23 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. If you wish to leave the parochial Canadian political focus, one driven mostly by those of little erudition and even less cranial capacity… say for a few minutes.
    Try this:
    The Indian Century?
    Education, entrepreneurialism, and democratic institutions bode well for the country’s future—but profound challenges remain.
    Claire Berlinski
    https://www.city-journal.org/html/indian-century-13723.html

  4. No more “Indian” Affairs…it’s “Indigenous”. It must be ailing, Trudeau has appointed two female MP’s with medical backgrounds to take care of that portfolio in two different designations of the file. Jane Philpott is Indigenous Services Minister and Carolyn Bennett Minister of Crown Indigenous relations and Northern Affairs.
    Wish them luck, changing names may be the only change that happens. Governments don’t want to do anything major or different to fix the mess, just look like they are and toss more money into the black hole to feed the same old problems.

  7. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine say, Moi is not now offering $100K; nor, have Moi ever offered $100K.
    …-
    “Liberal MP offered woman $100K to keep quiet about sexual harassment claim, father alleges
    The father of a 24-year-old woman who worked for Calgary Liberal MP Darshan Kang said Kang offered a series of payments to prevent her from sharing harassment allegations with her parents.”
    “Hamilton Liberal MP Filomena Tassi flew to Calgary to interview his daughter and speak with them at their family home, he said.
    Tassi did not respond to an interview request from the Star on Monday.”
    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/08/29/liberal-mp-offered-woman-100k-to-keep-quiet-about-sexual-harassment-claim-father-alleges.html

  9. Here is another voice.
    Why Houston Flooding Isn’t a Sign of Climate Change
    Major floods are difficult to compare throughout history because the ways in which we alter the landscape. For example, as cities like Houston expand over the years, soil is covered up by roads, parking lots, and buildings, with water rapidly draining off rather than soaking into the soil. The population of Houston is now ten times what it was in the 1920s. The Houston metroplex area has expanded greatly and the water drainage is basically in the direction of downtown Houston.
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/28/why-houston-flooding-isnt-a-sign-of-climate-change/

  10. Yes – using material damage in hurricanes is a meaningless measure of anything other than human stupidity. Katrina was only a category 3 hurricane but it struck a city 18 feet below sea level with dikes that couldn’t handle the storm surge of 14 feet. Some predictions had estimated a potential storm surge of as high as 28 fet. Sandy was a category 2 that struck the greater New York are with a massive concentration of people and tens of thousands of buildings in the 13 foot storm surge. Everything, in all cases was 100 % predictable and 100 % ignored. But hey, let’s blame it on global warming.

  11. AGW RIP.
    Flouting/flaunting/over/over: The F/O words bedevil MSM.
    “over its over flaunting of an international moratorium on whaling,…”
    …-
    “Sea Shepherd to end intercepts at sea of Japanese whaling ships, Paul Watson says
    ‘Japan is now employing military surveillance to watch Sea Shepherd ship movements in real time by satellite … they can easily avoid us'”
    “Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, shown in 2012, sis a Canadian eco-activist.”
    “We’ve been applying for charity status for 10 years – they won’t give it to us.”
    http://nationalpost.com/news/world/sea-shepherd-to-cease-efforts-to-stop-japanese-whalers

  12. Noted from North Korean military entrepreneurs: Sanctions staring to bite in eh? Don’t fall for this pipsqueak move from the un Un.
    “North Korea fires missile over Japan, escalating tensions in ‘grave threat’”
    And now some news from the world of understatements:
    “Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said China, North Korea’s main ally and trading partner, needed to do more.”
    “China has to ratchet up the pressure,” Turnbull told Australian radio. “They have condemned these missiles tests like everyone else but with unique leverage comes unique responsibility.”
    China said it opposed North Korea defying U.N. resolutions but adding that sanctions and pressure could not fundamentally solve the issue.”
    https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/north-korea-fires-missile-over-japan-sharply-escalating-tensions/article36105713/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

  13. anybody seen the plethora of ‘Diana 20 years ago’ stuff on the telly?
    the royals sure put the boots to the princess eh? I wonder if that palace fire was a bit of karma . . .
    speaking of royals, there’s a thing on PBS about henry 8th. what a despicable murderous tyrant he was. some sort of mentor to john gotti.
    ‘cough up a male child or you get an axe across your scrawny neck’
    royalty is the absolute oldest and biggest scam on the planet.
    proof: keep going back, back, back. ALL ancestors, BOTH parents of ALL royals must be royals. aka ‘blue bloods’.
    eventually this rules of lineage takes in the entire world population.
    that being the case, we’re ALL royals !!!!
    or this: we are ALL descendants of adam or a monkey, neither of which were royals. so NO ONE is.
    or try this: all it takes is a self-declaration, kinda like emperor bonaparte. ok, I now declare myself a royal.
    etc etc
    EVERY WAY you look at this scam and farce shows ‘royalty’ is a FRAUD.

  16. Leftist JFK shot-killed by leftist “silly little communist”.
    …-
    “Interview Magazine Anoints Kim Kardashian ‘First Lady’ of Fashion with Jackie Kennedy-Themed Photo Shoot” (bbart)
    “Critics Sneer at Melania Trump for Wearing Heels on Trip to Texas” (bbart)
    …-
    “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights . . . . It’s — it had to be some silly little Communist.” — Jackie Kennedy, on hearing that a leftist had been arrested for her husband’s murder.”
    http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

  17. Is there nothing Obama can’t do?
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    Multiple senior Obama administration officials, including former secretary of state John Kerry, traveled the globe to promote trade with Iranian companies, including Iran Air, at the same time Iran was found to be ferrying militants into Syria. Lawmakers and others suspect the Obama administration either hid or downplayed this information in order to preserve the nuclear deal.
    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-hid-intel-iranian-militants-syria-push-nuclear-deal/

  19. PET POT Cemetery Report.
    Liberal Justine say, Moi does not now have allegators in Moi cabinet; nor, did Moi ever have allegators in Moi cabinet.
    “That is not the leadership of a feminist Prime Minister.”
    …-
    “Trudeau Must Boot Liberal MP Darshan Kang From Caucus Over Sexual Harassment Allegations: NDP” (huffpo)
    …-
    “Trudeau’s feminism challenged after Kang is accused of harassment”
    “Prior to the allegations against Kang, and the October 2015 federal election, Trudeau kicked out two of his own following similar accusations of sexual harassment. In fall 2014, allegations surfaced that Montreal MP Massimo Pacetti had sex with an NDP MP without her explicit consent, and that Newfoundland and Labrador MP Scott Andrews had sexually harassed another NDP MP.
    Trudeau suspended those party members immediately following the allegations, and in March 2015, permanently expelled them following the completion of an independent investigation into the claims. The NDP MPs were never named publicly.”
    http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/08/29/news/trudeaus-feminism-challenged-after-kang-accused-harassment

  20. Maggie’s Trials, Tribulations, and Tertiary Vexations.
    …-
    “Margaret Atwood is really mad about some condos being built near her house” (tolife)
    “Atwood and neighbours are authors of a great NIMBY story: Teitel” (toredstar)
    “The Handmaid’s Fail: Margaret Atwood has bad housing policy ideas, like everyone else in Ontario” (TVO)
    “The storeys Margaret Atwood condemns” (g-m)
    …-
    “Has Donald Trump ruined the dystopian novel? Let’s hope not”
    “As strange as fiction … women dressed as characters from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 sci-fi novel The Handmaid’s Tale protest Trump’s healthcare bill in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/18/has-donald-trump-ruined-the-dystopian-novel-john-scalzi-handmaids-tale

  21. The Star has never been afraid to report on the depredations of their favoured Liberals. But at election time, it’s all forgotten.

  22. Actually, what Indian Affairs – under whatever name it goes by – is a few good engineers who understand how to provide water and sanitation to small communities and, even more importantly, how to train the local kids to maintain said systems.

  23. Buff, guy, you might want to actually learn some history. Henry VIII was desperate for a male heir and, not knowing otherwise, thought his marriage to Queen Mary was cursed because she was his brother’s widow; in his world, queens regnant were a non-starter and would be dominated by their husbands who would assume kingship based on marriage. Think Henry’s daughter, Mary, and her fraught marriage. There is a reason Elizabeth I didn’t marry. Henry could have, by the time he started marrying and discarding wives, have been affected by syphilis.
    Actually, I have limited sympathy for Henry VIII; he ascended the throne only because his father, Henry VII, defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. Richard III is vilified because he supposedly had a henchman murder his brother’s two young sons (the “Princes in the Tower); though there is no direct evidence of that. Henry VII, however, goes without censure though he killed off everyone else in the Plantagenet line save a one or two that Henry VIII disposed of. But neither Henry gets the bad press Richard does.

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