41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Juxtapose:
    1.

    CBC is requesting payment for six hours of searching through emails, briefing notes and other documents related to the (Access to Information) request.

    2.

    The state broadcaster spent $59,160 shedding documents and destroying records in 2006.

  3. I’ve sung this sweet, gentle carol at church on Christmas Eve. Pure Rutter.
    Thanks, EBD.
    Re your juxtapose, when did principle ever motivate the shysters at the CBC?

  4. “I’m thinking neither Jane Taber or Justin Trudeau are happy with the Grope and Flail headline writer right now.
    Posted by: syncrodox at December 20, 2010 10:17 PM”
    Clue me in, please. Doesn’t the columnist write the headline to go with his/her column?

  6. An interesting report on how the French cities manage to keep the “riffraff” away from the neighborhood.
    French cities prefer fines to social housing
    http://www.france24.com/en/20101220-french-cities-rather-pay-fine-invest-social-housing-municipal-urban-planning-fondation-abbe-pierre-homeless
    Municipal authorities across France prefer to pay fines rather than invest in deeply unpopular social housing projects because paying the fines is cheaper and helps win votes
    Take note that in Portugal, they seem to get the drift as to how to cut the government spending.
    Portugal sinks in silence
    http://www.france24.com/en/20101209-reporters-portugal-sinks-silence-economic-crisis-socrates-austerity-measures-pigs-imf-europe
    … civil servants’ salaries are to be frozen or even cut…

  7. Dave in Pa
    It is my understanding that in many cases the columnist does not write the headline. I came across a recent example at another blog where Chantal Hebert snapped at a commentor that she wasn’t responsible for writing the headline in her piece.
    That coupled with Jane’s propensity for Liberal cheer leading, I find it hard to believe she would intentionally equate the Liberal prince with a hooker slapping sham wow shyster.
    Of course I could be wrong.

  10. Without getting into every freaking thing wrong with the above article, the building shown in post #2 is in Cordoba, and it was built from parts of a Christian Church that they looted and stole pillars from. Why do you THINK it has double arches? This was during the century-plus long prohibition against building or maintaining churches.

  12. Sure, they look nice and peaceful when they are singing … but, I suspect, they would haul me out and kill me if I tried to sing with them.

  16. Dave in Pa at 10:34 PM, not necessarily, especially in print on paper, because it depends how the composition people arrange the article – (ie) across the whole page or down one long column, etc.

  18. safety forced at 11:14 PM, I guess you’ve never heard about the PEW studies.
    Here’s some info for your enlightenment:
    http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/205312.php
    http://www.bloggernews.net/18886
    http://pewglobal.org/2010/02/04/mixed-views-of-hamas-and-hezbollah-in-largely-muslim-nations/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism#Muslim_attitudes_toward_terrorism
    http://www.bigpicweblog.com/exp/index.php/weblog/comments/pew_poll_shocker_just_like_in_europe_children_of_assimilated_muslims_in_us
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/05/peering_through_a_glass_halffu.html
    http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3544
    Sorry for the link dump, Kate, but the boy just has to be educated.

  19. EBD, beautiful music, thanks. I am constantly annoyed at those that say “I don’t like 20th century music”. There is lots to like. Let alone Rutter, how about Morten Lauridsen? (and not only his name!). His O Magnum Mysterium is totally awesome. (And of course Samuel Barber and Gershwin are both 20th century composers, blah blah, etc.)
    Here’s Lauridsen’s OMM:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ch7uottHU&feature=related

  20. safety forced – how disappointing; a piece in the often brilliant and surprisingly well-researched Cracked which was completely stupid.
    Louise, read his post @11:18.

  24. Germans dump AGW – maz2
    Good one maz2.
    Pretty hard to push AGW when your’re up to your axles in snow!

  26. At Power Line: “Ham? Don’t Mention It!
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/
    “It sounds like parody, but this story from Spain is evidently true: . . .
    “The teacher, José Reyes Fernández, with more than 20 years in the profession, was explaining to the class how the cold climate in Trevélez, Granada province, aided in the curing of the village’s most famous local product, jamón serrano [ham]. The boy told his teacher that hearing the word ‘ham’ in class was offensive to him because of his religion and asked his geography teacher to stop referring to the product which caused him offence. . . .
    “El Mundo newspaper reports that the boy’s parents then reported the teacher to both the National Police and to the courts. They placed a denuncia against the teacher for psychological ill-treatment in the context of xenophobia and racism.”
    This is the demeaning of teachers I’ve been mentioning for years and that Victor Davis Hanson wrote about yesterday (posted by me at Reader Tips).
    Yes, the world’s being run by crazy people. The school/court should just give this kid a choice: shut up, stay home, or go to a Muslim school. In one’s dreams.

  27. More snark from AGW Progress Report.
    …-
    “Europe weather chaos delays repatriation of slain Canadian soldier
    Globe and Mail”
    “How does extreme cold weather affect body, ball
    ESPN”
    “Snow adds to NHS winter pressures
    BBC News”
    “Maritimes hit by another winter storm
    CBC.ca”
    http://news.google.ca/

  28. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-eric-holders-blunt-warning-terror-attacks/story?id=12444727&page=1
    Attorney-Genaral Eric Holder warns of “the enemy within”, “within” being home America,and home grown terrorists.
    Holder skates around the elephant and never once mentions anything the terrorists have in common,namely, a certain religion.
    The only hint is mention of the home grown “radicals” common influence by
    “radical cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki,and American citizen himself”.

  29. Everybody’s favorite dictator Hugo, has now decided to go farming.
    “Farmers have developed this land that was inhospitable and has now become the miracle south of the lake (Maracaibo). Many farmers gave their ives to farm the land and now they treat us like common criminals”, complained Fegalago President Jesus Iragorri.
    Who does Hugo think he is – the Canadian Wheat Board?
    http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Chavez_farmers_square_off_over_land_seizure_999.html

  32. Also, when you consider that Chavez has oil money to support his fanatical views, surely he’s as much a threat to the West, or at least America, as any other dictator or religious nutbar on earth.

  33. Well, that John Rutter was not only wonderfully funny on Three’s Company, but he’s a talented composer, too.
    What? Why are you all looking at me like that?

  38. AGW Progress Report: Update.
    “Adrian MacNair: Angry earth delivers stern lecture on global warming”
    “I wish I were joking. The beginning of an Associated Press article carried by the Canadian Press carried by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:
    This was the year the Earth struck back.
    Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed more than a quarter of a million people in 2010 — the deadliest year for natural disasters in more than a generation.
    The Earth “struck back”? Sounds like a really bad B-movie.
    And just what the hell is a “super typhoon”? Is it a typhoon that wears a cape and spandex tights?
    Here’s the end of the article:
    Scientists say Earth’s climate is also changing as a result of man-made climate change, bringing more extreme weather, such as heat waves and flooding.
    That is why those who study disasters for a living say it would be wrong to chalk 2010 up to just another bad year.
    Debarati Guha Sapir of the World Health Organization said the planet often strikes back as a result of bad decision-making by people.
    The thing is, the worst disasters this year were caused by earthquakes (Chile, Haiti), while the chaos in Europe was due to the explosion of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The last time I checked, man-made tectonic plate movement was something even Al Gore didn’t try to sell.
    Now, I’m certain our friend Debarati Guha Sapir would blame the current ice age in Europe on climate change (cold being the logical conclusion to a warming planet), but I fail to see how she can blame earthquakes on poor decision-making.
    It’s pretty specious to blame a quarter million deaths on global warming, too. Lumping everybody who dies as a result of floods, drought and hurricanes into one big catch-all category called climate change is the surest path to confirmation bias.
    Hey look, somebody just drowned in a flood. Climate change. Oh no, a drought killed thousands in Africa. Climate change. A storm killed a dozen people in the South Pacific. Climate change.
    The end result of such imbecility is a new generation of children who actually believe the planet is an entity and strikes back at people.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/12/21/adrian-macnair-angry-earth-delivers-stern-lecture-on-global-warming/

  39. Yes, and no doubt the last Ice Age was caused by the planet striking back at Fred Flintstone!
    Angryman Adrian Macnair should familiarize himself with the old phrase – when the gods seek to destroy a man, they first make him crazy.

  41. Heard the latest?
    A certain EX-MP and floor crossing heiress of an autoparts manufacturer will be stepping down from her job and the reason has been left for anxious OPG gawkers with nothing to do but speculate. One rumour has her taking the job of president of the federal liberals, as previous attempts at hostile takeovers where rewarded with the bums rush from not one but two federal parties. Sources unnamed by the ever effulent Jane Taber, suggest the job of liberal president will be offered in return for a resolution to the LPC’s finacial woes.
    Well what can we say except, if you can’t win in the arena of ideas, buy em out.

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