41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. “Hard Times Ahead” reminded me of the inimitable Noel Coward singing his WW II “There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner”:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZCv98XKFs
    It’s “veddy English” and altogether delightful. (Instead of “There are bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover” it’s “There are blackbirds over the greyish cliffs of Dover” . . .

  8. Romney wins in Florida and even Fox News is saying that Newt was a “distant second”. What a misleading comment. Who would have thought that even Fox News would be siding with Romney? The MSM is an evil force in society.
    52% of Florida voters today did *not* want Romney as the nominee. The race is far from over.

  11. TJ, Newt Gingrich gave a real barn burner speech tonight! I can’t see Newt, Rick Santorum or Ron Paul throwing in the towel any time soon; it’s way too early.

  12. What is with CJME coming out today and not only telling a faults news story but telling out right lies on JG live this morning. CPP is not going to end and the only changes made will only pay us more. This program will only be better. When John goes away the left sure takes over there.

  13. It is going to be a rough ride for the GOP. I see today
    Obamas cloud are saying that “Fast and Furious” was started by Bush.
    Funny, after two years of trying to hide from the evidence now it is Bush’s fault.
    It’s going to get ugly.

  14. Was this widely reported?
    (from Wikipedia)
    “In 2010, Costa Concordia provided the decadent setting for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Film Socialisme (in English: Socialism).”
    Will this be? Snow in the forecast for Friday … in most parts of the western Med. LOL.
    It could turn to sleet in Algiers.

  16. “Canadians divided over Ottawa’s pro-Israel stand, survey shows”
    to
    “Nearly half Canadians say Ottawa’s policy on Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘strikes right balance'”
    Talk about a fence-post up the…
    If you think that’s offensive, just read the comments. Most leftists think the whole result of the poll is due to some sort of weird form of media bias or another, like the internet doesn’t even exist or something…
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/nearly-half-canadians-say-ottawas-policy-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict-strikes-right-balance/article2321233/

  18. “TJ, Newt Gingrich gave a real barn burner speech tonight!..”
    chutzpahticular thanks for the tip. I had a listen, excellent speech. He can talk for 20 minutes without looking once at his notes.
    I don’t think Newt is going to just walk away, and his strategy as hinted in his speech is a good one. He is aligning himself on the side of the American people against big money from both parties. Great chess move, as I think most Americans are sick and tired of the presidency being bought.

  19. TJ, that’s it, exactly. Romney spent around 17 million in Florida, while the other three candidates have to weigh priorities and spend judiciously. As the pundits say, “It’s working for Mitt.” Those pushing for Newt or Santorum to drop out are ignoring the fact that each state is different.

  22. A further insult to the Shafia women is that the date of birth on Geeti’s gravestone is apparently wrong. A photograph in Monday’s Toronto Star shows it reading 10-22-1991 – the same date as Sahar’s, which would be impossible. A 13-year-old who died in mid-2009 would have been born in the latter half of 1995 or the first half of 1996.

  23. Politics in America isn’t about electing the best and the brightest, it’s about electing the most popular candidate. It’s more like picking high school prom royalty rather than picking the valedictorian. Romney will buy his way into the White House, that’s how it works.

  24. For withholding information.
    Eric Holder,
    the highest law enforcement officer in America, might be held in contempt of Congress.
    Eric Holder deserves 4 more years,
    with 2 off defending himself in a Mexican court.

  25. “California’s Dreaming: It Thinks It Can Force You To Buy A Car You Don’t Want”
    “Last Friday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandated that by 2025, 15% of new cars sold in California must have zero or near-zero emissions – in other words, that they be electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf, the Honda FCX Clarity hydrogen car and soon the Tesla Model S.
    If you think this won’t impact what you get to drive, think again. New York, Massachusetts, Washington, and 11 other states have adopted California’s smog emissions rules. Those 14 states combine for half of all auto sales every year, so this is a sweeping mandate.
    But mandates don’t mean people are going to buy these cars, it just means car companies will be forced into making them. Mandating behavior has often resulted in people doing things the government wasn’t expecting. Back in the mid-70′s, Americans all bought cars – SUV’s and pickups were few and far between. Baby Boomers were just starting to flex their buying power. Then fuel economy standards were mandated and guess what? Consumers started gravitating towards SUV’s and pickups because the cars that were being offered by automakers to meet mandated fuel economy standards didn’t meet consumers wants and needs anymore.”
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccalindland/2012/01/31/californias-dreaming-it-thinks-it-can-force-you-to-buy-a-car-you-dont-want/
    …-
    “London slow to become the ‘electric car capital of Europe'”
    “Only 588 electric cars registered, a fraction of Boris Johnson’s target of 100,000 across the city”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/01/electric-cars-carbon-emissions

  26. “California’s Dreaming: It Thinks It Can Force You To Buy A Car You Don’t Want”
    “Last Friday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) mandated that by 2025, 15% of new cars sold in California must have zero or near-zero emissions – in other words, that they be electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf, the Honda FCX Clarity hydrogen car and soon the Tesla Model S.
    If you think this won’t impact what you get to drive, think again. New York, Massachusetts, Washington, and 11 other states have adopted California’s smog emissions rules. Those 14 states combine for half of all auto sales every year, so this is a sweeping mandate.
    But mandates don’t mean people are going to buy these cars, it just means car companies will be forced into making them. Mandating behavior has often resulted in people doing things the government wasn’t expecting. Back in the mid-70′s, Americans all bought cars – SUV’s and pickups were few and far between. Baby Boomers were just starting to flex their buying power. Then fuel economy standards were mandated and guess what? Consumers started gravitating towards SUV’s and pickups because the cars that were being offered by automakers to meet mandated fuel economy standards didn’t meet consumers wants and needs anymore.”
    urlm.in/kysi
    …-
    “London slow to become the ‘electric car capital of Europe'”
    “Only 588 electric cars registered, a fraction of Boris Johnson’s target of 100,000 across the city”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/01/electric-cars-carbon-emissions

  28. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    At abroad and a home.
    “Reading this story by candlelight? Then odds are you live north of Eglinton Ave.”
    …-
    “European cold snap death toll rises to 71
    (AP) – 28 minutes ago
    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a severe cold spell in Eastern Europe rose to 71 Wednesday, most of them homeless people.
    Temperatures dropped to minus 30 C (minus 22 F) in some regions, causing power outages and traffic chaos and prompting authorities to close schools and nurseries.
    Urkaine alone reported 43 deaths. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday that 28 people were found dead on the streets, eight died in hospitals and seven in their homes. Over 720 others were hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite.”
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlsmtXAppMGWITW1w6ObM5Iq9tQ?docId=d01cfabdf8f04ff28b6853f6e8f2d037
    …-
    “Toronto Hydro issues online blueprint for blackouts with map of neighbourhoods most prone to outages”
    http://www.thestar.com/article/1123795–toronto-hydro-issues-online-blueprint-for-blackouts-with-map-of-neighbourhoods-most-prone-to-outages

  29. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    At abroad and a home.
    “Reading this story by candlelight? Then odds are you live north of Eglinton Ave.”
    …-
    “European cold snap death toll rises to 71
    (AP) – 28 minutes ago
    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a severe cold spell in Eastern Europe rose to 71 Wednesday, most of them homeless people.
    Temperatures dropped to minus 30 C (minus 22 F) in some regions, causing power outages and traffic chaos and prompting authorities to close schools and nurseries.
    Urkaine alone reported 43 deaths. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday that 28 people were found dead on the streets, eight died in hospitals and seven in their homes. Over 720 others were hospitalized with hypothermia and frostbite.”
    urlm.in/kyss
    …-
    “Toronto Hydro issues online blueprint for blackouts with map of neighbourhoods most prone to outages”
    urlm.in/kyst

  31. Of AP’s “victims”.
    Neo-AGW PR: Update.
    “rare snowfalls have occurred on islands in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.”
    Veni, vidi, frozen.
    …-
    “Victims of Eastern Europe’s cold snap are rescued
    (AP) – 34 minutes ago
    BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Rescue helicopters are airlifting supplies and evacuating dozens of people from snow-covered villages in Serbia and Bosnia, as the death toll from Eastern Europe’s severe cold spell has risen to 79.
    Temperatures have dropped as low as minus 32.5 C (minus 26.5 F) in some regions, causing power outages, traffic chaos and the closure of schools and nurseries.
    The weather is so cold that some areas of the Black Sea have frozen near the Romanian coastline, and rare snowfalls have occurred on islands in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.”
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jLlsmtXAppMGWITW1w6ObM5Iq9tQ?docId=d01cfabdf8f04ff28b6853f6e8f2d037

  33. Thanks to EBD’s tip on the daily word from Wordsmith.org, I can say without reservation that after all these years living in Vancouver, not any umbrella will do: One needs a GAMP!
    Now I’m off to try and spot a vamp with a gamp.

  34. PET Cemetery Report.
    Flashback: February 1, 1968.
    “The Canadian Forces Reorganization Act (1968)”
    On February 1, 1968, the Canadian Forces Reorganization Act (Bill C-243, informally referred to as the “Unification Act”) came into effect, and amended the National Defence Act to unify the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). As of that day, the historic names of the three branches of the CAF disappeared. The abolition of the historic identities of the three branches of the CAF was unnecessary in terms of the integration and unification of the Armed Forces.”
    …-
    “Restoring the Historic Designations of the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force”
    “Aug. 16, 2011”
    “The Canadian Forces (CF) are restoring the historic names the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), the Canadian Army (CA), and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Since February 1, 1968, the names for the sea, air, and land elements of the CF have been known as Maritime Command, Land Force Command, and Air Command.”
    http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/v2/nr-sp/index-eng.asp?id=12008

  36. ‘bama’s releasing them just means he’s making it easier for the transition back to taliban rule once he pulls the troops out…it’s what he intended all along
    http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/31/administration_briefs_senate_leaders_on_taliban_transfer
    Administration briefs Senate leaders on Taliban transfer
    Top Obama administration officials briefed eight senior Senate leaders Tuesday on a pending deal to transfer as many as five Taliban prisoners from the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Qatar.
    The Cable staked out the classified briefing in the basement of the Capitol building Tuesday afternoon. The eight senators who attended the briefing were Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Intelligence Committee heads Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Senate Armed Services chiefs Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN).
    …The identities of the administration briefers were not shared, but we were told it was a high-level interagency briefing team.
    All of the senators refused to discuss the contents of the briefing as they exited the secure briefing room in the Senate Visitors’ Center. But Levin and McCain both discussed the issue in question before entering the briefing, namely the administration’s negotiations with the Taliban over transferring the Taliban prisoners into Qatari custody.
    Levin told reporters Tuesday that the briefing was “about the ongoing Taliban reconciliation efforts.” Levin is open to the idea of transferring Taliban members to Qatar, but said the devil was in the details.
    “It depends on what assurances we have from the [Qatari] government that they are not going to be released,” Levin said. “But I also think the Afghans have to be very much involved in any discussions and any process. They weren’t for a while.”
    “We’re not releasing them. As I understand it they will be imprisoned in Qatar,” Levin continued. But can the Qataris be trusted to keep them behind bars? “That’s the question,” Levin said. …
    …McCain, talking to reporters before the briefing, lashed out at the idea that the prisoners would be moved to Qatar in a possible exchange for a Taliban statement renouncing international violence, as has been reported.
    “The whole idea that they’re going to ‘transfer’ these detainees in exchange for a statement by the Taliban? It is really, really bizarre,” McCain said. “This whole thing is highly questionable because the Taliban know we are leaving. I know many experts who would say they are rope-a-doping us.”
    McCain said that Congress probably can’t stop the administration from going ahead with the transfer if that’s what it decides.
    “I don’t think right now we can do anything about it, but these people were in positions of authority. One of them was responsible for deaths of several Americans,” said McCain, referring to reports that the prisoners being considered for transfer include Mullah Khair Khowa, a former interior minister, Noorullah Noori, a former governor in northern Afghanistan, and former army commander Mullah Fazl Akhund.
    Is McCain confident that the Qataris will keep the Taliban prisoners locked up? “No I am not. And the Taliban don’t think so either, otherwise the Taliban wouldn’t want them transferred,” he said. …

  37. Gorrible, et al, aka The Warmistas, are on the lam. They can run; but, they cannot hide.
    Meanwhile,
    “Temperatures are set to plunge far below freezing point making the country even colder than the South Pole. Forecasters are expecting overnight temperatures of between -8c (18f) and -10c (14f) on Friday.
    The McMurdo research facility in Antarctica is currently recording -6c (21f) at night. The bitter cold has forced some countries to deploy their armed forces and set up emergency accommodation.”
    …-
    “Britain to shiver in temperatures ‘colder than the South Pole’ as health chiefs say more than 1,500 people a week could die from killer freeze
    Department of Health issues ‘level 3’ cold-weather alert as freeze poses significant health risks
    Army on standby for level 4 ‘major cold weather incident'”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2094230/UK-weather-Temperatures-Britain-colder-South-Pole-1500-week-die.html
    …-
    “CLIMATE:
    Scientists, celebrities to cruise with Gore to Antarctica”
    “Former Vice President Al Gore is taking his fight against climate change to Antarctica next week as part of a cruise organized by his Climate Reality Project.
    Gore and more than 100 fellow travelers will depart from Argentina late next week. Scientists, including climatologists James Hansen of NASA and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, will give talks during the journey.
    Other attendees include Bangladesh’s minister of environment and forests, Hasan Mahmud, and British billionaire Richard Branson, who blogged about the trip last month.”
    http://www.eenews.net/public/eenewspm/2012/01/20/6

  38. looks like the British Museum has some extra shelf space now, because the odds of this coming back after a four month ‘loan’ are pretty slim…on the other hand, maybe it would Imadinnerjacket some good to read up on human rights….
    http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Arts/Sep/13/Babylonian-artifact-loaned-by-UK-museum-goes-on-display-in-Iran.ashx#axzz1l9Q2kiu1
    TEHRAN: A Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world’s first human-rights charter went on display in Iran after the government threatened to cut ties with the British Museum if it did not loan the object.
    The Cyrus Cylinder is a sixth century BC clay object inscribed with an account in cuneiform of the conquest of Babylon by the Persian King Cyrus the Great. It arrived in Iran Friday and was unveiled Sunday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the National Museum. It will remain on display for four months.

  39. O’Jimmah Carter.
    “Her hope for change,”.
    Americans held hostage by Mohammedans: “banned from leaving Egypt,”.
    …-
    “U.S. NGOs trapped in Egypt caught in battle with remnants of Mubarak regime, sources say”
    “CAIRO — Arriving in Egypt last year, Julie Hughes had hoped to help write history by aiding the country’s new generation of politicians and civil society groups to build a democratic future.
    Instead, the American director of the National Democratic Institute is under investigation by authorities for funding irregularities at her U.S.-based group and is banned from leaving Egypt, a measure that prompted other activists to seek refuge this week in the U.S. embassy in Cairo.
    Her hope for change, inspired by the fall of Hosni Mubarak at the hands of hundreds of thousands of protesting Egyptians, was punctured on December 29 when her offices were raided in connection with an investigation by Egypt’s new military rulers.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/01/u-s-ngos-trapped-in-egypt-caught-in-battle-with-remnants-of-mubarak-regime-sources-say/

  40. Survey says, experts agree, studies show:
    The sociology dominoes are falling. Count ’em.
    …-
    “Statscan’s chief economic analyst quits”
    “Statistics Canada’s chief economic analyst has quit, citing concerns that internal debate at the agency is being stymied.
    Philip Cross made his name as a straight-shooting analyst who scrutinized Canada’s economic cycles through recessions and recoveries and put them into historical context.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/statscans-chief-economic-analyst-quits/article2323013/
    …-
    “Statscan to abandon no-layoff policy as budget cuts loom”
    “Statistics Canada is abandoning its long-standing no-layoff practice as the agency faces budget cuts, though its chief statistician says reductions will not erode the quality of its data.
    In a memo to senior managers, the Ottawa-based agency effectively abandons its no-layoff approach, which had been in place since the 1980s. Statscan, which employs nearly 5,000 full-time workers, has been asked, along with other federal departments, to submit proposals for a potential budget cut of up to 10 per cent.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/statscan-to-abandon-no-layoff-policy-as-budget-cuts-loom/article2320334/

  41. “Romney spent around 17 million in Florida” that in itself should have discouraged people from voting for him. It’s obscene.

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