December 31, 2020 – Reader Tips

Reader Tips 97 Comments

To begin this last day of the year, we zoom back to 1956 to watch this beautiful documentary about  simpler times in Canada.

Feel free to share your retrospectives of the year that was and/or offer some predictions for 2021.

On a personal note, I want to offer major thanks and gratitude to the SDA regulars who have inspired, educated, and often amused us all throughout the year.  Your contributions DO matter!

97 Replies to “December 31, 2020 – Reader Tips”

    1. Colonista: Awesome list. I should send this to my neighbour, SVP in oil and gas media, who thinks the Republicans are trying to hurt democracy by even suggesting that the election was rigged. The Hunter Biden cover-up was democracy in action?? If those actions didn’t influence the election then why did the MSM and big tech go out of their way to bury the story, or why spread lies about the story being Russian interference?

    2. Is it my laptop, or is bitchute always so slow to buffer? Have tried several times to watch content and get a few seconds in and it stalls.

  2. 1956: the year my mother and I joined my father in Edmonton, coming over from Berlin.

    It was quite an experience for us, though, being a wee tyke, I don’t remember any of it. I think that was the first time that my father heard about the Grey Cup and he couldn’t understand why people were so excited that the Edmonton Whose-original-name-must-never-be-mentioned-agains (Eskimos! Eskimos! Eskimos! There–I said it!) won.

    Also, New Year’s Eve, according to my mother, my father came home with a family present: our first TV set. The original chassis and picture tube ended up in the dump around 15 years later, the set having given up the ghost. All that remains of it are parts of the wooden cabinet and that might end up in the dump as well as I continue settling my father’s estate.

      1. Thanks.

        Actually, “die Mauer” wasn’t built until well after we left, so neither my parents or I have any recollection of it. None of us have ever been back, so we’ve never even seen it first-hand.

        None of us had any problem in crossing the “pond”, though, as our part of the city was in the British Sector, so emigrating to Canada was no problem, particularly since the government was actively recruiting skilled workers due to the booming post-war economy.

        1. We were stationed overseas, but returned before the wall was built.
          My youngest sister was stationed there, when the wall came down and managed to gift me with a small paper bag of the wall’s concrete.
          Its around here somewhere…

      2. I listened to that song a few minutes ago.

        I’m sure it has special meaning to Joachim Krauledat, who was born in what used to be Ostpreußen (East Prussia), which eventually became part of the Soviet Union. Krauledat is now better known as John Kay and, according to the Wikipedia page about him, his family had their own story to tell about coming to the west:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kay_(musician)

        1. Yes, that song was his autobiography. IMHO one of the most underrated rockers. most people know Born to Be Wild, maybe Magic Carpet Ride but there is a lot of other good tunes. He is a bit of leftie, but well, judge for yourself, quite prophetic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJeruxAlBLE

          A bit of trivia Canada has produced two brilliant blind rockers: Jeff Healey and John Kay (yes John is legally blind too)

      1. Never been back. Neither my parents or I ever had the desire to. Germany is a completely foreign country to me.

        I guess in their case, it’s understandable, as they may have preferred to remember things the way they were. For me, I never saw the point but, for much of my life, I was concentrating on my studies and making a living.

    3. They named themselves the Edmonton Eunuchs in honour of that fact that 78% support from Eskimos in the Western Arctic wasn’t enough.

  3. A time when the Dominion of Canada had a flag, thank you very much, proudly displayed in the film. The Red Ensign.

    Never forget that the Maple Leaf was a Librano invention designed to appease people who refused to accept the result of the battle of the Plains of Abraham more than 200 years after the fact (and still do).

    1. Actually it was Mrs. Pearson who inspired the Pearson rag. Lester adopted it after he accidentally kicked over the trash can in the bathroom.

  4. There are times that I’m genuinely embarrassed and ashamed of my relatives.

    My elderly aunt has become a vaccine evangelist (“Every vaccine shall be exalted and your health made low…..”) She simply can’t understand why I don’t “safeguard” myself by swallowing the government’s bilge about that gunk hook, line, and sinker, without question and without hesitation.

    Then again, I suspect that she gets her news only from the MSM, who would never lie to her. Unfortunately, her son, my cousin, isn’t much better.

    Then again, that side of the family always thought it knew it all and thought it was much smarter than me. It makes me glad I don’t have any in-laws.

    1. I can give you a small flash back to Germany in Baden-Baden in spring of 1983 for one month. I was deployed there with the Canadian Military and one of my most favorite postings. The best beer that I have ever tasted was from there with pubs just about on every block. Everyone was so extremely friendly and the architecture gorgeous and so clean. Did an awful lot in that one month from driving on the autobahn to being on a train for 2 days looking at the farms passing by.
      Didn’t get much chance to actually go off base and be in the deployments as our time there was so short.

      1. As a good buddy puts it, “Family – the original F-word”. Yeah, two of mine are dyed-in-the-wool proto-commies…

        1. With my aunt and cousin displaying such foolishness, I’m glad those are the only 2 immediate rellies I have left in this country, not counting his sons.

          The rest are in Europe. I’ve only met one of them in person when she came to Canada for a visit more than 50 years ago and briefly spoke with two more on the telephone. The rest are complete strangers to me and I got the impression that I’d be well advised to keep it that way.

  5. There is a name for people like Hilaria Baldwin – Blackfish. Sort of. Blackfishing is an act commonly perpetrated by white women to appear of African or Arab ancestry. Blackfishing is the new black face. Maybe Trudeau was ahead of his time.
    This blogger makes the case that Ariana Grande is one because she is white, Italian specially, and has darkened her skin and thickened her lips as her career has progressed, except in Vogue covers where she is blonde with freckles. Maybe it’s working. I read that Grande is worth about $150M US.

    https://thetab.com/uk/2019/02/08/ariana-grande-is-a-blackfish-and-these-are-the-receipts-91714

    I guess her haters haven’t noticed that about half the world is engaged in white cultural appropriation, for profit.

      2. B.A.D.R. – My point exactly. He was one of the first trans-racial people, soon to be a protected species I’m sure.

        And Oz, that’s an old joke. Or is it? A joke that is…

        1. I heard it in the Rattlesnake Saloon at Brentwood Village Mall in Calgary a couple of decades ago. (8>D

  6. Quite the coincidence that the only person mentioned by name in the whole thing was a Liberal MP who became PM 6 years later? Or was our media full of Liberal bias even then?

    2. Dirtman, I understand that the “VP-elect”” has still not given up her senate seat. That’s almost 2 months after the leftist world declared them clear victors.

      Does that sound like a woman confident that her party just fairly won an election and she is destined to become president?

      1. It sounds fairly common. I believe when Biden ran with Obama the first time, he simultaneously ran for reelection to the Senate and won handily of course, since Delaware would elect a baboon to the Senate so long as it had a (D) after its name.

        I don’t even think Obama himself resigned from his Senate seat (he still had two years left in his term I believe) until fairly close to the inauguration.

        Standard practice for swamp dwellers.

        Besides in 6-24 months she’ll be POTUS anyway.

    3. She is not eligible. She is not a natural born American. I am pretty sure Pelosi knows this and will step in at the right time to ensure her own ascension to the honour of “first woman pres.”
      The other possibility of course is that Trump will stay on. While many do not think this is likely, there was too much corruption around the election to allow for any kind of peaceful transition. Martial law? Biden’s corruption and control by China is well known by Trump and the military. Biden being allowed to assume power would be disastrous.

        1. Yep! You can’t get more natural born than natural born. Parental citizenship is totally irrelevant unless they are visiting diplomats, I believe.

          Amendment XIV
          Section 1.
          All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

          2. Article II Section one takes precedent. President Trump also questioned Ted Cruze’s eligibility.

            No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

          3. – Obie was born in Kenya. He even advertised himself at Harvard as a “Kenyan-born author”.

            I remember seeing a picture of the birth certificate he finally presented – only too obviously photoshopped.

          4. Even if Obama was born in Kenya he would still have been born an American citizen. Ted Cruz was born in Canada and fully expected to be qualified. The physically born in the U.S. thing is horse crap. Natural born citizen simply means born a citizen as opposed to “naturalized.” It is rare to find anyone who went to law school who thinks otherwise. For the record, Supreme Court judges have been to law school.

    1. That is very explosive! Very brave of Wood! I don’t believe he is just fishing. Too dangerous. He must be certain of his facts. So — will anyone pay attention. If they can get the truth to come out on any of those pedos, a lot more will fall.

  9. Blackie’s CBC is excited that the socialist government of British Columbia, has banned alcohol sales after 8 tonight. The peasants do not know how to control themselves, so the government has to step in. The CBC also trashed Trump for the slow vaccine roll out. No mention of Blackie’s Operation Sloth’s total failure. And the CBC reminds everyone that Dear Leader is doing a great job compared to evil Doug Ford.

    1. With this government lockdowns and screw ups, I keep wondering how Ford can hire all these massive amount of care workers that need to be trained as the current ones burn out. You can’t hire anyone off the streets and this shortage is getting worse.
      Add to this the new regulations that many businesses now have to add as more fines are issued to businesses trying but still are violating the new reopening requirements.

    2. John’s post says that “…the CBC also trashed Trump for a slow vaccine rollout”.

      The corrupt CBC will not comment on the speed on the rollout in Canada. From the yesterday’s daily tips thread, a poster posted a link to a data list of the percentage of individuals who have received the shot. According to the link, .8% of U.S. citizens have received the vaccine. In Canads, .4% have received the shot. So on a per-capita basis, twice as many Americans so far have received the shot.

      Watch our corporate media continue to dump on Trump, praise Trudeau during the rollout.

      1. That is the only good news I have heard. The longer it takes them to want to put that gunk in my arm, the better.

      2. How about Kameltoe Harris. Last month she swore she’d never take,”the Trump vaccine. ”

        Saw her getting injected with the Trump vaccine- big smile. Hypocrisy

    2. Read the AP story on her, they mention that she was living in some kind of personal care home and that she needed help from a GoFundMe a couple of years ago to pay her medical bills, indicating that this was not a well woman. But the ‘rona definitely got her, it wasn’t that she was an old, sick woman.

  13. Here is a story that the media is giving little attention to and will bury fast. Blackie’s CTV reports that China sought to pay non state actors to attack American forces in Afghanistan.

  14. Predictions for 2021:
    — in Georgia, the Democrats will sweep the two Senevents seats, given McConnell blockIng of the $2000 monthly payments, corporate media support for the Democrats and the usual Democrat voting fraud. Thus the Democrats control all three houses, the investigation committees, and so will stop any investigations into Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, etc. ;

    — consequently the Democrat government will spend like crazy, limit private sector job creation, attack non-renewable energy, pay off the eco lobbies, and like Obama engage inbsuper-corruption — all of which will help trigger inflation;

    –Chiha will invade Taiwan and President Harris will appease Xi Jinping and do nothing.

    1. McConnell is intentionally losing the Senate. He wants to go back to minority status and blame it all on Trump. He genuinely does not give a damn what’s best for America; he is thoroughly bought and paid for by corrupt China loving globalists, especially the vile American Chamber of Commerce.

      He and the GOP establishment will then pull out their Obama era playbook of “send us money and vote for us to stop the Democrats!” playbook, positioning themselves as “lesser of two evils” and giving true patriotic Americans no good choice for their votes. Only two wings of the same Uniparty bird.

      As Sundance says, once you see the strings, you can’t go back to when you didn’t see them.

      1. McConnell may be in danger. Did you see those bruised hands about 6 weeks ago? The rest of his family may be being threatened. Not surprising he would want to go back to minority status. Too many of these politicians have sold their souls and there is no escape.

        1. I.M., I agree with your points. My superficial view is that McConnell is a Bush-styled “country-club Republican” with little empathy for working and retired people, those suffering during the lockdowns. I haven’t kept up with the details about the fight between the Republicans and the Ttump/Democrat side, and the Republicans have a point about overspending on the parts not going to households. But holding up any payments to after January 20th deliberately sabotages the Georgia Senate races.

    2. Kameltoe will too take action. She will get down on her knees before Xi and make an “O” with her mouth.

    1. Liberals adopting the UN UNDRIP pretty much gives natives control over much of our economic activity, particularly as it relates to resources. Bye, bye Canada. How could Canadians have allowed this to happen?

  17. Kelley McParland at the National Post, asks who is China trying to fool? Well, I would say the little girly boy who is running Canada, and of course China Joe will soon be helping our little dictator in that regard.

  18. Last day of the Year of The Scamdemic where many of us learned or had re-enforced that Canadians love to be told what to do, what to think, what to say and how to fall in line like sheeple going to the abattoir.
    But even more we learned how they like to mind other people’s business and how the majority will rat out their neighbor in heartbeat.
    Individual liberty is a foreign concept to the vast majority of Canadians.

    Despite the election “result” I still have a lot of hope for our protectors to the south.

  20. In plain language these vaccines WILL NOT prevent someone from contracting the covid flu and these vaccines WILL NOT prevent someone from transmitting the covid flu to others. All these vaccines do is reduce the severity should you contract the covid flu.
    A lot of folks have been fooled again thinking these vaccines will prevent them from getting the covid flu.

    December 28, 2020
    WHO chief scientist says not enough evidence that COVID vaccine prevents infection.
    At a press conference on Monday, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said that there is not enough evidence that the new COVID vaccines prevent infection.
    Dr. Swaminathan said “I don’t believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it’s going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore passing it on.”
    “I’m interested in your views on how you think the vaccine will work in the context of elimination?” A reporter from the Sydney Morning Herald asked.
    The reporter noted that countries in her region have done well with elimination, but asked “what does that mean, in the long term, where people are vaccinated overseas. Does that ensure that they are not a risk traveling to countries that have almost zero community transmission? Or do you think that those who have been vaccinated will still need to quarantine if they’re going to countries that have low transmission?”
    “I think that’s a really important question,” Dr. Swaminathan replied, “and I think that what we’re learning now and we continue to wait for more results from the vaccine trials, is to really understand if these vaccines, apart from preventing symptomatic disease and severe disease and deaths, whether they are also going to reduce infections, or preventing people from getting infected with the virus, prevent them from passing it on or transmitting it to others.
    “I think that at the moment, I don’t believe we have the evidence on any of the vaccines to be confident that it’s going to prevent people from actually getting the infection and therefore passing it on. I think until we know more, we need to assume that people who have been vaccinated also need to take the same precautions until there’s a certain level of herd immunity, of course, that’s been built into the population.
    “This is a dynamic and evolving field. Our understanding and our recommendations will change as we get more follow up data from these trials.”
    Her colleague Dr. Michael Ryan agreed. “I think it’s really important, he said, “that we also reflect on the main objective of the vaccine in the first roll out will be to prevent severe illness, prevent deaths, to protect front line workers and vulnerable people in our society.”
    He said that he hopes the vaccine is first offered to health care workers globally, and that the “first and primary objective is to decrease the impact that this disease is having on people’s lives, and therefore that will be a major step forward in bringing the world back to some kind of normal.”
    Ryan said that “I think we should be able to get good control of the virus,” but that full elimination required a “much higher degree of efficiency and effectiveness in the vaccination program.”

    1. That makes sense. The vaccines simply manipulate the body’s response. I don’t see how they could affect transmission. As far as reducing the severity for individuals, the vast majority already do not have a severe response, and some treatments are already available — HCQ, Ivermectin. Increasingly this massive rush to a vaccine just seems bizarre.

  21. I wish the absolute best for 2021 to the SDA-world and all fighting conservatives everywhere.

    I understand that Trump probably has a far smaller chance of keeping his presidency than the average QB has in actually connecting that game-winning Hail Mary pass. That said, I have refused to give up all hope because what the hell is there left with no hope?

    Haven’t been able to spend as much time here as usual these past months, so my apologies if this gentleman is already a well-known entity on this site. I am first to admit that once in a while I need some “positive reinforcement” and find him a good source and endless optimist on Trump’s chances. Where I have little doubt that the GOP will continue to actively sabotage Trump’s efforts, not help him, one clear thing that I have learned these past 4 years is that it is stupidstupidstupid to EVER underestimate Donald J. Trump.

    TRUMP Rushes to DC to STOP Biden Electoral Certification

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=868gIlGXItw

    Certainly he provides a credible source here, but I often find it hard watching many conservative YouTubers these days without feeling like an emotionally abused Rachel Maddow fan. Stop with the goddam ‘We Got Them Now’ headlines already when we never, ever see any action taken nor justice happen.

  28. And now your Canadians are racist bastards story for today. Blackie’s Globe and Mail is outraged at the systematic racism against Indian women in prison.

  29. Seriously???
    “Canada Offers to Take Illegal Aliens from the U.S.”
    The minister is now offering Canadian residency to several migrants in U.S. detention centers who face deportation, according to a pro-migration report in the newspaper.
    “If that’s what they want to do, more power to them,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He added: It saves us money because we don’t have to deport the people [from the United States]. Maybe it will create an incentive for these illegal immigrants to leave on their own. If there’s a place for them to go rather than return to their home country, then more of them might actually leave.
    http://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/12/30/good-news-canada-offers-to-take-illegal-aliens-from-the-u-s/

  30. At least some Shell Execs realize that ‘the world still needs fossil fuels’. The ones that don’t and are all in for subsidized giant mirrors and bird/bat chopping giant fans are likely grandstanding for paid work outside RDS with the green activist rent seeker organizations.

    https://theenergymix.com/2020/12/30/shell-faces-wave-of-resignations-as-execs-question-commitment-to-carbon-reduction-plan-2/?fbclid=IwAR3-Y_6vQCzPV9aTLTp9sLS81hM1Rss_LVMZZx1ohlVQ4Y4TDc6aPDobbmo

    This can only be viewed as good news, as it proves the braintrust with RDS and other conventional energy companies can still think rationally about energy. Now, if we could just get them to stop playing these silly games with NGO’s and governments…dare to dream.

    Happy New Year, SDA’ers and especially to Kate, our lovely and talented host and all-around inspiration!

  32. Ok you up tight hard ass conservatives IT NEW YEAR’S EVE.

    Push the table back, dim the lights, put you arm around your favorita, hand on her hip, ah the fragrance of her hair. It’s just like old times…

    Now set that stylus on the lp you’ve had for decades, Ella Fitzgerald’s, ‘What are you Doing New Year’s Eve’…..good bye 2020

  34. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
    The flying cloud, the frosty light:
    The year is dying in the night:
    Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

    Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
    The year is going, let him go;
    Ring out the false, ring in the true.

    Ring out a slowly dying cause,
    And ancient forms of party strife:
    Ring in the nobler modes of life,
    With sweeter manners, purer laws.

    Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
    The faithless coldness of the times;
    Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
    But ring the fuller minstrel in.

    Ring out false pride in place and blood,
    The civic slander and the spite;
    Ring in the love of truth and right,
    Ring in the common love of good.

    Ring out old shapes of foul disease:
    Ring out the narrowing lust of gold:
    Ring out the thousand wars of old,
    Ring in the thousand years of peace.

    Ring in the valiant man and free,
    The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
    Ring out the darkness of the land:
    Ring in the Christ that is to be.

    Alfred Tennyson The Year of Our Lord 1850

    1. I was going to congratulate you on a very fine poem — but I see it is Tennyson. Fine poem — thanks.

  35. How did the Rebel do with with their find raiser? It was purportedly to get rid of some bank loan.

    I think someone here reported they had reached the objective? I was just on their site and I see they are still seeking funds to pay off the banks.

    What gives?

        1. That’s fantastic! Thanks.
          (Btw – finished and enjoyed Traffik)

          P.s. I subscribe but rarely go to his site, I’ll have to change that soon.

  36. After reading all the crap on the sun globe and mail national post Toronto star etc it is easy to see why they need government subsidy to survive. What they report is so far from the truth it’s no wonder simple minded people vote liberal

  37. I am looking forward to the demise of the USA when Biden and the hoe take over, it is not going to be pretty. From what I read in the news the senate vote in Georgia is already rigged in favor of the dems. so they will be able to do unlimited damage. Joe could even suffer from Arkanside

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