48 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. According to the National Post, Livent “fraudsters” Garth Drabinski and Myron Gottlieb, who are being defended by the Greenspan brothers, are seeking a compassionate judgment after duping investors of some $500 million. There is some worry that the Bernie Madoff decision in the US, that netted 150 yrs., or even the Bernie Ebbers and Jeffrey Skillings debacle that brought 25 yrs., may sway the judge’s decision. Both defendants have been careful not to set foot in the US where charges are pending.
    Most spokesmen (lawyers) figure on 4-5 yrs.with
    eligibility for day parole in less than a year.
    Oh well, I suppose they could use the defense that the judiciary is just anti-Semitic. Going against them is a character reference from one of the worst novelists in Canada; E.L.Doctorow.

  2. Conrad Black was sentenced to six and a half years for somewhat less money involved.

  5. Drained Brain: “By being intransigent, Reagan has played directly into the Russians’ hands.”
    I don’t think Obama wrote that. It looks as though it belongs to a different article from Obama’s but is continued on the same page as his.
    Not that it isn’t the sort of thing that he might well have written, mind you.

  6. Obama wrote it. Read the lower link to NRO and the comments by Andrew McCarthy. The NYT just ran an article about it. They’ve been too busy for the past few months digging up dirt on Sarah Palin to ponder why there was a paucity of bibliographical materials for the editor of the most prestigious law review in the U.S.
    Interesting that he didn’t tout this article in either of his memoirs. Interesting also how little his thinking seems to have changed since 1983.

  8. More appeasment to the Islamists. At some point it will reach a point of no return.
    Dearborn Silences Arab Christians
    In Berger v. City of Seattle, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently reaffirmed the “bedrock principle” that the protections afforded by the First Amendment are “nowhere stronger than in streets and parks.” This principle was given bluster in a case involving street performers, only one of whom complained that they were being too heavily regulated and could not perform wherever they liked.
    http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/07/dearborn-silences-arab-christians/

  9. For those who watched the 4th festivities fron NY and would like to hear this fine patriotic song again: America the Beautiful
    John Denver singing “America The Beautiful”. Oh beautiful, for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain America, America God shed his gra.

  11. If anyone’s interested, Matt Drudge has a juxtapose of his own. Looks like Kate had had an influence.
    “4:15 AM: OBAMA SAYS FUTURE DOES NOT BELONG TO THOSE WHO GATHER ARMIES OR PLANT MISSILES…
    7:45 AM: Suspected US missiles hit militants…”
    http://www.drudgereport.com

  13. Drained Brain: “Obama wrote it. Read the lower link to NRO and the comments by Andrew McCarthy. The NYT just ran an article about it.”
    No, he didn’t write it. I read the piece in NRO a couple of days ago. McCarthy doesn’t say anything about the “Reagan has played directly …” sentence.
    The continuation of the Obama article is under the heading “mentality – continued from page 3,” while the sentence you quoted is in the continuation of an article apparently on the Greens, whose heading is “Green – continued from page 1.”
    There’s plenty to criticize about Obama, but we should make sure that our criticisms are about things he actually did or said.

  14. MJ – By golly, you’re right. And no, it doesn’t make me feel that much better, especially after reading the balance of Obama’s article.
    But thank you for pointing that out!

  15. I’m not a great Sarah Palin fan, but she sure would be better for Canada’s interests than Obama.

  16. Vancouver
    “Landmark needle exchange program closing down
    Innovative program run by the Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society is ending after 21 years amid allegations of mismanagement and financial improprieties
    North America’s first needle exchange program, run by the Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society, is closing down after 21 years amid allegations of mismanagement and financial improprieties.”
    “At the DEYAS office on Tuesday, five remaining staff members were trying to figure out what would happen to them and to the services that they believe will not be replaced. Funding for the group abruptly ended, after a tumultuous period that included a police investigation into a manager’s spending, replacement of a top manager following erratic behaviour and resignation of board members. Staff continued the needle exchange program while the organization around them crumbled.”
    urlm.in/csad

  17. Cbc newsworld ran a couple of stories last night that would make an interesting juxtaposition. The first was about the ‘ethnic’ riots in china,not one mention of religion. About 5 minutes later they ran a fluff piece about Toronto’s NHL draft pick. This fellow(congrats to him)is a muslim. Cbc mentioned that about 5 times. CBC,the liberal mouthpiece of Canada.

  19. BREAKING…OBAMA GIVES ASTONISHING INTERVIEW TO AFRICAN PRESS TELLING AFRICANS TO STOP BLAMING WHITEY…IGNORED BY WESTERN PRESS…MUST CREDIT ANONYMOUS COMMENTER!!!
    Give credit where credit is due, took several years for me to find something good to say about this wretched affirmative action case, but here it is:
    “I think part of what’s hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we’ve made excuses about corruption or poor governance; that this was somehow the consequence of neo-colonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racism. I’m not a believer in excuses.
    I’d say I’m probably as knowledgeable about African history as anybody who’s occupied my office. And I can give you chapter and verse on why the colonial maps that were drawn helped to spur on conflict, and the terms of trade that were uneven emerging out of colonialism.
    And yet the fact is we’re in 2009. The West and the United States has not been responsible for what’s happened to Zimbabwe’s economy over the last 15 or 20 years. It hasn’t been responsible for some of the disastrous policies that we’ve seen elsewhere in Africa. I think that it’s very important for African leadership to take responsibility and be held accountable.”
    allafrica.com/stories/200907070919.html?page=2

  20. Bronwyn Eyre has a great article in today’s Star-Phoenix, page 2, regarding Environment Canada and particularly the spokesman, David Phillips….”the only man who can be wrong all of the time and not lose his job”. Heh!!

  21. Elise Ackerman, Interplanetary Internet Tested
    The many paths a message can take through the Internet make that network robust and efficient—and the envy of those whose job it is to design communications schemes for the far-flung spacecraft leaving Earth each year. After more than a decade of development, NASA is in a rush to have a communications network ready by 2011 that can efficiently carry data between Earth and the multiple probes, rovers, orbiters, and spacecraft exploring the solar system—effectively binding them together to form an interplanetary Internet. Tests performed on the International Space Station last May were the second of three tryouts of the network’s key technologies, called Delay Tolerant Networking, or DTN, protocols.
    The DTN protocols will extend the terrestrial Internet into space by overcoming a number of obstacles, including the extraordinary length of time it takes packets to move between separate hops in a deep-space network, the intermittent nature of network connections, and bit-scrambling solar radiation…

  23. The Choice: Carbon credits or indulgences?
    Hedge CYA: Buy both.
    …-
    “Pope calls for an ethical economy”
    “Pope Benedict XVI signs his third Encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate at his studio in Vatican City, Vatican. The Pope called for a new finaical(sic) world order that would be guided by ethics.
    The blind pursuit of profit has “wreaked havoc” on the world economy, pontiff writes in encyclical.”
    urlm.in/csam
    …-
    “From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits: Is Global Warming a Sin?
    From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits: Is Global Warming a Sin? ALEXANDER COCKBURN Counterpunch Saturday, April 28, 2007. In a couple of hundred years, …
    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/…/280407warmingsin.htm”

  25. Wow – the Cons agree to limit Global Warming to 2 degrees! Cool! They’ll just need to pass a law now rather than spend billions on connected industries and backroom (backdoor) blowboys and party insiders.
    Way to go Harper!!!
    PM to back 2-degree goal at G8 summit
    Harper lands, set to change approach on global warming limits, spokesman says
    Jul 08, 2009 04:30 AM
    Tonda MacCharles
    OTTAWA BUREAU
    ROME – Canada is set to agree to a tough, specific limit on global warming at a gathering of world economic leaders in Italy that gets underway today, an official said.
    Signaling a different approach to climate change, a spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested Canada will not oppose a declaration at the G8 summit that would limit global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial averages….”
    Hope the estimates of the 2 degrees are better than the Cons’ deficit estimates. The little fella Flaherty just couldn’t get that Big Button calculator working.
    Maybe he had his thumb over the solar battery window that morning…

  27. We are ‘conscious’ that Canadians are dying – and that critical diagnostic tests are being deferred and cancelled.
    Good thing the Cons took ownership of this file early. Oh, let me guess….
    “It was like that when we got here”
    Chalk River reactor shut down until at least late 2009
    Last Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 | 12:04 PM
    CBC News
    The nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont., will be out of service until at least late 2009, and perhaps longer if there are delays in the inspection and repair process, officials said Wednesday.
    “We are very conscious of the impact of an unplanned reactor shutdown, and we recognize the concerns and planning needs of the health community, patients and isotope producers,” Hugh MacDiarmid, president of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., said during a news briefing….”
    Hope your Mom ain’t one of those people getting screwed by an inept government. She is? Oh. Sad to hear.
    Maybe you should do the Canadian thing, and write a letter…

  29. “Its a Scandal”
    NNW & Telegraph journal
    *Catholic upset at the PM for how he handled the communion wafer at R.Leblanc’s funeral, Church not upset…..
    **So of course this is news! And the Harper Bashfest continues at NNW & the msm, watch for this to spread like a wildfire inorder to give the impression that the PM disrespects Catholics.
    And of course the scandal is again NNW & Telegraph in there perception of this, in the article the church has no problem & say’s they did not see anything wrong….

  30. And leave it to The Sun in the UK for the classic line about the pedos memorial,
    “And a world record was broken for the most people wearing sunglasses indoors.”

  31. Here we go folks Now ctv.ca has the article up on What did Harper do with the wafer, Spokesman for the PM’s office have stated the PM ate the sacrimental wafer.
    And ctv is going one better they have a you-tube video.
    So if you cant beat the guy why not try inciting Outrage amongst catholics.
    This countries MSM just makes me sick, Fnn media is all Liberal Liberal Liberal. We have the best PM this country has seen in years in the harshest of times we have seen in yrs & they just go after Stephen Harper all the time over BullShit, anything to incite hatred of the PM. Never mind the fact that the Liberals Robbed this county blind & got away with it, But thats OK!!! Fnn Liberal Media

  32. Hardboiled,
    I saw that a doe was killed with her fawn on 15 last week, by a truck. Damn cons! If only Harper wasn’t in power, those two forest creatures would be scampering gaily through the sweet corn right now, batting eyes at some toothesome buck.

  33. Mao (Hi. I’m Canadian Liberal Bob-John Rae’s Uncle Mo Strong.) Stlong say,
    Chop, chop.
    …-
    “China threatens to execute rioters
    URUMQI, China – Hundreds of helmeted troops in riot gear swarmed the central square of the capital of western Xinjiang on Wednesday after ethnic riots left at least 156 dead. The city’s Communist Party boss promised that those behind the killings would be executed.”
    urlm.in/csbh

  35. A Service is to be held for Freaky Goreacle: details TBA by MSM.
    Gaia wafers left over from the Freak Show will be distributed free.
    …-
    “FREAK SUMMER STORM DUMPS SNOW ON YONKERS(Sic)
    It was Christmas in July for some Westchester County residents.
    A wintry mix of hail and heavy thunderstorms downed trees and utility poles in Yonkers last night — causing mountains of slush and ice to build up in parking lots and on grassy areas.”
    urlm.in/csbk

  36. hardboiled – your demented hatred of Harper has moved you into a room, all by yourself, locked into your pathology.
    Has it ever occurred to you that Not Rejecting a proposal to limit a temperature increase of 2 degrees is less relevant than Opposing such a Motion?
    To reject the motion means that you believe in man-made temperature increases. The best choice, when surrounded by people locked into a fallacious myth, is to ‘do the least damage’ to the real world outside of this mythic realm.

  37. Big socialist Brother-Nanny State: Green Police have arrived.
    Keeping Up With The Joneses.
    “They were shocked.”.
    Our Enemy, The State.
    …-
    “Bylaw threatens to mow down ~ back-to-nature, meadow-like yard following complaint (Ottawa, Canada)
    OTTAWA — Henry and Vera Jones have a dream of a new kind of backyard, one that is an oasis of nature. But that dream is threatened by a City of Ottawa bylaw that appears to suggest they should mow it all down.
    For nine months the Constance Bay couple have been planning a new ecologically tuned garden on their half-acre lot on Allbirch Road. No manicured lawns to be watered, fertilized, cut and weeded. Just lots of flowers, trees and vegetables to create a sanctuary for wildlife, especially the kind that pollinate flowers.
    They call it the Allbirch Pollinator Garden. The city calls it a violation under bylaw 2005-208.
    A few days ago they got a registered letter from the city saying that their property is in violation of the city’s bylaw because they had failed to remove heavy undergrowth, long grass or weeds. The city instructed the couple to cut the long grass on their property by July 8 or risk having the city do the job, then bill them for the work.
    They were shocked.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287713/posts

  39. In Owen Sound we now have property police, They are going to go block to block to block & issue a repairs needed accompanied by a writ that informs the Taxpayer that if they do not comply within so many days(to be determined by the PP at time of issuance)then the property order will be subject to monetary fines & so forth.
    Now don’t get me wrong we have always had municipal by-laws Re: Property management which were enforced by the By-law enforcement officer, However these mostly pertained to neglected Empty properties or landlords where there was neglect & could cause danger to a tennant.
    This New By-Law has the ability to tell Say a Senior who may not have the funds to maintain their Own house in a Pristeen shape (that council deems), In other words if the house needs paint or the roof is shody or brick work, garden needs weeded etc.. do you see where iam going with this.
    I made a point of writing to council & the city letters to editor that we are Not in Nazi Germany There are many Seniors still in their homes that they worked all the lives for & i might add are paying taxes on still. Are city councilers going to Evict if orders not complied too, Absolutly assidine what have we become, Iam still waiting for a reply.

  40. Chinese Red-Green travels in:
    “green troop trucks with riot police”.
    The Irony, The Irony.
    …-
    “G8 summit: China and India reject G8 calls for climate targets
    China and India have rejected calls from G8 leaders for them to make deep cuts in their carbon emissions.”
    urlm.in/csbv
    …-
    “Chinese troops flood streets after riots
    URUMQI, China – Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal violence left 156 people dead, and a senior Communist Party official vowed to execute those guilty of murder in the rioting in western China.
    Long convoys of armored cars and green troop trucks with riot police rumbled through Urumqi, a city of 2.3 million people. Other security forces carrying automatic rifles with bayonets formed cordons to defend Muslim neighborhoods from marauding groups of vigilantes with sticks.”
    urlm.in/csbw

  41. Comrade O’pics his heart?
    O’pics here.
    Probly a shotophop from The Man In The Green Mask.
    …-
    “Obama’s hand over heart for Russian national anthem, not US?
    Can this possibly be true? An anti-Obama website, The Obama File, posts a photograph purporting to show President Obama putting his hand over his heart during the playing of the Russian national anthem, during his visit to Moscow.”
    “How can it possibly be a genuine photograph, when we know that the President didn’t put his hand over his heart during the playing of the American national anthem, as demonstrated in this now-infamous photograph taken during the campaign?”
    “Please, let the purported Moscow photograph be a fake. Or, even better, someone point me to the time when President Obama noted that he has reconsidered putting his hand over his heart for our national anthem.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288309/posts

  43. “Greenpeace defaces Mount Rushmore
    More civil disobedience and vandalism along the thinking of Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS, who advocates such things.”
    “via Treehugger
    [UPDATE: Newsweek’s The Gaggle blog says it has learned: “That a team of 12 experienced climbers prepped conspicuously for months planning for different scenarios to ensure the action could be completed safely. The group also promised there would be no damage to the actual monument, which is solid granite. And all involved planned to spend several weeks behind bars.”]”
    urlm.in/csce (WUWT?)

  46. Another non-news story related to the non-news story about PMSH and the wafer.— Catholic bishops around the world have not asked for vengeance,riots,increased hostility,or even a simple beheading.

  47. [Roman] “Catholic priest faces kid porn charges
    OTTAWA – A local Roman Catholic congregation is stunned to learn one of their own is facing child pornography charges.
    Father James Anthony Jordan, 63, a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, was arrested Monday and charged with one count of possessing child pornography.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2009/07/07/10060836-sun.html
    …-
    “Did Harper pocket the wafer?”
    “Msgr. Brian Henneberry, vicar general and chancellor in the Diocese of Saint John in New Brunswick, says it was unclear what happened to the wafer — and that it would be scandalous if the prime minister put it in his pocket.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2009/07/08/10064556-cp.html

  48. Maz2, I fail to see what some priest viewing porn has to do on Harper receiving communion at a funeral.
    Firstly, it would have been improper for Harper to receive the Host as he is unprepared for the sacrament, and doesn’t likely understand the significance of it. Having done so is nothing to be ashamed of, and I doubt very much he would put it in his pocket. Were he to desecrate (not a wafer) but the body,blood,soul and divinity of Christ, as per Christ’s promise, it would be far worse than watching any porn, even the kiddie filth.

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