And I haven’t had that much fun since the Christmas eve I asked Santa for a Bonsai Kitten.
As you were. Tips are open for Tuesday.

Notoriously, the infant mortality rate…

… is twice as high in the lowest social class as in the highest. But the infant mortality rate of illegitimate births is twice that of legitimate ones, and the illegitimacy rate rises steeply as you descend the social scale: so the decline of marriage almost to the vanishing point in the lowest social class might well be responsible for most of its excess infant mortality. It is a way of life, not poverty per se, that kills.

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Always use a safety fuse.
Update Advice that, sadly, came too late. ..
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Tips here.

Tips for Saturday.

Open thread for tips.

Taking down the thought police is just the warm up.
Obama Girl – at the front of the line. Right?
Glavin on on Afghanistan.
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One missed call.
“A key organizer within the most active “anti-war” group in Vancouver has spilled the beans in an open letter that confesses to several years’ worth of blackshirt behaviour and “mafia-type” depravity centred around the cult’s tyrannical, messianic Ali Yerevani.“
The glaciers are receding at Portage and Main.
An interview with Thomas Sowell at Right Wing News.
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To start your Monday.

SJHL History – 1000 regular season wins for Weyburn Red Wings coach, Dwight McMillan. Congrats! I spent many an hour skating figures on that ice.
“A year ago, we were losing in Iraq. Then the president made the most momentous decision of his presidency.” (A very good read.)
One of the chief reasons behind underfunding of reserves.
Three weeks in.. “I’m guessing that if Kinsella could get his phone calls returned by the OLO, he wouldn’t need to resort to writing “public letters” on his blog”.
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Open Letter to Warren Kinsella … and by coincidence, shares nosedive!
Bookmark this link for daily developments in the Case of the Greatest Canadian Blasphemer.
Now is the time at the Flea when we fling aside the burka!
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A few items gathered while surfing –
The justice of settled science;

Findley said the ruling was among the first from a state appellate court to recognize the new research and reverse a conviction. At the time of Edmunds’ 1996 trial, doctors who raised such questions were viewed as extremists, he said. Now, they are in the mainstream.

Michael Yon is back in Iraq.
Abu Laith al-Libi
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That Andrew, such charm.
That Andrew, such political instinct.
Something in the air at Air Canada.
Why we want you privatized, Mr. Cruikshank.
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Addicted to sneering: “I’ve tried for a few months now to complete my Cultural Insanity series on the dangerous evolutionary dead end that is the progressive, secular humanistic, socialist left.”
“A Lot of Balls details the comically inept attempt in 1987 to launch a “radical” left wing tabloid, The News on Sunday.”
The 13 Steps of Liberals Anonymous.
I have a busy morning. Those should keep you entertained.

Your tips on this thread.

Tips for Sunday.

White-focussed schooling by another name.
“J-J-J-Janice MacKinnon does not speak for the people of Saskatchewan”.
A first hand account of the Harper rally.
Dizzy Lizzy’s new taste for blood. Muslim blood.
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Your tips thread for Friday.

Open thread for your tips.
Blog notes – many of you awoke this morning to discover you were “forbidden” from accessing the site. I was dealing with a persistent troll late last evening, and placed a block on a large range of numbers from the isp to deal with him. It’s been removed now – my apologies for the inconvenience.
But a request – again. When you read a comment written by an obvious troll, do NOT RESPOND IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER. You simply make my cleanup more time consuming. The site has search functions that allow me to pull all comments made by an individual up at once and mass delete them. But when you reply, you force me to go through threads one at a time to delete the orphaned replies.
So, just don’t. If you have something to say on a specific topic, simply say it. It is not the intended function of this site to provide a forum for chat or extended debates with other readers.