Use this thread for your reader tips and other finds. I’ll be back later this evening.

Neil Waugh, Edmonton Sun on the “offer that Ed Stelmach must refuse”;
Why secular society doesn’t get jihad
An international crime story with everything – a bank heist, an anti-war assassin and a punchline
Campaign finance rules? What campaign finance rules?
Comments are open for yours.

A sign that you have too many city officials.
Allah Porkbar! They’re off
“…so much for the legalization of prostitution ‘saves hookers from the not-so-tender mercies of their pimps and other sundry lowlifes’ argument.”
Litvinenko – more trails lead to the KGB. But through Italy?
The Lucky Y-Chromosome Party
Use the comments for yours.

I see the previous one is still drawing tips. Here’s a new thread to bring your new ones to the top. (Feel free to repost)

Until I get up to speed (it’s a work day around here), this will have to do.

Sean is dieting!
The high price of educating girls in Southeast Asia.
Not welcome at the funeral…
Good news for who, John?
Hey, what’s that compass in your nose?
Tom Axworthy comes clean – “Liberalism often doesn’t work .”
Add yours in the comments.

It’s been a long day in the body shop, and more ahead. A quick reader tips post to keep you from cluttering up other comments threads.

Spirited Energy;

Did Premier Gary Doer’s government channel the only money spent on newspaper ads to the co-chairman of his own committee which recommended spending money on the campaign it designed? You know, the one involving Winnipeg Free Press co-owner Bob Silver.

“Honey,” I said, “remember when we talked about moving to Canada?”
“The future of the Middle East, certainly the future of Lebanon may well be decided in the next several days” – John Bolton
Tom DeWeese debates the UN.
Add your own in the comments.

Once again, thanks for the links and tips you send in. As usual, I picked only a handful. Time and space limits what I can use, and I tend not to use items already receiving wide blogosphere and/or MSM attention. (Also, it’s almost impossible to use columns that are behind subscriber walls.)
Kyoto – crunches the numbers;

Meeting Kyoto targets will cost the Canadian economy a third of its output or force Ottawa to spend $20-billion by 2012 to buy international credits, says […]Jayson Myers, chief economist for the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.

It’s Friday – support the troops by kicking a red!
Feel the love – a Thanksgiving Prayer from the progressive left.
BC Rights For Everyone But White Males Tribunal rules on the Just Ladies Fitness complaint. I won’t spoil the surprise.
As usual, use the comments for others, or links to your own blog posts.

ITER – an energy project that creates no CO2 emissions. Predictably, environmentalists are unhappy because “the project would turn the focus away from current efforts to fight global warming.” Yes, you read that correctly.
Restore Marriage, Canada wants your help on a petition.
NB judge blasts Crown’s case against blogger.
Pieter Dorsman liveblogged the Dutch elections. “the Party for the Animals is projected to win a parliamenary seat”.
Add your own in the comments.

Harold Evans;

Perhaps my beloved Britain has endured some of the worst excesses. When I spoke at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival a couple of years back and criticized newspapers that headlined suicide bombers as martyrs, I was told by two angry leading intellectuals that I had lived too long in America.
Something similar happened at this year’s Hay-on-Wye festival, sponsored by the Guardian, where a five-person panel discussed “Are there are any limits to free speech?” One of the Muslim panelists said if anyone offended his religion, he would strike him. A lawyer, Anthony Julius, responded that Jews had lived as minorities under two powerful hegemonies, Christian and Muslim, and had been obliged to learn how to deal nonviolently with offense caused to them by the sacred scriptures of both. He started by referring to an anti-Semitic passage in the New Testament — which passed without comment. But when he began to list the passages in the Koran that denigrate Jews, describing them as monkeys and pigs, the panelists went ballistic. One of them, Madeline Bunting of the Guardian, put her hand over the microphone and said words to the effect, “I am not going to sit here and listen to any criticisms of Muslims.” She was cheered, and not one of the journalists in the audience from right or left uttered a word about free speech — not hate speech, mind you, but free speech of a moderate nature.

Unrelated – A Saudi court has sentenced the victim of a gang rape to 90 lashes.
363 murders in a city, and the year’s not over. Time to redeploy to Okinawa!
“Self-discipline through shared responsibility”. Breaking old ground in curing antisocial tendencies in children.
Add your own in the comments.

Family Planning Advice
Population control ideas.
More gratitude in Indonesia.
Want support from the left [see update below] for the war on terror? Move Gitmo to China!.
[Update: Olaf protests that he’s no lefty.]
Busy morning. That’s all you get for a few hours, so add your own in the comments.

Kalashnikov Klass – The ultimate solution to school shootings!
Dumb and dumber.
Guardian;

Asked whether there was any doubt that al-Qaida was trying to gain the technology to attack the west, including the UK, with a nuclear weapon, a senior Foreign Office counter-terrorism official said: “No doubt at all.”
The official explained: “We know the aspiration is there, we know the attempt to get material is there, we know the attempt to get technology is there.”

Next up – inmates deprived of autos to steal sue for loss of livelihood.

But, I’m open to offers.

Late night, long drive. Until I’m back up to speed around here, it’s a reader tips morning.

I’m back at the dog shows this weekend, posting will be very light.
Share you readers tips here, and I’ll be back on Monday. In the meantime, check out the blogs on the sidebar – it always pays to expand your blog reading horizons!

My connection is a little shakey this morning – my guess is that the heavy snow we have is messing with the lines (I’m on dial-up).
So, for now, a readers tips, open thread post to keep you all amused.
A reminder – a few of you are crossing the line with profanity and slurs (“frogs” ???). Cut it out, or find yourself booted.

Greg Staples nterviews Paul Wells. (mp3).(Be sure to check out the full list of interviews at STI Media.)
Andrew Coyne;

I expect to see Judy Wasylyscia-Leis, Dawn Black, and the rest of the gang denouncing the Star in the strongest terms for splashing these hateful, sexist slurs — along with Lady Black’s sexual history, we are treated to leering remarks on the size of her breasts, her taste for shopping and other attacks on all women everywhere — across its front page.

More from Joan Tintor.
Newsweek comes out in favour of the death penalty!
Add your own in the comments.

An open thread for readers tips and related discussion.

I’ve had an avalanche of good stuff today.

More than 70 Muslim workers at France’s main airport have been stripped of their security clearance for allegedly posing a risk to passengers. The staff at Charles de Gaulle airport, including baggage handlers, are said to have visited terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

How Harper won the Press Gallery War – by the CBC’s Ira Basin, (who stubbornly clings to the notion that we still have “higher esteem” for Canadian political journalists than “the people they cover”.)
Canadian Muslims outraged over [fill in your blank]”
Peeve Farm;

Conservatives believe they are the ones who understand how human nature works, and liberals are well-meaning but naïve and counterproductive.
Whereas liberals believe they are the Good Guys and conservatives are the Forces of Darkness.

Heh.
Use the comments for your own.

Looks like I’m pulling an all-nighter. My belinda is having puppies.
Open thread, reader tips, Halloween-themed names suitable for Schnauzers.
11 am Update Just got home from the vet clinic – a few hundred dollars poorer, but 5 new healthy puppies richer. By 3 am it was apparent that things weren’t going as expected, and sure enough, one little prankster was preventing everyone’s escape by turning himself sideways and into a pretzel. Surgical intervention was required.
I haven’t settled on names but “Houdini” has been scratched off the list.