December 2, 2021: Reader Tips

With the news earlier today that 450 Million Europeans may soon lose their rights to their own bodily autonomy, I feel compelled to share this glorious rendition of Lee Greenwood’s powerful song, God Bless the USA. As a Canadian honoured to be living in this wonderful country, I do not take lightly the fact that I have a lot more freedoms than many others in this crazy world we now find ourselves in. Though far from perfect, I do wish that more young Americans would pause for a moment to realize how darn lucky they are to have been born here. I used to feel that way about Canada too but a Woke Shiny Pony came along and stripped away so many of the freedoms people once thought were their rights.

Hopefully amongst all the bad news circulating, a few of you could share some glimmers of hope too.

104 Replies to “December 2, 2021: Reader Tips”

  1. How about having a bit of old-fashioned cinematic fun with the original Flash Gordon serial, starring Buster Crabbe?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHKEaGbyDo&list=PLESDrGLwFOLXT0jfvQVzzvQzEaV-3F13u

    He made two more FG series plus Buck Rogers. I plan on watching them all over the next few days.

    And for those who were hoping for the movie from some 40 years ago, here’s Queen’s theme:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfmrHTdXgK4

    1. Watch enough of those and you’ll notice scenes George Lucas copied almost shot for shot. I do wish someone would remaster these, although it’s likely the originals have long since been lost.

      1. Canadian law now tells me that I can’t drive my car, take a taxi, bus, or airplane across your borders unless I have proof of vaccine. Illegals Are allowed.
        WTF

        1. PM Baked Potato does with “our” illegals pretty much the same thing that Captain Alzheimer wants to do with “your” illegals.

      1. If you go to the meetings, that want is expressed overtly. They damn near worship the eusocial insects.

    1. Because collectivization never went bad. Just ask Ukrainians, Chinese, Cambodians, Venezuelans.

        1. Yes, and many others, I just listed the most obvious examples (also I don’t give a s*** about russians). Every famine in 20th century was human made (and I use the term “human” in most generous terms).

      1. I am currently reading about Mao’s Great Leap Forward and it is quite frightening how the zeal, and unspoken belief that dictat can control nature and overcome the laws of physics, is quite familiar to those who follow the Green Movement.

        If a scheme doesn’t work, more of it is required. If the people’s enthusiasm is waning, then they are not trying hard enough. Failure is due to sabotage and hostile forces and wrongthink.

      2. Cubans, Russians, El Salvadoreans, Viet Namese, etc., etc. What shocks me is how this fantasy relies on Academia to live on and propagate, why do these fools always forget the cultural revolution which inevitably follows, or think it won’t happen this time? I wonder if they have an aha moment as they are lined up against the brick wall?

        1. Peter,
          Millions of Cambodian elite, couldn’t believe that teachers, bankers, non communist , etc.
          Would have to have/ Had plastic bags pulled over their heads because Pol Pot knew they couldn’t be retrained.
          Ah, YES – Australian COVID DEATH CAMP’S.
          Several unacceptable Unvacanatered criminal citizens have escaped.

  2. For those interested in military history. Some historical background about the development of the Centurion, arguably the best tank designed during WWII.
    https://youtu.be/0AnoySTfvFM
    Interestingly, throughout the war, British armoured vehicle development tended to lag about half a step behind competition. As soon as the war was over, they fielded what become a standard against which others were measured for the next few decades.

    1. They’re not engaging in looting. They’re collecting reparations on behalf of their enslaved ancestors (real or imagined).

      Now, since Xmas originated with whitey, shouldn’t those people be observing Kwanzaa instead?

      1. I am not sure if that would be desirable. I may be wrong, but I think history teaches us that Kwanza observance starts with Black Friday stampedes.
        I just would like all those wronged by whitey to boycott whitey.
        Permanently.

          1. Yup. If I remember correctly, it was invented by the FBI as a way of getting at the Black Panthers.

    1. roaddog, I will simplify that for them. 2.8 times as many vaccinated are dying than unvaccinated, from all causes. That is the hard fact in the UK.

      1. Wait until vaccination rates reach 99.99%. Then you can say the vaccinated are infinitely more likely to die from covid.

  3. Calgary Mayor making news again: Gondek says city forced to back down on making unvaccinated workers pay for COVID tests

    “Gondek said Wednesday that “thanks to the Calgary Police Service” continuing to offer free rapid tests, the city was pushed into doing the same.”
    She really doesn’t like the police. Her dream is to turn Calgary into Portland, Oregon.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/gondek-says-city-forced-to-back-down-on-making-unvaccinated-workers-pay-for-covid-tests/ar-AARmqB3?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

      1. My workplace has been rapid testing on a volunteer basis for several months. The only positive found was a guy who was already ill and still showed up for work.

    1. They tried the rapid tests where I work.
      100% failure in both directions.
      Every positive was a false positive when rechecked with a PCR test.
      Several who where negative with the rapid test were positive with the PCR test later the same day.

      I suppose the PCR confirmation tests could have been wrong, but..

      1. The PCR tests are no better than chance.

        Manitoba’s Director of Public Health admitted under oath that when they compared PCR tests with a cycle count of 18 against the actual live culture tests in the lab, only 50% of the positive PCR tests were confirmed with the much more accurate live culture test. That’s a 50% false positive rate.

        The Director also had to admit under oath that Manitoba had been running the public PCR tests at a cycle count of 30-40. Without more data points it’s impossible to calculate the resulting false positive rate, but it must be at least 50%. It could be as high as 93%.

        This is why I keep saying case counts are bullshit, and in any context where case counts are all you’re being given you’re being deliberately lied to.

      1. Hardly surprising. Calling the first family “mediocre” would be overdoing it, in all matters except blatant criminality.

  4. The only way to build things in today’s Canada is to give “tribute” to certain people (greasing palms)….

    “ATCO Electric deliberately overpaid a First Nation in British Columbia by millions for work on a new transmission line in order to secure lucrative contracts providing construction camps for the Trans Mountain Expansion oil pipeline project. ATCO then tried to pass that overpayment on to Alberta consumers…”

    “Investigators say the value of that sole-source, non-bid contract was at least 30 per cent higher than its market value…”

    “…another ATCO subsidiary, ATCO Structures and Logistics… signed a joint venture with Simpcw (First Nation) and helps run three camps for the TMX project on Simpcw traditional territory, a contract the document says is worth up to $100 million.”

    “ATCO Electric admits that Simpcw ‘were threatening to back out of the (Joint Venture Agreement) should ATCO Electric not award the contract to them.’ This, in turn, would result in (ATCO) losing camp contracts for the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project.”

    “Enforcement staff DO NOT ALLEGE that Simpcw or its related entities ENGAGED IN ANY WRONGDOING with respect to this matter.”

    Of course not.

    If Chretien’s Liberals could shake down Quebec companies for donations and not be punished, then why not the noble First Nations.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-utilities-commission-investigators-want-probe-of-atco-dealings-on-tmx-camps-1.6269396

    1. Well, Fat Kenney opened the door when he told utilities they could soak Albertans for the uncollected COVID deferral payments.
      Atco Electric – Ms. Southern – figures it would just slip that in as well.

    1. Of course we are…I have a trip planned for after Christmas. Was hoping to use my voucher before my AZ shots are deemed no good. Luckily, I’m dealing with a non-Covid health issue that will trigger the cancellation insurance this time around if need be.

    2. You better believe it, to combat the new variant we will be ordered to do all the same things that did not work the last few times.

    3. ‘Are we on our way to some degree of shutdown before Christmas?’

      That’s like asking: do we still need to pay the temporary income tax even though the war was over a century ago?

  5. Given how easily Canadians submitted to the steady erosions of their rights I’m not sure “stripped” is the correct word. It went more like this:

    Gov: “We’re going to take these rights to keep you safe. Ok?”
    Canadians: “Yes please! We don’t need those silly rights anyway, that’s so American!”
    Gov: “LOL sure thing! Can we have some more then, especially from the unvaccinated?”
    Canadians: “YES! YES YES YES! Stick it to those plague rats!”
    Gov: “LOL this is stupidly easy. Do you want them back any time soon?”
    Canadians: “Nah we cool. You let us know. We trust you.”
    Gov: “LOL. Morons.”

  6. I have been trying to get an immigration visa for years now as I watch the flow of illegals cross the southern border. My wife lives in the great state of Wisconsin (safely north of Milwaukee?) and we have been separated by the border for 12 of the last 20 months (twice for six months). I flew into the US last year, flying to Toronto, then NYC, then Minneapolis, rented a car and drove almost half the distance that I would have driven with a normal border. Three full planes, three major airports. Now after, exhausting all possibilities, hoping for a return to sanity, I bowed to the damn jabs and will drive into the US in a week now “fully vaccinated”. Fortunately, besides a second head growing from my upper back, I have had no terrible side effects (so far). I joke.
    Meanwhile the USA, safe from a northern invasion, seems to have two completely different sets of laws for its two borders. I have had three (clean) criminal background checks, two immigration medicals (I’m healthy) and the expense of separate lives is ridiculous. This is insane. Let’s go Brandon!

        1. Country Music was still conservative when Earle went to Rock. Now, he would blend right in and no one would notice.

    1. Somebody must have told him involuntary manslaughter doesn’t require intent. Being a reckless asshole is enough. If the trigger pulled itself he was a bystander only. What a crock of shit.

      It worked for the guy who shot Colten Boushie but the jury lived in rural Saskatchewan and read between the lines.

    2. Hey proof that guns kill people, not people. It did it ll by itself. It self-triggered.

    3. The gun Baldwin had is a single action revolver. That means it must be cocked manually. The hammer has to be pulled back to the ‘cocked’ position. The gun is then ready to fire. You pull the trigger and the gun fires. You then manually cock it again. It DOES NOT fire by itself. It DOES NOT automatically cock each time you pull the trigger. You manually cock it between shots.

      So now we are being asked to believe Baldwin DID NOT cock the gun, point it and pull the trigger killing one and wounding another?

      If Baldwin did none of the above, then who did? Who pulled the trigger if it wasn’t him?

      1. abtrapper. You must be wrong because Mr Baldwin is a saint. Perhaps you’re mistaken about the gun.
        It wasn’t a single action revolver, but a double action single action fully automatic semi, with a hammer drop safety connected to a half cock safety with electronic smart gun technology that was cleverly designed to look like a single action revolver. Of course due to the evil nature of guns, the smart technology was corrupted, and the firearm fired all by itself. Of course the ammunition was partly to blame as it was one of those black talon .45 long colt auto semi wadcutter tunnel ram dum dums, (the ones with sprinkles) and that is another evil that would have attacked humans all by itself if it were not contained in the carefully deactivated prop gun issued by the competent 24 year old armorer that had thirty years of experience. The essential message of this sad story is, don’t point a firearm at anything you are not willing to destroy! Now stop blaming Hollywood actors that have vast amounts of firearms knowledge and know better than the average bear that it’s the evil inherent in firearms metallurgy that is the root cause of all the ills of civilization, and if we can please just uninvent guns, then Shangri La will arise, and our world will heal. If I missed anything my apologies, but I haven’t yet completed construction of my shrine to the democrat gods of the copybook headings. (apologies to Mr Kipling)

        1. I LOLed.

          The left seriously believes all guns are like something out of a Judge Dredd comic.

  7. Blacklock reports that while Dear Leader is pushing electric vehicles, an internal government memo states changing the government fleet to electric is not realistic.

    1. Please change the government fleet to electric immediately. Think how much better life would be without the useless wastes of oxygen that work for government able to get around and throw sand in the gears of actual constructive enterprises.

      1. I concur.
        Whatever version of misery they desire to burden those not of the entitled class, should be one they bare first.
        What does Justin Trudeau need a vintage Mercedes’ coupe for anyways.

    2. I don’t know, with their reputation for unexpectedly catching fire, could be a good thing.

    3. “…an internal government memo states changing the government fleet to electric is not realistic.”

      There is actually somebody in the gov’t who doesn’t have cranio-rectal inversion? I gotta meet this person…

      1. It is dangerous to show initiative and intelligence working for any level government. Anyone who does risks getting fired for doing so.

  8. Here is a real puzzler from BNN-Bloomberg news. Russia has led OPEC+ to increasing January 2022 production by 400,000 bbl a day, driving oil prices down further. Why Russia would be the driving force to lower oil prices is beyond me.

    1. Russian production might be hedged. It would be a great “you wanted low oil prices, go Joe Biden’.

  9. There’s this

    https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canadian-press-newsalert-boeing-officially-out-of-canadian-fighter-jet-competition

    The two remaining candidates are the F35 ( which is the one Trudeau promised not to buy) and the Saab (which isn’t configured to inter operate with US aircraft)

    Now I don’t wish ill will but it would be ironic if transport Canada grounded the Challenger fleet due to its age. I for one would like to see the sock monkey try to finesse replacing the Challenger jets while the Air Force still hasn’t gotten new fighters promised in 2006.

    1. Norway with a population of about 6 million just took delivery of the last of its 41 F-35s ordered .

    2. FWIW, I’m not interested in the Saab because of the communications issue and I don’t like single-engine so the F35 is out (in addition to all the other problems with the plane).

      While I realize the Super Hornet is a generation back, I still prefer it. Twin engine, proven record, communications work, buy the damn thing.

      1. Super Hornet for sure. The whole concept of the F35 is stupid. In trying to be all things to all people it ended up being expensive mediocrity. I’d be happy with an updated dirt cheap F5. Just keep them out of battle. The world would have been a better place if we hadn’t killed Serbians and Libyans in those stupid little wars.

    1. I had no doubt about O’Stoole right from the get go. As far as his magnanimous offer for a free vote, yeah, right. Rings a bit hollow after Sen Batters just got the shoe from caucus. Cowards, the lot of ’em.

    2. I hate to be stickler for accuracy, but I believe the political party you are referring to is now called The Stool Party, they”re Liberals too but their leader is even more of a feckless POS then Juthtin the Turdhole. The Stool Party says one thing and then they turn around and do the opposite. The “leader” of the Stool Party looks like something you might find in your stool, but with less integrity.

      I actually saw a big lump of dog shit the other day and I could’ve sworn that it was Arrun Oh’Stool, I actually did a double take before I realized that it wasn’t Mr. Stool but a big pile of dogshit, easy mistake to make.

      Who knew the Con Party would transform into the Stool Party with a permanent “leader” who loses elections like a champ and never has to say sorry for being a liar or be held accountable for his policy flip flops or losing elections.

      Who better to be the leader of the Stool Party then the leader for life, Arrum Oh’ Stool. Nothing could be more appropriate.

      Having a “leader” that actually wins elections is for losers anyhow … hell, these turd polishers in the Stool Party can’t even oppose the Turdhole Party as they are exactly the same thing but with different looking figure heads, one with fancy socks and an empty head and without fancy socks and an empty head.
      If you don’t like the Turdhole Party then you can vote for the Stool Party, same shit, different pile… thats the Cons new campaign slogan.

  10. Norway with a population of about 6 million just took delivery of the last of its 41 F-35s ordered .

  11. Nike and Patagonia are exceptionally “Woke” companies. But what happens when you scratch the surface veneer?

    “A European human rights organization has filed a criminal complaint against Nike, Patagonia and other Western fashion brands, claiming they are complicit in the forced labour of Uyghurs in China and that the alleged violations could amount to “crimes against humanity.” ”

    https://nationalpost.com/news/world/nike-patagonia-named-in-new-european-criminal-filing-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-china

  12. Since you asked for a glimmer of hope…223 ammo is back in stock here in the Western US. Expensive, but available.

    1. Yup 357 magnum is back on the shelves here too,in fact the shelves are full..
      I guess those panicked last minute shoppers are all up to speed again.
      Things are looking up all over.
      Our next unit of exchange?
      How many rounds to a bushel?

  13. Omnicron is now 74% of covid cases in South Africa! By this time next week we’ll know for sure if it’s a literal cold with super mild symptoms that has been reported in South Africa. If it holds covid is finally over and as you’d expect nature took care of it. Yes, literally every damn measure over the last two years have been useless and counter productive.

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