38 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Recommended: Victor Davis Hanson’s “Too Few Oppressors, Too Many Victims”.
    Excerpt:

    Are there any minorities in California? In fact, everyone here is a minority. In my town, Latinos are the vast majority, as they are now in most San Joaquin Valley schools and colleges. Are they “overrepresented” here or at CSU Fresno? Should we have busing to achieve proportional “diversity” at the local grammar school two miles away that is 99% of one ethnic grouping?

    The whole thing here.

  2. Three occupiers have been sentenced from 8 to 11 years in prison for a plot to blow up a bridge in Ohio.
    Strange story, because they all look so decent, hardworking, and trustworthy..

  3. PETA is at it again! Now they want the hunting magazines hidden from sight..oh the poor kiddies eyes!..liken hunting mags to ‘porn!’ Link to story at Weasel Zippers,with lovely pic of big buck!!

  4. Thomas Sowell, “Killing The Goose“:

    Many people think of labor unions as organizations to benefit workers, and think of employers who are opposed to unions as just people who don’t want to pay their employees more money. But some employers have made it a point to pay their employees more than the union wages, just to keep them from joining a union.
    Why would they do that, if it is just a question of not wanting to pay union wages? The Twinkies bankruptcy is a classic example of costs created by labor unions that are not confined to paychecks.
    The work rules imposed in union contracts required the company that makes Twinkies, which also makes Wonder Bread, to deliver these two products to stores in separate trucks. Moreover, truck drivers were not allowed to load either of these products into their trucks. And the people who did load Twinkies into trucks were not allowed to load Wonder Bread, and vice versa.

    The whole thing here.

  6. Re: Mule Train!
    Don’t know anything about mules, except that when I was a kid, my bro and I ordered the Borax 20 Mule Team kit that we glued and assembled and than placed on the window sill.
    Thanx EBD.

  9. The Globe and Mail is running this sympathetic article;
    ” Elmo actor quits Sesame Street:The tragic timeline of Kevin Clash ”
    Maybe it is just me,but I don’t think that Kevin has suffered much tragedy.The man is very sucessful.
    His “tragedy” is that he got caught doing the nasty with young hustlers. Our tragedy is that he never met Luka.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot- button/elmo-actor-quits-sesame-street-the-tragic-timeline-of-kevin-clash/article5481734/comments/

  11. I’ll take the h/t, EBD, for the excellent article by Victor Davis Hanson that you recommend at the top of today’s Reader Tips! I recommended it in Reader Tips yesterday morning @ 7:44!
    Great minds think alike … 😉

  13. The Central Intelligence Agency has disbanded its Center on Climate Change and National Security.
    Unit was formed in 2009 to monitor the interplay between a warming planet and intelligence and security challenges.
    Catastrophic Climate Change is not working for the Obama administration.
    Think Hurricane Sandy..
    Voters get pissed when the electricity goes down and stays down..
    Maybe Catastrophic Unions?

  17. Thanks, EDB. I remember that song from my childhood. It was very popular and played often on the radio.

  18. It is my firm conviction, supported by years of observation and experimentation, that men are not equal, that some are stupid and others are not, and that the difference is determined by nature and not by cultural forces or factors. One is stupid in the same way one is red-haired. One belongs to the stupid set as one belongs to a blood group. A stupid man is born a stupid man by an act of Providence. Therefore, it is a complete coincidence that the vast majority of stupid people are Lefties, many of which are environmental activists.

  19. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    *Ex-Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle, c/o Red China.
    …-
    “Sinovel to Put 350 Employees on Paid Leave”
    “Slowing business and declining production force wind turbine manufacturer to send workers home”
    “Sinovel Wind Group Co. said on November 17 it would place 350 workers on paid leave as the company deals with slowing business.
    China’s second-largest wind turbine maker said starting November 19 part of its workforce at its headquarters in Beijing and manufacturing facilities in Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Jilin and Gansu would go on paid leave until production returned to normal. The company did not provide a timetable.”
    http://english.caixin.com/2012-11-19/100462640.html

  21. The following is highly recommended:
    http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/10/25/the-cult-that-plans-to-kill-you/?singlepage=true
    “People in cults no longer live in objective truth. Everybody falls into isolated error at some point in life, but cults systematically suppress the mind and the will’s ability to adhere to or act upon truth. Cults damage the faculties that allow us to process the evidence of reality. We need to start by being aware that thousands whose bodies may not be destroyed by violence are dehumanized by absorption into a collective.”
    Damned good article.

  22. “Violence levels up at Saskatoon psychiatric prison”
    Thats a CBC.Ca Sask. headline this AM.
    Gee–why would prisoners who are incarcerated for murder, rape and armed robbery become violent? We have to do a government study on that! Must be that darned Harper again!

  25. Frankie Laine will be famous for this song, but I like the politically incorrect Spike Jones version. And no, I don’t like it just because it politically incorrect, the band was tighter than an Indian rope trick.
    I remember first hearing the Frankie Laine version on the album “Remember How Great…?” (Volume 2). This album contains a number of songs that would provide great entertainment to SDA readers.
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Remember-How-Great-Volumes1-2-Les-Brown-Tommy-Dorsey-More-/320994765318?nma=true&si=cL6BtReaFZK1ZblR7ZHDndwbHf0%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

  26. Dump Mao Stlong.
    …-
    “Outrage in China after five runaway boys die in a dumpster after lighting fire for warmth”
    “On the day China unveiled its new leadership in Beijing with promises of a better life for all, five runaway boys seeking shelter and warmth died in a garbage bin in the south.
    The boys were all brothers or cousins aged 9 to 13. Surnamed Tao, they were the sons of three brothers — two of whom are migrant workers with jobs far from home — and most of them lived largely unsupervised in the care of their blind grandmother.
    They had been missing for more than a week when, police say, they lit a fire to stay warm on a cold, damp night Nov. 15 in the city of Bijie and died from carbon monoxide poisoning.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/21/outrage-in-china-after-five-runaway-boys-die-in-a-dumpster-after-lighting-fire-for-warmth/

  27. Free Advice From Left-Liberals.
    …-
    “Israel should draw lessons from Northern Ireland
    Financial Times”

  28. PET Cemetery Report: The Left-Liberal Dream vs reality.
    Plus: More clap from Mao Stlong’s nephew.
    …-
    “Justin Trudeau-led Liberals would win election backed by women, middle-aged …
    National Post”
    “Rae apologizes for Liberal MP’s assertion that Alberta Tories should ‘go home’
    Calgary Herald”

  29. Earl the Pearl — I have read the article and it is consistent with research I had done a number of years ago. Typically there are a number of specific groups who are “poor” — young people, single mothers and new immigrants. Most in these categories — some sooner than others. e.g. single mothers marry, immigrants work notoriously hard, etc. Now there are a couple of groups who do not necessarily improve their financial circumstances — e.g. those with personal issues, such as drug use or alcoholism; the disabled. The Harper government has made some effort to help those with disabilities save money by putting in place RDSP’s. This is a big improvement. In Alberta, the benefits for people with disabilities has also improved recently. Another possible emerging problem is that new immigrants used to make their way out of poverty within about ten years. Groups coming to Canada more recently appear not to be so successful for whatever reason. The picture could change for them. But, all in all, the article is good and an important message to send to this year’s occupiers.

  30. “Muslim immigrants in a town near Copenhagen have forced the cancellation of traditional Christmas displays this year even while spending lavishly on the Islamic Eid celebration marking the end of Ramadan.
    At a recent meeting of the Egedalsvænget tenants’ association, the Muslim majority on the Board of Directors refused to authorize spending 7,000 Danish kroner ($1,200) for the community’s annual Christmas event.
    The vote came shortly after the same Board of Directors authorized spending 60,000 kroner ($10,000) on a large communal celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid. Five out of nine of the board members are Muslims.”
    Soeren Kern at…
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3459/denmark-muslim-country

  32. In regards to my above comment.
    The cbc has had the story up for 90 minutes. So far,no comments have made it past their censors. But,they have up-dated their original story which overlooked the word “Liberal”.
    The cbc story is a CP news release. The first line in the CP release was;
    ” The mayor of London, Ont., has been charged with fraud and other charges related to the alleged inappropriate use of funds when he was a federal cabinet minister and Liberal member of Parliament.”
    The crack cbc news team posted this;
    ” The mayor of London, Ont., has been charged by the RCMP with fraud following an investigation into allegations that he misused public funds in 2005 while he was a member of Parliament.”
    There was no mention of his Liberal ties.
    They have since corrected their error,likely because someone in one of their rejected comments pointed out their tiny mistake.
    FIRE.THEM.ALL.

  35. Happy Thanksgving to our southern neighbours…while they’re still allowed to celebrate it…
    “Winston, come into the dining room, it’s time to eat,” Julia yelled to her husband.
    “In a minute, honey, it’s a tie score,” he answered.
    Actually Winston wasn’t very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington. Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its “unseemly violence” and the “bad” example it sets for the rest of the world”, Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn’t nearly as exciting.
    Yet it wasn’t the game that Winston was uninterested in. It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey. Even though it was the best type of VeggieMeat available after the government revised the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry sauce, and mincemeat pie), it wasn’t anything like real turkey.
    And ever since the government officially changed the name of “Thanksgiving Day” to “A National Day of Atonement” in 2020, to officially acknowledge the Pilgrims’ historically brutal treatment of Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster.
    Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was always cold. Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating all thermostats – which were monitored and controlled by the electric company – be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.
    Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the family.
    Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment. He had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care program. And, though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile effort.
    “The RHC’s resources are limited,” explained the government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the phone. “Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled. I’m sorry for your loss.”
    Ed couldn’t make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines – for everyone but government officials.
    The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn’t want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and there.
    Thankfully, Winston’s brother, John, and his wife were flying in.
    Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had extra cushions for the occasion.
    No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which severely aggravated his hemorrhoids.
    Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added “inconvenience” was an “absolute necessity” in order to stay “one step ahead of the terrorists.”
    Winston’s own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since the government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via Anti-Profiling Act of 2022. That law made it a crime to single out any group or individual for “unequal scrutiny,” even when probable cause was involved. Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine. Almost.
    The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the law intact.
    “A living Constitution is extremely flexible”, said the Court’s eldest member, Elena Kagan. “Europe has had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example,” she added.
    Winston’s thoughts turned to his own children. He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner.
    Their only real confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could afford. She whined for a week, but got over it.
    His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming, the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other calamities were “just around the corner”, but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility.
    It didn’t help that Jason had reported his father to the police for smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet of another human being.
    Winston paid the $5,000 fine, which might have been considered excessive before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of QE13. The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated was, once again, to “spur economic growth.” This time, they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.
    Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, before remembering it was a Day of Atonement. At least, he had his memories.
    He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life “fair for everyone” so they could realize their full potential.
    Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much things could change when they didn’t happen all at once, but little by little, so people could get used to them. He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around 2012, when all the real nonsense began.
    “Maybe we wouldn’t be where we are today if we’d just said ‘enough is enough’ when we had the chance,” he thought. Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.
    Mark Twain once said: It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

  36. Frankie Laine will be famous for this song, but I like the politically incorrect Spike Jones version. And no, I don’t like it just because it politically incorrect, the band was tighter than an Indian rope trick.
    I remember first hearing the Frankie Laine version on the album “Remember How Great…?” (Volume 2). This album contains a number of songs that would provide great entertainment to SDA readers.
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Remember-How-Great-Volumes1-2-Les-Brown-Tommy-Dorsey-More-/320994765318?nma=true&si=cL6BtReaFZK1ZblR7ZHDndwbHf0%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

  37. Frankie Laine will be forever known for this song, but I like the politically incorrect Spike Jones version. And no, I don’t like it just because it politically incorrect, the band was tighter than an Indian rope trick.
    I remember first hearing the Frankie Laine version on the album “Remember How Great…?” (Volume 2). This album contains a number of songs that would provide great entertainment to SDA readers.
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Remember-How-Great-Volumes1-2-Les-Brown-Tommy-Dorsey-More-/320994765318?nma=true&si=cL6BtReaFZK1ZblR7ZHDndwbHf0%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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