Reader Tips

Reader Tips 35 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time television crime-detective show, here are Raymond Burr as Perry Mason, Barbara Hale as Della Street, and William Hopper as Paul Drake, with guest stars David McCallum & Jackie Coogan, performing The Case of the Fifty-Millionth Frenchman, II, III, IV, V & VI, in 1964.

Update: I forgot to mention, tonight’s Cheese Selection here in
the SDA LNR studio is Kirkham’s Lancashire from Neal’s Yard.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

“I Guess You Had To Be There”

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With a tip o’ the hat to Robert W in Reader Tips, here is Iowahawk‘s I Guess You Had To Be There (The Barack Obama Celebrity Roast). [Might not be suitable for work prudes.] Old-timers will no doubt recall Iowahawk‘s ground-breaking Interwebothique work ca. September, 2004, when he wrote My Teleprompter is Deadly (Excerpts from the new Inspector Dan Rather Mystery), which opens with the infamous line, “My name is Rather. And I’m a dick.” When the written word alone can make one laugh so hard that one has to leave the room to catch one’s breath: I think that’s notable.

“She is a trivial politician”

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The Note

“I think she has lied to the House, and I think that the House has an absolute obligation to open an inquiry, and I hope there will be a resolution to investigate her. And I think this is a big deal. I don’t think the Speaker of the House can lie to the country on national security matters,” Gingrich said.
He continued: “I think this is the most despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
“She is a trivial politician, viciously using partisanship for the narrowist of purposes, and she dishonors the Congress by her behavior.”
“Speaker Pelosi’s the big loser, because she either comes across as incompetent, or dishonest. Those are the only two defenses,” Gingrich said. “The fact is she either didn’t do her job, or she did do her job and she’s now afraid to tell the truth.”

Via Drudge

Lingenscam

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NDP news conference is on right now, and the grilling has already begun. The so-called investigator just responded to a reporter’s question about why he did not examine further the disputed claim that the Lingenfelter camp paid for 1100 phony memberships in cash because it was hard to issue a cheque for that purpose.
“…these are honourable people who gave me their answers, and I’m not a mind reader.”
Beauty.
Update: It gets better. Now they’re being pushed – hard – on why the case hasn’t been turned over to police, due to the fact that there clearly are forged signatures involved … good on the local reporters here. They’re doing their job, and doing it well today.
“How is [writing a cheque for a batch of memberships] more ‘cumbersome’ than going out to get cash in $10’s and $20’s?”
The Hale Report Punchline – “…Hale admits his report is based not on a conversation with the individual, because that person didn’t return his phone calls. Instead he relied on the words of two executives from Lingenfelter’s campaign, Garry Aldridge and Will Olive, who did speak with him.”
This isn’t going to go away soon.
A word of advice to my NDP readers. If he’ll screw over his party, he’ll screw over you – just as this scandal has screwed over Lorne Calvert on what should rightfully have been his day.

Shaw Filters Fox For U!

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From one of several emails I’ve received;

I write to draw your attention to a situation I just encountered with Shaw Direct (the satellite TV provider formerly known as Star Choice). Returning from a short business trip my daughter advised me that there was a “message” from Shaw and I could read it on the TV.
The message advised me that in response to complaints (unnumbered and unspecified) about some disparaging comments about Canada’s military folks made by a Fox News show personality Shaw had decided that those persons subscribing to Fox News would have until May 18 to affirm their desire to continue their subscription to that Channel or else it
would be shut off.
This struck me as outrageous on so many levels. First, if people didn’t like the comments then they could turn the station or cancel their subscription. Why should those who didn’t complain and wanted to keep the station have to be the ones to take action? And why not sent people an email or put a notice in the monthly bill – communication methods much more likely to be seen and understood than the rarely used “mail” option on the satellite system. And what about those of us who find the CBC commentary about just about everything completely biased and idiotic? If an unspecified number of us wrote in to Shaw with generalized complaints about the bias at the CBC would all CBC subscribers have to take affirmative action or risk losing that station on their
receiver? Would the CRTC allow that to happen to the beloved CBC?

Indeed. The email address for comments/complaints AskJim@shawdirect.ca
Telephone number: 1.866.782.7932
Fax: 1.800.872.8219
Snail mail:
Your Feedback
Shaw Satellite G.P.
Suite 100, 2400 32 Ave NE
Calgary, AB
T2E 9A7
If any of you have other contacts, drop them in the comments and I’ll update the list.
Joel Johannesen. – “Much credit to a couple of the many Canadian pretenders of conservatism, Conservative Defence Minister Peter McKay and a Conservative Party genius strategist, Geoff Norquay, for their superb help in the constant drumbeat to defeat conservatism in this country, by helping to foment this sort of garbage”
Double indeed.

Y2Kyoto: “Fast forward 33 years”

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I see a lot of faculty in the audience, but I‟m going to address my remarks today primarily to you students of this fine school. Thirty-three years ago I was where you are today, about to graduate
(with a degree in electrical engineering), trying to decide what to do with my career. I chose to go to work for an energy company – Chevron – on what turned out to be a false premise: I believed that by the time I reached the age I am today that America and the world would no longer be running on fossil fuels. Chevron was pouring money into alternatives – and they had lots of money and the incentive to find alternatives – and I wanted to be part of the transition.
Fast forward 33 years. Today, you students are being told that before you reach my age America and the world must stop using fossil fuels. I‟m going to try to do something that seems impossible these days – and that‟s have an honest conversation about energy policy, global warming and what proposed „cap and trade‟ regulation means for you, the generation that will have to live with the consequences of the policy choices we make. My goal is to inform you with easily verifiable facts – not hype and propaganda – and to appeal to your common sense.

Read the rest: Energy Myths and Realities – a speech by Keith O. Rattie Chairman, President and CEO, Questar Corporation at Utah Valley University on April 2, 2009. (pdf)
It’s a good one to pass on to friends and youngsters in your family.

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