66 Replies to “April 14, 2021: Reader Tips”

    1. Two physicians can kiss their careers good-bye. They violated the (unofficial) 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not question.”

      The government, and it doesn’t matter which level, will not take kindly to their comments.

    2. I couldn’t have put it better myself. “Oh, but your not a medical expert”, counter my opponents, “what do you know?”. Well, I am pretty adept at thinking logically and I can read.

      1. Well, I am pretty adept at thinking logically and I can read.

        That still won’t persuade them. Unless you’re a physician, even if you have a doctorate in a different scientific or technical field, people aren’t going to take you seriously.

        1. Arguing with people who have a severe “appeal to authority” personality is futile.

          They’ll walk right into the mass graves if someone behind a podium instructs them to.

    3. I clicked your link and it took me to a Patty Mayo “bounty hunter” video, according to the internet Mayo is not a real bounty hunter and he admits that all his videos are staged with paid actors.

    4. Ward, thank you. Yes. YES. That is MUST WATCH.

      They mention common sense. I have zero medical or scientific qualifications but yet I was already fully apprised of every single point made by both doctors. Every single one. So this info was freely available to every responsible citizen to perform due diligence research.

  1. April 14, 1981: the space shuttle Columbia lands successfully. The following NASA documentary, Space Shuttle: A Remarkable Flying Machine, describes the mission:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1r9R-WLOwI

    It includes some rather neat footage of the launch that wasn’t shown in the original TV coverage. Watch how the whole spacecraft rocks back and forth after the space shuttle main engines come up to full thrust.

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    don’t let the bedbugs… sweet baby jebus!

    “Police have busted a mattress-making factory in
    India’s Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district found using
    discarded virus masks, in place of cotton or other
    material
    , to stuff its products.”

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    1. I was always taught all cultures are equal.

      But I don’t think a mattress factory in Mississauga or Lethbridge or Reno or Cleveland would do that.

      Beijing maybe.

      Not Mississauga though.

      Maybe the teachers in 1982 were wrong

      1. In defence of the mattress people, may be they are washing/sterilizing the masks before using. Someone needs to figure out something to do with those masks which are now a major pollutant.

    2. They didn’t name the brand. Is it one of those miracle beds in a box that magically inflate when you open the box and give you the best damn sleep you’ll ever have? Instagram tells me they’re the best ever.

  3. Breaking News from the Washington Post, where democracy died in darkness under dRumpf!
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/kamala-harris-crochet-dc/2021/04/12/7237cd06-8e6b-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html

    “When Vice President Harris visited a woman-owned yarn shop in Alexandria last month, she mentioned a little-known fact about herself that left the fiber arts community a bit giddy.

    The new vice president is a crocheter.

    “I was raised by a mother who said ‘I am not going to let you sit in front of that television doing nothing.’ And so I have crocheted more afghans than I can tell you,” Harris said while visiting the store. “And our daughter is a knitter.”

    Excellent hard hitting journalism, just like the CBC!

    1. Almost makes me want to give up crocheting for knitting. But then my grannies taught me, so will stick with what I know.

    2. It should be a natural activity for her. After all, she made a career out of pulling the wool over other people’s eyes, hasn’t she?

    1. I’m trying to buy down in preparation of future retirement; bloody difficult.

  4. The Trudeau cult’s CBC celebrates this morning, that if an election was held today in Alberta the NDP(commies) would win a majority.

    1. Good find Jojo, but I think the behavioral psychology used by governments hasn’t changed in millenia.

      Obey or we will punish you; protest and we will beat you; comply and we will let you survive.

    2. I think the antidote to misleading government “nudging” messages is to research things yourself, at which point, the level of misinformation and manipulation can be quite alarming. Unfortunately, most people do not research for themselves, and the media has dropped the ball on keeping people informed regarding actual Covid science, and analysis of policies. Instead it’s all about deaths and “cases.”

      Another factor is the human tendency to want to fit in with the crowd. I am sensing that those getting the vaccine are pretty vocal about letting others know, presumably by way of getting group approval, Those refesisting the vaccine are pretty much keeping their mouths shut. I am keeping my mouth shut — unless asked.

    1. My only problem with guys like Robson is that they always fall short in a very boomer way.

      He outlines all this insane things about Canadian modernity and concludes we need to demand more transparency.

      That’s it? You really think that’s a solution?

      Deep down Canada’s severe disfunction is still low stakes argy-bargy for conservatives to just gripe about. It’s fodder for a hobby based on complaining. I look forward to much more assertive solutions in the years ahead.

      1. Isn’t demanding more transparency at least the start of a solution? I think a columnists job is to shine a light on issues, not to provide solutions. Newspaper columns to not lend themselves to that. Robson is at least good at flagging issues overlooked by the Liberal media.
        On a side note, everyone should subscribe to his ” Climate Discussion Nexus” which provides excellent science-based info to counter the global warming scam. https://climatediscussionnexus.com/

    1. Good Article. The oil & gas industries of Canada and the USA are so intertwined they are basically one and the same notwithstanding the current US government and its power play to shut down Keystone.
      Biden cancelled Keystone to show everybody that he’s the boss.

  5. Is there anything the Liberal Party cult hasn’t corrupted? Blacklock reports on a committee of parliament asking why the Auditor General gave a contract to a Liberal lobbyist.

  6. GQ magazine breaking news! Men wearing dresses may be the men s fashion statement of 2021!
    https://www.gq.com/story/kid-cudi-dress-virgil-abloh-interview

    Turns out Kid Cudi — whoever he is — performed at a recent Saturday Night Live non-comedy show, wearing a white dress! So GQ thinks that this is a sign of things to come. Haven t been watching SNL of late, say the past 30years, so I missed this fellows performance. In the meantime Russia may be invading Ukraine.

  7. Harjit Sajjan, Hero of Afghanistan and fabled storyteller at HoC hearings, stated that the DND ministry mat not be funding the Halifax Security Forum in the future. This, after the HSF announced that President Tsai Ing-wan of Taiwan would be receiving an award at the forthcoming conference:
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-harjit-sajjan-will-consider-future-funding-for-halifax-forum/

    Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan wouldn’t commit to continuing to fund an annual security forum in Halifax that has become embroiled in a controversy over an award it reportedly planned to give to the President of Taiwan.

    The Halifax International Security Forum has been staging a conference every fall since 2009 when it was established by the Conservative government’s then-defence minister Peter MacKay. It brings together defence and foreign policy-minded politicians, analysts and pundits from Canada, the United States, Europe and beyond. It’s been called the “Davos of international security” and gets about 50 per cent of its budget from the federal government, a tradition that has continued since the Liberals took power in 2015.

    Ottawa, however, has reportedly warned forum organizers it would yank funding if the prize is given to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, in a move that Politico.com attributed to a fear of offending the Chinese Communist Party.
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    He was asked Monday during an appearance before the Commons’ special committee on Canada-China relations whether he thought the forum was useful and whether taxpayers derived a benefit from it.

    Mr. Sajjan then asked Conservative MP John Williamson to clarify his remarks.

    “I want to make sure you’re talking about the Halifax International Security Forum, not their office that they have in Washington,” the minister said. He later added: “So just the event itself, not the [Washington] office and not the employees or former Conservative staffers that actually work in that office. Is that correct?”

    Mr. Williamson confirmed he was asking about the Halifax event itself and Mr. Sajjan said he strongly endorsed the event.

    The Defence Minister’s office did not immediately respond when asked to clarify Mr. Sajjan’s remarks about Conservatives working at the forum office.

    ****

    1. So Bernie, the crook, Madoff, “Mr Split-Strike” is gone and only served 12 years of his prison term in a fancy jail. Madoff’s method of investing for his clients was to use what he called, the “split strike conversion.” It made Kenneth Langone, one of the founders of Home Depot, run for the hills. See more here:
      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-madoff-langone-sb-idUSTRE50L0NU20090122

      P.S. The HBO movie “The Wizard of Lies” about The Madoff Family with Robert Di Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer was excellent. Catch it, on HBO Demand, if you missed it.

    2. The only fraudster on Wall Street to ever answer for his crimes—reason being he stole from New York’s elite. That he was Jewish made him the perfect scapegoat.

      May Bernard Madoff rest in peace. May the Wall Street bloodsuckers who stole much bigger sums from people much less able to afford it and never saw a courtroom never know a moment’s rest.

  8. Blacklock reports that Blackie’s dept. of public works spent over one hundred thousand dollars on China virus ads during the super bowl. Apparently we didn’t know there was an epidemic.

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      chump-change, my friend… he just gave
      6 billion smackers to air canuckistan… on
      the condition that they buy a gaggle of
      airbus people movers from his friends
      in quebec
      .

      of course, some of that finds it’s way
      home to the liberal party eventually.

      that’s this weeks quid pro quo.

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  9. BLM
    The Curse of Aaron
    David Cole

    Now, Iago, on the other hand, presents a more complex puzzle. Why does Iago feel the need to destroy Othello? Well, throughout the course of the play, via his interactions with other characters and his soliloquies, Iago offers many possible reasons. Racial animus, professional envy, sexual jealousy. The audience is left with several possible motives to ponder.

    But then we come to Aaron, the villainous Moor from Titus Andronicus. [snip]
    Whereas Iago is a white guy who torments a black, Aaron is a black guy who torments, well, everyone. He’s the lover and consigliere of Tamora, the Goth queen who marries the Roman Emperor Saturninus. Aaron is firmly in the catbird seat; he has the ear and affection of the empress, who dominates the weak and ineffectual emperor. Aaron’s got power, riches, and babes. And yet…he’s unsatisfied. Material success is not what matters to him. He despises the whites, foes and allies alike, and he’s driven by a compulsion to destroy their society. He arranges brutal rapes, horrific mutilations, and sadistic murders (he even tricks Titus into cutting off his own hand). He foments the unrest that will eventually bring down his own house. Aaron is, in the words of Titus’ brother Marcus, the “chief architect and plotter of these woes.”

    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-curse-of-aaron/

    For me the leading Aaron role today is Michelle Obama. Barry too, but microscopically more subtle.

  10. April 14, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    Baksheesh!
    Somebody doesn’t understand the Librano Way.

    OTTAWA — Fees paid by the federal government to third-party consultants have ballooned since the Liberals took office in 2015, with expenditures for engineering, legal and other services rising $6 billion in six years.

    Costs for “professional and special services” increased to $16.4 billion in 2019-20, up from $9.5 billion when the Liberal government took office — the highest level of spending since at least the 1990s, according to public data. At the same time, the cost of paying government worker salaries has also increased sharply, from $36.8 billion before 2015 to $47.5 billion in 2020.

    The federal public service has swelled by roughly 10,000 bureaucrats per year under Trudeau, to roughly 380,000 today.

    https://www.melfortjournal.com/news/politics/costs-for-consultants-hired-by-government-rise-by-6-billion-under-liberals

  11. Scrabble has gone woke. Toronto Sun reports that hundreds of words will be dropped from the game to please feminists and girly boys.

    1. What’s next? Black players of Monopoly won’t need to go to jail, let alone have a “get out of jail free” card?

  12. The Trudeau cult’s Globe and Mail reports that Adolf is going to let 90,000 foreign students and temporary workers stay permanently. He needs new Liberal voters.

  13. Canada is falling in the international rankings. We are now in 59th place measured by fully vaccinated per capita (the gold standard). Among many other countries, Bulgaria, Brazil and the Dominion Republic are ahead of Canada. It is all Justin’s fault but what is the mainstream media to do since they cannot criticize the Supreme Leader. Answer: attack Doug Ford and Jason Kenney.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/#global

  14. While Ontario is running out of vaccines because of Blackie’s screw ups, Infrastructure Barbie announced today over one and a half billion dollars for green construction upgrades. As she put it, now libraries can get new windows. Yes, that is more important than vaccines.

  15. Pierre polieve tweeted yesterday that the We charity and klieburg brothers are raising eyebrows in California, with connections to gov Newsom.
    Go on todays polieve tweet shown here today, scroll down you will see it
    Click on abc7news at tweet quite a article
    I would cut paste thing but don’t know how on a tablet.

  16. Adolf The Gay Pirate has found another group to apologize to. Our Great Leader will apologize for Canadians being racist bastards towards Italian Canadians during World War 2.

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