38 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Kate, thanks; that’s her most exquisitely beautiful song. “You Remain” is another keeper, by Willy Nelson and Sheryl Crowe.

  3. Thanks Kate, she has one in million voice, she kept her down home sense of humor and is one of classifiable greats in the music industry.

  14. Is it just me or is Sun News TV not shown on line anymore. I’ve been trying for two days now and just a black screen. Help!!

  18. OPSEU has had a “How Screwed Are You?” contest:
    http://www.opseu.org/news/press2011/november-7-2011.htm
    There was an item in the Toronto Star about it on Monday. I found out too late to get in, but my entry would have been along the lines of:
    I’m so screwed, I had to lay off the civil servant who takes $500 out of my right pocket, puts $250 back into my left, offers me $100 worth of services of which I can only use $25, then high-tails it to the French Riviera whenever I want to ask him what’s going on.

  20. Here’s to vocal exhibitionism. I like it. Kind of like complaining that a hockey player is into scoring exhibitionism, or a pitcher into ERA exhibitionism.

  22. EU: a linked dump. Indeed.
    Socialism.
    …-
    “Europe’s Entitlement Reckoning”
    In the European economic crisis, all roads lead through Rome. The markets have raised the price of financing Italy’s mammoth debt to new highs, and on Tuesday Silvio Berlusconi became the second euro-zone prime minister, after Greece’s George Papandreou, to resign this week. His departure may keep the world’s eighth largest economy solvent for the time being, but it hardly addresses the root of the problem.
    In Italy, as in Greece, Spain and Portugal and eventually France, the welfare-entitlement state has hit a wall. Successive governments on the Continent, right and left, have financed generous entitlements with high taxes and towering piles of debt. Their economies have failed to grow fast enough to keep up, and last year the money started to run out. The reckoning has arrived.
    If the first step in curing an addiction is to acknowledge it, there is little sign of that in Europe. The solutions on offer are to spend still more money, to have the Germans bail out everybody else, or to ditch the euro so bankrupt countries can again devalue their own currencies. France’s latest debt solution includes raising corporate, capitals gains and sales taxes.
    Yet Europe’s problem isn’t the euro. If it were, Hungary, Iceland and Latvia—none of which use the euro—would have been spared their painful days of reckoning. The same applies for Britain. Europe is in a debt spiral brought about by spendthrift, overweening and inefficient governments.
    This is a crisis of the welfare state, and Italy is a model basket case. Mario Monti, who is tipped to lead a new government of technocrats, once described the Italian economy as a case of “self-inflicted strangulation.” Government debt is 120% of GDP, making Italy the world’s third largest borrower after the U.S. and Japan. Its economy last grew at more than 2% a year in 2000.
    [More]
    See Also:
    Italy’s debt crisis: doomed by corruption, bloated bureaucracy and poor productivity
    Debt crisis: while Rome burns, the eurozone fiddles
    France and Spain could be next to suffer Euro crisis
    Italy paying the price for failure to reform”
    More:
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

  24. I much prefer Dolly’s version of her own song than the vocal gymnastics of the later version. Dolly’s has sincerity as well as beauty.

  27. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Frost is not a “significant weather event”. It’s “global warming”.
    …-
    “Unusual Cold, Frost Threat Looms for Florida”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57580/unusual-cold-frost-threat-to-i.asp
    …-
    “Dr. Jeff Masters gets caught up in the full on media stupidity”
    “The major winter storm in Alaska mentioned overnight on WUWT, while weaker than the previous record storm 1974, gets pegged as being “aided and abetted by global warming”:
    While the storm is weaker than the ’74 event, it appears to fit into a long-term pattern with a global-warming connection.
    Dr. Masters notes that several studies over the past several years have documented an increase in the number of these intense wintry storms in the northern hemisphere over the past century, with a marked upward swing beginning in the mid-1960s, as the global climate has warmed.
    With this sort of “journalism” it will soon come to pass that any significant weather event, anytime, will be connected to global warming climate change climate disruption. Sheesh, the stupid, it burns.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/09/dr-jeff-masters-gets-caught-up-in-the-full-on-media-stupidity/#more-50902

  28. maz2
    I have yet to see it in the MSM, but Florida has, for the past two years, set a record for the number of manatees killed by, wait for it, cold weather. It appears they may be heading for another record this year. The cold has also been killing off shallow water coral in recent years.

  33. PET Cemetery Report.
    Y’all come in. Do We have a place for youse. Drop in some time.
    Da poof is da … poof*: We want
    “tens or even hundreds of thousands of new “Liberal supporters.””
    …-
    “Survival at stake, Liberals throw open party doors to all Canadians”
    “Liberals estimate that approximately 80 of their 308 riding associations across the country are now dormant: with only a handful of party members in the riding, a non-functioning or dysfunctional riding executive and little or no ability to raise funds. Some party leaders believe the number is closer to 100.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/survival-at-stake-liberals-throw-open-party-doors-to-all-canadians/article2232137/
    *H/T Liberal Ad$cam Chretien

  34. O’dead.
    O shoots the kulaks*.
    Note: “General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America”
    …-
    “Unions Furious at Obama for Killing Pipeline Jobs”
    “Statement of Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA, On Delay of Keystone XL Pipeline Construction”
    “Washington, D.C. (November 10, 2011) – Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – made the following statement today in response to the U.S. State Department delay of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline:
    Environmentalists formed a circle around the White House and within days the Obama Administration chose to inflict a potentially fatal delay to a project that is not just a pipeline, but is a lifeline for thousands of desperate working men and women. The Administration chose to support environmentalists over jobs – job-killers win, American workers lose.
    Environmental groups from the Natural Resources Defense Council to the Sierra Club may be dancing in the streets, having delayed and possibly stopped yet another project that would put men and women back to work. While they celebrate, pipeline workers will continue to lose their homes and livelihoods.
    We had hoped the decision would have been made on the basis of economics, facts and the best interests of the nation, not on the basis of a political calculation.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2805720/posts
    H/T Lenin/Stalin/lberia …..

  37. From the article linked by ‘eljay’ above:
    “There is no justification for presenting Adam Smith’s economic theories as more fundamental or basic than, for example, Keynesian theory.”
    Well, yeah, there is, because Adam Smith’s work was accurate while Keynes’s was a pack of lies.
    “… we found a course that espouses a specific—and limited—view of economics that we believe perpetuates problematic and inefficient systems of economic inequality in our society today.”
    This too is a pack of lies. Capitalism leads to efficient, productive economies. Socialism does not. The theory predicts it and the experience demonstrates it. That’s pretty much all you need to know.

  38. Boots
    you might have to delete Adobe than reinstall. A pain I know but you need to every once in a while.
    For the upgrades to take effect.

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