55 Replies to “January 5, 2019: Reader Tips”

  1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/01/04/312000-jobs-added-in-december-manufacturing-growing-714-faster-under-trump-than-obama/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

    Under Obama, federal state and local government employment grew 6 times faster than did manufacturing jobs, while under Trump, that ratio has been reversed, with manufacturing jobs growing 5 times faster than government jobs.

    Maybe Allan S (ucks cawks) will show up and explain it to us plebes…

    1. Yes, so did I. I thought, ‘Hey, thats our Kate’.

      Update on ‘Convoy to Ottawa’. Almost $74 big ones at the moment.

      An independent supplier of bulk fuel, who also has a reputation for overcoming industry challenges, has Graciously donated a driver, perhaps the largest bill board in Canada AND 48,000L of fuel !! AFD Petroleum will be leaving with us from Red Deer Feb 2019 and going the distance with us to Ottawa! AFD Petroleum.. Canadians thank you!!!!

      https://www.gofundme.com/convoy-to-ottawa?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-154666224136-0506f8897c1743bd&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email&utm_content=cta_button&utm_campaign=upd_n

  2. As a Vancouver Islander I’d like to throw my two cents into this petition.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46741175

    Rather than America give the Northwest Angle to Canada I think we should trade for it. The way the Trudeau government conducted the last international trade agreement I think we could negotiate an agreeable settlement of fair trade. What I’m proposing is that we trade everything on Vancouver Island south of the 49th. for the Northwest Angle. It would be a win-win situation for both sides. Canada gets another chunk of pristine wilderness and divests itself of a city that pumps untreated sewage into the ocean. We could send Lizzie May back to her home country, wouldn’t that be a relief. And the best part is that those that remain can keep their guns under the 2nd. Amendment. Well maybe the Lizzie May part is actually the better deal. But there are certain advantages./sarc!

    1. I think we should trade Quebec for the Northwest Angle. It would take a better negotiator than Trudeau to swing that one.

  3. The Resignation of General “Mad Dog” Mattis – Warrior Poet channel

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEoB0JmSn0Q (11:53)
    ———————————————————————————————————————————————————–
    L- He reads from General Mattis’s letter of resignation, but the Mattis quotes ending is the “Mad Dog” part.
    If America is threatened, he or some man like him would be there ready in a minute.
    “Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum”

    1. I spent much of the 1980s being on the dole and looking for work. Times were tough for a lot of people back then and, often, it wasn’t their fault. It was not unusual for someone to take several months, if not a year or so, before finding another job.

      But that didn’t wash with the elitists, particularly those on the left. I remember being told by someone, who was a seminarian at the time, that my lack of finding employment was because I wasn’t trying hard enough. Meanwhile, I could have papered my walls with the rejection letters I received, not to mention what being out of work did to other aspects of my life.

      Sadly, that attitude from the clergy was all too common. However, let a member of the oppressed group-du-jour be in dire straits, it seemed to be the only thing that would be talked about. In addition, let that person be in their most favoured “oppressed” country of the moment (Latin America and South Africa were chief among them), then one never heard the end of it. That person would be the subject of sermons and relief campaigns organized by congregations.

      Meanwhile, if one happened to be white, of European descent, and, worse, male and heterosexual, one simply didn’t exist as far as the aforementioned clergy was concerned. We were expendable in the war for “social justice”.

      Doesn’t that sound familiar?

      1. @ 8:55 am

        Lectures from clergy? Perhaps they should be taken with a grain of salt, with all due respect to the clergy, of course. After all, like you say, they “have jobs for life.” They do like to pontificate, talking is their job. Now, politicians have tried to take their place with the rhetoric. It’s endless.

        As far as finding work, It’s never easy. The most difficult part is actually ‘other people,’ they have a tendency to be:_____________ ______(fill in the blank with your word of choice, from a to z starting with azzhells to zany.)

        As a child, when I saw a local Shoemaker in a Montreal shop hunched over his work bench repairing leather shoes, I would admire his diligence. He never said anything more than “heh” or “hmm.” His family sold shoes to the whole neighbourhood and he made a decent living while living in the apartment on the second level. The guy didn’t have to answer to anyone, he was his own boss. They were there for years. I thought he had the right idea.

        Times have changed now, as we all know. I think that were I to be a 20 year old now today, I would move to the U.S.A., the capital of Capitalism. We are grossly underpaid in Canada, by comparison.

        As far as being a heterosexual WASP, I’ll take it, even as a female.
        I’ve no choice and neither do you, that’s what you are. One must wear it with pride, take a daily dose of vitamin ‘D’, be true to oneself, and most importantly, SMILE! ( ok, no smile, sometimes, it’s a groan if not a grind, ha!)

        1. ” I would move to the U.S.A., the capital of Capitalism. ”

          The USA barely hovers above Canada on economic freedom rankings. Hong Kong and Singapore are the freest economies, along with NZ. Some things are better in the US, but some things are worse.

      2. well BA, this response just gave me a bad flashback.
        at one point I sent a total fo some 200 resumes to *every* mainframe user in ontariowe that had one matching my experience, listing a host of ‘think outside the box’ innovations, education (working towards a comp sci BSc) etc

        this was mid 70s, so the phenomenon was already well entrenched. I got rejected in some case because I wasn’t a francophone, catholic, wtfever.

        fast forward a decade and Im on my way to a brand new career as a desktop PC trainer/retailer/programmer/etc
        I saw the winds of change blowing and walked away from the highest pd job I ever had because the DINOSAURS were on the verge of extinction. it happened even faster that I expected so the timing was spot on.

    1. NR, the Left will be SO excited by this news,now there’s even more incentive to elect Hillary! Imagine a Trudeau/Clinton alliance!

      Oooooh,what dreamy times lie ahead.

    2. Good heavens! If she thinks that being related to Celine Dion means that she can start singing in public…. Mind you, she might find a career as a professional moose-caller in case her (inevitable) next run for the White House doesn’t work out.

    3. There’s at least one “Fille du Roi” in our family tree. Do hope she’s not in HRC’ tree also.

    1. Then again, Mark Twain suggested that a cauliflower is simply a cabbage with a college education.

  4. Cologne: Not Your Father’s Silvesternacht:

    The truth about New Year’s Eve — Report of a police officer

    https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/01/cologne-not-your-fathers-silvesternacht/

    In the state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone, 38 (!) policemen and -women were injured on New Year’s Eve in action during peaceful New Year’s Eve celebrations, and in some cases have now been incapacitated for longer periods.

    Hundreds of colleagues were mobbed, spit on, insulted, beaten and kicked. Even firefighters and rescue workers were victims of almost exclusively “Muslim, Arab and Turkish hordes, which have created in many places civil war-like conditions.” And not only on the so-called Kölnberg.

    1. “What he told me draws a completely different picture from what the mainstream press tries to draw.”

      You kidding right? /s

    1. I suppose if a cat’s worth $2000, it’s entitled to have its own door, right?

  5. This is a typical example of CBC leftism. It’s really an empty column filled with an evil protagonist (Eddy Scarry) who criticizes Ocasio-Cortez’ clothing (I’m sure he’s gay, they do that a lot). And an admirer who can now be more Latino. Cortez (age 29) is the youngest warrior to enter the House and at $160,000 a year salary, she’s not looking back. No discussion of her ideas, other than she is pro-medicare and pro-immigration. But there is power in bright red lipstick.

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-423-instagram-influencers-the-last-days-of-august-healing-crystals-a-new-u-s-congress-and-more-1.4964846/how-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-made-one-d-c-law-clerk-finally-feel-represented-in-politics-1.4964882

    This piece reminded me of when Trudeau was first elected and columns about what his children wore for Halloween or what his business-woman slash feminist wife was wearing (she’s not a homemaker or stay-at-home mom if she has 2 servants). These are puff pieces designed to keep us stupid and blind followers of the elite.

    1. But there is power in bright red lipstick.

      We shouldn’t scoff. This country elected a Prime Minister who’s dumb as a rock, because there’s power in hair gel as well as, I’m sure, a few other cosmetic enhancements.

    2. In the late 1960’s, my younger sister used to buy “Teen” magazines, and occasionally I would read one when I had nothing better to do, and it was useful to tease my sister in one of our sibling duels. The type of reporting from those “fan mags” has segued into the mainstream, since the Obama election, and now reporting by the msm on their heroes is as embarrassing and puerile as those long ago articles on Bobby and Donnie in “Tiger Beat” and “Teen”.

      Wtf happened to the so-called information industry?

      1. Considering the drivel that the MSM fishwraps crank out about Prinz Dummkopf, they may as well be Tiger Beat and Teen.

    1. Not really UnMe.

      I read the response in the link and then listened to Tuckers actual remarks.
      “Tucker goes Full Fascist”, nice little alliteration there, but its just a piece of intellectual idiocy, and not at all a summary of what Tucker actually said.

      I hope you listened to what Tucker actually said instead of just reading the link you provided. There are lots of things worth discussing, or even debating, in what Tucker actually said.

      1. I know I did.

        “Market capitalism is a tool, like a staple gun or a toaster. You’d have to be a fool to worship it. Our system was created by human beings for the benefit of human beings. We do not exist to serve markets. Just the opposite. Any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society.”

        Or as Major Douglas put it, systems are made for man, not man for systems.

        Ultimately, globalism is in nobody’s interest. It’s a recipe for human extinction.

      2. Actually it’s literally fascism. He even says that the economic system should be geared to supporting ‘happy families’. This is actually a plank of old-school European fascism, as is the rest of his insane economically illiterate screed.

    1. Peterson, as is so often the case, argues by assertion and does not really address the point about his hypocrisy regarding free speech and his lawsuit. He just refers to a flimsy distinction between ‘legitimate’ speech and ‘slander’. No actual discussion. So he’s another whiny hypocrite thanks for clarifying that Jordan.

      1. The distinction between free speech and slander is not flimsy. It is solidly founded on centuries of jurisprudence. One can state an opinion, for example, it is my opinion that you are a knob. It is another to make claims falsely, that is, knowing what you are saying is false but saying it regardless to harm the reputation of another. For example, You, UnMe, are a rampant paedophile. The former may get one’s dander up. The latter gets your lawyer some work.

        1. The colleague he’s suing compared Peterson to Hitler, based on Peterson’s own column. That clearly fits into the first category. The judge should throw this out and hang the costs on Jordy. Otherwise it’s a dangerous precedent.

      2. UnMe.

        Are you an Intellectual? I enjoy your discussion style. You often ask for a citation. Then when someone supplies a citation, you quickly come back with one point does not a trend make.
        As for your comments on Peterson above, you are also arguing by assertion.

        Oh, as an intellectual, your last sentence requires some punctuation.
        But then again, maybe you also are just “another whiny hypocrite thanks for clarifying that UnMe”.

        Thanks for my daily laugh at liberal intellectuals.

        1. Where does JP actually argue his point vis a vis his lawsuit not actually infringing on free speech?

          He’s a crappy intellectual. A BS artist. Listen to him talk he just goes in incomprehensible circles.

      3. Fits you perfectly, thanks for playing.

        They conducted two online studies with over 1,200 people, giving personality tests to each subject along with a survey about their Internet commenting behavior. They were looking for evidence that linked trolling with the “Dark Tetrad” of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.

        They found that Dark Tetrad scores were highest among people who said trolling was their favorite Internet activity. To get an idea of how much more prevalent these traits were among Internet trolls, see this figure from the paper:

        Look at how low the Dark Tetrad scores are for everyone except the trolls! Their scores for all four traits soar on the chart. The relationship between trolling and the Dark Tetrad is so significant that the authors write in their paper:

        “… the associations between sadism and GAIT (Global Assessment of Internet Trolling) scores were so strong that it might be said that online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists.”

        ~ Jennifer Golbeck Ph.D.

  6. Our hardworking immigrant families … starting businesses … and CON-tributing to America …

    https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/03/san-ramon-defense-contractors-charged-with-money-laundering-fraud-conspiracy/?campaign=ebtoakland&+utm_email+=B40A0438E48545B9E48D244182&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.eastbaytimes.com%2f2019%2f01%2f03%2fsan-ramon-defense-contractors-charged-with-money-laundering-fraud-conspiracy%2f&utm_campaign=bang-ebt-nl-oakland-news-nl&utm_content=automated

    Hmmm ? … no, it appears as though the Singh family has been CON-artists, STEALING from the American taxpayers … CON-tributing to American CRIME. Not to worry though, they will all receive gentle wrist slaps, and congratulated for learning how to bilk the taxpayers so easily … because have darker skin than we olllllllld Americans.

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