60 Replies to “February 14, 2020: Reader Tips”

      1. You’re welcome. I noticed the same thing the first time I saw Saturn through my telescope. There it was in my field of view, totally surrounded by the blackness of space.

    1. How about Wait’s “Blue Valentines”.

      ” And it takes a lot of whisky to make this nightmare go away”…….

        1. Nancy:

          Nice suggestion on My Funny Valentine by Chris Botti – he of the magnificent tone.

          It’s a tune made popular by trumpeter Chet Baker. Baker’s style is very different than Botti’s.

          And a good call after my crass suggestion of Waits Blue Valentines.

          1. Sweet tunes…Trapperdude.
            Regarding the Sting song …I meant to play it in 2019 on this date. You had said that Sinatra did it too. I didn’t forget, but preferred Sting & Botti! They are great, huh!

            Boutté must be Cajun…anyway song’s great:

            John Boutté La “Vie en Rose”
            https://youtu.be/TIzcqPaXf-g

            This chick is irresistible, if I do say so myself…
            For you & da guys…

            Carly doing Marvin H & Carol B Sayer
            https://youtu.be/SaV-6qerkqI

            Have a good one!
            Nancy Wtlface

          2. Nancy wtlface….

            Carly could sing and she was a babe. I’ve heard the inspiration for the song was, Warren Beatty.

          3. @ 6:30 pm Abt you’re thinking of this song:
            https://youtu.be/M8uU_4XBugA

            From the web: Carly Simon says You’re So Vain’s second verse is about Warren Beatty. It only took 43 years, but Carly Simon has said that her infamous 1972 song You’re So Vain is, in fact, about Warren Beatty. Nov 19, 2015

          4. Nancy wtlface

            I stand corrected.

            I had heard that Warren Beatty thing years ago and I got the wrong tune. Thanks for setting me straight.

        2. In the context of Valentines day It could be a bit off side. Guys suffering the sling of divorce have been known to pour a bourbon and listen to it….

          I suppose moody is ok. Never been a fan myself.

          1. Sounds like a confirmed bachelor who loves wine, women and song. He still loves her — keeps her Valentine cards in his nightstand.

            In its own way, this is a romantic song.
            It’s slow, like he’s — crying!
            It’s slow, like he’s — had a few…

            I like this…

  1. The black woman running for the leadership of the Conservative Party is interesting. She hates Warren Kinsella, is pro life, and defends Mad Max. And unlike Justin she really is black.

    1. She is not a turncoat.
      She is not a turncoat.
      She is not a turncoat.
      What’s next? Omar Khadr for a CPC PM?
      And some believe that PEZ is a forgery.

  2. Valentine’s Day is stupid.
    My woman gets flowers, among other things, throughout the year and vice versa.
    As a joke she asked me a few days ago what I was getting her.
    “A cord of wood” was my reply and not a joke – even though there is one there lol.

    1. I’ve often Valentine’s Day to be Santa Claus for adults who should know better.

  3. UK Government Approves Net Censorship – British Free Speech Dies

    The United Kingdom has become the first Western nation to move ahead with large-scale censorship of the internet, effectively creating regulation that will limit freedom on the last frontier of digital liberty. In a move that has the nation reeling, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled rules that will punish internet companies with fines, and even imprisonment, if they fail to protect users from “harmful and illegal content.”

    https://www.libertynation.com/internet-censorship-now-government-backed-british-free-speech-dies/

    (Boris shows his totalitarian head once in power.

    Same old same old…)

    Ofcom has a new boss in place to go along with the new powers: Dame Melanie Dawes. Dawes has been a career civil servant for her entire working life and was most recently the Civil Service Gender and Diversity Champion from 2015 to 2019.

    (See the government that never loses a election and never goes away for they are always in power The Civil Service…)

  4. Faith J Goldy ✝️
    @FaithGoldy
    Canada is UPSIDE DOWN.

    Officers won’t protect me to speak publicly in Canada for anything less than a $28,000 bill. But an illegal blockade gets the red carpet treatment.

    Don’t get me wrong: I don’t blame frontline officers; rather, whoever they’re taking marching orders from!

    https://mobile.twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1228130713213554688

    Aaron Gunn
    @AaronGunn

    Wow. I honestly can’t believe the police in this country. Instead of standing up for law-abiding taxpayers and enforcing the law, they protect and embolden the illegal blockades.

    The hypocrisy needs to end.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/AaronGunn/status/1227234583818555398

    You are all aware now that when the government says we are here today on so and so native land and we thank them well guess what, right after we are disarmed guess who will eventually win a court case on who actually owns Canada and it won’t be us it will be the Hereditary Indians in lockstep with the UN…

    1. actually the ‘front line workers’ in this case have a great deal of clout.
      back in the 90s, the ‘front line workers’ got the chief of niagara regional cops knocked off the pedestal.

  5. And now for a bit o’ fun… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msnbcs-katy-tur-shocked-when-man-street-says-he-hates-socialism-and-voted-trump

    Calls to mind the old Monty Python skit: “And now a word from the Man in the Street.”

    – Camera pans to a woman (Carol Cleveland): “I am not a Man, you silly goose!”

    – Then pans to a man (Michael Palin), sitting on a rooftop with a thermos: “I’m not in the Street, you fairy!”

    – Then pans to John Cleese, standing in the street, wearing business suit and bowler hat: “Well, speaking as the Man in the Street, I…” – run over by an Austin Mini.

  6. Peter Nygard, the famous fashion designer in Canada, is accused of raping many young girls in a lawsuit:
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/peter-nygard-canadian-clothing-manufacturer-accused-of-raping-10-women-in-civil-class-action-lawsuit-1.5463684

    Good reporting. for once, by the CBC’s Fifth Estate. Btw, in the 2000s, Mr. Nygard was a big donor to the federal libs, according to official Election Canada records, donating thousands a year.

    Note also that the Nygard Industries Inc., is a big fashion design and manufacturers company, a privately-held company in Canada. So this is a big deal.

  7. During the final months of World War II, from February 13 to 15, 1945, Allied forces bombed the ancient, cathedral city of Dresden, in eastern Germany.

    The bombing was controversial because Dresden’s contribution to the war effort was minimal compared with other German cities — though it was a key transport junction and used by German forces to defend the country against Soviet forces approaching from the east.

    Before the huge air raid, it had not suffered a major Allied attack. By February 15, however, it was a smouldering ruin — 2,400 tons of high explosives and 1,500 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on the city. An unknown number of civilians, somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000, were dead.

    British rifleman Victor Gregg was one of hundreds of men being held as a PoW in the city by the Germans. On the 75th anniversary of the start of the bombing, this is his eyewitness account of the devastation he left behind.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7997465/Into-inferno-75-years-horrifically-vivid-account-Allied-bombing-Dresden.html

    1. “I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.”

      “Actually Dresden was a mass of munitions works, an intact government centre, and a key transportation point to the East. It is now none of these things”

      Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris

      1. Kurt Vonnegut was a POW in Dresden during those raids. His novel Slaughterhouse Five was based on his experiences during that time.

        1. Yes. And guess what. I still don’t care and I have read everything KV ever wrote. That includes essays that actually wound up in Playboy.

      2. “It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed… The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing.”
        Prime Minister Winston Churchill
        (emphasis added)

  8. Blacklock website reports that Blackie’s one billion dollar job subsidy program, didn’t create one job the past two years. Oh well, its only money.

  9. Ok cbc lovers here’s a guy you can get behind.

    Erin O’Tool has suggested that a CPC government led by him would privatize cbc English TV.

    I wish you well sir.

    1. Very good place to start dismantling the CBC. Their biggest fans are old timers who are especially fans of radio. Then of course you can never drop French programming (heaven forbid), so starting with English TV is a good strategy. I am sorry Baird is not running. I will look carefully at O’Toole.

    2. Well the CBC should start attacking him right about … now.
      That sneering pig Barton is probably already planning a lawsuit.

  10. This is interesting. It looks like the blockages created by the protestors are going to create fuel shortages (gasoline and propane) in Ontario and Quebec, and would drive a situation very similar to the conditions before the NEP of Pierre Idiot Trudeau’s days. It could very well be deliberate inaction on the part of the Liberal Party of Canada to force even more control in the energy sector.

    https://torontosun.com/news/national/fuel-shortages-likely-if-rail-shutdown-continues

    1. Screw ’em. Let them get by with the Arab oil they import. If they don’t want pipelines coming out of the west, then they can do without our hydrocarbons.

      1. Haha I live in the middle of Ottawa and say fuck em all as well. Lets find out once and for all where everybody stands. Do you want to freeze to death or put some extortionists in jail?

  11. Death threats to a 16yr old girl for slagging the Religion of Peace® aren’t a big deal:

    So to make sure nothing like this happens, the supine French enact this:

    Worthless cowardly wretches, appeasing the crocodile in hopes they get eaten last.

    Why did we shed so much Canadian blood rescuing these cowardly shíts 75 years ago?

    The present-day grovelers to islam are the descendants of those who licked German jackboots, so I guess there is at least some symmetry.

    mhb23re

  12. Don’t miss Rex Murphy’s excellent story on the blockades and Blackie at the National Post.

  13. Post Millennial reports that Blackie spent ten thousand dollars of taxpayer money on Cirque de Soleil tickets for foreign investors.

  14. Former Trump deputy national security adviser KT McFarland, who served under former national security adviser Michael Flynn, tells FOX Flynn was ‘set up’…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ig44LoX-GY
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    Attorney-General A.G. Barr may earn the nickname “the putting them behind bars, Barr”. It’s taken almost 4 years to flush the Deep State vermin, but with both their butts and their noses in the air. .. Now for getting the law back into the rule of law.

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