76 Replies to “August 17, 2020: Reader Tips”

      1. It’s interesting to see how rock musicians often drew inspiration from country and western singers. Apparently, Hank Snow’s guitar technique impressed Mick and the Boys so much that they borrowed it for one of their songs.

        1. check out bill haley of bill haley and the comets before he was a rock and roll star. search youtube for bill haley yodeling.

      2. Glen and Roy were playing Ghost Riders in the Sky, a classic flatpicking tune covered by many players including Johnny Cash. That kid is a fan, but that wasn’t much of an analysis. That kind of picking and grinning abides today in a new crop of players. Check out Billy Strings for example.

    1. The good part of this is that the Don’s Woke Urbanists will begin to see what a real trash-spewn, weed-infested eyesore looks like, up close and personal (the rest of Edmonton already looks like that, thanks to Iverson and his nut-bar left wing council.)

      1. If the aftermath of the socialist mayor Jan “People are more important than potholes” Reimer didn’t convince Donnie’s Dimwits about it, then that camp won’t, either.

        We’re still paying for Reimer’s stupidity.

    1. Ooops. Sorry, didn’t see you had already covered the breaking fake news on Morneau! My bad.

      1. ‘s OK, Little Potato threw his BFF Gerrie under the bus, but he just couldn’t LIVE without his mature guidance so he snuck him back in, hoping nobody would notice. Now he needs somebody to bus-strate for that nonsense little WE thing, I mean REALLY? – Moroneau will be back.

        1. And then there was Francis Fox who jumped ship because of his naughty extra-curricular activities, only to be welcomed back into the fold by PET after he unseated Joe Who.

  1. I was just thinking about the plandemic and was also reading about vaccines. A question arose. Name the only human virus that has been driven out of existence?
    In your mid-fifties that should be the point where a good amount the extra income does indeed go toward retirement investment. Will she be returning to work when the insanity has been vanquished?

    1. Hey OWG, interesting question…I also wanted to know since I am no doctor nor do I play one on TV
      …google says that polio has been “eradicated” = driven out of existence.

      1. No. Polio is still present in the turd world. Polio workers are being murdered in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

        1. Correct. In fact all viruses still exist that ever existed. Control and eradicating are two different things. CoV-2 will be with us for a lot longer than the politicians making our lives miserable because of something that eventually herd immunity will reduce.

          1. politicians making our lives miserable

            Not that they needed much reason to do so.

    2. OWG she works in stage and theater and had moved to it full time less than 2 years ago. With the retirement of others she was finally getting enough calls to really make some great coin – private sector union.
      I doubt she’ll work again this year.
      When do you think they’ll allow people to see live theater or a concert again?

      1. Very difficult for so many in the performance field. I know a guy who has been a successful magician for 20 years or so. He had a years worth of bookings on cruise ships. All gone. I am not convinced the government cares about all of those who are badly hurt financially by this. CERB was token support, but spending is now moving on to “climate change”. Really sad for many people.

      2. Buddy, my guess is never, until we physically grab them by throats and tell them we are finished with their brand of fascism. It is going to take massive civil disobedience to stop this ongoing power grab. When someone tells you you can’t sing in church that someone needs a serious ass kicking.

    3. Smallpox is the only human virus that has been eradicated. However, small amounts of the virus are kept in various government labs around the world.

      1. They’re kept in labs in the US and in Russia.

        The Soviets got the virus as an extra insurance policy against future American-led regime change, at a time when the globalists were not yet ready to pull the plug on their socialist experiment and had accepted that they could not hedge investments against a global thermonuclear war.

        The Americans got the virus just in case some wet-brained Ukrainian or central Asian employed to wash test tubes accidentally released smallpox back into the environment, and vaccine needed to be manufactured in mass quantities at a moment’s notice (the US still manufactured medicine in those days).

        It also provided cover for the KGB, who could then claim the CIA did it.

  2. Great Leader Kim Sung Trudeau is back from his awesome vacation. He will have an important phone call with the president of Chile today. He then heads for Harrington Lake to relax.

    1. Yeah relaxing on the 8 boats he charged to taxpayers.

      Then he’ll slum it in the 5000 ft2, $2.5 million recently renovated cottage, while $8.5 million in repairs are done to his Harrington Lake summer home.

      1. Only 5000 sq ft? Why, that’s unjust. Dear Leader needs something more befitting him, a place with at least one more zero in its floor space.

        1. BA, that wasn’t “a place with” you miss spelt it, it should read, “a palace with”.
          Man he really thinks he is special, but it’s really, special needs.

          1. True. What does one expect from someone who grew up with many of the details of his life being treated like headline news? (So why isn’t the anniversary of his graduating from kindergarten a national statutory holiday?)

    1. “Between 51 and 58 percent of residents in poor areas had antibodies, versus 11 to 17 percent elsewhere in the city.”
      Score one for the poor.

    2. That’s what the Grey Lady always does. Admitting the truth when it’s no longer politically convenient to hide it. She only started telling the truth about communism after the Wall came down and it no longer paid to parrot the party line.

      If the globalists succeed in overthrowing, imprisoning and assassinating President Trump, that will be the last you’ll ever hear about Wuhan flu.

    3. LL, herd immunity WILL occur, in spite of the lies and BS we are being fed on a daily basis. Never have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have so many been so intellectually vacant that they would believe the lies and BS. Never was so much fear generated in so many people for a virus that is less fatal than the seasonal flu. I will say this once again. If you are so afraid of dying that you fear living, then please lock yourself away from the rest of the world.

  3. This is a thought provoking book — definitely anti-establishment, but some good ideas:
    Virus Mania ( Authors are German. The book was written a few years ago but highly relevant.
    https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Mania-Continually-Epidemics-Billion-Dollar/dp/1425114679/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Virus+Mania&qid=1597669448&sr=8-2
    Reviews at Amazon will give you a sense of it. Those who liked Plandemic (Mikovitz) will also find this interesting.
    One of the key messages for me was from an early chapter on the importance of diet and exercise to keep a strong immune system. I thought this could explain why some poor communities and Black communities in the US were being hit harder by Covid. (Not attributable to Trump “racism” after all . And, of course, good info re the money interest in viruses.

  4. Comment on Instapundit regarding the California electrical blackouts:

    “But real California has never been tried.”

    1. There’s no way Prinz Dummkopf’s getting anywhere close to my canine stepbrother.

      1. Ugh! Can you imagine this? Thankfully, most pets are nice and slim here, there’s no merit. They must be feeding pets fatty table-food scraps in that country and the dogs are overweight.

        1. Then again, some people shouldn’t be allowed to have pets in the first place.

          A few days ago, there were a pair of cats wandering around on my floor looking lost and forlorn. I had no idea where they came from or how they got there.

          Thanks to the efforts of one of my neighbours, the critters were re-united with their rightful owner….. someone just down the hall….. who didn’t even know that the cats went missing. I think that person is a millennial, so there’s no excuse for that.

    2. They been eating dogs in China for a very long time. Our native Indians ate the dogs during bad winters, it is not a new thing.

    1. Now the whole world is trashed, there’s no place to go.

      Socialists, communists, and their camp followers are rejoicing.

    2. Nancy, I’ve been saying there is no place to go, even before this Covid nonsense. We should NEVER have shut down the economy. There are also many other forces at work, and I predict the US dollar will crash and all north America will have civil war, mass poverty, homelessness, starvation, and disease. I also don’t see it ending for many years, probably beyond the lifetime of many here at SDA. The only saving grace is that Trudeau will go down in history as the worst PM Canada has ever had, but that is no comfort for those destroyed by so much stupid. What a sad end to the empire of the west. We are on the downward spiral of this, and it won’t be long now, a year or two at most. I humbly suggest to all, to prepare as best you can.

      1. Unfortunately, that’s aided by institutions we often turned to for guidance in the past.

        I’ve often mentioned my first encounters with “liberation theology” some 40 years ago. Regrettably, the minister of the congregation I was associated with saw unrest such as what we’re experiencing today as “social justice”, a re-alignment of society and the world into the way it should be. He kept yammering on about wealth “re-distribution”, which was basically stealing what I’d earned and saved and giving it to someone who couldn’t be bothered to work.

        He also entertained the re-institution of practices such as the year of jubilee that the ancient Israelites observed. In other words, every 50 years, the entire economy hits a reset button, all debts are cancelled, all accounts cleared, and everything is re-booted. By the time he’d trotted that one out, I thought that he had truly gone over the edge. People in attendance nodded in agreement and I slowly began dissociating myself with that group.

        So, I guess that any fear or apprehension we may now experience is overdue divine retribution–er, “justice”–for all that slavery and racism that we and our ancestors that was openly and gleefully practiced, particularly if we’re white.

  5. RCMP senior management under investigation by the OPP

    The national police force in charge of enforcing the law was found to be in breach of the law, not once, but seven times.

    https://tnc.news/2020/08/16/rcmp-senior-management-under-investigation-by-the-opp/#pq=IN9Qbu
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    L- Under P.M. Justin (Nero) Trudeau, federal institutions become increasingly dysfunctional. His post nation-state agenda continues apace.

    The only two political parties with influence in Canada are the M.B. and the C.C.P. !

    1. Pardon me but I am not particularly stupid but the testimony of the Mounties who killed Robert Dziekanski simply does not match the video that I clearly saw with my eyes. They made absolutely no effort to de-escalate the situation and should have spent 10 years in prison for manslaughter instead of spending the last 10 years continuing the lies.

      1. That story still haunts me. I think of it occasionally. Not only were the Mounties to blame, but not one official in the Vancouver air port could be bothered helping his mother locate him. It makes me very jaded about all those do-gooders in Lotusland. It also is a lasting black mark on the country, though many will have forgotten the story.

  6. And now your Canadians are racist bastards story for today. Canadian Press reports that whiny indians are accusing the federal government of systemic racism. This is because commercial fishermen were given a higher quota for salmon because recreational fishing has dropped off. The indians whine that they should have received the increased quota because everything in Canada belongs to them.

    1. everything in Canada belongs to them

      I think Prinz Dummkopf might have something to say about that. He seems to think that it’s all his to do with as he pleases.

  7. This just in: the CFL cancels the 2020 season due to the Tam Typhoid. Canadians will have to find some other reason to get loaded during the last weekend of November.

  8. As if raging fires and Covid weren’t enough for the good folks of California, they now have a heat wave to contend with and along with it rolling power outages.
    https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/08/17/california-blackouts-expose-problems-in-states-transition-to-clean-energy/
    I think we can file this gem in the “Told Ya So” folder.

    Takeaway quote: “We have a much more risky supply of energy now because the sun doesn’t always shine when we want and the wind doesn’t always blow when we want,”

    Ya don’t say.

    1. burton, that is what happens when mentally deficient/defective people are given control of that which they should never have been. Of course the same applies to the electorate.

  9. Meanwhile in Micronesia,

    twitter.com/russomanchu/status/1295337485711572992

    Chinese Ambassador arriving at Kiribati, which has recently cut off its diplomatic relation with Taiwan. Black children formed a carpet to let Chinese ambassador walk on.

    h/t. Some Moron at AOSHQ

  10. Rowan Dean Sky News Australia;History to ‘vindicate’ swedish covid-19 strategy.
    The numbers are interesting.
    Sweden has run through the Covid Crisis.
    Say 7000 dead out of a pop of 10 million, 3 months,no lockdown,no closures.
    From those number,the following speculation .
    Canada 37 million can expect 26 000 dead,just strung out over a longer period.
    The USA 330 million , 231 000.
    Brazil at 210 million,147 000.
    Now if the numbers come in near these,I will suspect that government help,actually helped no one.
    Brazil was at 105 000 dead last I looked,if it stops around 150 000 then there is your “control,no lockdown,” sample.
    Will Brazil start tapering off at 3 months?
    Will Canada and USA reach those numbers, regardless of shutdown?
    Time will tell.

    The only way the Covid-19 Plandemic ends here is when we ignore and fire our useless bureaucrats.
    “This ‘crisis’ may continue for years”.
    Fire them all.

  11. A Pause in Climate Alarmism??
    While I usually respect Anthony Furey’s opinions I think he missed the mark on this one: https://tnc.news/2020/08/17/furey-a-pause-in-climate-alarmism/
    A more likely explanation is that Gerald Butts and his fellow travellers are quietly preparing ‘The Big Payout’ and are keeping their heads down so as to not alarm the marks. I am afraid that the ‘recovery plan’ will be a eco-scammer’s wet dream for the transfer of large sums to them at the expense of the rest of us.
    Please tell me I am wrong.

  12. Blackie’s CBC reports that the Governor General’s scorn for the RCMP has driven up costs. The Mounties have also had to increase her security when she travels abroad. I wonder why? Meanwhile the Liberal Party’s iPolitics website is excited that Blackie’s polling service states that our Great Leader is leading by double digits in their unbiased poll.

  13. Breaking: Morneau to hold news conference at 7:15 pm. Good possibility he is leaving cabinet.

  14. The CBC is now reporting that Bill Morneau is resigning as finance minister. His presser was supposed to start at 8:30 pm Eastern.

  15. G’bye Bill Morneau!
    …Seems we just get started and before you know it,
    Comes the time we have to say good-bye!”
    G’bye!

    1. My reaction to that is similar to Dorothy Parker’s when she heard Calvin Coolidge had died: how can we tell?

  16. The reigning men’s and women’s champions of the U.S. Tennis Open have declined to defend their titles, citing COVID-19 worries. Funny thing, they have been playing in European tournaments. Two other women’s semi-finalists from last year have also declined.
    Coincidentally, the U.S. Open is played in de Blasio’s NYC.

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