54 Replies to “October 21, 2021: Reader Tips”

  1. THE BABYLON BEE SOON TO SHUTTER?

    MND: Remember that man who became a “woman” Rachel Devine ….

    “Not only did Joe Biden appoint a man who claims he’s a woman, and whose poor public health decisions led to thousands of unnecessary COVID deaths, as assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Biden has now made that man a four-star admiral and proclaimed we should all cheer at his administration appointing the “first” “female” “four-star officer.” I repeat, this is not a joke.”

    “Demanding that Americans submit to and celebrate obvious denials of reality is not just a joke, and not just a threat to our lives and livelihoods. It is also a humiliation ritual designed to make us even more subservient to power. We must respond with staunchly refusing to live by lies.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/20/if-you-cant-tell-a-man-from-a-woman-youre-not-a-health-official-youre-a-health-threat/

    1. The uniformed services in the US are Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, and United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

      If any of the other services appointed a General/Admiral without one second of military training or experience there would be a mutiny. The normal use of this position is to appoint a Surgeon General who is appointed Admiral unless through military experience is a General. It”s sort of like a Kentucky Colonel. It’s a bullshit political appointment.

      1. Maybe that xim/xer/xit Sturgeon General (deliberate typo) could serve as ballast onboard a ship.

    1. Some people just have to go into every minute detail. What could be said in five or fewer words, they need several paragraphs. A USCS (now CBP) officer once advised that you never offer more information than what is asked for.

    1. Fully immunised adults make up almost half of the COVID cases for that group. Explains why all the people I know that had COVID were fully immunised.

  2. Where were you 59 years ago this week? It was the start of a most scary week, a crisis even more scary than the Covid crisis and the climate emergency combined.

    The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962

    The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides.

    . . . .

    Kennedy summoned his closest advisers to consider options and direct a course of action for the United States that would resolve the crisis. Some advisers—including all the Joint Chiefs of Staff—argued for an air strike to destroy the missiles, followed by a U.S. invasion of Cuba; others favored stern warnings to Cuba and the Soviet Union. The President decided upon a middle course. On October 22, he ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba. The use of “quarantine” legally distinguished this action from a blockade, which assumed a state of war existed; the use of “quarantine” instead of “blockade” also enabled the United States to receive the support of the Organization of American States.

    . . . .

    On October 24, Khrushchev responded to Kennedy’s message with a statement that the U.S. “blockade” was an “act of aggression” and that Soviet ships bound for Cuba would be ordered to proceed. Nevertheless, during October 24 and 25, some ships turned back from the quarantine line; others were stopped by U.S. naval forces, but they contained no offensive weapons and so were allowed to proceed. Meanwhile, U.S. reconnaissance flights over Cuba indicated the Soviet missile sites were nearing operational readiness. With no apparent end to the crisis in sight, U.S. forces were placed at DEFCON 2—meaning war involving the Strategic Air Command was imminent. On October 26, Kennedy told his advisors it appeared that only a U.S. attack on Cuba would remove the missiles, but he insisted on giving the diplomatic channel a little more time. The crisis had reached a virtual stalemate.

    . . . . (more)

    Me. I was helping to bring in the harvest on our farm in Southern Alberta. We had news reports on radio and TV and a local newspaper to follow along whatever news came down. I admit I was just somewhat worried. Did not expect a bomb to come down near where I was, but knew that the world would change in a bad way if things got out of hand.

    1. I was in Grade 2. I heard mention of Cuba in the news but I had no idea of what it was all about.

      1. I was 10…not sure what the heck I was doing, but it likely involved riding my bike somewhere….single speed…in YVR…or Richmond, cant recall.

      2. I was in NYC tooling around in my uncle’s brand new Chrysler Newport. Life was good and I didn’t give a shit about Cuba then or now.

    2. I was 19 years old and a corporal in the canadian militia. We trained 250 men in basic military a national survival stkills over six weeks. We did this 4 times training a thousand men. By the tme it was over the crisis and basically past.

    3. I was in Edmonton in grade two at the time and Winnipeg when Kennedy was shot. It was decades before I knew enough to say that while he was good in some areas he also nearly reduced the world to radioactive ash TWICE. He was a rank amateur compared to Khrushchev. Khrushchev had already decided to yank them on outa there after he found out Raoul Castro was dancing jigs while planning to nuke New York as soon as they were working. Khrushchev almost crapped himself when he found out. Kennedy got played by a professional.

      1. And Nikita was 100% correct.

        “the USSR doesn’t need to invade, you’ll go Commie all on your own in time.
        ..or something to that effect…and he was 1000% Correct.
        And in around 3 years later, the First Public Service Unions came into being upon the Western Hemisphere….the rest is history. NDP, Public Health tayadda….

        Am thinking it was bout the same time Pierre was transforming from your typical arrogant little french phag into a hard core Commie too…

    4. My family lived across the harbour from the Harmon Airforce Base.
      I remember we prayed as if our lives depended on it!

    5. I was in Grade 4 in Ottawa and the big worry was that a nuclear bomb would fall on Ottawa because it was relatively near the New York City-Washington-Philadelphia triangle.
      Our teacher told us to hide under our desks for protection. I was a tall, big girl and could not fit so I feared that I would die.
      It was “fear pornography” just as it is today with the Chinese Flu.

    1. Very interesting — good for her. At least she takes her hyppocratic oath of “do no harm” seriously. The numbers are growing.

  3. How about some more movies?

    A few days ago, I posted a link to So Darling, So Deadly, also known as Agent Joe Walker: Operation Far East (original title Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen. That was one of a series of movies made in Europe during the 1960s, based on a set of Kommissar X novels.

    The first one is Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill (Kommissar X – Jagd auf Unbekannt):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksfwo-9mLmk

    Another one, though I don’t know off-hand which one it is in the sequence is Death Trip (Kommissar X – Drei grüne Hunde):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMFTBgYWJS8

    Apparently, the whole Kommissar X concept was to be competition to the James Bond franchise. The movies are a bit hokey and, yes, they’re dubbed into English (though some bits in the first one aren’t, so a knowledge of German certainly helps), but they’re fun to watch.

    By the way, the first movie has some great aircraft carrier launch scenes, 20 years before Top Gun, and the second one has a motorcycle chase that Steve McQueen might have envied.

    1. Apparently, there were 7 Kommissar X movies made. I think I’ve found the remaining 4 on YouTube, so I might have a bit of fun watching them over the next few days.

      1. You’re welcome.

        With stuff like that available, who needs Netflix, eh?

      1. Unfortunately it’s true what they’re doing.
        Wait a minute. Wasn’t Canada sending its garbage to the Philippines a couple of years ago?

        1. The bad news – China committed ecological destruction on a grand scale, making artificial islands in the South China Sea by dredging-up the sand from the surrounding sea bottom and dumping it on coral reefs; then plunking-down missile batteries and runways on them – and proclaiming them “Chinese territory” in violation of the U.N. Law of the Sea, and demanding 200-mile E.E.Z’s around them all. Greenpeace and all the other eco-terrorists that bug the CR@P out of us, emitted not so much as a whimper.

          The good news – the artificial islands are all sinking back into the sea. Awwwwwwww…

          1. And the ones they just demolished? – Videos on yooboob and elsewhere? They demolished them to make room so they could build new ones.

            Glad we’re not the only country that just don’t learn…

    1. Remember: China’s “basic dictatorship” allows it to turn its economy around on a dime and go green. Canada’s quantum computing expert told us so.

    1. It seems daily that the US is getting more worse as supplies run low or run out.

      https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/10/here-it-comes-shortages-start-to-hit.html

      Our politicians had promised ‘millions of vehicles taken off the road’.
      So the quickest would be increasing the prices at an increased rate.
      A sort of controlled hyperinflation. If I know one thing in life, our politicians are extremely good at fucking things up and many unintentional consequences usually occur.

    1. After teaching at Armpit College for several years, nothing about students surprises me any more.

    2. Again, educated has nothing to do with intelligence. These idiot professional students may gain PhD’s but they will never be smart enough to wipe their own rear ends.

  4. When the politicians and media run a narrative, even if the evidence is unknown, run astromically astonishing performance that in reality is not so much to absurd.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-reports-booster-shots-956-effective-offer-favorable-safety-profile

    I went through this same bullshit with government and corporations on their efficiency which done mathematically was absurd when applying actual physical parameters to 150 year old technology.
    Blowback friction from the housing made only low water flow could only be possible.

  5. Dear Leader Kim Sung Trudeau and his sidekick Fraulein Freeland held a news conference today. Blackie and his loyal ass kissing media discussed how evil the Conservative Party is for not having all its MPs vaccinated.

Navigation