26 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Vaclav Havel would have approved:

    Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a recent protest that saw dozens of small dolls – teddy bears, Lego men, South Park figurines – arranged to mimic a protest, complete with signs reading: “I’m for clean elections” and “A thief should sit in jail, not in the Kremlin”.
    “Political opposition forces are using new technologies to carry out public events – using toys with placards at mini-protests,” Andrei Mulintsev, the city’s deputy police chief, said at a press conference this week, according to local media. “In our opinion, this is still an unsanctioned public event.”

    Graphic photo of the unsanctioned public demonstration at the link.

  2. North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue has officially announced that she will not seek re-election for governor later this year.
    Bev Perdue made national news 4 months ago when she proposed that national elections be suspended while the economy is bad.
    “I think the true reason is that her popularity is the lowest of any incumbent Governor in the nation,” Said house Majority Leader Paul Stam.
    “I think the leaders of the Democratic Party decided they could not go into this election season with her at the head.”
    –
    One dingbat down and several hundred more to go..

  5. An excerpt from a comment to an article in The Hill website.
    http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/207201-palin-accuses-gop-establishment-of-stalin-esque-attack-on-gingrich
    The article is: Sarah Palin accuses GOP of ‘Stalin-esque’ attack on Newt Gingrich
    By Russell Berman
    It describes the position of Palin, relative to the primaries and position of the ruling class toward Gingrich.
    “Progressivism and what we call, “European-style Socialism” also prospered as pseudo-religious movements centered on a re-conception of “science” into a secularist religion with a priesthood that could seemingly work miracles on a regular basis through the rituals of research and identification of statistical probabilities.”
    By Edwin Loftus
    The comment is rather long, more of an essay on conservative ideas.

  7. Re.Lev at January 29, 2012 12:00 AM.
    I’m past worrying about any phoney patriotic US bullshit after burying my son this week.

  8. “We should recognize that something stands above us, beyond our understanding.”
    “Democracy and the Human Heart”
    “Václav Havel, 1936-2011.”
    “The Village Voice gives out theater awards called the Obies (for Off-Broadway), and during the 1980s the Voice’s theater department voted to bestow one of those prizes on the distinguished absurdist Václav Havel, who dwelled in the faraway absurdistan known as the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. In their New York productions, Havel’s plays ran at the Public Theater, and everyone who kept up with the downtown scene knew them well. The plays were splendidly mordant. They were dry, sometimes drier yet, until you could find yourself wondering, as the subway rumbled darkly beneath your seat, “Can life really be so bleak?” The plays were oddly funny, though.
    Only, having been awarded the Obie, Havel was unable to make his way to New York to attend the ceremony and bask in applause.”
    http://www.tnr.com/article/world/magazine/100027/vaclav-havel-ideology-religion-democracy?passthru=N2MyMWVmODQyYjMxNzJkYWExMjJkNDMyYjIwMTJhODQ

  9. Neo-AGW PR.
    Chuck Via Siberia:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
    …-
    “Prince’s next goal: save the oceans”
    …-
    “Cold snap set to cover many areas in snow”
    “A big freeze will settle on Britain from today, with four days of snow and icy weather forecast for much of the country.”

  10. and the damning data is coming from the same institution that brought you the most rabid cries of ‘global warming’…
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming–Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html
    Met Office releases new figures which show no warming in 15 years
    The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
    The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
    Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997….
    …According to a paper issued last week by the Met Office, there is a 92 per cent chance that both Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the ‘Dalton minimum’ of 1790 to 1830. In this period, named after the meteorologist John Dalton, average temperatures in parts of Europe fell by 2C.
    However, it is also possible that the new solar energy slump could be as deep as the ‘Maunder minimum’ (after astronomer Edward Maunder), between 1645 and 1715 in the coldest part of the ‘Little Ice Age’ when, as well as the Thames frost fairs, the canals of Holland froze solid.

  11. Of The Wearing of The Brown National Socialist Green & Irish Anti-Semitism.
    Irish confess.
    …-
    “Irish minister admits for first time that neutrality policy during WW2 was ‘morally bankrupt’
    Justice Minister Alan Shatter says ‘doors to state were kept firmly closed to Jews fleeing Hitler’ while UK took thousands
    Sorry for way ‘deserter’ Irish soldiers fighting for allies were treated
    They were barred from jobs and state pensions on their return
    Links two issues and hints at upcoming official pardon”
    “Ireland has admitted for the first time that its ‘morally bankrupt’ regime of the 1930s denied visas to desperate Jews trying to escape from Nazi persecution.
    Justice Minister Alan Shatter said that, following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Ireland’s anti-semitic Berlin ambassador Charles Bewley ensured ‘the doors to this state were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to flee’.
    The admission came as he apologised for the way brave soldiers who ‘deserted’ the Irish Army to fight with the Allies during the Second World War were treated.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092138/Irish-minister-admits-time-Jews-fleeing-Nazis-denied-visas-1930s-morally-bankrupt-regime.html

  12. Boob Rae gives a thumbs-down to the Northern Gateway Project.
    Nothing more than whoring for votes from the idiot class.
    (via SunNews Network)

  13. Mao Stlong*/Zedong* Report:
    “A bronze yak given by Mao Zedong to Ceausescu”
    …-
    “Nicolae Ceausescu auction – in pictures”
    “Gifts received by Nicolae Ceausescu to be auctioned off on what would have been the late Romanian leader’s 94th birthday. The auction is called Golden Age in reference to the last years of the Ceausescu’s rule, when propaganda pictured a striving Romania, whereas in reality people were struggling to get by”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2012/jan/26/nicolae-ceausescu-romania-in-pictures
    …-
    “Kombinat: Industrial Ruins of the Golden Era”
    “June 2009
    Always in the wrong place
    by Anthony Daniels
    On the relics of oppression.”
    “Among the books on the stand I found one that had an almost physical effect on me. It was a book of photographs, with the title Combinat: Ruine Industriale ale Epocii de Aur, translated as Kombinat: Industrial Ruins of the Golden Era.[2] The Golden Era, of course, was the name that Ceausescu and his acolytes modestly gave to the period of their own rule, and anyone who had the slightest experience of it could not mistake the depth of the irony of the book’s title, a symptom of a pent-up fury and despair so great that sometimes a brief verbal snort of contempt seemed, and seems, the only possible, constructive, and self-preserving response. But of course it is not enough.
    There was a time not so very long ago when I despised books of photographs. I took the opposite view to that of Alice, who could not see the point of books without pictures: I could not see the point of books that consisted of little else. Comparatively late in life, however, I have discovered what ought to have been obvious to me before —books of photographs can form the template or occasion of prolonged meditation and reflection. Of no book of photographs is this more true than of Kombinat.
    As soon as you open it, you sense that the notion in the preface by a member of the publishing firm Igloo that “Kombinat is, for us, a moral duty rather than a regular publishing enterprise” is no more than the simple and obvious truth. All who were associated with it must surely have been fired with a profound (and no doubt exhilarating) sense of duty to their country, and with an almost missionary zeal. The short texts that accompany the photographs contain insights—for example, the ruins displayed in the photographs decay but do not age—but it is the photographs themselves that take one’s breath away, that immediately abstract one from whatever trivialities one might have been thinking about before, to confront one with many important questions all at once.
    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.”
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Romania-News/message/8772
    *Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle Mo, c/o Red China.

  15. In response to a query from batb at one of the Girl Guide/Transgendered threads, I looked up the prefix “cis”. From Wikipedia:
    “‘Cis-’ as a prefix of Latin origin, meaning ‘on the same side [as]’ or ‘on this side [of]’, with several derived usages:
    “ . . . In gender studies, cis- refers to cisgender. . .”
    Apparently, “cisgender”—or cis female/male—are derogatory terms in the activist, LGBTetc. world. No surprise, because these terms refer to folks who are “gender normative”. We can’t have that now, can we?

  17. The true WTF moment in Dipper Debate today (in case you aren’t watching)..from Brian Topp: “the Conservatives have the media with them OVERWHELMINGLY!”..comes at about 1/2 hr in. I just now stopped laughing enough to be able to post this.
    Jury in on the honor-killing case,cutting off coverage of the debate on ctv/cbc.What a shame.

  21. Holder informed of Fast & Furious five months before testimony?
    […]
    This e-mail utterly negates the notion that Holder had no idea about Fast and Furious when Terry was murdered with weapons sent over the border by the ATF.
    […}
    Could this open another line of Fast and Furious investigation, this time into potential perjury charges against Holder? Holder was probably vague enough to avoid a legal finding of perjury in his initial testimony, but he clearly intended to deceive Congress in that testimony.
    I hope Holder’s forced to resign and face charges over this fiasco.

  22. “This was of a piece with Trudeaus’s fawning deference to the Soviet leadership and his antagonism to Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and even Richard Nixon, who all regarded him as little better than a communist fellow traveller (and told me so).”
    Great article on Turdeau by Conrad Black. Loved his comment on Turdeau picking up the dinner check. Liona Boyd said the same thing about him when she was dating him.
    “Pierre Trudeau was a delightful man to have dinner with (although he would never pick up the cheque)”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/01/28/conrad-black-pierre-trudeau-was-a-dilettante-but-a-successful-one/

  23. Realclearpolitics has a beauty of a clip up,with Allen West telling the leftwing ‘elite’ (Obama,Reid,Pelosi,and that loon Wasserman-Shultz) to ‘get the hell out of US,and go to Europe’ Too bad this man wasn’t running for Prez!

  25. As for Eric Holder, they better charge him QUICK!
    Otherwise THE ONE will not be able to PARDON him!
    Who knows what another White House counsel might think of ol’ Eric’s memory…chuckle.

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