32 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Kelly McParland in the NP:
    “Given the anti-Israel bias that pervades the UN, campaigning for a seat on the Security Council — if it requires the OIC’s approval — is the international equivalent of applying for membership at a club that bans Jews.
    “Stephen Harper should have steered clear of the UN in the first place. With all its hypocrisy and negotiable principles, it’s a place more suited to Liberals.”

  4. LindaL It doesn’t surprise me. The US administration wants to be more like Europe.
    We didn’t play the green economy card, we opposed the bank tax and we survived the crash better than most. With the trouble the Democrats are in, the US isn’t going to oppose the weakening of their position. They do not need a test of their influence. I think it is a weaker country than it was spiritually and financially.

  5. Speedy — Yes, probably no surprise, but how might Canadian’s respond if they felt the US was undermining Canada’s bid? I also am intrigued by the possible scheming by Ignatieff in all of this.

  6. LindaL Iggy would have opposed it regardless, it has been an ongoing thing with the Liberals.
    I was listening to AS It Happens on the CBC. They have practically signed up the Corp to run for the L’s. Anyway their response to the snub was to play an interview with Pearson from 1956 no less. Well Ok they have to go that far back to find a ‘good’ Liberal PM but they were sending smoke signals for the next election. This is going to come up.

  7. EBD, love the MSM’s “subtle” inference that the gov’t (oops, I meant the “Conservative gov’t”) has thumbed its nose at the UN and that we need a Liberal gov’t to prevent that from continuing to happen. Funny though, I didn’t hear any of them mention Ontario’s Liberal gov’t contuining to thumb its nose at the UN on the issue of public funding for Catholic schools to the exclusion of all other faiths.
    I assume the federal Liberals are on board with their provincial cousins on that issue, especially considering that Ontario is the base of their support.
    Hmmm. Maybe someone in MSM will ask David McGuinty about his brother’s defiance of the UN and how its consitent with David and his federal Liberals’ criticism of the Harper gov’t… thennnnnnnnn again, probably not. That would be a good question to ask David, which is why no one in MSM will ask him it.

  10. Thank-you for that link Bluetech, I did not listen to Canadian coverage of the Chilean Miners rescue because Fox News had such excellent coverage. Fox mentioned the Canadian contribution several times.
    The Yukon Newspapers and several others do not have this resue on the frount page – the biggest story of the new century and our deadbeats are yapping about lost dogs and frozen birds! Sad and pathetic. This story is the most wonderful story I have heard in years – I am so happy for all those miners and their families! I also must say that the first lady, the President and the Mining Minister were true leaders during this rescue. They were there for every family and there to face the music if something went wrong. That takes courage !
    My heart thanks the Good Lord for taking care of these miners; I also thank the Good Lord’s helpers who made the rescue work. A Day to be Thankful and to celebrate.

  12. Re: “River.”
    Great tune to be listening to while driving around on a rainy night, in 1966 Mercury Montery, with a mickey of CC in the glove box!
    PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

  14. The Revolution: “all the fierce hope”.
    The Revolution: O + O = O.
    Lenin/Stalin > O.
    Wilson/FDR/JFK/Carter > O.
    “*Here was what it all had added up to, all the blood and suffering, all the fierce hope and the angry dreams of the distant Revolution, now blurred in a misty past.
    Drained of passion, empty of desire, the Revolution now stood motionless.”
    …-
    “The Paralysis of the State
    By DAVID BROOKS
    Sometimes a local issue perfectly illuminates a larger national problem. Such is the case with the opposition of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, to construction of a new tunnel between his state and New York.
    Christie argues that a state that is currently facing multibillion-dollar annual deficits cannot afford a huge new spending project that is already looking to be $5 billion overbudget. His critics argue that this tunnel is exactly the sort of infrastructure project that New Jersey needs if it’s to prosper in the decades ahead.
    Both sides are right. But what nobody seems to be asking is: Why are important projects now unaffordable? Decades ago, when the federal and state governments were much smaller, they had the means to undertake gigantic new projects, like the Interstate Highway System and the space program. But now, when governments are bigger, they don’t.
    The answer is what Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal once called demosclerosis. Over the past few decades, governments have become entwined in a series of arrangements that drain money from productive uses and direct it toward unproductive ones.
    New Jersey can’t afford to build its tunnel, but benefits packages for the state’s employees are 41 percent more expensive than those offered by the average Fortune 500 company. These benefits costs are rising by 16 percent a year.
    New York City has to strain to finance its schools but must support 10,000 former cops who have retired before age 50.
    California can’t afford new water projects, but state cops often receive 90 percent of their salaries when they retire at 50. The average corrections officer there makes $70,000 a year in base salary and $100,000 with overtime (California spends more on its prison system than on its schools).
    States across the nation will be paralyzed for the rest of our lives because they face unfunded pension obligations that, if counted accurately, amount to $2 trillion — or $87,000 per plan participant.
    All in all, governments can’t promote future prosperity because they are strangling on their own self-indulgence.”
    “The end result is sclerotic government. Many of us would be happy to live with a bigger version of 1950s government: one that ran surpluses and was dexterous enough to tackle long-term problems as they arose. But we don’t have that government. We have an immobile government that is desperately overcommitted in all the wrong ways.
    This situation, if you’ll forgive me for saying so, has been the Democratic Party’s epic failure. The party believes in the positive uses of government. But if you want the country to share that belief, you have to provide a government that is nimble, tough-minded and effective. That means occasionally standing up to the excessive demands of public employee unions. Instead of standing up to those demands, the party has become captured by the unions. Liberal activism has become paralyzed by its own special interests.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/opinion/12brooks.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=homepage
    *Russia
    Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams
    David K. Shipler
    Penguin (1983)
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/10/11/the-sealed-frontier/#comments

  15. Imam Liberal Iggy: “End of story”?
    Not.
    See Iggy’s Liberal MP Hezbollah Coderre and “Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah*”.
    …-
    “Ignatieff reiterates Liberals’ stance on Israel”
    “Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff reiterated his party’s support for Israel after being challenged by an audience member at a public forum at Toronto’s Beth Emeth Synagogue Wednesday night.
    Mr. Ignatieff said comments made by a Toronto Liberal candidate in a blog post last week to the effect that Canada shouldn’t be afraid to criticize Israel, caught him “by surprise.”
    “It was not authorized by the Liberal party, not consistent with party policy and we told him, you’re not speaking for the Liberal party, you’re not expressing what we think about the state of Israel,” Mr. Ignatieff said. “We stand shoulder to shoulder with the democratic state of Israel. End of story.””
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Ignatieff+reiterates+Liberals+stance+Israel/3668508/story.html
    …-
    “*Hezbollah chief echoes Iran’s call for Israel to disappear
    Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah echoed Iran’s call on Wednesday for Israel to disappear, speaking during a mass rally in Beirut organised in honour of visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad”
    (NP)

  17. Memo to LibIggyRae/Taliban Jack LaytoNDP:
    Smile.
    …-
    “The smile that defies the Taliban:
    Afghan teenager whose mutilated face shocked the world unveils her new image
    “An Afghan teenager who was horribly mutilated by her husband under Taliban rule was all smiles as she unveiled her new prosthetic nose for the first time.
    Aisha, 19, shocked the world when she appeared on the cover of Time Magazine to lift the veil on the plight of many women in Afghanistan.
    Yesterday, she bravely faced the public wearing a prosthetic nose – one that gives her some idea of how she will look after having reconstructive surgery.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319804/Afghan-girl-Bibi-Aisha-nose-ears-hacked-Taliban-rule-gets-new-face.html?ITO=1490
    http://unambig.com/canada-too-pro-zionist/#comment-19648

  21. Canada Free Press is really cruising today with many good stories like the following Dr Tim Ball one “Climate Science Corruption”
    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28741
    Also has “Climate Science’s Wotrst Week in History” by Joseph Olson.
    And even something for Canadian Wheat Board supporters.
    “You thought I was kidding” by Mike Jenson
    ‘Govt exists for just two purposes: 1) To provide its citizens with the freedom to live their lives as they so choose, and 2) to protect us from those, both foreign and domestic , who would try to take away that freedom. Once govt steps outside those two purposes , it itself is taking away that freedom.’
    The CWB – proudly built on fear and ignorance since 1945.

  22. West Virginia Dem (yes, Dem!!) Senate hopeful shoots a hole (literally !!) through his own party’s Cap And Trade bill.
    You Tube: ‘Dead Aim – Joe Manchin for West Virginia TV Ad’

  23. Unlike the MSM, those darn Blogs just do not toe the Ruling Class line. Funny, that.
    [“We essentially told the White House that we are not willing to be ‘pimped,’” the blog(Jack and Jill Politics) said. “Oh, we used better articulation, but it was direct and could not be taken out of context, misunderstood or ignored.]
    […]
    [ The attention the meeting received in the black blogosphere highlighted the vast gap that remained between mainstream media outlets and ones focused at minority groups. Though the meeting occurred on Monday and had been a topic of discussion in black media circles for three days, it received virtually no attention in the mainstream press. ] Media Decoder

  25. Interesting series of events happened this AM. My friend is a die hard Conservative. He lives in Moose Jaw, however he is rarely home, thus he picks up his mail from a drawer at main post office in that city, just a few blocks from his house. He works in various towns across S. Saskatchewan, he goes home on weekends.
    This AM, he tried to register with the Toronto Globe and Mail so that he could comment on the the CPC’s latest lead over the Libs. (And the fact that the Globe and Mail hid the results in a dark cormer of the pages.) When he entered his postal code, it said, “The postal code you are entering is not in Canada.”
    He phoned me up, I I tried to register, I got the same result. Surprise surprise, Moose Jaw is not in Canada!! When I entered my own Saskatchewan postal code on the registration from I got the same.
    Think carefully. The Globe and Mail is a Liberal paper. How convenient that any polls or public opinion forums would not register if you’re from Saskatchewan or Alberta.
    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  26. PS: If you’re from rural Saskatchewan, enter “Globe and Mail,” and try to register, just to see what happens.

  28. PET Cemetery Literary Red-Green Review:
    Patchy and Doah.
    Excerpt:
    It was a dark and stormy night, and Patchy, whimpering, hearing bells on the green-ivied roof, sprang limply from his comfy-fur bed to see what was the matter.
    Doha*, ‘xclaimed Mao Stlong. Gotcha in bed with your silky jammies in a deadlock, and your dead-end results dangling from your ….
    …-
    “Patchy refuses to resign, intends to complete next IPPC report” (WUWT?)
    …-
    Doha*:
    “Climate Talks Limp Toward Doha-Like Deadlock”
    “UN climate change negotiations in Tianjin lacked Copenhagen’s excitement yet ended with a similar whimper”
    “(Tianjin) – A battered and scarred negotiating text lay limp on the table at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Tianjin. Negotiators staring down at the pages clearly understood the need to narrow differences and expand consensus if they hoped to lay a foundation for the next global conference in Cancun, Mexico, scheduled for the end of the year.
    As in the past at climate talks, however, the Tianjin convention was marked by international friction and little action. Negotiators refused to make concessions and instead repeatedly broadcast pessimistic signals. Scars on the text remain.
    The October 4-9 event at the Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center was the first hosted by China in the 20-year history of the talks, which are designed to reduce man’s impact on the planet’s climate. But there was nothing new about the dead-end results.
    Sino-U.S. Dispute”
    http://english.caing.com/2010-10-14/100188334.html

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