51 Replies to “August 12, 2018: Reader Tips”

  1. In a speech on Wednesday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions condemned the globalist front “civil rights” outfit styling itself the Southern Poverty Law Center, in a speech to the Alliance Defending Freedom, a real civil rights group defending Christians against harassment by militant homosexuals.

    Turns out the FBI still follow the SPLC’s lead on what organizations are considered to be dangerous “hate groups.”

    “Sessions’ spokeswoman, Sarah Flores, quickly suggested a change may be afoot. ‘The attorney general has directed the FBI to re-evaluate their relationships with groups like [the SPLC] to ensure the FBI does not partner with any group that discriminates,’ she said in a statement.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/09/sessions-calls-out-splc-conservative-leaders-optimistic-fbi-cut-ties/

  2. Here is a tip.

    This is an illustration of how “creative journalists” create their own reality and how people in real life are trying to help them understand actual reality.

    Immigration Expert Dismisses Jim Acosta’s Attempts To Condemn Trump
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPUhGWpEHck

    It sometimes seem as though you can try as you might and it feels like throwing peas against a wall.
    This is what mom would say when her son’s mind wandered off into the realm of dreams.

  3. In “Embrace Hollywood” news, photos have emerged of director James Gunn at a pedophilia-themed party in Hollywood.

    As Kathy Shaidle often says, nobody is ever just kidding.

    Hollywood is under the control of a pedophile mafia that persecutes and libels Christians and Jews who dare condemn the rape of children. Gunn and the rest of his evil brotherhood should be imprisoned, and the keys thrown away.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1028130823080267777

    3. “We’re back”.
      I couldn’t watch the whole video…Retch inducing. His subsequent performance on the world stage validates our sincere dislike of this fool.

    4. So much snow in Canada has resulted in snow blindness. It’s not about the intent of the tweet. It’s about the tone or attitude. Really, even Rachel Curran, refuses to see this elephant in the room as she dances around with her “Canada is alone” nonsense.

      Sweden, UK, the EU generally, and the U.S. don’t want to jump into this pit of hurt feelings. It’s a no win battle for them. Canada needs to put on their big boy pants and solve the problem that they created……. if indeed they really want to solve it at all (because politics, maybe not). Canada is not being abandoned and is not alone in advocating for human rights.

  5. Our Enemy, the State.

    Power Mad EU’rats.

    …-

    The European Union-driven ban on halogen lightbulbs comes into effect at the end of the month and means householders will have to buy more expensive LED lights.

    First, the EU controversially banned our traditional incandescent light bulbs and encouraged us to buy halogen bulbs.

    Now, they’re banning halogen bulbs and doubling the cost of lighting a home.”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6049349/EU-ban-halogen-bulbs-end-month-making-lighting-homes-TWICE-expensive.html

  6. Wrt the Trudeau government diplomatic tiff with Saudi Arabia.

    The current talking point from liberal schills is that anyone critical of the way team Sockmonkey has handled this is equal to support of the Saudi “hand chopping” regime. Oddly, they seem to overlook that this is less about what goes on in KSA and more to do with the government’s handling of foreign affairs. Did Freeland consult with the other world leader’s to see if they would publicly support Canada on this. The operative here is “publicly “. The laws of SA are comparable to what was used in Imperial Rome, this is not in dispute, but if the Trudeau government wanted to start a diplomatic tiff they should have paid heed to Teddy Roosevelt’s axiom about carrying a big stick.
    So far the only thing Trudeau has done is poke the Saudis and then went looking for support from allies. The Saudis hit back in a way that hit Trudeau that effects the demographic he panders to. They didn’t stop selling us oil, and they didn’t cancel the military sales, no they pulled out the subsidized doctor’s and accompanied funding that Ontario hospitals have benefited from in our “it makes us Canadian” free health care system.
    The point is that right or wrong, juthtin started a fight he wasn’t prepated to fight on his own. This government like many liberal ones before, took it for granted that the US would play the 800 lbs gorilla in the room, even after those same liberals make a habit of pretentiously lecturing through the media about the evils of US culture. Not this time.
    Liberals have played up the “punching above our weight” when there was no downside. Now the world has said ok show us what you got tough guy?
    If the only thing we can do is make a reckless tweet, then cry out for back up and whine about the Saudi’s pulling their subsidized doctor’s out of our teaching hospitals, this is a mark of “not ready”.
    It matters not what the Trudeau government was demanding or from who, if there was no consideration for backing up the demand with action its an empty threat and now the world see’s the truth.
    Canada is being governed by an individual that doesn’t know what he’s doing. That isn’t something even the CBC can spin for a billion dollars.

    1. ‘The UK was similarly muted in its response, noted Bob Rae, a former leader of the federal Liberal party. “The Brits and the Trumpians run for cover and say ‘we’re friends with both the Saudis and the Canadians,’” Rae wrote on Twitter. “Thanks for the support for human rights, guys, and we’ll remember this one for sure.”’
      Bob Phuckin Rae of Stupidity opening his proverbial pie-hole will really garnish a lot of support; but if you firmly believe in your virtuous position, you don’t need the support of others.

      1. Rae is doing as I alluded to, that liberals will pretentiously preach at our allies and then get butt hurt when they don’t back us.
        He has misread whats happening.
        What is happening is the rest of the world is demanding that before they pitch in, how about the Canadian government demonstrate some good faith?
        Before tut tutting the US, how about offering to give on some of Trump’s NAFTA demands.
        Before wagging their finger at the other NATO allies, how about meeting that 2% GDP goal.
        Before calling out the Saudi’s on who they have locked up, how about the dissidents locked up in Iran, Cuba, and China?
        Going around preaching at our allies for their short comings, and then getting bent out of shape because they called on the bet that they will back the Trudeau government just because it’s Canada doesn’t work anymore.

        Hey justin, welcome to the new rules

      2. The “Brits and the Trumpians” are not running for cover, they are saying to Trudeau
        You started this fight, show us your ready to actually fight it on your own before you cry foul because we aren’t coming to bail out the Canadian government.

  7. I normally don’t refer anyone to anything from the Leftist Broadcasting Corp (CBC) but this was too good.

    Unionized Quebec Tim Hortons workers unhappy with deal that cuts paid breaks
    http://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/unionized-quebec-tim-hortons-workers-unhappy-with-deal-that-cuts-paid-breaks/ar-BBLMaRh?li=AAgh0dA&OCID=HPDHP
    The four Tim Hortons, all in the city of Sept-Îles, are owned by one franchisee. For years, employees working a full-time shift at those locations got two paid coffee breaks plus a paid 30-minute lunch break.
    Then they joined a union, specifically the United Steel Workers. But as a result of a new collective agreement the coffee breaks are gone and there’s no pay for lunch.

    I bet the Tim’s employees are now glad they joined the Steel Workers union. Ha, ha, ha

    1. What the dolts who joined a union don’t realize…is that they can vote to get out of the union too. But now, the union toughs will be around their house to persuade them to stay in the union.

    2. Joe,
      A true Story in Socialized radicalized Union is NBC-NYC network NABET desertification… The freaks elected a Burbank Activist Union leader and promptly went on Strike (1987-88).. When the members settled the Strike they came back to work and found that ALL the Union Supervisory jobs were gone to a NEW Middle-Management level.. The Activists had destroyed a powerful & effective work force…..
      The NYC-NBC members voted to decertify NABET 11 & joined the wire pullers Union.. (A Union Pool of workers work in Russia)

    1. Alex Jones is also legit. He’s on 200 to 300 radio and TV stations. He provides his signal free and the stations get to sell 10 to 15 minutes of ads. He keeps like 2 minutes. Hell of a deal. The mainstream media just doesn’t get it. CNN programming on the internet can have as little as 10,000 views. Infowars does in the millions. Jones’s programming can always be found on the Infowars website although the verboten Youtube was way handier. Infowars was one of the reasons Trump got elected as it was one of the few news sites that carried his message.

      1. Infowars and AJ did indeed help Trump get elected through their spread of fact-free hysteria and conspiracy mongering.

      2. Alex Jones can be annoying, but he and his crew do more thorough investigative reporting than the MSM does. And they’re faster. Alex let ‘foot soldier’ Joe Biggs go, which was a mistake, but Rob Dew is street smart and a great backroom technician. The thing is, the open source world is limitless. There are other options besides the High Tech Lemmings.

  9. The shooting came amid a nationwide increase in violent crime, with the number of homicides recorded by police in England and Wales up by 12 per cent, knife crime offences by 16 per cent and robbery by 30 per cent in the year to March.

    The Office for National Statistics reported a 2 per cent rise in gun crime in the same period, to almost 6,500 offences, but said the increase was “far less pronounced than previously seen”.

    http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/manchester-shooting-ten-in-hospital-after-gun-attack-at-post-carnival-street-party-in-moss-side/ar-BBLOvFy

    How can you have gun crime in #ShitholeEngland when guns are illegal?

  11. Study: People Prefer Dating Based On Sex Not Gender Identity
    or as the comments stated:
    Astonishing new study shows that most straight people aren’t gay.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9PFOy9wuDs

    They even came to the conclusion at the end that for some people dating preference is based on reproductive potential.

    No mention of if the study was in The Journal of the Incredibly Obvious.

    1. It’s hard enough to find a woman not doing a Glen Close, Fatal Attraction, imitation without dipping into the pool of people who are challenged to start with. I find the thought of a relationship with the past or present owner of a dick to be as repugnant as anything could possibly be.

  12. PET POT Cemetery Report.

    “For it is not about trade, or recalled ambassadors: it is about people in a jail.”

    …-

    “MARIN: Saudi tweets leave Trudeau government weak on international stage”

    https://www.recorder.ca/opinion/columnists/marin-saudi-tweets-leave-trudeau-government-weak-on-international-stage/wcm/f8fe6a3a-22e2-4423-9e16-506d66be6e20

    …-

    “Rex Murphy: The Badawis will probably be in Saudi prisons longer now thanks to Canada

    Did the tweets increase the likelihood of release for any of the activists, or were those who composed them swayed by the thought they ‘sounded good’?

    Canada is now in a high-heat contest with Saudi Arabia that was precipitated by two tweets on the plight of the Badawis, brother and sister, and a number of female activists, imprisoned in the latter country.

    The most important question is not about the medium of the messages, or even the wording — either that of Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland or the one from Global Affairs Canada. Rather, did that twin Twitter volley advance or retard the frightful situation of the people who were its subjects, the Badawis and the female activists?

    Did the tweets, which incensed the Saudi government, increase the likelihood of release for all or any, or did they increase and intensify the determination to keep them imprisoned?

    Did those who composed the tweets, urging “immediate release,” think that phrasing was a formula that had the slightest power to effect an actual improvement in the prisoners’ plight? Or were they swayed by how “good” it sounded to go on Twitter in such an imperative manner? What’s the cost of this storm for the individuals at its centre? For it is not about trade, or recalled ambassadors: it is about people in a jail.

    I expect it will be a while, alas, before we hear about all of this from those imprisoned. Is it not most likely, now that our government has stirred these waters publicly, on the dubious and flippant medium it chose — Twitter — that both the Badawis and the female activists will suffer a longer, harder stay in the dim cloisters of Saudi prison than they would have without that intervention?

    This is the problem with this government’s excessive fondness for public virtue-speak, either in foreign diplomacy or at home (say on abortion rights). It has more of a tendency to inflame than seduce.”

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-badawis-will-probably-be-in-saudi-prisons-longer-now-thanks-to-canada?video_autoplay=true

    1. “Or were they swayed by how “good” it sounded to go on Twitter in such an imperative manner?”

      Yes, that ….

      Diplomacy is he art of dealing with people in a sensitive and effective way. There seems to be a steep learning curve in play for Canadian international relations.

      Alternatively, if diplomacy is to be put aside by the use of provocative words, best be prepared to show you’re not bluffing. And yes, it does make Canada look weak.

    1. ” Again, be glad to live in Canada , at least in regards to affordable stuff .” You truly have not ventured outside your mothers basement !

    2. So you’re happy to be poor, as long as you don’t think someone else is getting rich?

      Definitely the same difference in approach as the Soviet farmer and the American farmer when offered a wish.

    3. Bloomberg. (Yawn) Fun with statistics. Nothing really to see there once you put it all together. Wake me up when you have some real news. (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

  17. “The Hedonism of Reading Good Books

    It’s a pleasure that infuses life with richness and it’s available for the price of a library card.”

    …-

    “The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him.

    But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator.

    The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.” (lewis)

    …-

    “I hate to read new books.”

    So begins William Hazlitt’s essay “On Reading Old Books.” The title will remind readers of C.S. Lewis’s similarly named but much more well known essay “On the Reading of Old Books,” which originally served as the introduction to a translation of Athanasius’ On the Incarnation. But beyond the general injunction to read old masters, the two essays have very little (though more than nothing) in common. Where Lewis focuses on the dangers of contemporary prejudice and the atmospheric contamination, as it were, of false assumptions—both of which we can mitigate in effect by temporarily displacing ourselves in time and space through reading—Hazlitt stresses the importance of older writers. He does this because (1) there is a greater likelihood that they are worth reading; (2) they are essential to the personal development of the individual; and (3) they are high-water marks of formal and stylistic virtuosity from which something can be learned despite philosophical disagreement.

    First, it is a truism that old books that are still read have stood the test of time (there are others that deserve to have done so but have been forgotten; that is a different story, touched on here). As Hazlitt says, with nice understatement, “I do not think altogether the worse of a book for having survived the author a generation or two.” As Lewis would write over a century later, “A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it.” But where Lewis emphasizes ignorance, Hazlitt stresses the calm and serenity of opening an old volume: “[T]he dust and smoke and noise of modern literature have nothing in common with the pure, silent air of immortality.” This may sound romantic, or even absurd, but I confess to having had precisely this sensation myself on many occasions.

    There are, of course, good new books and bad old books.”

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-hedonism-of-reading-good-books/

  18. Suicidal Mohammed Kills Itself.

    …-

    “Suicide Attack on Egypt Church Foiled”

    “CAIRO, Egypt — A suicide attack against a church on the outskirts of Cairo was foiled Saturday when a bomber blew himself up before reaching the target, state media and security sources said.

    The alleged assailant was forced to detonate a suicide belt as a result of the heavy police presence around the Virgin Church in the Shobra el-Kheima district, state media reported.

    The man was hiding the explosives under a fluorescent vest, state-run newspaper Akhbar el-Youm said.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/08/12/suicide-attack-on-egypt-church-foiled/

    1. Well, it’s not daylight savings time. Maybe he stopped to pray one too many times on the way there?

  20. Perhaps we should rejoice…
    Quebec’s Personalized and Custom Licence plates are now a reality in that province. This brings a new revenue source of about $4 million per year. I wonder what they’ve been waiting for? The plates can be in any language. Imagine that! They are exempt from Quebec’s French language Charter as this law only applies to communications by businesses. Perhaps Canadian taxpayers can now expect to have the Federal Gov’t pay that much less in transfer payments to the province. Oh bliss! Oh rapture!

    BTW the following are taken: ‘pothole’ ‘ayoye’ ( means ouch)
    ‘allonsy’ ( means ” let’s go” popularized by Britcom “Doctor Who”) and ‘tardis’ ( also from same Britcom)

    P.S. of course, the Parti Quebecois Party are against the ” vanity” plates.

    1. My favourite vanity plate story concerns the person who wanted Ontario plates reading: WOMEN. The MTO could not find any reason why this applicant shouldn’t have such plates.

      Of course, once the plates were produced, they read as follows:

      ONTARIO
      WOMEN
      YOURS TO DISCOVER

      (By the way, the grim ideologues of the Parti Québécois are against everything.)

      1. @3:26 pm JJM
        That’s funny!
        I’ve not seen any really funny ones here in AB. They’re out there I’m sure.

        1. One of the best vanity plates I read about 30 years ago driving north of Toronto:
          A young man in an expensive, higher end vehicle with plates… ” I O Big”.
          Clever!

          1. @ 7:57 rob83 re: ” I O Big ”
            Ah ha, that’s a good one!
            Another one: for a lady named Isabelle Turner was her initials: Ms I.T.

  21. “Get this one right and Britain, once more, will be a force to be reckoned with. We’ll have the chance to become more prosperous, proud and free than we’ve been since the days of Empire.

    Get this one wrong and it’s pretty much game over for this particular corner of Western Civilisation.”

    “Let me just recap on the story so far.”

    …_

    “Finally, the Brexit Phoney War Is over; Britain’s Trump-Style Revolution Has Begun

    This is it — the moment we’ve been waiting for. The moment when the Brexit rebellion finally began.

    “Enough of this pissing about. Enough lawyerly excuses and Civil Service prevarication and Remainer politician manoeuvrings. We voted Brexit. Now give us Brexit. Give us Brexit, strong and hard, Boris!”.

    That, in a nutshell, is what the people of Britain have been saying this week.

    Except that the way they have expressed it is in the context of another issue entirely. Instead of talking about Brexit, everyone has been preoccupied with two other “b” words — Boris and the burqa.

    But make no mistake, it is Brexit that is the underlying reason as to why Boris Johnson v the Burqa has been dominating the British media’s news agenda with such extraordinary persistence all week.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/12/boris-vs-the-burqa-the-brexit-battle-begins/

    1. Brexit is a wholly great thing, but it’s not going to make Britain a ‘force to be reckoned with’. Hell the EU might end up a capitalist refuge from a Corbyn-ruled UK. The UK is and will remain unfree regardless.

      1. Corbyn would have no chance if the Tories under May had actually attempted to deliver.
        Whether or not Britain becomes a force to be reckoned with is up to Britain after they get out of the EU, but it will not happen within it.

  22. The blinkered press:
    “On the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville protests, white supremacists and radical leftists known as Antifa descended on the Virginia town once more to commit more violence. Late Saturday night, NBC News reporter Cal Perry and his crew were in the thick of it as Antifa members ganged up on them and attacked. The next morning, NBC’s Sunday Today ignored the attack and suggested the media was simply ‘heckled’ by their assaulters.”

    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/08/12/nbc-ignores-own-reporter-and-crew-assaulted-antifa

    1. a sam smith quote:

      “The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore.”

      And they use that power liberally, do they not?

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