Sunday tips.

Tips thread is open for Friday.
(I have lots on plate here, so posting will be slow through the end of the weekend.)

“Jennifer Marohasy reveals a fascinating trail of emails between environmental activist Jo Abbess and BBC Environment reporter Roger Harrabin, which eventually led to the BBC changing their original story Global temperatures ‘to decrease'”
Of course, this happens every day in Islamic countries.
A madrassa in Minnesota?
Yours in the comments.

Tips open for Wednesday.

Tuesday tips are open.

Open for Monday.

Tips thread open. I’ll be out most of the day and next, so things will get pretty slow around here unless a couple of the guest bloggers wish to pop by.

Tips for Saturday.

as requested.

I’ve been bottle feeding a newborn puppy around the clock since Sunday, and the sleep deprivation is finally catching up with me. So, blogging will probably slow down (or become noteworthy for its 3am posting times) until this 5 ounce milk powered day-planner has decided his fate one way or another.
Update: Photos have been requested. Here’s one. “Bottle fed” is an inaccuracy – he drinks formula from the end of a syringe and it’ll be another day or two before he can move to a baby bottle. He’s decidedly improved from his original “emaciated baby bird” condition, but these little guys are so fragile, his odds of survival are still only 50-50. Pnuemonia and colic are the primary risks. But that’s encouraging – on Monday I figured it close to zero.
A few items;
Spinning Sadr – “How about an “After Six Decades, Europe Still Cannot Stand Up” story?”
The silencing of Stephen Bossoin. This is a shocking case that deserves wider attention.
And a gazillion freespeecher related links, as usual, at the excellent Free Mark Steyn!
Add yours in the comments.

Open for Wednesday.

Tips thread open for Tuesday.

The story behind the Iraqi truce. “With the fifth day of fighting in Baghdad, Basrah and the South completed, the Mahdi Army has suffered major losses over the past 36 hours.”
“All you need to know about how rotten the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) is — how undemocratic and anti-freedom it has become — is that in hate-speech complaints, the commission has a 100-per-cent conviction rate.”
Kyoto for Dummies.
The all-powerful Mike Harris.
Add yours in the comments.

A few related links picked up surfing.
Will he stay or will he go-go? A glimpse into the Zimbabwe election at This is Zimbabwe.
Dith Pran has passed away. If you have kids of a suitable age, you owe it to them to rent the Killing Fields.
The Religion of Peace, from A to Z
Don’t let Jason Cherniak see this. Who knows what two giant legal minds might accomplish if they combined forces.
An interesting photo – it appears to show Chinese troops carrying monks robes, but I’d like to know the provenance.
Your Sunday tips in the comments.

ISP problems here since last night, so a tips thread will have to do you until I have reliable net access again.

Tips thread open.

If looks could kill.
“Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.”
Four words you never thought you’d see in the same sentence: “journalism giant Linda McQuaig”
Open thread for Thursday tips.

A break from the CHRC intense blogging of recent hours…
“Now, from what I seem to remember about my youngest sister’s ‘teenage antics’… somebody at Indiana U had better be working on a ‘taser phone’
Don’t elevate me, Obama.”
Do minors require their parents’ consent to become suicide bombers?
Winning hearts and moos.
Yours in the comments.

Who said what?
He said what? Yes, he did. He said it well, too.
Jason – What the hell is wrong with you?
ED NOTE: As this post pertains to the continuing controversy created by pesky “freespeechers” (that’s a perjorative, by the way), it’s only fair to acknowledge that in the wake of my comments of Sunday, about 20 of the best and brightest the Canadian leftosphere has to offer linked to SDA in condemnation. (I won’t name you all for fear of leaving someone out.)
After weighing their arguments, my traffic meter remained largely unmoved.

Footnote:
[1] Thus elevating my status to that of documented “global warming holocaust denier”. I guess that means new business cards.
Update: BINGO!
(Tips thread open.)
Final Update: – and still more on “fake outrage”.
The first thing that strikes me are the number of critics (here’s one) who believe that a statement about National Socialism’s relationship to the German state in the context of the holocaust constitutes an “analogy”.
The second point is that I wasn’t offering an “argument”, but a simple statement of fact that should be self-evident.
When a comment serves as little more than preface to a featured quote, it shouldn’t require a short history of WW2 history or personal disclaimer to prevent “confusion” in the mind of the reader. Readers that easily confused should take on gentler topics. (See my first point).
There exists a terminology for the phenomenon of attempting to communicate in so complete a manner as to prevent all accidents of misinterpretation.
It’s known as “writing for stupid people.”
So, the conclusion is this (and my advice to bloggers in general): Set a minimum threshold such as “understands the definition of analogy” before deciding whether or not a critic is worthy of your response.
Now, as you were.

Happy Monday! Tips open.