47 Replies to “August 8, 2020: Reader Tips”

  1. More pavilions at folkfest:

    Mooselimb trumps Gay:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0StEJ42DUeE&t=1s

    Here are two important parts of the story:
    1. Had the thugs been white, they would be behind bars right know charged with a hate crime.
    2. Had the victims been straight, none would care as it would simply be just a regular encounter with a mooselimb. Unless the victims try to defend themselves in which case defense becomes an instant hate crime.

  2. Kenji,
    Some fun and games, UEFA Champions League.
    What do you think, the current winners of the three top European leagues are all out before the quarterfinals. It makes Liverpool’s loss to Ath Madrid a little easier to swallow. It isn’t a huge upset like Ronaldo’s Juventus losing to Lyon, who currently sit seventh in the French Ligue 1.
    I was rooting for City. I don’t want to see Spain dominant. It was a good win against Real Madrid. The latter have been taught to use their hands to push, and usually do not get called. There was a flagrant and obvious such foul to push Sterling off the ball in the penalty area with no call. But I’ll root for Lyon against City. Lyon may be the kind of team that can beat City. They are not ashamed to park the bus, and have just enough counter attack ability to steal a win, like they did against Juventus.
    Aside, did you see what Juventus wear on their jerseys? The best team in Italy for a decade, in a country famous for sports cars, and the front of their jerseys says JEEP. how declasse!
    Another reason for me to wean myself off Liverpool. Guess who they are pushing, just because like them, he just also signed with Nike, and makes some gestures of supporting Liverpool. Possibly the sports figure I detest the most in the world. LeBron James. But it’s so hard, after all these years, when Liverpool finally got good again.

    1. I must confess that I’m not current on UEFA, but I’m glad to see the divers fall. The Italian league makes an art of it. I have less experience of the Spanish game, but have heard that they’re avid practitioners. When post-game analysis leads to suspensions for diving then the game will be much more clean IMHO.

      I like watching MLS. It’s a second tier league, but it’s fun to watch. And I don’t want it to fall into the “ouchie, he looked at me!” that seems to rule in some of the UEFA games. Honesty isn’t rewarded, but is easy to see with the multiple angles and replays available in a modern stadium. I’ve given up on NHL and pro wrestling, I want something to follow that isn’t fully scripted.

      1. Just like faked racist attacks (and ALL that I am aware of are fake) the solution is easy. Make the penalty for faking a crime equal to penalty for the crime.
        I love soccer, but I hate dives. They drastically lower the quality of the game, and make it too easy for nonfans to snicker. If the penalty for a dive in the penalty area, what they call simulation, is a PK the other way, I am sure that dives would end in a hurry. As a precaution, make reviews of all such calls automatic, and don’t impose the penalty unless it’s absolutely obvious. That is no different than making a defense foul in the penalty area automatically reviewable.
        I don’t think MLS is even as good as the top of English Tier 2, called the League Championship. I believe ESPN+ regularly shows League Championship games. I personally don’t pay any money to ESPN for any reason.

  3. Move over Julie, another celebrity liberal caught running a toxic workplace:

    Ellen DeGeneres apologizes to staff after reports of toxic workplace: ‘I take responsibility’

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1235443

    And on cue, her elite friends cast doubt on the reports of her low-level accusers.

    https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/kevin-hart-katy-perry-and-others-defend-ellen-degeneres-amid-toxic-workplace-controversy-6540688/

    1. During my last trip to my house in B. C., I was chatting about the phony-baloney plague with a fellow passenger. According to him (his source being high up in Alberta Health), hospitals are raking in the government dough from each death they report. The amount varies with age, but the minimum is over $1000.

      It kind of makes one wonder why, suddenly, there’s an increase in cases, doesn’t it?

      1. Is that Covid death specifically? Or just death — cost of body management, etc, once the patients not billed. Now I heard the bonuses for Covid were happening in the States, but did not hear about this in Canada. Do we know what the rationale is?

        1. Apparently, it was for deaths due to or “attributed” (wink wink nudge nudge) to the bug.

  4. Because everyone in Canada will want to know, Great Leader Shit For Brains is still on vacation at Harrington Lake.

  5. Most of the media continues to ignore whiny indians in Caledonia Ont. rioting, blockading highways/railways, and burning cars/tires. No word on whether the OPP has tried giving them gifts of maple syrup again.

  6. How long will we be wearing masks is the question.

    Is the answer until we discover the truth or a vaccine?
    Will vaccine be mandatory?
    Will it be manufactured in China?

    1. I may just be dense, but it’s hard to reconcile a mandatory vaccine with the news that the drug companies have been exempted for liability for the side effects of the vaccines.

    1. Totally insane. Do they not have a constitution down there? If yes, someone needs to sue.

    1. If you would like one I will furnish one. Aluminum is at one point refined in Quebec, at another point it is sent to Kingston Ontario where it is further milled. Then it is sent to Qswego NY, for further milling. Then it is sent back to Kingston Ontario for more work. Then it is sent back to the U.S. Now would you like to explain to me just how such a tariff might be applied? This has been standard practice for decades and unless something happened that I am not aware of, it is still what is going on. Bull shit applies to tariffs.

  7. The main story at the Liberal Party’s Toronto Star website, is that Great Leader doesn’t want an election. He wants to seize the moment and push forward big changes. So I guess we can look forward to a dramatic push for socialist, feminist, gay, whiny indian, and global warming scams.

      1. “Fly Like An Eagle” ~ Steve Miller Band

        That album, and the next one Book of Dreams, were, in my opinion, the best ones that band recorded. Here’s another one from FLAE:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_8M2eEdok

        That one got a lot of airplay on the Seattle stations I was able to hear in NE B. C. during my last undergrad summer.

        1. See Video of Steve Miller on Jimmy Fallon Show:
          He reveals how he made up “Pompatus”
          https://youtu.be/SMLKNFdOv1o

          It was for this song…
          “The Joker”
          https://youtu.be/dV3AziKTBUo

          Really love the Steve Miller Band, used to have their Greatest Hits cassette and played it on a tape deck in my car a lot. Great driving music! Great story about his coining the word “Pompatus”. It later became a movie title.
           

      1. Sizzle, sizzle I never saw that video as posted!
        From a Bond Movie, of course.

         (I once worked with a gentleman whose surname was Bond. Every time his phone rang, I cranked to hear him say
        “Bond…. Robert Bond”…. but he never did, and I never asked whether he had a bro James! It would’ve been too out of place, très gauche, as they say)

        I understand Crow and Eric Clapton were romantically linked at one time. This song’s great, they have wonderful chemistry here:
        Sheryl Crow & Eric Clapton – “Tulsa Time” Albert Lee & Vince Gill
        https://youtu.be/oV2zv6sVD_o

        …with your fellow ham friend —> (WB 6ACU)  aka Joe Walsh….
        Sheryl Crow & Joe Walsh ‘Still the Good Old Days’
        & ‘Walk Away’ | CMT Crossroads
        https://youtu.be/kGo-k-PEcvc

        P.S. no not Shirley Bassey but you can’t say ‘bad’…

        1. P.S. no not Shirley Bassey but you can’t say ‘bad’…

          If I’m not mistaken, most Bond movies had the same singer perform both the opening and closing music. Tomorrow Never Dies is one exception because K. D. Lang sang over the final credits and, in my opinion, had the better song.

          Mind you, Sheryl Crow’s ditty wasn’t the worst Bond theme, at least for the pre-Craig movies. In my opinion, the ones for The Man With the Golden Gun, Octopussy (not surprising as it was a dreadful movie), License to Kill, and Die Another Day were forgettable.

          1. My least favourite of the Bond theme songs was
            “Live and Let Die”….surprisingly!

          2. I don’t blame you. The score for LALD was the first one which John Barry wasn’t involved with. (He didn’t write the iconic Bond theme, by the way. That honour belongs to Monty Norman, who composed the score for Dr. No, though, from what I understand, Barry conducted the orchestra.)

            The music for LALD was written by George Martin, who’s perhaps best known as the producer of Beatles recordings and I thought that Wings was a rather odd choice for performing the opening theme.

            Then again, none of the Roger Moore Bond films particularly impressed me.

            The best Bond theme? One contender would be From Russia With Love, particularly Matt Monro’s rendition over the closing credits. I don’t think Frank Sinatra could have topped that.

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