66 Replies to “September 22, 2019: Reader Tips”

      1. Here’s looking for the protest vote. Lot’s go to the Dippers and Greens. Many to PPC. Look for an interesting parliament. The only ones not to reap benefit will be the Andy Pandy Party.

        1. None of those “benefits” will get rid of the sad joke we have playing the leading role, none will form government.
          Protest votes in this case are irresponsible, more so than ever before.

        2. I thing some votes will go to CPC. Many on the left will favour Dipper or Greens. Centrist often go back and forth between Lib and CPC. It is only the die-hard Liberal vote that will stay Liberal. A good bet for leftists is to hope Liberals don’t implode, but have enough strength to retain a minority with NDP holding their feet to the fire– for stuff like proportional representation. You can never plan these things, but gravitating to NDP or Green still keeps power on the left. If the numbers do not quite work out for them, it will be CPC. Personally, I think we will get a CPC minority. Whatever — so long as Justin goes.

        3. Robert,
          Votes matter!!
          Don’t be irresponsible and play “protest” vote and re-elect Trudeau..
          Vote CPC even if you have to hold your nose.
          Trudeau must be defeated.

    1. I would have thought Paint It Black or anything by Black Sabbath or Black Oak Arkansas.

      How about he and Soapy doing a rendition of Goodness, Gracious Me in which she mangles Sophia Loren’s part and he attempts an imitation of Peter Sellers? (It’s from their movie The Millionairess.)

  1. Do dah … do dah …
    oh the do dah day …

    Well … Trayvon Trudeau does use a lot of “uh” and “duh” in his speaking … close

    1. Hey Kenji,
      Your Golden Bears are ranked and just beat an SEC team.
      But the biggest news for me …
      0-3 on the season and down 32 points (17-49) in the third, my Bruins came back to beat a ranked team 67-63.
      Is this the turning point? Maybe Chip Kelly and DTR aren’t such mistakes after all. Now all we have to do is tighten up the D. Has anyone before Wazzu ever lost scoring NINE TD passes? I doubt it. I wonder how the QB feels.

      1. OB …
        1. My beloved BEARS were thoroughly panned in every pre-season article. Picked second to last … just ahead of Oregon State
        2. Nothing is more satisfying than a Pac12 team beating an SEC team … and at THEIR home field no less.
        3. The BEARS defense is good-enough to buy time for their mediocre offense to get their act together each game
        4. The BEARS won despite giving up 1 turnover, and forcing NONE from Ol Miss. That’s hard to do in college ball

        5. Turned off the UCLA game in the 3rd quarter when it appeared hopeless.
        6. How is it even humanly possible to score 50 points in the final 19 minutes of the game. Dang! I need to see a replay of that
        7. Not to be mean, but Chip Kelly appears to be ‘eating his frustration’

        1. 6. To be honest, there were almost 22 minutes left.
          6A. Bruins took just over 3 minutes to score. 24-49
          6B. Cougs fumbled first play from scrimmage.
          6C. Bruins took one play to score. 31-49
          6D. Cougs were five and out, but punted to UCLA 6.
          6E. Bruins took one play to score 94 yd TD. 38-49
          6F. Cougs fumbled second play from scrimmage.
          6G. Bruins took four plays to score. Third period expired during that drive. 46-49
          6H. Cougs had long drive. Took 4:20 to score. 46-56
          6I. Bruins took five plays two minutes to score. 53-56
          6J. Cougs three and out. Bruins returned punt for TD. 60-56
          6K. Cougs took 5 plays 1:20 to score. 60-63
          6L. UCLA drove 8 plays 3:33 but lost ball on fourth down gamble.
          6M. Here’s the key. Cougs fumbled first play again with 2 minutes on the clock.
          6N. UCLA took three plays to score. 67-63
          6O. The coup de grace. Cougs fumbled first play again.
          6P. With one minute left, Bruins let clock expire.

          1. Wow … just wow. Did Chip Kelly have the ballboys grease up BYU’s balls (so to speak)?

            I believe it was an ESPN article that gave me the 19 minutes countdown time. ESPN … yeah, they loved exaggerating how a “white” team from Utah got beat …

    1. I’ll bet that Prinz Dummkopf loves the series. After all, he thinks he’s a Joker. (“Justin Trudeau on the line for you, Mr. Trump.” “Trudeau? What’s that joker want this time?”) In reality, he’s Robin as he’s the Boy Blunder.

      1. Trudeau is the evil Riddler

        H-e-l-p Batman and Robin!!!!!
        SAVE CANADA!!!!!!
        ☆#@$%$BIFF, BAM, CRASH @%&#$!!!!!

    2. I forgot to mention that Batman is 80 years old now according to Sandie Rinaldo on tonights CTV News.
      Maybe Batman can save Canada from
      HRH Prinz Captain Blackie Morgan Trudeo -Deo!

  2. Here is another performance from Al Jolson. Larry Parks played his part in the movie The Jolson Story. (1946) A sequel ”Jolson Sings Again” was produced in 1949. Parks lip synced all the songs that were originally performed by Jolson and featured for the two movies. . I prefer these songs because by 1946 and 1949, electronic reproduction of original 78 RPMS had been largely perfected. This is my favorite.

    https://youtu.be/VX9PzUbP5tU

    1. Notice how many southern songs were written by people no longer there?
      I wish I was back in the land of cotton …
      Carry me back to ole’ Virginy …
      Gone are the days …
      For the old Kentucky home far away.
      And I’ll dream of Pretty Saro wherever I go
      Of course Irish songs too: Galway Bay, Leaving of Liverpool, I’ll take you home again Kathleen, …
      And the reason is the same, diaspora caused by defeat to a much more powerful neighbor. There is a soft spot in my heart for them, even though I don’t always agree with the politics. And of course the Jews for their long diaspora.

      1. *gasp* The horror … the horror. Geeze OB … you almost sound as if you believe statues of Gen. Lee atop his study steed, Traveller … should NOT be torn down! Ha ha ha bah

        1. I absolutely think General Robert E. Lee was a great American of conscience and dignity, and the rioters are not fit to wash his feet.
          He freed his own slaves before the war as a matter of conviction and conscience. So he couldn’t possibly have fought the war to enslave blacks.
          If he had stayed with the Union, he would have been commander of the Union Army (which got Grant to be a two term president.) But he thought the Union was breaking up and his duty was to his beloved native Virginia. As such, at first he only commanded the Virginia state militia. Anyone who makes that decision must make it on deep conviction without consideration for personal gain. We tend to forget how much the state (or commonwealth in this case) still mattered then.

  3. The Trudeau-blackface affair still leaves conservatives on the outside looking in. At least with the SNC-Lavalin affair, conservatives could point to obvious unethical (illegal?) behaviour. Here though, watching a bit of CBC News coverage, the scandal is all about “white guilt” and other such rubbish. We’ve had now countless interviews with vizmin experts and people-in-the-streets. Notice how Jagmeet Singh has been given elevated status. The corporate broadcast media have essentially, over the years, removed all white heterosexual males from hosting news shows — so the networks are all abuzz with the blackface scandal.

    Trudeau in his second press conference played it smart: if a scandal hits always tilt left. So he threw out pc phrases like “racialized communities” and “person of privilege” for the media to lap up. So Singh has new life. I still look for a Liberal-NDP-Green coalition government. We still have four long weeks to go, and I see Gerry Butts and the corporate media waiting for a strategic time to release an anti-Conservative bombshell. And the two “official” (rigged?) debates are still to come.

    1. So too much of the Trudeau blackface scandal reminds one about what when on in the late Tom Wolfe’s book “Radical Chic and the Mau-Mauing of the Flak Catchers”:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Chic_%26_Mau-Mauing_the_Flak_Catchers

      The book is dated, 1970, but here Wolfe takes us through a fund-raiser at Leonard Bernstein’s plush home in New York City, where white liberals were giving money to the Black Panther Party. That was “radical chic”, but the Mau-Mauing part was the Black Panthers saying racist and anti-Jewish remarks back to the white attendees (who became flak-catchers since all they did was stand there and take the abuse).

      So today everybody engages in, well, at least, “liberal chic” in denouncing blackface, but what irritates me is that the corporate media give so much time and space to the vizmin lobby, playing up faux outrage. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is great at this — playing his pretend outrage to the hilt. His upcoming meeting, and the liberal-chic media’s coverage, will be a new low in this campaign.

  4. If you are ticked off about Trudeau please don’t vote green or NDP, we cannot afford full blown communism, just stay home.

  5. Trudeau is showing his true self, he’s incompetent and totally unfit to govern. If we vote for that we are irresponsible, accepting corrupt practices and making this country a laughing stock and worse.
    People have to clue in, he is acting, script and directing is coming from the head snake in the backroom.

  6. Unfortunately my sisters and their circle of friends will still vote Liberal.
    Its 20 yrs ago, move on…
    Singh feelings hurt…growup
    Scheer is another Harper

    1. How I wish Scheer was another Harper, but I am afraid it is not so. What Scheer is is our best alternative– hopefully enough of a change to get Canada moving in a more positive direction. Right now, the country is being destroyed by Liberal globalist policies.

      1. . Right now, the country is being destroyed by Liberal globalist policies and Scheer and the CPC has adopted them all as well.

        LibCons

        Same party

        Same platforms

    2. Unfortunately, so will my family. My grandfather worked on the Avro Arrow and was out of work in 1959. He voted Liberal for the rest of his life, along with the rest of the family. Anti-Conservative, anti-American runs deep in my family. It’s 60 years ago! Move on.

  7. Gee, I wonder if Blackie sucking up to the NDP leader has anything to do with the possibility that if Groper only gets a minority government he will have to form a coalition with the NDP. And Uncle Tom Trudeau is in Brampton today, to mingle with his brown faced brothers. We can expect more rants about Hitler Harper. Trudeau’s Toronto Star has found another persecuted group. They explain the heart breaking story on how people who used to wear straw hats faced persecution and violence. Justin must make a tearful apology on behalf of all Canadians. And the latest poll shows Groper is still the most popular leader. We love our prime ministers to be lying, racist, gropers.

    1. My thoughts exactly. Butts in attendance for this “secret” meeting? To be a fly on the wall. Shades of PET/Broadbent?

      C’mon Kenny, do a Kaybeque….UDI.

  8. Check out Warren Kinsella’s website to see some great stories on Blackface Groper. Nice picture of Justin undoing his zipper as a teenager. At least I assume he was a teenager.

  9. “Whomsoever I’ve cured, I’ve sickened now
    And whomsoever I’ve cradled, I’ve put you down
    I’m a search light soul they say
    But I can’t see it in the night
    I’m only faking when I get it right
    When I get it right
    ‘Cause I fell on black days
    I fell on black days”

    Soundgarden

  10. Maybe the new Liberal campaign song should be Gordon Lightfoot’s song Black Day In July. Meanwhile Trudeau’s CBC had its Political Scrum show on this morning. They had special guest Shree from the Toronto Star, who immigrated from India and now rants in the paper every day that Canadians are racist bastards. The discussion was Scheer is evil and all white Canadians are privileged racist bastards.

  11. Maybe the only hope for the Liberals is for justin to appear to be picked on. All those nasty people outside of Toronto think our beloved PM is incompetent and unfairly judge his ability to run the country and make the great economy we have. Delusions don’t have to make sense.

  12. Some of the first people of color to gain acceptance in the lucrative film business owe their start to the blackface comedians of Vaudeville and later the Hollywood moguls who recognized their talent.

    Another piece from those great old days, see comments @ end:

    https://youtu.be/sS4MEbYw91s

    That said, politicians have no place in this milieu. If they did blackface in their past, today they have to fess up BEFORE entering politics, as the candidate from Nfld has learned.

  13. Collusion, you say?
    —————————————————
    Prozorov charges that during the 2016 presidential race, the Ukrainian government not only helped Hillary Clinton by providing potentially damaging information on Trump campaign employees like Paul Manafort, but also used money diverted from the IMF to fund Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/exclusive-former-ukrainian-secret-service-official-leaks-info-on-how-ukraine-funded-clinton-campaign-with-stolen-imf-money/

    1. Whenever one sells capital assets, such as stocks, one has to declare the transaction on one’s income tax return as it may result in capital gains. One has to not only report the sale price but also the fair market value at purchase.

      That also includes houses. I don’t believe that capital gains apply in the case of ones principal residence. It certainly doesn’t in the case of a house having a joint title, such as for a married couple, and one of the spouses dies.

      That, by the way, doesn’t automatically mean that the title is legally in the name of the surviving spouse. After my mother died, the title still had both of my parents’ names on it, something I found out when I changed the title over to me. The real estate lawyer made a few extra $$$ to take care of that.

      I inherited my father’s house. Since I wasn’t living there, I had to come up with a fair market value which I could use for tax purposes. CRA advised me to have the house appraised for its worth on the day that my father died and that would be the official value. (It’s a bit simpler for me as I was the sole beneficiary as, essentially, the house became mine when my father died.)

      I hired a professional appraiser for that and all she did was walk around the lot and through the house, took a few measurements, and asked me a number of questions. A few weeks later, she handed me a report, complete with her estimate.

      It’s that value, as well as its sale price, that I have to report when I prepare my tax return after I finally sell the house.

      The only thing that the government appears to propose is to remove the principal residence condition, but, yes, it’s another tax grab.

      1. Correct.

        If the Government starts requesting taxes to be paid on one’s ‘unsold’ property due to (expected) market value assessment increases, then I would have a problem with that. It would be like a blank cheque for them.

        Essentially, that is my fear.

        If they can steal from ones’ bank account, the sky is the limit.

        1. If the Government starts requesting taxes to be paid on one’s ‘unsold’ property due to (expected) market value assessment increases, then I would have a problem with that. It would be like a blank cheque for them.

          That’s already been done. In the mid-1990s, when da liddle tief Johnny C was in charge, I, and many others in this country, had to declare the value of our investments and pay tax on it accordingly.

          Stealing from taxpayers seems to be a Liberal habit.

          1. oh fcuk ya.
            I remember THAT one.
            some had to sell a portion of the assets to pay the spankin new tax on the rest of it.

          2. My apology, I should’ve been more specific.
            By “unsold property,” I meant, real property, as in real estate.

            P.S. “liddle tief” where have we heard that reference before? Our elusive friend, the dude, is missed!
            Must be trapping in North Bay!

      2. Actually, there has been a requirement to report the disposition of one’s principal residence since 1971, the year the capital gains tax came into force. In practice, CRA had some internal memo (I think it’s called an administrative directive) that form T2091(ND) did not have to be filled out just so long as the property being sold had been the seller’s principal residence for the whole of said seller’s possession. Which was a good thing; that particular form is a bitch to fill out, as I learned during several classes where had to do it by hand so I would understand what a computer would fill out.

        Fast forward a fair few years and – suddenly – there is a requirement to report the disposition of a principal residence on a T3. Much chatter amongst professionals: what this presage. The general feeling out there is that the Lieberals will bring in a tax on the capital gain when one sells one’s principal residence sooner rather than later. Forget that for many seniors their house is their retirement nestegg, sale of which will allow them to live out their declining years in reasonable comfort. Forget that for many young’uns their parents’ home is their inheritance. All the Lieberals care for is how much they can extract from the good workers of Canada and give to their buds.

  14. All other parties and their party leaders have declined an invitation to appear, the offer to attend is still open.

    SUPER CHANNEL – Watch on On Demand

    A Conversation with… Maxime Bernier
    Award-winning journalist Aaron Mate talks with People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier about controversial issues in Canadian politics, his agenda and the challenges of breaking into a crowded political landscape.

    https://www.superchannel.ca/show/77508972/a-conversation-with-maxime-bernier

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