36 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten calls for the removal of article 266b of the Danish penal code, which restricts speech on the putative grounds of racism.
    Excerpt (translated):
    “By removing these articles, Denmark could take pride in being a European frontrunner in protecting freedom of expression. In this way, Denmark can show the fundamentalists of offense-taking that there are better and more civilized ways to organize a multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious society than constructing new limitations to our freedom as European societies become more pluralistic and new minorities are arriving. By doing so, Denmark would also send the European Union a clear signal that the more diverse a society becomes with respect to culture and religion, the more important it becomes that this development be accompanied by a variety of expressions.
    “This is something long understood in the United States of America, but this understanding does not seem to have dawned in any European governments.”
    (…)
    “The Danish article about racism (§ 266b) was originally created as a reaction to European anti-Semitism of the 1930s. It made it possible to punish those spreading false rumours and accusations against a population group and thus incite hatred and persecutions. The article was meant to be used to counter lies, like the classical anti-Semitic legend that Jews drink the blood of Christian children and other nonsense.
    “The article was not meant to be a tool to shut the mouth of those having politically incorrect opinions…”

  3. Guy Lonechild says he is sorry. He appologized to the FSIN, The First Nations people, and his Family for his DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION. Well Guy, how about an appology to the people of Saskatoon. Yes, the Men, womem and children you could have run down in your drunken stupor. I thought I had just about heard everything and you come up with sOmething new. “I was comming home from a game of golf and ebded up DRIVING DRUNK in Downtown Saskatoon.” Guy Lonechild, mouthpiece of the FSIN is a GOOD FOR NOTHING DRUNK DRIVER. THROW HIM IN JAIL AND SET AN EXAMOLE.

  4. Viral video – DEA agent shoots himself in the foot
    (h/t The Blaze – full story on how a gun safety talk to parents and children went south fast…)

  5. History’s plaything
    By David Warren
    Four days ago I wrote that, “No one can predict what will come of” the Egyptian demonstrations, “until fresh factors come into play.” Let me update that. Mohamed ElBaradei — the man who ran interference for the Iranian regime, against Bush, when he was chief UN atomic weapons inspector —
    http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/

  6. Here’s a question to all who have logged on to SDA today (and I am 100% serious!), have you noticed any unusual background audio such as birds chirping, perhaps people shuffling and moving stuff around, etc. ? Whatever it is, it’s triggerred and lasts for 5 or 10 minutes whenever I click on ‘comments’ to read commentary.
    Never happened before, but it’s been that way all day.
    Anyone else experience this?

  8. Yukon- Ok, I don’t remember where I might have done that. Now, how do I kill the sob?
    Any help much appreciated.

  12. Hey Snagglepuss, relax, 😉 don’t feel bad. I thought I was loosing it and it took me a half an hour to figure out what was shaking and I do not remember ever hitting play button. Maybe it knew I wanted to look at it later.
    Cute little car. It would fit nicely in the back of my Sierra.

  13. When Suzuki first entered the North American automobile market I must admit to buying one of those little jeeps….it fit in the back of my truck.

  15. I’ll bet you that little car probably generated more air pollution per mile than a modern Ford F-150 with a V-8.

  16. Yukon, Synchro, Ken- Relax? RELAX??
    Is this like the evil monkey in Chris’s closet on Family Guy? Only perceptible to its hapless patsy?
    You can see him, can’t you?
    Now, how can I make him dead?

  17. Snagglepuss – you kill the monkeys by moving your mouse to the time bar at the bottom of the little picture-box and dragging the going-along-thingee to the end.

  18. Snagglepuss: ” … audio such as birds chirping, perhaps people shuffling and moving stuff around, etc. ?”
    I read somewhere that’s what a brain tumor sounds like.

  19. Thanks Mamba, tried that (several times, in fact), but still persists. And it definitely is the background sound of the NG monkey tapes.
    Maybe Infinity2 has it right though. I hope not.
    I’ll shut down system completely- that’ll snuff ’em.

  20. EBD
    That wee “Peardrop” car is really neat. Whatever became of it? Was there a decent production run?

  22. I’m glad that you got out of the monkey business, Snagglepuss. Thank-you for the link to David Warren, Revnat Dream. Warren has a frightening and thought provoking take on the Egyptian Crisis – and I fear that his take on the situation is not incorrect. I wish America had a different President! I miss GWB more than ever before.

  23. Left-liberalism’s Gifts.
    (H/T Liberal O’Harvard Iggy & “The Electric Reliability Council of Texas”.)
    >>> “The Electric Reliability Council of Texas”.
    O + Red-Green Fraud.
    …-
    “Sudden Split Recasts U.S. Foreign Policy”
    “After days of delicate public and private diplomacy, the United States openly broke with its most stalwart ally in the Arab world on Wednesday, as the Obama administration strongly condemned violence by allies of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt against protesters and called on him to speed up his exit from power.
    Egypt’s government hit back swiftly.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/world/middleeast/03diplomacy.html?_r=1
    …-
    “We Spent Billions on Wind Power… and All I Got Was a Rolling Blackout”
    “The Electric Reliability Council of Texas said 7,000 megawatts of generating capacity tripped [“tripped” means failed]Tuesday night, leaving the state without enough juice. That’s enough capacity to power about 1.4 million homes. By rotating outages, ERCOT said it prevented total blackouts.
    “We have the double whammy of extremely high demand, given the lowest temperatures in 15 years, combined with generation that’s been compromised and is producing less than expected or needed,” said Oncor spokeswoman Catherine Cuellar. Oncor operates power lines in North Texas and facilitated the blackouts for ERCOT.
    — above from the “Dallas Morning News“
    The article didn’t give a clue as to what generating capability failed, but I can make a pretty good guess: Wind energy.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/02/we-spent-billions-on-wind-power-and-all-i-got-was-a-rolling-blackout/

  24. AGW Progress Report.
    This is a record-ing, record-ing, reco….
    …-
    “Big Dig Begins Following Record Groundhog Day Storm
    The clean-up will continue today after the snowiest Groundhog Day in Ottawa’s history
    A major winter storm that hit the US midwest, Ontario and Quebec before heading east dumped 15 cm of snow on the Capital.
    It set a record for the biggest snowfall on February 2nd in Ottawa, breaking the previous record for snowfall of 6.9 cm of snow in 1963.”
    http://www.cfra.com/
    …-
    “Brutal Subzero Cold Gripping More than a Dozen States
    On the back side of the record-breaking Groundhog Storm, brutally cold air has drilled into areas from Montana to Minnesota, Texas and New Mexico.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/

  27. AGW PR: Brought to you by left-liberalism.
    …-
    “Man who killed sled dogs asked SPCA for help on two separate occasions
    Vancouver Sun”
    …-
    “Check Out The Incredible Spike In The Price Of Electricity In Texas Today”
    “The weather story is having a big impact on companies and associated commodities today, but this may be the biggest move we’ve seen thus far.
    In Texas, the price of electricity has surged as a result of the recent storm.
    The rolling blackouts started Wednesday as a result of the weather, and have continued today, according to the Wall Street Journal.
    But just what does that look like for energy markets? ERCOT (Energy Reliability Council of Texas) has seen on peak prices in its Northern Territory spike as high as $330.64 per megawatt hour today.
    Just yesterday those prices were at $70. In the days before, they were trading between $34 and $45.”
    http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-this-alarming-spike-in-the-price-of-electricity-in-texas-2011-2

  28. Small cars like that are called “cycle cars” and there are 100’s of different models out there. Google “cycle car” and you’ll find several online museums. Some manufacturers of cycle cars were relatively successful and remained in business for decades.

  31. “U.S. condemns attacks on journalists in Egypt
    CNN International”
    …-
    “A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined.”
    “. . . in the background, unseen, the new forces are fighting one another by buying the press.”
    “. . . in the background, unseen, the new forces are fighting one another by buying the press. No tamer has his animals more under his power. Unleash the people as reader-mass and it will storm through the streets and hurl itself upon the target indicated, terrifying and breaking windows; a hint to the press-staff and it will become quiet and go home. . . . A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined.”
    “The systematic enforcement of controlled agitation requires a constant drum-beat of inflammatory slogans and shifting targets, a process that Orwell elsewhere likens to a blow-torch, which can be turned in any direction at will. In Spengler’s words, “What the Press wills, is true. Its commanders evoke, transform, interchange truths,” and “the needle of public opinion,” precise as any gauge, swings round to the new party line. As in 1984, agitprop is cynically directed toward the thought-control of entire populations by “The dictature of party leaders” who aim to bring people “en masse . . . under their own mind-training” for the sake of limitless power. For Spengler, this dynamic recalls the rigorous “expression-will of early Gothic . . . but cold, controlled, and Civilized” in the worst sense of the word. On June 18, 1940, four days before the fall of France, Churchill exploited the conventional picture of the Gothic to the same effect when he warned England that,
    if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
    By 1940, the word “civilized” had indeed taken on a sinister meaning. In a grim corroboration of Churchill’s speech, Orwell begins The Lion and the Unicorn with the following terse remark: “As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me.””
    “The History Of A Metaphor (2)
    From the desk of Steve Kogan on Wed, 2011-02-02 20:00
    This is Part 4 (B) of “‘I See Further Than Others’: Reflections On Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West and The Hour of Decision”, a serial essay by Steve Kogan.”
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4669

  32. Are we low on bees? A dippy person I know sent me this:
    “Let’s build a giant global buzz calling for these dangerous chemicals to be outlawed in the US and EU until and unless they are proved to be safe.”
    Howsabout you prove they’re not safe before we demand that the super-state put people out of business? While you’re at it, explain to us why we need a tonne of scary bees?

  34. Mao Al-Stlong* Lepolt.
    Call for Al-Moreice*.
    Q: Y do you ask?
    A: Y Al-MaoCA.
    H/T AlMohammedan’s Boys In the ‘hood.
    …-
    “small dead animals: Maurice Strong in the News *
    Claudia Rosett does some investigating into Maurice Strong’s murky dealings in the U.N.: … Strong and the YMCA; Strong and AdScam Chretien-Martin; Strong and Harvard University Library, etc.
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005511.html
    …-
    “WaPo: Muslim Brotherhood ‘Inspired’ By YMCA
    Big Journalism ^ | 2/2/2011 | Dana Loesch, Ed.
    I can’t make this up.
    Inspired by the YMCA when it was founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been under a ban since 1948, and its real size is difficult to gauge. The group was brutally repressed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s. Since then, it has at times been propped up as a foil – especially for Western audiences – with periodic crackdowns that have sent many of its members to prison.
    In what way was the Muslim Brotherhood “inspired by” the YMCA?
    (Excerpt) Read more”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2667993/posts
    *Al-Mao Stlong is Canadian Liberal leader Bob Rae’s Uncle Mo Strong.

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