44 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. CTV had their obligatory retarded streeter story where they seek out people who can’t identify who the PM is. Sure enough they found some. But overall I’d say Harper won the day. At least based on what I saw on Global and CTV. Didn’t catch the CBC.

  4. Via Drudge
    Don’t kid yourself this is what the environ-facsists want here as well. This is the age of Luddites. No wonder Obama is obsessed with high speed rail.
    EU to ban cars from cities by 2050
    Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8411336/EU-to-ban-cars-from-cities-by-2050.html

  8. [Quote]I used to decry the concept of tenure, suspecting it made professors coast in class, but now I see it as a fence standing between us and the intellectually primitive[/quote} Heather Mallick
    Robert W,
    That is one sick puppy…intellectually primitive indeed…She stands tall among a pile of turds…

  9. Robert, I read Mallick’s column earlier today.
    Her incoherent screed would be cover your eyes awful if it was posted on some third rate leftist blog.
    It is beyond embarrassing, I’m really worried about her grip on reality.

  10. I had Adler on in the background and apparently missed that portion. I had to reread the article a couple of times in order to actually believe that someone wrote this and it wasn’t a joke.
    Imagine if she chose to attack Iggy this way. She would likely start by fabricating a story about how the average Canadian had ancestors that settled this country through hard work and had values that included storming Juno beach to free Europe while his ancestors instead ran Jewish Pogroms and came here with the equivalent of millions of dollars… oh, never mind…

  12. Robert W., I just read Heather Mallick’s diatribe and was really shocked. How does she get away with publishing such virulent hatred? Who pays her?

  13. I’m telling you all, a large number of Canadians – not saying a majority, but a large percentage – very much agree with the sentiment that Mallick puts forth.
    I’ll never forget the time before the last election, or the one before that (I can’t keep track), when a 30-something female friend/colleague of mine here in Vancouver told me with absolute conviction & sincerity that if Stephen Harper won a majority gov’t that she’d lose all rights to her own body.
    Needless to say, I don’t talk with this woman any more but this kind of chatter occurs within the Leftist Bubble Chamber ALL the time. I hear such talk at parties I get invited to throughout Vancouver. If I can bite my tongue then I actually get invited back!

  14. I think Heather is attempting to use Conservative fear about a Liberano/Dipper/Blochead coalition with Ducippi of the Commi blocheads driving the Canada bus, to ‘turn the tables’. Old as the hills tactic, ol’ Heather. Icky has Scottish and Russian ancestors – why does he never mention the Grants? Is he ashamed of them? Is he ashamed of his Mom? Did her genes make the snotty little Icky less blue blooded?
    When reading ‘The Russian Album’ (Icky’s family story) the reader can almost feel the envy and anger oozing from his bowels. Look at those estates!!, little Icky gushes – gone! Forty years ago they belonged to his family and he has been deprived of the ‘life he was bred to lead’. He is ‘living a lie’ (in his own ego); he is a blue blood and wittle him is furious about being a Canadian and thus forced into brushing elbows with regular ‘peasants’ (Canadian kids) when his not too distant ancestors owned such ‘people’ he was being asked to accept ‘them’ as peers!!
    Sad.
    His Russian uncles and grandparents seem to be good people from the bits of conversations he records. They were rather grateful to be living in our beautiful country and the uncles liked the adventures out west. The uncles led productive, boisterous lives and liked those lives. Icky frets because his Dad had to lower himself by going out west to work as a labourer on CN and ‘pretending’ he was not a count so he would not be ‘singled out’ by the grunts he was working with; you can tell that Icky believes that the grunts would have percieved the obvious well bred difference if the grunts had any intelligence!!
    Great Balls of Fire, Icky; if you were one tenth the man your uncles and dad were you would not fill others with so much disgust and revulsion. The whiny screaming from the ‘entitled’ author (Icky) makes the reader feel icky. He looks at those older relatives without any compassion, he looks at the ‘lost glory’ of their past as their only real value.
    The self portrate the author paints of himself is that of a ‘lost soul, a flashing genius betrayed by a ‘haunted’ past; it revolts the reader. He ‘feels’ he just does not ‘belong’ he was bred for ‘better things’…still he marches bravely forward through the bumpkins in Canada to try to build an isolated, insular life for his widdle self.
    Heather has her wires crossed: Icky would not cavort, in public, with her ilk, Icky only ‘acknowledges’ her ilk, when necessary. He does not like Canadians – any Canadians – red, white or purple – Icky likes the ‘idea’ of the ‘Count’ and being in the society of ‘Counts, Kings and Barons’. He is in a life long hissy fit for missing the big show by a generation.
    Nobody in Canada cares about his bloodlines and he resents this lack of ‘acknowledgment of our ‘better’ – we should be bowing and tugging our forelock and never looking him in the eye.He refers to himself in the third party,the ‘Royal We’ (aka Queen Victoria), when addressing us who he calls ‘ordinary’ Canadians/folks (the serfs, all dressed up for the country bumpkin fair, you can hear and see his contempt for all of us).
    Icky has never worked, Icky tours working places, he designates inferiors to work – he is THE count in his minds eye. Icky wants to be PM because he could then ‘show em all” by sitting smugly at royal weddings with his own ilk and with HIS own country (Canada)to boot! A rich country, under his thumb! More impotant than any of the English blue bloods because Canada is richer and bigger than any of their estates!
    Lenin was an aristocrat too! Heather and her ilk are ‘useful idiots’.

  15. Jema 54, I second that motion.
    The former Ignatieff palace in St. Petersburg is quite impressive.

  17. If you read the National Review today, please be sure to watch the Memri video clip.
    The Muslim World Needs Women Like Veema Malik
    Must-see video of a Pakistani actress eviscerating the barbarous misogyny of a two-bit mufti. 07:38
    And eviscerate she did. Even Heather couldn’t do as good a job facing down PMSH.

  18. I periodically correspond with Allan Bonner. Here’s an video I just watched on his YouTube channel. What I found most interesting about it is how the “journalist” tried her best to fabricate some outrage about the so-called scandals. Bonner would have none of it and shut her up rather quick.

  19. Jema, well written analysis above. I think ‘ET’ would be proud! By the way, I’ve been away on holidays but haven’t noticed her in many weeks. Anyone know if she is still around?

  21. Robert W. – re. your comment at 1:14, may I ask you something? It’s genuine curiosity and not some passive-agressive gambit or anything, I just wonder about this stuff; generally, do people base their personal relationships on politics? Because I don’t. I’m fond of some very leftist people with whom I have a tacit agreement on agreeing-to-disagree and rarely discuss politics; I also know a lot of people who are vaguely leftist (because that’s ambient in our society) but don’t really care about politics at all, so their “thoughts” are just water off the proverbial duck’s back to me. I would be happy to engage in honest, ongoing, no grudges held political discussions with people I respected but with whom I disagreed – I am rarely vindictive, one of my few good points – but I don’t personally know anyone I respect who wants to play ball on that.
    I also largely agree politically with more than one person I can’t stand. I never lie about my beliefs, although I often keep schtum strategically with people I know superficially and I use a pseudonym online (in case that was unclear).
    I mean, Robert’s @1:14 aquaintance sounds like a paranoid jerk, but he said “needless to say”; I’d like to hear what people have to say. Family members, like Ken (Kulak)’s NDP daughter, are I suppose excused, but I barely have any family so that’s not an issue for me.
    I hope this isn’t a totally random tangeant. I think it’s interesting.

  25. Of Count Nicolas Ignatieff, Liberal Count Mikhail Ignatieff’s great-grandfather.
    Derek at March 29, 2011 12:13 AM is referring to Count Nicolas Ignatieff, Liberal Count Mikhail Ignatieff’s great-grandfather.
    >>> “while his ancestors instead ran Jewish Pogroms”.
    PET Cemetery has exhumed this*.
    …-
    “*Full text of “The Russian advance towards India. Conversations with Skobeleff, Ignatieff, and other distinguished Russian generals and statesmen, on the Central Asian question”
    Count Nicolas Ignatieff was an anti-semitic Russian aristocrat/Tsarist Minister in the Tsar’s government who organized pogroms, mass murders of Jews.
    Here is a sample of his blood-soaked words:
    “If you have lived in South Russia, you know
    what the Jew is,” replied Ignatieff. *’ He is dirty,
    he dresses differently from anybody else, he forms
    a society of his own, and he oppresses the people.”
    http://www.archive.org/stream/russianadvanceto00marv/russianadvanceto00marv_djvu.txt

  26. Cancer Industry Prepares Assault on your Pity, Hope, and Fear.
    …-
    “Pins, daffodils fight cancer The Chronicle Journal”
    “Hopes pinned on new approach Tillsonburg News”

  28. Priceless and timely Jema; well thought out and delivered. Please Jema send that to Adler and Rutherford. This is a more important election than the one to oust Martin. This election will destroy the nation if Harper is not given a resounding majority. Remember the 62 cent dollar people!

  29. PET Cemetery Launches:
    >>> Liberal Count Mikhail Ignatieff Watch.
    “Mont Royal: Considered one of the safest Liberal seats in Canada, the Conservatives have recruited former Montreal city councillor Saulie Zajdel to challenge Liberal MP and human rights advocate Irwin Cotler. The Tories are hoping their ramped-up support for Israel helps their candidate. About 36 per cent of the riding residents gave Jewish as their religion in the 2001 census.”
    “Mont Royal a riding to watch”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Mont+Royal+riding+watch/4518627/story.html

  32. We should start an Ignatieff doublespeak log. Here are two submissions:
    No coalition = Liberal minority government
    No tax increases = corporate tax “rollbacks”

  34. Black Mamba: You posed a fair question. Let me answer it, of course from my own perspective.
    Imagine the political spectrum ranging 180 degrees from the West (Left) to the East (Right) with directly North as right in the middle. If North is 0 degrees, Left is -90 degrees, and Right is +90 degrees then I have friends/acquaintances ranging from about -45 degrees to +75 degrees.
    Trust me when I say that I’ve tried to welcome everyone into my inner or even middle circle but I’ve found that half of the Lefties and a smaller percentage of those on the Right are just too radical for me to be comfortable with.
    Could you imagine being friends with someone like Heather Mallick? I couldn’t. Could you imagine being friends with some devout right-winger who has little to no compassion for any poor person? I couldn’t.
    I think that 20 years ago I was very open to having in my life most anyone but as the years have passed my views of what’s acceptable [for me in my life] have narrowed somewhat.
    You asked, I answered. What say you?

  35. Robert says “Could you imagine being friends with someone like Heather Mallick? I couldn’t. Could you imagine being friends with some devout right-winger who has little to no compassion for any poor person? I couldn’t”.
    Robert, I find myself agreeing with you, in particular your compass degree measurement and your second last paragraph. Except that I would have to add another 20 years to your benchmark.
    I have met a few right-wingers who go too far and a whole lot more left-wingers who go too far.

  36. There are many of us out here in western Canada, including some who comment on this blog, whose recent ancestors made the same trek as Iggy’s. They fled from persecution in Soviet Union. They were persecuted because they didn’t share the marxist belief; they believed in private property and self-reliance, family and church.
    Unlike Iggy’s ancestors, they really did arrive in Canada with nothing and struggled, many through the depression, to keep body and soul together. Ultimately, most of them succeeded, some beyond their wildest dreams. The second and third generations founded farms and businesses and entered the professions and now make major contributions to the economies in, particularly, the western provinces. In my own modest way, I have also succeeded, and I am proud to be a descendant of those brave souls.
    Most of us see right through Iggy’s little and not-so-little deceptions. I don’t think Iggy can Count on too many votes among his fellow Soviet emigre descendants.

  37. Update: Liberal Count Ignatieff’s O’Harvard buddy.
    Count Ignatieff: Who’s on first*?
    O: I don’t know*.
    …-
    “No first pitch for Obama!?
    Are things really that bad? Even the traditional first presidential pitch of the season must go the way of all things fun, just because we are in 2.5 wars, a lingering recession and facing a massive federal budget problem?
    The first pitch honors this year will go to flag officials representing the branches of the military, reports the local NBC affiliate. The Nationals open their season Thursday at home against the Atlanta Braves.
    Obama’s home-opener pitch last year was deemed “awful” by the Huffington Post, and was greeted by a mix of cheers and boos from the fans. “Fail to the chief,” griped the Bleacher Report blog. Obama, a southpaw, threw it high and wide.
    (Excerpt) Read more at politico.com …”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2696423/posts
    *Who’s on First? by Abbott and Costello
    … ever take place was the following humorous exchange between Bud Abbott and Lou … Abbott: Who is on first. Costello: I don’t know. Abbott & Costello Together:Third base!
    http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml

  38. Robert W. – sounds reasonable to me, although of course the 180-degree spectrum is a necessary simplification (e.g. fiscal vs. social conservatives; left-leaning Jews who support Israel etc.).
    I wouldn’t let Mallick rescue me from a burning car, but then she is exceptionally nasty and bile-filled, which is a character flaw that goes deeper than notions about say taxation or gay “marriage”.

  39. Terry Glavin, today…
    “While I was listening to Barack Obama say uplifting things about the Libyan intervention on Monday I could have sworn I heard him more or less claim credit for the whole thing. So I checked Obama’s speech transcript, and you know what? That’s exactly what he did. No wonder Americans are so confused about what the heck is going on.”
    http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/

  40. Dear Ken & Black Mamba,
    As recently as about 5 years ago I didn’t think I could ever meet a so-called “conservative” who I wouldn’t enjoy spending time with. Then I met a few folks who – let’s say were excessively heartless and/or greedy – and I got a very bad vibe off of them. They could rightly argue that they were truly living according to the code of Ayn Rand (who I generally admire), whereas I was not. But still, I had to pay attention to my gut.
    Also, while I generally admire Christians and have several devout Christian friends, I draw the line with those who espouse their faith a little too loudly for my taste and/or try to shame me into being more of a practicing Catholic than I was in years past.
    As for the folks on the Left, it’s more easy to gauge who is a hate-filled radical nutbar. In my particular case, I’ve been cursed to have gotten embroiled with an endless number of “limousine liberals” – trust-fund babies born with the best of everything, who do absolutely nothing to give back to society, but condemn me as evil because I believe in less taxes and more responsible government.
    With all of that said, today I do have lots of dear friends who I don’t see eye-to-eye on amongst a variety of issues but they’re not radicals and I care about them deeply.
    Robert

  41. Ontario finance minister duncan just announced the ontario Budget with most going to health & education. And the closures of some jails incl the one here in owen sound.
    Is this not quite a coincidence Education & healthcare & jails.
    Sound familier should Ignatieff today talked about his New Education Idea on the campaign trail.
    And all he has done is critiqued the Tories spending on jails.

  42. Black Mamba raises a profoundly important question: should politics be allowed to screw up friendships and family relations?
    I lost two very long term friendships after engaging in political debate (global warming / Iraq) which I didn’t start but in which I foolishly engaged. One is partially rehabilitated.
    My current closest friend — a fellow motorcycle enthusiast — is very smart, very successful, very kind … BUT also very liberal.
    I freaked after receiving Michael Moore tweets from him on the very day of the Gifford shooting blaming Palin. I was about to go on the offensive but a little voice said, ‘easy now, Me, let it go … let it go’.
    In a recent discussion about the Jap-nuke situation, I casually mentioned something I saw on Beck. He told me that no one should mention that name in his presence, and he followed up with a e-mail tirade on Beck (bigot, cult, Mormon, ill-educated, anti-semite (!)) and again, proudly I demured. I merely said that with respect I strongly disagree, that I won’t bring the name up again, and that we should avoid politics altogether while reminding him that HE was beginning to bring politics into the relationship, not me. He agreed. We are both resolved: no politics.
    I was once addicted to alcohol. Presently high-end ice cream. Honestly, refraining from “correcting” my friend was not unlike alcohol withdrawal, and beginning yesterday, ice cream withdrawal. Don’t try to make your friends wrong. They’ll get it on their own, or they won’t. Who cares?

  43. Cross-posted at BLY:
    My apologies if this has already been posted.
    It appears that the CBC online Vote Compass survey is “flawed.” You can say that again:
    “Professor Kathy Brock [Queen’s University] completed the survey three times, she said, using three distinct response strategies, and was aligned each time with the Liberal party.
    “’I think there is a flaw in the mechanism that causes the survey to default to Liberal,’ she said.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/CanadaVotes/2011/03/29/17798811.html
    I you want to contact the CBC ombudsman, Kirk LaPointe, here’s his e-mail address:
    http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/contact-thanks.html
    Flawed tool = Dirty pool

  44. felis @ 1:31, ditto here, word for word.
    Robert @ 3:56, can’t argue with any of that. I have had and still do have the same experiences.
    Generally one finds out fairly early in a new relationship whether the person is right or left and whether they are so to an avoidable degree.

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