25 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. QOTD:
    “We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him.” — Nicolas Sarkozy

  3. National Post, Friday, Feb. 11. Child care article from Laurel Rothman (Campaign 2000), Katherine Scott (Vanier Institute of the Family), and Martha Friendly (Childcare Resource and Research Unit): i.e., the usual suspects.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/need+national+child+care+program/4262391/story.html
    LR et al: “The idea of a national childcare program has been around since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women put it on the political agenda in 1970. Arguing that reliable child care is fundamental to women’s equality in employment, the Commission recommended that ‘the federal government immediately take steps to enter into agreements with provinces leading to adoption of a national Daycare Act.'”
    There is no such thing as “equality in employment”, apart from the fact that every man and woman has the right to look for employment as he or she chooses.
    LR et al: “Most mothers now work outside the home — the first good reason Canada needs a national childcare program. Since the Royal Commission’s report, mothers’ labour-force participation has more than doubled. Young mothers work to contribute to family income, to keep their families out of poverty and to pursue careers — just like young fathers. As the Vanier Institute of the Family notes: ‘Most women and men expect to have jobs and careers. [Given] the high cost of living, most families require two earners to achieve an average standard of living.'”
    Before Big Government and the welfare state started exploding, standards of living were rising much faster than they do now. The reason families need two working parents is (a) the strangulation of the free market economy through high and convoluted taxes, regulation, and subsidization; (b) the enormous numbers of handouts to worthless activist groups like Campaign 2000. Free the economy, let the activist groups sink or swim on their members’ donations, and maybe families won’t need two parents working any more.
    Having said that, since many women have as much ambition and skill as men, obviously it’s fine for women to work if they choose. But the real solution to the child care issue is for the economy to become so productive that people could work a full but shorter work week within three days. Then parents could at least attempt to arrange opposing days off so they could alternately look after their kids. The truly tragic part is that we could have been there long ago if it hadn’t been for the wastefulness of Big Government over the past four or five decades.
    LR et al: “Overall, the research solidly supports the benefits of high-quality early childhood education and child care for young children …”
    LR et al: “A national child-care program will have clear goals, objectives, targets and timetables –and ongoing evaluation — participation by three levels of government and the community, a well-planned approach and adequate public spending.”
    How often do government programs provide clear goals, objectives, targets, etc.?
    When does government ever provide “high-quality” anything?
    These people are selling snake oil.
    LR et al: “Good child care so parents can work, study and participate in their communities while children thrive is in the best interests of all Canadians– as are public education, publicly-funded universities and publicly-funded health care. A thoughtful national child-care program can become a real social program like those at which Canada used to excel.”
    Public education institutions have graduated thousands of illiterates after decades of dumbing-down, public universities are being taken over by the lunatic human-life-hating theories of the extreme left, and public health care involves long waiting lists for non-emergency care. One can look at any Auditor-General’s report to find out how government programs usually turn out. There is no reason to think national child-care would be any different.
    The real reason for advocating national child care is not to help children, but to spend more taxpayers’ money with little accountability, and probably to keep the government grants coming.

  4. We’ve seen this rodeo before!
    Voters in Switzerland are due to go to the polls in a referendum aimed at restricting gun ownership.
    If approved, it would end the long practice of Swiss men keeping their weapons at home both during and after compulsory military service.
    Weapons would have to be registered and owners prove
    they know how to use them.

  5. The “Liberal” mindset by [d]:
    rationalisation – the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
    (when in fact anybody with any sense knows that the rationalizer is full of shit)
    Dialectic argument: – Is only seeing things in binary – 1 or 0, for me or against me friend or foe
    (no grey areas)
    the attacks on Sarah Palin are a prime example)
    This is how they operate.
    Do you want people like that running your life?
    Then vote for them, I choose freedom.
    PS I studied Philosophy under John Woods.

  6. Allan West delivered the keynote speech at CPAC to day. It was a barn-burner and the crowd went nuts.
    It’s about 30 min long if you are interested.
    Some highlights;
    We must end making more people dependent on government.
    Excessive taxation and regulation must end. We must end the EPA.
    We must eliminate the 1600 additional IRS agents that the American people do not want.
    Peace begins with courageous leaders. Political correctness has no place in our national security strategy.
    We cannot give constitutional rights to terrorists while we imprision soldiers for killing terrorists.
    China is a communist country that is using capitalism against us.
    “I shall never let Israel down.”
    Never abandon our values. Without this critical third pillar we are incomplete as an American society. We must honor our language as the common bond that makes us all American. Never allow multiculturism to grow on steroids in American political correctness.
    We must respect and honor the unborn.
    http://texasgopvote.com/allen-west/cpac-2011-lt-col-allen-west-closes-cpac-rousing-speech-002505
    The video of his speech:
    http://www.therightscoop.com/allen-wests-keynote-speech-for-cpac-2011
    It was a Palin red meat special.

  8. Sometimes the logic of the left is beyond belief:
    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/02/12/new_epa_rules_will_create_jobs/
    The author clings to a university study like a sea rat to a floating corpse. And slips the inconvenient truth into a brief graf near the end:
    “… the US Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s top lobbyist and the group President Obama sought to mollify in a speech this week. Citing the new air pollution rules as an example, the letter said EPA rules “ensnare multiple industry sectors and have economy-wide costs usually measuring in billions or even trillions of dollars … the cumulative impact can be overwhelming. The result: industries are effectively regulated out of business.’’

  9. PPS:
    They will hate you for having a free, open mind
    being “drones or sheeple) they suffer from jealousy. And they hate anybody that’s made more of themselves than them, (personally, money has nothing to do with it)
    For example: If a guy who has “flipped the bird”
    at authority his entire life (but has skills; might be me) gets promoted over a guy who is incompetent but kisses ass, and that guy decides to sabotage the department to try to make that guy look bad———-thats the mindset—-[d]

  10. PSSS I almost forgot the megalomaniac desire for control over everyone, everywhere, when control is an illusion. I’m done, rant over [d] out.

  11. And if Jeffrey simpson hadn’t done enough to prove his ignorance on issues within Canada and on global warming he now has gone into middle Eastern affairs:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/why-did-ottawa-drag-its-feet-on-mubarak/article1904399/
    A snip: “… if Egypt were looking for inspiration, it could do worse than use Turkey as an example. There, a blend of moderate Islam and democracy has brought political stability and economic recovery, and a strong military that’s finally come to accept democracy.”
    Apparently he hasn’t been keeping up to date:
    “Today, the AKP party with almost a two-thirds majority in parliament, rules Turkey like a one-party state. The party ignores the opposition and has abandoned efforts to reach out to any constituency beyond Anatolian Islamists. It awards state positions, for example, almost exclusively to Islamists.[10] Still, even as Ankara backslides away from democracy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Abdullah Gül leverage the European Union accession process to create an illusion of tolerance and reform.”
    http://www.meforum.org/article/2047
    In columns like this simpson moves from being quaint throwback to being a hazard. But perhaps not – how many people read him for anything beyond humor.

  13. RIP Y2Kyoto in Ontario? But at what cost to taxpayers did McGuinty pursue this Green Energy bullsh*t? Samsung signed on for a 25-year subsidy for their solar power farm.
    ——————–
    So Friday afternoon was an ideal time for Ontario’s Liberal government to take a big chunk of its alternative energy program and chuck it overboard.
    […]
    Turns out there just isn’t enough scientific evidence that offshore wind projects do a lick of good, said Brad Duguid, the energy minister.
    […]
    On Friday, hundreds more Ontarians were told that [solar] installations they’d erected at the behest of the government can’t be connected to the provincial grid because of technical problems.
    Read more: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/02/12/kelly-mcparland-ontario-quietly-reverses-field-on-wind-solar-energy/#ixzz1DqFLsqJ8

  15. Liberal logic:
    “A University of Laval study on the Canadian Political Blogosphere
    Posted by Scott Tribe on February 12, 2011, at 8:03 pm |
    (snip)
    I have the link to the study, so if you’d like to participate, fire me off a message, either in the message board here, or in email, and I’ll send you the study’s URL. (I removed it from this posting, which the researchers asked if I might post this request at my blogsite. I decided to do so, but have decided to remove the URL the link to the study’s questions from being publicly shown, because I feel the researchers are risking “freeper” contamination from people who don’t blog who might want to give the impression their particular political persuasion blogs the most.”
    http://scottdiatribe.canflag.com/2011/02/12/a-university-of-laval-study-on-the-canadian-political-blogosphere/

  16. Breaking Wind: One Red-Green Liberal McGuinty At A Time.
    Liberal Red-Green Fraud Confirmed.
    >>> Liberal McGuinty: The Pharaoh of Liberalism.
    >>> “*Good thing the Eagles hedged their bets with 2,500 solar panels.”
    …-
    “Ontario solar projects put on hold”
    “A thousand mostly rural residents across Ontario who were awarded solar energy contracts last summer have been told their projects have been put on hold.
    That has left many with tens of thousands of dollars invested in projects for which they now have no prospect of getting any income.
    “I’ve got $70,000 sitting right out in my backyard,” said Brian Wilson, who lives near Belleville, of his 10-kilowatt solar array. “I can go two doors down and they’ve got $70,000 invested, too.”
    But they’ve both been told that they can’t connect to the electrical grid because of technical issues.
    “It’s a mess,” says Kim Doherty of Farmed Energy Inc., who supplies solar equipment. He started getting calls from clients this week, saying they’d been told no connections are available for their projects.
    One of his clients, a father-and-son team near Strathroy, made a $170,000 down payment on solar equipment, and built four concrete support platforms at a cost of $20,000 each, Doherty said.
    They’re supposed to make another $170,000 payment on delivery in a few weeks. This week, they got notice that only two of their four solar arrays can be connected.
    The notice that Wilson got from Hydro One gave no time frame for when he might be connected, or when money would start flowing.
    “Some applicants are facing system constraints and will not be able to connect until system upgrades are made,” the letter said.”
    http://www.thestar.com/business/article/937782–ontario-solar-projects-put-on-hold
    …-
    “Small Wind”
    >>> “*Good thing the Eagles hedged their bets with 2,500 solar panels.”
    “That meant a surge of tower and rooftop turbines on the market, and a whole bunch of new consumers who had no idea about what sort of turbine might work for their home. For many, the allure of a windmill on the roof, powering the fridge and the lights, was strong. Quickly, rooftop turbines became the poster children for small wind. The media helped to feed the hype machine: Many articles about small wind in the last two years have run alongside photos of roof-mounted turbines; after all, they look much cooler and more modern than tower-mounted windmills on big plots of land. The small-wind industry has been complicit, as well, letting the disparity between hype and reality slide. Now, however, manufacturers find themselves needing to educate consumers quickly or risk turning them off altogether. The fear is that if rooftop wind proliferates, it won’t be long until people start complaining about broken turbines, and the same magazines and Web sites that were thrilled with rooftop wind last year will be lambasting it next year.
    Take, for instance, the Philadelphia Eagles’ plan to install 80 rooftop turbines atop their stadium, a move that garnered much applause when announced in November. Given the stadium’s proximity to other large venues, it’s hard to imagine those turbines getting the consistent, unobstructed wind they need. The turbines may look cool and green in an artist’s rendering, but if people notice that they never seem to be moving, it won’t necessarily be a great advertisement for small wind. Good thing the Eagles hedged their bets with 2,500 solar panels.”
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41554507/ns/us_news-environment/

  17. Mao Stlong Lepolt (via Xinhua).
    Gleetings flom Beijing. You wan “electrical batons and rifle butts.”?
    How many you wan?
    Send quota to my nephew, Canadian Liberal leader Bob Rae @Iggy.libcaca.
    …-
    “Yemeni forces repel massive protest march towards presidential palace”
    “SANAA, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — A brigade of the security forces repelled a massive anti-regime demonstration with thousands of protesters from approaching the Presidential Palace in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Sunday, beating them with electrical batons and rifle butts.”
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-02/13/c_13730385.htm

  20. Mohammed’s Box-ploding.
    Al-Duce’s Return.
    …-
    “I have asked for urgent intervention by the European Union because the Maghreb is exploding,” Maroni added, referring to the North Africa region.”
    “Italy meanwhile said Sunday it was planning to deploy its security forces inside Tunisia to stop a wave of immigrant arrivals, as coastguards intercepted another 1,000 immigrants from the North African state.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

  23. “Switzerland rejects tighter gun controls”
    “Swiss voters have rejected proposed tighter controls on gun ownership, final results show.”
    “Twenty of the 26 cantons and 56.3% of voters rejected the plan, meaning the current system allowing army-issue weapons to be kept at home will remain.”
    “The far-right Swiss People’s Party, which opposed the move, described the result as “the Swiss people’s affirmation of their proud shooting tradition”, AFP news agency reported.
    “A disarmed army is a weakened army. The Swiss people have recognised this. With today’s ‘no’ on the weapons initiative, they have clearly rejected those army abolitionists,” it said in a statement.
    There are an estimated two to three million guns circulating in Switzerland.
    No-one knows the exact number because there is no national firearms register, our correspondent adds.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12441834
    …-
    In AlMoh’sLand:
    “Egypt’s army dissolves parliament”.

  25. I figure it was a persons laundry list.
    University of Arizona experts determine age of book ‘nobody can read’
    While enthusiasts across the world pored over the Voynich manuscript, penned by an unknown author in a language no one understands, a research team at the University of Arizona solved one of its biggest mysteries: When was the book made?
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/uoa-uae021011.php

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