31 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Remember when that New York state newspaper “outed” gun owners by publishing a map showing the location of homes in which someone had a handgun permit (and then later, of course, hired armed security guards to protect their own sorry asses)?
    Ahem:

    Just 3,907 of the 16,998 permit-holding households displayed on the Journal News’ Rockland County map were current; the rest were classified as “historical,” with no updates in the past five years, explains Rockland’s county clerk……one man found his address on the map because his brother-in-law had used it in a 1997 gun license application. That brother-in-law moved to Arizona soon afterward…

  4. Six Canadian banks have their ratings cut by Moody’s.
    http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCABRE90R0ZR20130129
    Ecstasy will be more legal in Colombia.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21254907
    This story is interesting. It began as roughly ‘pro-gun people heckle father of dead Newtown Child’. Then it was changed when Breitbart found out it was…kind BS.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/29/pro-gun-activists-shout-out-at-father-of-newtown-shooting-victim/

  5. Just another of myriad versions of the old Frankie and Johnny standby; and a very good version, I must say.

  7. Well I can see why the digital journal would cover something like that.
    Try the veal! Tip your waitress!

  9. Mamba, courtesy of Iran’s Yellow Pages…Let your fingers do the walking…
    Extreme Manicure….
    Don’t get me started.

  11. The Canadian Wheat Board forced to compete for business has to resort to advertising. The Natioanl Farmers Union takes offense.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/01/29/sk-wheat-board-ad-attracts-controversy-1301.html?cmp=rss
    The Canadian Wheat Board is taking some heat over a print advertisement that uses a leggy pinup girl to sell its services.
    The ad, which has been running recently in farm publications, features a well-known 1969 illustration of a young woman with cowboy hat straddling a fence
    Colby Cosh has an excellent take on the “contoroversy”
    http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/01/29/warning-not-safe-for-work-outside-city-limits-anyway/
    My own interpretation of the ad, if I may dare advance one, is that the CWB, having been obliged by the government to compete for farmer business, is going out and competing for it. They had a “Still on the fence?” message to convey, and someone found an image to go with it—one that happens to work pretty well with an old-school brand. And while I wouldn’t expect an irony-phobic socialist to understand, any normal farmer is perfectly capable of grasping that objects originally considered merely functional or ephemeral can graduate with time into the category of fine art. (I assume, anyway, that farmers’ universal habit of collecting and restoring old farming equipment has something to do with this instinct.)

  12. A excellent letter. Notably, this paragraph which has been brought up on SDA on many occasions:
    “Throughout history, disarming the populace has always preceded tyrants’ accession of power. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all disarmed their citizens prior to installing their murderous regimes. At the beginning of our own nation’s revolution, one of the first moves made by the British government was an attempt to disarm our citizens. When our Founding Fathers ensured that the 2nd Amendment was made a part of our Constitution, they were not just wasting ink. They were acting to ensure our present security was never forcibly endangered by tyrants, foreign or domestic.
    Read more: http://sofrep.com/16644/1000-green-berets-sign-letter-of-support-for-2nd-amendment/#ixzz2JRD3g5zU
    Obama will ignore this at his own peril.

  13. I would like to apologize on behalf of all Canadians for the existence of David Frum. Overweight people, social climbers, nepots, RINOs, annoying jerks and guys named David should probably do likewise.

  14. TimR @ 12:01 a.m.:
    From the CBC link: “A spokesman for the National Farmers Union says the ad is offensive, adding it will likely cause farmers to sell their grain elsewhere.”
    Yes, exactly. Isn’t that what the change in the law was supposed to enable?
    It’s working!
    Incidentally the “spokesman” quoted is named Joan Brady. Who said the CBC was politically correct?

  15. TimR @ 12:01 a.m.:
    From the Macleans link: “[NFU board member Glenn] Tait says ‘Many long-time CWB supporters are deliberately marketing outside of the CWB as a statement of principle rather than a lack of loyalty. The choice signifies their rejection of the undemocratic process used to dismantle the CWB and the Harper government’s appropriation of our resources—farmers’ resources.'”
    The first sentence in the quote is plausible. But the second might be the complete opposite of the reality: Farmers might be selling outside the CWB as a principled rejection of having been forced to deal with it for decades.
    Wheat farmers have their freedom now, thanks to Stephen Harper. And some people still resent that fact.

  16. ” Many long-time CWB supporters are deliberately marketing outside of the CWB as a statement of principle rather than a lack of loyalty.”
    If this fellow is doing the job for free,he is overpaid.

  17. National Post:
    Canada’s income gap narrows:
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/01/28/canadas-income-gap-narrows-while-top-1-pay-bigger-share-of-taxes-says-statscan/
    CBC:
    Canada’s income gap grows:
    “Canada’s growing income gap
    David McDonald, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, on the growing gap between Canada’s 1% and the rest of us”
    http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Business/Lang%2B&%2BO%27Leary%2BExchange/ID/2330173410/

  20. Condolences, dwright. 96 is a grand old age, as I’m sure you know. Still very difficult.

  21. Those statements by Brady and Tait are so much hogwash. In fact they are ludicrous. These statements actually show that these people think all farmers are too stupid to think for themselves. We have to remember that the NFU is on the radical left side of the NDP and would welcome state collective and Kolchoz farms
    nv53, your statements, ” Farmers might be selling outside the CWB as a principled rejection of having been forced to deal with it for decades”, and “Wheat farmers have their freedom now, thanks to Stephen Harper. And some people still resent that fact”, are bang on. Most everybody in my neighbourhood is happy that the Wheat Board is voluntary. In fact, many hope that it goes belly up and is disbanded.

  22. dwright, my condolences. Black Mamba is right, it is difficult to see a loved pass on. As I personally know, the memories remain, are not forgotten, and keep coming back often over the years.

  23. Ham is home of Liberal Sheila Copps, Our Lady of the Cliche. Waiting for her response.
    “The fired workers are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 5167. The city expects CUPE to grieve the firings but calls to the union were not returned Monday.”
    …-
    “Hamilton fires 29 city road workers who allegedly ran personal errands when they should have been patching potholes”
    “When a small army of road crews left the city’s public works yard, the “hot box” of fresh asphalt in each municipal truck was full and the workers had a list of potholes needing repair.
    At the end of the day, the asphalt was gone and workers confirmed their roads had been fixed.
    Sixteen of those city work crews, however, were secretly followed by private investigators armed with video cameras and access to GPS tracking devices on the trucks one day in October.
    The result of the covert surveillance was unveiled by the city Monday: Almost all those monitored were fired —29 unionized employees, with another two suspended without pay — accused of drawing a day’s pay for, in some cases, just minutes of actual work.
    The workers are accused of spending the day in coffee shops, bars, at their homes and running personal errands.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/28/hamilton-fires-29-city-road-workers-who-allegedly-ran-personal-errands-when-they-should-have-been-patching-potholes/

  26. Having been through it, I have some idea, I suppose, about how you’re feeling. My maternal grandmother, who lived until just shy of her 96th birthday (5.5 months), was a dear friend and life-long mentor to me, also. She passed away in 1997, and was the only grandparent I ever knew (the others having died prematurely).
    While the house of the Lord has many rooms, I’m guessing that the boss lady would agree that her blog has many rooms also. May I be so bold as to say that you are a respected member of the community, and that your voice needs to continue to be heard around here.
    I believe I can say that you will need this. Think on it awhile. I await your return.

  30. This is another reason that I love our CBC.
    This story; Posted: Jan 29, 2013 2:20 PM ET ,tells about the people of Attawapiskat awaiting their chief. Note that the photo is credited to Megan Thomas.The article is written to suggest someone is there in Attawapiskat talking to residents. Yet,there is nothing on any other cbc site or program to back that up. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2013/01/29/sby-attawapiskat-theresa-spence-idle-no-more.html
    This story; Posted: Jan 29, 2013 3:24 PM ET ,tells about the horrors of residential school and has this ” said CBC News reporter Megan Thomas, who attended the hearings on Tuesday.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2013/01/29/sby-truth-reconciliation-fort-albany.html
    Megan is a remarkable woman with extraordinary travelling powers,or the cbc is doing their usual.

  31. Kind of strange how few cases of actual abuse there were until all those white lawyers started visiting every reservation.

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