94 Replies to “January 14, 2020: Reader Tips”

  1. Where ever you are in public, wearing a Rush t-shirt, someone will approach you to talk about this awesome trio.

    Rise in Peace Mr. Peart.

  2. I saw Rush only twice, both times with Max Webster (Kim Mitchell’s band) in the old hockey stadium and at the “Agribition building” in Regina, SK, 1975 and 1976, tickets were $5.50 and then $6.50

    Soundtrack to my youth… though I recall Rolling Stone Magazine giving all their albums “blocks” / no stars in their 1970’s album ratings book, before they got with the program.

    RIP Neil, this summed up their earlier years, complete with pops and scratches from the original album recording:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PykVVqDloE

    1. I saw Rush more times than I could comfortably count, starting with the Permanent Waves tour. I was blessed enough to be able to share them with my son; he joined me for the R40 tour and we will both remember that night on our death beds. Yes, it was that good. God rest your mighty soul, Neil. Oh yeah, put Peart/Lifeson/Lee on the fiver.

  3. So I am apparently too Luddite like to put a link here, but it was a link about Stephen Poloz of the big Canada bank announcing that the mint wants to replace Laurier on the five dollar bill.
    Apparently Canadians will be polled on who should replace the Laurier, who was the first French dude on a Canadian bill.
    I haven’t received notice of said poll, but apparently others have, resulting in a race for the new image being either Terry Fox, Roberta Bondar, or….Gord Downie as the fan fave so far.
    Well, then….with respect to Gord Downie. Sorry you got sick and died….really…but…that band was neither tragic nor hip enough for currency.
    if we as Canadians were to chose a musical Gord for our fiver, would it not, perforce, be Gordie Lightfoot, for God’s sake! He of the railway trilogy, the Edmund Fitzgerald, Alberta bound, et fooking cetera. Heck, even Gordon Pinsett over Downie. Three Gords, but not a Gordian Knot.
    Weigh in on the apparent poll for who should be on our five dollar bill. Let us avoid what happened to our ten dollar bill, which features some smarmy correct nobody instead of old John.
    Scuse the ramble…it is late and I drank too much whiskey, but I mean it! Vote!

    1. Don’t forget Downie was a friend of the idiot actor in the PMO… and yes, if has to be a Gord let it be a Gord that is at least worthy, although this crypto Marxist exercise seems to be more about erasing history rather than honouring it. Also the incredible Shays.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ5Bj_put0

      1. I think the basic problem with Downie and the Tragically Hip was their lack of any perceivable talent and their inability to produce a record that anyone wanted to buy. That alone is enough to make them Canadian icons. I lived in the day when Carol Baker used to beat out Anne Murray for the Juno Award. We are still waiting for Baker to sing her first note that isn’t flat. We’ve had many of the world’s best performers but always seemed to celebrate mediocrity.

        At least Rush had some talent. Note – it doesn’t matter how many drums or cymbals you have, you typically have 4 limbs and 8 beats to the bar and virtually nobody is going to tell a 4 drum/3 cymbal kit from a 20 drum/20 cymbal kit. Most of the biggest bands had the same basic drum kit as you see in mom’s garage.

      1. Nah. The fiver would be far too common for PET. He clearly needs a far greater denomination and should replace Sir Robert Borden on the $100. Borden only led Canada during WW I, but PET, well, he rescued Canada, didn’t he?

        1. Put Trudeau on the toilet paper – or put-up a statue of him; let the pigeons speak for us all.

          “Here richly, with ridiculous display,
          The politician’s corpse was laid away.
          While those of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
          I wept; for I had longed to see him hanged.”

          And as for replacing Laurier on the $5, leave him there; he did far more for the country than any musician, even Gordon Lightfoot. Anybody remember when Johnny C was trying to rename Mount Logan “Mount Trudeau”? If you must put a Canadian musician on a bill, why not Stompin’ Tom?

        2. BA, put him on a thousand dollar bill, indicative of the inflationary spiral he started.

          1. I was shocked to learn, just the other day, that Canada HAS a one-thousand-dollar bill. The biggest bill denomination in the U.S. is $100. Very interesting.

          2. They’re very uncommon; the gummint took all they could out of circulation once it became clear that Canadians’ main use for them was paying for things under the table.

    4. These people should be featured on a Canadian banknote:
      They sold their patent for insulin for $1:

      “On 11 January 1922 insulin was first used in the treatment of diabetes. Insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick G Banting, Charles H Best and JJR Macleod at the University of Toronto in 1921 and it was subsequently purified by James B Collip.Jan 11, 2010.”
      Source: Web

      1. Now that was truly science for the sake of science, and truly magnanimous by no less than four different people together. I assume they all had to agree.
        I would not have been quite so benign, even though money had never motivated me. But I would not see a problem with benefiting financially from my discovery. After all, the world would be much better off by it. Not filthy rich perhaps, but at least independently wealthy for the rest of my life, by getting a small percentage of the profit, which I could guarantee to be low by retaining the patent.
        Now onto (English) football. Liverpool has been accused of becoming lackadaisical, becoming too comfortable in their continued success, and putting out just enough effort to win. But that should not be a problem the next game. Liverpool have only been denied victory by one team in the first round robin. Of all teams, it has to be by their bitter traditional rivals in this their season of potentially the greatest glory. They will be motivated to make sure it will not happen again, by finding the back of the net every chance they can. I believe it can get ugly for Manchester United. We will see if I am right.

        1. Charles H Best was born in Maine but studied in Toronto Canada. You see our countries are interconnected Old Bruin!

          The telephone was another big invention done in Baddeck Nova Scotia by Scotsman AlexanderGraham Bell. Big bucks there! (I visited his summer home, there it is a museum there)

          Thanks for the sports update. I understand you like basketball too. If you don’t, well you should! Ha!
          That’s another Canadian invention too. The inventors used a peach basket and cut a hole in it and put it up high on the wall and played let’s see who can SCORE!!!

          Then there’s the zipper. Peanut butter. The snowmobile. The Wonderbra! Etc. Etc.

          1. But … but … if the nation wherein the invention is discovered is important, you cannot take basketball away from us.
            It is true James Naismith was born in Canada, but he emigrated to the United States. Canada claiming credit for Naismith would be like China claiming credit for me.
            It was in a gym in Springfield, Massachusetts that he nailed the basket to the wall. Of course it wasn’t that simple, he had invented the whole game and written the rules before he did that. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is located in Springfield.
            Did you say basketball? It was the passion and bane of my youth. I was very quick, but that was the only physical attribute I had for basketball. I had a good vertical leap, but it hardly mattered, starting from as low as I did. I have very small hands, and the single distinguishing physical feature of great players, tall or short, is large hands. And I had no depth perception. But it is part of my character to bang my head against the wall, or say, I loved challenges. (I majored in physics though I never got an A in it in HS.) So I was obsessed by playing and watching basketball. I made up somewhat by being a student of the game. For example, I got more than my share of rebounds by going to the spot where I think the ball will be, before it hits the rim, and I was right often enough. Still, the best you could say about my play, just in intramurals and pick up games, was probably barely adequate.
            It was my luck to have gone to UCLA (hence my screen nick) when the greatest basketball coach ever, John Wooden, coached there. Though I graduated before his national championship years, I claim that as part of my basketball heritage. Ask me about those years and you will never hear the end of it.

      2. They’re all white and they’re male, which automatically disqualifies them right there. But, they also used parts of dead animals to make the insulin, and that would make the PETA/vegan crowd mad.

        Mind you, I’m sure the lefties wouldn’t object to Louis Riel’s image on the fiver. He’s practically a hero in Saskatchewan. (Louie’s pub on the university campus in Saskatoon was, apparently, named so in his honour.)

    5. No musicians and frankly the politicians can all FO as well as any activists and no Tecumseh or any other We Were Here First Nation. No people. F**k em all. F**k history while the SJW’s are in charge, that’s for sure. Bunch of Full Retards.
      Birds, animals, insects.

      1. Buddy, too bad they would not work at making our dollar worth a dollar again as opposed to the pennies it is now worth.

        1. Syd, I just lost a post due to captcha. I don’t know if I can regain what I said, but here goes. I lived very close to Taylor’s ranch/farm where raised his horses. I also spent time in Nassau where he built Lyford Cay, a millionaires subdivision. He also ran horses there for many years. I guess being the chairman of the bank of commerce allowed him the money to do such wonderful things.

    7. Never pass on an opportunity to cause mischief for the laurentian Elite.

      Suggest that they put Mogentaller on the five dollar bill. Then they can explain why they worship abortion.

      1. Don’t give them ideas. I am sure they would seriously consider doing something like this as a deliberate poke at social conservatives and Christians.

      2. Leave the $5 alone,in honour of Can Ahh Duh create a whole new denomination the three dollar bill,with both Trudeau’s on it.
        This would capture the spirit of the age in a way that modifying the $5 will never do.
        And would be the perfect end note for the death of the Confederated Kleptocracy.

    8. More destruction of our heritage. It’s the Liberal agenda, intended to please their globalist masters.

    9. All of those people are too contemporary to warrant being part of what should be an historical tribute. Will future generations have any idea who Downie is? Why should they? If they must replace Laurier, the figure chosen should be some one who has made a broad social contribution that ALL Canadians can identify with. I think it is a mistake to get rid of Laurier.

    1. It is funny how all of those celebrities were so definitive in 2015. It just goes to show you how absolutely stupid these people are in actuality. Every one of these morons is still trying to get Trump out of the Oval Office. It is going to be so delicious watching him get re-elected in November, with BOTH the House and Senate majorities, and all of these morons eating another 4 years of the greatest President in the history of the Republic. I wonder if they have an orange hill on Mt. Rushmore.

    2. I also love this – one of the many reasons I no longer watch Tom Hanks, George Clooney or MOST of Hollywood. I am enjoying Spanish (learning to speak Spanish) soap operas and British series showing on Netflix.
      I say a prayer for President Trump, his family, the Queen and her family (NOT the Sussex duo!) each night that God and the universe protect and bless them.

    1. How the f**k do you menstruate when you don’t have ovaries, fallopian tubes etc?
      So all of a sudden there is talk of free tampons because some trannies can’t afford them. No wonder some feminists hate them.

  8. Now that the “Holiday” is over, its time for the annual muslim sue the taxpayer festival. This year Blackie’s media is excited that the muslim professor who was extradited to France is suing the government for 90 million dollars. I’m sure Blackie The Gay Pirate is already getting the cheque book out, and will make a tearful apology. And evidence has come out that the CEO of Maple Leaf Foods was pressuring Blackie not to impose sanctions or be mean to China. It seems the Laurentian elites love China but hate America. Just ask Jean Charest.

      1. Yes, that’s why we invite so many in. So we have more people to taunt. Doesn’t everyone know this already?

        Like that abominable racist John Cleese who was evidently so triggered by London not being British anymore that he moved to a place where he’s surrounded by black people. Obviously a white supremacist. (/sarc)

  9. Lilley at the Toronto Sun website has a story on Blackie the Gay Pirate trashing Trump.

        1. My thoughts exactly. The man can only speak in meaningless platitudes and cliches. Sadly, that signals how many Canadians think.

      2. As usual, entitled Liberal millionaires just don’t get it.

        Some of them on purpose.

        Asra Q. Nomani, PI
        ‏Verified account @AsraNomani

        Asra Q. Nomani, PI Retweeted Maple Leaf Foods

        I understand @MapleLeafFoods CEO Michael McCain wrote this thread from a place of anger & grief but he expresses partisan anti-Trump hate with no empathy for 40 yrs of grief by the people of Iran now in the streets against the uncontained dictators of IRAN, not Trump or the USA.

        Senator Leo Housakos
        ‏Verified account @SenatorHousakos

        Senator Leo Housakos Retweeted Jeff Stewart

        McCain wrote to me to back off our motion calling for Magnitsky sanctions vs China. He cited concern for his employees, ie the impact on their jobs. He didn’t seem overly concerned abt human rights then & he didn’t seem overly concerned abt his employees & their jobs last night.

  10. It’s-28C in Calgary, -33C in Edmonton. It’s dark so solar is producing zero.

    Only 3 of 23 windfarms are operating. 20 are producing zero power. Aren’t you glad you’ve got natural gas for heat? Or hydrocarbon based electricity.

    If Alberta was wind and solar powered tens of thousands would be dead.

    1. Wind – 50/1781 of capacity. Is that money well spent Albertans? Solar 0/15. Hydro 128/894. Let’s hear it for fossil fuels for 9873/13270.

    1. That one’s real simple. Why were they flying? – because they were cleared to.

      Same exactly as MH-17; why were they flying over a war zone in which several aircraft had been shot-down by SAM’s in the preceding couple of days? – because that’s how they were routed by Air Traffic Control; or that’s how they flight-planned the route, and Air Traffic Control cleared them on it. If ICAO had issued a sternly-worded NOTAM that the area was unsafe, no commercial flight would’ve flown within a hundred miles of it. Likewise Tehran; no flights would’ve gone into the airspace if ICAO had warned them off – although to be honest, one is left wondering why Tehran would’ve been seen as a danger area beforehand, considering that it’s an international airport and all the tit-for-tatting with missiles was happening more than a hundred miles away.

      This one is on ICAO’s head – and ultimately, it’s Iran’s fault. Sue the airline? – what could the airline have done differently? Pretty sure they wouldn’t’ve flown into Tehran that day if they knew beforehand that they were going to get shot down; file that under “D’uh”. But airlines got to either fly or go broke; this incident amounted to nothing more than a terrible $crew-up, and Ukrainian Air is blameless.

      So unless the lawyers can get this before the U.S. Ninth Circus, or a Russian court ( – they still hate the Ukraine – ), I don’t see much hope for this lawsuit. As the lawyer screamed in Jurassic Park while he was sliding down T-Rex’s gullet, “I’LL SUUUuuueee…”

        1. Willing to bet anybody like that wouldn’t’ve made it aboard the plane in the first place – Iran certainly wouldn’t put itself into the hideously embarrassing position it’s in, just to get rid of one guy.

    1. Gridwatch is really interactive and you can click on a specific facility within each power source.
      Mid-day Report: Wind: 3.0%, Solar 0.3%, And Bio at 0.1%

      All the eagle killers are pretty much producing up to capacity. There are 34 sites.
      The Atikokan Bio-fuel plant was converted from coal in 2014. Its owned by OPG. Its producing 0 power today.

  13. Just curious; does anyone know the range of a Tesla when it is -30C?

    And the range of the car if one wanted to drive without the windows frosting up? Or do we have to install those plastic windshield frost prevention devices? Sorry I forget what they are called. I remember each winter my dad used to install them on the car side windows.

    1. Try taking corrosion measurements of bare steel pipe in weather like that. Because of where it was in the plant, I had to sit on it and it didn’t matter how many layers of clothing I had on.

  15. Blackie The Gay Pirate’s Globe and Mail reports this morning to its readers in downtown Toronto that Blackie is wonderful. His response to the Iran plane tragedy was perfect. He is perfect.

    1. ….and as for the new five dollar bill, I think PET and Blackie should be on the bill. Since we’re going for the third world look in Canada why would our currency be any different? Every third world nation worth its salt puts Wonderful Supreme Leader on its $$ and with father and son you’d have a hydra-headed twofer.

  16. I’m shocked!! Unifor journalist at Blackie’s Toronto Star trashes Trump, but says Trump has the right approach towards Iran. In fact the writer says he is doing a better job than Obama in regards to Iran. But he is still Hitler.

  17. Heavy snow has claimed the lives of dozens of people in the Himalayan region of Kashmir (and Pakistan and Afghanistan). Is this the same region where the glaciers are disappearing due to lack of snow?

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pakistan-afghanistan-harsh-weather-deaths-1.5424685

    Why yes it is…

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/3/100324-himalaya-glacier-melt-water/

    “My father tells me the tip of the glacier used to be there”. Queue the photo of the child shoveling the snow off the family roof.

  22. California should be renamed Hypocrisy

    It seems some of the California municipalities that are suing oil companies over climate change, do not mention climate change and sea level rise in their own municipal bond offerings.

    In addition why is the state of California widening roads so more cars can use them?

    https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/01/11/california-climate-change-hypocrisy-exposed-by-big-oil-commentary.html?__twitter_impression=true

    The more I see the actions of socialists re climate change the more I realize it’s just a tax grab and wealth redistribution scheme.

  24. “Put Trudeau’s daddy on the five dollar bill!”
    Thats rediculous. It should be a worth Canadian, not some commie cuban.

      1. The Two Dollar whore issue. Definitely need a beaver felling a tree on the back. Or a cougar climbing one?

  26. Blackie The Gay Pirate’s CBC is having a great time running that interview where stupid blames Trump for the Iran plane tragedy. And in a stunning example of poking the bear, they have their Justin fan girl Katie Simpson asking members of Congress in Washington for their reaction to the interview. That’s right CBC make sure you piss off the U.S. even more at Canada. The CBC is also upset at Hitler Harper giving a talk in India today, where he trashed Iran and gave his support again to Israel and the Jews. Harper is evil.

    1. Upsetting but not surprising. In Canada, we do not seek to take down terrorists. We pay them millions of dollars. It is enough to make me ashamed of being a Canadian.

  29. Toronto Star has its muslim with a bag over her head, explain that the Iran plane tragedy is Trump’s fault. Trump is Islamophobic and is picking on poor Iranians. Canada must reverse evil Harper’s decision to close the embassy, and reopen ties with Iran.

  31. Shades of Hillary Clinton. Post Millennial reports on how the prime ministers office uses dodgy email practices. And it has a story on how the CBC is losing advertising revenue big time, asking for more money, and only 1% of Canadians watch its local newscasts.

  32. Brand new release from James O’Keefe.

    “Bernie Sanders Campaign Organizer Says ‘F**king Cities Burn’ If Trump Gets Reelected, According To Project Veritas Video”
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/14/bernie-sanders-campaign-staffer-jurek-burn-gulag-reeducation-trump-project-veritas-video/

    Anyway there is this communist Kyle Jurek that promises, if Bern does not get the nomination in Milwaukee, the place is going to burn.
    Has admiration for Stalin and gulag, reeducation camps and other such novelties of the communism.
    Of course is one does not submit, one will be eliminated.
    This is a communist in today’s free country of USA.
    One have to ask a serious question, how do these people become idiots in a free country?
    How do these people learn how to lie to themselves not to say to everyone else?

  33. A tale of two orifices.
    One, the mouth of a great and wise leader who understands context and ebbs and flows of history.
    The other from a horse’s ass.

    “Harper went on to say that while other countries in the Middle East are “increasingly trying to work together,” Iran is the one actor that isn’t participating. “You have this one actor that, quite frankly, is based on religious fanaticism and regional imperialism,” Harper said.”

    Or we could all just gather round the peace campfire, allowing proper consultation with UN and domestics collectivist cabals:

    “This is something that happens when you have conflict and war. Innocents bear the brunt of it and it is a reminder why all of us need to work so hard on de-escalation, moving forward to reduce tensions and find a pathway that doesn’t involve further conflict and killing,” No need to tell who’s quote that is.

    What pathway is that again? It’s amazing we’re not dead yet.

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/harper-calls-for-iranian-regime-change-in-wake-of-downed-jet-1.4766614

  35. Alberta’s electricity operator issues emergency alert as cold snap spikes demand

    January 14, 2020 Express Informer

    The Alberta Energy System Operator has issued an energy emergency alert as the province’s extreme cold snap causes a spike in demand for electricity.

    A Level 1 alert was issued at 5:18 p.m., meaning all available resources in the energy market have been used to meet the load but that some reserves were still available.

    That alert was upgraded to a Level 2 at 7:20 p.m., stating those reserves are now being used and emergency energy is being requested from neighbouring areas.

    https://expressinformer.com/albertas-electricity-operator-issues-emergency-alert-as-cold-snap-spikes-demand/

    1. Out here at the trap shack were operating at energy level 0. The wood stove is chugging away radiating the most pleasant heat available.

      Osso buco (moose shank) is almost ready. Friends over for dinner. The bar is open.

      Lifes good.

  36. The political show on Blackie’s CTV tonight blamed Trump and we should reopen the embassy in Tehran. They also trashed Hitler Harper for being in India where he was trashing Iran and supporting Israel. Harper is also evil because he is in India which is persecuting muslims. But they all agree that Blackie is wonderful. Same story at Blackie’s CBC. And the Bloc leader stated today that Quebec should not have to pay for Harry’s security. There is the kettle calling the pot black.

  37. National Post reports that Blackie The Gay Pirate will be spending 800 million dollars to upgrade some of the aging fighter jet fleet.

  38. I don’t think this is a problem if the person is just a speech writer. It’s not like it’s official business or anything. Justin’s speeches never contain anything particularly meaningful.

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