74 Replies to “July 29, 2021: Reader Tips”

  1. People usually associate John Ford with being a Hollywood movie director. He was also a commissioned officer in the U. S. Naval Reserve and, during WW II, he, like many of his colleagues, not only served but made films to inform the public.

    1. A number of well-known directors served in WW II. John Huston was in the U. S. Army Signal Corps and, among his films, was Report from the Aleutians.

      Frank Capra was with the U. S. Army and made the series Why We Fight.

      William Wyler served with the U. S. Army Air Corps and flew on some bombing missions, losing part of his hearing as a result. His movie The Best Years of Our Lives was, therefore, authentic because he knew what the main characters had faced.

      1. BA given both our parental units (lol its what my adult kids all us), were directly involved in that war in one way or another….as such that part of history will continue to fascinate me.

        Have Likely watched much of what those 4 produced….Can’t ascribe any particular part of WWII to anyone of them off the top of my head, but for certain the realtime footage from Midway Island as the Japanese attacked the garrison/airfields there stands out in my mind. (for those not familiar – that attack preceded the Big Sea Battle)

    2. They had a bit of John Ford in the last or maybe just the latest Midway movie. The one where Woody Harrelson smoked the role of Nimitz and every other actor was British or Austalian and the funding was all from China. I guess they still carry a grudge against the Japanese (for some reason).

      It was pretty good. Could’ve used some Charleton Heston but the story moved quicker than his movie.

      Tora Tora Tora was also good but when I was in school my tv was so small it only showed– ‘ora Tora To’

  2. For what this is worth,

    Smalldeadanimals is not available at the Montreal airport.

    last june I flew to the USA from the Trudeau airport in Montreal, and as I was waiting , i used my laptop to read articles at The gateway pundit, American Thinker and even at American Renaissance, they were all accessible with the airport WIFI

    but then when I tried to go to smalldeadanimals, a message appeared telling me I could not access that site.

    That is weird because American renaissance is described as a ” white supremacist ” site by Wikipedia, you would think THAT would be blocked,
    but no, I was able to access it trough the airport WIFI, but Smalldeadanimals , harmless, innofensive smalldeadanimals was blocked.

    very very strange…

  3. https://twitter.com/dvir_a/status/1420059141083631617

    Vaccine impact in Israel: changing trends. Analysis thread with @AArgoetti
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    From about a month and a half ago we are experiencing a new “Delta” burst. Cases are accumulating, and more and more severe patients are in the hospitals. You’ve probably seen reports from Israel on low vaccine effectiveness in this wave. Is it because of Delta? Waning immunity? We think the reason is mostly that we got the denominator wrong. See this graph. Until mid-July, the number (normalized to group size) of severe cases in the 65+ group was more or less similar between vaccined and unvaccined. This seemed troubling. But in the last 10 days trends have changed, and now there are almost 3 times more daily new unvaccined severe cases. Looking at this plot, it seems that the R in the vaccined group is very close to 1, but in the last 10 days its almost 4 in the unvaccined group. We think its as expected with no mitigations beyond vaccines. So why does it look like there is no difference until mid-July? @AArgoetti looked at the trends of cases in cities stratified by their vaccination rates. We can see that cities on the lower quartile had low number of cases until recently, but since mid-July, most cases are coming from those cities. This is what we got wrong. This “wave” started from cities with high vaccination rate and couldn’t “find” unvaccined adults at risk. The denominator we need to use until mid-July is >95% vaccination rate and not the country’s average. So to summarize, the vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe cases and probably also symptomatic diseases, even for those vaccinated early.

    Just to correct one misconception from my thread – many of you understood that we think there is no waning immunity. This analysis does not reject the waning hypothesis, it just shows that the vaccines are still highly effective even with possible waning.

    1. Oh fuck off already, nobody reads your bullshit, can’t you spam cat videos on Tik Tok instead?

      1. THANK YOU…!!!
        Colon, ya took the words outa right outa my mouth as I scrolled down.

        FUCK OFF INDEED

      2. Listen up you Fucking COCKROACH.
        Go spread your blatant BULLSHIT eleswhere…K?

        “..So to summarize, the vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe cases and probably also symptomatic diseases, even for those vaccinated early…”

        The only thing these NON Vaccines are “effective” at is to ensure your body is riddled with S spike protein – Ace Receptor Domain – Ace2 Receptor: 100% Fucking DESIGNED to destroy internal organs all the while one spreads the virus…and stays alive long enough so that BIG HARMA can milk the system of 5 – 10 booster shots of their PROFITJUICE.

        Proving on a Daily basis your lips are permanently wrapped around Fauci’s DICK.

        By the Way dicklicker, there is no such thing as “asymptomatic infecttion”. That only exists in the minds of FOOLS & LIARS

    2. “many of you understood that we think there is no waning immunity”

      Who’s “we”? Who do you believe you are speaking on behalf of Alan?

      1. Ignore my last post, I see you were just quoting from a Twitter thread. Normally people use quotation marks to show that they’re quoting someone, man of science AlanS.

        And if people who are “vaccinated” still get infected and still infect others but get less severe symptoms wouldn’t that mean the “vaccinated” are at higher risk of spreading the disease because they don’t know they’re infected and are now ignoring any measures that are supposed to reduce transmissions?

    3. Interesting. So the Israeli techno-nerds “got the denominator wrong!”

      What else could they have possibly gotten wrong? IMO, just about everything since the start of this calamity.

      So what does this say exactly? I liked one of the responder’s comments that went something like ‘It’s good to see the scientists update their conclusions *when the facts change*’

      I don’t have any evidence to rebut this tweet… TODAY… but give it a couple of days. Like the changing weather, I’m sure we’ll see the “scientists” come up with yet another “update” soon enough!

    1. It’s amazing to realize that the Americans really had no clear idea of what was going on with the Kido Butai. They could intercept Japanese radio traffic about the KB’s operations but only a small part of it had been deciphered by the U. S. Navy cryptographic unit in Hawaii led by Joe Rochefort.

      Chester Nimitz took a great risk by sending the American fleet to the area near Midway based only on scant information and a lot of lucky guesses.

      1. Chester Nimitz had another unexpected ace up his sleeve. Thankfully the Chagrin Cretin Halsey was sick and Ray “The Terminator” Spruance got the command.

        1. If I recall correctly, Halsey recommended Spruance. The latter wasn’t a carrier commander, but he did understand carrier tactics, having supported Halsey’s earlier campaigns.

          1. Yes, all true. But their command style was entirely different. Halsey was constantly charging, Spruance was playing three dimensional chess.

      2. “Chester Nimitz took a great risk by sending the American fleet to the area near Midway based only on scant information and a lot of lucky guesses.”

        – And a successful bit of counterintelligence. The USN suspected Yamamoto (who was known for long, overly-complicated battle plans) was gunning for Midway; but they had no direct evidence of that, the fleet order merely listed “Objective AF”. So Midway Island was directed by secure undersea cable to broadcast by radio in-the-clear a message advising that their freshwater evaporator had broken down. Midway duly complied, and a few days later the Japanese broadcast a message that “AF is short of fresh water”. { – thru Wikipedia – }

        Yamamoto had a couple other clangers in his operational plan, one being that while the carrier battle was brewing, he was sailing a couple hundred miles behind the carriers, with the battleships; apparently he liked being aboard Yamato so much that he gained weight, thanks to the Yamato’s VIP-friendly galley. Considering how the battle turned-out, it’s doubtful that he would’ve done any better of a job than Nagumo did; but if the battleships had been up with the carriers instead of a couple hundred miles back, they could’ve lent their massive AA firepower to the carriers’ defense. And it would’ve taken a really disciplined and well-briefed band of dive-bomber pilots to concentrate on the carriers and not waste any of their bombs on the biggest d@mn battleship they’d’ve ever seen! This was one thing the USN did better; one of the reasons they spent so much on the Iowa-class battleships’ high speed was to have big AA-gun platforms that could keep-up with the carriers.

        I can’t remember which book I read, that told about one pre-war weekend during which the IJN high command took-over a Tokyo hotel and spent the entire weekend war-gaming World War Two. It’ll come as no surprise that the Japanese won (the war game, at least); but referees wandered the hall, “correcting” low dice-rolls. Too bad the referees weren’t along at Midway; the IJN definitely rolled snake-eyes in that battle.

        1. I’ve heard that the attack on Midway was originally supposed to take place much later. The reason for it being moved ahead was the Doolittle Raid.

          The Japanese, who didn’t succeed in destroying the American carriers at Pearl Harbour, wanted to ambush the USN and finally finish off the fleet. Among the tactics used in an attempt to draw out the Americans was the attack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

          1. Yes, the Doolittle raid; little damage, much angst. I mean really, how DARE they? – such a thing was just not supposed to happen to Nippon; and the loss of face among the Army and (mostly) the navy, was huge. Quite along the lines of Goering’s “If a single bomb lands on Berlin throughout the war, you can call me Meier!” The effect on the U.S. verged-on euphoria, and certainly included a lot of hearty laughter and raising-of-glasses-of-cheer. It would’ve been obvious to the Japanese that those subhuman don’t-know-when-they’re-beat Americans could pull-off other such raids whenever they wanted; and so efforts were put-in-hand to extend the early-warning net farther East, so there’d be more chance to detect approaching American carriers in time to do something about them.

            I’m sure another factor was playing-on Yamamoto’s mind. Pearl Harbor’s smashing of the U.S. Pacific fleet was expected to drive them out of the war, or so weaken them that there’d be no chance they’d field anything serious against Japan for a couple of years; yet Yamamoto knew better. Only five months later, here they are bombing Tokyo – naw, they weren’t thinking of quitting or making peace; they were a’coming with blood in their eye, and things would likely get a lot worse in short order. Yamamoto had studied English at Harvard, and had been a liaison in Washington in the 1920’s – he’d seen enough to know what Japan was up against. He’d told Hirohito that if war was made with the U.S., for the first six months he’d have the Pacific to himself; but if war went on for more than two years, there was little likelihood of Japan winning.

            And how did it turn-out? At the invasion of Iwo Jima, the U.S. and allies had more ships than Japan had airplanes.

          2. It wasn’t just the psychological effect of the Americans striking the Japanese homeland so soon after Pearl Harbour. The IJN knew that the carriers had escaped the 1941 attack and, through that raid, still represented a threat.

            Midway was an attempt to finish the job.

          3. Sort off… yes … except that Japanese did not expect a sizable carrier force at Midway. They were unsure how many carriers US had left in the Pacific but they did not expect three at Midway. They knew they sunk Lady Lex (and useless Langley earlier on). They believed that Yorktown was either sunk or at least out of action after Coral Sea. Saratoga wasn’t in the theatre. Wasp and Ranger (both of dubious quality), were in the Atlantic/Mediterranean. According to their calculations that just left two fleet carriers…

          4. Colonialista:

            I believe Yorktown put to sea while repairs were still in progress. There were welders working on board when the ship weighed anchor and they sailed with the crew.

          5. Yes, most certainly true, part of the reason she was lost was structural damage and compromised damage control due to Coral Sea. Had she been the same shape as Enterprise and Hornet she might have survived the last breath of the flying dragon (Hiruy) and the subsequent encounter with the Jap sub.

    1. Some things are universal:

      “Then a big revelation knocked me arse over head”
      My fellow Canadians had mostly gone Red”

      Liberal rhymes with idiot.

  4. A bit of Calgary politics — it is getting a wee bit messy.

    Today the AHS directorate dropped more orders. For example Aug 16 you don’t need a mask in a cab or Ūber. These are positive steps.

    Here is a Twitter thread (sorry) from a Calgary councillor (sits proudly, mostly at in-camera meetings, among our current fools harvest). Gondek is a mayoral candidate. Note the pandering to fear and faux anger in every tweet. Authoritarian to the bone. She has chosen to run against Kenny, not the other candidates. [Interesting tactic, it worked for Kenny when he ran agin Trudeau in 2018].

    https://twitter.com/JyotiGondek/status/1420579527017734149?s=20

    Also, attacks have started against their moderate colleague (Davison) this week over some dumb volunteer fundraising. Retiring Nenshi is in full purple-shark attack mode. The media are his cheerleaders. I guess Davison is the big fear among the lefties.

    One of candidates, Farkas (current councillor and right leaning), polls as in the lead. I’m sure they are cooking up an appropriate woke knee-cap strategy for him. Or just a ton of just in-group racist, anti-lgbt, name calling when any hijab gets scuffed or rainbow cross walk catches a bit of rubber.

    1. It’s no better here in Indianton/Redmonton. Mike Nickel seems to be the only right-wing candidate for mayor and, so far, in my soon-to-be-Indian-named ward, I’ve received campaign literature from two lefties.

      The only difference between them is one is white and the other isn’t. Their political inclinations are nearly identical.

      1. The left wing and their CBC sponsors has been attacking Mike with everything they’ve got. Every complaint or investigation they can instigate has been thrown at him. Amarjeet Sohi, the sweet, pleasant former Liberal Cabinet minister is apparently not strong enough for the social justice crowd so it has become a Twitter campaign to prevent Mike from running away with it.

        Vote! Especially in the school board elections. The Left has commanded these for three decades and the results can be seen in every university and in Ottawa and Washington DC.

    2. Farkas will win…of that I am convinced and make a damned good MAYOR..something this city has not seen since Ralph Klein.

      As for the Rest of the filthy Champagne Socialists currently there, they all should scurry off to their hideaways in Diamond Cove & Cougar Ridge etc. Never to be seen nor heard from. We need a CLEAN SWEEP of councillors and School Board trustees.

      I plan on investigating each one in my ward…something Ive never done before.

      1. “…something I’ve never done before.”

        EXACTLY.
        This is why the social justice warriors are in charge of everything. Because they have controlled the school boards and universities for decades, and the regular voting public can’t be bothered to vote. The school boards are they key. It will take more than a decade to right the ship. Elections matter.

    3. alecincgy, Gondek is Nenshi redux and that we don’t need. She is incredibly disingenuous, arrogant and believes she knows best how to spend your money (that stupid child care plan of hers recently!). As for Davison, I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He’s another CINO always appeasing the lefties. I hope they take him down. The arena deal tells us what we need to know about what he would do as mayor – more behind closed door deals, done quickly so that the public doesn’t find out before it is signed. And we’re already seeing cost overruns and the arena hasn’t even started construction yet! The same group, including Davison, has been trying to knee cap Farkas since he became counsellor but it hasn’t worked yet but you know they will keep trying. The addition of the equalization vote on the civic ballot will bring out more conservatives (which is a big reason Nenshi isn’t running again) and hopefully that benefits Farkas.

  5. Cold Canuck hands.
    Got this in my inbox:

    “A change has recently come into force to the Firearms Act as part of Bill C-71, An Act to amend certain Acts and Regulations in relation to firearms. The change has resulted in the removal of the following conditions related to the transport of restricted/prohibited firearms from your licence:

    Transport of restricted firearms and/or prohibited firearms to a port of exit, in order to take them outside Canada and from a port of entry.

    Transport of restricted firearms and/or prohibited firearms to and from a gun show.

    Transport of restricted firearms and/or prohibited firearms to and from a business that holds a licence authorizing it to repair or appraise prohibited or restricted firearms.

    Transport of restricted firearms and/or prohibited firearms to and from any place a peace officer, firearms officer or chief firearms officer is located for verification, registration or disposal in accordance with the Firearms Act and Part III of the Criminal Code.

    If you wish to transport your restricted/prohibited firearm for one of the above purposes, you must apply for an Authorization to Transport to your Chief Firearms Officer. To contact your Chief Firearms Officer, please call 1 800 731-4000.

    All affected licence holders will be mailed a formal notification of the changes to the Authorizations to Transport, including your current updated licence conditions.

    Canadian Firearms Program
    Royal Canadian Mounted Police”

    Yep, we now need ATT to get our guns repaired. Death of a thousand cuts in order to placate the Karen/Millennial demographic.

    1. – Just Little Potato bowing to the diktats of the U.N., who’re as gun-hating as Wendy Cukier ever dreamed of being. Potato is happy to appease the U.N. – betcha’ he’s right back to politicking for a Security Council seat (with our money, of course) once he wins this election.

    2. Yah they say a lot of shit..Get to know a trusted gunsmith, machinist and do a little gunsmithing yourself

    3. Ian Runkle has a 10 minute video about this
      https://youtu.be/wDXAhCDDdI8
      And, if the Libranos have their way, when you take your firearm to a gunsmith the Gunsmith must keep a record (for 20 + years) of the firearm including serial #, its status, your name, PAL #, and your physical address.
      YOU must do the same if you sell or gift a firearm.

    1. “Simple and efficient.” LOL.
      He meant to say “all encompassing and permanently immovable.”

    1. But but but weren’t we assured by the illustrious uncle Bidet that Antifa is just an idea, right?

      1. – and their “protests” are all boisterous but “mostly peaceful”, right? I’m led to believe Sleepy-Creepy-Joe was asked about the protests; his reply was “Porridge?”

    2. How come the Antifa boys are skinny and the girls are always fat? When I was 25, I did an art pilgrimage to the UK, France and Spain. I was attacked not once but twice while in Barcelona (got the hell out of there the next day). Both times, I took down the guy by kneeing him in the groin – both men dropped like stones. I then yelled “Does your mother know you attack women?” and then ran like hell back to the hotel.

  6. Drinking that CNN/CBC Coolaid has really rotted the brain of people who are all in on MANDATORY VACCINATIONS for Canadians.
    https://www.howestreet.com/2021/07/on-cowardice/
    His opinions are totally based off of what he watches in mainstream media.
    And he sees anyone not rushing for their vaccination as the problem.

      1. An interesting depiction.

        You may have noticed a set of quakes well inside the Alaska mainland. From what I’ve gathered, they’re in the vicinity of Fairbanks. Looking at the maps, I recognize some of the place names, such as North Pole, as I used to talk with hams in that region.

    1. Yeah, except that they sunk three and they only sunk the fourth (Hiryu) after she has already delivered a strike against Yorktown and in turn knocked her out of action.

  7. In April 1941, four of the seven U.S. carriers were at Hawaii. By Dec. 5 there weren’t any. Having precise, advance knowledge of the Japanese attack, FDR sends away his crown jewels out of range of the Japanese prior to their attack.

    1. That’s largely factually incorrect; if there’d been solid evidence of an approaching Japanese carrier task force, the USN would’ve been much better prepared to meet it. Indeed, one of the sneaky ways the IJN disguised its intentions was to put its carriers’ HQ establishments ashore when they sailed, whereupon the shorebound establishments continued sending radio messages so U.S. HFDF equipment reported the carriers still at anchor in Japan – no fools the IJN, the actual carriers observed strict radio silence across the Pacific.

      Pearl Harbor was vulnerable to air attack; in the USN Pacific Fleet ‘problems’ of 1932 and 1937, two admirals (Harry Yarnell and Ernest King) staged “successful” air attacks on Pearl Harbor. Their post-exercise observations were ignored; and meanwhile, the Japanese had studied the RN attack on Taranto and gone to great efforts to assure their aerial torpedoes could be dropped in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor and not go into the mud. The three USN Pacific Fleet carriers were out; Enterprise and Lexington were (oddly enough) ferrying fighters to Wake and Midway islands, and Saratoga was on the way back from a west-coast refit; how hard would it’ve been to send the battleships out as well? Sad, it would’ve been – the IJN roaring-in all tora-tora-tora!, only to find fully-manned shore AA batteries and an empty harbour awaiting them. And NO commander knowing an attack is inbound, would sleep-in on the knowledge and let his fleet get slaughtered. Husband Kimmel, USN CinCPacFlt at the time, was hit with the blame for the whole thing; his family is still trying to get his reputation cleared.

      The big problem with this is that battleships were still “kings of the seas” in many admirals’ (and all the public’s) minds. Fortunately, the Japanese thought the same; and while sinking or maiming all the battleships in Battleship Row, they didn’t bomb the fuel dumps or repair facilities, which would’ve put Pearl Harbor out of action for at least a couple of years. They’d’ve certainly bombed the carriers if they’d been in harbour, and it was just luck-of-the-draw that they weren’t; and the USN went to carrier-based naval warfare through lack of alternative – they had no battleships, so they couldn’t perform ‘classic’ sea battle doctrine.

      And those repair facilities the Japanese didn’t bother bombing? In October 1944, i.e., less than two years later, the last battleship vs battleship fight (and one of only two that occurred in the Pacific throughout the war) went down in the Surigao Strait during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Literally went down – two Japanese battleships faced-off against six USN battleships and both were sunk, one of them by torpedoes from destroyers before it got to fire a shot. And the six USN battleships – only one of them, USS Mississippi, hadn’t been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.

      1. “Less than THREE years later…” was my face red!

        Oh well – I saw an even better one today. From Strategypage: “Most Libyans and Arabs fear the Turks are trying to rebuild the empire they lost because they were on the wrong side during World War I (2014-2018).” My grandfather would’ve been some confused to find out that a war he fought in as a young man, actually occurred several decades after his death… 😉

        https://strategypage.com/qnd/libya/articles/20210729.aspx

    2. A theory about as dumb and false as “Hitler allowed for operation Dynamo and refuse Sealion because he wanted to path things up with Churchill”. In addition to what Y. Knott said.

      Americans were expecting a war, they were expecting an attack, they just did not know what form it will come in, when exactly it will come and how to prepare for it. They were doing what they thought were reasonable preparations.

      1. Pearl got a new advanced radar station, not fully ready at the time of the attack, and with a novice crew and no well established chain of communication. But they were preparing.

      2. First squadrons of B-17s, a new bomber orders of magnitude more advanced than anything flying in Europe were sent to Pearl. Americans planned to use them as naval bombers – bad idea but they did not know it at the time and they were deploying what they perceived as a most advanced naval strike force.

      3. Carriers were busy ferrying Marine squadrons to every base in the Pacific that had airstrip.

      They knew the fight was coming, but they did not expect a precise knockout punch. They underestimated Kido Butai, Everyone in the world underestimated Kido Butai.

      Except, according to Rizvan’s half baked theory, the tactical genius FDR, was the one who knew what the Japanese were capable off, sure he did. Americans took another two years to fully understand Japanese combat capability and to deploy effective countermeasures, but FDR knew. And then for maximum effect he did not plan an intercept mission which would be just as much casus beli as the historical battle. He just decided to pointlessly handicap American future warfighting capability because it would create that extra measure of outrage.

      As for the Japanese, it is not like the attack went without a hitch. The midget subs all failed and got themselves all sunk in the process. Contradicting signals were sent and instead of coordinated air attack every Japanese pilot pretty much took initiative into their own hands and dropped ordnance at the same time. The huge fuel reserves at Pearl, that were of greater strategic value than the old battleships were unscratched.

      Damn, it seems like the only competent person was the puppet master FDR who in the end wanted to plunge US into the world against Rizvan’s beloved Nazis.

    3. Oh and US did not have seven carriers in April 1941, but hey let’s not let the facts get in a way of convinient narrative.

    1. Australia is a Fascist State… the cops in Oz are a perfect example of why people should hate cops and the corrupt politicians they take their marching orders from. These cops and politicians are evil little CCP trolls that should be introduced to piano wire and a lamp post. Canada isn’t far behind this authoritarian terror, just one more Liberal/Ndp/Bloc Government and watch the Fascists go ape shit on us all… isn’t Globalism great ?
      Make no mistake the War these globalist politicians and their gestapo are imposing is just beginning, when people begin to fight back it will be epic and ugly. Politicians their gestapo and Media will not get away with this fascism forever.
      The question is, how many unarmed innocent citizens are the cops and the military willing to kill in order to please the CCP and further enable the fascist takeover by the Globalist regime of evil ? Sadly that is where we are heading. Cops are one step away from being criminals and the politicians they serve are one step ahead of the NAZI’s. Its going to get real ugly.

        1. The Italians seemingly will tolerate a lot, but then quickly snap once the boiling point is reached. Ask the corpse of Mussolini.

    1. Tiff’s entire job is to facilitate Justin’s spending spree, and thus his re-election next month. All of Canada’s media, intelligentsia, and bureaucracy is solely focused on regaining Justin’s majority government.

    2. Maybe he’s just a dummy.

      Well, we have a dummy for a PM and look how well he’s done.

  8. THE COVID FILE:
    This is alarming. The US of A becomes Communist today, forcing the ‘Injection’ on Fed Employees.

    “On Thursday, the President of the United States will announce that all Federal employees will be required to get the vaccine, regardless of whether or not they have active antibodies to COVID. That is not a small development. The Federal government is the largest workforce in the world. It employs close to three million people, so an awful lot of lives will be affected by this policy.”

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/28/tucker_carlson_americans_should_never_be_forced_to_take_medicine_they_dont_want_period.html

  9. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis today reported the country’s GDP data for the second quarter of 2021. But the media focused on real GDP, but ignored key information on inflation. Note that the GDP deflator is a better and more comprehensive indicator of inflation than the consumer price index.

    The GDP deflator rose by 5.7 in the second quarter, as opposed to 3.9 percent in the first quarter of 2021. The consumption deflator (not exactly the same thing as the CPI) grew by 6.4 percent in the second quarter, in contrast to 3.9 percent in the first quarter.

    So US inflation is surging, but the media all but censored this report. I had to read the actual BEA press release to get the deflator information. Buy gold and silver.

  10. Alberta gets another gut punch from the Bong. A coupla weeks ago Kenney talked to him about the Senate vacancies (2) in the Province. Asked him not to appoint until after the fall municipal elections where Albertan’s will vote on their choice.

    Today we heard from the Bong. He appointed the mayor of Banff to the Senate.

    So great is the Bongs hatred of everything Alberta and Kenney that he couldn’t even wait a few months to allow the people to speak.

    1. Justin must be setting up a grovelling match between Nenshi and Iverson for that last vacant Alberta senate seat. I thought he was gonna give the both of them a seat.

      Fearless prediction (because my last one was so (Not) great)… Nenshi gets the Senate seat, Iverson runs in Edmonton and gets a Federal Cabinet appointment.

      1. Redmonton/Indianton would just be dumb enough to elect Dumbass Donnie Bike Lane.

  11. The San Francisco Bar Owners Alliance has recommended, ‘no vaccine- no service’.

    They represent 300 bars in SF. It will be interesting to see how the marketplace responds. My guess it’s just the start.

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