36 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. “Barry, we’re here today because we’ve been very concerned about your behaviour over the last four years…”

    The Romney team is going after a guy who is narcissistic and emotionally brittle, and who has been accustomed to getting away with shading reality and ignoring arithmetic by a complicit media. It’s more than a campaign; it’s an intervention.

  2. What do the head of pin, a grapefruit, a computer mouse, and the planet Mars all have in common?
    Touré Neblett will see racism in ALL of them.
    If you’d like to make up your own list, just find a dictionary and identify any words listed as ‘nouns’. Mr. Neblett, picking up the race-baiting torch from Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson, will find racism with everything in your list too.

  8. Lawrence Auster of View From The Right on an AP report that takes great pains to avoid identifying *who* is rioting in France, and instead uses the catch-all “youth“:

    If today’s mainstream media had been in existence hundreds of years ago, they would have had stories like: “Youth Conquer Constantinople,” “Youth Raids Seize Europeans as Slaves,” “Young People Invade Rome, Sack Vatican,” “Young People’s Army Turned Back at the Gates of Vienna—Europe Saved!”

    No kidding. Or, “A group of young people stormed the beach at Normandy today, but were met by fierce resistance from a different group of young people…”

  10. Mark Steyn: Half-wit demagoguery, hard truths
    Be that as it may, Mr. Corkins decided to shoot people because of a chicken sandwich chain owner’s position on same-sex marriage. That’s what Floyd Corkins thinks is the most pressing issue facing the United States. Perhaps he saw himself as the Gavrilo Princip of our time. Like Floyd Corkins, young Princip was not the sharpest knife in the transgender clinic – the cyanide pill he took after the assassination was past its sell-by date; to evade capture, his co-conspirator jumped into the River Miljacka, but it was only five inches deep, and a man standing up to his ankles in the middle of a river in a large city tends to attract attention. Nevertheless, Princip’s assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand plunged Europe into war and brought down the Austrian, German, Russian and Turkish empires with consequences that plague us to this day (not least the post-Ottoman Middle East).
    http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-368864-corkins-every.html

  11. Rev – Steyn mentions our own Phantom in that article! Paragraph 5.
    I’ll get you for this, Phantom.

  12. EBD,
    In regards to the Dinocrat post, I’ve always believed that obama should have been locked in a rubber room with a butterfly net, he should not have been given the keys to the States…………… ever.

  14. not a tip, probably not even a QOTW, but I was reading a laptop review and there was a short argument in the comments which ended with
    “Quit trying to see yourself as a persecuted minority when you’re neither one. You’re like a Republican.”
    …which made me laugh. I just wrote a short line telling him he got it backwards, but am obviously not interested in having that argument on a rather lefty biased tech site.
    http://gizmodo.com/5935723/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-review-what-the-future-of-laptops-should-be?comment=51979216

  17. Toronto Star, Wednesday, Aug. 15. Heather Mallick demonstrates how clueless she is about Ayn Rand:
    http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1241907–romney-pick-paul-ryan-is-hard-right-theorist-ayn-rand-in-a-prettier-suit
    HM: “Objectivism is selfishism. It is a stark, ultra-rational self-interested approach to life that ignores altruism, religious belief, intuition, sacrifice, all the soft bits. Rand, childless, saw the universe as a malevolent place in which the individual pursued the greatest goal of all, money, and thus individual liberty.”
    “Selfishness” (as in ‘the virtue of’) merely means being concerned with one’s own interests. That’s what most of us are 99% of the time. It’s not possible to live any other way. No one else can live your life for you, or make your decisions for you. Not even in Heather Mallick’s case.
    Ayn Rand was the very last person on earth who could ever be accused of seeing the universe as a malevolent place. The “greatest goal of all” is not money but one’s own individual happiness. Money can be a means to that, but it doesn’t equate to it. Individual liberty is a necessity for human beings to flourish. If Mallick objects to that, it tells you a lot more about her than about Rand.
    Objectivism doesn’t “ignore” altruism; it regards it as evil (the vast sacrifice of human lives under Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others should leave no doubt about that). It does however allow for benevolence, which is the moral, voluntary version of giving. And yes, Rand was an atheist, believing there was no evidence for the existence of God.
    Mallick also mentions a New Yorker article on Rand by someone who is as ignorant as she herself is.

  19. With all due deference to Schiller and to Herbert Spencer, with their theory of the “play instinct” as at the bottom of all art, I contend that all our amusements, alike all our art, derive ultimately from the most serious, most utilitarian instincts.
    Wow. Consider play/sport from this context.

  21. So we have “The Phantom” being murderously stalked by both “Black Mamba” and “syncrodox”.
    Hang on, I need to go get my Walter Gibson back issues.
    (props on the shout-out, P)

  24. Socialism’s Bloody Massacre.
    Blacks kill blacks.
    On video: South Africa’s bloody black apartheid.
    …-
    “South Africa’s ‘Hill of horror’: Were 34 miners killed in self defence, or was it a massacre?”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08/17/south-
    africa-strike-protest/
    “Video: South African police captured shooting at striking miners”

  26. WUWT:
    “I predict that in a few years, when the subsidies run out, many wind farms will look like this one in Hawaii, now abandoned because it it too expensive to maintain:”.
    http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/5132c3b0-37d9-4e23-83fd-68ca51729f7b.jpg
    …-
    More from WUWT:
    “In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.”
    “Everyone acts so surprised by this news, but I had it on WUWT over a month ago.
    USA CO2 emissions may drop to 1990 levels this year”
    “McIntyre’s talk in London – Plus, the UK’s tilting at windmills may actually increase CO2 emissions over natural gas”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/18/mcintyres-talk-in-london-plus-the-uks-tilting-at-windmills-may-actually-increase-co2-emissions-over-natural-gas/#more-69484

  28. Of dinosaurs.
    …-
    “Local artist includes piece of John Lennon’s tooth in sculpture
    CTV News”
    “Dinosaur skeleton unearthed near Drumheller
    CTV News – ‎17 minutes ago‎
    A nearly complete triceratops skeleton has been found near Drumheller and paleontologists are calling it a major discovery. The bones were found when a road crew cut through the side of a hill about a half hour east of Drumheller.”

  31. Thanks for those links batb.
    I was under the impression as a youngin that boys wore pants to better protect their junk, guess that doesn’t matter when one is planning to lop it all off anyway.
    Loreena Bobbit was ahead of her time.

  32. Recycling Jack.
    …-
    “NDP’s Mulcair honours anniversary of Jack Layton’s death”
    “A cycling event was organized around the community in honour of Mr. Layton and Ms. Chow, Mr. Layton’s widow, led an entourage of cyclists dressed in black with a bouquet of flowers on the back of her bicycle.
    “We’re riding for Jack”.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ndps-mulcair-visits-brampton-ahead-of-anniversary-of-jack-laytons-death/article4488040/
    …-
    “He came on a bicycle. I escorted him down and he went away on his bike.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/29/layton-found-in-toronto-bawdy-house-former-cop

  33. I am not sure if this qualifies as a tip, but there seems to be a somewhat off topic side discussion going on in “SDA Gets Results!” thread @ 11:00 as to what constitutes a fascist government. So to be safe I am making my comment here. Generally speaking a radical leftist considers all governments not Marxist or communist to be fascist.

  34. Of Mann’s dendrochronology, aka tree-ring dating:
    “A graduate student, he was working on a climate timeline, and the trees held valuable data.”
    …-
    Of Mann’s Hockey Stick vs Here’s The Truth:
    http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e183/doc11355/Politics/Climate%20Change/?action=view¤t=file-2.jpg
    …-
    “Gormless Grad Killed World’s Oldest Tree”
    “On Aug. 6, 1964, Donald Currey was at the timberline of Nevada’s Wheeler Peak looking for bristlecone pines, the oldest trees on earth.”
    “A graduate student, he was working on a climate timeline, and the trees held valuable data. Using a Swedish borer, Currey took samples from trunks without harming the pines.
    His 114th specimen had a 252-inch circumference and was so tough it broke his regular borer and the backup. The Forest Service gave him permission to get out his chain saw and cut the tree down.
    It turned out to be “Prometheus,” more than 5,000 years old, and known to conservationists as the most ancient living thing on earth. A sapling when the Sumerians created mankind’s first written language, it had now been pointlessly destroyed.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-17/gormless-grad-killed-world-s-oldest-tree-lewis-lapham.html

  36. Rev – Steyn mentions our own Phantom in that article! Paragraph 5.
    I’ll get you for this, Phantom.
    Posted by: Black Mamba
    All that proves is Steyn has good taste in reading SDA (O:}

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