127 Replies to “May 16, 2021: Reader Tips”

  1. He played a druggie in the last Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool, which was made in 1988.

      1. I remember seeing that movie on cable several years ago.

        I mentioned his role in the DH film because it was made before he became a household name. Without knowing which character he played, one might miss that it was him.

        1. He’s Canadian. Has worked his butt off and imo is a great talent. I read his biography years ago by:
          Krulik, Nancy (2001). “Jim Carrey: Fun and Funnier.”
          (Simon & Schuster)
          The flick you referred to was his third one.
          Check out his mini bio:
          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey

          P.S. In “The Dead Pool”
          Watch “THE DEAD POOL (1988) ALL the Jim Carrey Scenes (plus young-ish Liam Neeson!!)”
          https://youtu.be/iPD00fmaxhY

          1. TCM showed The Truman Show a few days ago. I thought that Carrey was miscast, but it’s only my opinion.

            You want a young Liam Neeson? Watch for him in Excalibur (along with Patrick Stewart and Helen Mirren) or The Bountry with Mel Gibson and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

          2. Haven’t seen two of these. I always look at the names of actors in stuff. After Geoffrey Palmer passed away recently, I saw him in an old Brit film, the title of which escapes me now.

            In “The Bounty” Neeson is a veritable force of nature as the scrappy seaman Charles Churchill, and Daniel Day-Lewis is sublimely hateful as Master John Fryer. I wouldn’t mind seeing that movie again.

          3. Excalibur is an over-the-top treatment of the Arthurian legend. The knights, dressed in their shiny suits of armour, reminded me of the Cylons from the original Battlestar Galactica. The only thing missing were the beams of red light moving back and forth on their helmets and a mechanical response of “by your command.”

            On the other hand, any movie that uses excerpts from Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Richard Wagner’s operas (particularly Tristand und Isolde and Die Götterdämmerung) as background music can’t be all bad.

            Personally, my favourite King Arthur movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail…..

          4. He was funny when he was doing standup….THEN.
            Today, I find him your typical Arrogant mouthpiece from Hollyweird.

          1. Wasn’t he shacked up with ex-Playmate Jenny McCarthy for a while?

          2. steakman and Terry, I agree, his early stuff was good until he became a pompous anti gun anti Trump twit. I also think the money has made him into a nut job. I haven’t watched him in many years, and deliberately change channels if his films are on. I simply detest this guy, just like I detest Sean Penn.

          3. GerryK:

            Carrey’s style of comedic acting reminds me of Jerry Lewis’s.

            When I was a schoolboy, I thought Lewis was hilarious but, when I was a lot older, I saw some of his movies and didn’t consider him all that funny. Lewis eventually abandoned comedy and proved to be a reasonably good dramatic actor.

            Carrey, however, never got to that stage, The Truman Show being one example.

        2. Liked Jim Carry in The Cable Guy (1996), a comedy with a bizarrely serious undertone and message. The recent movie Joker somehow reminded me of it.

      2. Hi Nancy
        Thanks (genuinely) for you reply comment April May 15, 2021: Reader Tips
        Went to the source study and replied with my typically skeptical comments.
        But;
        Was genuinely surprised at the type B numbers, AND super-interested in the Rh- results. Can’t fathom it unless its simply a benefit of lacking inflammatory response.

        1. DB
          I can’t say that I really believe the study because I think I may have had C-19 and yet I have type O+ blood, 12 or 13% chance seems rather low however, but I’m no expert on this particular aspect of the subject. Thanks for your reply though.

          1. That WAS an interesting study on the various Blood types.
            Meh…musta got lucky: I’m O neg
            I Do not take the annual Flu shot – Have not been sick since 2004.

    1. I couldn’t make it yesterday but I’m surprized I didn’t hear it reported on the news /hmmm

    2. I participated in this event. Very nice positive feeling. Presumably these are scheduled to happen each week. Many people are not aware because media suppresses info about these — even Reddit does. I believe such protests have been outlawed in Halifax.

    1. These Communists won’t stop until millions are dead. Notice that they are all old men now and have made their billions. So, they want to save the planet? They should just burn and be done with themselves. That’ll save the Planet. Annnd, that’s as nicely as one can put it before expressing bile.

      1. And, as billionaires, they’re an exclusive club. Once they’re in, they close the door behind them to make sure that deplorables won’t have a chance to advance themselves.

        1. The last people admitted to the club (with membership being hereditary) were John D and JP. The rest, like Gates, are nouveau riche appartchicks.

          1. Zuckerdork and his other Internet buddies are a bunch of snotty young punks who think that having lots of money gives them wisdom.

  2. L – https://rumble.com/vgzvh1-tucker-carlson-interviews-dr.-peter-mccullough-on-covid-worldwide-conspirac.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2
    ————————————————————————————————————————————–
    Listen very carefully, later in the interview, Dr. Peter McCullough states that the Gold Standard for immunity is possessed by those who have recovered from a Covid-19 infection.
    Secondly, the tests for T-cell immune response which is long term, he says can be confirmed by a laboratory test available on request, at least in the U.S. of A.

    Big question: Is that T-cell immune response to Covid-19 available in Canada, too. Or do
    Canadians have to travel to the U.S. of A. to get modern, state of the art medicine ?

    Their immunity is superior to that of people who’ve been inoculated with Emergency Use Authorization vaccines. (Thus certified, clearly the implication is those people are a more effective part of herd immunity than can be claimed from the mRNA/DNA jabs.) He opinion
    that, given the effective therapeutic protocols(one of which originated with Dr. Zelenko) for those at higher risk to Covid-19. Proof positive in clinical applications throughout many countries, including much of the U.S. of A. has drastically reduced mortality. The cracks
    in the Panic-demic narrative are ever more noticeable. Big Pharma making hay while the
    sun shines on them, until it clouds over. Breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, became
    breaking the economies through much of the world. The Big Sting. Others did/doing it to
    feed their megalomania (Trudeau et al, and inept bureaucrats…

    Meanwhile, Dr. Peter McCullough points out the medical situation is under control.

    2nd big question: Is there a special place in Hell for those gov’t. and medical officials who
    suppressed the information about effective therapeutic protocols for a year, plus ? Additionally, when do the Nuremberg War Crime Tribunals 2.0 get under way for all the
    unnecessary suffering and death due to the suppression of therapeutics, lockdowns, and including the forced(in effect) experimental vaccines without full informed consent ?

    The greatest medical fraud in history, may be the catastrophe that causes Western nation-states to make a u-turn off the Road to Perdition.

    Marxist agricultural killed millions in the 20th Century. It discredited Marxism and the Gulag haunted the Soviet Union into oblivion. How many will the current blend of Fascism w/ Marxist medicine kill in the 21st Century? A decade of inquiries and lawsuits, trials and gallows?

    To be continued…
    ————————————————————————————————————————————

    1. Thanks for your post. That was an interesting interview with Dr Peter McCullough and well worth the time.

      Your “big question: Is that T-cell immune response to Covid-19 available in Canada, too. Or do Canadians have to travel to the U.S. of A. to get modern, state of the art medicine?” I would be interested in getting that test because I think I may have had Covid -19.

      1. I think you would need a doctor’s note etc. Unless there is a private lab. When I was in US I could ask any Nurse Practioner for a lab referral cost of an office visit then lab cost per test.

      2. I expect, Nancy, a good percentage of the population will already have this immunity, but your point about a test is valid.

    2. Larry that is an outstanding post. Every person in Canada needs to hear this interview and demand answers from all Politicians and the Political Health Officials.
      These people are Criminally Negligent.

      1. And furthermore, these people should be prosecuted under Nuremberg Law.
        (Btw- Dr. Fauci looked frightened last week when grilled by Rand Paul, as he should be)

        PS. Thanks re reply @ 5:04. If push comes to shove I may have to ask for that test. Can you imagine jab passports? If Dr Peter McCullough is correct, the jab should not be necessary if one has life long antibodies after contracting covid.

        1. After watching Dumb and Dumber several times I think Jim Carrey is a much more obvious choice than Brad Pitt to play Dr. Fauci.

          That champagne cork was to the endangered owls what NIH-funded “gain of function research” is to humans.

          1. Right, and this is with with a 99.8% recovery rate. Ya gotta hate the Nanny State, they’ve perpetrated the biggest criminal hoax in the history of the planet.

          2. they’ve perpetrated the biggest criminal hoax in the history of the planet

            Ah, but it’s for our own good. Once they’re done, we won’t own anything but we’ll be happy (or else).

            Now that “we won’t own anything” bit. That sounds a lot like imprisonment, right? Inmates can’t have a lot of things with them, if anything. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

            As for being happy, I guess we’ll all be pleased that we haven’t eaten a bullet, once we no longer own anything.

          3. Yes, we could crash the dascha at Harrington Lake every summer weekend, we paid for it.

          4. Crash it? Nononononononononono! We didn’t pay for it–we gave it to him out our eternal gratitude for his wise and enlightened leadership. (Yeah, right. That intellectual short-arse is nothing but a squatter.)

    3. ” Dr. Peter McCullough states that the Gold Standard for immunity is possessed by those who have recovered from a Covid-19 infection.”

      Vaccinations, even these new gene manipulation ones, do not produce immunity. They stimulate the production of natural immunity. i.e. the limit of a vaccine is the natural limit. They do not, because they cannot, produce any sort of “super” immunity.

      I have never had a measles vaccine, because I am old enough to have had the measles. When the vaccine was introduced it was not administered to people who had had the measles, because they were already immune. The vaccine was an unnecessary intervention that carries its own risks. Administering the vaccine to the immune would have been medical malpractice, because the only possible outcomes would be neutral — or harm.

    4. Larry – I overheard CTV say yesterday that Canada was sending respirators and remdesivirto help India. I don’t recall the Canadian government telling Canadians that we should use Remdesivir. Did I miss that announcement?
      The New England Journal of Medicine found it to be very effective:
      “Our data show that remdesivir was superior to placebo in shortening the time to recovery in adults who were hospitalized with Covid-19 and had evidence of lower respiratory tract infection.”
      https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2007764

      1. Remdesivir has very limited effectiveness, there are more studies out there stating that.

        The strict avoidance of IVERMECTIN to treat COVID patients is CRIMINAL.

      2. They’re apologising to India after their fiasco visit. Remember the costumes, their own Chef, the dumb dancing, their youngest brat taking connuption fits on the lawn and whatever else.

    5. Larry:

      “..2nd big question: Is there a special place in Hell for those gov’t. and medical officials who
      suppressed the information about effective therapeutic protocols for a year, plus ?…”

      That Place is NUREMBERG 2.0.
      Canada has plenty of wood we would WILLINGLY Donate, for their prosecutorial use.

      “..Befehl ist Befehl…” Will NOT be considered an “excuse”

  3. Actual headline: “Media demand Israel explain destruction of news offices.”

    How about “You hate us and want us dead?”

    https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-media-business-050b1cc02293d702cfbe7db59b6ecbf4

    It’s 2021. The IDF have a top-notch social media presence even Jack Dorsey doesn’t dare cancel. The “media” can recycle globalist talking points in New York.

    In the Epoch Times, the only important Gentile newspaper to recognize the CCP and its western globalist allies as the misfortune of mankind (and not “the Jews”), Roger Simon recommends that this is a golden opportunity for Israel to finish off Hamas:

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/this-time-israel-should-finish-off-hamas_3815825.html

  4. Sometimes the careful application of the scientific method to current issues makes for ponderous listening. No 80 targetted the history, the suppression, the method of action of ivermectin and it was absolutely devastating. Draw your own conclusions but I believe there is a basis for Nuremberg Trials.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vxTODvTNHlw
    It begins on the laboratory leak hypothesis as source of Covid19 before going on to Ivermectin which begins at 28:00
    A lot of people need to listen to this!

  5. No outrage from the bought and paid for media, that thousands of muslims were packed together at Toronto city hall to support Palestinian terrorists. Apparently some groups are exempt from China virus restrictions. At least Blackie didn’t show up to take a knee. He doesn’t work weekends.

    1. Has Blackie ever worked? About the only evidence we’ve seen that he has worked somewhere is rumours of Non-Disclosure Agreements.

  6. America made carey rich, and all he does is piss on their carpet….

    1. So true. One life-rule I follow is to never, ever watch a Jim Carey movie.

      1. I watched his Ace Ventura movies when my daughter was little (they are at the level of a 6 year old!). I was mildly amused.

      2. Agreed David, see my post far above. I just added another actor I detest, Sean Penn.
        I refuse to watch either of them on principle. My own personal boycott.

        1. The only movie with Penn in it that I’ve willingly watched several times is Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

          That was made before he married his first wife, Madonna, after which he really started going off the rails. Not surprisingly, they split, but, considering what each of them are like, one has to wonder who sued for divorce first.

    1. What would happen if our computer systems had a total failure?
      Your banking…gone.
      Your entertainment…gone.
      Your internet…gone.
      It certainly is getting old and feeble as parts wear and systems will fail.

    2. What happens if a big CME hits earth?

      We won’t have any long-distance radio communications as the ionosphere would be affected. Propagation conditions on the high-frequency bands has been lousy lately because of solar activity. When one can’t even hear Morse code, it’s bad.

  7. A completely deranged progressive. Would kill most of us in a heartbeat. Wouldn’t watch him if you paid me.

  8. Blacklock reviews a story on how every politician must begin his/her/it’s speech with “we are standing on such and such Indian land”. Whether it’s Justin’s Minister of Small Engine Repair, or Blackie himself.

    1. If Prinz Dummkopf, et. al., feel so guilty about being on native territory, why don’t they give their share of it back?

    1. From the comments “Reply to @Todd Harris: you might have caught this gem: “Bell was also interested in the genealogy of deaf people. In a 1884 paper titled Memoir upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human R ase(my edit), he raised concerns about deaf people intermarrying lest it lead to increased prevalence of deafness, or what he referred to as “a defective race of human beings.””

      If I were inclined to comment on the CEEB (spit)
      I would have replied, ” So he was a fan of Tommy Douglas?”
      It’s nice to see madness on display as opposed to madness hiden, easier to keep track of the deranged that way.

    1. Wouldn’t it be easier to show his compliance with tyranny by wearing an anarchy patch?

    2. His 15 minutes of fame have long expired, but he doesn’t seem to realize that.

      1. Yeah BA, he does seem desperate these days, trying to remain relevant must be exhausting for a know nothing, done nothing, young inexperienced dweeb like him.

    3. Saw two people riding a bike yesterday – yes, a tandem – and both were wearing masks. I believe they were sick in another way.

  9. Yes I agree, but would add, it is also very dangerous to vaccinate those who have immunity.
    I am also old enough to have survived most of my life without vaccines. My Mother was of that generation that believed and was unafraid to see us exposed to all the childhood diseases. Mumps, measles, all the poxes whooping cough etc on and on.
    Also we ate a lot of dirt playing in the dirt. We were always outside playing.
    And no such thing as junk food. Always ate what we grew, nobody bought much processed food.
    I think i had covid in the spring of 2020, the DIL works in healthcare, she brought something home and I had it for a few days and it was gone. Cough, running nose, stuffed head then started going to lungs and congestion and upped my Vit C and D and it was gone.
    I have never had a flu vaccine, had the oral polio vaccine, in the country schools in the 1950’s they came around and dosed us all without consent like a bunch of farm animals.
    So like Nancy I would be curious to see if I have the markers from covid.

    1. Yea,Watcher

      ….my childhood (similar), was spent for the most part in (early part), in Richmond & Vancouver. We all had Bikes, we went everywhere…25-30 mile trips was normal for a full days adventure. We ate Blackberries, blueberries, strawberries…and maybe a peanut butter sandwhich which mom would MAKE us take. We messed around in the bushes getting scratched and bit by bugs while building forts and in the ditches looking to capture Big Frogs. We also swam in the Fraser River……all things that I’m sure had much to do with viral immunity…IMO.

      My last bout with the flu was in 2004. It knocked the living daylights outa me for 5 straight days….flat on my back with raised head and shoulders…NO FUN Whatsoever. Since that time. NOTHING….the odd very mild cold for a few days thats it.

      In the military in the ’70’s: We ALL were vaccinated for any conceivable infection on the planet – so now I have to laugh at those who would presume Im an Anti Vaxxer for saying SHOVE your BS Wuhan flu treatments up yer rectal chute. THEY Are designed to treat symptoms…and as such the question that must be Asked is this.

      If they ONLY treat the symptoms but do nothing to kill the virus …. does that not make you NOW an Asymptomatic STEALTH super spreader…?? By Design..??

      1. I agree Steak. I am not anti vax. But this shit is not a VAX it is an unproven experimental gene therapy. My opinion is do not get it unless you really need to.

    2. @Watcher …had the oral polio vaccine, in the country schools in the 1950’s they came around and dosed us all without consent like a bunch of farm animals

      Right. And for many decades before that, they came around and vaccinated us for smallpox. The result? There were hundreds of millions of deaths over the centuries, but now smallpox epidemics are gone. Vaccinations were ended in the 70s because they were no longer needed. Polio has also been eradicated in the US and Canada since vaccination began in the 50s and is on the way to being eliminated in the world. Do you think that’s all coincidence?

      One problem: In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Taliban has banned vaccinations and has been attacking and killing pro-vaccine leaders and health workers giving the vaccine. These are not rational people.

      There are problems with vaccinations. Nothing is perfect. I’m not saying we should take every vaccination offered. We should look at each on a case by case basis. But a lot of people were killed and many more were paralyzed by polio. Hundreds of millions died from smallpox. That isn’t happening anymore. That seems to be a good thing.

      1. Hey Greg I am not arguing to prevent you from vaxing all you want. Go every week and get one.
        Through history all of human history the all time greatest killer of human beings has been unclean drinking water and people dumping their sewage in the streets.
        Basic sanitation clean drinking water and personal hygiene has prevented more deaths than any vaccines.
        But go for it book another appointment for more. And good luck.

        1. Basic sanitation clean drinking water and personal hygiene has prevented more deaths than any vaccines.

          Pretty sure that’s true but that doesn’t mean we can’t do both. Maybe having a dependable food supply thus preventing starvation and malnutrition deaths has saved even more lives than clean water. Does that mean we should forego the clean water? Vaccination, as with smallpox and polio, has also saved millions. We can do all these things.

          What about international travel to certain places? Just take your chances with yellow fever, typhoid, etc? Some countries require a yellow fever vaccination before you can enter if you’ve visited a country where it’s prevalent. Maybe you’d just avoid all those places but what if you had some reason to go there? Would you refuse the vaccine and try to sneak across the border?

          I’ve never sought out the flu shot but I used to work in health care, so sometimes it was required. That was the only vaccine I’ve had since I was a kid, until the coronavirus, so I’m not particularly a vaxxer. I’m not going for one a week. LOL.

    3. When a friend had a disease as a kid, I was sent around to play with them.

    1. I am responding here to this list as it is a good thought provoker. First, the list again:
      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/10-things-we-have-learned-during-covid-coup

      1. No, it is a political system. It is corrupt in as far as people lie and use the system for their own benefit. But I repeat myself, it is a political system. They have always been such.
      2. As a juvenile, we used to say that if voting could change things, then it would be illegal. Not quite true, voting for the same parties offering the same policies is fake; the PPC offers different policies. What do you want, the same old same old, or pipelines, liberty and prosperity?
      3. The temporary controllers of the system (AKA rulers) will stop at nothing to hold onto power.
      4. True, they are a scarecrow to maintain obeiscence.
      5. True (I had a hard time accepting this one)
      6. Yes, but given the power of the state against the individual maybe not so surprizing. This is why the true rebels and revolutionaries are heralded as outstanding figures, and not all are politically motivated or violent: Galileo, Paine, Themistocles, Voltaire, etc.
      7. True
      8. This is a truly unique British contribution, created by Sir Robert Peel in the 19th. century when he reformed the police force. Unfortunately it hasn’t stuck and they have reverted to their traditional role as an arm of the state, to enforce obedience to the state and collect taxes.
      9. In the middle ages, the monkls were corrupt. Scientists are put forward as the state’s monks; which is unfortunate and not true. As a Christians are taught, all people have sin.
      10. I consider this false. On almost any metric, you will find progress, i.e. increase – health, wealth, liberty. This often in spite of the opposition of the state.

        1. Then use the hacksaw of truth. Everywhere man is born free but is suffocated in velvet; it is time to unpick the warp and weft of our feters. It’s fun coming up with hackneyed slogans.

          1. Orwell and Huxley didn’t warn against tyranny. They warned against liking it.

  10. When the glorious Red Army liberated Europe guess which motorcycles they rode? The Liberator of course. Over 30,000 units were sold/gifted to ‘our noble Soviet Allies’ (FDRs words).

    HARLEY-DAVIDSON WLA: THE MAIN US MILITARY MOTORCYCLE OF WORLD WAR II
    Harley-Davidson WLA is the story of an iconic model in the long history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, the WLA, which was used by Allied forces during WWII. Developed for the US Army’s mechanized cavalry, it became the leading US military motorcycle of the war. It served the US armed services as a messenger and military police vehicle. The Red Army’s motorcycle battalions, reconnaissance units of its tank armies, also used them as their primary vehicle. The armies of the Soviet Union, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, China, and Brazil also made use of the model and its variants. It is known today as the “Liberator”; discover the history and stories of individuals who rode this icon to war and why the model is now a favorite among civilian collectors.

    https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/store/product/harley-davidson-wla

    1. I had a 1942 45 cu in model. It had a suicide shift. I also had a Triumph 500 twin which was also used by the Canadian Military. As a Dispatch bike. They were pretty cool rides. But both flat heads. So as newer hotter stuff came out with more HP etc they all disappeared.

  11. Today Blackie’s CBC had Rosemary Barton explain that Republicans in the States are evil. She then had her Unifor journalists discuss how evil the Conservatives are for opposing Adolf’s censorship bill. The censorship bill is wonderful and Quebec wants it.

  12. “Dumb & Dumber”

    “An absolute commitment to benevolence, like the road that is paved with good intentions, typically leads to an unprofitable destination.
    “It doesn’t matter that the welfare state actually creates more of the poverty and dependence it was instituted to abolish. The intentions behind it are benevolent. Which is one of the reasons it is so seductive. It flatters the vanity of those who espouse it even as it nourishes the egalitarian ambitions that have always been at the center of Enlightened thought. This is why Stove describes benevolence as “the heroin of the Enlightened.” It is intoxicating, addictive, expensive, and ultimately ruinous.

    The intoxicating effects of benevolence help to explain the growing appeal of politically correct attitudes about everything from race, sexuality, and “the environment” to the fate of the Third World.

    https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/15/the-way-of-socialism/

    If a hat tip is needed, all credit should go to the powerline blog. Thank you, keep up the good work. A h/t to Kate, lookin good on that motorcycle.

      1. How sad. This is so deliberately perpetrated. Will the next thing be a tax status change? Will he go underground like Rev Coates?

        This is likely leading to more crime against humanity like theft of everything everyone owns, not just the religious freedom fighters.

  13. Canadian Press agency reports that leftists and university teachers want the names of explorers removed from city streets. Streets like Columbus, Cabot, Stanley, etc. are named after white racist bastards. All of Canada(Turtle Island) is unceded Indian land.

    1. Yup. Every city should have a Mohammed Avenue or Nelson Mandela Street. How about a Fidel Castro Boulevard, an Ernesto Guevara Way, or Josef Stalin Plaza? Maybe a Mao Tse Tung Square or Vladimir Lenin Freeway?

      And all those places should be re-named immediately without consulting the proletariat voters (who would all be racists if they object), just like the wards in Redmonton now have Indian names, thanks to Dumbass Donnie and his commies on the city council. Thanks to them, I now live in Ward Papastew, whatever that’s supposed to mean and, no, I didn’t get to vote on it.

      1. Funny!
        …Trudeau Tunnel, Pont Pariseau, Hockey-League Lévesque,
        … etc

          1. … what they are offering is not a Vaccine. You really can not call an Experimental Immune Therapy a Vaccine.
            (The thing won’t let me do any more replies to you on our thread above so replying here.)

            Not wanting to keep this going all day, but I’m not the one who labeled it a vaccine and I know it’s not a vaccine, however…
            covid vaccineAbout 16,460,000,000 results (1.02 seconds)
            Good luck with getting them to start calling it the “Experimental Immune Therapy.”

            Anyway, I only replied to you because of your comment about how they treated us like cattle by feeding us those sugar cubes. I was a kid then and have no idea if you could have opted out. Even if you could have I don’t think many would have. They were scared of polio especially for their children’s sake. All in all I think it was a good thing they eradicated it.

            I’m not for globalism or authoritarianism, but there are plenty of things that are compulsory that you probably don’t resist. Do you have a driver’s license? Obtain a hunting license? Pay taxes? Unless you’re a hermit in the Arctic you probably put up with other things that are more compulsory than the polio vaccine.

          2. His book seems to be doing very well. Excellent. Also, if people in the military read it, they will likely agree with its content. Imposing a political agenda in the military is very divisive. They are not universities where this stuff is gobbled up. I think the commander will find many supporters.

        1. Trudeau Tunnel, Pont Pariseau, Hockey-League Lévesque

          Those would be good names for public washrooms: Trudeau’s Toilet, Pariseau’s Privy, Loo Lévesque. The namesakes would be flushed with pride, eh?

          1. You’re slaying it here…ha ha, very good…annnd, can’t forget these Commies:
            Barbie’s Biffy, Bouchard’s Buckets, Charest’s Crapper, Duplessis’ Dump, Legault’s Latrines and for unisex peopleskind — wait for it: Heverybody’s Head.

          2. Nancy, I doff my chapeau to you. “Barbie’s Biffy”….. Brilliant!

            Oh, and don’t forget Stephen (Guilbeault’s) Stall.

          3. I guess only in (post-national) Canada would naming washroom facilities after politicans and their ilk be considered a–wait for it!–Game of Thrones.

          4. Of course BAD you realize that you and NR can never again show up at any fund raisers for the Prinz. Or his associates after lampooning them and mocking them so publicly.
            You left out our own little Moron Kenney.

          5. And here we were figuring out ways to get people to think about HRH and his buddies. Darn! I was so looking forward to being in their presence and experiencing their derision and contempt in person rather than by proxy through the MSM.

            As for our premier, well, there’s Kenney’s Komfort Stop and, if the party doesn’t boot him out, which he clearly deserves, then there’s always the UCP Urinal.

            I’ve got one in mind for his successor (yeah, we know who she is), but I’ll leave it to the reader to figure that one out.

          6. B A– @ 7:37 and 7:53 pm
            Hats off back at you! I’m laughing my silly head here, your “Game of Thrones” reference is good, um, shit! Ha!

          7. Watcher@ 7:59 pm
            Haha for fund raising!
            As for Kenney, I got nuthin’…yet!

          8. Nancy:

            I’m reminded of a character in the John Wayne movie The Green Berets. One of the soldiers saw how all sorts of buildings and facilities were named after men who were KIA. He wondered, should he buy the farm, how he should be remembered.

            That character gets fatally wounded at the end of a battle and he whispers his last request to his commander (played by the Duke). Later, that Green Beret got his wish. A washroom was named after him and the name fit because it “sang”.

          9. “That character gets fatally wounded at the end of a battle and he whispers his last request to his commander (played by the Duke). Later, that Green Beret got his wish. A washroom was named after him and the name fit because it “sang”.

            Ah yes, if I read you correctly, you are referring to the song “The Ballad of the Green Beret” about patriotism and fighting for one’s Country, being full of shit.

            (True today, there’s Communism on the rise)

            Watch Sgt Barry Sadler ~ 1966
            “Ballad of the Green Berets”
            https://youtu.be/8kj9qv6rmG8

  14. Article out today in Calgary Herald about the sudden upshot in Alberta Bankruptcy’s both private and commercial.
    Of course the CFIB are pleading for more Tax Payer Cash to keep the small business class on life support.
    All reality had been suspended in the Alberta Division of the Canadian Covid Gulag with Mortgage Relief, Rent Relief, Wage Subsidy, Work at home with full pay for hundreds of thousands of Gubmint Drones, Extended UI and various and sundry other scams paid for by the Hard Ridden Tax Payers.
    Of course this was chump change compared to what “The Ponce” French for Pimp I believe, has slopped out to the Corporate Hogs that are Perennial Hog Troughers and could not survive without Tax Payer Support. Then all the Government Owned Media and Arts and Farts that must be paid.
    Is there really any Industry in Canada anywhere that has not attached themselves to the Tax Payers Veins in someway and are not suckling his/her Life Blood.
    The sooner Canada collapses and is broken up.
    The healthier it will be for the Martha and Henry’s of Alberta.
    https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/after-a-year-in-free-fall-bankruptcies-starting-to-tick-upwards-in-alberta

    1. PS: To my above rant. This is my observations on the local small town economy here. A small northern town that used to be all hustle and bustle. On my street there are 12 houses. 4 for sale. We have 2 oilfield workers still employed. 2 truck drivers that seem to take about one trip a week, they are always lounging around now. The one was an owner operator. His truck is gone. One preacher who I think preaches in peoples homes or some such. I part time arborist he was telling me he just got a short term contract for some powerline work. He has not worked since last year end of summer. 3 households not working at all. One just the wife has a retail job. And one guy who is on some kind of full time government program. The economy is oilfield, logging and farming. Not much of any of it going on. 5 retail places have permanently shuttered. 1 very shaky small 2nd hand store has opened up and barely surviving. Most of the stuff looks like yard sale junk. Reports of people breaking into the local junkyard stealing used auto parts. Something very rare for this area. And a group of First Immigrants north of here burned 3 RCMP cars to the ground. Don’t know why, but generally they don’t need a reason.
      There is no activity much at all. Bit of early morning activity to the PO and drug store then some on sales days for the small grocer stores. No new building just some patching and repairing.
      And lots of potholes they of course have multiplied as always. Huge surplus of potholes. And I have never seen the highways to the city in such disrepair. You have to really pay attention or you will blow a tire especially on a car.
      For those inclined how is your local area doing?

      1. In those parts of Edmonton I frequent, there doesn’t seem to be much change. The nearby shopping centre operates on restricted hours and a few of the tenants are either shuttered or have left for good.

        In Fort St. John, the government liquor store is in business as is the dope store next to it. The Tim’s closest to my house is open, but only for takeaway.

        I still have lots of stuff in the house that I’ve been trying to sell but few inquiries, if any. As I mentioned in another thread, a contractor that both my father and I have dealt with is looking ahead to retirement. He has a shop full of tools and machinery but nobody wants to take it over as is. It looks like he’s going to have to sell it off piece by piece like I did, and am still doing, with my father’s stuff with his building going on the market separately.

        A trucking firm foreman lives down the alley from me. His company appears to be busy as he mentioned that he’s sometimes short-handed.

        But, there are other indications that things aren’t going well there. Apparently a metal dealer, who’d been there for years, closed its outlet in town and there’s now a “For Sale” sign in front of its building.

        If it wasn’t for the provincial government, the Site C dam, and, maybe, the railroad, FSJ would have to close.

      2. I think there are more socialist Liberals around now than during the heyday of the booming Patch. The Real Estate market is red hot now after a dead year. Houses around here are being sold quickly to buyers who change homes, like before, on average, every 5 years, (here in Canada) statistically speaking. (reasons like upgrading, downsizing, marriages or hooking up, divorces, and employee transfers, and now immigration [buying] were the usual reasons for buying and selling) The Asian invasion is definately here. Many houses are selling at over asking prices. Some as much as $100 K, unbelievably.

        Some of the closed stores around near here, in S.W. Calgary, don’t have any new occupants, yet (Lowe’s, [used to be Target and before that was a Zellers] and of two clothing stores that closed, one is still empty) Two other stores opened in vacant spots, where Pier One was, a Lammle Western Wear moved in and where another closed, a Dollar Store opened in February. The Rona Hardware Store on McLeod Trail is still closed. A Steakhouse on McLeod Trail closed and the famous Ranchman’s Steakhouse on McLeod Trail is closed also. The latter was there forevah!

        The C-train is now home to druggies. The C-Train parking lots are a little fuller than last year but still not as full as during the peak days when Calgary was in full swing. The Restaurants are doing takeout and are likely struggling. Grocery stores, Walmart, Costco and Big Pharma are thriving.

        The pet industry is fine. People are out walking their dogs.

        Haven’t been downtown in a long time. Word is, I understand the Hospitals aren’t too busy but still ticking.

        Gossip: I saw a man wipe out on his bike today. He hit a bump at full speed and crashed, bleeding, scraped and in pain. I offered him water and bandages from just over the fence at a distance but his wife thanked me and said they lived close by so were heading back home. The chain came loose on the bike, he looked downtrodden, hurt his knee and elbow. Overweight at about 200 lbs, perhaps biking was a little too ambitious for today at a lovely 27°C.

    1. Got to keep the serfs in line BAD can’t allow them to be getting all uppity and defiant.

      1. Yup. Hope and cheer, both of which are usually present in churches, spread the virus, don’t they?

      1. Well, at least they didn’t cuff him and drag/carry him into the police vehicle, in front of his kids. Not like Pawlowski.

  15. Does SecDef Austin’s “Diversity and Inclusion Agenda” constitute prohibited partisan political activity?

    See https://www.tjldc.com/2021/05/17/does-secdef-austins-diversity-and-inclusion-agenda-constitute-prohibited-partisan-political-activity/

    Bottom line? I leave you with the following question:

    If LTC Lohmeier’s expression of opposition to Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Austin’s Diversity and Inclusion Agenda constitutes “prohibited partisan political activity” then does it not follow that the implementation of that Agenda itself must constitute “prohibited partisan political activity?”

    If the Agenda itself is not partisan political activity, then how can opposition to the agenda be partisan political activity?

    My salute to the courage of LTC Lohmeier, whose career progression was obviously star-bound so long as he toed the line and kept his mouth shut, for his recognition that his oath of office required him to stand up and be heard, career be damned!

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