30 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. Oh my, Albertans and that evil Harper are going to kill the whales.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/northern-gateway-would-up-risk-of-whale-strikes-biologist-1.2623024
    Apparently a marine biologist came to the startling conclusion that more ships in the ocean would increase the likelihood of whales being hit by a ship.
    Our CBC took that statement and manufactured a story opposing the Northern Gateway pipeline. The biologist runs a blog that deals with whales, but there is nothing on that blog that mentions the pipeline.
    The CBC took a thread and wove a tapestry of deceit. As per usual, the author of this drivel is ‘CBC News’. They write trash and hide behind anonymity.
    A billion dollars doesn’t get you much these days.
    IMHO, and I am not a marine biologist or a CBC reporter and never have pretended to be either, the greatest threat to whales from ships would be from the ones that are carrying eco-tourists directly into their areas.
    But oh, that is different.

  6. Conrad Black has an excellent article about the horrors of the US Injustice system. Sometimes I wonder about moving to the states, but then I think of their justice system and realize I’m better off here, as long judges keep ignoring or striking down the moronic TUFF ON KRIME legislation the feds churn out.
    The real problem is that American prosecutors, as I have had occasion to write here before, terrorize the entire country with impunity. They win 99.5 percent of their cases, 97 percent without a trial (as against much lower success rates in Canada and the U.K.). The plea-bargain system has been misshapen into the extortion or subornation of incriminating perjury in exchange for immunities, including from charges of perjury. And whatever liberties the prosecutors take are never punished.
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370815/prison-industrial-complex-conrad-black

  7. That’s what Canada gets for following the US and politically posturing instead of considering long term ramifications of foolish decisions in the heat of arguments. One more nail in the coffin.

  8. Wallyj:
    It doesn`t matter what the CBC airs–it`s distorted propaganda. What I`d love to know is who is behind it all??
    I`ve always believed that a consorted effort to boycott targeted sponsors who advertise on the CBC is the only way we`ll ever stop it!

  9. Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, he of the standoff with federal agents a couple of weeks ago, is on the hot seat for some intemperate remarks (made in a video which is not current) that touch on the race issue:
    http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2014/04/cliven-bundys-slavery-delusion.html
    Referring to blacks seemingly just wasting time on the porch who he sees as he drives around, he was quoted as saying, “I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
    First of all, idleness is just as bad a problem for whites and other races as it might be for blacks. It’s a human issue of psychology, and isn’t racial in nature. If you want more of something, subsidize it. Commentators such as the one in the link have ripped other holes in Bundy’s thoughts.
    But I was struck by a line I read in the Herb Gray obituary in the Globe and Mail last Wednesday: “… he believed in the power of government to do good”.
    When you think about it, this is exactly the same as claiming blacks were better off on the plantations prior to the Civil War (which I recognize is not necessarily exactly what Bundy said). Both slavery and taxation are coercive. Both sets of coercers are paternalistic, and claim to be doing it for the benefit of the coerced.
    Even a black slave who was relatively well-treated probably would (and indeed should) resent his lack of freedom. Similarly, the poor taxpayer who is repeatedly hit on to support idiotic schemes like the Ontario green energy program, quite possibly the single worst government-created economic disaster in Canadian history, has every reason to resent his powerlessness. That some of the political elite is elected in relatively free and fair elections and that some things government does are worthwhile doesn’t change the fundamental principle.
    Slavery can never be a good thing because the immense moral evil of it outweighs any possible benefits that some individuals might get. And government cannot “do good” because the evils of taxation and coercion outweigh any possible benefits that some individuals might receive.
    Few are saying taxation can be wiped out overnight. But we should be starting to discuss how to vastly reduce the coercive power of government so that we can plan for the end of taxation a couple of decades down the road. The noblest political goal is a tax-free, coercion-free society.

  11. Slavery is an equal opportunity thing. We today all fixate on American black slavery, but until the British enforced abolition globally (almost) in the 19th C it was a universal thing, time immemorial. In fact, it is still practiced in some uncivilized places.

  12. “For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.” — Luther Burbank, American horticulturist (1849-1926)

  13. PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
    IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED
    We, the undersigned citizens of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT : as individual Citizens of Canada WE do NOT enjoy the protection of “PROPERTY RIGHTS” within the Constitution of Canada ! hence, THE LAW of Canada!
    THEREFORE: Your petitioners call upon Parliament to forthwith, incorporate and entrench FOREVER , individual “PROPERTY RIGHTS” INTO THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA well ass amendning OR ABOLISHING THE Canadian Senate!!
    I AM Joe Walker

  15. AGW Progress Report: “Climbing Everest is the peak of hubris”.
    AGW’s Killer Avalanche Proves Peak Everest Has Conquered.
    …-
    “Everest’s Sherpas fear for livelihood after killer avalanche”
    “One of the first reporters to reach the place where tragedy struck last week on the grief, anger and calls for change”
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/27/everest-sherpas-fears-killer-avalanche
    …-
    “04 Dec 2011”
    “Himalayan glaciers are melting, says IPCC research”
    “The Himalayan glaciers are melting after all, according to new research released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”
    “The IPCC were forced to apologise for claiming that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.
    The 2009 scandal, known as ‘Himalayagate’ led to criticism of the IPCC, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to warn governments around the world about the effects of climate change.
    In an effort to move on from the embarrassing episode, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, has now announced that the latest statistics show the glaciers are melting, according to the limited amount of science available.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8933945/Himalayan-glaciers-are-melting-says-IPCC-research.html

  16. Socialism’s Dinosaur: Yerp.
    …-
    “Crumbling Europe is in dire need of change”
    “Part One of the serialisation of Roger Bootle’s new book,The Trouble with Europe, argues that the EU has reached breaking point helped by the role of the euro”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10790002/Crumbling-Europe-is-in-dire-need-of-change.html
    …-
    “Colonel Axel Schneider, a German member of the eight-strong OSCE team, told reporters: “All the European officers are in good health and no one is sick. We have no indication when we will be sent home to our countries.””
    “William Hague: Britain willing to ‘pay price’ for further sanctions on Russia”
    “Pledge from Britain over Kremlin’s Ukraine meddling comes as gunmen parade kidnapped European observers and ‘agents’ before TV cameras”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10791123/William-Hague-Britain-willing-to-pay-price-for-further-sanctions-on-Russia.html

  17. “In a unanimous 71-0 vote last Thursday, with no debate or discussion, the California State Assembly passed a bill that would require the state’s board of education to teach students the racial ‘significance’ of Barack Obama’s presidency as part of the standard history-social science curriculum in the Golden State.”
    Oh, good! I’m white, too!
    (Ann Dunham lives!)
    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/04/27/CA-Assembly-Passes-Bill-Urging-Schools-to-Teach-Racial-Significance-of-Obama-Presidency

  19. Whoa, wisdom in 1764 from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
    We are not alone dear SDA friends. It was ever so!

    “I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.”

    The foregoing quote is found here:
    http://andrewhammel.typepad.com/german_joys/2012/03/lichtenberg-aphorisms-in-english.html
    Treat yourself to 5 pages of Lichtenberg aphorisms here:
    http://www.quoteland.com/author/G-C-Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Quotes/340/?pg=5
    Wikipedia on this amazing 18th scientist/intellectual:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg
    h/t American Digest, EBD’s gift that keeps on giving.

  20. Whoa, wisdom in 1764 from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.
    We are not alone dear SDA friends. It was ever so!

    “I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.”

    Treat yourself to 5 pages of Lichtenberg aphorisms here:
    http://www.quoteland.com/author/G-C-Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Quotes/340/?pg=5

  21. PET Cemetery Report: Liberalism’s Puttin’ on the Fritz*.
    G-M’s Latest Jerk-Werk of Fiction: Uncle Tom as Dr. Frankenstein.
    Includes Annus Horribilis Chpt. 13: “The CBC would fire him as a commentator.”
    …-
    “Political scientist Tom Flanagan helped put Stephen Harper in power. Now he finds himself an unexpected pariah”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/how-tom-flanagan-went-from-respected-political-activist-to-pariah/article18232689/
    Tom’s*:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FLZPFI3jc

  23. The unintended consequences of feeding low levels of antibiotics to industrial meat animals are finally coming home to roost.
    The killer stalking U.S. hog farms is known as PEDv, a malady that in less than a year has wiped out more than 10 percent of the nation’s pig population and helped send retail pork prices to record highs. The highly contagious Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus is puzzling scientists searching for its origins and its cure
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/killer-virus-spreads-unchecked-u-hog-belt-pushing-180045876–finance.html

  24. Pat Dollard showing us the leftist race baiting media party twisting Cliven Bundy’s words.
    http://patdollard.com/2014/04/shock-hoax-exposed-full-clip-of-cliven-bundys-non-racist-pro-black-anti-government-remarks-vs-media-matters-deceptively-edited-hoax-version-see-that-cliven-bundy-is-actually-an-advocat/
    The link to this video of Cliven’s bodyguard is also on the first link but here it is too.
    http://patdollard.com/2014/04/cnn-talks-to-black-bundy-bodyguard-he-is-not-a-racist-hes-pretty-much-treating-me-just-like-his-own-family/

  27. Ukip’s rise is the end result of “a collapse of trust in the political establishment.”
    …-
    “Ukip likely to come out top in European elections, warn Hain and Tebbit”
    “Poll giving anti-EU party a three-point lead suggests racist candidates and Nigel Farage’s expenses are not harming Ukip”
    “Ukip is on course to win the highest share of the vote in next month’s European elections, senior political figures warned on Sunday, in a result that would be viewed as a collapse of trust in the political establishment.
    With a European election poll showing Ukip forging ahead, after a week that saw the party involved in a row about a racist candidate and buffeted by other controversies that would damage conventional parties, Peter Hain, the Labour former cabinet minister, said Ukip seemed to be immune from criticism and that he expected the party to beat Labour.
    Lord Tebbit, the former Tory chairman, also said he expected Ukip to make history by becoming the first party other than Labour or the Conservatives to win a UK-wide election since the first world war.”
    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/27/ukip-likely-win-european-elections-despite-racism-scandals

  28. Won’t someone think of the baby whales ?
    Well, the answer is yes.
    Up above I put in a link to the CBC article on the upcoming demise of the humpback whale at the hands of the Conservative party.
    Today, on CTV’s Question Period the media party went a step further. Bob Fife interviewed Lizzie May on the subject. BTW, she looks like she is slimming down.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=327268
    It starts at about the 31 minute mark.
    Anyways, May and Fife BS’ed each other on the subject. It just ain’t the big whales, it is the baby whales (calves) that will also suffer. Lizzie even brought up the matter of their ‘acoustic environment’ being severely compromised. Fife grimaced and nodded sadly.
    They are either ignorant, or lying. I suspect a lot of both.
    There are about 2,000 humpback whales that feed in the waters off the B.C. coast.
    The pipeline will put another 440 tankers into those immense waters, basically one a day.
    The whales are not in danger. I would bet that the best ship captain could not hit a whale no matter how hard he tried. Tankers are huge slow-moving ships. Whales by comparison are much smaller, faster, and very aware of their space.
    The ‘acoustic environment’ remark was said for emotional impact only, it does not have any merit. It was used to remind viewers that whales are more developed than the average ‘sea kitten’ that ends up as part of a fish and chips meal. The eco-freaks and Harper haters are going to use the whales as their next weapon.
    If you google “whale watching B.C.” you will find pages and pages of tours available. These tour operators will bring their boats up close and personal with the whales.
    But, oh that is different. Those boats carry affluent eco-tourists.

  30. What part of “The highly contagious Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus is puzzling scientists searching for its origins and its cure” was beyond your cognitive grasp? Google MRSA for an education on the side effects of industrial meat production.

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