41 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. It’s way to early to say “uh-oh”, but…:
    “President Obama has an overall edge in the 12 decisive battleground states that is measurably greater than his advantage in national polling. The dynamic, which may reflect a combination of lower swing-state unemployment rates and demographic advantages for the president, is causing stirrings of unease among Republicans…”

  4. Just curious, where SDA time zone is from. Says 12Am, but it is only 8pm in the Rockies, and nothing in North America is midnight, not even NFLD.
    Europe is 6 hours different.

  5. While these postings are marked July 31, 10PM which is EST, but the main Reader’s Post says 12am, Aug 1.

  6. Olympic security guard spits on and screams at British soldier, calls him a baby-killer.
    The guard, who “left no doubt” that he was referring to military actions in Afghanistan, is described in the article as being “Asian”, which isn’t nearly vague enough, in my opinion; I think reporters should start using the term “Northern Hemispherian” instead.

  7. Johnbrooks, the midnight time-stamp is a protocol initiated by Vίtruvius when he was doing the Reader Tips from a barge in the waters off of New Brunswick. As a living tribute to him, we never adjusted the time-zone westwards after he left.
    RT: The ‘crusaderism’ of the “credentialed class.”
    h/t

  11. Thanks SDH. Kate did try to fire me without severance, but a Human Rights Tribunal forced her to rehire me AND to pay me 15 big ones after I convinced them that I have an addiction to bath salts.

  12. Pink-skinned oppressor Ed West: “What’s wrong with America having Anglo-Saxon heritage?”
    Two excerpts:

    Obama’s underlining foreign policy narrative was that, being half-Kenyan and with an emotional attachment to people of colour, he would be able to form a better rapport with Africans, Arabs and the rest of the non-white world. But if that’s the argument, then logically Mitt Romney, who’s not just white but the whitest man in the world, will have the same appeal to Europeans. If non-whites are so basic and ethnocentric that it takes one of their own to make them see America kindly, isn’t it the same for everyone?

    Later,

    And why is it acceptable for every ethnicity in America to take pride in its roots, apart from the ethnic group that founded the 13 colonies, bequeathed it their language and laws, and established the political philosophy and liberal institutions?

    I think we all know the answer to that one.

  13. 15 large? That’s all? Kate got off light considering all the crazy blog money she must be rolling in.

  16. Absolutely, SDH. As a member of the Bloggers Union Local 523, Kate receives $162.28 per comment.
    Do the math.
    RT: “The Community Reinvestment Act is back, as if 2008 never happened.”

    Yes, believe it or not, the federal government is now starting another initiative to force banks to lend to low-credit-rated blacks and Hispanics — not just anybody but specifically blacks and Hispanics — and is threatening — and already imposing — huge punitive fines if they don’t. Moreover, this time they’re going even further. They’re going to take over the credit rating agencies and force them to change their standards to accommodate blacks and Hispanics so that nobody will have any idea who is a bad credit risk and who is not. In so many words, the government is about impose its will on the whole home-lending market and force another round of bad loans so that the banks are going to be looted once again so that even the federal government may not be able to bail them out this time.
    The principle instrument this time is not the Justice Department, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as it was last time, but the brand-new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, designed by good old Elizabeth “Nobody-Ever-Made-It-On-Their-Own” Warren, which should really be called the Bureau for Bringing Down the Entire Economy…

    The whole thing here.

  17. Thanks for the Gene Autry link, EBD.
    First heard that on a battery powered radio way back when.

  20. Tonight the CBC Radio’s six o’clock news program ran a story on the end of the Canadian Wheat Board. the story was, not surprisingly, focused almost exclusively on an admittedly small demonstration:
    “A small group of farmers held a protest outside the wheat board’s Winnipeg headquarters on Tuesday afternoon to oppose the upcoming changes.” At least 80% of the audio provided a pulpit for the rump of bitter-enders who showed up to protest the decision.

  21. It looks like this year is probably going to be one of the worst years possible for pro-wheat board proponents given the drought down south.

  23. SDH at July 31, 2012 10:59 PM – And don’t forget all that schnauzer moolah. Those little furry things have got to be a goldmine.

  24. Last night, Derek and Leslie mentioned the Moose Mountain Rodeo. I mentioned the oldest rodeo in Canada at Wood Mountain Sask. (Wood Mountain Stampede–123 years old)
    Interestingly, they have a rodeo museum that once included Gene Autry’s saddle. How did it get there? Sorry–don’t know that.

  27. EBD @ 11:09 p.m.:
    Quote from the article, by an opponent of the initiative: “In the end, it will be the minorities Obama and [Eric] Holder are trying to help who will be hurt most.”
    Obama and Holder aren’t trying to help minorities. They’re trying to destroy the American economy. When Romney and the Republicans wake up to this, and inform the American people, they may be able to save the country.

  28. National Post, Tuesday, July 31.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/Brains+enough/7014790/story.html
    “Since Canada’s labour quality has improved steadily over the years, one would expect investment in physical capital to follow suit. But in the mid 1980s, growth in Canada’s ratio between physical capital and labour slowed dramatically. Around the same time, productivity growth also fell sharply. Canada’s labour productivity grew by an average of 2.8% annually from 1962 to 1984, but slowed to an average of 1.2% yearly between 1984 and 2010.”
    “The Conference Board has examined five reasons why capital intensity has levelled off over the past 25 years …
    [- the weak Canadian dollar in the 1990s and early 2000s
    – the introduction of the federal capital tax in 1985
    – tariff and non-tariff barriers between Canada and other countries, and internal barriers
    – under-investment in Canada’s public infrastructure
    – an underperforming venture capital market]
    Some improvements have been made in each of these areas …”
    The major reasons for productivity problems are omitted: (1) massive government intervention that distorts the economy, through subsidies, regulations, and a ridiculously complicated tax system; (2) massive welfare state handouts to unproductive people, with leftist destroyers continually attempting to expand the rolls, often through these economic interventionist measures.
    The crucial element in any discussion of an economy is valuation: individuals’ value-judgments on what each individual item is worth to them. An economy thrives on trade, that is, voluntary exchange for mutual benefit of values that were created through production. This and only this leads to a higher standard of living. Any measure that interferes with this process leads to a reduction in productivity. Wages rise in proportion to capital investment per worker, i.e., there is no conflict between labour and capital. The proper expression is “profits and people: both or neither”.

  29. Ah-Good Old gene Autry.
    When I was a wee lad living in Woodstock Ontario Gene Autry was rumored to be passing through and his train would be stopping at the CNR station.
    My uncle grabbed me and my brother and we tore down to the station. Sure enough, Gene made a brief appearance. What a disappointment! He was only about 5 feet tall and skinny as a rail. I never saw him in the same light after that.

  30. Law Jurinal Excerpts: melee and Metis.
    …-
    “LFP | Rampage on the ranges
    Emergency-response teams swooped into London’s provincial jail after a weapons search and lockdown sparked a melee, with inmates trashing the ranges, flooding toilets and damaging cells, sources say.
    […]
    #4 — NP | Winnipeg navigates tricky sale of Métis-donated land in bid to build new police headquarters
    Eager for cash to pay for a pricey new police station, the City of Winnipeg’s lawyers have set to work figuring out how they can sell a chunk of high-value downtown property without violating the terms of the Métis pioneers who gave it to them.”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

  31. Mao Stlong* Lepolt: Flaud.
    …-
    “China’s factories sputter while Europe sinks”
    “In Asia’s biggest economies, China and India, export orders were weak and output stalled as output plummeted in the eurozone.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/01/chinas-factories-sputter-while-europe-sinks/
    …-
    “badminton scandal: Eight women charged for “throwing” Olympic matches
    South Korean coach admits guilt but says the “Chinese started it”
    http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/
    *BobRae’s Mao’s nephew, c/o Red China.

  33. Mao’s Orympic’s Fraud Lepolt.
    …-
    “‘Badminton players have broken Olympic spirit'”
    “London 2012 badminton match-fixing ‘not first time China have tried to manipulate results’
    Statistics suggest China’s badminton teams have a history of engineering results when they face one another, according to The Telegraph’s badminton correspondent Rod Gilmour.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/badminton/9443911/London-2012-badminton-match-fixing-not-first-time-China-have-tried-to-manipulate-results.html

  34. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    H/T Ontario socialist Premier McGuinty.
    …-
    “Wind turbine worker threatened with gun”
    “Man said he was confronted while doing preliminary site work”
    “Jeff Damen was doing preliminary work at the site of a proposed wind farm in the community of West Grey, near London last week when he says a red pickup truck pulled alongside his vehicle and the driver asked what he was doing.”
    “I have encountered verbal attacks, personally to me, regarding wind, but it has never escalated to this point,” he said. “This has gone to a new level of my safety, for sure.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/07/31/wdr-wind-turbines-death-threats.html

  35. Krauthammer finally gets his White House apology:
    Charles,
    I take your criticism seriously and you are correct that you are owed an apology. There was clearly an internal confusion about the two busts and there was no intention to deceive. I clearly overshot the runway in my post. The point I was trying to make – under the belief that the Bust in the residence was the one previously in the Oval Office– was that this oft repeated talking point about the bust being a symbol of President Obama’s failure to appreciate the special relationship is false. The bust that was returned was returned as a matter of course with all the other artwork that had been loaned to President Bush for display in his Oval Office and not something that President Obama or his Administration chose to do. I still think this is an important point and one I wish I had communicated better.
    A better understanding of the facts on my part and a couple of deep breaths at the outset would have prevented this situation. Having said all that, barring a miracle comeback from the Phillies I would like to see the Nats win a world series even if it comes after my apology
    Thanks,
    Dan Pfeiffer

  37. Texas: “fiercely conservative voters shook one of America’s reddest states to its political core.”
    …-
    “Texas GOP chooses tea party-backed Cruz for GOP Senate nomination
    AUSTIN – Tea party darling Ted Cruz convincingly defeated the Republican establishment favorite, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, in Texas’ runoff election Tuesday, capturing the GOP nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison as fiercely conservative voters shook one of America’s reddest states to its political core.”
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/31/texas-gop-chooses-tea-party-backed-cruz-for-gop-senate-nomination/

  40. More cuts to the left-liberals’ arts.
    “In one case, it was the gift of grain to a 4-H club,” Harper said.”
    …-
    “Tories pardon farmers arrested under old wheat board law”
    “Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Saskatchewan to celebrate end of Canadian Wheat Board monopoly”
    “The Conservative government is pardoning a group of farmers who were arrested for trying to sell their wheat under the old law governing the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly as they mark the first day on which prairie producers can sell outside the board.
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement this afternoon at a farm outside Kindersely, Sask.
    “Never, never again” will western farmers alone be punished for trying to sell the wheat they grew on their land, Harper said to a round of applause.
    Harper recalled how the farmers drove “a few loads of grain” across the border and were arrested and convicted for it.
    “In one case, it was the gift of grain to a 4-H club,” Harper said.
    “These people were not criminals. They were our fellow citizens. Citizens who protested injustice by submitting themselves peacefully to the consequences of challenging injustice.”
    To the authority of the Crown falls an ancient power…the royal prerogative of mercy.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/08/01/pol-wheat-board-monopoly-over.html

  41. Will Nancy roll? Will O’cavort with Bill*?
    “Jim Messina, left, is managing Obama’s re-election campaign Photo: AP”
    “In an email from his personal account, Mr Messina promised “I will roll [Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi] for the 4 billion” needed to fund expansion of health care coverage.”
    …-
    “White House officials caught out with lobbyists”
    “The White House was accused of breaking its own transparency rules after it emerged that senior officials went to elaborate lengths to conceal back-channel discussions with lobbyists.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/democrats/9445120/White-House-officials-caught-out-with-lobbyists.html
    *Bill: “Bill Clinton endorses Obama in campaign film”

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