85 Replies to “July 24, 2021: Reader Tips”

  2. Planning worldwide lockdown protests. https://postimg.cc/Q9QK36gt New Zealanders unfortunately underrepresented. Come on, Kiwis, spread those wings and… uh… er… run?

    And most definitely do not look into the devastated landscape that used to be Sweden, those refusers of lockdowns. No, don’t look. It’s too painful. Where once there stood a mighty nation, held aloft by the twin powers of ABBA and IKEA… now naught but a ruin. (seriously, Allan S or UnMe, look into it, and tell us what they did wrong to get their current COVID deaths status.)

  3. Let’s try to get this straight.
    Recall. Software upgrade. Special charging limitations. Park outdoors to prevent house fires. Recall again. Keep parking outdoors after the second recall. Just in case…

    General Motors issued a recall in November 2020 for Chevy Bolt 2017 to 2019 model years for the potential of a fire in the high-voltage battery pack under the rear seat’s bottom cushion.

    Software updates were made as part of that first recall. New fires occurred in cars AFTER the updates took place. Then, while this initial recall was occurring, GM said every Bolt owner should charge their Bolt to 90%, recharge after every single use, and to never let the charge go below the 70-miles-remaining-range level.

    Chevy Bolt fires kept occurring, even in cars that completed the recall upgrades.

    Then in early July 2021 General Motors recommended all Bolt owners to park vehicles outdoors, away from buildings. A recommendation still in force.

    Today, Friday July 23, 2021 General Motors is issuing a new recall for nearly 69,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EVs) worldwide for fire risks. GM will replace defective battery modules as needed.

    “ ‘The question is whether GM has the technological capability to detect and identify defective batteries…’ said South Korean battery expert and professor Park Chul-wan.”

    https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/gm-issues-new-recall-for-nearly-69000-chevrolet-bolt-evs-for-fire-risks

    1. Trying to switch from an AC current world to a DC current world has a whole mess of added problems as our homes and businesses cheapened out on the wiring. DC current is far stronger and need thicker cables.
      Now the computer chips that no one has thought to change as well…They’re having a bitch of a problem as well.
      When you go cheap, it’s hard to get heavier guage crap of better quality as it costs more.

    2. Sounds like the efforts to control the whu who flu. Try this try that and keep on trying in spite of an inability to fix anything.

      1. GM builds good ICE Cars (most of the time), and great Diesels….for the rest, meh not so much.

        I’ve owned two GM vehicles: 1994 Bonneville bought in ’96 used – Twas an awesome lovely riding lovely detailed 4 door Sedan. I managed to get 267,000 kms outa that one before we sold it Next Pers vehicle was my current 2006 GMC Duramax….595,965 kms and runs like a deer….you could not Pay me to buy an EV, Dodge or Ford pce of rolling JUNK….IMO….and I get better mileage as good as ANY SUV on the rd today (21mpg @ 120)

        keepin this one….

  4. Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers….. one of the all-time classics. It’s an example of the great stop-action animation for which the great Ray Harryhausen was known, and was produced by Sam Katzman, who was renowned for cranking out all sorts of cheesy flicks.

    Apparently, because a lot of iconic Washington, D. C. landmarks are depicted as being destroyed, there was some problem in filming on location. A lot of creativity was needed to create suitable replicas.

    It shows up on Turner Classic Movies from time to time. It’s not The Thing From Another World or Forbidden Planet, but it’s definitely a bit of fun.

      1. We used to gather at my friend’s house on Saturday afternoons to watch a show called “Creature Feature”. Godzilla, The Praying Mantis, Them, The Blob, King Kong, Frankenstein…. just too many more classics to list.

      2. Ah, it looks like that’s a new one for me. I’ll have to add it to my “must watch” list.

  5. “A prime minister can generally count on party solidarity to see him through all but the worst political storms. Usually this is a bargain rooted in crass self-interest: as the party’s standard-bearer at election time, and the dispenser of patronage, the prime minister’s fortunes are very much intertwined with those of his supporters. In this case, however, I think the pact is sealed in shame. It is too humiliating for the ideologues to admit to themselves what he has become, for to do so would be to admit what they have become.”

    “Once, (the progressive ideologues) may have imagined (Trudeau) was one of them. At the least, they may have imagined he would be useful to them. It is just too much for them to acknowledge that it is they who have been useful to him.”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-liberal-ideologues-continued-support-of-justin-trudeau-is-the-partys/

      1. Good selections! Another scenario:

        At a tat shop, no coincidence, they’ve portrayed this song very nicely…
        from the Rolling Stones Album “Tattoo You”
        These kids were in Heaven… “kissin’ and running away…”

        Watch “Heaven” (Remastered)
        https://youtu.be/V-HuYUaSjNU

          1. Ahhhh … the memories … of the beautiful early 1960’s in the sounds of Roy Orbison and the images of spaceships and imaginary Martians. For me … an innocent time in a beautiful, gorgeous, California. Now … uggh … don’t ask.

  7. I’ve been out of the loop for the past week and just caught up with interview re; the Arizona Audit. After watching a thought occurred to me if I took my car in to get new tires and the mechanic installed them and aligned them, and charged me I’d drive out o the dealership a happy customer. Suppose after the first fifty miles I noticed that something wasn’t right, back to the dealer, right! Dealer says everything is safe and secure. Next hundred miles I’m back at the dealership and again told the calibration machine is perfect the tires are perfect. I take it to another dealer with the same equipment and standards and I’m assured everything is peach-keen. Drive off the lot and the front end falls out and I’m involved in an accident. Can you imagine the lawsuit that would occur. Well the American voter is now sitting in that scenario. Think about it!!!!!

    1. I’m sure that UnMe or Allan S will be along soon to say “that’s different because shut up”. Because that’s the level to which political discussion has devolved.

      In practice, I’m amazed that no one who certified the election for the grand duke of basement living has been shot by local patriots. They are much more patient than I had thought a free, armed, society would be. (I’m not legally armed, hence the wordplay.)

    2. Here is the interview mentioned above:
      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/tgps-jim-joe-hoft-join-jovan-pulitzer-inventor-election-expert-2020-election-arizona-audit/

      If the voting machines were so out of alignment as demonstrated it would seem incumbent for the Board of Supervisors to fully address this situation. The continued assurances that everything is safe and secure runs contrary to what is coming to light every day now. How can you keep a Republic strong and healthy when you only listen to the parasites, worms and leeches that are doing everything in their power under heaven and earth to prevent the truth from being exposed?

      1. Hmmm? Pillars? Pillars? … what State Religion has “Pillars” supporting their Jihads?

    2. “Like a sturgeon”….. wasn’t that a line from a song by Madonna?

        1. I knew that because I liked Weird Al’s parodies. It’s just that I like lampooning what’s-her-face.

          2. Nancy:

            Maybe she’s singing about cleaning up her act: “Like detergent”.

          3. Or, maybe, Prinz Dummkopf’s military policy: “Lacks deterrent”.

          4. @ 8:48 am B A
            Like!

            Or how about …that goes…
            “Like an urchin, getting stung for the very first time…”

          5. “Like an urchin, getting stung for the very first time…”

            Nancy, you’ve out-maneuvered me once again and I gladly doff my chapeau.

          6. B–
            I’m lost for words — but return the salute.
            Moi, in an exchange of wits, be torn to bits!
            Tongue-tied, and even clumsy.

          7. Nancy:

            You’re welcome. It’s an honour when an opponent graciously concedes that he or she has been bested.

            I’m reminded of a certain former colleague from my Armpit College days. He was educated and intelligent, but he was also a childish, irritating, and arrogant twit. (Imagine Prinz Dummkopf with a master’s degree–yeah, this individual came close to that.)

            I often poked fun at him for some of his antics. If he had been a nationally-known politician, Terry Mosher would have made a comfortable living skewering this guy as he could have been the inspiration for many an Aislin cartoon.

            One day, my not-so-esteemed colleague made a complete prat of himself and got a lot of people in our office area mad at him. I, being mischievous as usual, wondered how I could pillory him and, one evening soon after it happened, I had a “Eureka!” lightbulb moment and wrote a phony newspaper article about him. As I mentioned on a different thread a few days ago, sometimes the jokes just write themselves, and this was one instance of that.

            The result, after I posted my handiwork, was that those same colleagues who felt like wringing this guy’s neck had a good chuckle at his well-deserved expense.

            A few weeks later, I was packing up my office as I was about to go on temporary leave from AC to complete my doctorate, and fulfill my residency requirement. Shortly before I departed, the target of my barbed wit asked if I could print off copies of some of the material so that he could show his wife. I took that request as a compliment.

          8. B A– @ 4:49 pm
            Nice story! Ultimately, your target was a gentleman. A toast to your friend. This is what life is all about.

    2. Freedom? What’s that anymore?

      Yeah, was out and about on Friday. Went to pick up Dr Judy Mikovits’ book “Plague of Corruption” that was supposed to be here July 15th at my local very large chain. They said they had 0 copies. What? Had to order it. Guess what? No freedom like when you pay cash and walk out. They didn’t get my email details but they got my cash for 2 weeks and sucked my sucker’s soul. I know it’s a controversial book, but this is absolutely ridiculous and blows me away! What think you?

      1. It’s that damn supply chain issues that many people are getting sucked into as our governments choose who and what is essential as well as force closing some of those businesses if someone coughs…Ops, Covid testing.
        Apparently, it’s really bad in the US as the ports are months behind in unloading. Not so much in Canada. A bit of a delay in some products but I think that is more to do with volume as well.
        Still get my shit from China but at an extra couple weeks to a month delay.

        Spoiler alert…The Butler did it in your book….
        Sorry, couldn’t resist.

  12. In the latest from the “Did Someone Not Stop and Think for a Second” department….

    “A group of scientists studying glacier ice (in China) have discovered 28 new viruses in two ice cores that are nearly 15,000 years old, according to findings published in the journal Microbiome on Wednesday.”

    “These are viruses that would have thrived in extreme environments.”

    “The research was conducted by The Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.”

    WHAT. COULD. POSSIBLY. GO. WRONG.

    https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/564496-scientists-uncover-28-new-viruses-frozen-in-ice

      1. Where sex-games between a pangolin and a bat brought forth the current pandemic!

        Behold the debauchery of the Chinese state and beware, there’s no combination (of genes) that’s forbidden. Against such a deviant peoples, how can anyone who is moral stand?

        Unless you think it is moral to insist that a human should not have sex with a penguin who has had sex with a lizard who has had sex with a bat who has had sex with a Wuhan communist party member, there can be no stopping the pandemic!

        “Keep it in your pants” is far too protestant a view. If you say “no, that’s wrong” then we shall ensure that your FaceBook likes drop to triple digits.

        Yeah, that’ll teach you!

  13. Early movie alert!

    Next Friday, the last night of TCM’s neo-noir mini-festival, they’ll be showing Blade Runner! Later that evening, it’s Tequila Sunrise.

    Following that, on TCM Underground, one of the all-time stinker movies, The Swarm (yeah, that one, complete with killer bees). I swear it had to be a paycheque flick for people like Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Katherine Ross, and Henry Fonda.

      1. I recall an interview on CBC in which he attributed some of his movie success to his working class dialect. Years ago, British movie stars tended to speak as if they were graduates from posh public schools.

        One of his early movies is A Hill in Korea, made in the mid-1950s. I remember seeing it on CBC many years ago and thought it was a decent war movie. The cast includes a number of well-known British character actors as well as Robert Shaw. (Hello, Turner Classic Movies? Can you look for this one?)

        Caine has made his share of clunkers, aside from The Swarm. TCM showed Pulp last week, which I didn’t particularly like. He also made rubbish like X, Y, and Zee (with Elizabeth Taylor and Susannah York), as well as The Hand.

        Still, he more than made up for stuff like that with his role The Man Who Would Be King.

  14. Settled Science – Is Consciousness Bound by Quantum Physics? We’re Getting Closer to Finding Out

    Quantum mechanical laws are usually only found to apply at very low temperatures. Quantum computers, for example, currently operate at around -272°C. At higher temperatures, classical mechanics takes over.
    Since our body works at room temperature, you would expect it to be governed by the classical laws of physics. For this reason, the quantum consciousness theory has been dismissed outright by many scientists – though others are persuaded supporters.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/is-consciousness-bound-by-quantum-physics-we-re-getting-closer-to-finding-out/amp

  15. Settled Science – Is Consciousness Bound by Quantum Physics? We’re Getting Closer to Finding Out

    Quantum mechanical laws are usually only found to apply at very low temperatures. Quantum computers, for example, currently operate at around -272°C. At higher temperatures, classical mechanics takes over.
    Since our body works at room temperature, you would expect it to be governed by the classical laws of physics. For this reason, the quantum consciousness theory has been dismissed outright by many scientists – though others are persuaded supporters.

    https://www.sciencealert.com/is-consciousness-bound-by-quantum-physics-we-re-getting-closer-to-finding-out/amp

  16. My pot testing experiment…
    I haven’t tried pot in over 10 years as it really didn’t do shit for me except a mild light headedness.
    So, I found out the hard way that my body says that I can’t be a pot head.
    Pretty potent stuff with just two drags off one from our pot dispensary when I tried it at home.
    Bought the pre rolled. Like smoking pure hash. The effects were pretty fast coming as I felt a light headedness, a disoriented feeling and had to concentrate of my bodies movements. About 3/4 of an hour later my body revolted and I had to throw up pretty violently at times for the next couple hours.
    Will I try it again?
    Hell no.
    My kids have been smoking pot for years so, I’ll just pass my stash to them.
    They know what to do better than I do.

    1. My father in law had a similar experience with a doobie his nephew had left in the boathouse at the cottage last summer. He hadn’t smoked one since about 1973 and he spent the evening hiding under his sheets after a few puffs and the next day warning his relatives about this obviously laced marijuana (it wasn’t it was just high grade). I rarely smoke the stuff but when I do it’s with my neighbour who grows it behind his barn. The stuff people buy now is way too strong for my fragile middle aged brain and I’m afraid I’ll turn into a hippie and start following what’s left of the Grateful Dead around the country.

  17. Just so everyone knows, after a busy week of election campaigning at taxpayer expense, Messiah Justin and his cult members are spending a relaxing weekend at his Harrington Lake resort.

  18. True North has updated its list of churches that have been burned or vandalized. Its 53 now. No word yet on when Messiah Justin will hold a summit on Christianophobia.

    1. Between our Prime Minister who HATES his skin colour and heritage and the Pope’s lack of outrage…
      Christianity is on the skids.

  19. Remember the days when Media would put the boots to Government that tried to overreach?
    Now they just put the boots to people and the lie to freedom.
    We MUST make the Media pay!

    “As part of its phased plan, Ottawa hopes to get all 13 provinces and territories to issue standardized digital vaccine records by “mid-Fall,” the presentation reads, which “will encourage acceptance by [foreign] countries.” Even if those vaccine records will not be official Government of Canada documents, they will comply with International Civil Aviation Organization standards for proof of vaccination.

    politico——-canadas-vaccine-passport-wont-come-until-december-at-the-earliest-500656

  20. The fascist president of fascist China is making a rare trip to occupied Tibet. He there to gloat at the persecution of the peasants.

  21. Librano polling must be showing a disturbing trend? Stories are appearing suggesting the CPC have hired ‘family’ members in anticipation of the election and the old canard of ‘social conservatives’ has rendered it’s head.

    Bongo’s likeability factor is a thin veneer. The public mood for an unnecessary election might not be received with favour.

    Anything short of a librano majority and the Bong is toast

    2. Question: Do they use the famous Dominion V Counting Machines? Answer: Lib Majority!

  22. Recently I had a telephone conversation with my GP regarding the Covid Delta variant and she was angry because she is programmed to think the virus is so dangerous that I am better off getting the jab, because the consequences of not getting it are greater than the side effects of taking it. As the conversation went on I explained that my BIL had a brain bleed (borderline stroke) after his second mixed jab (AZ-PZ), my wife’s friend’s mother and our friend’s brother in Vancouver (an avid pro-vaxxer) both had strokes days after their second jab. I also explained that the government policies don’t match the science (ie. masks). She agreed but went on and on about how contagious it is; considering the positive statistics of the vaccine and how many lives it saves it is worth the risk taking. That’s easy for her to say, not so easy to have firsthand personal experience with the aftermath of having taken it.

    I regularly research (using DDG) how contagious and harmful the Delta variant actually is and most medical sources imply it is a “death wish” for the unvaccinated without any actual unbiased case studies to back up the claim. I read on a lot of conservative sites and blogs saying that delta is highly contagious but less harmful than the original strain but they also provide no actual case studies back up the claim.

    So which is it ? Where is the study ? Is it all BS ? Who to believe ?

    Of all the sites I have visited, the one the only one that seems to make the most common sense is https://healthy-skeptic.com/ who quotes actual studies, specifically https://healthy-skeptic.com/2021/07/10/coronamonomania-thrives-in-darkness-part-89/ where they reference a British study regarding the Delta varient.

    Do I have confirmation bias ? Maybe. Am I skeptical ? Definitely.

    1. Here’s something else to contemplate…
      Why in the hospital, is everyone on their front or elevated on ventilators?
      Gravity is a mean bitch when you factor this in and why is not people in the recovery positions of tilted downward as to clear the lungs?
      Oh, got to keep the patient comfortable?
      Rather than let Gravity help clear the lungs?
      Maybe nobody has thought of this?
      I don’t know.
      Just makes more sense to have Gravity working for you clearing the lungs and not against you filling them up.
      Hmmm.

      1. I think they worry you might choke as it is coming out, especially if you fall asleep if you are upside down.
        Plus the head rush from that blood flowing to your noggin.
        There is probably a procedure to keep you elevated with your head up from many years of experience, wars, battlefield, previous pandemics and so forth.

        Having to constantly hork gets a bit tiring but I get where you are coming from.

  29. Conrad Black at the National Post writes about Turtle Island’s self-esteem problem.

  34. Earth vs The Flying Saucers: We shot first, because they were buzzing military instillations.
    Independence Day ’94: A bunch of hippies welcomed our destroyers.
    Nuff said.

    1. The first movie was fun. The second one was gaudy rubbish.

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