41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/02/04/conrad-black-queen-elizabeth-has-not-only-lived-long-shes-prospered-in-her-role/
    A good article on our Queen. Although I admit to being a bit of a monarchist with Full English grandparents on one side.
    My favorite line from the article: Queen Elizabeth II has personified the British middle-class virtues: moderation, unflamboyant consistency and unflappable reliability.
    God Save the Queen!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuoGOo3Bew&feature=related

  7. Dear Canadian Medical Establishment,
    I’m not quite sure what to make of you. On the one hand, you people are self-regulating in most provinces, which I have a problem with in principle, though I’m not sure how these issues play out in practice. You do good work with pushing vaccines, which I respect, as I think children need the MMR.
    However, you seem to be confused as to why parents worried about autism can be resistant to having their children vaccinated. I’ll explain; it’s because of a very long history of garbage like this:
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/young-children/children-health/the-risks-of-prescribing-antipsychotics-to-kids/article2325968/
    You people couldn’t have spent a hundred grand or so on a study before trying this out?

  12. My Dad used to say when someone points a gun on you, than says their going to kill you. You believe them. Diplomacy is not an option anymore. This is not about goods or tariffs, even land. This is your death or stopping the would be killer. This is a hard truth, but should be obvious. If you are deluded enough not to believe what these people are saying. Your dead.
    When the blue iron of a gun is sticking in your guts, survival is the only option at any cost. This too is a hard fact. They are not joking. There is nothing you can do to stop them.
    Ayatollah: Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel
    Iran lays out legal case for genocidal attack against ‘cancerous tumor’
    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
    http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/ayatollah-kill-all-jews-annihilate-israel/

  14. Somewhat related to tonight’s reader tips (on the note side) I have a humble suggestion.
    At the ripe young age of 36, and after consulting with some of the smarter people that I grew up with, the Boomers are the Do As I Say, Not As I Do generation.
    DAISNAID
    Elvis died from a painkiller addiction, on the toilet trying to force Opiate induced constipation out.
    No amount of greasy food can slide that load through intestines that are too stoned to remember to sh!t. Get over it.
    The Rolling Stones are a sad, old parody that ripped off American Blues singers.
    Ditto for Led Zepplin.
    And Clapton.
    And The Guess Who.
    And the Monkees
    Etc, etc etc.
    The Beatles were a manufactured pop band that started out as art/punk, signed a contract, got famous for making pubescent girls wet, discovered LSD alongside a brilliant engineer that pioneered tape FX, with them along for the ride.
    Now you’re old and irrelevant, your revolution was nothing more than selling out your great grandchildren and leaving them with the bill.
    Congratulations, at least we can’t be any stupider than you.
    And screw you Gen X you sold out your kids.(I gave up the fight years ago. Now …… why am I even bothering to type this.
    [despair]
    [rant]
    dwright

  15. I am pretty much convinced that Reimagine The CBC is actually run by the CBC, or at least a govt dept.
    I sent them a tweet five days ago asking why all suggestions for privitization were removed. Last night they got back to me. Their response? They suggested I read the community terms of reference.
    Sounds like a govt dept to me!
    https://twitter.com/#!/ReimagineCBC/status/166313840345231360

  16. dwight, there are many exceptions to the Baby Boomer malaise that post here and live across North America that are doing their best to counter act the destructive forces the Boomers unleashed. The spearhead phalanx of this group smoked and b*nged their brains out in Woodstock and now they control our society.

  17. Who would have ever thought. Russia going the opposite way of North America.
    Buzz Hargrove take note.
    From September 2012, fundamentals of religion will be introduced as an obligatory subject in all schools of Russia. According to their own (or, probably, their parents’) choice, schoolchildren, starting from the 4th or the 5th year, will study fundamentals of Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism or Buddhism (these denominations have been officially recognized “traditional for Russia”), or a course which shortly tells about the history of all these religions. Those who will not want to study religion will be able to attend alternative classes of secular ethics.
    http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/02/06/65435368.html
    At a meeting with the Public Supporters’ Committee, Russian President Dmitry Mevedev today promised to finalize the privatization of state property, if appointed as the next Prime Minister.
    “This needs to be done even for ideological reasons,” he explained.
    http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/02/06/65449511.html

  19. Dwight–anyone who looks to the celebrities and the music world for their mentors is bound to be disappointed. I’m sure there’s an equivalent list that could be fashioned from today’s glitterati. As far as the original blues singers–many of them had their fame revived because of Bob Dylan, and others who “ripped them off”. Many of those songs went back so far in the annals of folk tunes, that they never actually belonged to anyone. Robert Johnson and others were originals but I doubt anyone today would know all that much about them except that people like Eric Clapton recorded their songs–always paying tribute when they did so.

  20. dwight.
    Not sure what has instigated your anger, but I am part of a group of Boomers that refuse to be defined by the parameters you have described.
    That was part of journey, but not our identity.

  21. Neo-AGW PR: Update.
    H/T GWN.
    …-
    “Winterlude visitors like it cold and snowy
    Ottawa Citizen”
    “Winter gets inside Centaur Theatre
    McGill Daily”
    http://news.google.ca/
    “Death toll from Europe cold snap passes 300”
    “In Rome, traffic was virtually paralysed by black ice as snow covered the city.
    As residents resorted to sawing through fallen trees blocking the roads, many people said they had no assistance from the authorities.
    “It’s awful. I had to walk two hours through freezing temperatures just to get to the metro,” Rome resident Federico Maneski said. “The area is full of trees that have fallen on cars but no one’s come to help us.””
    http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/06/death-toll-from-europe-cold-snap-passes-300.html

  23. I stole this from commenter WalrusRex at Ace of Spades. A self-described former “winger” explains to his fellow decent human beings why conservatives hate liberals. Projection is the least of it.
    Language warning.
    (BTW, could someone explain to me how the “Tea Party deliberately tried to sink the American economy last summer”? I’ve heard that one before but I can’t say I understand.)

  26. H/T Ex-Librano Giuseppe Fontana:
    Get yo a$$ down here, Premier McGuinty.
    …-
    “Council to Grits: Send money”
    “London is sending a spending wish list to the Ontario government — and help with economic development in the wake of Electro-Motive’s closing is at the top of the list.
    The city’s finance and administration committee will meet Monday to review the city’s 2012, Ontario pre-budget consultation report, where it asks the province for financial help.
    It is a diverse report, touching on areas such as social services, infrastructure and health care.
    But nothing is as ambitious as the more than $500 million it wants for economic development, said Coun. Joni Baechler, who sits on the committee.
    “London has a real need right now, look at our unemployed,” she said, referring to the 9% rate, which will worsen once the impact of EMD closing, and the 700 jobs lost, is felt.”
    http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/02/05/19342266.html

  29. it’s official…Cupid is an infidel
    BANDA ACEH (IINA) — Ulema in Aceh have warned Muslims, the younger generation in particular, that observing Valentine’s Day is not allowed in Islam and against Sharia law that is in force in all of Aceh province.
    “It is haram for Muslims to observe Valentine’s Day because it does not accord with Islamic Sharia” Tgk Feisal, general secretary of the Aceh Ulema Association (HUDA), said on Monday.
    In Islam, he said, love should not be expressed or shown on a certain day only but every day. “Therefore, Islam’s younger generation should not participate in the celebration of a foreign festivity,” he said.
    Faisal Ali who is also chairman of the Aceh branch of Nahdlatul Ulama called on Muslim parents, especially those in Aceh, to instruct and supervise their children in the matter.
    “We must prevent the Muslim younger generation in Aceh from being poisoned by a culture that contradicts our Muslim values. Therefore, everybody, parents in particular, should give our youth the proper guidance,” he said.
    He also called on the government to uphold and implement Islamic Sharia in “serious and sincere ways and not just out of political expediency or momentarily.”
    “Islamic Sharia cannot prevail in Aceh as expected if it is not supported fully by the government and other parties in authority,” he said.

  30. from the “you just can’t make this sh*t up department”…
    You cannot cure this kind of insanity and it can’t be reasoned with. Between this, ‘honour killings’, the destruction of antiquities and the prosecution of djinns and people reincarnated as dogs, islamic ‘society’ has lost any pretext it ever had as being ‘civilized’.
    The best thing is to just walk away from the Middle East, drill our own oil, help Israel build a wall around their country and defend it and then wait for the islamists to kill each other off arguing over interpretations of the qu’ran.
    http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3306.htm
    Following are excerpts from a debate on the “invasion” of Israeli products into Sinai, which aired on Egyptian Dream2 TV on February 1, 2012:
    Muhammad Al-Mane’i, Sinai Bedouin: There was a time when they would bring us jeans. These pants used to have belts. If you looked at these belts from the front, you’d find a secret compartment, and when you opened it, you would find a magnet inside. When we asked what these magnets were, we were told that they cause sterility.
    Interviewer: In other words, it causes infertility.
    Muhammad Al-Mane’i: Exactly.
    Interviewer: There was a time when these jeans with belts would invade us from Israel, and we used to take the magnets out and chuck them away.
    […]
    Interviewer: Israeli products contain lethal poison. You might not feel this poison now, but you will in the future. Israel will remain an enemy lying in wait for Egypt, no matter what happens and regardless of the agreements, because Israel has its eye set on Egypt.

  31. words to remember…
    “How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
    -Ronald Reagan
    Remarks in Arlington, Virginia, September 25, 1987

  33. …and we have a ruling:
    “A Saskatchewan law limiting the ability of public sector workers to go on strike has been ruled unconstitutional by a Queen’s Bench judge.
    In a 132-page decision released Monday, Regina Justice Dennis Ball said the Public Service Essential Services Act, also known as Bill 5, infringes on workers’ rights and is of “no force or effect.”
    However, a “declaration of invalidity” will be suspended for a year, Ball said.
    The law, bitterly opposed by labour groups, was passed by the Saskatchewan Party government in 2008.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2012/02/06/sk-labour-law-challenge-1202.html

  35. maz2, look how well that ‘legacy’ strategy worked for the Democrats! Scott Brown won big for the Republicans:-)

  37. Neo-AGW PR: Update.
    “one of the most severe in decades,”.
    See also Mao Stlong* Lepolt: “the EU carbon tax is triggering trade disputes.”
    …-
    “Heavy snowfall, cold hits life across Europe”
    “Heavy snowfall and intense cold this winter, one of the most severe in decades, has taken its toll across Europe, with many rural areas badly affected and several deaths reported.
    More than 30 villages in Aniene Valley, near Rome in Italy, were snowed over, and left minus power when an electric pylon collapsed under the weight of snow.
    People were marooned in their homes with mountains of snow outside and many said they could not venture to their farms to feed their livestock.”
    http://www.australiannews.net/story/203276071
    …-
    *Mao Stlong Plesents:
    “Emissions Scheme Dispute
    China Bans Airlines from Paying EU Carbon Tax”
    “China said on Monday it was forbidding its airlines from joining a European Union carbon emissions scheme to protect the climate. The companies now face fines or may even be barred from landing at EU airports. The dispute comes as the EU is looking to China to help tackle the euro debt crisis.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,813544,00.html
    *MS = Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle Maurice Strong, c/o Red China.

  38. Looks like this headline might need a rewrite: “B.C. natives ask China to raise human rights with Harper”, maybe Thomas Friedman is consulting with the B.C. natives now.

  39. AGW = “more public funds.”, aka taxe$.
    …-
    “Siberian weather sparks frigid flames on Lake Geneva”
    “GENEVA / LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A new record low temperature for this winter was set in canton Graubuenden’s Engadine region, in Samedan this weekend: -35.1C.
    The death toll from the cold in Europe, now estimated to be over 300 people, continues to rise.”
    http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/siberian-weather-sparks-frigid-flames-on-lake-geneva/
    …-
    “Another Green Energy Company Stumbles: Fisker Announces Layoffs”
    “Fisker Automotive, the maker of an exotic electric sports car that is being built with help from a $529 million federal government loan guarantee, has announced layoffs at its Delaware plant as it tries to persuade the Department of Energy to send it more public funds.”
    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fisker-automotive-announced-layoffs/story?id=15524021#.TzBwJIHRp-8

  41. And another headline needing Kate’s attention at ctv(and Natnewswatch): Six Quebec MP’s return Jubilee medals
    Gee,maybe cbc can find more staffers to hand them out to.

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