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In tonight’s musical detour en route to the tips we listen to two consecutive short tracks from the 1970 album New Morning: The first is a street-level urban vignette, a kind of lucid dream centered around three ornamental plastic angels, perched high atop a pole, whose transcendental message goes unheeded by the big city denizens as they go about their daily activities below. The next, a soberly upbeat, wide-awake, rhythmically angular song of worship and praise contrasts with this slow reverie, but the similar underlying theme, and the otherworldly female vocals that swell up at the end of the first song and punctuate the end of each verse in the second, make both entirely of a piece, somehow: Here are Three Angels & Father of Night.
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17 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. After a Facebook backlash, UK retailer Marks and Spencer apologizes for allowing some of it’s Muslim employees to refuse to sell pork or alcohol to customers.

  3. Reed should learn to read the Bible correctly, rather than spew her anti Sarah Palin garbage, as well as insult tens of millions of Americans and Canadians who put up Christmas trees.

  4. From Preston Manning’s Globe & Mail article “Senate ethics – what about Press Gallery ethics?”:

    Should gallery members who have a conflict of interest in covering a particular issue or event be obliged to publicly disclose it (e.g., reporters and commentators for the CBC, a highly subsidized corporation, when they report on governmental initiatives to reduce or eliminate corporate subsidies)?

    Yes, they should.

  9. Fred Reed’s latest:

    “Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.”
    —Federicius Aurelius Superomnem, 345 BC

  10. Mr. Glavin gets it wrong, for all the usual terrible excuses (as opposed to reasons):
    http://www.canada.com/opinion/columnists/Harper+needs+just+Northern+Gateway/9323017/story.html
    Mr. Glavin is making an argument which amounts to a modern-day derivative critique of John A. Macdonald’s 1870 or so commitment to BC to build a national railway: what?; the railway ought not to have been built, having survived a comprehensive review by the, er, National Railway Board, which didn’t exist, which, if it did, would have then suffered the usual follow-on invective from the Toronto Globe and maybe even the Toronto Star? What’s that about? Stuck in the mud, a la Corb Lund? Are you kidding me? Macdonald then closes the file: just say no? Are you kidding me?
    By my tally, the proponents of Keystone XL, Northern Gateway and the East Coast Pipeline are proposing to spend about $20 billion, from their own resources, or about four or so days worth of official Canadian annual GDP, which is a miniscule fraction (pardon the pun), I’d wager, than the national railway ever cost. And this programme will not require a government guarantee, as the railway did? Where is the issue, exactly?
    Craig Oliver, months before the 2012 presidential election, in his usual (matchlessly) clueless way, assured Canadians that if Obama was re-elected, Keystone XL would be approved by the end of 2013. Well, that would be four or so days from now. I, for one, would like to know what’s actually going on.
    The economic implications of all of this are brutally and painfully obvious: every fracking person wants to know how we connect to this thing.

  11. Supplies! Supplies!
    Mao Stlong*/AGW Lepolt.
    “The Xue Long discovered that the ice at the edge of the pack was much thicker than it expected – around three to four metres thick in places – and the going was slow.”
    …-
    “Antarctic mission on ice as rescue ship is forced back”
    “But we woke after a brief sleep to the sound of disappointment. An announcement on the ship’s noticeboard broke the bad news: after spending about 12 hours cutting through seven nautical miles of ice, the Xue Long had turned around and headed back towards open water.
    “The ice was just too thick, and the Xue Long was making very heavy going. The captain decided the best course of action was to wait for a second icebreaker or a change in weather,” said Chris Fogwill, a glaciologist at the University of New South Wales and a co-leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE).”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/antarctic-mission-icebreaker-delay-rescue
    *Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.

  12. Smitherman used crack, and The Toronto Star loves him.

    Wynne, and Justin’s best buddy and Deputy education minister Benjamin Levin, in charge of Ontario children’s sex education curriculum, currently up on charges of making and distributing child pornography. Has anyone seen any headlines?
    Joe Fontana, previous Liberal Cabinet minister and current mayor of London up on corruption and fraud charges. Has the Globe and Mail or Star done anything but bury this story?
    
Wynne and Co. being visited by the police over accusation of squandering over 1 billion tax dollars to ensure an electoral win in two ridings. Possibly the largest fraudulent use of tax dollars ever.
    These stories should be bigger scandals than Ford’s peccadilloes which haven’t elicited any charges. Why are these REAL criminal charges and public malfeasance’s not being screamed from the rooftops like the Ford media circus?
    The media are firmly in the tank for any and all leftist’s, while Ford is a successful fiscal Conservative.
    Ford is popular, and threatens the Liberal/union/leftist power cabal which controls just about everything.
    He must be defeated.
    Always remember; The media is no longer there to inform, they’re there to influence.

  13. I think I heard the railway cost a trillion dollars in today’s money, so yeah, it’s an all time stretch of a comparison…

  14. AGW Kills.
    TO’s AGW-Ice Storm has killed the “pause”.
    …-
    “Report warned of increased risk of power outages due to climate change”
    “A Toronto Hydro vulnerability study published last year warned that climate change could result in more severe freezing rain storms, increasing the risk of major power outages.
    The study, published in September, 2012, says warmer winter temperatures can increase the intensity and quantity of freezing rain and wet snow, which can damage tree branches and overhead wires.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto-hydro-study-warned-of-increased-risk-of-power-outages-due-to-climate-change/article16118600/
    …-
    “Met Office proof that global warming is still ‘on pause’ as climate summit confirms global temperature has stopped rising”
    “The Mail on Sunday first revealed global temperature pause a year ago
    IPCC report confirms no significant rise in global temperature since 1997
    IPCC accused of sinking to ‘hilarious level of incoherence’
    But the IPCC insists 2016-2035 will be 0.3-0.7C hotter than 1986-2005”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436710/Met-office-proof-global-warming-pause-climate-summit-confirms-global-temperature-stopped-rising.html

  17. Update: Big Aunty Arctica Ice.
    H/T Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Absolutely magnificent outlook: Green-Red Warmistas Eat Penguin.
    “What happens to us now is anyone’s guess.”
    “If the joint efforts of the Aurora Australis and Xue Long don’t work, the only other option will be to evacuate the ship by air, though this would be the absolute worst case scenario.”
    …-
    “Antarctic expedition: still icebound – what happens next is
    anyone’s guess”
    “Like explorer Douglas Mawson 100 years ago, Alok Jha and the expedition he joined face a long wait to be rescued”
    “Alok Jha
    The Observer, Saturday 28 December 2013 19.49 GMT”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/antarctica-live/2013/dec/29/antarctica-expedition-ice-wait-rescue

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