22 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. A couple of good-news stories:
    1. Armed black residents protect white-owned store in Ferguson. (h/t instapundit)
    2. Navy vet spots purse-snatching punk knocking 76-year-old woman to the ground – and issues the punk a painful lesson. (h/t dyspepsiageneration)

  4. I blundered around the internet and found a very good article about the modern Democrat Party. I loved this part and a money quote from Daniel Henninger:
    –They have constructed a governing coalition—government bureaucrats, public employee unions, recipients of transfer payments—that requires more financial resources than the party can generate without alienating the middle class. You can’t govern without the middle class. Henninger captures it with the best line since election night: “It was good being the party of Robin Hood. Until they morphed into the Sheriff of Nottingham.”–
    http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-decline-downfall-the-democratic-party-has-arrived-11688?page=2

  5. Pat Buchanan on ‘The Rogue President’…:
    “Running in 2008, Obama said he intended to become a ‘transformational president.’ With this decision, he succeeds.
    He has accelerated and ensured the remaking of America. Now when the wives and children of the illegals arrive, and their extended families apply for and receive visas, and bring their wives and children, we will become the Third World country of Obama’s dream, no more a Western nation.
    But then the community organizer did not much like that old America.”
    http://buchanan.org/blog/rogue-president-7159

  8. This illustrates the very chasm between left and right. Progressive and conservative. Socialist and capitalist. Europe and the Anglosphere.
    For the first member of the above pairs, what is not explicitly allowed is disallowed; for the second member of the above pairs, what is not specifically disallowed is allowed.
    Plato was the first to describe the socialist model of serfdom with his The Republic.

  9. On this cold and windy November afternoon, I chose to go to the local coffee shop. One of the guys was totally p’st off at the negative publicity that the federal government has been receiving lately, where the Auditor General claims that the feds have not been treating veterans properly. Now some of the veterans are pleading with the public not to vote Conservative in the next election. Of course few members of the general public are aware of the amount of the settlements and/or pensions that members of the military receive.
    Question: When are organizations like the Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation, or our taxpayer funded CBC and Radio Canada going to publish some of the figures that are being paid out to veterans?? I for one would be curious to see how much (for example) Romeo Dallaire is receiving?? And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that they don’t deserve it, I just want to know how much ”not enough” really works out to!

  10. I don’t see a music box, so was the orchestra added later. It would have been even MORE impressive if he did it with voice alone. Truly impressive. BTW Was that Windsor?

  14. I think the music was added later. Not sure…hard to tell. Actually I think it was in Budapest, as many of the comments are in Hungarian. Some of the signage also appears to be in Hungarian.
    Plainzdrifter, VA did real good by me. I have no complaints. As a long retired reservist I was given a very generous settlement for injuries. PM Harper’s government changed the regulations to include settlements for reservists that had been injured. But I can’t get a license plate from the province, not enough days in over a period of 31 years.

  16. National Post, Thursday, Nov. 27. Marnie Soupcoff on our legal rights in courtrooms vis-à-vis administrative tribunals.
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/11/27/marni-soupcoff-presumed-innocent-that-depends/
    Soupcoff: “The problem is that in practice, [Charter section 11 legal] rights only kick in when a person ls accused of a criminal offence or a regulatory violation that triggers ‘true penal consequences’ — a phrase courts have interpreted so narrowly that even being fined a million dollars doesn’t cut it.”
    There’s a lot of guff in Supreme Court cases about interpreting Charter rights “broadly”, but it is hard not to conclude that judges only do so when it fits their political beliefs. And there have been several Supreme Court judges recently who almost always decided a case so as to reduce freedom and expand the powers of government.
    In the Blencoe case of 2000, the Supreme Court declined to apply s.11 rights, specifically the right to a speedy trial, to the depredations of so-called “human rights commissions”. The creation and expansion of a system of administrative tribunals not subject to proper legal safeguards is an end run around justice, as Soupcoff notes and as I myself have stated here on occasion.
    Not so long ago, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin commented publicly about the possibility of, and perhaps the need for, the Court to overturn certain prior decisions. Unfortunately, as she demonstrated by the apparent abandonment of her previous principles by failing to write a dissent in Whatcott, this will likely mean the Court is moving in the wrong direction, to the detriment of justice for Canadians.

  17. Globe and Mail, Saturday, Nov. 22 (one week ago). Interview with Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives to Reality.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/armine-yalnizyan-on-the-state-of-democracy-business-is-the-most-powerful-force-in-society-right-now/article21679367/
    AY: “We need to get over the idea that government is something and someone else. The government is us. The idea that governments are largely useless, that they’re more likely to make a mess than fix things, is exactly what corporations would like us to think. It gives them more freedom to use the enormous power of the state to their advantage.”
    This is a denial of history and evidence. If you look at the track record of governments in the world, you will find that they are highly likely to make a mess of things.
    Government is coercive, and coercion does not and cannot “fix things”. Government’s proper function is to step in when citizens use violence on one another, to try to set things straight and to bring the perpetrators to justice. It has a difficult enough time doing this well without being burdened with every idiotic notion about what’s wrong with society, especially when the loudmouth activists want somebody else to pay to fix them.
    However, I agree that business should not be able to use the power of the state to their advantage. Neither should anyone else.
    AY: “Business is the most powerful force in society right now. Given what I just said, this may seem strange …”
    Government is always by far the most powerful force in society, having a legal monopoly on coercion. Don’t kid yourself.
    AY: “Resource extraction and exportation is such a 19th-century game plan for growth, complete with a 19th-century distribution of benefits and calculation of costs. We need another plan. Not a Plan B, because there’s no Planet B. Canada’s Plan A should help us become a 21st-century energy superpower by developing the world’s most energy-efficient homes and forms of transit.”
    Canada is not supposed to have a “plan” for the economy. The economy is about what people produce, trade and consume, and those decisions have to be left to individuals, who have the right to make them.
    If you have an idea for 21st-century superpower energy production, why don’t you learn the science, formulate a business plan, go to the bank, and take out a loan like everyone else has to do. That way you won’t end up like Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne, a couple of destructive airheads who might see Ontario wind up in the 19th century B. C. if they continue much longer.
    AY: “My father had eight heart attacks and died before medicare came to be. My family lost almost everything because of his illness. Early on, our country recognized that things like health care and electricity and education were public services that everyone should be able to access to improve the quality of their lives.”
    None of these items are “public services”. Only police, military and courts are true public services, that cannot be provided by the private sector. Her personal experience was unfortunate, but it was similar to that of a lot of people before society was rich enough and knowledgeable enough to provide medical care (not necessarily medicare) like we have today. And becoming rich is not something that happens under socialism, when government runs everything — or more likely, runs everything into the ground, including health care.

  18. I think the first tune, Lament for Limerick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLS2t66ZmII), has a connection to the Irish Wild Geese – (from wiki)
    “The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland. More broadly, the term “Wild Geese” is used in Irish history to refer to Irish soldiers who left to serve in continental European armies in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.”
    A more familiar “Wild Geese” to me is a Scottish Country Dance tune and dance.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt4UKZVLI8I
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9QhC7Bi1g
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_YvTnKAwSM

  20. Supplies.
    “According to climate models, the region’s sea ice should be shrinking each year because of global warming.”
    …-
    “Canada posts surprise September trade surplus as energy imports drop”
    https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-posts-surprise-sept-trade-surplus-lower-energy-133837377–business.html
    …-
    “Robot Sub Finds Surprisingly Thick Antarctic Sea Ice”
    “Antarctica’s ice paradox has yet another puzzling layer. Not only is the amount of sea ice increasing each year, but an underwater robot now shows the ice is also much thicker than was previously thought, a new study reports.
    The discovery adds to the ongoing mystery of Antarctica’s expanding sea ice. According to climate models, the region’s sea ice should be shrinking each year because of global warming. Instead, satellite observations show the ice is expanding, and the continent’s sea ice has set new records for the past three winters.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/robot_sub_finds_surprisingly_t/37967874

  21. Yet, despite this ongoing evidence of a robust Antarctic Ice Pack, and the Arctic Ice maintaining a relative average coverage, the drone goes on from the religious fanatics of the Warming fanatics.
    Much like Wente’s column noted above, the left doesn’t want science, they want a belief system where facts are cherry picked, not taken as an all encompassing system of events….whiich discredit their fearmongering campaign.

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