54 Replies to “March 12, 2023: Reader Tips”

  2. Ukrainians’ petition to rename “Russia” to Muscovy gains enough signatures to reach Zelensky:
    https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/11/president-zelenskyy-considers-petition-calling-for-russia-to-be-renamed-moscovia

    Obviously, schweinie-lovers will be outraged (without actually knowing why), but it very much makes sense; “Rus” originally meant a Viking settlement, so when Muscovy usurped the name Rus, which was later transformed into “Russia”, it sure did create a lasting confusion from which “Russia” has benefited. It was basically the same as if a country renamed itself “Colony” and then laid a claim for all former colonies in the world, no matter whose.

    4. Actually, us Swedes created possibly the largest empire in Europe in the 800-1100 time frame, in what is now Ukraine and Russia. The word “Russia” comes from “Roslagen” (whence many Vikings came) and/or from “Ruotsi” (Finnish for Sweden).

      https://varldenshistoria.se/civilisationer/vikingar/vikingarna-byggde-upp-europas-storsta-rike

      Us Swedes were also the core of the King’s Guard in Constantinople.

      Note, however, that it is not our fault that the region later turned into a total mess.

      1. It is a fault of natives who happily descended into mandatory alcoholism at least 25 generations ago. What they decided to call themselves is completely irrelevant – confine them within their international border at let them do what they want; I couldn’t possibly care less what recipe they use to make shchi to guzzle with their bast shoes.

    1. I do; it makes no sense whatsoever. The idea was to make the noon closer to the middle of the working day and reduce the need for artificial lighting and it may have had a significant benefit when the overwhelming majority of businesses worked from 8 to 17 and used incandescent light bulbs for lighting, neither of which is the case any longer. There’s no advantage in counting the actual noon as 13 o’clock when the working hours are from 9 to 18 (which appears to be at least as common as 8 to 17 these days) and in any case, the amount of electricity consumed by lighting these days is negligible since it’s mostly LEDs or fluorescent bulbs.

      The only thing more stupid than switching to DST and back is living on DST permanently and there’s at least one country that does: the Russian-occupied Belarus.

        2. I always wondered why noon in Alberta is about 1:00 o’clock. It’s because our natural time zone is mostly Pacific Standard time while we are stuck in Mountain time. Saskatchewan and east to Lake Winnipeg is naturally in Mountain Standard Time while stuck in Central Time. Daylight Saving Time is stupid. Jerking with time zones for any reason is equally stupid. Line the border up with the nearest natural time zone and live with it. Eventually everyone will make a million independent decisions when to start and stop work. And put those jackasses in Newfoundland on Atlantic Time – they can’t tell time anyhow. It’s not like they have to get up and go to work.

        3. I rather thought they lived on Standard Time year-round. As when the sun is at its zenith at noon. Have long envied them.

          1. Solar noon in Regina is 1:08. They are geographically in Mountain Standard Time Zone but use Central Standard Time. Same with the western half of Manitoba.

        4. No, nini. Saskatchewan is on STANDARD TIME year-round. Standard time makes a helluva lot more sense than DST. Especially in Northern latitudes.

          1. The point is that Saskatchewan is centred in Mountain Standard Time Zone despite using Central Time. People in Saskatchewan are using Daylight Saving Time 365 days of the year but haven’t caught on yet. Solar noon at 1:08 in Regina and all that.

        1. So what exactly prevents them from getting up and going to sleep at whatever time they want without DST, their own stupidity?

        2. Bull Shit. Farmers were the most vehemently opposed to the concept of DST.
          For most, it made no difference or gave any advantage.
          For some, they actually thought the “extra hour” would burn off their crops.

          Livestock don’t care, their biological clock says feeding time doesn’t change with manipulating a time clock.

          1. In the coal branch region of Alberta (south of present day Hinton) where they never knew there was a depression in the 30’s, during WW11 they imposed double daylight savings time. Coal was in big demand.

          2. “Farmers were the most vehemently opposed to the concept of DST.”

            That is exactly my understanding too. UnMe just hates famers with the zeal of an urban corpo rat millennial.

        1. The Americans have a bill before Congress that if adopted will bring an end to the DST madness. Apparently the Senate has already it’s willingness to pass the bill. If it takes place we may have just witnessed THE END.

        2. Not if the same guy had a heart attack in the spring and then didn’t have one in the autumn. Oh, wait. Let me think this through

    1. Stupid coclusion of the study but read the comments ascthey are much, much more stupid than the study and a sad representation of our supposed betters.

    2. So are they now admitting the 19th Century Europeans were climate visionaries? For almost wiping out the Plains Bison?

      Those WaPo commentators would employ lots of doublethink in order to say “no”.

  5. “The 10 Rules Of Propaganda”

    “Lord Arthur Ponsonby was a British diplomat and politician, dates 1871–1946.

    This keen and cagey fellow pinpointed 10 rules of propaganda.”

    “They are these:

    1. We don’t want war, we are only defending ourselves.

    2. The other guy is solely responsible for this war.

    3. Our adversary’s leader is evil and looks evil.

    4. We are defending a noble purpose, not special interest.

    5. The enemy is purposefully causing atrocities; we only commit mistakes.

    6. The enemy is using unlawful weapons.

    7. We have very little losses, the enemy is losing big.

    8. Intellectuals and artists support our cause.

    9. Our cause is sacred.

    10. Those who doubt our propaganda are traitors.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/10-rules-propaganda

    He’s probably not the Ponsonby of the Prendegast and Ponsonby joke series

    2. Propaganda. Hardly. In most colonial wars the British did manage to kill 100 fuzzy wuzzys for each Brit.

  7. Holy … that’s only 1982 … seems like yesterday to me … the year my wife and and I married. Look at those kids … having a great time with the Allman Bros. band … setting up a dirty couch on the lawn … Florida girls dancin to the music.

    But what a tragedy that Duane Allman ate a peach truck (myth). His fame was sealed when he was playing as a session musician at the Muscle Shoals studio and played guitar for Wilson Pickett’s blues version of the Beatles Hey Jude. Duane just ripped through the tune on his guitar … impressing all who heard it … including Eric Clapton who said “I have GOT to meet the dude who played the hell out of that … the best rock, R&B solo guitar ever”.

    https://youtu.be/XJNoUYSiZmg

      1. I saw Dickey with his Southern rock thing going on at an outdoor concert. I was right on the end of the stage. He closed the show. I was impressed.

    2. Kenji,
      Duane and Eric ripped on it together when they were briefly Derek and the Dominoes.
      I’m sure you know that.
      Layla and other love songs is one of the best blues rock albums of the 70s.

    1. Watch for credit lines, cards to be scaled back/squeezed by the banks everywhere.
      Happens everytime they get spooked.

  13. Dutch Farmers deserve our attention and support.
    Rebel media is over there covering it.
    According to Canadian media nothing happened yesterday in Holland and Belgium.
    I was able to find these two articles.
    Apparently Extinction Rebellion thugs got waterbombed, but the farmers maintained peaceful demonstrations.
    An election is taking place March 15. It is difficult to gleen from the articles if the farmers have the support of any politicians.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/dutch-farmers-climate-activists-get-ready-pre-election-protests-2023-03-11/

    https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ts/news/world/europe/2023/03/11/tractors-head-to-the-hague-defying-ban-on-farms-protest.html

  14. FWIW

    “The Parliamentary Motive Behind the J6 Fedsurrection
    March 12, 2023 | Sundance | 376 Comments”

    “Much has been made of the events of January 6, 2021, and with the latest broadcast of CCTV video from inside the Capitol Hill complex, more questions have been raised.

    Within the questions: the FBI and government apparatus had advanced knowledge of the scale of the J6 mall assembly yet doing nothing? Why were the Capitol Hill police never informed of the FBI concerns? Why didn’t House Speaker Nancy Pelosi secure the Capitol Hill complex, and why did she deny the request by President Trump to call up the national guard for security support? Why did the FBI have agent provocateurs in the crowd, seemingly stimulating rage within a peaceful crowd to enter the Capitol building? There have always been these nagging questions around ‘why’?”

    More at

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/12/the-parliamentary-motive-behind-the-j6-fedsurrection/

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