I’m about to hit the road for the weekend – blogging will be light, if that.
Use this thread for your reader tips. Keep quoting brief, please!

I’m still encountering a lot of difficulty getting online with my regular machine. I also have a shop day scheduled for most of tomorrow, so use this post for any finds or trackbacks to your own stuff until things are up to speed here. Hopefully, by the time I’m done in the booth, this “two hour disruption” will be over with.
A reminder to those of you who make it a habit – try to confine your link dumps to these Reader Tip threads and keep other posts free of them unless they are at least tangentially on topic. And keep quoting brief. A paragraph or two- no more. Some of you are easily exceeding copyright “fair use” exemptions.

My isp is doing upgrades this weekend, making access difficult. I have stuff to do anyway – a yard full of tree prunings that need hauling to the dump, for one thing.
You can share your finds in the comments
Later!

Heading to town shortly, so it’s a reader tip morning;
Photo manipulation at USA Today.
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred have a word or two for “progressive” opponants of the US presence in Iraq;

We understand that you don’t give a damn about Iraqis. Quit pretending you do. Standing in ‘solidarity’ with organizations that promote terror or anti Semitism does not make you avant garde, informed or progressive. Such behavior only clearly identifies you for all time as a self absorbed idiot and a self centered bigot. Let us make it clearer for you: Aligning yourself with and associating with most of these ‘peace organizations’ is like joining the Ku Klux Klan and declaring your support for human rights and equality. You see, when you get into bed with those that support terror against civilians, apologize for terror against civilians or fund terror against civilians, you and your precious beliefs become as relevant as a fly on cow manure.

Speaking of cow manure, George Galloway is in Norm Coleman’s crosshairs.
New respect for the old geezer;

The parts of the genetic make-up that are thought to determine an individual?s maximum possible longevity, so- called telomeres, are inherited from the father but not the mother. This is shown by a research team at Ume� University in the coming issue of the U.S. scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Telomeres are genetic material with repetitive content at the ends of DNA, and their main function is believed to be to protect the rest of the genetic material from degradation. Telomeres are shortened each time a cell divides, which in broad terms means that the longer a cell?s telomeres are, the longer the individual can live, in theory. A person?s telomeres are shortened with age, which the findings of the study indeed show: telomeres were shortened by an average of 21 nitrogen base pairs per year in the subjects studied.

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As I sit here reeking of gasoline (collateral damage from winterizing my bike), there is primer drying on several pieces of signboard in the garage, a goalie mask awaiting sanding and refinishing, a figurine of an Irish Terrier packed and ready to ship, and a pile of work orders an inch thick on my desk. I also manged to drag both my new and old air compressors down to Jim’s Sport Shop to get fittings transferred, purge the blog of the latest Tamiflu spam, do a bit of garden work and freeze a few veggies. Oh, and a friend stopped in to help with the “alterations” on my 5 day old puppies.
So, blogging has been light, and it’s likely to stay that way for a few days until I can get my head above water. Thanks to those of you who have sent tips and links to your own stuff – I do appreciate it, I just haven’t the time to do it justice!

Facing extinction in Health Committee in Ottawa today Private members Bill C-420 survived a Liberal motion to quash by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health Robert Thibault.
[…]
“This will really keep both Health Canada’s and the Liberal minority
government’s feet to fire on the long promised removal of Schedule A and
Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the Food and Drug Act,” a Health Committee
source said in a telephone interview shortly after the historic vote.

A press release on bill C-420. (Word .doc)
Stephen Taylor takes a look at the questions from the latest Strategic Council poll. (Speaking of which, the left seems to have forgotten that polls taken before Mulroney’s utter decimation of the Liberal Party in 1984 had the Conservatives behind by 8 points…)
Lorne Gunter has Jim Travers by the neck and he shakes him good.
Those crazy Muslims…. Lost Budgie is on the “Free Piglet!” bandwagon.
Angry has been hot on the trail of another Liberal scandal in the making – Just go to his main page and keep scrolling.
So you want to talk about being tortured by the Liberal government’s newest, bestest friends? Fine. But be sure to stash your mother is in a safe place. (MSM ALERT This is a story that should be picked up by some enterprising journalist. It’s long overdue that Paul Martin & Co. be forced to address the abuses of the Chinese government they are so eager to do business with.)
Use the comments for your own.

Write a letter, get a free bag of pot in the mail! Mark Emery – still surrounded by idiots.
Michelle Malkin provides a glimpse into what it’s like to be interviewed by an agenda-driven journalist – and what comes out the other end. This is one area in which blogs may have an eventual impact on dead-tree journalism. 10 years ago there was no venue for the interviewee to set the record straight without the interference of protective editors.
There’s some great deals to be had these days at Asia’s largest donkey fair.
“The time for cosy tea- drinking with Muslim groups is over.”
Add your own in the comments.

Please post any tips you’ve got as a comment here or trackback this post from one of your own that you’re proud of.

Happy Thanksgiving to Kate’s Canadian readers! Here’s hoping that you eat too much and spend some time with the people you care about.
Here are some links I ran across this morning…

• Build a pinhole camera out of Lego
• High fat food can be good for you?
• The French are pigs (I saw this years back when I visited France)
• Billboard cow missing
• Study finds religious belief is harmful to society
• Canada giving $300,000 for the Pakistan quake
• No shirt, no shoes, no pants…
• Peter pays a visit to Brian…
• Clarkson feels picked on
• Lady fined for walking too slowly
• The 400 Initiative (they’re NOT getting MY cheque!)
• The CBC strike is officially over. Whoopee.
• Londong London getting expensive sex-themed park
• Cops after $1M bill counterfeiter

Feel free to add your own tips and trackbacks. Also, don’t forget to vote for your favorite blog (results available here).
Happy Turkey Day, people. 🙂

Here are two reader tips that Kate forwarded to me by e-mail:

• Moonbat Princess
• Anti-semitism on campus

Please feel free to add your own.

If you’ve got ’em, share ’em. Trackbacks to this post are also most welcome. I’ll be gone for the rest of the day as my wife has given me a choice between divorce or laying lino and then installing a new toilet in the guest bathroom (what an exciting life I lead…).

I’m going to be busy the rest of the day and I can’t say if Occam or James will put in an appearance, so blogging may be light as a result. Please share any good items you’ve found in the comments or via a trackback.
I’ll be putting up a summary post for all the Small Dead Blog Award nominations tomorrow. If you haven’t nominated someone yet, here’s your chance.
In other news, I have 70 Gmail invites left for anybody who still wants one. All who have asked so far have been invited (if you didn’t receive it, plz let me know). Send an e-mail to digiteyesed [a+] gmail [dot] com if you want a Gmail account.
Also worth noting, I bumped AWM up to being published three times a week and there’s a new strip up this morning.
That’s it for now.

Here are some interesting links I ran across this morning…
First off, James Bow is about to become a dad. Please take a moment and shoot some congratulations his way, even if you disagree with him politically.
Jay Currie has a good post up on the current kerfuffle between Austria and the rest of the EU over whether or not Turkey should be admitted.
Andrew over at BBB takes a look at blog etiquette.
Angry tracks an interesting use of softwood lumber funds.
James Koole takes a look at the recent release of Judith Miller from the point of view of an up and coming journalist.
Kathy is thinking that taking the vote back from women might actually be a good idea. I, of course, am absolutely dismayed that Kathy would say such a thing! (Note to my wife who will be reading this later: See hon? I was being good. Don’t hit me.) Update: I just re-read the post and discovered that Kathy was highlighting a post at Spleenville, so my apologies to her for putting words in her mouth (keyboard?).
Please drop any good reading you’ve found in the comments, or trackback to any posts on your own blogs that you feel deserve some exposure.

You all know the drill. Put any good news tips into the comments or just trackback to this post from your own blog. 🙂

Please post any good news tips or topic suggestions you’ve got as a comment or as a trackback to this item. I’ll update it several times throughout the day.

Links so far…

• Heart of Darkness
• Marching against War–and Jews
• Belief in a Creator is bad for you?
• Lost Budgie has some new posts up.
• Are CBC employees biased?
• And what about Mansbridge?
• Poverty and shiftlessness

Another busy day ahead, so reader tips it is.
I’ll start things off with a few items spotted in passing;
Further to an item posted here a couple of days ago, (Martin Operative Running For Vancouver Mayor?), Peter Rempel has this update;

Tonight, Councillor Sam Sullivan beat former deputy-premier Christie Clarke for the NPA mayoral nomination in Vancouver. Sullivan will now face the COPE-Vision alliance candidate Jim Green in the upcoming mayoral race.
The news could not be more welcome: Sullivan is an admirable candidate in every sense of the term. Sullivan, a quadriplegic, is a member of the Order of Canada for his work with non-profit agencies which assist Canadians with disabilities. And, in an example of B.C.-style bilingualism, he is fluent in Cantonese.

Greg Staples has been poll tracking in a post titled More of “Nothing’s Changed”. He has charts!

I mentioned “urban refugee” Sean’s photography to a friend today – it seems like a good idea to introduce him to new SDA readers.

Go check out the portfolio.
Dear CTV News,
This evening I was awakened from a nap when your 11 pm newscast came on. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to recall your coverage of a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip just a couple of weeks ago, along with the celebratory gunfire and looting of the arriving “Palestinians”. Said freed peoples have now begun to fire rockets at their neighbors.
So, here’s what has I’m confused. In this item that aired this evening – complete with this clever little Freudian slip of a file name “israel_offensive_050925/20050925” – the following is written;

The Israeli army stepped up its response to rocket strikes from the Gaza Strip with a series of attacks against Islamic militants on Sunday. As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to use “all means” against the militants, Islamic Jihad commander Mohammed Khalil was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Who are they “militating” against, precisely?
Notice: this is a thread for tips only. Also, a general request. Please refrain from using the comments section here for meaningless, off-topic chatter. On-topic debate, even on tangentially related issues is welcome, but the “chat room” format that some seem intent on creating is not. And keep it clean.

A few items sent in over days past, and grabbed while surfing.
A quote from President Mahmood “Give Me Nukes Or Give Me You Death” Ahmadinejad;

In the first such statement by an Iranian president in nearly 20 years, Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election would mark what he termed a new Islamic revolution. Ahmadinejad said such a revolution would spread throughout the world.
“Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world,” Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency as saying. “The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end.”

Good analysis at Daily Cuz on Iran’s tactics in procuring them.
For the first time ever, poll results swing on the bus vote.
One Free Korea:

We are now four months from the next Great North Korean Famine, and rather than making the urgent and public appeals that could stop it, the United Nations is issuing a permit. Just one month after the World Food Program issued an urgent appeal stating that 6.5 million North Koreans depend on its food aid for their survival, it has capitulated to North Korea’s demand to cease delivering food aid in favor of “development aid” that will be neither distributed nor monitored by anyone outside the North Korean government itself. Do past events leave any doubt about how Pyongyang will allocate the blank check it demands for this “development aid?” The result will be that Kim Jong Il will continue the political cleansing of North Korea’s hostile classes

Phil Donahue tells Bill O’Reilly he doesn’t know what he’s talking about in the Iraq war. Oops.
Dave, who plays for “Graham Brown & the Prairiedogs” wrote to ask that I plug their website. All things considered, one would think he’d choose his words more carefully!
Add your own in the comments, or send a trackback.

Things are ramping up here with work, and combined with getting ready for a major road trip, my time for blogging is limited.
For the giddy in the mainstream media seemingly suffering from Clinton Affected Memory Disorder, Tom McGuire offers a cure. Meanwhile, John Kerry (who still trails Bush in post-election approval rating pollings) is busy raising Katrina Kash!
Want to know how your Saskatchewan tax burden compares with that of Montana? It’s all here. (Short form Sask – 50.58%, Montana – 27.25%) Data for several provinces and northern states, all in one handy table.
Don Martin in the Calgary Herald on the political realities of Brian Mulroney’s “sick city”;

The problem now is we’re trapped by the scenario Prime Minister Paul Martin identified when paying his respects to former Global National bureau chief David Vienneau, who died last year. The parliamentary precinct, he said, is like a “small village” where everybody knows each other.
This much was confirmed while golfing with a respected journalist (is that an oxymoron?) last week. As our floundering game became too depressing to discuss, talk turned to the state of the profession. And that’s when this veteran correspondent made a profound, albeit alarming, observation.
“The longer you stay in Ottawa, the harder it is to write anything,” he lamented. “The list of topics you can tackle which doesn’t burn your contacts or hurt your friends gets shorter and shorter.”
That’s the bottled essence of Mulroney’s rage. If the capital is a village, reporters were the village idiots during his reign. Everybody was friends with everybody else. Except him. He was the outsider. And so they set out to get him. Surely Conservative Leader Stephen Harper can empathize.

Drop your tips in the comments, or send a trackback to your own witty and insightful posts.

Busy day here, so I’ll just pass along a few items that have dropped in my inbox over the past few hours.
Reader Peter Benyk emails on a topic I haven’t followed, because I don’t care about satellite radio. Others do, so;

The two Canadian companies have finally been granted approval for broadcasting satellite radio from the Federal cabinet. Although they were approved earlier by the CRTC for licenses heavy lobbying from Quebec insisted there be and even number of French and English stations and now there will be four of each. The licensees relented to this bit of blackmail and as a result the federal cabinet approved both licenses. How ludicrous that this government insist on this provision as if the population of this country was split with approximately half communicating in French and the other half communicating in English. We know at best the figures would be 4 to 1 English over French. These radio stations are to carry a prescribed amount of Canadian talent so where is the equity in developing the English talent if their outlets are minimized so they are equal to the number of French outlets. This is just another example in my book where Quebec is dictating the Federal Liberal policies of Canada and if you wondered if there was truth to a common complaint that French is being shoved down the throat (and ears) of Canadians here you have it in living color. English speaking Canadians are being forced to split the number of English stations 50/50 as if this reflected the French -English population and talent pool of this country. Since 90% of the people who communicate in French are located in the Quebec area it is reasonable to assume that they will be able to get along with fewer stations but why limit and handcuff the English speaking population, by only giving them an equal number of stations, who are servicing a much broader cross section of people in Canada and are highly involved in providing English services in every province and who are in fact servicing a much larger pool of Canadian talent albeit English speaking.

Sounds about right. A few years ago I heard that it had been calculated that the CBC French language television in Saskatchewan had a viewership of around seven households.
Lots at China E-Lobby today.

Communist leader Hu Jintao came to his hotel in Toronto “via the underground parking garage” (Epoch Times) rather than face the Falun Gong and Tibetan protestors who jostled for position with the usual group of bribed welcomers.

In the 1970’s the US Congress approved a massive barrier system for New Orleans. An environmental lawsuit took care of that!
A pastor in Alberta is facing a human rights tribunal over a letter to the editor in a Red Deer newspaper criticizing homosexuality. If he loses, he could be forced to pay $7,000 in fines – including $2,000 to the homosexual-rights group EGALE Canada.
$2,000 just for being offended? Time to register REDNECK Canada as a non-profit, methinks.
(Add your own in the comments, or send a trackback to this post.)

A few items passed along recently.
An interview with Bill Vander Zalm.
Katrina’s fury exceeded only by her windbags.
Speaking of “windbags”, Canadians who have been critical of the US response to Katrina might do well to “stifle” and pay a little more attention to our own 10 billion dollar state of unreadiness.

As retired Canadian general Lew MacKenzie told the Sun’s Bill Rodgers yesterday, Canada couldn’t even muster half the 40,000 soldiers the U.S. government (albeit belatedly) has poured into New Orleans to restore law and order, assist in relief efforts and help rebuild shattered levees.

Via Newsbeat1. (Question – I seem to recall that the US military helped move Canadian Armed forces to the Manitoba flood in the 1990’s, but may be mistaken. Can anyone verify or discount that?)
Yahoo has been assisting the police. The secret police. In China.
This post on being poor has generated a lot of buzz. This reply, on staying poor, is the one that deserves it. (Kathy Shaidle is right – this is a very good smackdown – speaking as someone who still wears “supermarket shoes”.)
Add your own in the comments, or send a trackback.

I’ll be out much of the day. Here’s an invitation to send a trackback to your own stuff, or post links to breaking news items in the comments.
Later.
Update – I see you folks outdid yourselves. There are some very good items in the comments.
Also, this via Nealenews;
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien interviewing New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin this morning (Sept.5);

Nagin>> I got promises too.� I can’t stand any more promises. I don’t want to hear any more promises. I want to see stuff done. That’s why I’m so happy the president came down here because I think they were feeding him a line of bull also. They were telling him things weren’t as bad as it was, he came down and saw it and he put a general on the field. His name is general Honore. When he hit the field, we started to see action. What the state was doing, I don’t friggin’ know but I tell you, I am pissed. It wasn’t adequate. The president and the governor sat down. Air force one, I said, Mr. President, Madam governor, you two have to get in sync. If you don’t get in sync, more people are going to die.
O’Brien>> What date was this?
N>> I don’t know.
O>> When did you say that?
N>> Whenever air force one was here.
O>> Okay.
N>> And this is after I called him on the telephone two days earlier. And I said, Mr. President, madam governor, you two need to get together on the same page because the lack of coordination people are dying in my city.
That’s two days ago? Easement I don’t know the exact date. They both shook their head, said yeah. I said great. I said everybody in this room is getting ready to leave. There was senators and his cabinet people, you name it, they were there. Generals. I said everybody right now, we’re leaving. These two people need to sit in a room together and make a doggone decision right now.
O>> Was that done?
N>> The president looked at me. I think he was a little surprised. He said, no, you guys stay here. We’re going to another section of the plane and we’re going to make a decision. He called me in that office after that and he said, Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor. I said — I don’t remember exactly what — two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.
O>> You told me the president told you the governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision?
N>> Yes.
O>> Regarding what? Bringing troops?
N>> Whatever they had discussed. As far as what the — I was advocating a clear chain of command. So that we could get resources flowing in the right places.
O>> The governor said no?
N>> She said she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have been great if we could of left air force one, walked outside, and told the world that we had this all worked out. It didn’t happen. And more people died.

It was an early morning and a long day, so I’m going to take it easy this evening. See you tomrrow.