51 Replies to “February 24, 2019: Reader Tips”

    1. If ya click on the arrows on the top left of the page…the actual page thats now “not avail” is shown..alhough just a screen shot – enough to make out what they were saying. With every bit of it, Complete Common sense.

      Pretty much what I’ve been saying for or 15 years..that CO2 based Climate Change is utter unmitigated BULLSHIT – nothing more than a Marxist UN agenda to destroy the West.

      Dont throw yer woolies out just yet…a “Maunder” type minimum is entirely possible given the compete dissapearance of any Sunspots…

      1. If you load the page now (Feb 25, just after 9 AM Mountain), it has been updated on February 25/2019 and it says “Page not found”. There are no arrows on the top left or anywhere else on the page. They’ve sent the original page “beyond the event horizon”. Except for the Wayback machine, of course.

    2. Plus water vapour is the only effective greenhouse gas climate driver on earth , not CO2. This is not Venus Virginia.
      No scientists with any integrity would ever argue CO2 is a driver of climate in any significant way.
      Now the watermelons talks about methane, which is measured in the parts per billion.

      Now watermelons talk about sea rises that are well within natural variability, like temperature, except in their CO2 on steroids
      models that defy even the laws of physics to come up with the gigo hottest year on record and catastrophic 9deg increases.

      Fake science meets fake news, meets fake crisis, meets not fake at all government takeover of the economy.

  1. Prof. Gad Saad interviewed by Glen Beck (1.59.04)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VozHKpFF0wI
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    L- I’m not usually a Glen Beck fan, but this is the best Gad Saad interview, I ever seen. There is so much evolutionary psychology explained, along with terminology. I’m going to have to watch it a second time and take notes. Some examples I’ve heard him mention before, others are new to me.
    Beck says this is the longest interview he’s done.

    Prof. Gad Saad explains the scientific method behind his examples very well.
    (Logic, requires true premises in order to generate sound conclusions.)

    Near the end, Glen Beck asks him to explain the consequences of mass Muslim migration to the West.
    Dr. Saad, prefaces his remarks with something like, as if I’m not getting enough death threats as it is.

  2. I vaguely recall the Monkees performing Stepping Stone and apparently it’s the best known version. I had totally forgotten that version when I heard the Sex Pistols version, which I still prefer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXd8qnONDIk. More raw. And more views on Youtube. Although he didn’t write this song, Peter Tork was a talented writer. RIP.

    1. I heard a bar band do a cover of the song back in the 80’s with a harder rock edge, and have thought ever since that it was a money maker waiting to be taken advantage of. Great song.

        1. Wow! Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Harry Nilsson, Michael Martin Murphey, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka, and John Stewart….

  3. Great Leader Groper is taking Sunday off after a busy Saturday on his never ending taxpayer funded election tour.

      1. I’m looking forward to all the money we are going to get back from Justin carbon tax, aka, price on pollution Ponzi scheme.

  4. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-federal-byelections-preview-1.5030131
    Tomorrow is by-election day. I think the conservatives in Burnaby should all vote Liberal.
    The NDP will be forced to tell Singh, “Smell Ya later” after he loses. Then they get a new leader – one that has a frickin seat already? – and hopefully this gets them results closer to the 2011 election.
    A Conservative victory can only happen with strong support of the NDP and I don’t think that’s happening if Jughead stays on. He’s almost as dumb as the PM but has far less appeal to far more people.
    Although the Cons are wayyyy too liberal for my liking and Canada seems doomed to self-destruct they might stave off the neo-Marxist march off a cliff a bit longer.

  5. Nancy:

    Further to your comment in response to my post about the Avro Arrow:

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/02/23/february-23-2019-reader-tips/#comment-1185104

    the effects and aftermath of the project’s cancellation have been well-discussed. For example, the weapons systems that were subsequently purchased to fulfill the Arrow’s role came up short.

    Many of the technical staff who worked on it left the country, some going to the U. S. Jim Chamberlain headed the Gemini program and Owen Maynard eventually worked on the Apollo Lunar Module. Jim Floyd went back to the U. K. and worked on Concorde.

    In many ways, the lunar landings weren’t entirely an American achievement. It’s likely that the Canadian contributions made them possible.

    When Armstrong and Aldrin landed, people suggested to PET that it should be celebrated with a national holiday. They saw it as a turning point in human history and not necessarily an American accomplishment. Some of them, I’m sure, were aware that Canadians had helped make it possible and so it would have been enough of a reason to take the day off.

    Daddy Trudeau, in his typical arrogant fashion, said that people could celebrate at their workplaces. It must have rankled him that the Americans were the first and not the Soviets.

    1. Dief the Chief was surrounded by the likes of people who were not likely his closest allies and probably gave him poor advice. Then people accused him of trying to break up the country by selling us down the river to the Americans.

      The closure of the A.V. Roe Canada plant was a blow to Canada with the loss of 14,600 jobs was considered malevolent. Then to have sold these state of the art planes for scrap at $4,355 each was a further travesty. These planes could’ve been feasible if left to develop over time. Poor marketing was another factor, rather there was “no” marketing in the works. Americans knew a good product when they saw one. It had to be American made for them to use i.e. Canada didnt stand a chance. Of course the top 1500 engineers flew the coup to the USA. There was more money there. They needed, as you say, to put a man on the moon.

      Then for Canada to have bought pure junk afterwards like Voodoos and to toy with Bomarc Missiles when the Russians alledgedly had more powerful weaponry only displayed our lack of might. The leadership, money and willpower was just not there.

      The key people to look at under Dief, where fingers could be pointed were Donald Flemming, the Finance Minister, Raymond O’Hurley, the Defense Minister and his associate Pierre Sévigny. Remember Pierre Sévigny was the one who alledgedly was the flamboyant one. He liked a certain Gerda Munnsinger. Things became unhinged for poor old Dief after that scandal and he lost power but hung on till 1979 when he died as a sitting M.P.

      Canadians never stood a chance.

      1. The substitutes for the Arrow left a lot to be desired. If I’m not mistaken, the F-101 Voodoos (American designation, CF-101 for the RCAF) were reaching the end of their operational life and were to be phased out soon afterward.

        The CF-104 Starfighters were designed for high-altitude interception but were, instead, used for ground support. They had a high crash rate, which resulted in them being nicknamed “the Widowmaker”. By the way, the Germans and Italians used them as well, but the Luftwaffe had the same problem as the RCAF did.

        What might have been a better choice was the F-4 Phantom. Originally a carrier-based fighter, it was used not just by the USN, but also by a number of other air forces, including the RAF, the Luftwaffe, and the RAAF. It saw service in Viet Nam as well as several wars in the Middle East.

        1. Considering that the article was written by a “journalist”, I’m rather skeptical of his arguments.

          The fact of the matter was that Canadians were never really told the truth behind the cancellation. I’ve worked in research and development, an activity that often costs a lot of money with no guarantee of success, so the financial excuse is rather thin.

          The Arrow was designed to fly with 3 different engines, 2 of which were British-made and the other American. One British and the American design were cancelled well into the Arrow development program, so the Orenda division of Avro took on the design of the Iroquois engine. How the Arrow would have performed with it was never determined as everything was cancelled before it could have been tested in flight.

          Had the Iroquois lived up to its potential, it would been given a number of other engines some stiff competition.

          The fact is that Canada shot itself in the foot when the Arrow was cancelled.

          1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Fleming

            You say: “Canadians were never really told the truth …”

            Pertaining to the demise of A.V. Roe and the Arrow: Intuitively, my guess would be that Donald Fleming’s ego clashed with too many people in Ottawa, to his own detriment and that of the Country’s.

            If I may qualify my statement, do read the above link to a mini biography of the man. He sounds, if you pardon the expression, like a cantankerous old fuddy duddy who didn’t have the ‘right stuff.’

            Of course, there may be many more reasons for this failed enterprise, most importantly, mainly monetary. He was the Finance Minister, after all.

          2. Fleming was sure a charmer, wasn’t he?

            I’m reminded of the opening scene from the first episode of the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon. Yuri Gagarin had just been launched and there was an emergency meeting with a number of JFK’s cabinet secretaries, followed by a session with Kennedy himself. The question of that meeting was whether the Americans could top anything that the Soviets had done in space so far.

            Dr. Hugh Dryden, who was deputy administrator of NASA at the time, suggested that a manned lunar landing would do it. He knew that it would take a major national effort to accomplish that task, but he knew that the Americans had the capability.

            One of the cabinet secretaries (director of the Office of Management and Budget, David Bell, I think) commented that pumping the amount of money required into the economy could be beneficial. Another comment that was made was the sight of Old Glory on the moon would most certainly be an inspiration to the American people.

            Alan Shepard flew on Freedom 7 shortly after that and, a few weeks later, JFK made his famous speech before Congress in which he committed his country to “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth”.

            The Kennedy administration understood that the pride of the nation was at stake, particularly after incidents such as the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Unfortunately, that sort of vision and spirit was lacking with the Arrow.

          3. “I’ve worked in research and development, an activity that often costs a lot of money with no guarantee of success, so the financial excuse is rather thin”
            Yes. Capital is risked with the hope of reward at the end of the day. In 1959, Canada with a population of 17.5 million could not afford to risk more capital on an expensive plane that had become redundant and had little chance of sales beyond Canada.
            The CBC movie about the project is not accurate.

          4. Nold:

            You forget that Canada was doing big things back then. During the same time that the Arrow was being developed, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Trans-Canada Highway were being built. The CBC was establishing its national television network and telecommunication companies were building a system of microwave repeaters, one goal of which was to make telephone calls from remote areas of the country possible.

            Canada was spending money on those projects because it was gambling on its own future.

            The Arrow was definitely not redundant because of ICBMs. That’s a fallacy that was created to justify cancelling the project. One of the objectives of the Arrow was high-altitude interception of enemy aircraft. As it turned out, the F-102 Delta Dagger and F-106 Delta Dart, which were specifically developed for the type of mission, did not have the performance that was promised for the Arrow.

            As for the great ICBM threat, that, too, was baloney. Flights by American U-2s over the Soviet Union showed that the supposed threat and so-called missile gap was propaganda. One reason Soviet missiles were often larger than those developed by the Americans was because of the on-board electronics. The Soviets were years behind the Americans in that field and, so, rather than using solid-state devices, they relied on vacuum tubes and EMP resistance was not considered a factor. The Russkies simply didn’t have as many transistors as the Americans.

            Don’t forget, as well, that both the Americans and the Soviets had high launch failure rates. Reliability was a major issue and to cancel the Arrow based on current missile technology was foolishness.

            Eisenhower knew that but he couldn’t say anything. Had he done so, questions would have been raised about how he got that information. The only way the data and photographs could be obtained was to fly directly over Soviet territory, which was a violation of the U. S. S. R.’s airspace, something he didn’t want to admit to, particularly as this took place during a time of delicate diplomacy. Of course, when Gary Powers was shot down, the cat was let out of the bag.

            It still doesn’t answer the question as to why Arrow was cancelled.

    2. I met a retired American Engineer, here in Arizona, that worked on the Avro Arrow.. He said a LOT of Americans were involved…..Would be nice to have a count

      1. I’m sure that someone will claim that they were all Soviet spies. There’s a persistent rumour that the entire Arrow project was riddled with communist agents and that was the reason it was cancelled.

        Talk about balderdash!

        1. “It still doesn’t answer the question as to why Arrow was cancelled”
          You’ve thrown out a half dozen red herrings, vague assertions, and assorted straw man arguments but no logical arguments refuting the many articles written over the years detailing the excessive cost of the plane leading to the cancellation of the project. By your own admission you call yourself an Arrowhead. I could give a shit how you spend your time but you don’t suppose your love for the myths behind the Arrow might be clouding your judgement and preventing you from looking at this subject in an objective way.
          I only bring that up because of your mention of the Concorde boondoggle and some guy who worked on it.
          (16 planes built for service and 4 prototypes)
          Those sunk costs worth billions in today’s coin were born by the British and French governments. IMO it was a travesty for the taxpayers of those 2 nations.
          Thank God John Diefenbaker had the courage and fortitude to prevent that here in Canada.

      2. I heard many of the engineers were English, including the head engineer James C Floyd who went on to help develop the Concorde.

        1. A. V. Roe was a British company and ties between the U. K. and Canada were much closer back then than they are now. Floyd was indeed a Brit and went back to work on Concorde after the Arrow was cancelled.

          A number of years ago, some kindly soul who was moving out of my apartment building abandoned a whole bunch of stuff in the lobby. Among the goodies was a VHS recording of a documentary about Floyd. (Being an Arrowhead, I quickly took it upstairs with me and it’s now part of my Arrow collection.) In it, he discusses his involvement with both the Arrow and Concorde.

          Floyd eventually returned to Canada and he’s still with us at 104. When the documentary on the videotape was made, he said he devoted much of his time to commemorating the Arrow.

          By the way, another famous person who worked on the Arrow was the late Dr. Gerald Bull. He was a brilliant aerodynamicist and he was also hung out to dry when the project was cancelled.

          1. One reason Avro was in Canada was because many of the Lancaster bombers used by the RAF and the RCAF during WW II were built over here.

          2. Not at the time it was developed. One reason that the Concorde turned into a money-loser was because of restrictions imposed on it due to noise concerns.

            There was a race between the Europeans, the Soviets, and the Americans to build a supersonic transport (SST). The first one was the Tupolev TU-144 and it was in service with Aeroflot for a few years until one of them crashed during an air show in Paris in the late 1970s.

            There was speculation that it became unstable due to turbulence generated by a French fighter that, apparently, took pictures of it during its flight and might have passed by too close. Instability was always a problem with the TU-144. Early versions of it looked a lot like Concorde, but when the difficulties became apparent, canards were added near the front which, apparently, helped.

            Two American companies, Lockheed and Boeing, tried building SSTs, but they never got off the drawing board. Their designs became unworkable when it became apparent that those planes could either carry passengers or fuel, but not both. The designs were much heavier than anticipated and the engines that would have been used would not have had sufficient thrust to properly move the planes. The engines for the SSTs were hayburners and many of the materials that are common nowadays, such as carbon composites, either didn’t exist or were in short supply.

            After the TU-144 crash, the only SST which remained in service was Concorde. Because of the noise restrictions, it couldn’t fly anywhere near its design speed over large land masses, which meant that the engines weren’t particularly fuel efficient. That meant that it was restricted to certain routes and markets and it became expensive to operate.

          3. Reply @ 9:44 pm B A
            So that’s why the Concord went bye-bye too. Sitting here reading stuff between you guys. Interesting stuff.

            I’m miffed that I missed the 1998 Ron Howard & Brian Grazer series ” From the Earth to the Moon.” It is not available on HBO “On Demand” at present. I just checked. However, since in July, it will be the 50th Anniversary of the moon landing, I’m hoping it will rerun on the Telé. Please share info should any of you see or hear of it or any other shows on the topic. Same here.

            Again, on the topic of why the Arrow was cancelled: There is nothing on Wikipedia or other sources that I can see about it, but I bet the cancellation was also partially about the Gerda Munsinger and Pierre Sévigny affair. Gerda was hounded for a long time, even right into the 1970s when Barbara Frum asked for an interview. No one denied it or said it didn’t happen but it was the scandal that wouldn’t go away.

            Apparently, to get it off the news cycle, the Government rescinded the death penalty, thereby successfully switching out the topic du jour.

            So, you say an “Arrowhead” huh?
            Okay.

          4. Reply @1052 pm NR
            I once heard a sonic boom and it was so loud that I jumped, even though I was indoors at the time! I thought it was an explosion. It was freaking unforgettable!

          5. Nancy:

            FTETTM is available on DVD and, now that it’s the 50th anniversary of the early Apollo flights, I’ve been observing it by watching the episode corresponding to each mission. Apollo 9 is coming up in a few days time and that one is a particular favourite of many viewers.

            The Munsinger affair is one aspect that I hadn’t heard yet.

            BTW, Arrowheads is the nickname given to fans and followers of the Arrow. A few years ago, I ordered a set of DVDs that includes not only movies that were taken of the Arrow during some of its test flights but also the pilot’s manual, which I haven’t looked at yet.

            I’ve also heard a sonic boom while I attended one of the last airshows at the old CFB Namao just north of Edmonton. The Americans had brought up a lot of terrific hardware for it, including a B-1 bomber and an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter. So much to see and so little time….

    1. Several years ago, there was a street preacher outside of Union Station. I stopped to listen for a few minutes. The look on the other listeners faces was priceless as they lost their smirks for frowns when I announced “He’s right!”, and carried on with my day.

  6. Jihad Kevin to be released in October 2019. He was smuggled into Syria in the trunk of a car leaving Turkey after leaving Canada to fight the jihad.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-terror-release-kevin-omar-mohamed-parole-1.5030090

    Kevin (aka Omar Mohamed) held extreme religious views and was sleeping in empty rooms at the University of Waterloo with a large hunting knife and notes from al-Qaeda publications. He will be required to seek religious counseling and to seek an imam. Ralph Goodale is keeping a close watch on this guy.

    1. They should get rid of all non native housing and revert to traditional housing of First Nations.

      Hospitals can be replaced by First Nations traditional plants and herbs.

  7. IOW: Hillary should have been charged, Comey and the deep states cohorts should have been removed with prejudice.

    Mueller should never have happened and his process crimes is his process crimes of no predicate offence.

    The deep state seditionist (including the Never Trump RINO hypocrites) should have been cleaned out immediately. In other words:

    “……. Clinton’s clear reckless negligence itself warranted charges. But because of Comey, Andrew McCabe, and others at the FBI and Justice Department, she was never charged. Instead, they used charges contained in an unverified dossier financed by Hillary Clinton to begin their relentless pursuit of Donald Trump.”

    So career investigators and attorneys wanted to charge Clinton, but were derailed, as Baker said, by higher-ups. For the record, that means Comey and the ever-growing cast of characters in the Justice Department and FBI lied, dissembled and covertly supported Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election. It was a clear violation of the law.”

    The attempted coup by the Deep State cannot go unpunished. It will seriously endanger the rule of law in our country. The only real question is who should be charged first? Clinton? Or her Deep State allies who did all they could to undo a legitimate American presidential election on her behalf? Once again, we hope William Barr has the answers.”

    I hope so too, but am not overly hopeful. That is not the way it should be, but the way that is, and that must change.

    Don’t agree with the new political direction? Resign or go to jail. The Zeitgeist is now working against the deep state imho.

    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/fbi-officials-wanted-to-charge-hillary-clinton-turns-out-they-should-have/

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