14 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Definitely not about Maggie Trudeau, unless it’s the line “Every woman seemed to fade out of my mind.”

  3. I’m a Canadian who lives down under and may be here for quite some time. While SDA is the site I peruse every morning when I wake up, does anyone know a good conservative Aussie blog that I can add to my reading agenda?

  4. Got this through an email. Your opinions…?
    Subject: FW: Czech Quote on re-electing Obama
    nteresting Czech Quote
    This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in the Prague newspaper Prager Zeitungon:
    “The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”

  5. Lest We Forget.
    Captain Roy Brown. RIP.
    …-
    “A lifetime after shooting down the Red Baron, Canada’s forgotten First World War ace Roy Brown honoured in his hometown”
    “Rob Probert does not have a definitive answer to the question: why? Why has it taken almost a century for Carleton Place, a sleepy small town not far from the nation’s capital, full of red brick Victorian homes and red maple trees, to celebrate the memory of Captain Roy Brown, a First World War ace, a fly-boy, a hockey player and a handsome Canuck who fought an air-duel to the death with Manfred (Red Baron) von Richthofen.
    Yes, that Red Baron, the one and only Red Baron, the German with the red tri-plane, aristocratic roots and reputation for blasting the good guys out of the sky until our guy from Carleton Place got the better of him — before being mostly forgotten in the dustbins of the nation’s collective history.
    Overlooked, even in the place where he was born.
    “In a small town you tend not to celebrate your local heroes and I don’t know why that is,” says Mr. Probert, a Carleton Place town councillor and president of the Roy Brown Society. “Some would say it is an oversight. Some would say it is indifference. Some might say it is just how Canadians are, that we don’t like making a big fuss.
    “Brian Costello, our past mayor, would bring Roy Brown up now and again, and I knew with Brian’s passing that if we didn’t actually do something soon, that the Roy Brown story would be lost to this town forever.””
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/02/a-lifetime-after-shooting-down-the-red-baron-canadas-forgotten-first-world-war-ace-roy-brown-honoured-in-his-hometown/

  6. Have a look at:
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333135/voters-who-stayed-home-andrew-c-mccarthy
    which offers reasonable third-party validation about my previous claims on voter turn-out (and the inaccuracy of the polls — which pretty-much assured us that the enthusiasm gap was all to the benefit of the GOP — name me one that didn’t). There is really no other way to spin it: Obama had already lost that election by losing 9 million votes (seems to be 8 million by this evening; even still, he’s still a million shy of GWB in 2004), but the American right failed to win it.
    McCarthy’s explanation for the lack of conservative turn-out then follows the intellectual explanations offered by LAS, which I very much agree with on an intellectual basis, except that — the numbers don’t add up. If you’re for RP and GJ, why not go out and vote Libertarian? That would have been the best message, evah! Didn’t happen.
    eastern paul’s comments (4:14a.m.) above are entirely on point, but he’s wrong in one sense — the problem is on the right, not the left. Curious, don’t you think, that a conservative from the Czech Republic would have written that?
    So what’s to account for it? Only one thing, which is disgusting — Mr. Romney’s, er, personal and private belief system: the same sort of self-inflicted wound (denominational religous discrimination) that kept the Conservatives out of power in Canada for many decades, until, frankly, Mulroney and Harper brought it all home to Macdonald-land (as in Sir John Alexander, whom I am named for, actually, in a derivative sort of way) is operative on the American Right. I can’t tell you how revolting all of that is to me.
    As the media is trying to spin it now, we need to blame it on Operation Orka (I happen to know from experience that every party insider has a Vote ID/GOTV program, including that guy M…, whazzhizzname, from Guelph), with a screaming “if you don’t buy it, you’re going to lose…” bullshit sort of line. That’s all crap — if you choose not to vote, no amount of GOTV is going to make any difference. What precisely does anybody believe the Robo-call thingee is really all about (all in Guelph! — coincidence?)
    I think I’ve had my fill of intra-Christian/Jewish discrimination for one lifetime. And I could go on, believe me.

  8. Multirec,
    Are you familiar with Jonova – a climate change skeptic site? Lots of political commentary.

  9. Socialism’s natural end result: suicide.
    …-
    “Spain Prime Minister to Halt Evictions Following Suicide”
    “Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will temporarily halt evictions of the most vulnerable families as the government devises measures to help people stay in their homes after a woman killed herself in Baracaldo.
    The Spanish people are experiencing “terrible things and inhumane situations,” the premier said at an election rally in Lerida, Catalonia last night. The government “will defend the most vulnerable families affected by the evictions and act with seriousness, sensitivity and great humanity,” he said.
    Amaya Egana Chopitea, 53, threw herself from the window of her apartment when representatives of Spanish bank La Caixa arrived with locksmiths to evict her yesterday morning, El Mundo reported. Egana and her husband’s mortgage debt of 164,000 euros ($208,640) rose to 213,000 euros because of charges and interest payments, while their home had been auctioned for 190,000 euros, the newspaper said.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-10/spain-prime-minister-to-halt-evictions-following-suicide.html

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