Reader tips thread.

Heading out for the weekend. I’ve a few posts written and scheduled to appear automatically, so unless our usual contingent of guest bloggers have material they want to share, things will be slowing down for a few days.
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Tips thread.

Open thread for your tips.

Reader tips thread.

A watershed moment – ” The question is, whose watershed was it?”
Toronto vignette.
“The fruit of Canada’s “invention” of UN peacekeeping…was a war. Why do almost all Canadians forget that most salient fact?”
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Meeker on Media – “I’ve heard many rowdy listener call-in shows, but none as boisterous as this. In fact, the racket it raised is still echoing within the corridors of the CBC.”
What if we were to offer something nice in pastel, instead?
A New Zealand climate denier meteorologist in the pay of big sheep.
A number of you will thank me for linking to this I suspect.
Hurrumph. With all the money being thrown around by Cerberus these days, the least he could do is hit my paypal button.

Open thread for today’s tips.
Lots of action today at National Newswatch. It’s a weird sort of “silly season”, this one.
Whiter shades of pale – at the Associated Press, it’s all about “diversity”.
Mexico – a war on drugs or a battle for national survival?
Fred Thompson declared winner of GOP debate. And he wasn’t even there.

Reader tips thread.

Busy afternoon here, so it’s an open thread for your link dumps.

Open thread to start your Monday. (I’m working against a deadline in the next two days, so things will be slow here.)

The Jeff Monaghan Radio Show!
Trouble in Tehran – unemployment is at 30%, and the natives are restless.
Torture in Afghanistan: Abu Grubby.
Great Moments in headline writing.
Comments are open for yours.

More journalistic malpractice at the Globe & Mail. When it’s Afganistan, they can’t help themselves. “Publishing a stat from such a rabidly partisan source, with no context about casualties in general or the source’s stated bias in particular, and pawning it off as straight news is a complete and utter disgrace.”
Office employees overpower armed ex-worker.
Introducing The Globies, Canada’s first Media Bias Award!
The rest of the story:– “People think the Democratic-led Congress is doing just as dreary a job as President Bush, following four months of bitter political standoffs that have seen little progress on Iraq and a host of domestic issues. . . . The survey found only 35 percent approve of how Congress is handling its job, down 5 percentage points in a month.
In other words, matching Bush’s approval rating.
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Reader tips. (Slow posting day, sorry – I’m up to my ears in work here.)

Open thread for your tips.

Like night follows day – the right wins, the left riots.
Canada’s Peace Movement – “Give suicide bombings a chance!”.
His father’s looks, his mother’s brain.
A chicken in every pot, new skates, and a pony. Sorry, Winnipeg. Looks like your conversion to the economic model of the former East Germany will continue …
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The City of Toronto …

has issued “A Discussion of Public Policy Revenue Tools” in which it proposes nine new types of taxes including: a new tax on tobacco; a new tax on alcohol; a new tax on parking; a new tax on billboards; a new home-buying tax; a new tax on vehicle registration; a new driver’s license tax, a new road toll; and a new tax on entertainment tickets like movies, theatre, and concerts. The Mayor has also suggested a new garbage collection tax.

There’s a petition at the Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation.
A reader advises it could be a hot day of testimony at the Public Accounts Committee pension and insurance hearings. Webcast here, beginning at 3:30 Eastern.
Military fatigue? Don’t tell the soldiers. “The Army National Guard reached its congressionally authorized end strength of 350,000 Citizen-Soldiers on March 30, six months earlier than originally projected.”
Cracking “the former vice president’s iron curtain”.
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I remember the moment when I looked at the people around me on a dance floor in Edmonton and realized, with both sadness and a touch of embarrassment, that I was too a little old for punk. I was 25.
Photos of melamine contaminated wheat gluten. “Up To 8,500 Alleged Pet Deaths, Food Tainted Since 2006”.
Off Like a Prom Burkha
The Canadian Red Ensign has come back from the wilderness.
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I’ll be out for a few hours, so a reader tips thread will have to do you for a while.
“Is Jamie Oliver just a trumped up middle class idiot?” (Language warning.)
Debain WrEtch: review of an UnAmerican Linux system.
Tel Aviv – 150,000 call on Olmert to resign.
Saner heads prevail – a KFC trans fat lawsuit is tossed, with sarcasm on the side.
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Reader tips thread.