35 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. A lot of people in the UK live in government-subsidized accommodations called “council houses.” Here’s yet another story in a local newspaper about healthy, able-bodied council house dwellers who, like this woman, assume that the government should do everything but wipe their sorry arses:

    “A family who left their home because of a rat infestation discovered droppings, rodent traps and rolls of loft insulation in the kitchen when they returned to view the house with a view to moving back. The Sullivans left their council house in Southcote because of the rats, which they say have invaded a number of roads in the neighbourhood.”

    “…the Sullivans want to see a surveyor’s report confirming the house is rat free and insist it must be cleaned before they consider returning.”

    Yes, if you find a mouse or a rat in your house it’s the government’s responsibility because…because…
    h/t apiln

  5. My paternal grandfather’s 1st wife and a young child died in 1924 of typhus. She left him with six children, ages 4 to 17. He remarried later in 1924, as he had young children to take care of (no Liberal day care then). The lady he married was ten years younger than he was. Five years later, in Canada, one of his daughters by his 1st wife married an older brother of his 2nd wife. Now his son-in-law was also his brother-in-law.
    No guff.

  8. Re: the Leaders debate this evening – Duhwayne needed to hit a home run,
    He didn’t even get a bunt-single.
    Brad was steady and in charge.

  9. EBD: Disagree with you on that one.
    Where does it say the tenant is responsible for repairs. The council has certain standards and might not want the tenants doing a substandard job. It is geared-to-income housing after all.
    And, if it is a rat infestation, then the council should get to the bottom of it because the neighbourhood is most likely all council-owned.

  10. Hah! The last time I saw a rat inside a house in which I was living I stabbed it in the chest with a steak knife. You should have heard it scream! It was just like a little miniature horror movie! Those council house puffs should just butch up and take care of business. If they don’t like the “Up close and personal” stuff then they could at least get a crossbow.

  12. From the Simpsons. Homer is presiding over the wedding of Cletus and Brandine. “Hang on!” exlaims Homer; “you two are brother and sister!?”
    “Oh, we’s all kinda thangs!” drawls Brandine.
    Sadly, as with most cartoon clips, I could only find it in Spanish. It’s much funnier in English. Unless you’re from Mexico, I guess.

  15. Not bad, considerin’ she’s birthed 40-odd chilluns. (I demand a hillbilly drag me before an HRC. I want to be famous and important.)

  16. SUNSET ON THE RIDEAU
    But they are fully Canadian, at least in the legal sense. They came to Quebec from Afghanistan in 2007. And, for all the sympathetic media murmurings about the difficulties of transitioning from a highly traditional culture to a First World society, the Shafias did find certain uses for modernity: In planning the killing of his sisters, Hamed used a Google search – “where to commit a murder”.
    http://www.steynonline.com/4605/sunset-on-the-rideau

  17. O’narcissist:
    “*This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    …-
    “Disappointed Democrats protest Obama’s SF visit”
    “In a powerful display of profound disappointment with President Obama, some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors gathered Tuesday – not inside his tony San Francisco fundraiser at the W Hotel, but outside on the sidewalks carrying signs in protest of his policies.
    “I don’t even know what he stands for,” said Susie Tompkins Buell, a co-founder of the Esprit de Corps clothing company and one of the most generous Democratic Party donors in the nation – instrumental in backing such powerhouse progressive organizations as the Democracy Alliance and Media Matters.”
    “While the largest faction rallied against the pipeline, there were also anti-war protesters; supporters of Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier accused of giving documents to WikiLeaks; people from the Occupy SF camp and a group protesting the Obama administration’s recent crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries across California.”
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/25/MN3J1LM0N6.DTL
    …-
    “Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
    Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. – 8/13/2008”
    “*The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  18. O’bamallah.
    …-
    “Obama withdrawal from Iraq clears way for Iran”
    http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/10/obama-withdrawal-iraq-clears-way-iran
    …-
    “Map of the results of Obama’s foreign policy in North Africa & Middle East”
    “Here is a straight forward map of the results that the Obama foreign policy has had in North Africa and the Middle East.”
    http://www.jeffhead.com/images/2008-NA-ME.jpg
    http://www.jeffhead.com/images/2012-NA-ME.jpg
    “BARACK OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY ON DISPLAY
    The so-called “Arab Spring” has been nothing more than the abject spread of fundamental, extreme Islamic Jihad in these regions, threatening US interests and allies.
    When there was a chance for true liberty and an end to militant islam during the protests and rebellion in Iran, Obama sat back and let them be slaughtered.
    When there was an opportunity to have islamic jihad and militancy spread further in Egypt, Libya, Tunesia, and Yemen, Obama has done all in his power to help it succeed.
    IMHO, this is not too suprising, given his disdain for the United States and its free market and constitution…and his apparent love for the Islamic call to prayer.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2797692/posts

  19. What Canadian conservatives have wrought.
    Hats off to conservatives.
    …-
    “At last, a cure for government procurement”
    “Against this background, the Harper government’s awarding of contracts for massive ship-building in the decades ahead breaks with tradition in exemplary fashion.
    The government remained true to its word.”
    “So the shipbuilding contract broke with a long Canadian tradition, produced a rational, fact-based decision, bullet-proofed the government from any charge of political interference, and gives Canada a chance to build a more streamlined and efficient industry.
    Hats off to the Harper government.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/at-last-a-cure-for-government-procurement/article2213423/
    …-
    “End of long-gun registry seen as victory in war on Big Government”
    “Stephen Harper has begun the process of shuttering Canada’s long-gun registry, tabling a bill to scrap a database on firearms owners that for rank-and-file Conservatives stood as a powerful symbol of everything that’s wrong with big government.
    Determined to drive a stake through the heart of the registry, which cost more than $2-billion to establish, the Tories are going so far as to destroy the data.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/end-of-long-gun-registry-seen-as-victory-in-war-on-big-government/article2213761/

  23. Did you know you can write a hotel review?
    “The Hotel for Jihadists”
    Reviewed October 25, 2011 NEW
    14people found this review helpful
    I was going to a conference at this hotel about how to fight the Islamization of America. Unfortunately, Hotel Hutton is already following Sharia law. Surely the Hutton executives aren’t really afraid of violence breaking out at their conference rooms? Maybe this location is more dangerous than is advertised….
    http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g55229-d1214474-Reviews-Hutton_Hotel-Nashville_Tennessee.html

  25. Left-liberalism/socialism as she is writ.
    Cancer Industry not available.
    …-
    “Ottawa Society for Arts and Sciences Launches Tonight
    ‘Youth Cafe’ Seeks Your Input On Ways To Keep City Safe For Youth
    Annual “Stars of The City” Awards To Honour 22 Customer Service Representatives
    CHEO To Accept Cheque, Researchers To Receive Awards
    Rick Hansen To Receive United Way Community Builder Award Today”
    http://www.cfra.com/

  26. From Antique Egypt’s Pyramid Scheme to AGW/Red-Green’s Pyramid Scheme.
    “*But the most curious mistake the “most qualified and knowledgeable” made, was the too-clever-by-far spin that the science “was settled”. It wasn’t. It isn’t!”
    …-
    “Rain or snow”
    “Sunday, Oct 30”
    http://weather.canoe.ca/Weather/CityOttawaON.html
    Modellers’ science: Not settled.
    …-
    “*Upset intellectuals”
    “by John Izzard”
    “Who’s upsetting the great intellectuals of Australia?”
    “Over the [past] decade or so, politically driven climate deniers have adroitly used instruments of democratic practice to erode the authority of professional expertise.
    Clive Hamilton, Australian Public Intellectual (No.64)”
    ““What do we want—Armageddon! When do we want it—NOW!””
    http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2011/10/upset-intellectuals

  27. The CBC just blows me away. In the comments following the story about David Anderson and his now-famous “Eskimo” video about the CWB, one astronaut turned it into a rant about how Canada participated in the murder of a “world leader who’s done more for his country than our government could ever hope to do”. I tried to respond, but the censors apparently had a problem with it, I guess they’d rather have that idiocy than someone wondering just what the hell was wrong with the guy.

  29. This Week’s Applied Hayek: OWS Envy Edition
    Via: PowerLine
    As we continue to fixate on the inchoate but plainly radical demands/desires of (the lefty-losers) Wall Street Occupiers, this passage from Hayek’s famous chapter in The Constitution of Liberty on “Equality Value, and Merit” hits the spot dead on:
    “When we inquire into the justification for these demands [to equalize all outcomes], we find that they rest on the discontent that the success of some people often produces in those that are less successful, or, to put it bluntly, on envy. The modern tendency to gratify this passion and to disguise it in the respectable garment of social justice is developing into a serious threat to freedom. Recently an attempt was made to base these demands on the argument that it ought to be the aim of politics to remove all sources of discontent. This would, of course, necessarily mean that it is the responsibility of government to see that nobody is healthier or possesses a happier temperament, a better-suited spouse or more prospering children, than anybody else. If really all unfulfilled desires have a claim on the community, individual responsibility is at an end. However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as “that most anti-social and odious of all passions.”
    It’s almost as if Hayek wrote this with Occupy Wall Street in mind.

  30. Socialism/communism: a religion of the stomach & the Arts.
    “Canada commits $350M for world’s hungry”
    (Our CBC, aka Pravda)
    …-
    “Russia’s aesthetic revolution: How Soviet building still influences today’s architects”
    “An exhibition of Soviet architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts will showcase radical work of great prescience and experimental power. And, says Jay Merrick, its influence is still felt today”
    “In the courtyard of London’s Royal Academy of Arts stands the 20th century’s most avant-garde strand of architectural genetics. The veering red spiral, intersected by a girder jutting through it like a rocket launcher, is a copy of the original model of the Monument to the Third International, designed by Vladimir Tatlin in 1920. Had it been built to its intended scale as the headquarters of the Communist party, it would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower. In a world awash with “iconic” architecture, nothing comes even close to radiating the raw potency of this truly revolutionary form.”
    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/russias-aesthetic-revolution-how-soviet-building-still-influences-todays-architects-2373447.html
    …-
    “The Harvest
    of Sorrow”
    “Soviet Collectivization
    and the Terror-Famine”
    “Robert Conquest”
    “University of Alberta Press
    1986”
    http://www.ditext.com/conquest/harvest.html

  33. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Gorrible stuff; bad bad weather.
    “It is a rough night for Occupy Denver team 24/7 tonight. Tarps, waterproof blankets and bedding, cold weather clothing, all could help them,” an activist posted at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.”
    …-
    “Occupy Denver Says Some Protesters Suffer Hypothermia”
    “DENVER — As the first major snowstorm of the season hit Denver overnight, Occupy Denver protesters said several people suffering from hypothermia had to be removed from Lincoln Park.”
    “Activists said on Twitter that two protestors were treated at the hospital for hypothermia overnight.
    With rain falling Tuesday night and temperatures dropping into the 30s, a Denver police officer warned activists that they had to take down tents and tarp structures in the park because they were violating local ordinances, according to a YouTube video titled, “People will die in the cold,” posted by activists.
    “All right, people are going to die tonight,” a protester replied on the video.”
    http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/29591700/detail.html?source=den

  34. The natural end result of socialism: Ich Bin Ein Merkel.
    “That Germany, the country responsible for two world wars, is raising the prospect of future conflict is a measure of the panic sweeping Europe about the unrest that could follow a collapse of the single currency.”
    …-
    “Don’t put Europe’s peace at risk: German chancellor warns of war if currency fails”
    “‘If the euro fails, Europe fails’ warns Merkel in stark speech”
    “The peace and prosperity Europe has enjoyed for generations could be put at risk if the euro collapses, the German Chancellor said yesterday.
    Angela Merkel raised the spectre of future conflict as it emerged that a comprehensive deal to save the single currency from economic catastrophe could be weeks away.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053633/EU-summit-Angela-Merkel-warns-peace-risk-Euro-debt-crisis-isnt-solved.html

  35. maz2 @ 12:58, I just finished The Harvest of Sorrow a couple of weeks ago.
    Currently I am reading Robert Service’s “Comrades: A History of World Communism”.
    Interesting that both Conquest and Service were sons of British Communists who during the late 30s, early 40s, discovered what a monstrous ideology that Marxism and its child communism were. Both fathers were also Cambridge friends of the Philby, McLean, Burgess et al bunch that spied for the Soviets and ultimately defected.
    Robert Service and Robert Conquest have written a number of books exposing communism, Russian and world wide, for the evil that it is.

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