Here are some of the links that commenters have dropped in the past 24 hours. An extra large tip-o-the-hat to Maz2 who has contributed many of these. (Update: and another generous hat tip to HappyDaze.)
More tips as they come in
Commenter HappyDaze says we need a pep talk. I agree. Let it never be said that we don’t take requests. 😉
Drop ’em in the comments if you got ’em!
The Grewal Stuff
Misc Tips
Just checking in from the farm in S.E. Saskatchewan this evening to make sure you kids are behaving in here. Judging by their first day’s postings, SDA is in capable hands.
I’m not sure that we brought the right vehicle. With the amount of rain that’s fallen and I’m told – more awaiting us in Minneapolis this weekend, we might have been better off with a pontoon boat. The dog show is outdoors.
Yay for us.
A reminder, after perusing the comments – keep it civil and remember that there are people who read SDA from work, so keep profanity under control, please. If you can’t follow those simple rules – well the blogosphere is a big place. Find one that has rules you like.
You can use this post for your own tips, as indicated in the subject line. Quoting should be brief.
A few quick links, before I’m off to paint slime on a Harley tank;
Grandinite, with the help of MK Braaten takes another look at the change in Accounting standardsfrom GAAP to International standards and wonders how that might apply to the billions the Liberals have tucked into foundations, out of reach of the Auditor General. He spots this:
For not-for-profit organizations: Not-for-profit organizations (NFPOs) will continue to apply those elements of GAAP for profit-oriented enterprises that are applicable also to the circumstances of NFPOs. The Board will consult with the not-for-profit sector to determine whether all NFPOs should base their accounting on the standards for public companies, or whether some might base their accounting on the standards for Canadian private businesses or be exempted from the scope of accounting standards altogether.
A story that won’t spawn hysterical headlines at the Globe and Mail….
Stupid Angry Canajun asks “What is in it for Jim Karygiannis?” and revisits Patti Starr.
And Arthur Chrenkoff has another roundup of good news from Afghanistan, while Riding Sun asks What Is Being Done In Our Name?
Some of our media friends might check these out – expand your horizons beyond the quagmire scripts you’ve been reading from!
Add your own tips in the comments – reminder: keep descriptions and quoting BRIEF.
This post is for the tips you have for other readers, links to scintillating posts at your own site (I recommend you use the trackback function). Keep descriptions brief, please. No discussion please – links only.
See you guys in a couple days. Have a good weekend!
A very good, relatively new blog on “goofs, bias and hypocrisy in the media”. That ought to keep them busy.
Looking at it from the “inside”, The Toronto Sun skewers the bias at the Liberal Death Star.
At Proud To Be Canadian, “Exile” does a little venting.
A few days ago, Macleans columnist Steve Maich came to the (weak) defense of Maurice Strong and PowerCorp. Somebody who actually knows what he’s talking about rebuts. Read the comments, too.
I think I’ve earned a brief holiday from blogging, so I’ll just throw up some links I’ve had forwarded or spotted on my own that are relevant to recent events;
I may be taking a break, but Newsbeat1 isn’t. There’s a ton of stuff there this morning. (Take the time to add this site to your blogroll. )
The apple is climbing back into the tree.
Further to the tender sensibilities of those offended by the use of the word “Jap”, (I presume you’ll rise in similar indignation next time you hear “Yank”), a few sentimental wartime postcards.
Greg and others think the Conservatives should release their platform now. Just in time for summer vacation. I don’t.
Someone asks privately about a detail of the RCMP murders that I wrote about at the time – oddly no photographs of the weapon seem to have been published in the mainstream press. Perhaps a photo of a HECKLER & KOCH, HK91 is “inconsistant” with the more important message that the “smoking gun registry” keeps “banned weapons from the hands of criminals”.
At Bound By Gravity, More historical photos, these ones of bombing damage at Saint-L�, France in the wake of D-Day.
I’m busy with yard work today, without much time for blogging, so I”ll direct you to a few lesser known sites worth a look, and deserving of more traffic. Some old, some new, some popular in the US but lesser referenced in Canada. Feel free to add your own via trackback, or in the comments.
Jacks Newswatch is on top of the best stuff out this morning. (Stephen Harper is David Duke? Can it get any crazier?)
How many blog sites feature great writing in both official languages? The only thing I don’t like about Polyscopique is that he doesn’t post often enough.
Lorne Gunter isn’t lesser known, but he’s new to blogging.
Today, Laurent has a plug for Right Ho! – writing by another conservative journalist who chooses anonymity.
Speaking of well known people, new to blogging – if you’re a politician (or a strategist) interested in how to incorporate blogging into your party’s communication strategy, make Bush-Cheney campaign webmaster Patrick Ruffini part of your regular reading. Go back through the archives, too.
I’ll probably do another Carnival of the Newbies in a couple of weeks, so if you’ve sent me a link to your site looking for a plug, be patient. And keep writing.
A gathering of tips and items I spotted surfing this morning.
Newsbeat has a series of posts on whistleblowing.
The Times. they are a’changing….
The New York Times, America’s most venerated newspaper, is responding to growing pressure by pledging to increase its coverage of religion and the rural areas in the US, while also recruiting journalists who have military experience.
Comparing Hitler To Stalin;
The full death toll, most of it accumulated in peace time, at the hands of Lenin and his political and ideological successor, Stalin, is estimated by the best authorities at somewhere between 25 million and 30 million people. Not bad in a system for which mass terror and purges were not “intrinsic” parts. In what passes for Steele’s argument, he suggests the scaling down of the terror after Stalin’s death is evidence the system was not inherently terroristic. Does it not occur to him that there was no one left to kill?
The Librano Songbook grows!
Now, is this figure with or without the latest “envelope of cash” for Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert?
Well, this is a curious little find. (Thanks to an email tip from an “anonymous” reader). From an old anti-tobacco web page;
The Canadian Tobacco Co. Ltd.markets two brands of cigarettes available at duty free shops. According to their packaging, they operate out of either a postal box number in London or Toronto, Ontario. They have recently entered the market with two low-priced brands known asCanadian and Canadian Extra Light.
They feature several easily recognizable Canadian landmarks. In December 1997, Canadian cigarettes we purchased two cartons at the Windsor Tunnel Duty Free Shop, and at the Blue Water Bridge Duty Free Shop in Sarnia.
Each carton has a picture of either the CN Tower, Niagara Falls, Lake Louise, the Canadian Rockies or the Vancouver skyline. CN Tower spokespersons will not take the responsibility for the use of their logo by this tobacco company. It may be that some people are trying to hide this egregious campaign to advertise tobacco.
The parent corporation is actually theSea and Sky Supply company located in Holland. The owner of the company is Tony Lammers, a businessman who markets various and sundry products to duty free shops and airlines all over the world. We have been unable to reach Tony for personal comment, but we have left his company e-mail.
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A crown corporation known as theCanada Lands Corporation owns the CN Tower and leases it to the TrizecHahn company. They are supposed to do all the promotions for the publicly owned business. A major principal in that company, and many others, like Barrick Gold, is Peter Munk. Peter just named a cardiac wing after himself at the Toronto Hospital, and is still recovering from the Busang gold fiasco to comment either.
Alphonso Gagliano, the Minister in charge of Public Works and Government Services is responsible for the CLC and what it owns, markets, and promotes. He is unavailable for comment. Canada tobacco only has a box number in London, Ontario and could not be reached by phone for comment. If any of you find him, let me know.
From what little else I can find, it seems that Canadian Tobacco did a bit of race sponsorship, but I’ve not confirmed that.
It’s a dog show weekend here at the ranch. I may get a couple of posts up, but in the meantime, I invite you to use the comments or trackback feature to direct readers to interesting material. (Be sure to indicate if the link contains not-safe-for-work content or excessive profanity.)
Here a few that landed in my inbox;
Check out this Captain’s Quarters link… it usually means something good.
Dear friends from Ontario –please take this seriously. What used to be a fringe movement is on the cusp of becoming mainstream.
Via a reader who passed along the tip in French – I’ve found an English language report that Liberal MP Don Boudria will not be running in the next election.
And this? Not exactly news. Andrew Coyne says as much, but in about 674 more words.
‘Tis the season for anhydrous ammonia tanks.
Back later.
In the meantime, drop your worthy finds in the comments, or send me a trackback.
Working at the shop again this morning. So, it’s a reader tip day – dump your finds in the comments, or send a trackback if you’ve written something good.
Don’t forget to send me your links for Carnival of the Newbies. I only have a handful so far. Any blog that’s been launched in the last couple of months is fine by me.
To watch Paul Martin’s speech again, David Janes has video. And if anyone has film of a pot of bubbling oatmeal porridge they’d like to share, I’ll be sure to post that too.
A bunch of stuff on my plate today, so I’ll leave you kids to play amongst yourselves for a few hours.
You know the drill – if you’ve spotted a good story or post out here, or have one of your own you want to suck a little traffic to, either track back to this post, or leave the url in the comments.
What I would be really interested in are bloggers out on from the left who have useful thoughts on how the Liberals can purge their party of the corrupt and their enablers so that Canadians on all sides of the spectrum can have confidence that our differences are simply ideological and not criminally motivated.
It’s not enough for the current group to lose government. Even a defeated Liberal party is a concern to Canadian democracy if the current band of movers and shakers are allowed to regroup.
I have some of my own, but there’s time later for that.
I have a heavy week of work ahead of me, so blogging will likely slow up.
I’ll inviting readers to post the good stuff they find out there today in the comments. I’ve turned the html back on, so hopefully they’ll function properly as clickable links.
(If it’s not work safe, please indicate that too.)
Oil-For-Food investigative journalist Claudia Rosett has been nominated for a Pulitzer. And deservedly so.
“Rosett’s …dogged pursuit of the oil-for-food-for-dictators scandals at the United Nations pushed that story in all of its mind-numbing complexity into the media mainstream, where it has done more to set in motion long overdue oversight of the United Nations than all of the previous blue ribbon reports and congressional hearings combined…Whether or not the Pulitzer committee recognizes Rosett for her incredible contribution to freedom through her superb journalism over the past few years, those who follow the media know she is the standard setter.” – Hugh Hewitt, Weekly Standard
Kelowna Police are going soft on crime.
The “paradoxes and contradictions of life in post-9/11 Canada: two versions of reality that tacitly undermine one another, and by so-doing muddle and mock of our collective response to the terrorist threat.”
Well! If I had known this was so easy, I’d have stopped blogging a long time ago and just let the readers take over.
Spent today mostly resting up, a little shopping and getting very, very lost here in Raleigh, where the street system was designed by graduates of the Throw A Plate Of Spaghetti On the Floor School of Engineering.
News here seems to be wall to wall Terri Schiavo, (though my host just walked into the room and told me about the school shooting in Minnesota).
You folks know the drill by now – if you run across interesting links, post them in the comments. I’ll try to get online in the evenings, but it’s going to be 12 hour days at the shows for the next week, as I’m working for a handler friend to help offset the expenses and give myself something to do.
Unless I get fired, which is a distinct possibility.
Hey folks. Kate writing from sunny North Carolina. There are daffodils here. Considering the snowplows we had to wait clear the runway in the stop in Regina, it’s an improvement.
No time to surf or blog, (or watch the news) so again, I’ll invite my readers to post any links to good news items or blog posts in the comments. And keep beating up on poor old Joe Green. He’s resilient, if nothing else!
My lucky seminar attendees are starting to congregate and I’m getting ready for the powerpoint presentation. (Topic is breeding, evaluating, training and grooming Miniature Schnauzers.)
Let the indoctrination begin!
And Kathy K. … if you’re surfing through. I’ve been trying to get hold of you!
I’m the one who usually does most of the work here, so while I’m away, I’m going to invite readers to pick up the slack. Just submit links to any blog post or news item you find that you think others may be interested in, in the comments of this post. A simple cut and paste URL and brief description should do it.
(To keep things clean and easy to follow, try not to use this post for other comments.)