January 24, 2022: Reader Tips

Anyone who’s been part of a ball team will recognize the guy eulogized in this song by James Frazer. Written for Bernie, the heart and soul of the GC Chronics, and dedicated to all the boys of summer who are drinking in a better place. R.I.P. Hepp.

Submitted by James’ wife, Denise.

Your most interesting recent tips are much appreciated!

54 Replies to “January 24, 2022: Reader Tips”

  1. A personal economic update.

    Earlier today, I drove from Edmonton to my house in B. C. (yeah, yeah, I drove over stolen Indian land burning diesel fuel, the consequences of which made Greta skip school, blah blah blah).

    The price of diesel when I filled up in Edmonton at the Mobil/Superstore near where I live was $1.38/litre, up about $0.10 from early this month. At the Petro-Can at the far west side of Grande Prairie, it was $1.45. On the way back, I plan on re-fuelling at the Esso across the highway. Maybe the price will be different.

    I mentioned a few days ago that the Safeway near where I live in Edmonton hasn’t had any cornstarch on it shelf for several weeks now. I bought groceries for myself at the nearby Save-On Foods in Fort St. John, and there was none to be had there as well. I drove to the local Safeway and it was out, but there was some Fleischmann’s at the No-Frills, but only a few jars. All other brands at the NF were gone.

    Other things I noticed at the 3 stores. Plain breakfast cereals are in short supply, though there were lots of boxes of the one sort named after Prinz Dummkopf (i. e., Fruit Loops) as well as other sugary varieties. I didn’t notice if oats or Cream of Wheat were still available.

    There were a few empty spaces at the Save-On meat counter–mainly beef. Lots of pork and chicken, though.

    A few varieties of condiments at the No-Frills are now gone. Similarly, a number of off-the-shelf medications, such as Neo Citran, were in short supply there and at the Safeway.

    So, here we are. I have a few data points from two different communities in two different provinces. This isn’t an isolated incident, folks.

  2. L – Wow ! A Mother of All Rallies, an enlistment level of Canadian patriotism not seen since WW2.
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    Quiggin Report Podcast @QuigginReport
    BREAKING: The number of truckers, family members and supporters descending on Ottawa is now estimated at 500,000 people 50,000+ trucks.
    Yes, you read that right. Estimated half a million people.

    #TruckerConvoy2022 #TruckersForFreedom Image
    7:22 PM · Jan 23, 2022·Twitter Web App
    https://twitter.com/QuigginReport/status/1485422780015329281?cxt=HHwWgoCygb-JpJ0pAAAA

    1. Wow! I had no idea that there were so many racists, misogynists, anti-sciencers, white supremacists, and extremists in this country.

      I guess Brenda’s Bunch will be busy arresting them all, eh? Imagine the overtime bill!

      1. Imagine the things NOT being carted. That will help fill the shelves.

        (/s just in case)

    2. 1 idea I heard from a trucker was the truck should fill the store shelves starting in Windsor and going east. If they get to kitchener or Toronto and the trucks are empty, sorry about your luck GTA, Ottawa, Quebec. While I gladly support the rally concept long term effects will be limited as we have such stupid people in government and bureaucracy. Oh, they have their degrees in politics science or economics or environmental science and the like. But their existence is to create enough programming to spend the budget and cash out with a good pension

      1. Like I noted earlier, every truck passing through Manitoba should load up with hogs, grease ’em up & deposit the little portable shit factories on the streets of Ottawa when they get there.

    3. Expect to see “these truckers are racists, etc” articles everyday from the Liberals and their media.

  3. Watch: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Announces The Definition of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Has Changed

    https://www.digifection.com/2022/01/22/cdc-changes-fully-vaccinated-definition/

    During a press briefing Friday afternoon, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced the definition of fully vaccinated has changed and that the agency is “pivoting” its language on how it approaches boosters. This language change includes ditching the use of “fully vaccinated” and replacing it with “up to date.”
    “What we are really are working to do is pivot our language so that everyone is as up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines as they personally could be, should be based on when they got their last vaccine. So importantly right now we are pivoting our language, we really want to make sure people are up to date. That means if you recently got your second dose you’re not eligible for a booster. You’re up to date. If you are eligible for a booster and you haven’t gotten it, you’re not up to date and you need to get your booster in order to be up to date,” Walensky said.

    1. Sis’s pal in Florida is “up to date”  — has a ‘date’ to see a cardiologist this week.

  4. This is not a joke but genocide is not the right word
    Hong Kong’s Hamster Genocide

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/hong-kongs-hamster-genocide/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

    The government will begin by slaughtering over 2,000 hamsters at pet stores across Hong Kong. The Controller of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) Edwin Tsui said that animal-to-human transmission is rare but possible and that it was more likely that the worker contracted the virus from another human.

  5. Let’s fix a headline for the Globe and Minion:

    “Western elites hate Vladimir Putin and want him dead. Why won’t he listen to them?”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-on-ukraine-nato-and-more-russias-vladimir-putin-lives-in-an/

    That done, some real news on the latest innovations from Startup Nation:

    “Twenty years after he planned the controversial barrier between Israel and Palestinians, Dany Tirza is developing a security tool that requires no cement: body cameras with facial recognition technology.

    “Tirza, a former Israeli army colonel, says his company Yozmot Ltd aims to produce a body-worn camera enabling police to scan crowds and detect suspects in real-time, even if their faces are obscured.

    “Facial recognition in law enforcement has sparked global criticism, with U.S. tech giants backing away from providing the technology to police, citing privacy risks.”

    https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/b1frxjqtf

    Worth it just for the sample face used—Mark Zuckerberg, one of the most notorious self-hating Jews on planet Earth.

    1. The Putin article in the Globe reminded me very much of the relentless Trump hit pieces in the media. There is obviously a campaign on to discredit Putin. That tells me he may be on the right track. Certainly, I do not consider his concerns about the Ukraine joining NATO to be ” paranoid”.

  6. This might need some Canadian content – Starts at

    https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/freedom-convoy-raises-2m-thousands-of-trucks-take-to-canadas-highways-against-mandatory-jabs/#comment-2511739

    “Strop
    January 24, 2022 at 12:30 pm · Reply
    I’m not a CBC defender specifically, but regarding the image in the blog “CBCNews is so full of sh…” for reporting that truckers are protesting Highway conditions.

    That CBC article is actually correct. There is a truck protest about the Highways.

    The article even mentions that it’s a different protest to the Truck protest about vaccine mandates and links to the freedom protest. So CBC wasn’t actually trying to pretend the truck freedom protest was a highway protest.”

    I hadn’t heard about the second?

      1. A lot of “new” drivers haven’t been taught to put on tire chains. These “new” drivers have little winter driving experience.

  7. If this escalation of posturing actually turns into a War.
    It’s quite easily to show how the United States and any Allies with them would be defeated rather quickly.
    With the advent of satellites, it’s quite easy to trace where the massive amounts of fuel supply that these fleets in a different country territorial waters get their fuel supply.
    A couple of well placed missiles and you’ve just starved those fleets and a few days, they’d be dead in the water.
    Russia doesn’t need to go to War and is a different country since they’re collapse.
    The War Hawks fear mongering is decades old and NEVER REVISED all about they’ll invade you if we don’t defeat them first.
    Putin has no territorial ambition except that he’s a successful Nationist who uses his countries resources which has profitable for the exporting.

    The Democrats and Mainstream Media’s NEED a War.
    It’s the only possible way that the Democrats could stay in power by making an Emergency War Measures Act.
    Desperate people do do desperate things especially when they know that they themselves may be thrown in jail.

  8. Mike McGlone, the Bloomberg Intelligence Strategist (he is obviously intelligent and strategic) said that while Bitcoin had “good” support at $40,000 the support at $30,000 is “very good”. Bitcoin is currently trading at $33,400. WTF kind of strategic intelligence is that?

  9. I know that SDA readers are not fans of electric vehicles. I’m on the fence but preparing to climb down in favor of EVs as a credible replacement of internal combustion engines (maybe in 10 years). In walks the Lucid Air. Looks a bit like a Chevy Malibu to me but I did convert its awesome 530 mile, record-setting range test and the darn thing gets the equivalent of 2.5 l/100 km in fuel consumption (using $0.20/kWh electricity and $1.30/l gasoline). That is more than twice my Jetta TDI turbo and four times better than the best SUVs on the market.

    https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-record/

    Yes, it was 60-70 deg F outside. No it wasn’t Edmonton in the winter. But these are engineering problems and as someone once said – if a problem can be reduced to one of engineering (and not scientific) then it will be solved, it’s just a matter of time and money.

    EVs are coming and they will replace ICE vehicles and one day you will read about a certain guy from Rupertsland reluctantly driving his EV-converted RAM truck to B.C. to pick up corn starch from the grocery store near to the home he inherited from his father. You will. And the first thing that will come to your mind will be – they’re still out of corn starch?

    1. Pipe Dreams Steve.

      Batteries are a 120 yr old VERY mature energy source…
      -30 comes often North of the Alberta/Sask/Mb border.
      …and just WHERE do you plan on seeing the entire Canadian EV Fleet getting it’s “energy” from..??

      Hydro..?? Nope – find me a river that isn’t dammed.?
      Oil n Gas..LOL…not as long as PM Shitferbrains is in power
      Wind/Solar…Laughable at best
      …so whats left hmmm..??

      NUCLEAR..? – For some strange reason, I simply do not see GreenPeace jumping on that bandwagon anytime soon.f

      Don’t sell your ICE vehicle just yet folks. oh, and btw, that 530 km range in 70 deg weather.?? = ~165km in -20….without the heat on.
      USELESS

      K, now I’m off to fill up my 4 Yellow Jerry Cans…..

    2. I’m not against EV’s per se, but there are technological issues that must still be resolved before they become an adequate replacement of the internal combustion engine. You touched on one.
      – Batteries lose their charge quicker in colder weather, even with the heater turned off.
      – Batteries lose their effectiveness in say about 5 years, and replacing them can be half the cost of the vehicle.
      – There are still not enough charging stations, and even if you find one,
      – Charging can take up to 12 hours to full charge, while it takes less than 5 minutes to fill a gas tank.
      (this is just off the top of my head, so my facts may be a little off, but I don’t think I’ll be getting any Pinocchio’s for this list.)
      Of course, things could change by 2035 when Canaduh will ban internal combustion engines.
      On a side note, I heard that our illustrious, (and ex-con) environment minister went on record in an interview with a leftist rag saying he wants to phase out fossil fuels by as early as 2024. (As if this government hasn’t done enough damage to this country’s economy already.) I’m wondering if there’s any truth to that.

      1. Like all products not picked and chosen by gov’t to be successful, EV’s need to prove their worth by market forces. Subtract the taxpayer-funded gov’t propaganda & subsidies and they’ll die the same slow death they did over a century ago.

      2. We have no where near enough electricity generators to provide the power required for an entirely electric vehicle fleet.
        Even if we did…
        The electricity transmission grid has no possibility of moving that energy to the millions of required charging stations.

        These technological problems require TRILLIONS of dollars and decades of time to solve.

    3. You don’t have a clue. Do the numbers yourself, rolling resistance, air resistance, etc.
      We still do not have anything even getting close to the energy density of gasoline or diesel, we would need a 10 fold improvement in battery tech to do that, and then you still have other factors to consider, like charging time, lifetime of batteries, fire safety, etc.

    4. The greens are opposing new lithium mines (and most other new mines). Thus, there will not be enough EVs for everyone to have one.

      You’ll have to take public transit.

    1. The Red Star proving once again that it’s a vile cesspool of far left sociopaths who’d be better employed asking whether you want fries with that.

  10. Stocks have lost 10 percent of their value since the New Year on news that Joe Biden has made no progress in crushing the patriotic opposition in the United States.

    Wall Street is taking it out on Russia, cashing out everything they have that’s ruble-denominated, because everything is Putin’s fault.

    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/24/russias-central-bank-steps-in-to-halt-trade-as-russian-markets-in-freefall-a76130

    Unfortunately for Wall Street, Russia is self-sufficient in food and energy and doesn’t need bank-confetti from abroad to fight wars, much less win them.

    Russians can wait for their new BMW’s. They’ll need a few months to get to Munich to take delivery in person.

      1. For savvy investors willing to invest in a country that is genuinely developing at a bargain price, yes. Wall Street’s stupidity is your opportunity.

        The few prosperous globalists left in Russia claim Putin must go because imported cheese acosts too much. Most sensible people ignore them. Russia is self-sufficient in food nowadays—no thanks to the globalists—and Russian dairy has come a long way from Soviet times.

    1. So the worst thing about the protest this idiot can find is that the organizer of the GoFundMe account supported western separatism? No other straws to grasp?

      1. That one straw will be repeated, ad nauseum, this week by every single mainstream “media” outlet.
        And by the time the convoy reaches Ottawa, a super-majority of Canadians will hate them.
        The truckers have already lost their argument.
        Trudeau has won, and he knows it.

        Only a HUGE increase in empty shelves in Central Canada will win this argument.
        Sorry truckers (I’m on your side).

    2. I worked in a heavy equipment scrapyard for a couple years. That mag was sent to us. I remember the Harper gov’t waxing poetic about a fed program to “attract women to the trucking industry.” in that mag.
      Fuck them all.

    1. That’s not quite the case. It will allow AI systems in the car to shut the car off if it thinks you’re impaired.
      I admit, its not a big step from that to a kill switch, or even hackers or eco-Turds disabling thousands of cars at a time.

  11. Trucker convoy from BC: 50 kms long
    GoFundME at 10:AM Calgary time: 3.226 Million
    Funds will in fact be distributed: Trudeau/Butts “Terrorist” ploy cancelled.
    Time to stock up folks: Food – Fuel
    This thing could go for up to 3 weeks..!!

    The GREAT Canadian Trucker Siege 2022..!!
    Awesome..here’s hoping you all kick some ass..!!

  12. Ipsos Reid keeps up the HATE propaganda, thanks to Gloebells news

    https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-and-polls/half-of-canadians-agree-government-should-enact-a-tax-on-unvaccinated-people

    Funny, Sask residents are some of the most hateful in the country, though they share that with Qweebeckers

    Regionally, those in Saskatchewan/Manitoba and Quebec are more likely to agree that the government should enact a tax on unvaccinated people (59% SK/MB, 58% Quebec, 53% BC, 52% Atlantic Provinces, 49% Ontario, 44% Alberta).

  13. Edmonton has a “snow removal problem”:

    https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/i-am-equally-frustrated-edmonton-mayor-says-city-has-to-do-better-to-combat-icy-streets-sidewalks

    Hahahahahahaha! As if that’s news. Edmonton’s had a snow removal problem for years and the new bozo we’ve got as mayor is showing he’s as inept in that job as he was as a Prinz Dummkopf cabinet minister.

    I found out how bad the “problem” is when I left Edmonton yesterday. I got out of the parkade with my truck and was about to turn onto the nearby street when I was faced with an urban lake. Yeah, the drain grate for the sewer was blocked and all that melt water nicely accumulated right in front of the turnoff for the parkade.

    A minute or so later, I came across another one, this being along one of the main drags in my part of the city, which just happens to be a bus route.

    Buuuuuut, I guess that’ll teach us for living on stolen Indian land, won’t it?

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