43 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Maz2 already posted this great news at the tail end of the last Tips thread, but….it’s just such a happy way to start a new thread:
    “MPs will investigate the CBC and how the state broadcaster releases — and sometimes refuses — to reveal information to the public.
    Conservative, Bloc and New Democrat MPs all voted Tuesday in favour of having the Commons access to information committee study the CBC in the New Year.
    “’I wanted to make sure that if we are going to study this that we not only bring CBC executives but bring in a broader cross-section of individuals,’ said Tory MP Paul Calandra who tabled the motion calling for the study.
    “’Canadians expect us to show them how their $1.2 billion a year in subsidies to the CBC is being spent and I think it’s high time Parliament got down to it.’
    “Liberal MPs abstained from the vote….”

  2. It isn’t just the Conservatives that dislike the Liberals getting a publicly funded billion$ communications department.

  3. It isn’t just the Conservatives that dislike the Liberals getting a publicly funded billion$ communications department.

  5. Funny thing, was watching the National and Mansbridge did the intro to a piece on natives and spending, saying that some say there needs to be more transparency, more accountability, that many demand answers to unanswered questions about salary disclosures, and he even threw in something about access to information, too. And he kept a straight face throughout. Amazing.
    Just goes to show that while Jason Alexander’s “George” character was fictional, there are people like that in real life too.
    I wonder if Mansbridge does — or has done — lectures at journalism courses at post secondary institutions. He probably uses Constanza’s line… “Remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it” to inspire the next batch.
    This guy is true reptilian.
    FIRE. THEM. ALL.

  6. BO’s Rahm Emanuel is in a Chicago courtroom trying to satisfy the residency requirement to run for mayor of Chicago. Former Senator Carol M. Braun, excuse me, M.-Braun is also in the race, unless her petitions are thrown out because they weren’t notarized by the notary whose seal appears.
    As much as I dislike Cook County Democrats, I don’t think living in Washington (rather than Virginia or Maryland) should be held against residency in Chicago. The District of Columbia was never intended to have full-time residents, merely to serve as a home for the members of Congress and the Administration with Usual Homes Elsewhere. That’s part of the reason DC residents don’t have a vote in the Senate or on the floor of the House.

  7. What, no Neal Peart?!
    The strings always have so much emotion in them, gotta love bowing. And rosin. And the ritual with the device. And…whoah, I just went away there for a second.
    PiperPaul (ex-violinist)

  9. The pinko doesn’t fall far from the tree.
    When the Globe entitles the column Layton’s motion ridiculously PC and a waste of time, you know you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel (to borrow a phrase from Don Cherry).
    “. . . [Mike Layton, Jack!s son] motion recommends that ‘Toronto City Council disassociate itself from the views expressed by Maclean’s in its article entitled ‘Too Asian?’ and request that Maclean’s apologize unreservedly for the negative stereotyping of the Asian-Canadian community.'”
    This of course was a Macleans article that showed Chinese kids to be superior students, honky kids to be superior slackers.

  11. I’ve always been rather partial to the Red Priest. I love the baroque period, the harpsichord is a lovely instrument.

  12. EDB
    From your link…”The committee will meet in the new year and select witnesses. Hearings will likely happen in February or March”.
    likely?

  17. Al Gore: The Greatest Environmental Hustler? NBCC
    google; National Black Chamber of Commerce

  19. Greate tips, ES (1:32). Interesting news.
    Syncro (12:23), the word “likely” in the phrase “will likely happen in February or March” refers to the time frame, and not to whether or not the hearings into the CBC will occur. The hearings will happen because they were voted for by the HOC.
    I love Calandra’s subducted-warning-of-a-phrase “I wanted to make sure that if we are going to study this that we not only bring CBC executives in but bring in a broader cross-section of individuals.” It pretends (wink-wink) to diminish – almost elide – the significance of the fact that CBC executives will be cross-examined by diverting (*cough-cough*) to the spectre of lower-level employees also having the…obligation… to answer some questions.
    To see the seated CBC execs as the propagandizing, entitled bureaucrats that they are, and to have the proceedings *covered* by other non-taxpayer-funded outlets will be great.
    The CBC pooh-bahs will either have to either answer questions or be seen to refuse to answer the questions; either way, it’s a win-win. How will the CBC cover this Commons access to information committee as it plays out over days or weeks? Will they attempt to spin it? Will they elide it? Will they try to bury it, even as it’s covered by other media outlets?
    Btw, big-time kudos should go out to select Canadian MSM journalists – Brian Lilley, Adler, certain regional reporters, and the Sun chain of newspapers and their editorial boards – who’ve refused to participate in the journalistic omerta that has largely smothered media coverage of the CBC’s “right” to propagandize at taxpayers’ expense, and to compete, with an unfair advantage, against privately owned news outlets.

  21. Friends of CBC needs our Help!!!!
    Apparently there a corrupt Conservative plot is “Killing our Public Broadcaster! The only balanced news station in Canada……. apparently.
    http://www.friends.ca/ILoveCBC/
    Don’t forget to tell Mr. Ian Morrison (the Friend of CBC) what you think of his idea on this email address (he responds if you act like an overpaid government employee before yo slip the knife in.
    Yours Truly
    John Galt, Galt Gulch BC
    ian.morrison@friends.ca

  24. As referenced yesterday in Reader Tips, in addition to writing to Friends of the CBC, why not write these gents to register a thumbs-up about the government investigation into how the CBC spends our money? It’s good to keep this on the radar, RCGZ!
    pm@pm.gc.ca
    Dean Del Mastro, Parliamentary Secretary to the Canadian Minister of Heritage:
    delmad7@parl.gc.ca
    The Honourable James Moore, Minister of Heritage and Official Languages:
    Moore.J@parl.gc.ca

  25. Last comment of the morning, honest!
    The Librano$’ abstaining from the CBC investigation vote tells you everything you need to know about who’s in bed with whom and confirms that the CBC shills for one political party in Canada.
    As per usual, the Grits are more concerned about covering their backsides than representing the interests of Canadians.

  26. Love the music EBD!
    I already signed that petition at CBC friends…as Dean (Del Maestro) Rocks 🙂
    WRT CBC as I have mentioned before there is a good LOCAL CBC radio program called Morning North, out of Sudbury. No Trawna elitism, no bias during any election,very relevant, very popular. The rest of CBC could be canned and nobody would notice.

  30. (PDF warning) Carl Forsberg, Counterinsurgency in Kandahar
    Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign
    During the summer of 2010, the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) launched Hamkari, a comprehensive military and political effort to secure Kandahar Province. Hamkari, or “Cooperation” in Pashto and Dari, involved both a series of aggressive military operations to deny the Taliban control of key terrain around the city and a civil-military effort to improve governance and development….
    As of November 2010, Afghan and ISAF forces had neutralized the Taliban’s ability to conduct operations and control the population in central Kandahar province….

  31. Leo Shane III, Lakin facing jail time for guilty plea at start of ‘birther’ court-martial
    Even if Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin can prove that the president isn’t an American citizen, the 17-year soldier will still be going to jail.
    Lakin, an Army physician who refused deployment to Afghanistan earlier this year because he believes Barack Obama cannot legally be president, will face up to 18 months in prison and dismissal from the service after pleading guilty Tuesday to charges of refusing his immediate commanders’ orders during his protest of the president….

  32. With event video:
    The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction
    On Tuesday, December 14, 2010, author and academic Nelly Lahoud spoke at the New America Foundation about her newest book, The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction. Her comments focused on modern jihadi discourse as well as historical trends of Islamic dissent. Much of her lecture explored comparisons made between modern jihadis and early Kharijism (a seventh century splinter movement)….
    The problem with scriptural rigidity—as practiced by the Kharijites and groups like al Qaeda today—is that it produces dissent within groups and distaste among a broader, more moderate public. Strictness can create a plurality of jihadis who might share very general goals but disagree on theological details. A united front of jihadists, according to Ms. Lahoud, will most likely never materialize because of this. And, although today’s jihadists differ greatly from the Kharijites, they share a common destiny of irrelevance because their views produce hostility within their own ranks and beyond. Such conclusions suggest modern jihad could prove self-destructive.

  33. After frequenting your blog for about a year I finally figured out what “Reader Tips” is — it’s where readers can give their tips! Duh me.
    So here’s an updated “tip” I wrote elsewhere where it didn’t belong:
    “I haven’t seen mentioned on the blogs that Reverend Charles McVety’s TV show has been taken off the air by the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council. Whatever one’s position on McVety he has made reasonable criticism of legislation that allows pre-op trans-sexuals into women’s washrooms (i.e. “women” who still have penises). He has also raised legitimate concerns about homosexist sex education for children without parental consent. So they took McVety off the air, according to CTV news, with the blessing of anti-religious bigot Marci McDonald whom they interviewed for the piece. CTV’s Lloyd Robertson threw in his own little smear as well, claiming that McVety was “a big powerful televangelist” connected to the big U.S. religious networks. What a crock of bull — McVety has a little one-man show on a small Canadian specialty channel for a couple hours a week. And the humongous CTV network has the gall to smear the little guy as a “threat”.
    Related: While McVety legitmately exercises his democratic free speech rights and criticizes Gay excess in Canada, Cuba has signed support for the criminalization of homosexuality in Iran and 5 other countries that impose the death penalty on Gays (http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/?p=2129).

  35. Here’s the latest NASA news on the huge solar global eruption that occurred on the sun on Aug 01 2010.
    Events of this size are very rare and hard to study therefore we do not know the complete story of how they actually affect the earth.
    Strange as it seems, the AGW crowd thinks the sun has little to nothing to do with our weather on earth.
    They apparently do not have the capacity to understand the scale of the size of these solar events, which dwarfs anything we do here on earth.
    http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

  37. @ Charles MacDonald: Jihadism as a self-destructive force.
    Nelly Lahoud may well be proven correct, but I would humbly submit that it may well take a generation before the fires really burn themselves out.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  41. I’m surprised.
    First, I’m watching the David Foster Special, Andrea Bocelli and David Foster: My Christmas, on WNED.
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/andrea-bocelli-david-foster-my-christmas/preview-of-the-concert/868/
    Second, there is a definite emphasis on the real Christmas story: the Christ Mass. (Santa is in evidence but no Frosty the Snowman … at least, not yet.) Andrea Bocelli shares memories of his childhood Christmases in Italy, where the church is a central feature, David Foster mentions that he sang in choirs, and more than half of the songs/carols are Christian centred, including Ave Maria and The Lord’s Prayer.
    My sense is that there’s a recognition that a culture needs glue to hold it together and that before the Great Secularization of our Western societies, beginning with the Enlightenment and accelerating since the ’60s, it was our identification with our various Christian churches that gave us a common narrative and bound our humanity together. In most towns and villages, even to this day, it’s usually the churches that bind the community together for the good of all — including the good of atheists and secularists.
    I think it’s beginning to sink in that a society under Shari’a Law would look very different from one with Christian foundations and active Christian churches. (Toronto’s downtown core would be a dystopian wasteland without the many churches’ outreach programs.)

  43. David Foster should be shot, however, for the segment with Andrea Bocelli and The Muppets.
    What was he thinking?

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