noiseless entrance Thursday, hardly indistinguishable from the summer Southern Californians just experienced.
    “Summer played hooky on us. It never really showed up,” said Bill Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge. “We leaped from spring to fall.”
    Patzert said a low-pressure trough that stalled along the West Coast from Alaska to southern Baja California kept the summer cooler than usual, with many overcast days. Monthly temperatures in downtown Los Angeles from April to now have averaged between one to three degrees cooler than normal.
    Patzert said it’s one of the coolest summers in decades.
    Jamie Meier, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Oxnard, said that LAX tied the coldest average temperature for August on record, going back to 1944.”
    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/las-summer-ends-with-a-chill-it-was-the-coldest-in-decades.html
    H/T:
    http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/

  24. Liberal Ziffy is not returning to O’Harvard?
    But, O’Summers over, Ziffy. And the O’Rahm is bullish on his get-gO.
    Go home, Ziffy.
    Give O your hands, Ziffy.
    “But Summers, who will return to his teaching job at Harvard University by the end of the year,”.
    “Obama’s right-hand man may quit in October”.
    …-
    O’Right-hand man:
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/09/22/15441431.html
    O’Left-hand man:
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/09/22/15433876.html

  25. Hey, hey, ho, ho, Joe Molnar, Go! Go! Go!
    Leading by example has got to be the only way to put an end to runaway spending at the municipal and every level.
    When our politicians are crooks and thugs (aka union dudes and union dupes) we’re in big trouble.
    Guess what? We’re in trouble.

  26. Hey, Joe! Look straight into the camera! You’re running a straight-up campaign, so let your electorate see your smiling face … 😉

  32. Glad you are running Joe. Lose any inhibitions, stand on corners and wave to the people. To be honest I don’t even recognize all the candidates and school board is a joke. Even if they only recognize your name it’s a plus.

  33. Joe I don’t know you’re situation but if you can get a kid or grandkid to stand beside you with a sign like “My Dad Makes Me Do This Cuz He Says It’s Important.” You should make it on the news…hopefully not for child abuse.

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