28 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. 80% of the “best-educated” states are in dire financial straights, compared to only 41% of the “dumb” red states.
    Hey, why worry about reality when you’ve got all those big ideas…

  6. RE: Brown Bag lunch.
    I`m over 60. Every fall when school started, my Mom got us a new lunch kit. My favorite was Roy Rogers, but the old black GSW was ok too.
    Wh we`d lose our lunch kit, we got a brown paper bag with the sandwiches wrapped in wax paper. I gotta say, there is something in a brown paper bag that adds to the taste of a balogna sandwitch.

  7. After a Harvard student noted in her published article in the Harvard Crimson that affirmative action benefits individuals who are less qualified than their peers, three African-Americans who describe themselves Harvard’s Black Community leaders responded with this devastating counterargument:

    We were deeply disheartened by the assertion that students who benefit from affirmative action are less qualified than their peers…”

    That’s a good one.

  10. time to start the Alison Redford DeathMarch.
    the WRP, Libs, eN-D-Pee are having a a helluva time taunting the PC’s in the Alberta Leg.
    WRP have poster out for Redford “M.I.A.”
    Redford spent $280k+ in travel expenses for 2012. One more month to go! Arizona here she comes.
    PC’s defending minimum one bath per week for assisted care in prov funded facilities.
    WRP claim Redford “(re-)awarded” former spouse firm with gov’t funded $B big-tobacco suit.
    Redford ‘defends’ Justin T’s west hate-on.
    gawd, can we somehow force another election?

  11. Give a man a fish – and he’ll vote liberal
    Teach a man to fish – and he doesn’t need liberals
    Simple lines can be thrown out there that draw from references people are already familiar with, nothing too complicated, maybe it’ll help…

  14. “China: Aids crisis lingers over leaders”
    “Between 50,000 and 300,000 mistakenly infected with HIV in one of world’s biggest medical scandals.”
    “When Wang Pinghe was 12 years old, his parents took him to hospital for an operation to his chest. He came out infected with HIV.”
    ” At first, he did not know he was sick. He went back to school but complained of “month-long” fevers and some mornings he found he could not even open his eyes. After leaving school, he worked in factories and then dug irrigation systems in western China.
    Now aged 28, Mr Wang was diagnosed with full-blown Aids in May. “My parents cried for four days. I am their only son,” he said, sitting inside a restaurant in Beijing but huddled in an overcoat with a fake-fur collar.
    Nor is he the only victim. Between 50,000 and 300,000 others were also mistakenly infected with HIV in Mr Wang’s home province of Henan in the 1990s, in one of the biggest medical scandals of all time.
    There are no official figures because the Chinese government has never admitted or apologised for what happened. And the man who led the cover-up in Henan has just been anointed as China’s new prime minister: Li Keqiang.
    Now that Mr Li has reached the apex of power, he appears keen to fix the worst stain on his political career.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9710656/Chinas-Aids-crisis-lingers-over-countrys-new-leaders.html

  15. The is a poll regarding Palestinian statehood on CTV right now that you may want to take part in.
    ctv.ca/news

  17. Someone had finally found a silver lining to Sask’s wonderfully long winter:
    “Fujitsu, a major information technology and communications company, announced Tuesday that it will open a specialized data centre site, called a Tier III, that will eventually cover some 35,000 square feet of space.
    It picked Regina, in part, because the climate allows the company to cool its machines in a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way.
    “For eight to nine months a year we’re going to use air from outside instead of having an air conditioner and big equipment using lots of fuel in it,” Jonathan Primeau, a project director with Fujitsu, explained Wednesday.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2012/11/28/sk-regina-cold-fujitsu-121128.html
    Sadly, even this does not improve my opinion of prairie winters. On the plus side, does this mean Regina is better than Winnipeg?

  20. Da AGW/Weather Expert: The Party Line.
    “He said increasing frequency of extreme seasonal events, such as some of the winter-like storms that have hit the Prairie Provinces this year, are characteristic about what some scientists expect of climate change.”
    …-
    “It’s official: Regina, Saskatchewan, saw record snowfall in November”
    “With a little under a month to go before the “official” start of winter, the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, has already broken records for its snowiest November.”
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=It_s_official__Regina__Saskatchewan__saw_record_snowfall_in_November_27_11_2012?ref=ccbox_weather_category1

  21. -45C in Mayo Yukon this morning, four other places below – 40C. Also, there were several places in Russia at -50C yesterday.

  22. EBD at November 28, 2012 10:18 PM
    “Via Instapundit, The 11 Most Important Guns in History.
    And the argument starts in 3…2…1..”
    I guess I’ll take the bait.
    I revued the authors selection and am not sure what his criteria were for “importance”.
    IMHO the most important was not even mentioned.
    The 1962 colt revolver. Colt had been manufacturing and selling revolvers for some time but what sets this apart is how it was made.
    Interchangeable parts produced in a factory by means of lathes, milling machines/shapers and steam forges. This was practice was developed by Pratt and Whitney to support the cotton gins they had made. Parts that did not require highly skilled craftsmen to custom fit. This not only reduced the cost but set the stage for modern manufacturing practice. This is the basis of modern mass manufacturing.
    This IMNSHO is far more important that the relative merits of the firearm.
    IMHO Browning and Hotchkiss far outshadow such developers such as Borchart, Maxim or Luger.
    Steelmakers such as Krupp and Armstrong provided the raw material needed. As late as the 1870’s most cannon were bronze muzzle loaders.

  23. “Stalin’s Student in Beijing”
    “A new biography highlights Mao’s relationship with Moscow.”
    “Along Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street, about half a mile north of Red Square in Moscow, an austere, cavernous building houses the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History. The premises were originally occupied by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. In the 1930s it was renamed the Institute of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but—following Khrushchev’s 1956 Secret Speech, which acknowledged some of the dictator’s crimes—Stalin’s name was dropped. Above the entrance, portraits of Marx, Engels, and Lenin cast in concrete peer into the distance. Inside the building, an air of abandon prevails. When I was there two years ago, several discarded statues of Lenin were gathering dust underneath the staircase. But even though much is still locked away from the prying eyes of historians, in the archives on the third floor a wealth of information on the Soviet Union and its global empire can be found.”
    http://reason.com/archives/2012/11/27/stalins-student-in-beijing
    …-
    “Zhang Junsai”
    “China’s moment, Canada’s benefit: Chinese ambassador to Canada”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/chinas-moment-canadas-benefit-chinese-ambassador-to-canada/article5733769/

  25. The AIDS Industry: Fraud, AGW, Hildabeast Clinton, O.
    “The Gambia, a place where their President Jammeh claimed to have discovered a cure for AIDS – a herbal mixture.”
    …-
    “7 Responses to Doha delegation using hurricane Sandy as a call to action
    ConfusedPhoton says:
    November 29, 2012 at 10:03 am
    The Gambia, a place where their President Jammeh claimed to have discovered a cure for AIDS – a herbal mixture. I am sure given the small size of Gambia and how the country surrounds the river Gambia, they would consider themselves potetnial victims of AGW and expect a lot of Western money to compensate them.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/29/doha-us-delegation-using-hurricane-sandy-as-a-call-to-action/#more-75055
    …-
    “Secretary Clinton Releases President’s Plan for AIDS Relief
    C-SPAN”

  27. Doha? Da? Nyet.
    “the biggest in November in 50 years.”
    …-
    “Heavy snow in Moscow, and the first snowfall of the season in Europe”
    “A large, early snowstorm in Moscow disrupted flights and created havoc on the roads. Yelena Temakina, chief of the forecast department at Moscow’s Meteorological Office, said 20 centimetres (8 inches) of snow had fallen in 24 hours. Moscow’s City Hall said it expects the snowstorm, which is due to continue at least until Friday morning, to be the biggest in November in 50 years. Other parts of Europe experienced their first snowfall of the season”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9711789/Heavy-snow-in-Moscow-and-the-first-snowfall-of-the-season-in-Europe.html
    …-
    Doha: a member of OPEC.
    “Doha: a strange place to host a climate-change conference”
    “Qatar makes most of its money from selling fossil fuels – and its capital is a massive consumer of state-subsidised energy”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/shortcuts/2012/nov/28/doha-strange-place-climate-change-conference

  28. maz2: “Doha: a strange place to host a climate-change conference”
    More cognitive dissonance from the left. Hypocrisy is the left’s modus operandi.

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