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Earlier this week actor and former police officer, Dennis Farina, passed away. In celebration of him and his career we offer two clips from a short-lived TV series in the 1980’s called Crime Story.
Your crime and non-crime related tips are appreciated, as always, in the comments.

24 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. I, for one, am very concerned with the SDA spam filter. I have heard, from a reputable source, that SDA has been given greater latitude by a secret court to expand its spam filtering operations. Furthermore, there is evidence that the scope of this filtering policy is being used against Canadian citizens. It is no secret that SDA is planning to build a spam filter seven times the size of the one it is currently operating. This is intolerable. Under the Ask a Silly Question act of 2004, SDA was requested to provide the list of words currently loaded in the filter. The director has refused this request. Clearly this is an overreach and an abuse of the authority SDA has over its own blog. Under section 2 of the Canadian Commenter’s Rights Act it is clearly stated that no comment shall be filtered unless a reasonable explanation is immediately available. SDA has clearly violated this seldom honored Canadian tradition of no filtration without explanation. This is tyranny!

  2. “yvr to yyz – stuck on tarmac no updates for 20 mins. What the hell hurry up,” tweeted Raff.
    Air Canada’s authorized Twitter account replied, asking for the passenger’s flight number. Air Canada pilot Yannick Charland was more pointed, tweeting back, “It’s a red alert. Ground staff not allowed to work due to lightning in the area. You just flew across the country in four hours. Shut it.”

  5. It’s what Liberal governments do:
    TB vaccine tested on aboriginals, but living conditions not fixed.
    Between October 1933 and 1945, a total of 609 infants were involved in the tests – half given the vaccine, half not.
    Results were clear: nearly five times as many cases of TB among the non-vaccinated children. But the real lesson from the tests was the connection between dire living conditions and overall health.
    Of the 609 children in the tests, 77 were dead before their first birthday, only four of them from TB. Both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups had at least twice the non-tuberculosis death rate as the general population.
    “The most obvious result of the … vaccine trials was that poverty, not tuberculosis, was the greatest threat to native infants.”
    The vaccine was judged safe and remains in use in many places today. Living conditions on reserves remained unaddressed.
    “The trial was a success, but unfortunately the patients died.”
    http://globalnews.ca/news/745989/tb-vaccine-tested-on-aboriginals-but-living-conditions-not-fixed-research/

  8. “Americans? You betcha!!”
    “Labros Hydras, a Washington D.C. engineer, was, up until recently, enjoying his annual family holiday. Snorkeling off the beaches of Greece, where he’d grown up…”

  9. Those moderate non-muslims: hundreds of thousands of people gathered to hear the Pope’s final mass at world youth day . . . and no demands for death to anyone, no houses of worship burned and no one trampled to death. How do they do it? Maybe we should ask the “Occupy” crowd . . . or then again, maybe not.
    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130728/DA7QFQ200.html

  11. “TB vaccine tested on aboriginals, but living conditions not fixed.”
    First my parents, and then my wife explained to me why it wasn’t good to live in filth, how I should clean my house,why I should paint it and do other upkeep occasionally. Whoda thunk it was the responsiblility of the government to tell me this.
    In the Pembertyon area of B.C. there is an indian band that is on their 3rd town.Why, because they destroyed the first 2. Tore lumber of the sides to burn in the fireplace. It was cheaper to build a whole new town than fix the old houses.
    Some things should just come naturally.Kinda like when you are hungry, you eat.Or when you are dirty, you wash up. Or when your house has mould you clean it.
    And they want to govern themselves. Hell, they can’t even look after themselves.

  12. Yeah, I caught that, too. And it seems the “hexapus” is not so much an endangered species as it is a rare mutation of a normal octopus, a sideshow freak. So killing it and eating it is not so much a crime against Nature as it is an expression of Darwinian selection.
    A pox upon the hexapus, I say!

  13. O’s socialism: the religion of the stomach*.
    …-
    “Obama’s economy: Two food stamp recipients for every job created
    For every job the White House claims to have created — 7.2 million now — two more Americans were added to the nation’s food stamp program, federal statistics reveal.”
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/25/obamas-economy-two-food-stamp-recipients-every-job/
    …-
    *O’sstomach:
    “Gustave Le Bon: The Psychology of Socialism: Book I Chapter 3 …
    http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/Lebon/LeBon_1899/LeBon_1899_​03.html
    The Fundamental principles of the Socialist theories: … As a Marxist has maintained, Socialism is in effect nothing but the religion of the stomach.”

  14. Wow! Did the POTUS really say this?
    http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/313899-obama-criticizes-pro-keystone-pipeline-jobs-gas-price-claims
    “[M]y hope would be that any reporter who is looking at the facts would take the time to confirm that the most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline – which might take a year or two – and then after that we’re talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 [chuckles] jobs in a economy of 150 million working people,” Obama said, according to a Times transcript.
    He (Obama) questioned the project’s benefit in other ways too as the State Department review continues. While State is leading the federal review, the final decision is expected to come from the West Wing.
    “So what we also know is, is that that oil is going to be piped down to the Gulf to be sold on the world oil markets, so it does not bring down gas prices here in the United States. In fact, it might actually cause some gas prices in the Midwest to go up where currently they can’t ship some of that oil to world markets,” Obama said.
    I can’t even begin to comment on how ill-informed and poorly thought out Obama’s comments are. Is this now a government of talking points, like the Chretien era?

  15. Citoyen MulcairBloc’s Robo Report.
    …-
    “NDP MP slapped with fine for robocalling”
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/ndp-mp-slapped-with-fine-for-robocalling-217207311.html?NewsWatchCanada.ca
    …-
    “Company fined for illegal robocalls worked on Council of Canadians’ robocall lawsuit against Conservatives”
    “The company Strategic Communications was fined $10,000 along with NDP MP Paul Dewar (see here) by the CRTC for making illegal robocalls:”.
    http://bcblue.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/company-fined-for-illegal-robocalls-worked-on-council-of-canadians-robocall-lawsuit-against-conservatives/

  17. Government Promises to Stop Lying Because of Drudge Report Spotlight.On Thursday, the DoD bemoaned the Drudge Report and the fact that, because of citizen journalists, social media and other online platforms reporting news in real time, the public is more quickly becoming aware of the constant patterns of contradictions and habitual lying by a government long ago captured by a group of corrupt interests.
    (@ 14:00)“..we cannot hide our bad news stories. Bad news gets out one way or the other and we must come to terms with telling bad stories as well as the good,” the secretary of defense for public affairs, George Little, stated.“When bad things happen, the American people should hear it from us, not as a scoop on the Drudge Report,” Little said.
    This open groveling of DoD technocrats doing damage control on their spoor trail (like illegal drone attacks and Benghazi) is a signal of triumph to the power that is independent media, and shows just how large of an effect it is having.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmqmCHtsCUU

  18. I blame the yanks! Rotten yanks. They make me so mad….

  20. Red-Green’s Indoctrination of Youth.
    H/T socialism’s Hitler’s Jugend/Joe’s Komsomol.
    Eco-warmistas say, It’s for the children.
    ““I really think engaging our youth at this early stage in their life is important for all of us.””
    “85 students, including two from Ottawa, have returned home after two weeks of learning about climate change,”.
    …-
    ““I just learned how climate change is affecting these people,”.
    http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/students-on-arctic-expedition-return-home-1.1387466

  22. I was in Vegas in Dec of 1988 and happened to be downtown on Fremont St. when they were filming an episode of Crime Story. They had a bunch of antique cars which drove round and round the block and a couple of guys running around on the marquee of The Mint carrying shotguns. The one and only experience I had with Hollywood. RIP Mr. Farina

  23. Hi SDA’ers,
    I remember “Crime Story” very well. Bright & gleaming steel, compared to the dopey dull network TV on offer at the time (c.f: Three’s Company).
    I believe Michael Mann had some involvement with C.S.
    Later, Farina had a small but crucial role (as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Mann’s early masterpiece “Manhunter”, based on the 1st Thomas Harris novel about Hannibal Lecter, “Red Dragon”.
    RIP Sir
    Condolences to his family, friends, & colleagues.
    YT
    Niall from Winnipeg

  24. Er, why wasn’t that information broadcast to the PAYING PASSENGERS?!? That’s all the poor sap who asked the question wanted to know – why, with the terminal in sight, were they just sitting on the tarmac? After four hours in the air, restrained to my seat, I’d like to get up and walk around, but of course, that would never be PERMITTED by the hostile flight attendants. (I’ve never understood why you’re allowed to walk around at 35,000 feet, when CAT is a real possiblity, but when the plane is safely on the ground, you must SIT DOWN AND WEAR A SEATBELT!)
    Why not just tell the CUSTOMERS there was lightning in the area, and there would be a few minutes delay? Was this some giant state secret that Air Canada had to hide from them?
    I would have punched the pilot in the nose, just for his sheer rudeness, and, as is typical with Air Canada, his ‘customer last’ attitude.

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