34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Have to self promote here.
    Corey will be in Southern Alberta May 27-31 at the Fort Macleod International Festival. There will be other Canadians including Anton Kuerti, Rivka Golani, Barry Shiffman and members of the Calgary Philharmonic.
    http://www.fortmacleodinternationalfestival.com
    Well worth checking out if you enjoy his playing.

  4. You need to include the link to the article with your Reader Tip
    when available, Sammy. The story will move off the main page,
    but the link you post here will more likely be reachable later.

  6. Please try to include a sentence or two of description about the information at the other end of the link in your Reader Tips, Revnant Dream. It’s important to remember when posting tips here that one is providing a service to the readers of SDA. Now, as a friend of SDA, and as a responsible conservative, one would not wish to provide poor service to one’s colleagues, would one? I mean, that would be irresponsible 😉

  7. “The Government of Canada has received a total of $237.5 million in net profits interest payments for the calendar year ending Dec. 31, 2009,” Natural Resources Canada said in an e-mailed statement to The Telegram….
    Nalcor’s NPI payments could grow if the provincial government succeeds in buying Ottawa’s 8.5 per cent stake in both the main Hibernia oilfield and the southern part of the field.
    “NPI would also continue to be collected from whomever purchased the 8.5 per cent interest,” said Natural Resources Canada.
    In the early ’90s, the future didn’t look bright for the $5.8-billion Hibernia project – the world went through a mild recession, oil prices tanked and then Gulf Canada pulled out of the partnership.
    Ottawa ponied up $3.7 billion in loan guarantees, a non-repayable contribution and interest assistance dating back to the late 1980s and early ’90s.
    It also took 8.5 per cent of Gulf’s share in the oilfield.
    That stake in Hibernia turned profitable for Ottawa in 2002, and by the end of 2008 the oilfield had pumped profits of $1.12 billion into federal coffers…
    My Comment: This will be a done deal sometime before/during the summer BBQ circuit to coincide with an upcoming fall vote. The Newfs are also challenging the Upper Churchill deal again in Quebec Supreme Court, New Brunswick is walking away from the Quebec Hydro deal (of which Danny was a vocal opponent for “Atlantic Canadians” lol!), and with the seat additions, hopefully, coming in AB, BC & ON, Quebec will be boxed in.

  8. Great link, Revnant Dream (11:46), thanks for that.
    Excerpt:
    “Market mechanisms, like pricing, do a better job than planners because they incorporate what everyone knows indirectly through signals like price, without central planning. Thus, no matter how deceptively simple and appealing command economy programs are, they are sure to trip up their operators, because the operators can’t possibly be smart enough to make them work.”

  9. Btw, Revnant, thanks for providing the essay’s title, “Progressives can’t get past the Knowledge Problem,” which has the twin merits of being both a good teaser and a succinct summation of the content of the article.

  10. Agreed, EBD: excellent title, and with a good sub-head or précis, it would, I think, have been a perfect Reader Tip. Why make half a reader tip, requiring each and every SDA reader to fill in the other half, when one can just as easily make a whole reader tip, thus gaining converts to picking one’s link (instead of gaining mouse-wheel scrolling).

  11. Isn’t it amazing how the CBC has suddenly started promoting Canada’s staying in Afghanistan beyond 2011. I guess they figure such a decision would be poison for the Conservative government, especially in Quebec.

  12. ‘A very fine editorial which puts into perspective the abusive priests’ scandal in Saturday’s National Post:
    … “To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers and hypocrites of every description,” wrote Father Ronald Rolheiser, a Canadian priest whose writings are popular the world over. “It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul of every time, country, race and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.”
    Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=2758456&p=2#ixzz0kEM2EMeD

  14. Very nice piece by Rex Murphy at the National Post on the abuse of the concept of a right at the hands of the HRC’s.
    The Issue: That the main instrument of individuality—rights that protect what we value in individuals—has been turned, by the “groupists”, into a weapon against what they think of as an evil—individualism.
    Unless you understand these people more deeply than they understand themselves, you cannot defeat them.

  15. Al Gore’s Weather (AGW) = Whiner$$$ and Loser$$$.
    “At the moment, we’re operating on the principle that something will turn up,” he said by phone from Halifax. “The reality is that the funding stream has been broken.”
    It’s the Money “principle”.
    …-
    “Climate-change research in Canada waning: scientists”
    “The situation is changing “partly because they’ve got more money, partly because we’ve got no money,” Shepherd said.
    He admits he has started to look for opportunities abroad, due to persistent funding problems in Canada.
    “Not super actively,” he said. “But I’m realizing it’s going to be very hard to do what I want to here.””
    http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100401/climate_funding_100403/20100403/?hub=WinnipegHome

  16. The Money “principle”. (cont’d)
    “But maybe that’s because — while we’re on the subject — s**t flows downhill.”
    Socialist Stalin funded the “wreckers” of all Mother funders.
    …-
    ““Stop me before I steal again”
    Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article describing how Jefferson County, Alabama borrowed itself into bankruptcy can be read as a tragi-comedy or farce. Worse, it can be read as prophecy. Jefferson County, under pressure from community activists and environmental groups, decided it would reduce its sewage flows into the Cahaba River to nothing. That lofty engineering goal required it construct the mother of sewage systems, which turned out required the mother of all funding. But what with cost padding and local corruption jacking up the totals astronomically, even rate rises proved unequal to paying for it. So the county borrowed a staggering sum from Wall Street to cover it, on terms which reduced immediate payments at the cost of bloating them later, like one of those deals where you can buy a leatherette sofa with no payments until 2012 — at which time it will cost more than the Mona Lisa. And since people who buy leatherette sofas on installment usually can’t afford a Leonardo da Vinci, Jefferson County found itself defaulting on its payments.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/04/05/stop-me-before-i-steal-again/#comments

  20. O’s phony book: black and white. Book him.
    “*Ignores data that conflict with his fantasy world, or with his inflated and grandiose self-image. This has to do with magical thinking. Obama already sees himself as president because he is firmly convinced that his dreams, thoughts, and wishes affect reality. Additionally, he denies the gap between his fantasies and his modest or limited real-life achievements (for instance, in 12 years of academic career, he hasn’t published a single scholarly paper or book).”
    …-
    “Even Obama fans notice he’s a phony in how he writes, talks, and even walks
    How phony is Barack Obama? PBS Washington Week host Gwen Ifill reviewed New Yorker editor David Remnick’s new Obama book The Bridge in the Washington Post Outlook section Sunday, and she kept finding Obama is a Slick Barry, a “shape shifter.” Obama even admitted to rhetoric what should be obvious — how he changes “dialects” depending on the audience he’s talking to:
    Obama cops to this. “The fact that I conjugate my verbs and speak in a typical Midwestern newscaster’s voice — there’s no doubt that this helps ease communication between myself and white audiences,” he tells Remnick.
    “And there’s no doubt that when I’m with a black audience I slip into a slightly different dialect. But the point is, I don’t feel the need to speak a certain way in front of a black audience. There’s a level of self-consciousness about these issues the previous generation had to negotiate that I don’t feel I have to.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2486962/posts
    *O’phony:
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  21. Revnant Dream at April 4, 2010 11:46 PM, great link to a well written article. This article explains very clearly why states that have gone “progressive” ultimately fail economically. Waxman doesn’t know whether he is punch-board or drilled.

  22. Ken (Kulak): The term should be “punched, bored or drilled”. Were you making a joke that has gone over my head?

  26. Eeyore, finally, after fifty years someone has cleared that up for me. The bad news is though that makes Waxman even dumber.

  27. Ken
    its a machinist term used to describe ones own concept of their own rear nether parts.

  28. Earth Week and Day carries on into May in the education system. I chose one province, Alberta, to see what is being taught in the schools.
    http://www.environment.gov.ab.ca/edu/eweek/2010/pubs/Climate-Change-Links.pdf
    And the specific focus for younger kiddos in schools, note the additional linking to the EPA in the United States:
    http://www.environment.gov.ab.ca/edu/eweek/2010/pubs/Kids-Links.pdf
    Some B.C. schools have teamed up with the Suzuki Foundation, Al Gore, and something called:
    http://www.climateprojectcanada.org/
    http://www.climateprojectcanada.org/involved/schoolchallenge
    There is everything good about making our young people aware of their surroundings and our impact. But, it is always good to have the fuller picture of who all is influencing what they are being told.

  29. Socialism: the religion of the stomach.
    …-
    “Please give, say needy food banks
    Toronto Star – Carlos Osorio – ‎9 hours ago‎
    Kathe Rogers (in black) and her mother Ilona joined other volunteers who gave up part of their Easter Sunday to help sort donations at the North York Harvest Food Bank.”
    (googoonews)

  30. If you are interested, listening to Rush today, Kathy Shaidle’s blog was mensioned.

  32. Remember how leftists were upset that hand sanitizers weren’t shipped up north during the beginning of the H1N1 “outbreak”?
    Maybe they were right:
    http://www.cjob.com/News/Local/Story.aspx?ID=1214769
    Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre will start locking up its’ hand-sanitizers this week. The move is being taken because people are stealing the dispensers and using the alcohol contained in the sanitizer to get a cheap high. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Spokesperson Heidi Graham tells CJOB, sanitizer theft began to go up after the H1N1 scare.

  33. Al Gore’s Weather (AGW):
    O’de to O’enviros.
    “It all went in the pot”.
    …-
    “He liked to bring things home from work
    A virtue, I will grant
    The problem was he worked all day
    At the disposal plant
    But that was nothing to the stuff
    The politicians got
    Watches, cash and sweetheart deals
    It all went in the pot
    Enviro whackos egged them on
    The river must be clean
    We’ll kill dear Mother Earth, they cried
    Unless we all go green
    The whackos listened not at all
    To engineers who said
    A simple three stage treatment plant
    Would be just fine instead
    With money dangling ‘fore their eyes
    The politicians lunged
    And grabbed it all for them and theirs
    And into debt they plunged
    They hocked the town up to its ears
    And built the grandest bit
    Of waste disposal just to find
    They’d built a crock of shit”
    Walt.
    “Stop me before I steal again”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/04/05/stop-me-before-i-steal-again/

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