51 Replies to “November 19, 2019: Reader Tips”

  3. Eventually the statist system will collapse. Canada has the population of California, a tax payer base of about 18m. And the combined total public debt of most of the European Countries that are bankrupt. What do you think is next?….
    Quote from article…..
    Reality-based intelligence, competence, and innovation will be prized as the world is forced to organically adapt to economic collapse, entropic decentralization, and much smaller political subdivisions. Those who would build new societies will need builders. Engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, farmers, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, carpenters, computer programmers, machine-tool operators, doctors, technicians, etc.—people who know how to do useful things—will find their skills, ingenuity, and industriousness in demand. Politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, lawyers, crony-socialist executives, administrators, college professors, think tank propagandists, criminals, celebrities, safe-space students, perpetually aggrieved whiners, a menagerie of misanthropic misfits, the indolent, the entitled, etc.—people with little or no useful skills—will be so much disposable baggage. Ironically, within this latter group there are numerous proponents of population reduction. Without an exercisable claim on the talents and production of the former group, they may well find themselves at the head of their own line.
    The Builders..https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/11/18/the-builders-by-robert-gore/

    1. Interesting numbers there. Claiming separatism only has 30% support, but it should be remembered that US independence only had about 30% support as well. I seem to recall another poll that put indifference to Canada between 45% and 60% among western provinces. What will happen to those numbers when people discover all the bad economic news suppressed by the blackface media and the Loogan press.

    1. Good one Watch.

      A week or so you referenced a old cowboy tune ‘Tyin’ Knots in the Devils Tail’. That song comes from a poem written by Gail I. Gardiner a cowboy poet from the early last century.

      It has been called a number of names over the years. Sierry Pete’s, Sierra Peaks and I think your version by Chris had another play on the title.

      The characters in the poem/song are based on real life cowboys. Buster Giggs is the writer himself (Gardiner) and Sandy Bob is a shirt tail relative of the great Marty Robbins.

      I love the tune (Ian did a skookum version). It was written around the ‘whisky row’ of bars in Prescott AZ. There were apparently 40 and the 2 cowboys drank in each of them before heading back to camp.

      On the way they of course ran into old lucifer himself. The boys got a rope on Lucy and eared him down notching his ears, branding him and then tyin’ knots in his tail before they left him,’necked up to a blackjack oak’.

      Now it seems to me that a coupla drunk cowboys woulda finished the job and made old lucy a little lite in the hind end, No? They had their knives and surely would have cut the oysters outa ole el diablo given the chance.

      Cowboys don’t talk like that in polite company and for sure Gardiner wouldn’t have written a verse describing the event but I know cowboys – and for sure they cut him…ha

      1. You are 100% right ABT. First time I heard that tune was around a campfire way back in by Marvel lake and Byrant Creek. I lived in Canmore then as a kid, what a beautiful place. I spent several weeks back in by Mt. Assiniboine. With an old cowboy and his son. This guy was the real McCoy. He was a family friend and the very best kind. In those days before the mine closed Canmore was a wide open wild town. Old Ray would be chasing wild mustangs in the winter way way back in the mountains alone all winter. He owned 160 acre ranch right at the edge of town right on the Bow River. And he was a licensed guide in the mountains. He would take folks way back in the mountains fishing or just camping etc. The old Canmore Hotel was the only bar in town in those days. The fishing and adventuring was incredible. Made a mark on me. Old Ray was way back chasing wild horses one winter. And he always made a point of coming out for Christmas. This time he did not come out. My 2 older brothers figured he was in trouble. So they loaded both old Willy’s Jeeps up with friends and shovels, and chains comealongs grub, and whiskey and busted their way back in to him. He was very glad to see them. He was out of food, and had shot one of the mustangs and was living on that, he was out of coffee, which is grim for a cowboy, he was out of makins and in sore need of a shot of whiskey. My brother told me it was a very grim camp. He had pitched his tent inside an old broken down cabin and was completely snowed in and down to eating the only thing he had a horse. His old pick up was dead and the snow came on so quick it would not have made it out anyway. My brothers had to break through 4-6 foot drifts and dig their way in they never came back out until the next day. Big party in town when they hauled him out. Even the miners were glad to see him. He was like an old Wolverine when he got riled and had taught a few them their manners. The one scrap is still talked about amongst those who were there in those days. Before the Sustainability and Green Weenies came to town.

          2. Glad you like them Nancy. You will do to run the river with. Hey I could write a book on some of these characters I have known. Mostly under the label of Toxic Masculinity and unfit for minors or other delicate souls. I am struggling with being down off the mountain for the winter. I hold back a lot of good uns. Don’t want my ears boxed by Miss Kate. Might leave a dint in my skull with a cast iron frying pan.

          3. That song is why I love Wolves, you will find tigers and lions and such at the circus but you will never find a wolf.
            May My Heart Be Brave
            My Mind Be Clear and ready For Battle
            And My Spirit Be Free (Watcher)

          4. You are an empath Nancy. The song about the hat actually happened for real to Old Ray. He was in his 50’s and in that old Canmore Hotel minding his own business and the strongest young miner at the time did that to Ray. I met a young woman on a job 10 years ago who was a niece of the miner. The miner who was about 30 and in his prime, he at the time held the title for most tons of coal shoveled grabbed Ray’s hat and thought to have some fun. That was the epic fight I was referring to above. Ray finished him but he was on his knees and never quit, and everybody knew to stay out of it, Ray was busted up for awhile but he did teach that young man some manners. A real back yard lickin. His name was Ray McBride. I can say his name now because he has passed on. My older brother went to visit him when he was approaching 80, just before he passed. He was living in his old ranch house with about a 30 year old woman, who was horse crazy and in love with the old man. My brother said Ray would not come out of the house. So my brother went upwind and started a fire and smoked him out. Ray came out all mad and feisty going to shoot. He saw it was my brother and said only a GD B****n the B part is my last name, would pull that dirty low down trick on a man. Smoke him out. The party was on. He started cowboying when he could get up on a horse. Loved that old man. Happy Trails Ray

          5. Watcher –
            Sounds like your bros were the empaths. Those stories are something else- right out of a movie.

            Do try to write them down. Your lovely daughter gave you good advice.

            This song is about cowboys, their determination and endurance. Hope it is of some encouragement:

            https://youtu.be/hgnrnnn5vVo

            PS When I stayed in Canmore I drove right by the Canmore Hotel. Wish I stopped in. The place and the whole town is so beautiful. One gets a feeling of déjà vu there.

            BTW – When my Ontario cousins came out West a few years ago, I purchased some souvenirs for them at the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site in Longview, Alberta. I wanted things authentically from Alberta. I found a couple of books which pleased the relatives. The stories written by Albertans were good but probably not as good as what you could come up with, if the above two tales are any indication.

            Now do it, Mr B!
            And Good Luck!

          6. NR the last song reminds me of getting chased around a bale by a Scottish Highland Cow. I did a handshake deal on surplus hay for purebred Highland cow/calves. Anyway one calved about 1 am in a snow storm. So at 4am I went back out to check on them. Flashlight in hand half asleep. As soon as I got within a couple of feet of her and the calf she lunged at me, very large horns. This quickly motivated me and she began to run me around and around the bale. I suddenly realized about the 3 or 4th lap that she was after my old cattle dog Rolly who was faithfully protecting me and staying right beside me. Now I was awake. Momma and baby were fine, I was laughing like a fool. I forgot Rolly always followed me everywhere. Run my butt off good. Back inside for coffee and head out to my day job. ha ha ha.

          7. Watch

            I’ve seen that 30yo woman and 70 yo cowboy thing a few times myself. Once sheep hunting. We were 25 miles horseback in the Willmore. We came upon a camp with a gal and an old cowboy.

            Another time in NM. A guy (part Apache) with a gal looking after him. He laughed and told us he couldn’t figure it out but he was going with it….

            Chief Dan George type.

            There’s still hope haha….

  8. The University of Alberta is taking time off from ranting about white, colonial, settlers, in order to give Sports Net host Ron Maclean an honorary degree.

    1. Some pigs are more equal than other pigs, eh?
      Oh yeah.
      Some pigs get awards,
      some pigs get fired.

      2015 was a failed National IQ test.
      2019 was the loss of a Nation.

  9. Newspaper Publisher McClatchy [founded in 1857 as the Daily Bee in Sacramento] is having serious money problems.

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcclatchy-publisher-29-newspapers-teeters-193910968.html

    “McClatchy reported a 12% drop in revenue to $167 million for the third quarter from a year ago and a net loss of $305 million.”

    “McClatchy’s pension plan is underfunded by about $535 million.”

    “The company faces a mandatory $124 million contribution to its pension plan in 2020.”

    “McClatchy would have free cash flow of less than $20 million next year”.

    “McClatchy’s current market capitalization is a mere $4.5 million”.

  10. https://www.cfactcampus.org/big-green-campaigns-kill-jobs-and-enrich-buffett/

    So people with vested interests in rail, oil, etc. fund useful idiots in Canada and elsewhere to stop competition for them.

    Someone wake me when there is someone to vote for, who will simply use the not withstanding clause to bypass all reviews, protests, etc. and just build a nuclear plant in Saskatchewan.

    I want a premier who’s first impulse, is always to give the Salmon Arm salute to anyone who opposes his policies. Getting pretty tired of (_!_) like Moe, who pretend to want the things I want, but simply book more meetings with Trudeau where they sip champagne and laugh at the people who voted for them.

    1. Like I said before all the useless greasy politicians should be clubbed like seals. They are all lying useless lazy greasy shits. I see the MP’s just got a raise to 178,000 per year plus, plus plus.

    2. I want a Media that does their job.

      Unlike the Canadian Media, which like so many other Canadian Institutions, makes a habit of fellating all things Liberal Party on a regular basis.

      The single greatest accomplishment of the Liberal Party has been its unfathomable ability to convince regular Canadians they represent them.

      Owning the dishonest Media, buying the right groups and entitling the proper entitled obviously works.

      Having a populace dumb enough to believe a tax on everything will put more money in their pocket just shows how bonked we truly are.

      Sayonara Canada.

  17. Old wind turbine blades causing headaches for landfills:

    “…MidAmerican’s retired blades, destined for the Butler County Landfill near David City, Nebraska, about 130 miles away, are among hundreds that will land in dumps across Iowa and the nation. Critics of wind energy say the blades’ march to a landfill weakens the industry’s claim it’s an environmentally friendly source of energy….. disposing of the blades is a challenge. Wind energy generation, now topping 100 gigawatts nationally, will create 1 million tons of fiberglass and other composite waste…So far, only one facility in north Iowa is taking the blades, while other landfills are assessing whether they will.”

    https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/11/16/breaking-news/iowa-wind-farm-sending-many-giant-blades-to-landfills/

  19. The names of some of the new cabinet ministers have been leaked to Blackie’s CBC. Most of the new faces seem to come from Quebec. Because of course Quebec is the only province that matters in Canada. And the new Liberal MP from Quebec who hates Alberta, the oil industry, and pipelines, is the new Heritage Minister. He will make sure most of the heritage money goes to Quebec, because they are the only province that has culture. And the Vancouver MP in La La Land, is the new minister of the environment. He used to be an aide to an NDP premier. Climate Barbie is moving to the ministry that oversees building projects. She will make sure that lots of money is provided for green energy scams.

  25. Big fan of Don Edwards. He is a solid interpreter of old time cowboy. ‘High Chin Bob’ is one of my favorites.

    Hag doing Big City….the best

    1. hey ABT at 8:58 reference 70 year old Cowboy and 30 year old. “Yah just a thank you Jesus and roll with it” An yes to the Hag an Don Edwards. Strange things done in the Midnight Sun. Been chasing deer for a few days with my son and his daughters, my granddaughters. Been flying low. Too warm here yet, nothing worthwhile moving. Laid around the shack till the mail train came back all day here. Thinking about camping out along 734 the Forestry Trunk Road this spring. Been snooping for a genuine camp coffee pot, dang things are getting scarce. Bought as scarce as a good woman that knows how to make real coffee. Ay eeeee.

      2. Jeez Watch we’re in the same neighborhood. I was out on the Medicine Lk Road today. Got a load of birch and looked for wolf sign.

        I’m visiting out here for a few days. Usually hit the trunk road and try to call wolves once during the winter.

        1. Have had a few strange experiences with wolves over the years. Love watching them. Was cutting across country one morning in northern Alberta, just as daylight was breaking. Came out of the bush, and in a clearing 10 ft from the edge of the road was a fully grown black wolf. Beautiful, I was poking along, so just stopped to observe. It acted like it was high, jumping around like it was chasing butterflys, except it was -30. I watched for about 5 minutes as it did its dance, slowly rolled down my window, it was ok with that, so waited and slowly opened the door. And just got one foot on the gravel and it spun around and took off running low and all out for the tree line. Wish I could have videoed that, it was simply magnificent. My old neighbor was a wolf hunter/trapper used to visit him on occasion he always had quite a few hanging inside his shack. He kind of specialized in wolves. Anyway they are a magnificent beautiful animal. I always left them alone if they left my critters alone. Loved hearing them howl at night.

          1. Hey this one (Black Wolf) Miss Smarty Pants did not have no Chinese Menu in his hand/paw. Although I had a Fjord horse once a mare that used to jump up in the back of my old fencing pick up and stand there, and I used to ask her, I suppose you just want to go to town for Chinese, like every other dang female on this place. I do have the picture.

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