23 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. … nice. Paul’s amazing on the uneven bars as well.
    Here’s a gal at practice, I believe she was a performer for Cirque de Soleil some years ago, and I cannot do this, at all.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK0itWP2Jn0&index=433&list=FLkNf8o-ad2osEl7JtS1_7XA
    For any folks that have kids still at home or under some type of monitoring agreement with the authorities it’s always good to keep an eye on sudden changes that may indicate a sudden turn to terrorism:
    http://www.examiner.com/article/white-house-urges-parents-to-monitor-children-for-signs-of-becoming-terrorists
    I’m not worried of my kids turning muslim. Not even a bit, they’ve been warned, and you may have guessed this…

  4. I was told by a Liberal, today, on Easter Sunday, that ”I didn`t know what the F$%? I was talking about.” We were talking about Pierre Poilievre`s changes to the Canada Elections Act.
    During the course of our conversation, she mentioned that one of Obama`s top campaign managers was going to be working for Justin Trudeau in the next federal election. Of course she couldn’t recall that person’s name.
    Is there any truth to that statement?

  5. I don’t know what to make of this:
    (Flight Aware says it was a 767-300)

    Simon said security footage from the San Jose airport verified that the boy from Santa Clara, Calif., hopped a fence to get to Hawaiian Airlines Flight 45 on Sunday morning. The child had run away from his family after an argument, Simon said. Simon said when the flight landed in Maui, the boy hopped down from the wheel well and started wandering around the airport grounds.
    “He was unconscious for the lion’s share of the flight,” Simon said. The flight lasted about 5 1/2 hours.

  6. Here is a video of a 767 gear retraction.
    I don’t know if the kid tied himself to something or what, so as to not to fall out when the gear was extended.
    There isn’t a lot of room in that bay when the wheels are tucked up either.
    ( the nose wheel well isn’t any roomier )
    I’m calling it an Easter Miracle

  8. Great piece by Theodore Dalrymple.
    Gross Domestic Pissants
    http://takimag.com/article/the_gross_domestic_pissants_theodore_dalrymple#axzz2zKmfIvie
    Having only daze before met with a couple of regulators to learn about the new torments planned, this passage resonated like nothing I’ve read in years:

    There is, as every petty official knows, a great deal of pleasure to be had from the obstruction of others, especially if they appear to be more fortunate, better placed, richer, or more intelligent than oneself. There is a pleasure in naysaying, all the greater if the naysayer is able to disguise from the victim the fact that he is not only doing his duty but gratifying himself. Indeed, there are many jobs, meaningless in themselves, in which the power to say no is the only non-monetary reward.
    More to be feared even than the secret sadist, however, is the person who genuinely believes in the intrinsic value and even indispensability of his absurd task. He is as dangerous as any true believer.

  9. “Brandis’s single-minded campaign to rein in Australia’s hate-speech laws is quite something.”
    “‘THE STATE SHOULD NEVER BE THE ARBITER OF WHAT PEOPLE CAN THINK'”
    “Ever since Captain Cook set foot here, Australia’s exotic creatures have wowed the rest of the world. Mammals that lay eggs! Marsupials that hop! Well today, Australia contains what must surely count as the most exotic, rarely sighted creature of the twenty-first century: a politician who believes in freedom of speech. Extinct in Europe, seriously endangered in America, this most hunted of the modern era’s political beasts still survives Down Under, and it goes by the name of George Brandis.”
    “‘Because’, he says, ‘if you are going to defend freedom of speech, you have to defend the right of people to say things you would devote your political life to opposing. Your good faith is tested by whether or not you would defend the right to free speech of people with whom you profoundly disagree. That’s the test.’”
    http://www.spiked-online.com/freespeechnow/fsn_article/the-state-should-never-be-the-arbiter-of-what-people-can-think#.U1TdxcKKAuS

  10. This is interesting:
    “But Moher also suggests that people may treat the traditional system of peer review with too much respect.
    It’s still possible that the predators are publishing decent work, even without peer review, he said. ‘What you have pointed out (with the bogus article on soils) is quite flawed and problematic. But I’ll be devil’s advocate for a moment. Set that aside … We do not have any strong evidence anywhere that peer review works.’ ”
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Blinded+scientific+gobbledygook/9757736/story.html

  13. LaCroix Water & Joe Monde & the cum shot he’s called for on Senator Cruz …
    original post here:
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/the-tolerant-le-169.html#comments
    I commented on their public Facebook page, accessed through their webpage Kate provided at the above SDA link, they’ve responded thusly:
    “LaCroix Water:
    We took the weekend off for the holiday, but we are back now! Here is our comment: We are not officially affiliated with Joe Monde. We have never hired Mr. Monde to be an official spokesperson for brand LaCroix Sparkling Water. Since we did not hire Joe Monde, we can’t fire Joe Monde. We will not comment on his choice of words or political views. He has a right to free speech and as a sparkling water company, we are not going to comment either way. We will however, clarify for the record, Joe Monde loves LaCroix, this we know. He adores our sparkling water and @mentions it all the time. As a brand, any celebrity or public figure with a social platform may claim association with products.
    The Yankees hat is mentioned in a wrap lyric, the Nike shirt is worn on stage during a stand up routine. Starbucks cups adorn all cup holders on The Voice. LaCroix was photo bombed into the Oscars picture and retweeted. Our water appears on desks of popular celebs as they tweet out new projects, on makeup tables of backstage productions for controversial shows, etc. LaCroix is a public brand. It is a sparkling water brand. We are the makers of an all natural brand made in the USA and our consumers (celebs or not) come from all walks of life with various views and opinions. We thank you for your comments today. We hope you continue to enjoy your LaCroix! Thank you.
    Like · 56 minutes ago”

  15. AGW Spring concedes.
    “… on average, temperatures during the period of December through March were 6 degrees colder than normal.
    Phillips also said the past winter was one of the snowiest since 1898.”
    …-
    “It’s official: Winnipeg’s winter the coldest since 1898”
    “No Winnipegger alive has ever experienced the kind of winter we’ve just survived.
    Environment Canada’s senior climatologist Dave Phillips said Friday Winnipeg is emerging from the coldest winter since 1898.
    “It was 116 years ago,” he said. “And think about it. In 1898, there was no talk of global warming or urban heat islands, no cars or pavements and the population was a twentieth of what it is now in Winnipeg.”
    He said it’s no small achievement to make it through the coldest winter in more than a century.”
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/official-winnipegs-winter-coldest-since-1898-174237088.html

  18. “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910).

  20. “36 Times Obama Said You Could Keep Your Health Care Plan”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpa-5JdCnmo
    …-
    “Joseph Goebbels:
    On the “Big Lie”
    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/goebbelslie.html

  22. Thinking back to my elementary countryschool years of the late fifties (yikes!) we had a good system going: the boys had their own territory to build their forts/lairs/whatever, the girls were allowed their own space on the other bounds of the schoolyard for their playhouses, playschools and stuff that girls are wont to do.
    Other than our occasional raid, never was there a need for teacher/parental/police intervention. Ok, so there was some crying, (Bob was a bit of a suck), but it was all in good fun.
    Let kids be kids. Look how well we turned out….Oh wait…:~D)

  23. Is it just me, or does anyone else think the dude on the balance beam bears a striking resemblance to Justin Trudeau? It was the happy face, that finally convinced me.
    It would certainly be at least an appropriate platform for the Liberal Party of Canada. Maybe this would make a funny political ad, for us Conservatives, in the future. Justin, at his best….

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