32 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Zman: The Quest for the Chocolate Savior.
    Excerpt:

    Obama was an exotic weirdo from a distant land with a Muslim name. He was the antithesis of the great evil plaguing the land, the great evil of the Pale Penis People. I’m pretty sure that Obama is the perfect opposite of the typical white American male and that’s why the cult fell in love. He was their chocolate savior.

    It is a strange form of cuckoldry that has gripped the nation…

    h/t

  6. Now look we could have a problem by 2080. No, wait, we’ll all be dead from climate change, so never mind:
    “I heard that by 2080 we may have a problem [due to tax-free savings accounts]. Well, why don’t we leave that to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s granddaughter to solve that problem,” he said.
    The Opposition is outraged. CBC has been on this all day. Is that all they’ve got?
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tfsas-middle-class-focus-of-heated-question-period-as-harper-defends-oliver-1.3044231

  9. Wow, Susan Eng likes the budget. I remember her as quite the Toronto activist, on the left side of the argument.

  13. Actually, those going big time into TFSAs are seniors who have savings, but not great income. They are moving their monetary assets into TFSAs, which accomplishes two things. First, the little interest they do earn is now non-taxable. Second, by removing that income from their tax returns, they are lowering their net income (line 236), thus reducing claw-back (first on the age amount on S-1 and – for higher-income seniors – OAS) and – in some cases, making them eligible for various federal and provincial supplements and programs.
    I’ve even attended seminars where it was stated that seniors should look at drawing down their RRIFs, to a certain extent, and moving the funds to TFSAs. The problem with RRSPs and RRIFs is that, once the holder dies, the entire value of said RRSPS and/or RRIFs becomes taxable income in the date of death. Okay, not if there’s a survivor spouse, but otherwise it’s a problem. And this can apply to Granny who is just getting by because she wants to leave something to the grandkids: better she takes more out of that RRIF now (up to the top of her tax bracket) and park it elsewhere than leave it for the taxman to grab.

  14. I use that example to show the addled thinking of statists who believe your money is theirs, so future taxes they might not receive are some kind of “problem” for the government. Investors haven’t even triggered capital gains, for instance, but statists are already fretting about you sheltering it from them. And, of course, only the “rich” use them – yes, easily repudiated – but whom they define as anyone they need more taxes from; in other words we’re all “rich.” Kind of like we’re all “polluters” who get it in the neck when statists make “polluters pay.”
    I encourage lower income to put savings into TFSAs rather than savings. This is precisely the wrong time to use RRSPs if you anticipate your future income, and thus your retirement income, will rise. Registered plans are tax-deferred plans, unless carefully planned they do not save taxes. TFSAs are definitely tax savings programs. People with pension plans should also use TFSAs rather than RRSPs, so lump sum withdrawals don’t need to suffer the deleterious tax effects of registered investments.
    I understand Mr Trudeau plans to replace RRSPs and TFSA with a combined plan, called the Totally Taxed Savings Account (TTSA), where you get no deduction for savings, but the full principal and gain is taxed as income because you were just “lucky” to make that money, so don’t “deserve” it. He feels that would be more “fair” and enable him to pay for “infrastructure.” Okay, he didn’t say that. Seriously though, is this joker actually proposing removing tax cuts, aka tax increases for his yet under-defined platform? He should check with Joe Clark on the electoral efficacy of promising tax increases.
    Trudeau should handle it like his dad did; swear up and down he won’t raise taxes, or impose wage and price controls, or hand judges purview over our parliament. Then, once elected, do everything he promised he wouldn’t do, then tell Canadians, whom he affectionately called “nobodies” to “tighten their belts” while he gave them the finger replete with fuddle duddles.

  16. Another great column by David Warren.
    “Without a conviction that our own civilization is worth defending, or even imposing in response to attack, I don’t know where we are. The idea that we must not only resist Islamicization, but roll it back, is inconceivable to contemporary Western man. He is incapable of stating: “No, your religion is wrong, and this is why. Yes, our religion is right, and this is why. Therefore you must abandon Muhammad, and follow Christ.” (That, incidentally, is what the real Saint Francis of Assisi did.) Without that, Western man is defeated before he starts. For his vague belief in “progress” carries no real conviction, only the convenience of avoiding thought, commitment, labour, and risk.”
    http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2015/04/21/the-valour-deficit/

  17. I’m currently reading a biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand and can’t help but notice the similarities between German National Socialism of the early 30s and the current groupthink in our NA universities.
    “The student government’s vote went beyond merely expressing support for same-sex marriage. The Chick-fil-A ban seeks to introduce unprecedented discrimination against companies owned by religious conservatives into the university’s contracting policies, even though only a few years ago, prominent liberals like Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama had held the same views on marriage. In banning Chick-fil-A from campus for “homophobia,” the JHU student government is only a short step from similarly giving the boot to socially conservative Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Orthodox, and Jewish student groups from campus, as we have seen happen at Vanderbilt University, the 23 campuses of California State University, and others throughout the country.”
    Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417305/johns-hopkins-chick-fil-ban-and-coming-gay-marriage-witch-hunt-andrew-guernsey
    It’s 1935 all over again.

  18. AGW RIP.
    Earth Day’s Red Alert.
    …-
    “Volcano erupts in southern Chile, belching ash, smoke into sky”
    “Volcano Calbuco in southern Chile erupted for the first time in more than five decades on Wednesday, sending a thick plume of ash and smoke nearly 20 kilometers into the sky.
    Chile’s Onemi emergency office declared a red alert following the sudden eruption at around 1800 local time (2100 GMT), which occurred about 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) south of Santiago, the capital, near the tourist town of Puerto Varas.”
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/23/us-chile-volcano-idUSKBN0ND2M320150423

  19. Thanks for the update on Idi Amin. (May he rest in Hell). Apparently not many remember this fool. Mugabee of Zimbabwee no doubt found him to be a hero.
    What struck me in the article was the British military assessment of him. Although they thought he was “virtually bone from the neck up”, they made him an officer. No wonder Africa is such a mess.
    Also, I couldn’t help but note that our “friends”, the Saudi’s, gave him shelter and care after he was driven out of Uganda. Those wacky moslems. Always willing to step up to support a friend. Remind me again, who was flying those airplanes…..

  20. @Shere Khan: Well in all fairness, he is right when he says: “A way to get at a man’s manhood, or his masculinity, or his virility or his power is to knock him by calling him a female in some way.” Duh! Who didn’t know that?
    But the converse applied to women’s womanhood is also true. I went to a university in northern california (without revealing the name) where it was almost the school motto that it was a place “where the men were men and the women were too”. The matriarchy hated that.
    On the other hand, that prof is an ass. And I personally think it’s a good thing that he told the world that he is. Now normal people can avoid him.

  21. Anselm…thanx for that post.
    A good read …regardless of the Religious ovetones…David is bang on the money in this…For in its essence, living Christian ideals is never a bad thing……particularly when it comes to the Subject of ISLAM.
    High time to bring back the Crusades..in 20 yrs we will surely wish we had.

  22. The uneducated Idi Amin was born into an Islamic tribe where day to day violence is a constant threat. The Saudis took him in after he was overthrown because they considered him an embarrassment to the muslim faith. His job there was to shut up and the Saudis would allow him to live out the remainder of his life.

  24. @nold:
    I was thinking that the camel jockeys granted Idi protection for the great work he carried out, work that warmed the hearts of any good muslims.

  25. Liberal Wynnetario vs Mohammedland.
    Which knife you like?
    …-
    “Ontario Liberals look to make big cuts to climb out of deficit”
    “The Ontario government is eliminating registered nurse jobs, courting labour unrest with teachers and clawing back social services – including a $100 monthly benefit for disabled people who work – as it seeks to dig itself out of deficit.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-budget-cuts-to-target-teachers-nurses-in-attempts-to-shave-off-deficit/article24071126/
    …-
    “Afghan immigrant who nearly decapitated wife loses appeal”
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/afghan-immigrant-who-nearly-decapitated-wife-loses-appeal-1.2339994

  26. AGW/GCC Kills.
    “Witnesses said the officers seemed to be frozen in place”.
    “…shifting and erratic weather patterns that some attribute to global climate change.”
    …-
    “Indian farmer denied compensation for ruined wheat crop hangs himself at rally in capital”
    “Gajendra Singh Rajput was the 42nd farmer from his home state to commit suicide in the past two months after hailstorms and rain damaged 24 million acres of crops”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/indian-farmer-denied-compensation-for-ruined-wheat-crop-hangs-himself-at-farmers-rally-in-capital

  27. AGW RIP.
    “brians356 April 23, 2015 at 3:42 pm
    Yes, we must have a Climate Czar to save The Planet. How about John Holdren?”
    …-
    “Canada will need new regulations to meet climate targets: PM” (reuters)
    …-
    “Claim: Democracy creates climate change paralysis”
    “The Conversation has published yet another green attack on liberal democracy. According to The Conversation, Liberal democracy is old fashioned – it’s antiquated institutions produce climate change “paralysis”, which the authors suggest can be resolved, by transferring democratic powers to unelected panels of national and trans-national bureaucrats.
    According to The Conversation;”.
    “The authors of this critique of democratic freedom, are Mark Triffitt (Lecturer, Public Policy at University of Melbourne), and Travers McLeod, Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at University of Melbourne.”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/04/23/claim-democracy-creates-climate-change-paralysis/

  28. Premier Whine’s budget could have been written by Trudeau.
    No not Leisuresuit Larry, the dead one.
    In Ontario its 1980.

  29. It’s it’s over! Yabutwhenwillthefatladysing?
    …-
    “How Much More Can Hillary! Take? The New York Times Strikes Another Blow at the Dowager Empress
    Get your bets down now: Hillary!s last day as a presidential candidate. Bonus: Hillary!s first day as a federal inmate.”
    “As I’ve been saying for months now, she’s toast:
    The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.” The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
    But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one. At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of …”
    “A criminal organization masquerading as a political party; even the Daily Beast has had it with the Clintons. It’s over.”
    http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/23/how-much-more-can-hillary-take-the-new-york-times-strikes-another-blow-at-the-dowager-empress/

  30. Best ode to Idi is surely the Battered Wives Uganda Stomp. Bonus points for Cancon.

  31. Aha, so it appears the real goal of the climate change fascists isn’t to save the environment but to abolish democracy.

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