40 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Most people who like Enya … have also had close encounters with space aliens and Bigfoot. Go figure. Just teasing … music taste is like hairstyles … some will like your do … others, will think you’re a freak. Viva Le difference !

  3. Lance, dude! Your selections of what you believe is music sucks. Find someone else to do it or hang out with people that have musical taste.

  4. Swiss Daily: “Record Cold July In Greenland”…Alarmists “Struggling To Explain” As Arctic Island Cools
    Quote:
    “One has to wonder if the current optimum may be nearing an end. History shows that the earth’s surface temperature is in fact highly unstable and that most optimums don’t last much beyond 10,000 years. We need to ask ourselves what could be done to avert the catastrophe that a new ice age would bring with it. The overall trend does not bode well.”
    http://notrickszone.com/2017/07/12/swiss-daily-record-cold-july-in-greenland-alarmists-struggling-to-explain-as-arctic-island-cools/#sthash.yYqst6LB.ztOFfmr2.dpbs

  5. I listened to Orinoco Flow when it was played on the radio as one could hardly escape hearing it when the song was on the charts in 1988.
    It was a nice tune in its day but it sounds terribly dated to me now, an artifact of a bygone era.

  6. Oh, good grief!
    I’m old enough that my parents didn’t know which colour booties I’d be wearing until I was born. People had more important things to do in those days than to worry about that sort of thing. Life back then was a crapshoot and one dealt with whatever the dice showed after they stopped rolling.

  9. I’ve enjoyed the last few weeks of reader’s tips music. The 80’s stuff a couple weeks ago was particularly enjoyable. So keep the good tunes flowing Lance.
    I also enjoy reading the different articles tipped by fellow readers. Even had a tip of mine make it to the “front page” recently. I also had a tip show up on the weaselzippers site once. It’s fun to help spread the word even without a blog of my own.

  13. I have always enjoyed Wild Child. Some disparage her music, perhaps because, as Frank Zappa said (I think) it is too “emotionally accessible.” But so is much of the music of Puccini and Tchaikovsky. à chacun son goût

  16. Bruce, here’s your chance to leap into action and show Lance how it’s done.
    Post one musical link every night. It’s easy, isn’t it?
    Otherwise remember that you’re a guest in Kate and Lance’s house and stop peeing on the rug.

  19. “Ontario’s liquor board is telling vendors not to sell some Israeli wines.”
    Back in the 1980s I arranged a regimental wine and cheese. The big discussion at the time was whether to outlaw South African wine. I made sure I bought at least one bottle of each in the store. I hate dickheads telling me what I can and can’t do.

  21. Good for you. Our MO was also mess president for a while in the 70s and ordered nothing but French wines (yuke), and this after De Gaulle gave us the finger in PQ.

  22. An interesting group has emerged in Europe. They call themselves “Génération Identitaire” (or Defend Europe). These are mostly young people. They have acquired a boat and their plan is to interrupt the passage of NGO sponsored refugees getting into Europe. They plan to do this civilly and hope to ensure the safety of the refugees and their return to their countries of origin. The aim is to simply prevent more refugees coming into Europe and to help ensure the preservation of European culture. An FAQ provides both interesting information about the immigration issue and the plans of Defend Europe: http://defendeurope.net/en/f-a-q/
    I believe their first vessel set off this week. As they encounter refugee boats they will go into action. The group is already operating in several European countries. Needless to say, governments and the media are hostile to their efforts. The National Post had a short article about them today. They have been labeled “far-right”. As someone on one site posted “Since when is sanity considered ‘far-right’?” The use of the term “far-right” to describe Defend Europe is neither explained nor justified. The group is focused on a single issue — preventing more immigrants from mostly Africa coming to Europe and becoming dependent on an already overwhelmed system.
    The NGO’s involved are nearly all funded by Soros. They collude with human traffickers and mafia. I believe they are paid as they bring in refugees. This is a very sinister enterprise that will eventually destroy Europe. It is good that this group of citizens has decided to do something concrete to prevent this attack on Europe. I am afraid that TPTB will be coming down hard on them, but they deserve everyone’s support.

  24. Ontario court rejects freeze on Khadr payment….
    ——————————-
    TORONTO – A judge in Toronto has dismissed a request to freeze Omar Khadr’s assets.
    http://www.ottawasun.com/2017/07/13/judge-rejects-victims-bid-to-freeze-omar-khadrs-assets
    =======================================================================================
    Harper contacts victims about $10 million payout…
    ———————————
    Now former prime minister Stephen Harper has reached out to the families to express his outrage.
    http://www.ottawasun.com/2017/07/13/former-pm-stephen-harper-reaches-out-to-khadr-victim

  28. Red Terror Report.
    Lenin: Shoot the kulaks.
    …-
    “Hunter of Stalin’s mass graves on trial; friends say he’s been framed”
    “Yuri Dmitriev spent years locating and exhuming the mass graves of people executed during Josef Stalin’s Great Terror. Eight decades after one of Russia’s darkest chapters, it is his reputation, not Stalin’s, that is on trial.”
    “Fellow historians, rights activists and some of Russia’s leading cultural figures say Dmitriev has been framed because his focus on Stalin’s crimes has become politically untenable under President Vladimir Putin.”
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-history-idUSKBN19Y11V
    …-
    “Robert Conquest: Revealing the horror of Stalin”
    “My father remembered the relief he felt as a young boy in the mining village when Hitler turned on Stalin in 1941 and invaded the land of his former partner-in-crime. Before that, the family had feared internment. But now the Red Army suddenly became allies of Britain and communists became the most vociferous supporters of the cause. According to his son, my grandfather, a communist councillor, received extra petrol rations to tour the Valleys drumming up support for the war effort.
    This religious atmosphere continued, and it was not un-typical during the Cold War. Any doubt cast on the achievements of the Soviet Union was simply dismissed as “Cold War propaganda”. When a notable dissident was imprisoned in a mental hospital, the view was that he must be mad if he doubted the merits of Soviet socialism.
    So for those of us who did have doubts, Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties was an extraordinary work.
    It was a book which changed minds and dispelled doubt (mine included) when it was published in 1968, the year of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the liberalisation of the Prague Spring.”
    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33788518

  29. Seeing as Lance hasn’t posted his CFL picks this week,here are mine for Week 4:
    Toronto over Winnipeg
    Calgary over Montreal
    Edmonton over Ottawa
    B.C. over Hamilton
    Lance?
    btw, with musical selections it’s impossible to please everyone, don’t bitch about the guy who’s doing the work.

  32. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine say, Moi loves sidestepping Indians and necktie albatrosses, oui.
    “PM sidesteps calls to reboot inquiry into murdered, missing Indigenous women” (ctv)
    …-
    “Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women ask Trudeau to restart inquiry” (g-m)
    “Families of MMIW call for reboot of inquiry” (macleans)
    …-
    “Missing & Murdered Inquiry Needs Indigenous Approach”
    “The families want all the commissioners left to step down. And they want them replaced with new commissioners who are either related to victims or have worked with their families. They say an indigenous approach is better than courtroom hearings.”
    http://mytoba.ca/uncategorized/missing-murdered-inquiry-needs-indigenous-approach/

  33. AGW RIP.
    “Late on Wednesday, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced conditional approval of an exploratory drilling plan submitted by a US susbsidiary of the company, Eni.”
    …-
    “US approves oil drilling in Alaska waters, prompting fears for marine life
    Italian company plans to drill four exploration wells in the Arctic, which some say will endanger polar bears, bowhead whales and other marine mammals”
    “Barack Obama last year banned oil and gas exploration in most of the Arctic Ocean. Donald Trump in April ordered Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review the ban, with the goal of opening offshore areas.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/13/us-approves-oil-drilling-in-alaska-waters-marine-life-fear

  35. “Revealing the horror of Stalin”
    Thanks maz. A lot of my relatives are in some of those mass graves. I suspect that a number of today’s North American cultural Marxists would like to add me and other anti-communist members of my family to those graves.

  36. Black Pigeon has some comments on how the Red Army behaved when it came to Berlin at the end of WW II:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTvmsj1sPBU
    A detachment of Red Army soldiers occupied my grandmother’s house for the first few weeks of the post-war period. My mother told me stories about what happened in our section of Berlin, so some of the comments in that video sounded familiar.
    Not all the soldiers behaved badly, though. My mother had contracted scarlet fever shortly before the end and she was at home when the Soviets came to the city. Among those who were at the house was a Red Army physician who attended to her.
    That area of the city later came under British control and the Tommies were regarded as liberators from the Reds.

  38. I know. One of my dad’s female cousins, who had escaped from Soviet Russia with her son and was living with a German family near Berlin, said in her memoirs that all the women in the village were raped. She did not say she was raped, but I have a strong suspicion that she was also raped as she never remarried. Her husband had been shot by Stalin’s boys in Orenburg in 1937.

  39. In other words russians behaved like they always did. Like the did in Eastern Poland in 1920 and then 1939, like they did in Georgia few years ago, like they did throughout Chechen wars. Russian will be russians, should have been nuked in 1939.

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