50 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. The caring, sharing left:
    Mavi Marmara rider Ken O’Keefe pays tribute to his buddy Vittorio Arrigoni, the Italian pro-Palestinian activist who was kidnapped and murdered in Gaza, and places the blame for his murder on collaborators and agents of…the Jews.
    Feel the love for all mankind.

  7. The poll tells more about the networks viewership or more accurately its lack of viewership – check out how many have voted.

  8. Letterman was all over Trump’s peek-a-boo presidential campaign.
    Informal poll:
    Don or Dave?
    Who do you think is more intelligent?
    Who do you think has more money?
    Who would make a better president?

  9. It is in Regina. Seat of government largess, unions and we are going to have a Prov. election soon. As Gormley has said expect a Provincial strike soon.
    It’s the way they roll when they can’t get anyone elected.
    Lingenfelter has said the Province has run potash before so they will tax the crap out of them ’till they can’t make money and the gov’t takes over.
    What Stinky forgets is they were the only ones to lose money on potash.
    Bye Duhwayne.

  11. From the comments on the Ken O’Keefe video, it looks like Vittorio Arrigoni was murdered because the Gazans found out he was gay.

  12. Dwayne, I dunno…So far everyone I’ve asked in my family watched the debates. We were expecting more than we heard.

  14. Turkey’s Cautionary Tale
    As Der Spiegel notes, the arrest of Sik and Sener shows that the AKP’s early embrace of investigative reporters and championing of a free press was purely opportunistic. Once Sik, Sener and the other 66 jailed reporters had finished discrediting the military, the regime had no need for them. Indeed, they became a threat.
    http://www.carolineglick.com/e/

  16. “Stéphane Dion called for Guergis firing in 2008”
    http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/
    …-
    “Dion accuses cabinet minister of security breach, calls for resignation”
    “Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 | 3:11 PM ET”
    “CBC News”
    “Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has called for the resignation of a Tory cabinet minister, claiming she endangered his life by announcing his plan to visit a provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar.
    Speaking to reporters in Quebec, Dion said Helena Guergis, secretary of state of foreign affairs and international trade, made a serious breach of security in a statement she released to the media about his trip with Deputy Leader Michael Ignatieff.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2008/01/16/dion-afghanistan.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4da91b241cc85a0c,0

  19. “Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has called for the resignation of a Tory cabinet minister, claiming she endangered his life by announcing his plan to visit a provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar.
    I would like assure Mr Dionne that Canadian troops are more professional and disciplined than that. Just because they don’t like him doesn’t mean that they would kill him.

  23. Leader’s debate from Steve Paikin’s point of view (‘a case of the MSM’s being part of the story?):
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/steve-paikin-behind-the-scenes-at-the-election-debate/article1987549/page2/
    After a couple of questions, Mark [the executive producer] told me: “You need to get Layton into this segment more.” So I did. Because all the early action was directed toward Mr. Harper, the Conservative leader had taken a disproportionate amount of air time.” At one point, I had to cut him off when he tried to talk over NDP Leader Jack Layton. Even in the moment, it did occur to me that this was something not many people had ever done.
    ‘Telling, isn’t it? ‘Blaming PM Harper for taking “a disproportionate amount of air time” when the reason is that the three thugs had directed all their ammunition at Mr. Harper and the rules do allow for him to rebut if there’s been a personal attack, which the majority of Ignatieff’s and Duceppe’s were.
    At least Paikin revealed PM Harper’s humanity in this cameo of him in the first national leaders’ debate in 2006:
     [Paikin]: “I don’t know what you guys are so nervous about,” I said to them. “You’ve all done this before. I never have.”
    For all the criticism that he’s wooden and humourless, it was actually then-opposition leader Stephen Harper who had a funny comeback.
    “Yeah,” he said, “but you’ve got someone talking in your ear to help you. We’ve got nothing.”

  25. Liberals bring in big guns for crucial final stretch
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/liberals-bring-in-big-guns-for-crucial-final-stretch/article1987896/
    Stuck in the polls with no sign of a post-debate bounce, the Liberals are turning to former prime ministers Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien to rally the troops down the final stretch.
    Barf.
    Why don’t they bring in Bob Rae, as well? He could repeat the “let democracy bloom” line to great effect, I’m sure.

  26. Paul, most reader tips are ignored (often because I get the same ones from multiple people). Don’t take it personally. 😉

  27. “*Liberals moving from ‘hope’ to fear as Tory majority looms”
    >>> “Get ready for the politics of fear to chase hope from the hustings.”
    Fear: ” fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister’s apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes.”
    “Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister’s apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes.”
    (Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)
    …-
    “*Liberals moving from ‘hope’ to fear as Tory majority looms”
    “”Hope is us,” Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff declared at a recent election rally. “We are hope.”
    At another campaign stop, he said: “We’ve got a contest in this election between the politics of fear and the politics of hope. And we are the party of hope.”
    But for all of Ignatieff’s Obama-esque invocations of the H-word ahead of Canadians’ trip to the ballot box on May 2, the Liberal leader and his war-room spin-masters appeared to be reworking their rhetoric this week with a potential Conservative majority coming into view at the campaign’s midway point.
    Get ready for the politics of fear to chase hope from the hustings.”
    http://www.timescolonist.com/Liberals+moving+from+hope+fear+Tory+majority+looms/4627537/story.html

  28. Paul…I usually follow links and stories on readers tips, but I don’t always respond here.
    I think that is the general trend.
    Hope that helps.

  29. 50 years since the Bay of Pigs invasion,
    John F.Kennedy, during the Kennedy / Nixon televised debate:
    “The Republicans have allowed a communist dictatorship to flourish eight jet minutes from our borders! We must support anti-Castro fighters. So far these freedom-fighters have received no help from our government.” Candidate (not to be confused with subsequent President) , JFK, Oct. 1960.
    John F. Kennedy, April 17, 1961:
    “Two planes, Mr. President!” Admiral Burke sputtered into his commander in chief’s face. The fighting admiral was livid, pleading for permission to allow just two of his jets to blaze off the carrier deck and support the desperately embattled freedom-fighters on that heroic beachhead.
    “Burke, we can’t get involved in this,” replied JFK.
    “WE put those Cuban boys there, Mr. President!” the fighting admiral exploded. “By God, we ARE involved!”
    …
    ‘Ammo finally ran out. “Russian tanks overrunning my position,” San Roman on his radio again, “destroying my equipment… How can you people do this to us?” Finally the radio went dead.”
    http://bigjournalism.com/hfontova/2010/10/10/about-those-kennedy-nixon-debates-jfk-lied-cubans-died
    Humberto Fontova, writing at Big Journalism, and at http://www.babalublog.com
    50+ years of communism, an island enslaved. … Kennedy returns to Camelot…

  30. Marc, I remember the Bay of Pigs and how Kennedy left the fighters to die on the beach because he wouldn’t provide the PROMISED air cover. His inaction led to the Cuban Missile crisis where Castro urged Krushchev to fire these nuclear WMD at the US.
    Yet today we still have leftist turds like Trudeau praising their uncle Castro despite the thousands he has murdered over the years in his island prison camp.

  33. Steve Janke at Angry in the Great White North is
    on a roll with the last 4 topics he posted on the Libs et al.

  34. I’ve been trying for months to comment over at AGWN and when I try to register, it rejects the temporary password his server gave me!
    Frustration! I finally said to heck with it. Too bad, because I really like Steve’s blog. ‘Too high tech for me … 🙁

  35. That’s AGWN’s loss, batb. I’ve really been enjoying your superb comments at Ezra’s and elsewhere.
    Did you ever think about starting your own blog?

  36. Hope vs Fear (again). Ibbitson/MSM reads SDA.
    Root for Hope*.
    …-
    “Liberals drop gloves with attack ad on Harper’s ‘secret’ health agenda
    Globe and Mail – John Ibbitson – ‎1 hour ago‎
    Fear trumps hope, the Liberals have decided, with a hard-hitting new attack ad accusing Stephen Harper’s Conservatives of a secret agenda to cut health care”
    (googlemews)
    H/T *O’Hopeless Liberal Count ignatieff.

  37. GG, Gov Palin just handed the union bosses, Bambam AND the GOP their collective backsides in her speech in Madison.
    Haven’t found links to the video yet, but there will be video. Guarenteed.

  40. A quick reminder; Today is the one year anniversary of Pablo’s wild ride. The unbiased CBC has exactly one (1) story on the incident.

  41. batb
    Maybe try and re-register with a new name such as bat-BE, maybe that will be a work around. Just a thought.

  43. G, I didn’t really get the reference to why the Badgers would be giving fighting lessons, it seems they’re the US women’s NCAA Div. 1 national champions.
    http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-hockey/wis-w-hockey-body-main.html
    “Wisconsin ended the season on a 27-game unbeaten streak, posting a 25-0-2 record since losing to Minnesota Duluth on Nov. 28, 2010. The Badgers capped the streak with a 14-game winning streak, Jan. 29 through March 20, after tying a pair of games against Minnesota Duluth and Minnesota in mid-January.
    The team finished with a 37-2-2 overall record, marking the most wins in a single season in NCAA women’s hockey history. UW also ended the season with a nation-best .927 winning percentage.”

  44. Congress controls the US budget. It removes the budget for executive supported offices, which are only answerable to the President, and the President says: “Yah,boo,sucks”
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/16/obama-keeps-czars-despite-budget-deal-eliminated/
    This is bad blood and has ruined his presidency. Congress will not trust him any more; they will vote the budget they want and the arsehole is fodged (Portuguese). Couldn’t happen to a finer man.

  45. Hi marc in calgary @6:20:
    Her ref. to the Badgers is in keeping with the meme of taking it to your opponent, not compromising or capitulating, as the GOP did on reducing their targets on budget cuts.
    Her speech showed the crowd and the GOP how to take it to Oblameya and his policies. She used a hockey team to tell the GOP elites that their people want them in it to win it, aggressively, no retreating.
    In other words, finish your check, thats how you win the corners and the game.
    The Wisconsin people got it.
    She showed the GOP how to go after Oblameya yet again. Call out the lies and do it hard. And remember the people who put you there in 2010.
    All done without a teleprompter.
    I thought Badger ref. was a great metaphor for her to use,channeling back to her “hockey mom”/Pit bull analogy in 2008.

  46. Just scrolled though to Monday afternoon on the SunTV HD channel here on Eastlink in Halifax.
    It is showing the SunNews TV line up from 0700 on.
    That’s channel 610 for those of us living in the Warden of the Atlantic.

  48. I have heard of non-citizens in Calgary getting the shiny new voter cards. My daughter got one sent to me. She doesn’t live here. Never voted here. I make it a habit to not be on the voter’s list so why did I get a card? I swear an affidavit instead.
    I submitted a comment on a CBC thread asking if Elections Canada had teamed up with Acorn. Illegal ballots are counted.
    What the H is going on? Why are we paying taxes to educate the young when they are following what happens in the ghetto?
    Mob is an apt word. Waste is another.

  49. Fich — That’s totally weird. Having said that, I think Cheryl is having a hard time and would welcome any excuse to get out of a debate. She is not the Conservative’s strongest candidate — but I know that riding and Libs had little to offer with Hector Cloutier either. (He was the guy with the hat — it’s a weird riding.) Now they have flown in a candidate from Toronto, but that lacks credibility for sure. I think Cheryl will come through again (many love her in the “valley”). And she will remain on the back benches.

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