24 Replies to “May 29, 2023: Reader Tips”

    1. It won’t be close at all. This will be a Danielle Smith landslide and I look forward to watching libtard heads explode. Still can’t believe they thought they had a chance on Alberta.

    2. I’m still calling NDP, probably sweeping Edmonton and Calgary, and picking up a good number of seats in smaller urban centres. Partly because of Dominion machines, which I absolutely do NOT trust. Not the result I want.

    3. Prediction….
      UCP: 47
      NDP: 40

      (Way closer than it had to be. Smith has worse judgement than Trudeau. Her party is going to kick her to the curb before the 2027 election.)

  5. Re: Rock N’ Roll Macdonald.

    Great video.

    When I drive by a Macdonald burger joint, and my grandkids ask. ”Grandpa, can we eat here??” I have one standard reply. ”NO.”

  8. Chicago is racking up quite a body count this long holiday weekend. As of 7 PM on Sunday, the running total is 12 dead And 36 more wounded, with over 24 hours left.

    https://heyjackass.com/

    How many decades have the Democrats run Chicago?

    1. You need to scroll half way down to the colour wheel to see who is dying and who is causing the dying. No surprises here.

  9. “Missouri Versus Biden”

    Check it out – this is mind-blowing (even for me, who doesn’t really have a “mind” anymore and is prepared to believe anything bad the government does). Missouri, Louisiana and several private individuals are suing the Biden White House over censorship, “misinformation” and bullying social media companies to block info the government doesn’t want shared. It’s very wide-scale, and the guvmint is blocking, obfuscating and duck-and-weaving for all they’re worth. And the judges are NOT PLAYING BALL – they’re slamming ’em good:

    https://www.samizdata.net/2023/05/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-missouri-vs-biden/

    1. One of the catch-22’s therein:

      “The Virality Project, the “medical bureaucracy” portion of the censorship apparatus, admits that for supposed covid misinformation, the majority of the “misinformation” came from domestic actors. An important thing to remember is this: Even though what many of us were saying about masks, the shot, covid origins, etc was TRUE, even if it WEREN’T, the government is forbidden from censoring. That important tenet aside, even when the FBI moved to censor “foreign” speech, it swept up hundreds of thousands of Americans and journalists—something we will explore further in a moment.

      […]

      As the evidence proves, there was conspiracy behind the censorship. The White House campaign integrated with the Surgeon General, the CDC, and Census Bureau campaigns drew directly from White House pressure. NIAID and NIH censorship efforts draw from the CDC. CISA, FBI, DOJ, ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] and other agencies worked together and all participate in meetings together to facilitate pressure and censorship. CISA and the FBI worked together to censor the Biden laptop story. NIAID and NIH conspired together to censor the lab leak theory and Great Barrington Declaration [co-authored by plaintiff’s Bhattacharya and Kulldorff]. NIAID [Fauci’s former division at the NIH] is embedded in White House censorship activities. CISA and GEC [Global Engagement Center, the State Department’s censorship arm] coordinate with each other and with NGOs like the Election Integrity Project. This isn’t a guess. They have the evidence. This happened.”

  10. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. My late father fought in Patton’s army in WWII, as a Morse code operator in an artillery unit. Two weeks after the war ended he was hospitalized in Germany for two months after a nervous breakdown.

    Although artillery was supposed to be back from the front lines, father’s battalion commander was gung-ho and liked to be ar the front, doing artillery reconnaissance himself with my father in his half-track.

    We should remember the contributions of U.S. vets to our south.

    1. David

      The Guns of Normandy by George Blackburn MC is a must read. George was a FOO (forward observation officer) with a Canadian Artillery Regiment.

      The book will give you a new appreciation for the daily life and activities in an artillery regiment.

      His next book, The Guns of Victory, is also a good read.

      One thing I did not know. The volume of fire used by the Canadian/British armies in Normandy and later in Holland and Germany exceeded that of WW1 battles.

      German troops who fought on the eastern front, and then experienced the Canadian/British artillery barrages, said they were much heavier than the Russian fire.

      The 25 pounder artillery pieces had a rate of fire of 5 rounds per minute. Canadian gun crews could far exceed this. One Canadian crew was timed at 15 shots in a minute.

      My uncle served in the Canadian Artillery, but transferred to the infantry.

      These books will gave me a new appreciation of the hardships faced by the artillery.

      One last story. The artillery guys felt a little guilty getting to ride on trucks and artillery tractors, especially while passing infantry on foot. After one battle, they passed through an infantry unit that was resting by the roadside. To a man, the infantry unit stood up and cheered the artillery unit. The day before, the artillery unit had decimated a heavy German counter attack against said infantry unit.

      1. All artillery guns have two rates of fire, the burst rate and the sustained rate. The sustained rate is based on how fast you can fire without melting the barrel and the burst rate is how fast you can fire in a cold barrel before it gets hot. The burst rate is substantially faster.

        1. Rusty

          I realize that, and was surprised by the duration of “burst” fire mentioned in the book.

          1. Joe and Rusty, thanks for your posts. My father told me one anecdote. He said if there was one German jeep off in the distance, American artillery would fire a big barrage to nail the vehicle. By contrast, British artillery would use one artillery piece to do the job. Probably apocryphal, or exaggerated, but that’s how he told it me some 50 years ago.

      2. John Keegan has written about the devastating effect this kind of unrelenting shelling had on the German Army in WW II especially after D-day and after the Allies gained control of the skies over France. There were reports of battle hardened German troops running out of their hiding places without their uniforms and weapons driven mad from the constant shelling they endured curtesy of Allied ground & air bombardment on their positions.

  11. The conservative media is starting a third boycott, The North Face — a company manufactuting outdoor clothing, a company supporting Pride Month. Here is their web site pushing “The Pride Collection” (scroll down a bit):
    https://www.thenorthface.com/en-ca

    Unlike Target, North Face products are also marketed in Canada, so Canadians can get involved. The trouble is that this woke company sells niche products, overpriced products that normal Canadians would not buy anyways. And the better organized LBGTPed lobbies could organize a counter-boycott and run out and buy the gay stuff.

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