24 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. If you’re in Calgary right now, I’d consider making sure your car isn’t outside. Golf ball hail is on the way.

  2. Lowry takes apart Maddow:
    http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/08/12/national-reviews-rich-lowry-destroys-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-meet-press
    The GOP wants to change and thus save Medicare. The dems say they want to maintain the status quo while hacking its funding to pay for even greater expansion of the govt via Obamacare and thus make it all even more unsustainable.
    Lowry nails Maddow on it and she has no response – granted she is not a very bright individual at the best of times.
    The discussion above reveals how very vulnerable the dems are to attack. And attack is what makes Ryan such an excellent vp pick.

  3. Re: The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
    A breath of fresh air, given the negative attitude we have here in Canada, especially with regards to the hatred that gets spewed between the French and the English.
    Thanks Robert.

  4. Johann: been watching the satellite of that storm all afternoon as it started up west of Sundre – nasty and very slow moving. Thankful that it tracked southeast not north east.

  5. Johann: been watching the satellite of that storm all afternoon as it started up west of Sundre – nasty and very slow moving. Thankful that it tracked southeast not north east.

  6. I’ve been watching that one on radar also…No major damage here in Huntington Hills but it looks like the worst of it passed just to the north of us. A few golf ball sized nuggets in the yard but mostly peas sized although they were pretty hard. Tracking southeast.

  7. I recall singing The Battle Hymn of The Republic in a Regina, Sk, Catholic Church in the late 60’s / early 70’s. The priest was from Czechoslovakia (I don’t know which half…) but quite a good man. Clearly enjoyed freedom though. Is this still sung from time to time in Catholic churches?

  8. I’d wager $1000 that Obama couldn’t recite the first stanza of the Battle Hymn but Romney could.
    I used to know all six stanzas, but after learning “Blood Upon the Risers” I’ve been unable to get past the fourth stanza. I have to admit it gets rather boring after that.

  9. Sunday, Aug. 12, Toronto Star, reprinting a New York Times article by columnist Maureen Dowd on Aug. 7, “The ungrateful president”.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/opinion/dowd-the-ungrateful-president.html
    “Stories abound of big donors who stopped giving as much or working as hard because Obama never reached out, either with a Clinton-esque warm bath of attention or Romney-esque weekend love fests and Israeli-style jaunts; of celebrities who gave concerts for his campaigns and never received thank-you notes or even his full attention during the performance; of public servants upset because they knocked themselves out at the president’s request and never got a pat on the back; of V.I.P.’s disappointed to get pictures of themselves with the president with the customary signature withheld; of politicians disaffected by the president’s penchant for not letting members of Congress or local pols stand on stage with him when he’s speaking in their state (they often watch from the audience and sometimes have to lobby just to get a shout-out); of power brokers, local and national, who felt that the president insulted them by never seeking their advice or asking them to come to the White House or ride along in the limo for a schmooze.”
    A typical narcissist. This backs up every word ET has ever said about Barack Obama.
    Even Pierre Trudeau was noted for giving people his full attention, or at least appearing to.

  10. It’s a moving song, no doubt about it. Many, many men have been inspired before battle by that beauty!!

  11. nv53
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/opinion/dowd-the-ungrateful-president.html
    top comment
    Are we so shallow that when we contribute or participate in an election we need a pat on the back to placate a pathetic urge to feel more secure, or stoke an ego?
    Maybe Barack Obama is driven entirely by his beliefs; beliefs that are motivated by what he thinks is best for the country and the world. This is what he’s running on, and this is what (I think) motivates him. If the electorate can see this, and if they share a similar vision of the future, they can vote for him. This is what Barack Obama is “giving back” — his ideas, who he is, and maybe just as important: the fact that he’s not Mitt Romney (ironic isn’t it).
    Besides, do we really want a President, the person we task to lead the country, to become pliable and artificially sentimental, pretending to be a friend in front of every person with a thick check book?
    I want a leader who accepts contributions only if they are unconditional. Contributions that seek to contribute to an idea, a cause, an honest vision for the future of America that serves to maximize our potential. Not a buddy system where favors are given to the highest bidder.
    Maybe my assessment of Barack Obama is a bit too generous. Maybe. But, I do trust him, and that’s a heck of a lot more than I can say about Mitt Romney.
    Aug. 7, 2012 at 10:29 p.m.
    Recommended 1200
    apparently barack’s people appear not to need his full attention.

  13. bruce – there are, as I see it, two problems with that opinion.
    The first is that Obama has no right to impose HIS personal vision on a population. That is the nature of a dictator or a King George III.
    The Constitution specifically says that government is of the people, by the people, for the people. It is the people who must decide the nature and operation of their society. Not one individual.
    Second, Obama hasn’t laid out his vision of a ‘just society’. He hasn’t outlined that he believes in socialism; that he rejects private business; that he is anti-capitalist, anti-individual enterprise. And that the results of his actions have decimated the economy of the US.
    We only know these opinions by some of his actions and some of his inadvertent comments. He hasn’t attempted to PERSUADE the American people of the value of these opinions. He has told the population that the reason they are against his health care is because they ‘don’t understand it’, ie, they are ignorant of his wisdom.
    And in most other issues, he has ignored and sidelined the American public. How? Not merely by not explaining, truthfully, his agenda, but by ignoring and sidelining Congress. Congress is the voice of the people and Obama has denigrated and ignored it, preferring to ‘rule’ by Executive Fiat.
    But a lot of people will follow Obama because he is a masterful manipulator. He’s lived his life using this and only this tactic: manipulation. He himself hasn’t achieved a single policy, book, article, analysis on his own; it’s all by using other people and manipulating even more people to follow along.

  14. “But a lot of people will follow Obama because he is a masterful manipulator, etc, etc”
    Posted by: ET at August 13, 2012 8:37 AM
    And forever “a narcissist” eh, ET?

  16. Ich Bin Ein Shocked, virshtay?
    “Shareholders in Germany appeared shocked by Solarworld’s poor performance”.
    …-
    “Renewables
    Germany’s Solarworld disappoints shareholders”
    “Solarworld of Germany has reported heavy losses for the first half of the current year after massive write-downs and revenues problems. The company blames its poor results on cheap Chinese solar panels.”
    http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16162359,00.html

  17. Excellent link FREE @ 11:06 – few people are aware of the facts that you have linked to – the Civil War was not about freeing anyone, slavery never even entered the fray until mid way through the course of the war.

  20. In a non-surprising move CBS news cut out a part of the Romney / Ryan interview on sunday where Ryan explained that his mother is a retiree in Florida who is on medicare. He explained that because people planned their retirement around the benefits that were promised to them they (the benefits) need to be preserved for them. Younger people will have time to adapt to the reforms.

  21. The Battle Hymn can cut several ways.
    He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
    He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
    and indeed the Americans have blasphemed; their vicious libels of the innocent have surely been an insult and a mockery of God.
    Americans have had four years of the vengeance of God through His agent Obama; but that was light,
    a mere nothing; they are still favoured, probably, and need not bring down the full weight upon themselves.
    Perhaps, though more likely God has already slated them for more torture and then for annihilation as a people.

  22. Born August 13, 1926),today is the 86th birthday of Kate’s favourite dictator,Fidel Castro.
    Happy Birthday Fidel, from all your fans here at SDA!

  23. The ice is melting,the ice is melting ,we are doomed.
    The cbc once again has put up an article to please their readers.Included in the article is this line;
    ” About 7,000 cubic kilometres of ice remained at the end of last summer. By contrast, there was 13,000 cubic km of sea ice in the Arctic in 2004.”
    Notice that the original 7,000 figure is from the end of the summer. The 13,000 figure is from ‘who knows’,possibly the end of a very cold winter. Why 2004 but not 2003 or 2005 ?
    But,a billion dollars doesn’t go very far these days.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/08/13/arctic-ice-melting-faster.html

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