February 4, 2022: Reader Tips

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This evening we once again enjoy the musical stylings of James Frazier. This is a musical essay with a Leave It To Beaver theme, Why Tell The Truth? calls out politicians and complicit journalists for the epidemic of dishonesty that we’re subjected to every day. Written in the early days of the lockdown, it’s more relevant than ever as the usual suspects try their damndest to defame the extraordinary and courageous folks standing up for our rights in Ottawa. You can view the lyrics here.

If you’d like some visuals to attach to Frazier’s song, play this video on mute while you listen to his song.

Update: Artur Pawlowski showed up in Coutts today!!!

Bonus: This was published today: Trudeau vs. The Truckers

Late Breaking Update: It looks like things are about to get very real in America beginning this weekend!

Your best tips this day are much appreciated!

68 Replies to “February 4, 2022: Reader Tips”

  1. The honking will continue until the freedom improves.

    Ontario needs to ‘reassess the value’ of COVID-19 vaccine passport system, top doctor says
    https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-needs-to-reassess-the-value-of-covid-19-vaccine-passport-system-top-doctor-says-1.5765973
    “Moore said ending the COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination system would ultimately be a government decision.”

    The above news has apparently, absolutely nothing to do, with Fat Fuck Ford clogging up a toilet upon hearing that truckers were going to roll into Moronto on Sunday.

    1. That’s a good one! I remember a video a while back with Trump hitting golf balls that
      bounced off Biden as he was coming down the stairs from Air Force One!

  3. B likes to post high quality movies full of artistic talent. This is not one of them. When your top actors are Christopher Lambert and Ice T you know you may be getting something so bad that it may accidently be good (call it Pacific Rim effect). It is grindhouse. It is cheese. It is over the top ridiculous and yet it is magnificent in its Tarantino wannabe fail.
    I present you: Mean Guns https://youtu.be/8_5J2MmNRPU?t=2

    1. Oh, goody! Another movie I haven’t heard of, let alone seen! Thanks for the tip.

      One movie deserves another one. Right now, I’m watching The Man Called Noon, an average spaghetti western with Richard Crenna and Stephen Boyd (whose American drawl is absolutely awful!):

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAFGHhas734

      Don’t expect anything on the level directed by John Ford or Sergei Leone.

        1. I’ve got a few boxes of DVDs plus I’ve got some videocassettes lying around somewhere. I haven’t really counted how many movies I’ve got as they’re stacked in a number of places in my apartment. (I’ll probably sort them out when I move after I’m done settling my father’s estate.) I’ve got about 60 or 70 titles that I’d like to add to my collection, but they’re buried well in my round tuit pile.

          Many of the movies I’ve suggested I’ve found on YouTube, often while looking for something else. The title catches my attention and I take a look at it. The Man Called Noon is one example.

          Some I’ve seen on TV, particularly Turner Classic Movies. I look to see if they just happen to be available on YT so that I can post the links and my fellow SDAers can watch them.

          1. Interesting. Books are my drug of choice, and late last year they threatened to run me out of the house. I’ve since broadened my relationship with a local used book store and struggle mightily to hang onto none of them. Yet another addictive behavior magnified by the lockdowns.

          2. Journals and technical magazines have taken over my apartment. My floor’s even become a bookshelf. I even share my bedroom with, among other things, a pair of radio antennas and bins of salvaged electronic and electrical parts.

            I can see why people move once in a while. It gives them an excuse to sort out what’s worth keeping.

      2. I’ve got a movie stinker that I recommend one should avoid. Earlier this evening, I started watching Whiffs (Elliot Gould, Eddie Albert, and Harry Guardino):

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

        I barely lasted 20 minutes, it was that bad. Worse, it’s not even golden trash.

        It’s directed by Ted Post, who was responsible for, among other films, Hang ‘Em High and Magnum Force. Whiffs shows that even good directors can make rubbish.

        1. Perhaps, now finally, it’s time to settle in and watch more of all these roundtuits, hopefully the political situation calms down. Built up a nice little library here.

          One thing, and it’s this: do you know how very amusing you, the influencers, recommenders, and suggesters all sound? It’s a real hoot! Time after time, you recommend a movie and then you comment how t-e-r-rible it is! Ah, ha ha ha! Happens almost every time. Why, me thinks I’ll get sore eyes, a stuffy nose and chapped lips!

          Ha, ha! So, Messy Beercups!

          1. Just because I dislike a movie, it doesn’t mean that someone else won’t. You may recall a discussion we had several months ago about the movie The Deer Hunter. As I remember, you enjoyed it and I considered it a clunker.

            Sometimes even a terrible flick has something worthwhile about it, such as being an example of, say, a certain actor’s early roles . For fans of that person, that might be reason enough to watch it.

    2. Another movie alert. TCM will be showing the movie Silver Streak (Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Ned Beatty) Thursday night.

      The reason I’m mentioning this is because much of it was filmed in western Canada. For example, Calgary (complete with the Tower) is passed off as Kansas City and a police chase was shot on the High Level Bridge here in Edmonton, back when it still had two-way traffic on it. The notorious north end was a dead giveaway.

      There are a few other Canadian connections. Much of the supporting cast and extras were from Canada (see how many you can recognize!) and director Arthur Hiller was born in Edmonton.

      I saw it with some of my dorm mates when it was in the theatres 45 years ago. When those unintended gaffes appeared on screen, the audience hooted and hollered in amusement.

      1. One more movie alert, though it’s rather short notice.

        Tonight, TCM will be showing 3 movies about teachers. My pick is Stand and Deliver with Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, and Lou Diamond Phillips. It’s not only a great film, but it’s a bit of fun for me to see what parts of Los Angeles I recognize. I had visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in early 1986, about two years before SAD was released, so I went through some of LA to get there.

        This song is played over the closing credits, by the way:

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

        I think this was the arrangement that was used.

      2. Yes, indeed, and I know several railways station scenes were shot at Union Station in Toronto. One of my old classmates was an extra in a crowd scene and made the final movie, though I couldn’t point him out to you.

  4. Make sure you listen to Pawlowski’s amazing speech to the truckers & farmers in Coutts!

    “Hold the Line, boys!”

    1. Robert, Pawlowski’s talk to that little crowd was one of the best things I have heard EVER! I have been following his saga since Easter last year. This guy is the “real thing”, as the expression goes. Heck, Arthur for PM and bury the rest.

    2. Artur Pawlowski was more powerful than ever in this speech to the people at Coutts, Alberta. He reminded the audience that the World is now watching us. This is a great time in Canadian history. Let us succeed beyond our wildest dreams.

    1. Theo accuses your limp-wristed PM of having Vaccine Derangement Syndrome … nothing could be more scientific than that!

      1. Adequately describes millions of Canadians and Americans. Kenji, did you ever think that you would experience such, hysteria, insanity and stupidity all in the space of two years?

  7. Liar Kenney: “I just ask people to be a little more patient.”

    Fuck you. Your “two weeks” are up.

    1. Two years to flatten the curve.
      And unleash cancer, myocarditis, and untold other “side effects” on an unsuspecting population. At this point, I don’t think “side effect” is appropriate, given that these things may be the desired outcome. When does a “conspiracy theory” become a criminal conspiracy?

    2. That’s rich, anti hate group trying to run off a loving and peaceful group of fellow canadians

    3. Ha. Oh yeah. Sure.

      The smart parasites are fleeing the city, now they know the cops are not going to use force on the truckers.

      The few bitter-ender Bolsheviks who show up on Saturday looking for a fight will lose. Badly. And Ottawa’s productive classes will cheer on the truckers.

      So will the cops. When the dust settles, the bolshies will be in no shape to refuse an offer to overnight at Hotel Innes, assuming they won’t be more comfortable in hospital.

      No further attempts will be made to dislodge the truckers by force. Expect negotiations between the Provisional Government and the Libranos for a peaceful transition to begin in earnest early next week—after the Fruit and the Uke have been ousted by their minions to save themselves.

      1. “And Ottawa’s productive classes will cheer on the truckers. “

        Not intended as a slight, my ignorance is showing here. Does Ottawa have a productive class? I was under the impression that 99% of the city was federally employed, contracted or associated.

        1. I think the real number is somewhere between 60% and 70%, but you’re right. Ottawans pride themselves on having a super-clean city, but that’s because there isn’t a manufacturing base to be found anywhere except on the extreme outskirts, which isn’t considered within the city limits. All the businesses around here are service-based.

          No factories, no air pollution. See how that works? Ottawans are such a proud people, who leach off the rest of the country through their taxes.

          1. Thx, fc. ‘Preciate it.

            No wonder the arrival of the Convoy and associated dreck is such a culture shock to some. Farm tractors on the streets is going to blow minds.

  10. And a couple more:

    Mechanism behind loss of smell with COVID-19 revealed

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-02-mechanism-loss-covid-revealed.html

    Rogan Vindicated? Ivermectin Shows ‘Antiviral Effect’ Against Omicron According to Japanese Study

    https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/01/31/rogan-vindicated-ivermectin-shows-antiviral-effect-against-omicron-according-to-japanese-study-n1554530

    Anti-parasite drug Ivermectin shows an “antiviral effect” against omicron and other COVID variants according to research released Monday by Japanese pharmaceutical giant Kowa.

  11. Guess I had more windows open than I thought. Two more.

    U.S. Government Study Admits COVID Vaccine Lengthens Menstrual Cycles

    https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/28/u-s-government-study-admits-covid-vaccine-lengthens-menstrual-cycles/

    Do Lockdowns Work? The Numbers Say No

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/do-lockdowns-work-the-numbers-say-no.php

    While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.

    Are you listening, Liar Kenney?

  13. Hi y’all! I just recently got to know of you and after lurking for a bit, decided to join the conversation. Hailing from BC (lower mainland). Honk! Honk!

    3. Welcome! You’re certainly in the belly of the beast in the lower mainland. Have they implemented a mandatory horn ban in the province yet?

    4. I grew up in the other side of the province in Fort St. John. I still have a foot in B. C. as I’m still working on settling my father’s estate, having inherited and taken over title of the house.

    1. I have to wonder if Turdeau’s seclusion has yet achieved Yasser Arafat level, wherein he sleeps in a different hidey-hole every night.

  21. Statistics Canada reports this morning that Canada lost 200,000 jobs in January:
    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220204/dq220204a-eng.htm

    In the fine print, StatCan reports that 600,000 employed workers report that they worked “short hours”, less than half of their normal hours during the reference week.

    Finally, the U.S. created 400,00 net jobs in January. Analysts at BNN-Bloomberg explain that the difference stems from that the U.S. is reopening, whereas Canada is still largely shut down.

    1. In Canada, government employment grew by over 300,000 during the pandemic. All of the job losses, and therefore all of the pain and suffering of lockdowns, has been experienced in the private sector.

      “All of the employment decline in January was among private sector employees (-206,000; -1.6%), reflecting large losses in the accommodation and food services; and information, culture and recreation industries. Following the decline, the number of employees in the private sector was essentially the same as in February 2020.”

      https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220204/dq220204a-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan

      It is a safe bet none of those in the Freedom Trucker convoys are government employees. They all work in the private sector and many are small businessmen which own and operate their own highway tractor trailers. They have every right to protest in Ottawa and stay as long as they like since Ottawa is the home, by far, to more government employees than anywhere else in Canada, and none of those employees lost their jobs and suffered pay cuts.

  22. Another economic victory for the Dear Leader: the cost of building new houses in Canada skyrockets. But don’t worry, the Chosen One will bring in 400,000 immigrants every year who will all be required to bring their own homes with them.

    “In 2021, the 11-city composite for residential building construction costs rose 18.1%, which represents its largest annual increase since its inception in 2017.”

    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220204/dq220204c-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan

    1. Bringing in those immigrants is the one good thing we’ve got going on at the moment though it’s still 10X too low.

      No doubt there’s bad federal policy, but the housing shortage is mostly a zoning issue and that’s a local governance issue that provincial governments have to address. Or in the case of BC and the ALR, they make it radically worse. The good news is that multiple US localities and states are moving forward with zoning reform which will ease the problem and what starts in America tends to end up here.

      https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/020322_az_affordable_housing/bipartisan-bill-promote-affordable-housing-introduced-arizona-house/

  23. There was recently released a meta-analysis study claiming that ‘lockdowns’ barely prevented any deaths. This study was bad and it didn’t even come out of the COVID department, it was by 3 economists and it came out of the art department.

    https://nationalpost.com/health/johns-hopkins-study-finding-lockdowns-do-little-to-prevent-covid-deaths-flawed-critics-say

    “The Johns Hopkins study defined a lockdown as “the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention.” Under this metric, a country whose only COVID stricture is a five-day mandatory quarantine is treated exactly the same as a country experiencing curfews and blanket closures on public venues.”

    “A theme taken up by all the critics in the Science Media Centre post was that the Johns Hopkins meta-analysis failed to account for instances in which a lockdown may have arrested the growth rate of deaths, if not the raw number of deaths themselves. ”

    Garbage. I have vastly diminished respect for Steve Hanke and the other libertarians involved in this.

    1. “This study was bad and it didn’t even come out of the COVID department…”

      ‘Cause there couldn’t possibly be a smidgeon, a taint, a whiff, even, of conflict of interest there. No self-interest whatsoever. Nope.

      In addition, is that a logical fallacy I read there? A call to authority, perchance? Why, yes. Yes, it is.

      Now, back to some unfinished business.

      You owe me a cite on the “novel” status of the Convoy.
      In addition, you owe me citations backing your conjecture about the NatPo article writer claims of “racist, antisemitic, or anti-democratic” Convoy behaviour.

      In case your memory isn’t what it used to be, it starts here:

      https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/01/30/january-30-2022-reader-tips-2/#comment-1573726

      1. “‘Cause there couldn’t possibly be a smidgeon, a taint, a whiff, even, of conflict of interest there. No self-interest whatsoever. Nope.”

        You’re confused. That’s called ‘expertise’. It’s also not a logical fallacy.

        Re Convoytards

        “King is listed as a contact for North Alberta on Canada Unity’s website, which hosts the memorandum of understanding that boasts more than 240,000 signatures.

        In a video posted on Twitter in 2019, King suggests that unless Canadians “get up off your as—s and demand change,” they might want to change their names to “Ishmael” or “drop a bunch of change down the stairs” and “call yourself chong ching ching chang.”

        In other video footage, King can be seen repeating racist conspiracy theories. In one clip posted to Twitter by another user, King says “there’s an endgame, it’s called depopulation of the Caucasian race, or the Anglo-Saxon. And that’s what the goal is, is to depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race because they are the ones with the strongest bloodlines,” he said.

        “It’s a depopulation of race, okay, that’s what they want to do.””

        “Jason LaFace — who at times uses the name “LaFaci” — is listed as the North and East Ontario organizer for the convoy on the Canada Unity website, and has been cited in other media as the main organizer for Ontario. In photos posted to his Facebook page, which were screenshotted by Global News, he shared an image titled “Canadian politicians who are not born in Canada” and included his own caption: “traitors to our country.”

        https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-organizers-hate/

        Yikes. Looks like the same carpetbaggers behind the Yellow Vest farce.

    2. Can you cite a study that shows that lockdowns have prevented deaths?

      Just asking for the 50,000 trucks who happen to be parked in the neighborhood, and their operators.

  24. A few key observations:

    Mortality worsened in 2021 vs. 2020 despite widespread vaccinations

    A spike in Mortality among younger, working-age individuals coincided with vaccine mandates

    The spike in younger deaths peaked in Q3 2021 when Covid deaths were extremely low (but rising into the end of September)

    On Tuesday, financial insurance company Unum reported that their Life segment saw an increase of 9% in their ratio of payouts vs. premiums (Benefit ratio), a 17.4% increase in 2021 vs. 2020 despite widespread vaccinations, and a 13.3% increase over 2019.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/long-funeral-homes-short-life-insurers-ex-blackrock-fund-manager-discovers-some-disturbing

  25. E-mail from my MLA on Erin O’Stoole

    Dear constituents,

    I regret not sending back individual responses and I do not make it a practice to send generic emails but the volume has been huge on this matter. Forgive me for this group email to you all but time was a priority.

    Many of you have contacted me over the past weeks expressing your concern with the then leader of the Conservative party, Erin O’Toole. I have been listening to constituents and collecting feedback from non-members and members alike for months. The near unanimous feedback on Erin O’Toole’s performance as leader was negative and a lack of confidence in his leadership.

    For this reason, I voted to remove Mr. O’Toole as leader in the recent conservative caucus vote. After speaking with Erin twice in the lead up to the vote, it strengthened my resolve that he needed to be removed as Leader.

    This is an exciting time for the conservative party, and I look forward to working with newly elected Interim Leader Candice Bergen to unite our movement and party.

    Thank you to everyone who emailed, called, and contacted me on social media expressing a view on this matter. I have heard you, I listened and voted to remove Erin O’Toole as Leader of the federal Conservative Party.

    In your service,

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