32 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Victoria Pynchon at Forbes:
    “The stereotype of men and women is business is that women take the labouring oar of consensus building while the guys do their dog-eat-dog thing in the conference room. Au contraire, says a new analysis of fifty years of research on the behaviour of men and women faced with social dilemmas…”
    The whole thing here.

  2. “It’s buying from your cousin.”
    “We have a supply (of oil) to our north that, to me, is just like finding it in America,” he said. “Dirty oil is buying oil from someone who takes the money and sponsors terrorism and tries to make the world a dark and sinister place to live.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/10/05/u-s-senator-warns-against-killing-keystone-xl/
    I hope Ezra gets to read this as it’s a sign his ‘ethical oil’ message is getting heard.

  6. Blown away by tonight’s musical selection. Thanks EBD. Another of Dylan’s incarnations and the master Johnny Cash. At the same site you can pick up Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell doing the same song.

  7. I blame Bush. Or racism. Or…
    “The Obama administration passed another fiscal milestone this week, according to new data released by the Treasury Department. As of the close of business on Oct. 3, the total national debt was $14,837,099,271,196.71 — up about $44.8 billion from Sept. 30.
    “That means that in the less-than-three-years Obama has been in office, the federal debt has increased by $4.212 trillion — more than the total national debt of about $4.1672 trillion accumulated by all 41 U.S. presidents from George Washington through George H.W. Bush combined.”

  8. Tell ’em all that Tiny Montgomery’s comin’ down to say hello:
    Members of the country’s largest labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers, and Transit Workers’ Union, have arrived in New York to join the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters.

  10. A blast from the past.
    Parkinson’s Law: The Pursuit of Progress (London, John Murray, 1958). He derived the dictum from his extensive experience in the British Civil Service.
    He assigns to the term a mathematical equation describing the rate at which bureaucracies expand over time. Much of the essay is dedicated to a summary of purportedly scientific observations supporting his law, such as the increase in the number of employees at the Colonial Office while Great Britain’s overseas empire declined (indeed, he shows that the Colonial Office had its greatest number of staff at the point when it was folded into the Foreign Office because of a lack of colonies to administer). He explains this growth by two forces: (1) “An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals” and (2) “Officials make work for each other.” He notes in particular that the total of those employed inside a bureaucracy rose by 5-7% per year “irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done.”
    In 1986, Alessandro Natta complained about the swelling bureaucracy in Italy. Mikhail Gorbachev responded that “Parkinson’s Law works everywhere.”[3]

  12. 99.476% of Pat Frank’s comment at WUWT is WAY over my head, but not these bolded parts:
    So, the early debate was critical and necessary, and typical of what does go on (except for climate science), and should go on, in science. The ad hominems and personal attacks were clearly wrong. They are a sign that scientists themselves don’t consciously keep before themselves the high likelihood that nature is more complicated than they know. Call this trait foolish arrogance when it stoops to personal denigration. Schechtman surely had courage in carrying on in the face of ad hominem dismissals, and definitely opened a big new door.

  13. Dare To Be A Daniel*.
    …-
    “Does this treatment sound familiar?”
    “Vindicated: Ridiculed Israeli scientist wins Nobel”
    “Yeah, consensus science never fails.
    The shy, 70-year-old Shechtman said he never doubted his findings and considered himself merely the latest in a long line of scientists who advanced their fields by challenging the conventional wisdom and were shunned by the establishment because of it.
    …
    “I was thrown out of my research group. They said I brought shame on them with what I was saying,” he recalled. “I never took it personally. I knew I was right and th ey were wrong.”
    Full story here at Yahoo News.
    Congratulations for winning the Nobel Prize, and for having the courage and stamina to stick it out Dr. Shechtman. I hope you will be an inspiration to many others to not let the intimidation of closed minded peers wear you down. Science self-corrects, sometimes taking years to do so and we are witnessing the self correction of climate science consensus slowly take place before our own eyes.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/05/does-this-treatment-sound-familiar/
    *Dare to be a Daniel,
    Dare to stand alone!
    Dare to have a purpose firm!
    Dare to make it known.”
    http://www.scriptureandmusic.com/Music/Text_Files/Dare_To_Be_A_Daniel.html

  14. Did someone say consensus?
    Here is a consensus-builder:
    An NDP-socialist consensus*, aka the Collective*.
    …-
    “Politics”
    >>> “*Manitoba Premier sees federal consensus-building role”
    (globe-mail)
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    *EUrope consensus Collective:
    “How a Good Idea Became a Tragedy”
    urlm.in/jkwx

  15. More cuts to the left-liberal arts.
    C** Our CBC at 10; 10:30 in Newf.
    “BBC cuts: daytime shows such as Bargain Hunt are one of the targets.”
    …-
    “BBC cuts: nearly 2,000 jobs to go”
    “More repeats on BBC2, fewer entertainment shows and smaller BBC3 and BBC4 as corporation seeks to save £670m”
    “The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning.
    The changes will see more repeats on BBC2, fewer entertainment shows, less money spent on sports rights and a shrunken BBC3 and BBC4.
    BBC3 will be moved to the BBC’s new northern base in Salford, which will become home to “at least” another 1,000 jobs, taking its total workforce to 3,300, while the BBC prepares to vacate its west London headquarters. There will also be wide-ranging cuts to the BBC’s radio output, with the exception of Radio 4.
    The BBC said today’s proposals – the result of its nine-month Delivering Quality First review – would lead to a “smaller and radically reshaped BBC”.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/06/bbc-cuts-2000-jobs

  16. Cancer Industry: Update.
    The cancer of political correctness (pc) kills.
    >>> “The 36-year-old mother, who can’t be named,”.
    …-
    “U.K. woman accused of faking son’s cancer”
    “A British woman is accused of not only convincing medical authorities her son had cancer, she convinced the boy and his sister, too.
    The 36-year-old mother, who can’t be named, allegedly claimed 100,000 pounds (about $160,000) in benefits by forging doctors’ notes and school documents in order to make fraudulent medical claims, reports Britain’s Daily Mail.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/10/05/18786646.html

  17. RIP Steve Jobs…That said:
    -Jobs was worth 5 Billion…I’ve seen placards from those “occupy Wall st.” mobs that says “Eat the Rich”…”Make them pay” etc…
    Hey kids does that also include Steve Jobs? Or is he too cool and thus exempt?
    We all know you would stone to death any oil and gas CEO in a flash but remember: No fossil fuel, no computers possible.
    I’M WITH ME NO DHIMMI AT 9:52 PM:
    Technology is fine as long as it’s not detrimental to humanity. Right now it’s an addiction that is dehumanizing and dumbing down. It is literally an epidemic too.
    Things should get better eventually as it is now a fad and thus not necessarely the ground breaking tools people tend to say about them…Treated like toys for entertainment more than anything right now , not unlike RABBIT said actually.
    Case in point:
    Last year I attended a seminar; the median age was between 19 to 35 years old. I was 51. A question came up: “If you could take just one thing (Anything) on a deserted island, what would it be?”
    Believe it or not, the group of about 30 persons, except for one that said her cat, everyone else except me said some inanimate object with the vast majority being electronic gadget or another. Phones and Ipads mostly.
    I said I would bring my wife…The host looked at me and I could sense he knew how sick this materialistic world had become.
    The novelty side of these gadgets will eventually wear off.

  20. Shaw Direct rocks!
    Heads up to those of you who are interested in SunNewsTV. I talked to a rep this morning because the channel is offline. There is some sort of malfunction not only with this channel, but some others today. They are fixing it. While I had him on the line I asked about the cost of the channel after the free time is over October 17 and he said it will part of the basic package, so there will be no additional charge. That is good news.

  22. Liberal socialist McGuinty’s Red-Green fraud/dough-dough is dying.
    Kill McGuinty’s Red-Green fraud.
    …-
    “Flagship UK carbon capture project ‘close to collapse’”
    “Scottish Power expected to pull out of government-promoted scheme to build a £1bn prototype CCS plant at Longannet”
    “A £1bn flagship government project for fighting climate change – the construction of a prototype carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at Longannet in Scotland – is on the verge of collapse, it emerged on Thursday.
    Talks between the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) and Scottish Power have run into deep trouble and the electricity supplier is expected to pull the plug on the government-promoted scheme, which hoped to bury carbon emissions from the coal power station in the North Sea.
    The potential demise of the scheme comes amid growing fears among renewable power enthusiasts that David Cameron and George Osborne want to scale back the “green” agenda on the grounds that low-carbon energy schemes such as CCS and offshore wind cost too much at a time of austerity. Osborne told the Conservative party conference in Manchester that if he had his way the UK would cut “carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe”.
    Scottish Power, and its partners Shell and the National Grid, have just completed a detailed study of the CCS scheme and have deep concerns about its commercial viability without heavier public backing.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/06/carbon-capture-project-longannet-collapse

  23. Liberal socialist McGuinty’s socialism is dying.
    Ich Bin Ein Kaput Red-Green socialist.
    …-
    “How the Euro Zone Ignored Its Own Rules”
    After they joined the euro zone, the countries of southern Europe suddenly discovered they could borrow money at German-style rates, and any hope of sorting out their dodgy finances vanished. But it was France and Germany who set the worst example, when they broke the euro-zone rules they had forced on others.” (more)
    …-
    “The World from Berlin”
    “Capital’s ‘Political Landscape in a Lamentable State'”
    “Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit relays the bad news.”
    “It used to be that Germany’s center-left Social Democrats and the environmental Green Party were a perfect fit when it came to forming governing coalitions. No longer. The failure of talks in Berlin shows that the parties have grown apart, say German commentators.” (more)
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/

  25. Cash must have been on a bad trip when he consented to work with that non-musical dork Dylan.
    I hear that Dylan is now a writer. I hope that he has a better grasp of the basics (grammar, spelling) than he has of music.

  26. Zog you knew that Dylan had a Pulitzer.
    Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”
    Did you also know that he was the odds on favorite for a Nobel in Literature this year. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/oct/05/nobel-prize-literature-bob-dylan?newsfeed=true They gave it to a Swedish poet instead, but what can you expect from a bunch of grim Scandinavians? They never gave it to James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Marcel Proust, Henrik Ibsen, and Henry James either.

  27. *O’narcissist.
    O’mirrOr, O’mirrOr in my-I-O bOOk.
    …-
    “Caption Obama reading a book about himself to school kids”
    “U.S. President Barack Obama holds up a book with a cartoon of himself, inside a child development classroom at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, October 4, 2011.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2788832/posts
    …-
    *NarcissistOOOOOOOOOOO>>>
    “Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
    Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. – 8/13/2008
    Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  28. Financial dope from MSM & socialist Britain.
    Is the QE sinking?
    Step 1. “”But that’s because this is the most serious financial crisis at least since the 1930s, if not ever.”
    Step 2. “That may seem unfamiliar to people.”
    Step 3. “There is not enough money.”
    But, Margaret knew ……
    …-
    “No need to hide away from stocks if Greece defaults, safe investments remain
    Winnipeg Free Press”
    …-
    “Britain in grip of worst ever financial crisis, Bank of England governor fears”
    “£75bn more quantitative easing announced by Sir Mervyn King to boost demand in economy”
    “Sir Mervyn King expressed fears that Britain is in the grip of the world’s worst ever financial crisis after the Bank of England announced it was injecting £75bn into the ailing economy.
    The Bank’s governor said the UK was suffering from a 1930s-style shortage of money and needed a second dose of quantitative easing to boost demand and prevent inflation falling too low.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/oct/06/britain-financial-crisis-quantitative-easing

  30. Israel might not have to worry about iran’s nukes afterall….they’ll take care of the problem themselves….
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/
    Iran will be site of ‘next Chernobyl tragedy’
    Martin Fletcher
    The first Iranian nuclear power station is inherently unsafe and will probably cause a “tragic disaster for humankind”, according to a document apparently written by an Iranian whistleblower. There is a “great likelihood” that the Bushehr reactor could generate the next nuclear catastrophe after Chernobyl or Fukushima, says the document, which has been passed to The Times by a reputable source and is attributed to a former member of the legal department of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran. It claims that Bushehr, which began operating last month after 35 years of intermittent construction, was built by “second-class engineers” who bolted together Russian and German technologies from different eras; that it sits in one of the world’s most seismically active areas but could not withstand a major earthquake; and that it has “no serious training programme” for staff or a contingency plan for accidents. The document’s authenticity cannot be confirmed, but nuclear experts see no reason to doubt it.…

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