36 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. “Wisconsin’s powerful statewide teachers union said 40 percent of its staff members were laid off Monday as a result of the law pushed by Gov. Scott Walker and passed by the Legislature curbing collective bargaining rights….”

  3. The Mother Hive
    BY Rudyard Kipling
    If the stock had not been old and overcrowded, the Wax-moth would never have entered; but where bees are too thick on the comb there must be sickness or parasites. The heat of the hive had risen with the June honey-flow, and though the farmers worked, until their wings ached, to keep people cool, everybody suffered….
    More at:
    http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/actions-and-reactions/3/

  4. Riders shat the bed – again….. Execution. turnvoers and penalties provided the Argos with all the help they needed.
    This team was soooo unprepared to play tonite. Kind of reminds me of the Danny Barrett days.
    17days off and I’m sure some heads will and should roll.

  8. yours is good to but Gitarzan, f.a.i.
    foget aboot it
    I can’t believe that is the same Ray Stevens, again u blow me away.
    unbelievable

  9. Further to EBD’s post about the Wisconsin Teacher’s Union, here’s an interesting read. Turns out that when union membership dues aren’t mandatory, many choose not to pay them. Surprise, surprise!
    You have no idea how much I wish this would happen to the BCTF here in British Columbia!!!

  11. Renewed my passport today. The clerk there told me that within 2 years there’ll be an option to renew for 10 years, not just 5. Can’t wait for that day!
    Posted by: Robert W. (Vancouver) at August 18, 2011 11:38 PM
    Good news, Robert, and about time. If the Israelis are comfortable with 10-year passports, we damn well can be in this country also. I suspect the reason it hasn’t happened before now is that the passport office is actually a profit centre for the government. Or, so I’ve been led to believe.

  12. Ethel Fenig at American Thinker:
    “Last year the Virginia legislature passed a law allowing those with gun permits to carry concealed weapons into bars and restaurants serving alcohol. Opponents predicted Wild West shootings and bloody mayhem from drunken patrons; instead the number of major crimes involving firearms at bars and restaurants statewide declined 5.2 percent…”

  14. I can’t say I understand this and I don’t have the energy to research it. But Zerohedge says to look out for the Canadian banks.
    The worry is that our banks almost all have a Tangible Common Equity ratio that is among the lowest in the business.
    I note that Canadian banks seem to have a high P/E ratio. Does that not indicate that the investors have a lot of confidence in our banks
    (and are thus willing to accept a lower return on investment)?
    Can anyone add light?
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/next-domino-fall-canada

  17. “Aliens Cause Global Warming: A Caltech Lecture by Michael Crichton”
    http://s8int.com/crichton.html
    …-
    “Bizarre, craptastic theory from the Guardian, Penn State, and NASA: “ET will kill us because global warming will tip them off that we are a bad species””
    “From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department.
    First, I apologize to my readers for the headline. Read on and I think you’ll see it is justified. The headline is paraphrased from the article and the paper to give you the flavor. I have reproduced the passage used by the Guardian and provided a link to the full paper below.
    First, the Guardian story: (h/t to reader “a jones”)
    Now the paper, peer reviewed and published in Acta Astronautica titled:
    Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/18/bizarre-craptastic-theory-from-the-guardian-penn-state-and-nasa-et-will-kill-us-because-global-warming-will-tip-them-off-that-we-are-a-bad-species/#more-45379

  18. Best line re. Wisconsin:
    The union bosses are so desperate for money that they are laying off relatives.

  21. Re the link EBD has about the Wisconsin teachers.Even more interesting,is the headline at top R of same page: Rats leave sinking ship….seems some top staffers for Dems (Pelosi) are abandoning their bosses!

  22. An absolutely bang-on editorial in — gulp — The Star:
    “Since when did representation by population – a basic democratic principle if ever there was one – become ‘divisive?’ Apparently since it might threaten the New Democratic Party’s support in the north, rural areas and Quebec….”
    Do read the whole thing.

  23. It occurred to me that Obama going on vacation while America is collapsing is the modern day equivalent of Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned to the ground.
    Furthermore, Obama going on vacation with all the chaos going on right now in the American economy makes me wonder if the economic devastation of the free market wasn’t his plan all along?

  24. Zerohedge saying our banks are potentially in trouble is interesting but I don’t believe it. Take BMO for example they haven’t raised their dividend since 2007 but profits have increased. In other words they are hoarding cash.

  25. Stimulus = FAIL, Governor.
    …-
    “BoC will be ‘prudent’ on stimulus: Carney
    National Post”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/08/19/flaherty-carney-face-grilling-on-economy/
    …-
    “Was This Time The Last Time?”
    “Dulled are the instruments of government intervention in free markets.”
    “The evolving data that expresses the global economy’s pulse might have odd aspects. Even so, it falls behind the outlandish economic performance of our governors. Even if everybody bemoans the “crisis”, the subject remains too tempting to avoid. Here, the question that arises is “the crisis of what”.
    Nearly a decade ago, this writer has discussed the issue of state intervention. The piece dealt with the hopes behind “stimulation” and the perspectives of the attempts to control what would otherwise take care of it. Since the prediction about the instruments’ limited use and increasing misuse panned out, it is soothing to remember one’s own pronouncements.
    Confirmed “gurudom” feeds vanity and makes the central claim easy to recall. Intervention to give the economy not only guidance but also to change its course is approaching the end of its usefulness. The weapon is as a sword misused to chop wood: the cutting edge is increasingly dull.”
    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4810

  26. “Day of Rage” planned for the financial districts around the globe, in September. Tent cities and protests. If you scroll way down, you will see a twitter thingy for Bay Street, Toronto….(sorry don’t quite know the jargon for Twitter)
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/seius-stephen-lerner-invokes-bill-ayers-days-of-rage-to-take-down-wall-street-this-september/
    incidentally, the comment at the link for the Bay Street day of rage, one tweeter says “it’s time for the youth to fight back”
    Fight back against WHAT? you spoiled little stinking brat, you….

  27. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1041734–black-scientists-less-likely-than-whites-to-win-research-funds-study?bn=1
    Apparently white scientists get more research grants from the NIH than black scientists,so De Guv’mint is going to step in and correct things.
    Thanks for that Ray Stevens v link,EBD,I had no idea ol’ Ray was still around,let alone still making funny songs.
    I first heard “Ahab the Ay-rab” in about ’62! Ray still nails it with humour!

  30. Update on the Keystone pipeline battle:
    “WASHINGTON – With the U.S. State Department expected to release within days its final environmental analysis of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, environmentalists are cranking up their protest efforts by employing some Hollywood star power.”
    “That includes Margot Kidder, the Canadian-born actress who’s now an American citizen living in Montana…
    In a recent interview, Kidder didn’t have much good to say about the environmental record of her native land, alleging there are few regulatory standards in Canada.
    “One of the real horrific results of letting this happen is that we’re going to quadruple and quadruple again the output of the tarsands in Alberta because there is basically no governmental control, environmentally, in Canada over the oil and gas industry, far less than there is here,” Kidder said in an interview this week with the Livingston Weekly, an alternative Montana newspaper.
    “The tar sands is the biggest carbon emitter on the planet … it’s using up something like 20 per cent of Canada’s allowed emissions alone.””
    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/19/keystone-pipeline-oil-sands-us-lobbying_n_931610.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
    I had to look up who this Kidder is since I’ve never heard of her. I think someone needs to send her “Ethical Oil”, the poor deluded woman seems to have a few of her facts wrong.

  32. hanks for the excellent link, Honorable Terry Tory. Mr. Williams is indeed a courageous man – and curious. Whatever happened to curiosity in this scaredy cat age? I have followed closely the origins of the ‘I won’ and he has a long rail of cover ups without explanation. No employer, in his/her right mind would hire such a person…and yet…
    Thanks again Terry and thank you Mr. Fitzsimmons and Mr. Williams.

  33. Black Mamba (8:22 PM), I thought Koffler’s metaphor was entertaining and kinda accurate, even if it was a little overwrought.

  34. EBD – oh dear. I brook no disagreement, however minor, and I never forgive. I guess this means war. (Kate’s schnauzers are probably right-wing, though.)

  35. dmorris: “Apparently white scientists get more research grants from the NIH than black scientists,”
    How do we know this? Are people asked their race when they apply? Appalling!

  36. LindaL, I’m given to understand that one is expected to note one’s race at the bottom of every grant application form.
    Hence the expression, “Race to the bottom”…

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