29 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. An article in the NYT covers the story of a district superintendent in the Atlanta public school system who won national fame, accolades, and over $500,000 in performance bonuses after the children in her largely poor and African-American district “outperformed wealthier suburban districts on state tests.”
    Whoops:

    (One of the district teachers) admitted to (Georgia state investigator Richard) Hyde that she was one of seven teachers – nicknamed “the chosen” – who sat in a locked windowless room every afternoon during the week of state testing, raising students’ scores by erasing wrong answers and making them right…. In the two and a half years since, the state’s investigation reached from Ms. Parks’s third-grade classroom all the way to the district superintendent at the time, Dr. Beverly L. Hall, who was one of 35 Atlanta educators indicted Friday by a Fulton County grand jury…

  4. I posted this tip in the earlier readers’ tips but thought I’d practice some redundancy only because I believe a lot of SDA readers will enjoy this opinion piece by Ross McKitrick
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/04/01/were-not-screwed/
    from
    In 100 years, we’ve gone from the cold end of the spectrum to the warm end of the spectrum. We hever (sic) seen something this rapid. Even in the ice age the global temperature never changed this quickly.
    Shaun Marcott, Oregon State ­University, quoted by Associated Press, March 8
    to
    Stephen McIntyre of climateaudit.org began examining the details of the Marcott et al work, and by March 16 he had made a remarkable discovery…
    When this became public, the Marcott team promised to clear matters up with an online FAQ.
    “[The] 20th-century portion of our paleotemperature stack is not statistically robust, cannot be considered representative of global temperature changes, and therefore is not the basis of any of our conclusions.”
    Heh. So many of your one liners apply Kate.

  5. When affirmative action fails – and how could it not fail – this is what you get.
    I will not say more as it would be considered racist.

  6. That Bosnian survivalist’s chilling words remind me of what my father-in-law told me, when he as a thirteen year old, and his family experienced off and on for almost four years from March 1917 until November 1920. At one point they sifted the grain sweepings from the granary to get the mouse poop out so that they had something to eat. One evening his older sisters jumped out of a bedroom window in the dark and hid in the bushes when some of Makhno’s men came looking for young women.
    On another occasion he and a couple of his sisters were watching out of the kitchen windows as some White soldiers about to execute some Red Army communist party members by the embankment of the large stream behind their property. Their mother noticed them and pulled them away from the window.
    Dogs and cats disappeared into the cooking pots.
    There are many more similar stories in a family book I wrote.
    Don’t kid yourself, as we saw in Katrina, civilization’s veneer is very thin. There are Makhnovists in your neighbourhood and it is only the thin blue line that keeps them at bay.
    What is appallingly galling however though, is that the same ideological scum that enabled these anarchists to do their work during those years are trying to create the same climate here, albeit slower.
    EBD, thanks for music tonight. It soothes the mind.

  13. This is painful to watch.
    Evan Solomon interviews Raymond Robinson,the next native hunger striker.The man appears a tad scattered,perhaps mentally ill,yet Evan deeply sympathizes with his plight and pledges that CBC will be with him every step of the way.
    IMHO,a man who threatens to harm himself for a very questionable cause should be steered away from that line of action. However,because he is a native and dislikes the PM,the CBC is incapable of doing that.
    The interview starts at about the 1 hour 30 minute mark. The hunger game start at 9 a.m. EDT.
    http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV%2BShows/Power%2B&%2BPolitics%2Bwith%2BEvan%2BSolomon/ID/2369062091/

  14. What could go wrong?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html
    “The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.”

  17. Re European Unemployment
    No one mentions the elephant in the room – minimum wage laws.
    Youth unemployment in Greece and Spain tops 50%, but not one politician dares to suggest lowering or eliminating the minimum wage. Eliminating the minimum wage would cause unemployment to disappear, as wages fell until supply met demand. Crime would fall, the underground economy would shrink, and tax revenue would go up.
    Unemployment is a tragic waste of human resources. These young people need jobs – any job, at any wage. to regain their self-respect.
    They need to have hope that their entire lives won’t be spent on the dole.

  19. It’s when the dole and the welfare system collapses that the real fun will begin. Those numbers cannot be sustained in any welfare system.

  21. Researchers = scientists.
    …-
    “The Tyee – Harper’s Humiliating Muzzle on Scientists
    thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2010/03/25/​HarpersMuzzle
    Harper’s Humiliating Muzzle on Scientists. Canada is becoming a global joke as our world-class experts are prohibited from speaking. By Mitchell Anderson, 25 Mar 2010 …”
    …-
    “Ex-government researcher charged with trying to export pathogen”
    “Dr. Klaus Nielsen and Wei Ling Yu were investigated by RCMP”
    “Two former Canadian Food Inspection Agency researchers have been charged with breach of trust after an RCMP investigation into their alleged attempts to commercialize CFIA property.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/04/03/ottawa-rcmp-pathogens-cfia-researchers-charged-brucella.html

  25. It’s George’s fault.
    “There were no WMDs in Iraq.”
    >>> “— the ‘pay us not to riot’ idea — could be extended to warfare.”
    …-
    “Finally, One World
    Anne Gearan and Chico Harlan at the Washington Post state the obvious: “U.S. struggling to contain nuclear threats from North Korea, Iran”. They might have added Pakistan to the list.
    The ‘Axis of Evil’, which the ‘reality-based’ community confidently supposed did not exist, is now aiming their missiles at the West Coast. That Axis of Evil – or whatever you want to call it — has been in gestation for a long time, in the form of shared WMD component development between North Korea, Iran and Pakistan.
    Denial is not only a river in Egypt, it was for the longest time an article of liberal faith. There were no WMDs in Iraq. There were no nuke programs in Syria even after Israel bombed the reactor there. A leaked NIE believed Iran had stopped work on a nuclear weapon. North Korea was presumed to be contained. A new, diplomatically oriented administration would replace the caveman-like approach of its predecessor and presumably defang radical Islam, including Pakistan, of which the President boasted a special acquaintance.
    President Obama actually campaigned on a promise to oppose “unproven missile defense systems” and to work toward eliminating nuclear weapons in the world. Now he is relying upon the former to compensate for his singular failure at the latter.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/04/03/finally-one-world/#more-28210

  26. This is good.
    ” A prominent Canadian lawyer, husband to a Liberal senator, moved nearly $2 million to secretive financial havens while he was locked in battle with the Canada Revenue Agency over his taxes ”
    The lawyer is none other than Tony Merchant,of the Merchant Law Firm,the group that handled the ‘residential school’ settlements,and a law firm that I went to court to have discharged from a personal case.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/04/03/merchant-offshore-trust.html

  27. Our CBC’s CBC Investigations Unit Wants You To Snitch/Rat.
    Any infotips re Suzuki Fdn? Mao Stlong anyone? Trudeau Foundation?
    See more re Librano$ senator flom Saskbush.
    “If you have more information on this story, or other investigative tips to pass on, please email investigations@cbc.ca. You can also send mail to: CBC Investigations Unit, 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3G7″
    …-
    “Senator’s husband put $1.7M in offshore tax havens”
    “Class action lawyer Tony Merchant sought secrecy for trust account”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/04/03/merchant-offshore-trust.html
    “Home – Trudeau Foundation
    http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/welcome
    The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation supports outstanding individuals who make meaningful contributions to critical social issues.”

  28. Liberals sweep past Tories in latest poll — even without Trudeau as leader, as NDP heads for disaster
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/03/liberals-sweep-past-tories-in-latest-poll-even-without-trudeau-as-leader-as-ndp-heads-for-disaster/
    Ho hum. What poll?
    Look, the Librano$ have been in the news for the past month or two because of their so-called “leadership” race. They’re in the public eye at this point, as the CPC continue to govern the country quietly, without fanfare, and much more maturely than the Librano Party ever did.
    The polls, the media, can just stuff it. Who’s listening or paying attention anymore? The pollsters and the media, for the most part, have lost all credibility with the hard-working, tax-paying public. They’re writing and polling for themselves for crying out loud.
    I hope it makes them feel better. For the rest of us? We could care less.

  29. Batb — I believe that poll looks good for the Libs only because it is reality vs. everyone’s fantasy. Everyone was shocked some time ago when the leaderless Libs were gaining ground and looking good — I think Bill Graham was in charge. The point is, you can always look good if there is nothing on the table. People fill in the blanks with what they imagine the perfect leader/party would be. Once Trudeau needs to actually perform as leader, we will see what’s what.

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