21 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Stacey Patton, in the WaPo:
    “African Americans, who make up 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.”
    This concerns Patton, who apparently sees the jobless, coddled, partying, often drug-addled Occupiers as similarly exploited and oppressed:
    “…if the Occupy movement does not grow in solidarity with other constituencies of exploited and oppressed people…the powerful undertow of race and class will keep both blacks and whites from being free.”

  3. A quite brilliant rant, from the always amusing Zerohedge. My favourite bit:
    There were 400 pages of Federal Tax rules when the 1% personal income tax was implemented in 1913. Did the 18,000% increase in tax rules since 1913 benefit the average American or did they benefit the 1% who hires the lobbyists to write the rules which are passed into law by the politicians who receive their campaign contributions from the 1%?
    Have We Become Comfortably Numb?

  4. The London Telegraph:
    “Markets are ‘pricing in the endgame’ for the euro as the situation moves faster than politicians can act, UBS has warned…”
    […]
    “’Financial markets continue to move faster than politicians,’ Mansoor Mohi-uddin, head of foreign exchange strategy for UBS, said. “Fixed income investors are betting that either Germany moves towards a fiscal union with its eurozone partners or that, without the ECB willing to buy unlimited amounts of sovereign bonds in the secondary markets, the eurozone will break apart.”
    “Should further integration of eurozone countries occur, then Germany’s finances will get worse, he said. ‘If [a closer union] involves fiscal transfers to shore up the single currency area then Germany’s fiscal position itself will deteriorate,’ Mr Mohi-uddin said.
    “Concerns are increasing that the lack of a resolution by European politicians could result in Europe’s problems spreading globally. Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty said yesterday that the debt crisis is creating ‘contagion’ outside the eurozone. ‘Again today, we are staring a crisis in the face,’ Mr Flaherty said.”
    Ambrose Evans-Prichard, also in the Telegraph:
    “The dam is breaking in Europe Interbank lending has seized up. Much of the financial system is paralysed, setting off a credit crunch just as Euroland slides back into slump…”

  5. With a gas fired power plant putting out 200 megawatts the city of Medicine Hat is going to spend $3 million more to build this monstrosity to put out 1 , yep ONE m/w –http://www.medicinehatnews.com/local-news/city-on-verge-of-innovative-solar-project-11252011.html

  6. While I’m pleased that Canada is pulling out of Kyoto I am some upset with this government on the new Canada Pension Plan contribution rules coming into effect Jan. 1, 2012.
    I have been collecting early CPP for a couple of years now and have not had to contribute any more to the CPP. The new rules will have anyone between the ages of 60 and 70 who earns what would otherwise be “contributeable earnings” to have to resume making contributions to the CPP.
    This is a complete trust betrayal by this government. There is a double whammy for those who are self employed as they get to pay both ends of the contributions – employer and employee.
    With this measure I am no longer going to send any money to the CPC and my membership will lapse. I view this as nothing more than a sneak tax increase. What is clear is that this will end up costing me and my wife some $9000 per year more. What is much less clear is whether or not our monthly benefit will rise at all in the future given the resumption of contributions.
    I am pissed about this.

  7. EBD @ 10:03 p.m.: “African Americans, who make up 12.6 percent of the U.S. population, make up only 1.6 percent of Occupy Wall Street.”
    There is only one rational explanation: Occupy Wall Street are racists!

  8. Posted by: EBD at November 27, 2011 10:03 PM
    yup…the dumb girl propaly dosen’t even know how to make KD!!

  9. a different bob, sometimes life isn’t fair. Vote NDPQ and they’ll take more than the CPP deductions. $9000 of CPP deductions represents a good chunk of income for them to reallocate.

  10. Here’s an article, via Melanie Phillips, complimenting Stephen Harper. I’m sure not everyone here will agree with all of it (I don’t), but it’s nice to see our PM getting some of the respect he deserves rather than the usual, casual MSM slurs.
    “A statesman for the west
    “The excellent Tim Montgomerie makes the point in a Guardian column today that, having headed a minority government for five years, the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last May led his Conservative party to its first majority in two decades. Montgomerie cites this to help his case that David Cameron called it wrong when he decided to ditch conservative ideas for left-wing ones – an argument which I myself have made repeatedly since Cameron was elected party leader. . . .”
    http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/a-statesman-for-the-west.html

  11. Hey, lookout, I linked to that article on yesterday’s Reader Tips! It was late in the day, however, so I’m glad you’ve got it on today’s Reader Tips.
    It’s true that a prophet is without honour in his own country. The great thing about Prime Minister Stephen Harper is that he doesn’t fret about his so-called lack of popularity in the Canadian media. When he comes to a fork in the road, he goes straight ahead.

  13. Socialism’s natural end result.
    …-
    “Europe set for ‘triple somersault’ at Durban”
    “… for Europe, this is a triple somersault.”:
    Firstly, because of the Kyoto protocol and its dictates, the EU has built an emissions market involving banks and enterprises in long term investments estimated at €107billion.
    Secondly, because the South African summit could end in more than a stalemate: it could sanction the death of Kyoto, seeing that Canada, Japan and Russia have already said they will not join its second phase in 2013.
    Thirdly, because the brave European commitment to cut emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 could sideline it in a fight which is meaningful only if shared by all the planet. But which also requires billions in public spending which do not go well with the regime of fiscal discipline [practised in] these modern times.”
    http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1224031-europe-set-triple-somersault-durban

  15. Jack was an upscale client?
    “*He came on a bicycle. I escorted him down and he went away on his bike.”
    …-
    “Possible opium in massage parlours”
    “Opium dens have been around for many years in Toronto. Most dens have paraphernalia such as the pipes and lamps that are used to smoke the drug.
    U.S. police have found luxurious opium dens with smoked mirrors and female attendants who cater to upscale Chinese clients.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/11/27/19026496.html
    *Jack:
    http://www.torontosun.com/2011/04/29/layton-found-in-toronto-bawdy-house-former-cop

  16. Kyoto is also dead.
    …-
    “”Bastards!” yelled purple-faced NFU board member and Alberta farmer Jan Slomp. “Hey, turn around! I’m coming for you!””
    “”There’s too many dumb farmers that after 20 years of being lied to, they start believing it,” Slomp said.”
    “Protesters gripe as wheat board bill heads for third reading”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/11/28/19029691.html

  18. Quality editorial regarding our Prime Minister from Melanie Phillips! Excellent!
    Thanks, lookout.

  20. Jimmy Gardiner is finally formally recognized by PET Cemetery.
    …-
    “Harper majority topples Wheat Board monopoly”
    “The Harper government flexed its majority power Monday evening to push through the Commons a controversial bill that will forever change the lives of 70,000 Canadian grain farmers.
    With this, the Conservatives fulfilled a long-promised goal of scrapping the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly over western grain sales — a move that the agency’s dissenting chair has warned will ultimately doom the Prairie institution.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-majority-topples-wheat-board-monopoly/article2252644/

  21. Has a new word been coined?
    To slomp; verb, transitive, cf. CWB Slomp, socialist slomper.
    Slomping madly off in all directions*.
    H/T Stephen Leacock.
    “*He . . . flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

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