He gave me all 3 volumes on the condition I read one a year.
Cured me from ever thinking Socialism had any redeeming qualities.
I read all three volumes too. Not an book a man forgets.
I hope it’s not the same gulag that they utilized for suspected FLQ members back in 1970 during the October Crisis when Trudeau and his Quebec henchmen jailed 400 innocent people without right to legal representation. And when they got the right guys, they gave them exile in Cuba with no attempts at extradition. Keeping in mind that Trudeau and Castro were buddies.
Sunny ways!!
And when they got the right guys, they gave them exile in Cuba with no attempts at extradition.
It wouldn’t have mattered as PET quietly let them back in the country a few years later.
As I recall one became a judge and others also had positions of power. So much for justice.
Probably a shiny new gulag. Maybe they hired Chicom experts for design? I hear they can build one in a week. I am sure inmates, especially political dissidents, will be treated really well. Psychiatrists will be on standby to asses inmates’ suitability to return to the population. Some may be suffering from “sluggish schizophrenia” and benefit from a longer stay in psikhushka. All that while their houses will be ransacked by enforces, their children placed in foster homes, their dogs killed, their lives financially ruined. This will be used as a massive hammer to shut down all opposition. Mark my words.
SNC-Lavalin job?
habeus corpus … but then it’s Quebec
And every stupid idea that infects Kebek soon spreads all over the rest of Canada.
The Gulag Archipelago
My history prof made me a deal.
He gave me all 3 volumes on the condition I read one a year.
Cured me from ever thinking Socialism had any redeeming qualities.
les Isle de Magdelaine Archipelago
Those Bastards messed up my B’day … (not quite sure WHO yet..)
Thoughts go to the 3000+ who perished in a “What” I still dont know…
I’ve had and continue to have major doubts that 10-15 Islamics from Saudi Arabia-Qatar etc were bright enough to actually pilot a modern day aircraft with 10-15 days worth of lessons on a goddamned twin engined Cessna.
I Just don’t buy that.
Most can’t even drive let alone pilot a Boeing 767.
And what hit the pentagon – sure as shit wasn’t an aircraft..?
The whole thing stinks of DRONE ops with willing sacrificial bodies screaming Inshallah….and preset Demo charges on the Tower Columns.
Fast Forward 20 years Later, most of the WEST is inundated with this mid eastern Islamic garbage all screaming for Sharia. How does that work.?? So who – what – was really in play here…hmm..?
Too many relevant questions that remain unanswered – cause well you know. CONSPIRACY THEORIES and all….
CERTAIN (all.??), GLOBALISTS are involved…thats my bet….all part of the Great Project – The Plan
I wouldn’t be surprised if Soros had a hand in it.
Many best wishes to you for a Happy B’day Steakman!
Happy birthday S-man.
The answers are 20 years old and getting older. The next thing you know we’ll be talking about Mohammed Atta lurking behind a puff of smoke at the grassy knoll.
Well, I watched the planes hit the buildings with tons of fuel on board, who did the the flying and how well trained they were is the question, all else is speculation and con-theory .
Was drilling a well near Nordegg at the time for a US oil company. Sending the morning report while watching CNN (back when CNN was better for AM news, the ME was a big news item then and Kan-eh-duh sucked for ME news). I doubt that the folks on board the second aircraft I watched that flew into the second tower thought anything was remiss sarc/.
Lotta fuel for long distance flights on board. I never was a pilot, but I’ve flown aircraft quite comfortably, once in the air. Easier than driving a car, even at 350 knots or more and those buildings were big targets. They basically fly themselves. The ones I flew were putt putts in comparison to the biggies flown that day, but the pilots I flew with were comfortable enough to snooze while I flew. Just don’t make any abrupt moves while at the controls and you’ll stay airborne. Like a video game your kids can play.
Enjoy your day, Steakman. All the best.
+++ PO, did some flying myself and it would not be difficult once the captain got her up and running.
I thought about what happened on 9-11 and wrote this letter to myself.
September 23, 2001
In the tranquility of my Vancouver island home overlooking the Georgia Straight and the coastal mountains I am beginning to calm down. Although, it wasn’t difficult to maintain a mood of anger, frustration and disappointment over the past two weeks. September 11th 2001 and it’s images are burned in my memory for life. I’ve had a few bad days in the past … the day JFK went down … Elvis died on my birthday and I’m still not over my old cat Freddie. But nothing like that Day …. That Day, my life changed. I knew this for certain as I watched the second tower crumble on live TV. Men do cry. Then get really angry.
Today, my radio told me there was growing violence against anyone with a brown face in America and in other places too. I have two minds on that. The side of me that still smarts from the protracted anger says “Their own people brought it on them” … But what of the Hispanics, Italians and Greeks, many of whom wear Mediterranean faces … like me. We are threatened too. I understand that. Everyone is really angry at brown-faced men.
My frustration is not knowing for certain what to think or do. I am usually very decisive. What to do ….. Perhaps go and spend some money to do my part to keep the economy going. What trinket do I need or want? I have been drawing blanks on that lately, even before that Day. What to buy ….
A big TV?
An SUV?
New mountain bikes for you and me?
I’ve thought a lot about what we do here the land of the free and of enterprise. I have listened to George W’s people appealing for consumer spending to keep America strong. I suddenly found this appeal chilling. Does our strength lie in our ability to build and play with really neat toys? .. or in spending billions playing and watching others play sports and other games. I am aware there is a pittance tossed to things like the space program occasionally, but the reliance on consumer spending for strength! I don’t know …. The strength of stuff?
I had the thought that if the terrorists were attacking in the cause of slowing down the consumption of the total biosphere in the production and use of consumer goods (a wall that I have seen approaching for several decades now) in the name of frivolity …. Then at least there would be some method in the madness. However, they simply hate us and can’t tolerate our way of life on the same planet as theirs.
I have no desire to be any part of their world, but I am increasingly alienated in mine. Why are we here? What are we doing? Why has the West become as silly and shallow as it has. Why is our diet so poison, and why are we so stressed out and why do we work so hard …. learn so little, sleep so badly. The latest trend to hit the jackpot is masturbating while perusing porn sites on the internet.
What is this way of life beyond the aspect of freedom? What is it we are ready to fight and die for? Is it enough to sustain the fight to it’s conclusion, or is it possible we could lose? Consider that there is really no way to tell which of the six million or so Muslim-Arabs and perhaps other Muslims in North America hate us so much that some of them may well commit a mass murder again. The only way to be sure is to make them all leave our soil. Is there will for that? Would our political correctness allow it?
One hundred years from now, will we still have the wealth, resources and strength to hold these enemies of our way of life, at bay? Will our science have advanced enough to someday get us off of this potentially horrible ball in space and leave the barbarians behind with the ruins?
I am grateful to live during the time I am living. Paul Simon did a tour in the honor of the time… Called it “Born at the right time.” Today’s youth may not enjoy a show like that in their mid-life as we did. It’s different now, but because of our proximity to the United States, I’ve been able to live my life the way I wanted to and I will always love America for that.
There’s no question that there is not enough left on this planet to support a high standard of living for even a fraction of the world’s enormous population, yet this is not considered in the longer term of human life on earth. The rich would rather eat their children than give their wealth away. Why get rich if you can’t keep it? So what will the long term bring?
I thought we would hit the wall about the middle of this new 21st century. I was wrong, the first splatter happened 9/11/2001. It’s different now. I am different now. I am not sure how different.
Maybe there is no long term to consider.
JV
Interesting and thought provoking. You should write a follow-up letter with your thoughts on today’s world — somewhat the same, but also worse. What will things be like 20 years from now? Really, that’s a scary thought. 9/11 was a shock, but also something remote, a sad event that could lead to war for the US. Covid and current chaos in the world seem to be right at the doorstep.
Good suggestion of a project, LL. Only question is who will be around to read it. The Titanic has just hit the iceberg but the lifeboats are being destroyed because the captain is saying “we are all in this together”.
Thanks for your reply Linda. I might do what you suggested. My views have changed somewhat but my basic instinct and beliefs that conservative policies are always best, remains.
I am glad that we have a man like Donald Trump taking on the world to preserve what’s left of our freedoms and way of life.
Perhaps I will write the letter after the election. Things are getting weird and big changes may be underway. Interesting time eh wot?
Those bastards messed up many birthdays, including my brother’s. Now, no one forgets it. For all the wrong reasons. Happy birthday, steakman.
Kate I hear that…and shoulda mentioned in my original post, that “I’m not alone in this”.
….that day was not about ME.
Before all this Deep State nonsense with trying to get Trump, I would have said no way.
Now I wouldn’t put it past these psychopaths.
Rumsden was to announce that $2.3 TRILLION was missing from defense. Those records were destroyed in the collapse of WTC7 which was not even hit by any plane. Some say it was imploded.
Well my big question is this. And i’d love to hear BA chime in on this and anyone else with some metallurgical knowledge along with failure analysis experience. I have some 40 yrs experience working with metals – as a journeyman welder and as a certified Welding Inspector. Grad of Welding Eng Tech etc…I know a little bit about metals and what it takes to bend, break and cut through them…in particular Mild Steel (up to .08% C)
I find it incredibly hard to fathom that 1.5-2″ thick Structural Steel Beams and Columns Were instantly brought up to temp such that they would fail in an elastic/plastic manner. nor have I seen any evidence of that either.
When those aircraft hit the building, whatever fuel they had may have lasted a max of 5 min with the majority of it being flashed off instantly upon impact.
So where did the extra heat come from to “ensure” they did in fact fail…. there is IMO, nothing in a building such as that, that would have allowed a fire to continue to burn at the high temps & required time for elastic/plastic failure. I have also seen some video suggesting controlled demolition charges being set off prior to collapse.
The Pentagon hit has NEVER Been explained to me. Its sure as hell was not an aircraft.
As you say Bob…I might not have fully bought into it being an “inside job”….but the past 4 years and what has transpired in the US..??
Said supposition is a REAL possibility.
Who Why & what was to be gained…??
Don’t patronize me with “it couldn’t have happened that way”. One look at Canada today and you’d have said all the insanity surrounding us now “couldn’t have happened” either….well it did.
Don’t forget that the buildings were filled with combustible material which would have added to the fire and sustained it. That material would include paper, carpeting, and wall finishing. That would have contributed to the weakening of the structural steel.
In addition, when the planes hit, the structural integrity of the buildings was compromised. The result was that the vertical load wouldn’t have been uniformly distributed over the cross-section of each floor and would have been eccentric. Failure would have been inevitable under those circumstances as the floors above the crash sites would have begun twisting in the vertical plane due to the total weight alone.
The towers were constructed from concrete, which works can withstand compressive loads well, but fails quickly under tension. Because of that, it’s likely that the corners directly opposite from the crash sites would have begun failing due to the tensile loading resulting from the aforementioned twisting.
Unfortunately, the towers collapsed before the fires were out, so no examination of the sites and a determination of their failure modes was not possible.
Why do we cover structural steel with insulation to protect against strength loss from fire exposure, if as you imply, building fires don’t get hot enough to affect structural steel?
Why did Building 7 just suddenly implode? Until someone answers that for me I will always be suspicious.
There’s a video from a pissed off welder demonstrating how easily mild steel gets soft. The amount of fuel in a large jet will not all flash off quickly. The damage to the horizontal beams increased the loads on the vertical beams to begin the process. The jet fuel (kerosene based I believe) would vaporize over a period of time greater than a few moments and it’s the vapour that burns not the liquid. Add to that the literal tons of flammable materials mentioned in this thread, the chimney effect and you have a blast furnace with high temperatures.
The demolition theory and the Pentagon theory are easily disproved. Watch the process for blowing a building—somebody would have noticed the destruction while charges were set. In two buildings no less. As for the pentagon it seems there records of the flight and witnesses. So here is how it really happened. A special team blew up the building while a second team rounded up all the real or fake passengers. They took them to a field and had three machine gunners in a crossfire similar to WW1 and mowed them down. An assassin then murdered the gunners. Then another assassin executed the first assassin.
The complete lack of witnesses proves that Bush was behind the entire plot including stealth demolition charges that no one ever saw. As for the flight downed in Pennsylvania, they were already dead and planted on the plane with a dead crew and the plane was piloted by remote.
See? A conspiracy theory no one can disprove Because the evidence was cleverly disguised and Bush (widely believed to be too dumb to tie his shoes) masterminded the whole thing.
Come to think of it, both Bushes were pilots. Sr. flew torpedo bombers in WW2. Jr. flew all weather interceptors during Vietnam era. He volunteered for war duty but things ended before he could go. That’s the guys that did the remotes.
BTW tell your theories to the families including the Pentagon victims.
It was as it appeared. The other buildings were damaged or destroyed by the concussive forces from the two biggest buildings ever when they were built.
Or, it was Obama setting things up to beat Hillary.
Actually, I think they took jet training as well. One instructor notified FBI that it was weird that students wanted to learn to fly a 767, but to land or take off. The agent who raised to HQ was told, “Do you think they’re going to fly into the Twin Towers?”
No, it really was crazed Muslims who did this in their war against the non-muslim world; assisted only by government incompetence.
Does anybody here still miss W?
No, neither do I.
The civilized world would have been spared untold misery had Donald Trump been at the helm 19 years ago. Israel might even have had an embassy in Baghdad by now.
I don’t really blame W. He was just finishing the job that his father HW foolishly and prematurely abandoned in the early 90s.
+1 with that comment. That pseudo conservative Colin Powell called a halt when he should have gone on to crush the last opposition. Machiavelli 101. Bush Fils had the guts to finish the job, but he did it on a patently false pretext. I believe Biden and Clinton, Frau, were on board at the time.
I certainly don’t miss W but I used to think he was the right man at the time. I couldn’t even imagine what it would have been like if Gore had been president.
Truth emerging about Iraq on 9/11 is weird. The fact that it is all about Trump weirder still.
The Atlantic have been war mongers since WWI so that part in unsurprising.
With this comment, I don’t mean to cheapen 9/11 and the Afghanistan war, they’re unrelated.
The fact we never talk about the 10’s Of thousands who died in Iraq on all sides in Bush’s / Powell’s bullsgpit war is troubling. For us Canadians, somehow Jean Crétien ended up was the best PM of our generation for saying “no” to the US coalition and sparing the forces, their famalies, and our communities needless suffering on the heels of the Afghanistan war.
One right decision does not make Chretien the best PM of our generation. I still view him as a self-serving dud, crooked Libersl insider. He has been instrumental in the sell-out to China.
But it was all Trump’s fault. Heck being cast out of the Garden of Eden, the Flood, bad weather, they are all Trump’s fault.
Newly released DOJ records show that multiple top members of Mueller’s investigative team claimed to have “accidentally wiped” at least 15 (!) phones used during the anti-Trump investigation after the DOJ OIG asked for the devies to be handed over.
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Impoverishment for the great unwashed?
Good news audiophiles CD sales have slipped into 2nd place – vinyl is now back where it belongs. It is afterall the superior formate.
Knocked out in the mid 80’s by the convenience of plastic and size vinyl was supposed to end up in the dustbin of history….except it refused to die. Largely supported by classical music lovers it soldiered on. Those who love the pure sound of vinyl kept it alive.
As the decades rolled by it slowly gained a following to the point where it is now back – in first place.
Nothing could replace the feel of holding a record jacket complete with pictures, art and storytelling. Inside was the true sound of the music. A piano that sounded like a piano. You could hear the hammer striking the strings. No CD could replicate the sound.
So, everything that’s old is new again. I never got rid of my vinyl or my turntable. I have some classic jazz label’s in my collection and look to add more. I’m sure some of the vintage vinyl will reappear.
Triples all around!
Actually, digital recordings have improved enormously over the years.
The first ones came on the market in the late 1970s and, admittedly, they did sound a touch funny. One reason for that was the low sampling rates used for making those recordings. Since then, those sampling rates have increased and the resulting recordings come close to duplicating the actual sound.
It was particularly interesting with respect to classical music. Around the same time as digital recordings were introduced, performances using authentic or period instruments became popular. The music produced by them sounded rough and raw, largely because listeners were used to hearing modern instruments. In addition, the use of original tempi, as specified by the composers, jangled a few nerves.
For example, there’s the famous recording of Messiah conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, which has a lush and layered orchestration. Some 40 years later, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, directed by Paul McCreesh, released a recording of that piece, using instruments that Handel would have recognized as well as his arrangement, and it sounds small and quiet by comparison. Both are good and worth listening to (I inherited the LP set of the Beecham version and I own the CDs for the one by McCreesh).
It’s largely a matter of personal taste.
When my sister and I were kids, our mom bought us a recording of Messiah conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. To this day, it is still our favourite. For over twenty years, our Christmas season began with attending Tafelmusik’s Sing Along Messiah, conducted by Ivars Taurins, at Massey Hall in Toronto. But not this year.
Oh, dear, now that you mentioned Sargent, I’m beginning to wonder whether that Messiah LP set that I inherited might have been directed by him rather than Beecham. Both recordings are worth adding to one’s collection.
Unfortunately I don’t have a turntable. Once I’m done settling my father’s estate and find myself another place to live, I’ll probably add one to my stereo.
A sing-along Messiah would be fun to take part in. I think we had one here in Edmonton at one time, and it may have been an annual event, but I haven’t paid much attention to that sort of thing in recent years.
By the way, another “authentic” Messiah recording, released around the same time as the one I mentioned earlier, is the one by the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir, directed by John Eliot Gardiner. That’s another one I should get whenever I get a round tuit.
Well, it’s superior to CDs, but that isn’t saying much. The CD Audio format isn’t going to satisfy an audiophile, it was a “good enough” format for the mass market. Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio contain fidelity well beyond what any human ear can discern, but thos formats never caught on.
The ability of audiophiles to detect differences between different formats, playback hardware and signal propagation media is largely a myth anyway; most double-blind studies demonstrate that the subjects can’t tell the difference between CD-Audio and high-fidelity recordings, or between gold-plated audio cables and a straightened coat hanger jammed into the socket.
Anyone who can’t hear the difference between a CD and an SACD or Blu-ray has shit between their ears.
Isn’t the problem with vinyl that sound significantly deteriorates after ten or so plays?
How do you like our chest-high grass in Edmonton, Kate?
Our dear civic leaders can afford to finish off a $1.5-billion dollar LRT rail line, AND start it’s $2.0-billion western extension in the middle of a pandemic. They can afford to increase City government management positions by 21% over three years but they apparently can’t get around to cutting the grass in parks and boulevards.
“Middle managers at the city increased by 22 per cent to 589 and front-line supervisors rose by 19 per cent to 1,242 positions, since 2017. In contrast, the number of NON-SUPERVISORY POSITIONS DROPPED BY ONE PERCENT.”
That sure is a serious effort at building and expanding the unproductive bureaucracy. Like most areas of government they could all use a 50% reduction.
How much did Edmonchuk’s population grow over the same time period vs “managerial” staff?
And all this courtesy of Donnie Bike Lane Iveson. He’ll be voted back in.
Do Canadians copy every fad originating in the US?
Why let that interfere with Iveson and Nenshi continuing to damage their respective cities?
What NBC did was a disgrace, pandering to the NFL league SJW VP’s … I turned my TV OFF & waited for the Game to begin… only watched the first half……Cris never was much of a football player, or commentator… always whining about something…… TURN OFF THE LIGHTS NBC Sports, or do DARTS
Today our Great Leader Angry Adolf is on the election trail again. He joins his buddy “progressive” Doug Ford for the opening of a gold mine or something. Loyal journalists will be allowed to ask a few questions on how wonderful he is. Next week Adolf is holding a cabinet retreat at taxpayer expense to prepare for the big socialist makeover of his Canada.
Apparently the previous work of the main “artist” consisted of painting of the female anatomy….. Guess what the emphasis of those pictures was? Yeah, that…..
I saw the photos of the ‘work’, yikes!
The artwork looked like a depiction of sick and deformed people. Nothing erotic about that!
The more I think about it, the more it appears that every aspect of that “mural” was designed Numpty Nenshi to be an insult to someone.
He insulted conservatives by insisting that there has to be Burn Loot Murder “art” in the first place. He deliberately insulted the Chinese by locating it in their neighbourhood. He further insulted conservatives, as well as people who have good taste, by the choice of “artist” who established her “reputation” by painting terrible, perhaps even perverted, depictions of naked women.
It was all about him, his beliefs, and his opinion of people he clearly despises.
Exactly. You’ve covered all the bases.
Hope he doesn’t run again, he has proven to be a disrespectful public figure.
What happened to the $480 million WE received from US sources?
The conservative media are reporting that Portland mayor Ted Wheeler has banned the use of tear gas, by police — this afterc 105 straight days of rioting.
Angry Adolf held his virtual Nuremburg rally last night. At the virtual fundraising event, he chose five questions to answer on how wonderful he is. He also explained that his big new plans will include helping Alberta transition from the fossil fuel industry.
He also explained that his big new plans will include helping Alberta transition from the fossil fuel industry.
So we’re all going to be coders now?
Seriously, he doesn’t give two hoots about Alberta, never did, and never will. It’s a Trudeau tradition.
Adolf’s new Canada. Global News reports that Canada Post had to apologize for issuing a stamp showing the head of Sir John A. Macdonald broken off a statue in Montreal.
“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We’re nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won’t snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others’ throats in a dreadful silence. The infection will spread outward from that point. Old ladies will crack skulls with their deadly handbags. Cars will plunge down the crowded sidewalks. Drivers will be torn out of their cars and stomped. It will spread to all of the huge cities of the world, and by dawn ot the next day there will be a horrid silence of sprawled bodies and tumbled vehicles, gutted buildings and a few wisps of smoke. And through the silence will prowl a few, a very few of the most powerful ones, ragged and bloody, slowly tracking each other down.” – Travis McGee from Nightmare in Pink
This was written way back in 1964.
Hmmmm…..
People on the Left always say that there are too many people for the Earth to sustain. Perhaps this will be a way for Mother Nature to cull the population down.
Further to this, when I first heard this refrain from some nominal friends on the Left, I suggested that they kill their grandchildren, kill their daughter and son-in-law and then kill themselves. It would be a start. I have never heard from them since (18 years ago) and I like it that way.
People on the Left always say that there are too many people for the Earth to sustain.
Correction: there are too many of the wrong people that can be sustained. There will always be space for another lefty elitist or upper class twit. (“Tut, tut. Have these peasants no shame, no sense of decency? Don’t they realize that we can’t abide their smell or their looks, let alone their very existence?”)
People like that tend to be closet racists. If you want to cull the human race you would start with high population areas and work toward low population areas. High population areas don’t include North America so who do you think they want to murder?
Thanks all, for the birthday wishes…!
Cheers
Sun’s almost past the yardarm, Steakman….time to crack one. Beautiful day today, not a cloud in the sky, yet. Get out and enjoy it. We’re south facing, so will catch some rays and watch the walkers. Maybe have a carbonated H2O.
John Ivison at the National Post warns us about Adolf’s new secret carbon tax.
THAILAND destroyed its economy over shockingly low WuFlu case-death stats.
Martin Armstrong minces no words. A striking contrast to Kate’s recent “excellent” linked article of apologetics about a series of unfortunate mistakes and missteps.
Thailand destroyed its economy listening to the WHO and this COVID hoax. Out of 69 million people, the total number of cases was 3,447 with 3,286 recoveries, and only 58 deaths. What a difference it makes when you do not pay the hospitals more for COVID cases. The destruction of their economy is absurd. The rising civil unrest is to be expected. Thailand should never have listened to the Gates conspiracy.
I just read the BC Supreme Court Summary of Judgement regarding private clinic surgeries and health care primary regarding the Cambie Clinic in Vancouver. Cambie Clinic was not successful.
Patients who cannot be treated in a timely manner by the “system” suffer harm. The judge stated “I conclude that in these situations denying patients the ability to avoid unreasonable wait times violates their right to security of the person” (paras. 9,10)
But in order to preserve the government’s monopoly and rationing of healthcare funding those who suffer because of the law just need to suck it up and take one for the team.
I’m sure this will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada but I’m not sure the decision will be different.
I haven’t read the decision yet. Did the judge have the courage to mention that no other developed country in the world outlaws private health care? I am guessing that he didn’t because then he would have to present arguments as to why Canada’s system is the best in the world because it outlaws private health care (All relevant studies show that Canada’s system, at best, ranks tenth in the world).
The Canadian Constitution Foundation is looking forward to an appeal of this decision:
“The trial decision contains errors in both fact and law, and we look forward to seeing this case appealed,” said CCF Executive Director, Joanna Baron. “We are disappointed in today’s result, which we find completely inconsistent with existing Charter case law and with the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Chaoulli.”
Blacklock reports that Adolf’s justice minister who has a habit of breaking the law, is seeking legal remedies to regulate unregulated content on the internet. This includes websites.
Here we come, Communist China. That’s what they do in China is it not? Control content. Your basic dictatorship.
Friday nite. It’s time to loosen up SDA’ers.
I spent the day on the river in a kayak. Packed a lunch, a few brewskies and floated along with a buddy. Stopped on an island and had lunch.
A perfect day. Hot – no wind – never saw another person.
Thought of the Dylan tune, ‘Watching the River Flow’ Robbie Robertson on guitar if I remember correctly.
LG.
It’s 28° now in the South did some landscape sculpting, trimmed 2 shrubs and cleared out spent perennials and then quit when it hit 30° –man it’s dry out there. NR
And we got our first gulag:
Quebec City Says it Will Isolate “Uncooperative” Citizens in Secret Corona Facility
https://summit.news/2020/09/09/quebec-city-says-it-will-isolate-uncooperative-citizens-in-secret-corona-facility/
That did not take long.
The Gulag Archipelago
My history prof made me a deal.
He gave me all 3 volumes on the condition I read one a year.
Cured me from ever thinking Socialism had any redeeming qualities.
I read all three volumes too. Not an book a man forgets.
I hope it’s not the same gulag that they utilized for suspected FLQ members back in 1970 during the October Crisis when Trudeau and his Quebec henchmen jailed 400 innocent people without right to legal representation. And when they got the right guys, they gave them exile in Cuba with no attempts at extradition. Keeping in mind that Trudeau and Castro were buddies.
Sunny ways!!
And when they got the right guys, they gave them exile in Cuba with no attempts at extradition.
It wouldn’t have mattered as PET quietly let them back in the country a few years later.
As I recall one became a judge and others also had positions of power. So much for justice.
Probably a shiny new gulag. Maybe they hired Chicom experts for design? I hear they can build one in a week. I am sure inmates, especially political dissidents, will be treated really well. Psychiatrists will be on standby to asses inmates’ suitability to return to the population. Some may be suffering from “sluggish schizophrenia” and benefit from a longer stay in psikhushka. All that while their houses will be ransacked by enforces, their children placed in foster homes, their dogs killed, their lives financially ruined. This will be used as a massive hammer to shut down all opposition. Mark my words.
SNC-Lavalin job?
habeus corpus … but then it’s Quebec
And every stupid idea that infects Kebek soon spreads all over the rest of Canada.
The Gulag Archipelago
My history prof made me a deal.
He gave me all 3 volumes on the condition I read one a year.
Cured me from ever thinking Socialism had any redeeming qualities.
les Isle de Magdelaine Archipelago
Those Bastards messed up my B’day … (not quite sure WHO yet..)
Thoughts go to the 3000+ who perished in a “What” I still dont know…
I’ve had and continue to have major doubts that 10-15 Islamics from Saudi Arabia-Qatar etc were bright enough to actually pilot a modern day aircraft with 10-15 days worth of lessons on a goddamned twin engined Cessna.
I Just don’t buy that.
Most can’t even drive let alone pilot a Boeing 767.
And what hit the pentagon – sure as shit wasn’t an aircraft..?
The whole thing stinks of DRONE ops with willing sacrificial bodies screaming Inshallah….and preset Demo charges on the Tower Columns.
Fast Forward 20 years Later, most of the WEST is inundated with this mid eastern Islamic garbage all screaming for Sharia. How does that work.?? So who – what – was really in play here…hmm..?
Too many relevant questions that remain unanswered – cause well you know. CONSPIRACY THEORIES and all….
CERTAIN (all.??), GLOBALISTS are involved…thats my bet….all part of the Great Project – The Plan
I wouldn’t be surprised if Soros had a hand in it.
Many best wishes to you for a Happy B’day Steakman!
Happy birthday S-man.
The answers are 20 years old and getting older. The next thing you know we’ll be talking about Mohammed Atta lurking behind a puff of smoke at the grassy knoll.
Well, I watched the planes hit the buildings with tons of fuel on board, who did the the flying and how well trained they were is the question, all else is speculation and con-theory .
Was drilling a well near Nordegg at the time for a US oil company. Sending the morning report while watching CNN (back when CNN was better for AM news, the ME was a big news item then and Kan-eh-duh sucked for ME news). I doubt that the folks on board the second aircraft I watched that flew into the second tower thought anything was remiss sarc/.
Lotta fuel for long distance flights on board. I never was a pilot, but I’ve flown aircraft quite comfortably, once in the air. Easier than driving a car, even at 350 knots or more and those buildings were big targets. They basically fly themselves. The ones I flew were putt putts in comparison to the biggies flown that day, but the pilots I flew with were comfortable enough to snooze while I flew. Just don’t make any abrupt moves while at the controls and you’ll stay airborne. Like a video game your kids can play.
Enjoy your day, Steakman. All the best.
+++ PO, did some flying myself and it would not be difficult once the captain got her up and running.
Did a lot of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=782JRhMsNFQ&app=desktop
Spent a lot of time in these, flew them too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAg_zC_xYmo
By the way, happy birthday, Steakman.
I thought about what happened on 9-11 and wrote this letter to myself.
September 23, 2001
In the tranquility of my Vancouver island home overlooking the Georgia Straight and the coastal mountains I am beginning to calm down. Although, it wasn’t difficult to maintain a mood of anger, frustration and disappointment over the past two weeks. September 11th 2001 and it’s images are burned in my memory for life. I’ve had a few bad days in the past … the day JFK went down … Elvis died on my birthday and I’m still not over my old cat Freddie. But nothing like that Day …. That Day, my life changed. I knew this for certain as I watched the second tower crumble on live TV. Men do cry. Then get really angry.
Today, my radio told me there was growing violence against anyone with a brown face in America and in other places too. I have two minds on that. The side of me that still smarts from the protracted anger says “Their own people brought it on them” … But what of the Hispanics, Italians and Greeks, many of whom wear Mediterranean faces … like me. We are threatened too. I understand that. Everyone is really angry at brown-faced men.
My frustration is not knowing for certain what to think or do. I am usually very decisive. What to do ….. Perhaps go and spend some money to do my part to keep the economy going. What trinket do I need or want? I have been drawing blanks on that lately, even before that Day. What to buy ….
A big TV?
An SUV?
New mountain bikes for you and me?
I’ve thought a lot about what we do here the land of the free and of enterprise. I have listened to George W’s people appealing for consumer spending to keep America strong. I suddenly found this appeal chilling. Does our strength lie in our ability to build and play with really neat toys? .. or in spending billions playing and watching others play sports and other games. I am aware there is a pittance tossed to things like the space program occasionally, but the reliance on consumer spending for strength! I don’t know …. The strength of stuff?
I had the thought that if the terrorists were attacking in the cause of slowing down the consumption of the total biosphere in the production and use of consumer goods (a wall that I have seen approaching for several decades now) in the name of frivolity …. Then at least there would be some method in the madness. However, they simply hate us and can’t tolerate our way of life on the same planet as theirs.
I have no desire to be any part of their world, but I am increasingly alienated in mine. Why are we here? What are we doing? Why has the West become as silly and shallow as it has. Why is our diet so poison, and why are we so stressed out and why do we work so hard …. learn so little, sleep so badly. The latest trend to hit the jackpot is masturbating while perusing porn sites on the internet.
What is this way of life beyond the aspect of freedom? What is it we are ready to fight and die for? Is it enough to sustain the fight to it’s conclusion, or is it possible we could lose? Consider that there is really no way to tell which of the six million or so Muslim-Arabs and perhaps other Muslims in North America hate us so much that some of them may well commit a mass murder again. The only way to be sure is to make them all leave our soil. Is there will for that? Would our political correctness allow it?
One hundred years from now, will we still have the wealth, resources and strength to hold these enemies of our way of life, at bay? Will our science have advanced enough to someday get us off of this potentially horrible ball in space and leave the barbarians behind with the ruins?
I am grateful to live during the time I am living. Paul Simon did a tour in the honor of the time… Called it “Born at the right time.” Today’s youth may not enjoy a show like that in their mid-life as we did. It’s different now, but because of our proximity to the United States, I’ve been able to live my life the way I wanted to and I will always love America for that.
There’s no question that there is not enough left on this planet to support a high standard of living for even a fraction of the world’s enormous population, yet this is not considered in the longer term of human life on earth. The rich would rather eat their children than give their wealth away. Why get rich if you can’t keep it? So what will the long term bring?
I thought we would hit the wall about the middle of this new 21st century. I was wrong, the first splatter happened 9/11/2001. It’s different now. I am different now. I am not sure how different.
Maybe there is no long term to consider.
JV
Interesting and thought provoking. You should write a follow-up letter with your thoughts on today’s world — somewhat the same, but also worse. What will things be like 20 years from now? Really, that’s a scary thought. 9/11 was a shock, but also something remote, a sad event that could lead to war for the US. Covid and current chaos in the world seem to be right at the doorstep.
Good suggestion of a project, LL. Only question is who will be around to read it. The Titanic has just hit the iceberg but the lifeboats are being destroyed because the captain is saying “we are all in this together”.
Thanks for your reply Linda. I might do what you suggested. My views have changed somewhat but my basic instinct and beliefs that conservative policies are always best, remains.
I am glad that we have a man like Donald Trump taking on the world to preserve what’s left of our freedoms and way of life.
Perhaps I will write the letter after the election. Things are getting weird and big changes may be underway. Interesting time eh wot?
Those bastards messed up many birthdays, including my brother’s. Now, no one forgets it. For all the wrong reasons. Happy birthday, steakman.
Kate I hear that…and shoulda mentioned in my original post, that “I’m not alone in this”.
….that day was not about ME.
Before all this Deep State nonsense with trying to get Trump, I would have said no way.
Now I wouldn’t put it past these psychopaths.
Rumsden was to announce that $2.3 TRILLION was missing from defense. Those records were destroyed in the collapse of WTC7 which was not even hit by any plane. Some say it was imploded.
Well my big question is this. And i’d love to hear BA chime in on this and anyone else with some metallurgical knowledge along with failure analysis experience. I have some 40 yrs experience working with metals – as a journeyman welder and as a certified Welding Inspector. Grad of Welding Eng Tech etc…I know a little bit about metals and what it takes to bend, break and cut through them…in particular Mild Steel (up to .08% C)
I find it incredibly hard to fathom that 1.5-2″ thick Structural Steel Beams and Columns Were instantly brought up to temp such that they would fail in an elastic/plastic manner. nor have I seen any evidence of that either.
When those aircraft hit the building, whatever fuel they had may have lasted a max of 5 min with the majority of it being flashed off instantly upon impact.
So where did the extra heat come from to “ensure” they did in fact fail…. there is IMO, nothing in a building such as that, that would have allowed a fire to continue to burn at the high temps & required time for elastic/plastic failure. I have also seen some video suggesting controlled demolition charges being set off prior to collapse.
The Pentagon hit has NEVER Been explained to me. Its sure as hell was not an aircraft.
As you say Bob…I might not have fully bought into it being an “inside job”….but the past 4 years and what has transpired in the US..??
Said supposition is a REAL possibility.
Who Why & what was to be gained…??
Don’t patronize me with “it couldn’t have happened that way”. One look at Canada today and you’d have said all the insanity surrounding us now “couldn’t have happened” either….well it did.
Don’t forget that the buildings were filled with combustible material which would have added to the fire and sustained it. That material would include paper, carpeting, and wall finishing. That would have contributed to the weakening of the structural steel.
In addition, when the planes hit, the structural integrity of the buildings was compromised. The result was that the vertical load wouldn’t have been uniformly distributed over the cross-section of each floor and would have been eccentric. Failure would have been inevitable under those circumstances as the floors above the crash sites would have begun twisting in the vertical plane due to the total weight alone.
The towers were constructed from concrete, which works can withstand compressive loads well, but fails quickly under tension. Because of that, it’s likely that the corners directly opposite from the crash sites would have begun failing due to the tensile loading resulting from the aforementioned twisting.
Unfortunately, the towers collapsed before the fires were out, so no examination of the sites and a determination of their failure modes was not possible.
Why do we cover structural steel with insulation to protect against strength loss from fire exposure, if as you imply, building fires don’t get hot enough to affect structural steel?
Why did Building 7 just suddenly implode? Until someone answers that for me I will always be suspicious.
There’s a video from a pissed off welder demonstrating how easily mild steel gets soft. The amount of fuel in a large jet will not all flash off quickly. The damage to the horizontal beams increased the loads on the vertical beams to begin the process. The jet fuel (kerosene based I believe) would vaporize over a period of time greater than a few moments and it’s the vapour that burns not the liquid. Add to that the literal tons of flammable materials mentioned in this thread, the chimney effect and you have a blast furnace with high temperatures.
The demolition theory and the Pentagon theory are easily disproved. Watch the process for blowing a building—somebody would have noticed the destruction while charges were set. In two buildings no less. As for the pentagon it seems there records of the flight and witnesses. So here is how it really happened. A special team blew up the building while a second team rounded up all the real or fake passengers. They took them to a field and had three machine gunners in a crossfire similar to WW1 and mowed them down. An assassin then murdered the gunners. Then another assassin executed the first assassin.
The complete lack of witnesses proves that Bush was behind the entire plot including stealth demolition charges that no one ever saw. As for the flight downed in Pennsylvania, they were already dead and planted on the plane with a dead crew and the plane was piloted by remote.
See? A conspiracy theory no one can disprove Because the evidence was cleverly disguised and Bush (widely believed to be too dumb to tie his shoes) masterminded the whole thing.
Come to think of it, both Bushes were pilots. Sr. flew torpedo bombers in WW2. Jr. flew all weather interceptors during Vietnam era. He volunteered for war duty but things ended before he could go. That’s the guys that did the remotes.
BTW tell your theories to the families including the Pentagon victims.
It was as it appeared. The other buildings were damaged or destroyed by the concussive forces from the two biggest buildings ever when they were built.
Or, it was Obama setting things up to beat Hillary.
Actually, I think they took jet training as well. One instructor notified FBI that it was weird that students wanted to learn to fly a 767, but to land or take off. The agent who raised to HQ was told, “Do you think they’re going to fly into the Twin Towers?”
No, it really was crazed Muslims who did this in their war against the non-muslim world; assisted only by government incompetence.
Does anybody here still miss W?
No, neither do I.
The civilized world would have been spared untold misery had Donald Trump been at the helm 19 years ago. Israel might even have had an embassy in Baghdad by now.
I don’t really blame W. He was just finishing the job that his father HW foolishly and prematurely abandoned in the early 90s.
+1 with that comment. That pseudo conservative Colin Powell called a halt when he should have gone on to crush the last opposition. Machiavelli 101. Bush Fils had the guts to finish the job, but he did it on a patently false pretext. I believe Biden and Clinton, Frau, were on board at the time.
I certainly don’t miss W but I used to think he was the right man at the time. I couldn’t even imagine what it would have been like if Gore had been president.
https://www.steynonline.com/10607/tal-bachman-christians-come-back
Thanks to Steyn for giving Tal a platform
And that Doc was a smiley little Nazi wasn’t he..I guess the can poke them with needles, try Vaccines on them?
Yep, another doctor in the great tradition of pioneers of public service like Josef Mengele.
B. C. Dippers take over hospice and not in a friendly manner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vB388qK4dM
Fucking ghouls.
Truth emerging about Iraq on 9/11 is weird. The fact that it is all about Trump weirder still.
The Atlantic have been war mongers since WWI so that part in unsurprising.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/10/that-atlantic-trump-exposer-also-helped-misreport-americas-way-into-iraq-war/
With this comment, I don’t mean to cheapen 9/11 and the Afghanistan war, they’re unrelated.
The fact we never talk about the 10’s Of thousands who died in Iraq on all sides in Bush’s / Powell’s bullsgpit war is troubling. For us Canadians, somehow Jean Crétien ended up was the best PM of our generation for saying “no” to the US coalition and sparing the forces, their famalies, and our communities needless suffering on the heels of the Afghanistan war.
One right decision does not make Chretien the best PM of our generation. I still view him as a self-serving dud, crooked Libersl insider. He has been instrumental in the sell-out to China.
But it was all Trump’s fault. Heck being cast out of the Garden of Eden, the Flood, bad weather, they are all Trump’s fault.
Newly released DOJ records show that multiple top members of Mueller’s investigative team claimed to have “accidentally wiped” at least 15 (!) phones used during the anti-Trump investigation after the DOJ OIG asked for the devies to be handed over.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1304131579397189634
The scientific term for this strange occurance might be mass auto-lexical-amnesia. They just deleted themselves.
True North’s Candice Malcolm and Andrew Lawton discuss:
“What on Earth does Justin Trudeau have planned? (37:42)
https://youtu.be/0ToAGeygsWk
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Impoverishment for the great unwashed?
Good news audiophiles CD sales have slipped into 2nd place – vinyl is now back where it belongs. It is afterall the superior formate.
Knocked out in the mid 80’s by the convenience of plastic and size vinyl was supposed to end up in the dustbin of history….except it refused to die. Largely supported by classical music lovers it soldiered on. Those who love the pure sound of vinyl kept it alive.
As the decades rolled by it slowly gained a following to the point where it is now back – in first place.
Nothing could replace the feel of holding a record jacket complete with pictures, art and storytelling. Inside was the true sound of the music. A piano that sounded like a piano. You could hear the hammer striking the strings. No CD could replicate the sound.
So, everything that’s old is new again. I never got rid of my vinyl or my turntable. I have some classic jazz label’s in my collection and look to add more. I’m sure some of the vintage vinyl will reappear.
Triples all around!
Actually, digital recordings have improved enormously over the years.
The first ones came on the market in the late 1970s and, admittedly, they did sound a touch funny. One reason for that was the low sampling rates used for making those recordings. Since then, those sampling rates have increased and the resulting recordings come close to duplicating the actual sound.
It was particularly interesting with respect to classical music. Around the same time as digital recordings were introduced, performances using authentic or period instruments became popular. The music produced by them sounded rough and raw, largely because listeners were used to hearing modern instruments. In addition, the use of original tempi, as specified by the composers, jangled a few nerves.
For example, there’s the famous recording of Messiah conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, which has a lush and layered orchestration. Some 40 years later, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, directed by Paul McCreesh, released a recording of that piece, using instruments that Handel would have recognized as well as his arrangement, and it sounds small and quiet by comparison. Both are good and worth listening to (I inherited the LP set of the Beecham version and I own the CDs for the one by McCreesh).
It’s largely a matter of personal taste.
When my sister and I were kids, our mom bought us a recording of Messiah conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. To this day, it is still our favourite. For over twenty years, our Christmas season began with attending Tafelmusik’s Sing Along Messiah, conducted by Ivars Taurins, at Massey Hall in Toronto. But not this year.
Oh, dear, now that you mentioned Sargent, I’m beginning to wonder whether that Messiah LP set that I inherited might have been directed by him rather than Beecham. Both recordings are worth adding to one’s collection.
Unfortunately I don’t have a turntable. Once I’m done settling my father’s estate and find myself another place to live, I’ll probably add one to my stereo.
A sing-along Messiah would be fun to take part in. I think we had one here in Edmonton at one time, and it may have been an annual event, but I haven’t paid much attention to that sort of thing in recent years.
By the way, another “authentic” Messiah recording, released around the same time as the one I mentioned earlier, is the one by the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir, directed by John Eliot Gardiner. That’s another one I should get whenever I get a round tuit.
Well, it’s superior to CDs, but that isn’t saying much. The CD Audio format isn’t going to satisfy an audiophile, it was a “good enough” format for the mass market. Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio contain fidelity well beyond what any human ear can discern, but thos formats never caught on.
The ability of audiophiles to detect differences between different formats, playback hardware and signal propagation media is largely a myth anyway; most double-blind studies demonstrate that the subjects can’t tell the difference between CD-Audio and high-fidelity recordings, or between gold-plated audio cables and a straightened coat hanger jammed into the socket.
Anyone who can’t hear the difference between a CD and an SACD or Blu-ray has shit between their ears.
Isn’t the problem with vinyl that sound significantly deteriorates after ten or so plays?
How do you like our chest-high grass in Edmonton, Kate?
Our dear civic leaders can afford to finish off a $1.5-billion dollar LRT rail line, AND start it’s $2.0-billion western extension in the middle of a pandemic. They can afford to increase City government management positions by 21% over three years but they apparently can’t get around to cutting the grass in parks and boulevards.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/auditor-recommends-reduction-in-city-of-edmonton-supervisors-following-21-per-cent-increase-in-three-years/wcm/07aceadb-17f6-473e-8fc9-d932dd12f3e3/
Because neatly cut lawns are product of colonialism and imperialism you unenlightened racist, get on with the program already: https://permacultureforthepeople.org/2017/10/25/lawns-class-and-colonialism-part-one/
“Middle managers at the city increased by 22 per cent to 589 and front-line supervisors rose by 19 per cent to 1,242 positions, since 2017. In contrast, the number of NON-SUPERVISORY POSITIONS DROPPED BY ONE PERCENT.”
That sure is a serious effort at building and expanding the unproductive bureaucracy. Like most areas of government they could all use a 50% reduction.
How much did Edmonchuk’s population grow over the same time period vs “managerial” staff?
And all this courtesy of Donnie Bike Lane Iveson. He’ll be voted back in.
Do Canadians copy every fad originating in the US?
Edmonton, Calgary…you have been warned!
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/alberta-justice-minister-warns-edmonton-and-calgary-not-to-comply-with-calls-to-defund-the-police/ar-BB18UzeE?ocid=msedgdhp
Why let that interfere with Iveson and Nenshi continuing to damage their respective cities?
What NBC did was a disgrace, pandering to the NFL league SJW VP’s … I turned my TV OFF & waited for the Game to begin… only watched the first half……Cris never was much of a football player, or commentator… always whining about something…… TURN OFF THE LIGHTS NBC Sports, or do DARTS
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/cris-collinsworth-support-nfl-players-mixed-signals
Today our Great Leader Angry Adolf is on the election trail again. He joins his buddy “progressive” Doug Ford for the opening of a gold mine or something. Loyal journalists will be allowed to ask a few questions on how wonderful he is. Next week Adolf is holding a cabinet retreat at taxpayer expense to prepare for the big socialist makeover of his Canada.
BLM ‘artwork’ in Calgary’s Chinatown
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1304237344627683328
That’s so friggan ugly! They’re crazy!
Apparently the previous work of the main “artist” consisted of painting of the female anatomy….. Guess what the emphasis of those pictures was? Yeah, that…..
I saw the photos of the ‘work’, yikes!
The artwork looked like a depiction of sick and deformed people. Nothing erotic about that!
The more I think about it, the more it appears that every aspect of that “mural” was designed Numpty Nenshi to be an insult to someone.
He insulted conservatives by insisting that there has to be Burn Loot Murder “art” in the first place. He deliberately insulted the Chinese by locating it in their neighbourhood. He further insulted conservatives, as well as people who have good taste, by the choice of “artist” who established her “reputation” by painting terrible, perhaps even perverted, depictions of naked women.
It was all about him, his beliefs, and his opinion of people he clearly despises.
Exactly. You’ve covered all the bases.
Hope he doesn’t run again, he has proven to be a disrespectful public figure.
What happened to the $480 million WE received from US sources?
https://mobile.twitter.com/FairQuestions/status/1303800590238060549
What will happen to the $45 million in real estate held by WE?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseBrown/status/1303872353177395200
The conservative media are reporting that Portland mayor Ted Wheeler has banned the use of tear gas, by police — this afterc 105 straight days of rioting.
Angry Adolf held his virtual Nuremburg rally last night. At the virtual fundraising event, he chose five questions to answer on how wonderful he is. He also explained that his big new plans will include helping Alberta transition from the fossil fuel industry.
He also explained that his big new plans will include helping Alberta transition from the fossil fuel industry.
So we’re all going to be coders now?
Seriously, he doesn’t give two hoots about Alberta, never did, and never will. It’s a Trudeau tradition.
Adolf’s new Canada. Global News reports that Canada Post had to apologize for issuing a stamp showing the head of Sir John A. Macdonald broken off a statue in Montreal.
“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We’re nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won’t snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others’ throats in a dreadful silence. The infection will spread outward from that point. Old ladies will crack skulls with their deadly handbags. Cars will plunge down the crowded sidewalks. Drivers will be torn out of their cars and stomped. It will spread to all of the huge cities of the world, and by dawn ot the next day there will be a horrid silence of sprawled bodies and tumbled vehicles, gutted buildings and a few wisps of smoke. And through the silence will prowl a few, a very few of the most powerful ones, ragged and bloody, slowly tracking each other down.” – Travis McGee from Nightmare in Pink
This was written way back in 1964.
Hmmmm…..
People on the Left always say that there are too many people for the Earth to sustain. Perhaps this will be a way for Mother Nature to cull the population down.
Further to this, when I first heard this refrain from some nominal friends on the Left, I suggested that they kill their grandchildren, kill their daughter and son-in-law and then kill themselves. It would be a start. I have never heard from them since (18 years ago) and I like it that way.
People on the Left always say that there are too many people for the Earth to sustain.
Correction: there are too many of the wrong people that can be sustained. There will always be space for another lefty elitist or upper class twit. (“Tut, tut. Have these peasants no shame, no sense of decency? Don’t they realize that we can’t abide their smell or their looks, let alone their very existence?”)
People like that tend to be closet racists. If you want to cull the human race you would start with high population areas and work toward low population areas. High population areas don’t include North America so who do you think they want to murder?
Thanks all, for the birthday wishes…!
Cheers
Sun’s almost past the yardarm, Steakman….time to crack one. Beautiful day today, not a cloud in the sky, yet. Get out and enjoy it. We’re south facing, so will catch some rays and watch the walkers. Maybe have a carbonated H2O.
John Ivison at the National Post warns us about Adolf’s new secret carbon tax.
THAILAND destroyed its economy over shockingly low WuFlu case-death stats.
Martin Armstrong minces no words. A striking contrast to Kate’s recent “excellent” linked article of apologetics about a series of unfortunate mistakes and missteps.
I just read the BC Supreme Court Summary of Judgement regarding private clinic surgeries and health care primary regarding the Cambie Clinic in Vancouver. Cambie Clinic was not successful.
Patients who cannot be treated in a timely manner by the “system” suffer harm. The judge stated “I conclude that in these situations denying patients the ability to avoid unreasonable wait times violates their right to security of the person” (paras. 9,10)
But in order to preserve the government’s monopoly and rationing of healthcare funding those who suffer because of the law just need to suck it up and take one for the team.
I’m sure this will be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada but I’m not sure the decision will be different.
https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/20/13/2020BCSC1310.htm
I haven’t read the decision yet. Did the judge have the courage to mention that no other developed country in the world outlaws private health care? I am guessing that he didn’t because then he would have to present arguments as to why Canada’s system is the best in the world because it outlaws private health care (All relevant studies show that Canada’s system, at best, ranks tenth in the world).
The Canadian Constitution Foundation is looking forward to an appeal of this decision:
“The trial decision contains errors in both fact and law, and we look forward to seeing this case appealed,” said CCF Executive Director, Joanna Baron. “We are disappointed in today’s result, which we find completely inconsistent with existing Charter case law and with the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Chaoulli.”
https://theccf.ca/canadian-constitution-foundation-looking-forward-to-appeal-of-trial-decision-in-cambie-litigation/?mc_cid=5698cdb6f7&mc_eid=33230b4491
George Carlin … a man for our time … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo
Blacklock reports that Adolf’s justice minister who has a habit of breaking the law, is seeking legal remedies to regulate unregulated content on the internet. This includes websites.
Here we come, Communist China. That’s what they do in China is it not? Control content. Your basic dictatorship.
Friday nite. It’s time to loosen up SDA’ers.
I spent the day on the river in a kayak. Packed a lunch, a few brewskies and floated along with a buddy. Stopped on an island and had lunch.
A perfect day. Hot – no wind – never saw another person.
Thought of the Dylan tune, ‘Watching the River Flow’ Robbie Robertson on guitar if I remember correctly.
LG.
It’s 28° now in the South did some landscape sculpting, trimmed 2 shrubs and cleared out spent perennials and then quit when it hit 30° –man it’s dry out there. NR
Enjoy!
The Band ~ “Watching The River Flow”
https://youtu.be/YEjo2FDpoH8
The Band & Ronnie Hawkins ~ “Who Do You Love”
https://youtu.be/IYPVyJwzerM
Oh god how I loved the Hawk doin’ Who do you Love when I was a colt – still do. He rocked so hard.
Leon Russell also did a smokin’ version of Watching the River Flow.
NR you were partly right on the river. We floated past the confluence of the Red Deer and the SSK. We were in SK.
Winging it here …new and old stuff…
The Weight | Featuring Ringo Starr and Robbie Robertson
Playing For Change | Song Around The World
https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ
Van Morrison & The Band ~ Caravan Live (1976 – The Last Waltz)
https://youtu.be/vJXVD-nSSKE
LG – making a big salad with cold chicken!
What river? Sounds idyllic.
Alberta is a beautiful province LL
My guess is our friend was on the Red Deer River.
Check out these great photos of the area:
https://hikebiketravel.com/a-weekend-canoe-trip-on-the-red-deer-river/
South Saskatchewan.
We saw lots of cows with their calves standing in the river up to their bellies.
The sky was blue and the water was too.
what about the octopus!?
Alien dna!?
The commies’ are not going to like this!?