30 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Seriously now:
    “Teachers are being forced to report children as young as three to the authorities for using alleged ‘racist’ language, it was claimed last night.
    “Munira Mirza, a senior advisor to London Mayor Boris Johnson, said schools were being made to spy on nursery age youngsters by the Race Relations Act 2000.
    “More than a quarter of a million children have been accused of racism since it became law, she said…”

  4. Dan Kennedy at Townhall:
    “If this weren’t so sad it would be funny: full-page ads in The New Yorker urge businesses to re-locate to Canada. The ads offer the lowest corporate taxes on job-creating businesses in the G-7, the lowest government debt (2.7 percent of GDP target for 2011), and ‘a dynamic free-market environment.’
    “The United States of Obama cannot, I’m sorry to say, counter such advertisement. Now even Cuba is shedding government jobs and extricating itself from government ownership of business in grudging admission its ideology is a practical failure. Meanwhile, our president wages war against private enterprise, seeks dominion over entire industries, and moves toward unprecedented micro-managerial dictating to small businesses of almost every stripe…”
    The whole thing here.

  5. i love this piece. i’ve had the privilege of performing it as a tenor chorister. we did it much faster, but this a truly wonderful recording, every note rings through.
    good link, SDH, i was reading about that earlier today. hard to imagine what kind of action that soldier can expect, but it his spirit and desire to serve are commendable and admirable.

  7. There’s a pretty decent video out on youtube called Overdose:The Next Financial Crisis.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE&feature=player_embedded
    The video features extensive commentary by pro-free market analysts like Peter Schiff. It’s basic premise is that the burst mortgage bubble has now been replaced by a myriad of other, much larger bubbles, the largest of which is government debt. It’s not a question of whether it will burst, but when.

  8. EBD, your Reader Tip @ 10:11 would suggest that Britain is well on the way towards being a state such as the old Soviet Union when couples were afraid to talk to each other or to their children.
    Read Orlando Figes “The Whisperers”.
    I am enjoying listening to your musical selection for this evening. It is relaxing after the parliamentary shenanigans of this past week.

  12. The legislative election was held today in Venezuela. It’s not like here… polling starts about 6 am and ends when there isn’t anyone left in line to vote, or in the voting booths themselves after “about dinner time”. Then the wait begins. When I was there for the last presidential election, it was very quiet until about 10 pm, then the announcement was made by H. Chavez from the palace, then the fireworks started, followed by people driving up and down the streets shooting in the air and doing what they do. … I remained indoors. Not out of fear mind you, simply out of a respect for their ways. 😉 This ended calmly about 3 or 4 in the morning as it wasn’t Caracas, it was a small town of about 130,000.
    It’s been quite calm tonight so far, from the accounts in the country. Turnout was estimated at almost 70%, and after Canadian blogger Juan Cristobal at Caracas Chronicles blogged that the opposition parties had a vote total of about 52% his blog has been not accessible. Hugo had said previously that anything less than a 2/3 majority for his ruling PVSU party would be not acceptable.
    The CNE (like, “Elections Canada”) hasn’t been willing to make an announcement of a victor without checking with Hugo in the palace first. Some fireworks have started, so I suppose that someone’s won!
    There are 165 seats available, and it’s doubtful that the opposition parties will take more than 70 seats even with a majority of votes cast for them. The gerrymandering is at an advanced level and the security of the vote was a big factor in the opposition boycotting the legislative elections 5 years ago, which led to H. Chavez having a full house of his own parties cronies.
    http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/ is following it and will be updating with results when available.

  13. http://devilsexcrement.com/2010/09/27/the-delay-in-anouncing-the-results-of-the-venezuelan-elections-is-an-insult-to-the-voters/
    “It is almost 12:39 PM , most polls have been closed for over six and a half hours and the servile electoral board has yet to announce the results.
    This is a disgrace and an insult to all Venezuelans. With 90% plus of all tabulated, Venezuela’s $300 million dollar voting system, once called “the best voting system in the world” has yet to give us a single result.
    Are we to believe that all 165 races are too close to call?
    This is absurd, this represents almost $200 per voter, without taking into account expenses for each election”
    … and a bit more. Miguel at this site was one of the electoral workers in Caracas, noting that folks were lined up to vote there at 5.10 am.

  14. J.S. Bach – Et Resurrexit by Karl Richter (Mass In B Minor)
    Will rouse the sleepy troops from their comfortable pews…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQqA7zwpBM&feature=related
    Nice pick EBD!
    Thomanerchor: “Jauchzet frohlocket” by Johann Sebastian Bach
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVewzMm1uts&feature=related
    Is sure to remove the starch from your collar.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  15. Great story SDH. Shades of Sir Douglas Bader, the RAF ace who flew without legs. After he was shot down and captured, they eventually had to send him to Colditz he made so many escape attempts.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader
    In this wiki pretty much nails it if you don’t have the time to read the various books about this indomitable man.

  17. Voodoo Jean’s secret agenda exposed: Haitian pagan voodoo and left-liberal feminism.
    Ex-GG Jean: good riddance.
    …-
    “Religion
    Haitian diaspora spreading the gospel of voodoo”
    (g-m)
    …-
    “‘Third wave’ of feminism urged by prominent Canadian women”
    “Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, who is soon to depart the office she has held for the last five years, called about 200 of the women she met on her travels through Canada to a conference at Rideau Hall this week to talk about women’s security. The event is something her aides say she has been planning since the very first tour she took as Vice-Regent.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/third-wave-of-feminism-urged-by-prominent-canadian-women/article1701942/

  18. Re Michaëlle Jean’s calling of the Canadian coven (all the usual suspects including Belinda Stronach, Maureen McTeer, et al.): “But at a time when Canadian women with a postsecondary education still earn on average just 63 per cent of the salary of similarly educated men, it was the equality gap between men and women that dominated the discourse.”
    The wage gap is largely due to THE CHOICES many women make in order to be more fully present to their families. It is an urban myth and a feminist lie that “women make less than men,” if you factor lifestyle choice into the equation. For instance, surgeons make more money than general practitioners, but many female doctors CHOOSE to be GPs so they can have regular office hours in order to spend time with their husbands and children. That’s a fact.
    Another fact: Single women in the workforce make as much and often more than their male counterparts.
    This boo-hoo-hoo-women-are-still-downtrodden complaint is just another money grab, to keep NAC/SOW feminists in the government loop, where they make lots of money and in no way improve the lot of the majority of women. In fact, they’ve shown what a failure their efforts have been: For over 40 years, under the Liberal dispensation and as the beneficiaries of gazillion$ of government funding, you’d think that NAC/SOW would have made headway. But, no. And, why not? Because most of the money earmarked for NAC/SOW funded the official feminists’ salaries and lifestyles.
    Quit the banshee bellyaching, Madame Jean, and your feminist henchwomen. Canadian women (children, and men) don’t need you; you’ve already cost us way too much not only in monetary terms but in the anti-family social disasters you’ve engineered under the auspices of the Liberal government.

  22. *
    “Uh, Gilles… nobody but you and your fellow Quebeckers
    is losing their minds over an “alleged” insult to a
    “pretend” snowman. What… you’re worried that
    your team mascot is gonna go put his head in an oven?”
    *

  23. A murther of crows.
    When will the feminists gather ’round in their crow circle with Taliban Jack LaytoNDP?
    Who will be the centre of their attention?
    At crow courts, the prisoner stands alone in the centre of a circle of its fellows, and …
    Islam = Murther, Inc.
    …-
    “Video shows militants stoning woman in Pakistan
    Turbaned men in Pakistan gather around a woman with a black hood over her head, pick up large rocks and repeatedly throw them at her until she lies motionless, stretched along the ground.”
    (canoenews)
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/09/26/next-tool-in-the-alarmist-arsenal/#comment-91078

  25. The only use of the word Muslims here* is:
    “Of course, the school is open to everyone, but it is only Muslims who come here,” she said.”
    Liberal PET Cemetery’s multiculturalism is going down, down, down, …
    More backlash, please.
    …-
    “Reform group argues Canada lets in too many immigrants
    Country has nothing to fear from a real debate on the issue, former ambassador says
    A pillar of the Canadian establishment, brushing aside the risk he could become embroiled in one of the country’s most sensitive political issues, is endorsing a new organization challenging Canadian immigration policy.
    Derek Burney is a former senior corporate chief executive, former ambassador to the U.S., one-time chief of staff to Brian Mulroney, and served as the head of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s transition team after the Conservatives won the 2006 election.
    Canadian society, he said, needs to stop treating immigration as an untouchable “third rail” that can’t be debated without prompting allegations of bigotry.
    So he’s joined the advisory board of an organization being launched Tuesday on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
    The Centre for Immigration Policy Reform will be headed by Martin Collacott, a former ambassador who writes frequently on immigration and refugee policy at the Fraser Institute, and James Bissett, a former director-general of the Canadian Immigration Service.
    The new group argues the benefits of a high level of immigration aren’t worth costs that include considerable government expenditures and higher housing costs, pollution and crowding in big Canadian cities.
    “Unfortunately immigration and refugee policy is a bit like health care in Canada,” Burney said in an interview.
    “It’s being denied rational debate at the political level, and this is despite the very clear evidence of abuse of the system, of fraud in the system and a lack of coordination in the country in terms of screening.”
    He says his major concern is that Canada’s economy has been chronically plagued by relatively low economic productivity, yet the large number of unskilled workers and family-class immigrants weakens productivity further.
    Burney said politicians of all stripes refuse to discuss such concerns because some immigrant communities that lobby for high quotas of family-class immigrants are “very active” in federal politics.”
    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Reform+group+argues+Canada+lets+many+immigrants/3583923/story.html
    …-
    *Muslims:
    “Sweden joins Europe-wide backlash against immigration
    Its asylum policies are the continent’s most generous. But the public mood is now changing”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/24/sweden-immigration-far-right-asylum

  28. Just received this in an e-mail:
    I am perplexed that so many of my friends are against a mosque being built near Ground Zero. I think it should be the goal of every American to be tolerant. The mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
    That is why I also propose, that two gay nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque thereby promoting tolerance within the mosque. We could call the clubs “The Turban Cowboy” and “You Mecca Me So Hot”.
    Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork and have an open barbecue with spare ribs as its daily special. Across the street a very daring lingerie store called “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret” with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.
    Next door to the lingerie shop, there would be room for an Adult Toy Shop Koranal Knowledge?), its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side a liquor store; maybe call it “Morehammered”?
    If you agree in promoting tolerance and you think this is a good plan, please pass this email on.

  29. Liberal Iggy says, It’s not fair.
    Iggy cribbed those words from ex-Lib leader Citoyen Kyoto Dionky.
    Can you find the name of the new Premier in the MSM account? His name* is mentioned by MSM only in passing.
    (*”Mr. Alward”)
    …-
    “Conservatives topple Liberals in New Brunswick election”
    “The Liberal loss marks the first time since Confederation that a New Brunswick government has failed to win a second consecutive mandate.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservatives-topple-liberals-in-new-brunswick-election/article1729225/

  30. PET Cemetery vandalized.
    It’s not fair. It’s those “separatists” and “idiots” at CBC.
    “Then, in April 2008, vandals spray-painted “FLQ” and the French words for “traitor” and “bastard” on the walls of the crypt. The graffiti has since been removed.
    If it hadn’t been for the vandalism, some citizens of St-Rémi still might not know about Trudeau’s tomb.”
    Fade to black.
    …-
    “Trudeaumania fades at Pierre Trudeau’s tomb”
    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/09/27/pierre-trudeau-cp.html

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