27 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Iron Shrink:
    “According to the authors of an interesting new study, narcissists have insight into the facts that 1) others aren’t as enamored with them as they are with themselves, 2) others are often impressed with them at first, but that admiration fades, and 3) others view them as arrogant…”

  4. andycanuck, that’s very interesting. One thing to note is that with the CWB gone, pressure on American producers might actually increase. Canadian producers will want to sell their grain locally if they can, whereas the CWB would ship it out in bulk.

  6. Yes Rita, but that’s how it’s pronounced after having had a few too many libations of that excellent distillate. Not that I would have any idea,,,,, oh nooooo.

  7. I wonder why kate refuses to go onto the sun news network?
    Can you give us a little insight kate i think you would do great!!

  10. Nah the Columbia-Canada deal was in the MSM during the PM’s Latin American tour. I read two articles in Canadian newspapers criticizing the trade deals (Honduras too). It was standard boilerplate faux human rights outrage masking a dislike for the politics all parties involved. If the PM had signed a free trade deal with Chavez these same journalists would be tongue bathing the PM.

  12. The “useful idiot of the chattering classes” comment thread is not working …
    From the third and final link: “Communism was seen as fascism’s political opposite and natural enemy”
    The truth is that communism and fascism are identical twins, as both theory and history show, and both derive from the philosophies of Kant and Hegel. The only difference is in the targets – race for the fascists, wealth or “class” for the communists. The opposite system, under which people’s rights are respected, is laissez-faire capitalism.

  13. Try getting the pronunciation right on this:
    “I say, has anyone seen Chamondely St John Featherstonehaugh? Just in the parking lot and his
    pet jaguar, Juanito, is going berserk in his new Jaguar and ripping up the seats at a great rate.”

  14. Behind AGW’s Red-Green Door.
    AGW is a gigantic red-green herring diverting attention away from the natural end result of leftist ideology: FAIL.
    “One of the first questions the photographs, taken by Serban Bonciocat, raise is the propriety of their aesthetics: for they are often of great beauty, the photographer obviously having taken great care with their formal composition. Is it permissible to aestheticize evil and disaster? Is it to become complicit with it?
    I once faced this question in a particularly acute form.”
    The case history is Romania.
    …-
    “Romania: The totalitarian tourist trail”
    “Following the example of China and North Korea, Romania will soon have its own tourist trail devoted to the glories of Communism. More than 20 years after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, the country’s ministry of tourism has announced the creation of a “propaganda itinerary,” which will take in specific places that figured large in the life of the “Conducător.” According to the minister concerned, the initiative is justified, among other reasons, by the fact that “50 per cent of Romanians, who believe that life was better under his rule, regret the passing of the dictator,” while “40 per cent believe that Communism was a good thing.”
    For columnist Sabina Fati, “Dictators continue to exert an appeal even after their death. However, democratic governments avoid entering into a spiral of posthumous fascination.” She also points out that tourist initiatives that focus on dictatorships in other countries, like Germany and Serbia, tend to be “organised by the far left – the glorification of the Berlin Wall – or private entrepreneurs – Tito’s ‘Blue Train'”. However, “No government minister in Madrid would ever dream of creating a tourist trail that followed in the footsteps of Franco.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766662/posts
    …-
    “June 2009
    Always in the wrong place
    by Anthony Daniels
    On the relics of oppression.”
    “The photographs are of the vast industrial complexes built under Ceausescu in Romania that have, as the title suggests, fallen into ruins; they fell into ruins the moment captive markets for whatever they produced were freed to buy anything else. Untold acres are of land are now deserts of crumbling ferro-concrete towers, surrounded by polluted land of evil coloration, with pools of water that could almost serve as national repositories for toxic chemicals. Steel rods emerge from much of the concrete, twisted like the antennae of insects in their death agony. Even in the ruination you can detect from the quality of the construction that there was no human pride in the work in the first place; it was all slapdash folly from the beginning, with inevitable collapse built into it.
    Fields of rubble; forests of abandoned chimneys; enormous skeletons of concrete girders; vast vertical plains of corrugated iron and smashed windows; processions of square concrete columns leading nowhere except to churned-up wasteland; rusting iron staircases rising or falling to or from a void; immense trellises of ironwork, supporting nothing; crumbling concrete tanks, silos, and water towers. It is as if a gray-brown organism that solidified into immovable detritus had invaded the earth and spread malignantly, eating up the landscape for miles around. Only occasionally is a village to be seen in the background, in the midst of which there is a church—anything not of ferro-concrete now appears like a masterpiece by Brunelleschi. But the vast industrial complex of ruins dominates all: the horizon, the eye, one’s very thoughts. There is no escaping it; as there was never any intention that you should be able to escape it.
    No humans are to be seen; one has the impression that, at last, an environment has been created in which even rats cannot live. All that survives in the wasteland is a spiky, dry vegetation that takes on the same coloration as the ruins and that is able to grow where there is much cadmium, arsenic, lead, manganese, and other metals in the soil.”
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Romania-News/message/8772

  15. B’O Red-Green Diddeler: Crime Fighter.
    H/T NewYork Slimes:
    “Mr. Lucero said he considered each placement a success because his primary mission was to steer residents of the city’s most violent neighborhoods away from a life of crime.”
    …-
    “Feeding The Masses On Unicorn Ribs”
    “Walter Russell Mead”
    “Besides healing the planet and returning the rising seas to their natural beds, then-Senator Obama promised that his administration would create beautiful green jobs: well paid, stable, abundant jobs, unionized, with full benefits and making the earth healthier and the American people richer.”
    http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/19/feeding-the-masses-on-unicorn-ribs/
    …-
    “Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/us/19bcgreen.html

  16. “I say, has anyone seen Chamondely St John Featherstonehaugh?”
    Sgt Lejaune, I think our friend’s name would be pronounced “Chumley, Sin-jen [e = schwa sound or unaccented vowel] Fanshaw”, n’est-ce pas?

  18. Tony Blair’s Britain… even the arts crowd are leaving
    —————————
    New wave music giant Gary Numan is planning to emigrate to America after watching the devastating riots unfold in his native Britain earlier this month.
    […]
    “The other day my wife was walking down the High Street and a bunch of kids between 12 and 14 were telling her what they would like to do to her. She had my children with her. You’ve got to be kidding.”
    […]
    “You ask the teenagers [in Santa Monica] for directions and they are polite and helpful. Do that here and you are as likely to get stabbed as you are to get directions. The fact is the English are pretty miserable.”
    http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2011/08/20/18579071-wenn-story.html

  19. From today’s Sun TV News:
    “In fact, the rookie Sun News battered CTV News Channel Aug. 18, by bettering it in every time slot between 1 p.m. and 10 p.m. This counts as the first stretch of BBM Canada viewership ratings victories for Sun News sustained over a nine-hour run.
    In addition to the Sun’s dominance over CTV News Channel in that period, Sun News topped CBC News Network with its Canada Live, Daily Brief, Byline and Charles Adler programs.”
    http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/entertainment/archives/2011/08/20110821-084125.html

  21. Interesting facts, re. American Presidential campaign backers:
    “If these Big Money-funded groups end up playing a vital role in the presidential race, it’s a certainty, as Wertheimer frets, that they will surface in most congressional elections the next time. By then, all the checks and balances instituted after Watergate will have been rolled back.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/hunt-super-pacs-line-their-coffers-for-2012-battle.html

  24. Yes, Black Mamba!
    And “Worcestershire”, as in the sauce, is pronounced “Wooster” (“oo” as in “foot”). Gloucestershire is pronounced “Gloster” (“o” an in “on”).
    Those Brits!

  25. Lookout, they say that if Niagara Falls were located in England, they’d pronounce it “Nuffles”.

  26. lookout – in Oxford there is a sport which involves tricking American tourists into saying “Magdalene College” the way it’s spelled (naturally the correct pronounciation is “Mawdlin”). Or “Caius College Cambridge” – that’s “Keyes”.
    Look, the Brits don’t have a lot going for them these days. Take that, yankees!

  27. I am gobsmacked! All correct with the obscure.
    But it seems everyone missed the obvious extra
    point for jag-war and Jag-u-r.
    Well done!

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