26 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Mark W. Hendrickson at Crisis Magazine looks at some of the Obama administration’s Green Fiascoes and Boondoggles that throw away taxpayers’s money.
    Excerpt:

    Ener1, whose subsidiary EnerDel received a $118 million federal grant, lost $165 million in fiscal 2010 and has dim prospects. According to the (Wall Street) Journal, Ener1 had “lost its bid to supply batteries to Fisker Automotive, a battery-powered car maker which received a $529 million U.S. taxpayer-backed federal loan guarantee in 2010,” when “Fisker chose to buy its batteries from a company called A123 Systems, itself the recipient of a $249 million U.S. Department of Energy grant.”

    Great! First Team Obama extends taxpayer dollars to green companies, then it torpedoes them by giving larger grants to their competitors. Meanwhile, Fisker, itself a recipient of over a half-billion dollar handout from Uncle Sam, is making its cars in Finland.

    Hey, it’s not real money, it’s the taxpayers’s money.
    h/t

  2. From Heather MacDonald’s “The Moochers of Zucotti Park”, in City Journal:
    “While the number of people who commandeered Zuccotti Park was pathetically small—several hundred a night—compared with the weight of media attention lavished upon them, their sense of entitlement to take other people’s property, whether public or private, is unfortunately widespread. It is shown by the increasingly vocal and self-righteous members of the graffiti cult and their elite enablers; by the young gutter punks who sprawl across city sidewalks on the West Coast, demanding money for drugs and booze; by the anarchist members of the No Global movement who vandalize businesses and banks; and by squatters, who remain active in Europe, though their presence in New York City virtually evaporated during the law-and-order mayoralty of Rudolph Giuliani. The demand by student participants in the Occupy Wall Street protests that they be allowed to welsh on their student loans simply because they don’t want to pay them displays a similar sense of royal privilege over other people’s property—in this case, the assets of taxpayers who extended the loans…”
    The whole thing here.
    h/t

  4. A friend just emailed me Occupy Vancouver’s list of “demands” (PDF), which include: pulling out of all free trade agreements including NAFTA, shutting down the oil sands, an independent investigation into 9/11, the complete prohibition of off-shore drilling, two separate police forces (“one to prove your guilt and another to prove your innocence”) and a requirement that lawyers work in pairs “so…a lack of resources won’t be a factor in deciding a case.”
    I half agree with one of their demands:

    41. We demand an end to the corporate funding and control of collages (sic) and universities.

    I believe that artists and craftspersons should be free from corporate control of their collages.

  7. Re: NDP Pat Martin, and his foul mouthed rant.
    The Globe and Mail actually ran a headline that said: “NDP profanity marks Parliament’s hastened decline under Tories.” Got that? NDP vulgarity is Stephen Harper’s fault.
    Check out Levant’s article in today`s TO Sun!!

  8. There are a handful of Occupy Vancouver points that I can agree with in whole or in part, for example:
    9. an end to supply management in agriculture
    13. only a small amount of taxpayer funding for political parties (with that amount being equal to zero in my opinion)
    But the vast majority are immoral or ridiculous or both.

  10. EBD: “I believe that artists and craftspersons should be free from corporate control of their collages.”
    LOL!
    I watched Sean Hannity interview Mitt Romney on Fox tonight…Romney really impressed me! He knows the issues well and because he’s a former governor of Massachusetts and has an extensive background in business his experience gives him a depth of knowledge some of the others just don’t have. He’s articulate and sharp. Hannity, in my view, is the brightest interviewer on U.S. TV. He has a way of making his guests feel comfortable enough to reveal themselves. He’s not ego-driven like O’Reilly. I’m beginning to think that Newt Gingrich may be too blunt and abrasive to grace the Oval Office, even though he is extremely intelligent and has the hide of a rhino.:)

  11. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    “Give Back My Land,” “Anti-Dictatorship” and “Anti-Corruption”.
    H/T Lenin/Stalin/lberia: Shoot the kulaks.
    …-
    “4,000 Villagers Protest Land Grabs, Elections”
    “Two months after hundreds of Guangdong Province villagers clashed violently with police over land seizures and election results, 4,000 protesters took to the streets November 21 over the same issues
    Marching in the street holding banners that read “Give Back My Land,” “Anti-Dictatorship” and “Anti-Corruption” on November 21, about 4,000 villagers in Southern China’s Guangdong Province protested what they said were illegal land seizures and rigged local elections.”
    http://english.caixin.cn/2011-11-22/100330330.html

  12. Left-liberalism has never recovered.
    Leftist JFK shot dead by his brother leftist.
    “*He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights . . . . It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.” — Jackie Kennedy, on hearing that a leftist had been arrested for her husband’s murder.”
    …-
    “Charles Lewis: November 22, 1963, was the day we all fell to pieces”
    “I was two weeks shy of my 13th birthday when John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/11/22/charles-lewis-november-22-1963-was-the-day-we-all-fell-to-pieces/?preview=true
    …-
    *J ’bout J’s Oswald:
    “The Kennedy
    Assassination”
    http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

  14. UBS: Emissions trading in Europe to crash
    CO2 price to collapse, oversupply won’t disappear until 2025 (Chart 1)
    For 2012 we see a staggering 35-48% ETS-oversupply (allowance supply in excess of what is needed for compliance)…
    Don’t expect a political ‘bail-out’, flaws to ETS too apparent (Chart 2)
    With limited benefits and embarrassing consequences, including €-billions of windfall profits and fraud, we see fading political support. We don’t expect the ETS to disappear, but politicians are unlikely to tighten the rules to revitalise it. By 2025, the ETS will have cost consumers €210bn, we estimate. Had this amount been used in a targeted approach to replace EU’s dirtiest plants, emissions could have dropped by 43%, instead of almost zero impact on the back of emissions trading.
    http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/ubs_emissions_trading_in_europe_to_crash#94279

  17. Thanks a lot! I just blew a whole morning looking at every clip of Igudesman and Joo I could find.

  19. “Tories reintroduce bill to allow citizen’s arrest”
    “Law-abiding folk will soon be armed with greater powers to make citizen’s arrests.
    “Canadians want to know that they are able to protect themselves against criminal acts and that the justice system is behind them, not against them,” said Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. “This new law provides clear direction on the appropriate use of citizen’s arrest, self defence and defence of property.”
    The proposed changes to the law are partially inspired by the case in Toronto where shop owner David Chen chased down and arrested a career thief after he repeatedly ripped off his store.
    “The laws are very outdated, and they were old even when they were put into the criminal code in 1892, and there has been very little modification since,” said Nicholson. “We want people to act reasonably.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/11/22/19003396.html

  20. “You don’t have to be a Christian to hear the power of those words—simple in vocabulary, cosmic in scale, stately in their rhythms, deeply emotional in their impact. Most of us might think we have forgotten its words, but the King James Bible has sewn itself into the fabric of the language. If a child is ever the apple of her parents’ eye or an idea seems as old as the hills, if we are at death’s door or at our wits’ end, if we have gone through a baptism of fire or are about to bite the dust, if it seems at times that the blind are leading the blind or we are casting pearls before swine, if you are either buttering someone up or casting the first stone, the King James Bible, whether we know it or not, is speaking through us. The haves and have-nots, heads on plates, thieves in the night, scum of the earth, best until last, sackcloth and ashes, streets paved in gold, and the skin of one’s teeth: All of them have been transmitted to us by the translators who did their magnificent work 400 years ago.”
    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/12/king-james-bible/nicolson-text/1

  21. Mann The Turkey, c/o Assoc. Press.
    “In an email to the AP, he said that the real story behind the leak was “an attempt to dig out 2-year-old turkey from Thanksgiving ’09. That’s how desperate climate change deniers have become.”
    “… their publication helped destabilize the failed U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, which followed several weeks later.
    Climategate also dealt a blow to the reputation of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, which is one of the world’s leading centers for the study of how world temperatures have varied over time.”
    “University hit by new climate leak ahead of talks”
    http://news.yahoo.com/university-hit-climate-leak-ahead-talks-183723370.html
    http://news.yahoo.com/university-hit-climate-leak-ahead-talks-183723370.html

  22. The other man who died, and whose death is forgotten because he died the same day that Kennedy was assassinated, is Clive Staples Lewis, the author of the Narnia series and countless Christian apologetics (readable!) for adults such as Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength.
    I maintain that C.S. Lewis will have a much more lasting and positive effect on mankind than J.F.K.. In fact, J.F.K.’s “Camelot” has been proven to be a cynical and tawdry facade for what was really going on in his presidency and in his marriage.

  24. Years? Until. 2020?
    How to figure that?
    …-
    “US Predicts No Climate Treaty Before 2020”
    “A week before international climate negotiations are scheduled to start, the U.S. has signaled it does not expect the world’s economic powers to reach a legally binding agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions until 2020.
    An ongoing stalemate between China, which has resisted agreeing to legally binding emissions cuts, and the U.S., which has said it only will agree to binding emission cuts if China does, is widely expected to continue at climate talks sponsored by the United Nations that are scheduled to start Monday in Durban, South Africa.
    The U.S. and China reiterated those positions in separate statements Tuesday.
    The deadlock has led to uncertainty about the future of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, which expires in 2012. It has angered developing countries that stand to lose the most in the event of rising sea levels and extreme-weather events, like droughts and floods, that scientists have predicted are likely to increase in frequency if global temperatures continue to rise.”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111122-714059.html

  25. Years? Until. 2020?
    How to figure that?
    …-
    “US Predicts No Climate Treaty Before 2020”
    “A week before international climate negotiations are scheduled to start, the U.S. has signaled it does not expect the world’s economic powers to reach a legally binding agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions until 2020.
    An ongoing stalemate between China, which has resisted agreeing to legally binding emissions cuts, and the U.S., which has said it only will agree to binding emission cuts if China does, is widely expected to continue at climate talks sponsored by the United Nations that are scheduled to start Monday in Durban, South Africa.
    The U.S. and China reiterated those positions in separate statements Tuesday.
    The deadlock has led to uncertainty about the future of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, which expires in 2012. It has angered developing countries that stand to lose the most in the event of rising sea levels and extreme-weather events, like droughts and floods, that scientists have predicted are likely to increase in frequency if global temperatures continue to rise.”
    wsj:
    urlm.in/kbbm

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