37 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  4. Under the heading: Your betters celebrating the just punishment meted out against a ruthless mass murderer.
    Take 1.
    Turned on the radio just now, and some lying libtard mouthpiece is becrying the ‘backlash of violence’ directed against the Religion Of Pieces “…it’s just like after 9-11”
    Guess which taxpayer funded theofascist supporting network would proffer such drivel?
    Here’s a hint.
    I am pro-choice.
    I want to choose whether i have to pay for this crap, or not.

  6. Re strange fonts and other strange happenings that others have mentioned: the “Rumsfeld On Record” thread seems to be the locus and the instigator of that, for my computer.
    First, on the day it showed up, the video disappeared: there’s an unusual picture—dark green tinge—with a simple, as in an ad, pastoral drawing of hills, roads, a river, and huddled cows in the foreground. In white letters, in the middle of the screen are the words, “Sorry. This video does not exist.” At the bottom of the picture is the word “vimeo”.
    The font of the comments is decidedly strange, especially the names of the posters, which are a combination of fonts and italics. I’ve never seen anything like this here before.
    The same day, my computer did some astonishing things, one being that, on its own, it seems, it deleted my computer’s browsing history. Also, for a few days, I could NOT get SDA to remember my personal information: I had to type in my name and email address each time. (It seems to remember me now.) I have Kaspersky protection and, since that day, it’s been alerting me to reports of suspicious behaviour. It does seem that something very unusual has happened as a result of that thread.

  7. Another strange thing: The font of the posts by Kate, EBD, etc. are now a different, bold, sort of like Verdana font, while the comments are a different font. I believe that the two screens—original post and comments screens—used to have the same font. (I assumed that the font change was an innovation.)
    It seems that this started the same time as the other anomalies.

  10. I don’t know what’s happening with the fonts/display, lookout. Everything’s displaying normally at this end, but a few other commenters have mentioned it, so something’s obviously going on. Hmmm.
    RT: Salman Rushdie:

    Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man, was found living at the end of a dirt road 800 yards from the Abbottabad military academy, Pakistan’s equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst, in a military cantonment where soldiers are on every street corner, just about 80 miles from the Pakistani capital Islamabad. This extremely large house had neither a telephone nor an Internet connection. And in spite of this we are supposed to believe that Pakistan didn’t know he was there, and that the Pakistani intelligence, and/or military, and/or civilian authorities did nothing to facilitate his presence in Abbottabad, while he ran al Qaeda, with couriers coming and going, for five years?

    […]

    As the world braces for the terrorists’ response to the death of their leader, it should also demand that Pakistan give satisfactory answers to the very tough questions it must now be asked. If it does not provide those answers, perhaps the time has come to declare it a terrorist state and expel it from the comity of nations.

  12. Chretien is urging Bob Rae to assume interim Liberal leadership role. Rae says Chrétien isn’t his official agent for leadership, but he is a former prime minister who feels strongly about the Liberal Party.
    This from an archive thread from kate:Follow the Power Corp money.
    And what’s got into the Globe and Mail? It’s not often you see the incestuous political ties between top Liberals and PowerCorp mentioned in this context;
    Mr. Kenney was clearly referring to Power Corp., the conglomerate founded by Paul Desmarais Sr. His son, André Desmarais, now the co-CEO, is married to Mr. Chrétien’s daughter, France, and Mr. Chrétien’s long-time campaign manager and adviser, John Rae, is a senior Power executive.
    Chretien’s endearing love for the Liberal ends right here. Power Corp. can’t wait to get their meat hooks back into the Prime ministers office.

  13. re: Merkel
    I’ve dealt with too many leftist Krauts. It’s an unfortunate reality that we wasted the nuclear deterrent on Japan.

  14. This extremely large house had neither a telephone nor an Internet connection.
    `EBD
    Yes, but the roof was festooned with about 8 seperate groups of military grade UHF antennae and there was a 40 ft tall long range radio transmission tower in the second half of the compound separate from the main living quarters.
    All of that was visible in the photos that were available in the first 24 hours of the breaking news.

  15. I wonder what that crackpot German judge thinks of von Stauffenberg’s attempt to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.
    Does Germany have a judicial council or anything? With threat of disbarment for bozos who obviously shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the legal system?
    Germany is screwed up, and obviously its justice system tops the list. They couldn’t even send to jail the clown who stabbed Monica Seles. Losers (in ways deeper than WWs 1 and 2).
    But after all, Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel – the twin destroyers of planet Earth – both came from that country, so what else should we expect?

  16. Where is the outrage over Hudak’s blatant reversal of his pledge to eliminate the HRCs?

  19. (Snide, mean-spirited conservative comment: “Hey, Harper, leave those kids alone!”)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SlKA2Rgq20
    Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’.
    http://lyrics.rockmagic.net/lyrics/pink_floyd/the_wall_1979.html
    Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1).
    Daddy’s flown across the ocean
    Leaving just a memory
    A snap shot in the family album
    Daddy what else did you leave for me
    Daddy what d’ya leave behind for me
    All in all it was just a brick in the wall
    All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
    Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2).
    We don’t need no education
    We don’t need no thought control
    No dark sarcasm in the classroom
    Teachers leave the kids alone
    Hey, teacher, leave the kids alone !
    All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
    All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
    Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3).
    I don’t need no arms around me
    And I don’t need no drugs to calm me
    I have seen the writing on the wall
    Don’t think I need anything at all
    No, don’t think I’ll need anything at all
    All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
    All in all you were all just bricks in the wall
    Of course, all this has to be read *in context* by a qualified professional psychologistorian to explain the lyrics if we want to fully understand it.

  20. Just a question:
    If you smell a fart in an elevator populated by corporate executives (upon whose success you rely), everyone is choking and you didn’t sqeek one out yourself, should it be mentioned?
    Or should you just pretend nothing happened?
    This is not a ethics/morality test or question, it’s related to global warming.
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.”
    Cheers,
    PiperPaul

  22. How to win friends and influence people: Libby Davies blasphemes on CPAC, after not getting enough air time in her humble opinion:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obwb1vE6uxU
    (I know you’ve posted this above, Mississauga Matt, but just in case readers don’t click on your link … here’s a precis of the video; thanks for posting it, MM. Davies is a petulant, bigoted whackjob. God have mercy on us, she’ll have a leading role in Layton’s caucus. ‘Great role model for the kids.)

  23. If you’d like to send some friends an article from the CBC’s website, then the CBC would like $20. If you want to print six copies of an article, the CBC wants $10. And if you’re interested in posting an excerpt of an article to your blog, then the CBC is interested in charging $500 to your credit card for each year your post is online.
    http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/05/06/cbc-want-to-email-our-articles-pay-us/
    What a rip off. Why do Canadians have to pay their national broadcaster anything, seeing as they already get $1.2 million a year from our tax dollars?
    FIRE. THEM. ALL.

  26. Must-read by Kelly McParland: “How to fix the Liberal Party”:
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/05/06/kelly-mcparland-how-to-fix-the-liberal-party/
    Forget the past. Trudeau can’t help you. Chretien can’t help you. Laurier can’t help you. No one cares that you think you invented health care. …
    Quit using the word “progressive” as if it only applies to you. Because every time you do, you’re insulting everyone else.
    For your next leader, don’t pick an academic who lives in Yorkville. Nothing against smart people or academics. Let’s just say people notice when a guy can’t bring himself to actually live in his constituency, which is a 20-minute subway ride away.

  27. EBD 12:24AM, We’re relieved to see that strange fonts have appeared on others screens – was it Arabic or what – creepy…

  28. EBD, It just happened again – regular font switched to “whatever it is” font. Refreshed this time and back to normal. This is the only site it’s showing up on – two days now.

  29. Font issue: It’s been going on for about a week. I’ve been clicking refresh at which point it immediately clears.
    Sultan Knish knocks another one out of the park: Killing the Bin Laden Within
    A group of Navy SEALS may have stormed a Pakistani garrison town and taken off the top of Bin Laden’s head, but he still lives on in the heads of the political establishment. The big Bin Laden has gone to feed the sharks, but it is the little Bin Laden who dictated that he receive a Muslim burial, forbade the release of the death photos and warned off the town of Virginia Beach from celebrating their hometown heroes [that lives on].
    The Sultan can be sloppy betimes, often needs a spot of editing.

  30. More on Libby Davies:
    Davies’s partner is Kimberley Elliott, rabble.ca’s part-time publisher since August 2006.
    http://rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/1741
    (No need to go to rabble.ca … here’s a brief, and predictable, bio of Ms. Elliott …)
    … Kim came to rabble.ca in 2004 after conducting interviews with wonderful feminists from across the country for Ten Thousand Roses: the making of a feminist revolution.
    She has graduate degrees from Concordia University’s School of Business in non-profit administration, and from Carleton University in Comparative Literary Studies, where she was a member of CUPE 4600.
    She has worked for ten years as a consultant on federal employment equity legislation, and aspires to perhaps one day complete a doctorate started in Sociology…
    Kim can be sighted most frequently searching for a good cup of coffee in Ottawa, Toronto or Vancouver, and spends as much time as she can with her partner, Libby Davies. …

  31. “NDP’s Vegas devalues politicians
    By Rob Granatstein, Toronto Sun”
    No link necessary.
    It’s a swamp of leftist recrimination.
    The PET Cemetery is jammed with new arrivals.
    A few words show the shock administered:
    “The federal election last Monday has turned my world upside down.
    My value system is entirely off kilter.
    How else can you comprehend what this country did?
    I used to think if you worked extremely hard, were a community leader, maybe had a good education and were innovative, you could get ahead.
    That pound of sweat, the risks, they all meant something.
    Then I see who some of our new political “leaders” are.”

  32. Anybody notice that Bell Satellite TV has a note about Sun News being removed at the request of Sun News effective May 3?

  33. Re the font-y weirdness, I’m not seeing it here at all, so would one of you who’s having the problem be so kind as to send a screenshot to Kate?

  34. Does the crazy font problem have anything to do with having opened that video of Rumsfeld?
    I never opened it and I’m not having any problems with the font at SDA. Could the craziness be connected to that vid?

  35. Who was? “He was spread out buck naked on a massage table.”
    Factual error: Jack Layton was not “buck naked on a massage table”.
    Jack Layton, aka Taliban Jack LaytoNDP, was naked on a bed.
    The legacy of Jack Layton, MP, leader of the NDP, is recorded/archived by the MSM for posterity: naked.
    What image/picture comes to mind whenever the name Jack Layton appears/is seen/heard/whenever Layton rises in the House of Commons? Naked Jack Layton of the NDP.
    …-
    “How naive can he be?”
    “I ‘m starting to wonder about this Jack Layton guy.
    How can somebody so naive be so close to being the top dog on the Hill?
    What kind of sheltered life did he live as a teenager?”
    http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3113275

  36. Watched most of the above Hillier-Levant interview. Ugh Hillier was terrible. I’ve lost a lot of respect for him. Ezra gets credit for hammering on him.

  37. EBD, I don’t know how to do a screen shot.
    At your sensible request, I copied and pasted, into Word, the font weirdness at the Rumsfeld comments and at the topics posted here since. The unusual fonts reverted to normal once pasted. (To post this, I also had to provide my name and email address again as it seems I’m not remembered, again.)
    Please let me know how I can make a screen shot of the anomlies.

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