29 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. In “A Gun Ban That Misfired“, published in the Wall Street Journal, former Washington D.C. prosecutor Jeffrey Scott Shapiro writes about the “unintended effect” of the 1976 gun ban, which “prohibited anyone other than law-enforcement officers from carrying a firearm in the city.”

  6. Look, Robert who cares. Romney lost because he ran a Iggy style campaign. Who cares what’s true and what’s not and who was honorable and who was nice and all the other garbage. What matters now is who won and how our side can do that. Who gives a crap about honestly or anything else because no one else does at all. Honesty, dignity, respect, freedumb and all that stuff are just words now.

  10. The Lesson in the Betrayal of Sarah Palin
    By Lloyd Marcus
    (from American Thinker)
    Rush Limbaugh on his radio show discussed an article which stated that there is no respected voice in the national arena articulating conservatism. Such an advocate for conservatism is crucial to reversing the direction of America as Obama drives us toward socialism while low-info voters gleefully sing Kumbaya in the backseat.
    Well excuse me for pointing out the obvious, but we had an extraordinary advocate for conservatism, and look what happened to her. Judas on our side betrayed her — sold her reputation for 30 seconds of fame and favor with the media.
    (…)
    Many Democratic Party politicians/advocates are immoral, liars, and cheats. And yet, they are treated like superstars by the media. Democrats have the backs of their associates, no matter what.
    Despite relentless attacks by hostile interviewers, in every TV interview, Palin always stood strong, boldly touting conservatism. Man, you got to love this remarkable woman.
    .Also completely ignored is Palin’s tremendous charisma, which I witnessed firsthand on numerous occasions. We launched one of our Tea Party Express national bus tours in Searchlight, Nevada — a huge dust bowl. Palin was our keynote speaker. Twenty-five thousand patriots attended, with many camping out the night before to reserve their spot. Through the windows of our Tea Party Express bus as we arrived, I watched seniors who parked a mile away using walkers to make their way to the event. In all of my 400 Tea Parties and 9 tours across America, no one — I repeat, no one — affected audiences like Sarah Palin.
    When this new conservative voice emerges on the scene, will we stand behind our hero no matter what, barring something immoral or criminal? Or will we expect our guy or gal to be the second coming of Jesus? Have we learned something from the Republican/conservative betrayal of Palin and their passivity and culpability in the media’s vicious, vile destruction of her image?
    Sarah Palin, on behalf of We The People, I wish to thank you for your profile in courage, trumpeting conservatism (God, family, and country).

  12. G, thanks for bringing that great article here. The same crap happens here with “progressive” conservatives going after conservatives, and we have seen the manifestation of this with progressive conservatives being almost as rabid as the left in bad mouthing Harper.
    This might partially explain why apparently many true conservative republicans did not vote in the 2011 US election. Some people might have thought let Obama almost destroy the country and maybe the RINOs might wake up.
    Similarly in Canada, Albertans elected an NDPer in disguise. It appears that Hudak is not much better.

  13. Sadly, your attitude, creapingdeath — what an apt moniker — pretty much sums up where we’re at these days. And, with that attitude, we’re going down, down, down into the stinking swamp of less than mediocrity: the slime of lowered expectations and complete tyranny of the lying losers, who now win BTW, and their dumbed-down, take-the-money-and-run agenda.

  14. Robert W – maybe give the title of the rant you’re tipping?
    These links often go a bank of video/audio clips and it’s therefore not always clear which clip you’re recommending.

  15. Andrew Coyne: Lance Armstrong disgraced only because he’s not as charming as other liars
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/18/andrew-coyne-lance-armstrong-disgraced-only-because-hes-not-as-charming-as-other-liars/
    This article, accompanied by photos of Armstrong, Brian Mulroney, and Bill Clinton, is largely about Brian Mulroney’s misdemeanors.
    Where’s the Shawinigan handshaker, Adscam con, Jean Chretien, Mr. Coyne? At least the $300,000 in question in the air bus scandal was Mr. Mulroney’s own money. The millions involved in AdScam were taxpayers’ dollars. ‘Not a whisper, Mr. Coyne, of that scandal … or that it’s never been paid back into the public coffers …

  20. Neo-AGW PR.
    Not good PR today.
    …-
    “Climbers feared dead in ‘serious’ Glencoe avalanche”
    “Three climbers have been reported missing and are feared dead in an avalanche near Glencoe as Britain has been gripped by freezing conditions.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9813298/Climbers-feared-dead-in-serious-Glencoe-avalanche.html
    …-
    “Northern US: Cold Waves, Canadian Storms
    January 19, 2013
    The weather pattern over the next couple of weeks will favor waves of cold air and Canadian storms.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/

  21. O & Moh.
    …-
    “Obama: We’re Taking Steps to Prevent Gun Violence
    Voice of America”
    “Blast in Aleppo, twin bombing in south cap a week with more than 800 civilians killed in Syria”
    http://news.google.ca/

  22. This still pi$$es me off
    Holder Begs Court to Stop Document Release on Fast and Furious
    “Attorney General Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have asked a federal court to indefinitely delay a lawsuit brought by watchdog group Judicial Watch. The lawsuit seeks the enforcement of open records requests relating to Operation Fast and Furious, as required by law.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/17/Holder-begs-court-to-indefinitely-delay-group-s-lawsuit-fighting-for-release-of-Obama-s-executive-privilege-Fast-and-Furious-documents

  23. Re my comment above on Andrew Coyne’s pointing to Brian Mulroney and Bill Clinton as liars while giving Jean Chretien a pass: Doesn’t that border on campaigning in a roundabout way for his cousin, Deborah, who’s running for the Liberal leadership? By not pointing out that the Liberal Party of Canada also had liars in its midst and “operated within a culture of corruption,” it would seem that Coyne’s playing favourites.
    Why did he choose Mulroney to pick on when there were so many choice Librano$ on whom he could have focused?
    ‘Just asking …

  24. Sorry. One more thing: Andrew Coyne should recuse himself from covering Canadian politics until Deborah Coyne is either elected Liberal leader or not elected Liberal leader.
    If she is elected the LPC’s new leader, then he should recuse himself from reporting on Canadian politics. The Post and the CBC can ask his opinion on other things, like the price of bananas in Costa Rica.

  25. Al in Ottawa, there’s a problem.
    The media are laughing at the GOP – that their bill approving a short term increase of the debt ceiling in return for the Democrats passing a budget OR the House won’t approve Congressional pay is unconstitutional. That is, they can’t withhold Congressional pay according to the Constitution.
    The 27th Amendment is very clear; no law can increase or decrease congressional pay until the start of the next election session of the House, which is 2014.
    Now, how is it that the GOP don’t already know this? Krauthammer’s tactic suggestion was to approve the short term increase in return for that budget. BUT THEN, if/when the Democrats don’t present a budget, THEN it’s not ‘no pay’ as a penalty.
    BUT take this refusal to produce a budget to the people. That’s all. Make it public that the Democrats won’t be fiscally responsible and produce a budget. That’s all.
    Don’t govern from the House. Yet, that’s what the GOP have done with this: “give us a budget or else you congressmen won’t get paid’.
    Instead, do what Obama is doing with his Third Party Propaganda machine. Take it to the people.
    How could the GOP make such a mistake???

  26. Leftist warmists & MSM have plastered/boomed AGWarming horror headlines for twenty+ years.
    We can give back COLD. Go for the COLD.
    …-
    “Black ice alert: Britain to be stay white for TWO WEEKS as roads freeze and Heathrow cancels another 200 flights
    Met office warns of treacherous conditions as yesterday’s snow turns to ice with temperatures staying below freezing
    Most of UK will only see light snow flurries today except for the north-east where up to 2cms is expected
    More snow will arrive tomorrow in the south-east with some places getting up to 5cms of snow
    Low temperatures preventing the snow and ice from melting means UK could stay white for a fortnight
    More than 400 flights were cancelled at Heathrow yesterday with 111 more suspended today because of snow
    The airport has announced that a further 260 flights – 20 per cent of its service – on Sunday will be cancelled
    Gatwick and Stansted Airports operating ‘as normal’ today with no reported cancellations
    Woman killed in a crash caused by bad weather on A1 at Little Ponton, near Grantham, shortly after 6pm yesterday”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264917/UK-weather-Treacherous-black-ice-causes-travel-chaos-country-forecasters-predict-snow-afternoon-Heathrow-cancels-200-flights.html
    …-
    “London and Paris Expecting More Snowfall
    By Eric Leister, Meteorologist
    January 19, 2013; 1:37 PM
    A massive winter storm currently blasting Spain and France with locally heavy rainfall and mountain snow is poised to become more wintry as the storm splits and part of the storm lifts northward Saturday night into Sunday.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/london-and-paris-expecting-mor/4460208

  27. I hear you, batb, about the “slime of lowered expectations.” I’ve known several people for whom cynicism (their own) is equated – volubly and almost self-reverentially – with enlightenment, intelligence, and wisdom. One fellow, when I was pointing out with displeasure the misappropriation and outright fraud in the Liberal party back in the Adscam days, generously and patiently pontificated, with a Father Christmas twinkle in his eye, that this is how the world works, and always has, and that people in the know, such as himself, realized this.
    “The sky isn’t falling”, he would say, even though none of his interlocutors were even slightly making that point.
    When the topic was pop music with misogynistic and violent lyrics being targeted to young people, he pointed out, practically rolling his eyes, that the proverbial uptights had said the same thing about Elvis – ergo, the implication was, there’s no difference between a clean-cut guy moving his hips and a guy grabbing his crotch and bragging about selling crack, ‘turning out’ bitches, and killing cops.
    No matter what the topic – blatant media bias, anti-semitism, corruption, nepotism, government-driven censorship of dissenting viewpoints, etc., etc., his default take was that such things have always gone on, ergo they’re not a concern.
    It’s aggravating. I’ve noticed since the election of Obama that there’s a lot more of this cynicism masquerading as wordliness and wisdom. It’s not surprising that refreshingly and commendably non-cynical people like Robert would be the first target of such members of the “I don’t care, and you’re an idiot if you don’t join me” crowd.

  28. Go For The COLD indulgences.
    …-
    “Camel-Slaughter Plan Rejected for Australian Carbon Credits” (bloomberg)
    …-
    “End times for carbon trading”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/19/end-times-for-carbon-trading/#more-77859
    …-
    “Carbon Traders Stung by Rout Try Again in China: Energy Markets”
    “Carbon traders are backing China to revive a global emissions market that lost 34 billion euros ($45 billion) last year as it shrank for the first time in history.
    Investors from Climate Change Capital in London to Climate Bridge Ltd. in Melbourne said this month they are seeking involvement in what may become the world’s largest emissions market. Beijing’s worst-recorded air pollution has renewed pressure on the government, which aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 45 percent before 2020.
    Falling European Union and United Nations prices shrank the value of carbon emissions traded around the world by 36 percent to 61 billion euros last year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said Jan. 3. Seven exchanges are scheduled to start pilot programs this year in China, the world’s most polluted country, establishing the biggest cap-and-trade program outside the EU.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-18/carbon-traders-stung-by-rout-try-again-in-china-energy-markets.html

  29. The Chinese are not stupid. I believe they will make a genuine effort to cut their pollution but I doubt if they will be suckered into the carbon scam unless they can make a profit on it.

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