85 Replies to “October 19, 2020: Reader Tips”

        1. I would show you a picture of a black hole, but afraid that you may get sucked in, so I won’t.

    1. It’s even more amazing when you realize the red spot can fit two planet earths within its diameter.

    2. Some of the solar system photos and Mars rover compositions are difficult to mentally conceptualize. The beauty is obvious, the reality is overwhelming.

  1. Yesterday (2020-10-18) would have been PET’s 101st birthday. I guess that explains why the weather here in Edmonton was lousy.

      1. And we’re still praying for his debt.

        Praying that it’ll finally go away. Meanwhile, that smeghead son of his is adding to it. The Trudeau legacy lives on in more ways than one.

          1. You are misunderstanding high finance. Sure theres a defecit but we will make it up by mass production.

    1. While at Armpit College, I showed up at a lecture one day with a slide rule. Sure enough, nobody knew what it was, let alone what it was used for.

      1. Back in the day, took a course in ?crystallography where we took the central slide of the slide rule, inserted it upside down, and were thereby able to figure out some relationships. Still wonder who discovered this particular quirk in the slide rule.

        1. It depends on the type of slide rule and it could be that it was designed that way. On my main one, there are scales on both sides, so I can work with trigonometric as well as exponential functions.

    1. Anyone who has to use more than four words to define what they are or are not is mentally ill. Born male, born female.

  2. “With Covid-19 Under Control, China’s Economy Surges Ahead,” gushes the Grey Lady, long an admirer of fascism with Oriental characteristics, a fortnight before the US election.

    https://nyti.ms/2T8bkMG

    “China’s model for restoring growth may be effective, but may not be appealing to other countries [read: any country where people still rule themselves].

    “Determined to keep local transmission of the virus at or near zero, China has resorted to comprehensive cellphone tracking of its population, weekslong lockdowns of neighborhoods and cities and costly mass testing in response to even the smallest outbreaks.”

    1. If you believe any of that I have some cheap beachfront in Florida I would like to get rid of.

    2. I say if China has the virus under control, that’s good news. Actually, most places do, but continue pushing the phony narrative because of the flawed PCR tests. Most of these people are not getting sick, and some have such a trace bit of the virus that it is not transmittable. The test is unable to measure strength of the virus and the test calibration is set too high. The test was not designed for diagnostics. Other places (like Africa and the Dominican Republic) have found effective treatments. Our media seems too dumb to have researched this. An example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011

      1. Ivermectin is the go-to treatment for parasites in the whole world except Canada where its use is limited. Our drug approval authority is run by assholes. I knew someone could got scabies and spent months trying to get rid of it with the useless pyrethrin/permethrin. He then went to the vet and bought enough to treat a litter or two of pigs. It was gone in a week.

    1. Europe used to be the cradle of western civilization. Now it’s the source of bad ideas.

    2. Sure, sure, nice results from polling Communists.

      The next debate between Biden and Trump is next Thursday evening. Joe Biden reminds me of the dead guy in the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s,” actor Terry Kiser.

      Watch “Weekend at Bernie’s” Movie Clip – Man Overboard (1989)
      https://youtu.be/jzzrFFivBKk

  3. Charleston is great, but HOT. We go to Myrtle Beach often and sometimes pop down to Charleston. When we toured the USS Yorktown museum (which is awesome) it was 110F. This was about 5 yrs ago. Walking the town, seeing the southern architecture and hitting the pubs is great fun also. Very nice place.

    1. My kid sister (aged 67) and her husband own a condo along the beach in MB. They rent in during the summer and winter there — and are driving down there about now. My Murrell family originates from the Murrell’s Inlet, SC region (from Brunswick County, NC since the 1800s).

      1. I grew up in Brunswick County, NC, on the northern end up near Wilmington, away from the beaches, but we would still go down to the south end of the county to the beaches down there. I haven’t been to Charleston in years, my brother was stationed there when he was in the Air Force and I would sometimes visit. My nephew still lives there. I imagine it has changed a lot over the years.

    2. Went to Charleston back in 2002 while on Course with ESAB in N. Carolina…
      Gorgeous town. And loved seeing some of the old plantation estate homes in the Area.

      Very kool.

  4. “Censor ship is to society what cancer is to the body.” – Brian @ HIGH IMPACT TV

    Several weeks ago, I got up early and happened to look out the window of my kitchen door.
    I suddenly realized that 2 deer about 15-20 ft from the door were watching me (a small side benefit of losing my guard dog several months ago).
    I backed up and got my camera and took some pics of them at about 30 ft away now.

    Sent the pics to my Sis’s grand daughter at 9am. Phoned my Sis and told her what I did.
    She said GD would be over later that day to visit her.
    At 4pm, my Sis called and asked if I had sent the pics. Yes I did.
    GD did not get them.
    So I talked to the GD and while we were checking where they could have gone, she suddenly said they were down loading on her phone AS WE WERE TALKING.
    So it took over 6 hrs for my innocuous personal electronic message to go 90 miles to the big ciddy.
    Can you say BS?
    Some effing Ottawa teeny bopper govt guard dogs are filtering my emails, looking for things they will never find from me.
    In fact, this prompted me to ask other people if they had gotten some pics I had sent them and they did not.

    You know, maybe I should tell people about my phone line being spliced for no good reason.
    Or about the drug addict that was pumping me about western Canada politics.
    Or about the continuous string of “can’t find google” or the ‘can’t find ‘smalldeadanimals’ messages. Now that was a laugh.

    Hay, how much trouble can a simple dirt scratcher get into when they never leave the old farm?
    Just how paranoid are those Libcomm fascist wackos in Ottawa?

    1. Not Gov’t, BIG TECH.

      Caught this on my phone recently. Android is now using Microsoft/Google Cloud to send pictures. Very slow and ineffective.

    2. rockyt, every key stroke by everybody is captured. I am surprise that I have not been picked up by the gestapo. I have been blocked and censored many times for comments that do not “fit the narrative’.

    3. Simpler answer. If your family member is using a cheaper carrier they will wait to accept messages until it can be sent during a lower traffic time. I was on Telus for a short time and I would get all my texts in a bundle at 2-3am. MTS was the only local carrier so they got the only time MTS would give them for delivery or the cheapest time. Needless to say I am no longer on telus.

  5. When the world is being run by total incompetents like the UN and have devout followers like the PM of Canada who thinks he can buy peoples love with munney, it won’t be long before the pitch forks and tar and feathers will be coming after these idiot politicians.
    Case in point.

    https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/10/14/un-report-should-be-withdrawn-bjorn-lomborg-rips-new-un-climate-emergency-report-it-is-incompetent-wrong-on-all-major-accounts-bad-analysis/

    Politicians have to be masochists to use carbon taxes to penalize people for living in a cold country.
    Enjoy.

    1. – or greedy. Five-cents-each from us is several-thousand-dollars to each of them – and best of all from their viewpoint, they can do it as often as they want!

    2. Sine they are doing it to us I will correct your usage to “politicians are sadists”

    1. BADR:

      That PJW clip is outstanding. He personally makes no appearance, gives us a 10 minute collage of ACTUAL scenes in our Covid loony bin world. The students dancing (at a prom I presume) is especially chilling.

      1. Unfortunately, that could be a documentary about Canada.

        I remember when newspapers protested the imposition of the War Measures Act across the entire country 50 years ago. Nowadays, if that xim/xer/xit Tamiflu was to tell us to lick you-know-what off the sidewalk, people could willingly get on their hands and knees and would proudly display their sore tongues. Anybody not complying would be either fined, arrested, or, better yet, sent to the yet-unbuilt “internment” camps.

    1. You got it. $10k in a few minutes, that’s irresistible to the cops’ superiors, because it’s irresistible to the city that pays their salaries. They’re ordered to go out and do this – Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin write about this sort of thing all the time – and for awhile, one east-coast US city didn’t have any cops, the city ordered them to hand-out 75 infractions a month each so they all quit.

    2. In a society that refuses to acknowledge that a flu virus cannot be stopped by masks and staying 6 feet from each other does not deserve to survive.

      1. The worst thing is that people rely on masks and 6 foot distancing when neither one is at all reliable. Masks are likely the reason the WooHoo flu is getting out of control. A great incubator plus people charge into crowds thinking they are safe when they are nothing of the sort.

    3. This one was obviously targeted and planned. Time for some court cases challenging the legitimacy of social distancing requirements.

    4. I first saw this article on Mtl TV, Rabbi Daniel Sabbah will contest this fine in court. Nothing said about the other 5 people.

      Hampstead is an Anglo area of Mtl, west of Westmount where there are more Synagogues than anywhere else in the City. The Law never seems to catch up with the less affluent East-End Franco side of Mtl. Funny that.

  6. Toronto Sun reports that gangs used CERB to buy guns. That is so “progressive”, the Liberals want to take guns away from law abiding citizens and buy guns for criminals. Meanwhile the bought and paid for media is excited that China’s economy is roaring along after destroying Western economies with its bio-weapon virus.

    1. John, criminals use any form of social welfare money as a financial base, to guarantee them a stable income whereby they can undertake their criminal activities. The is why the proposed guaranteed annual income is so scary, on top of other reasons.

  7. https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/10/james-burnham-in-australia/
    Here is a lawyers perspective in the comments on increased legislative laws over the decades that makes everything you do illegal without having some sort of diplomatic exemption to the massive laws imposed.
     I have a different view of the phenomenons cause. My views are those of the unread didact. As a lawyer I noticed at the beginning of my career that legislation passed by the Queensland state parliament consisted of one volume per year of between say 100 pages (1975) to 350 pages (1982). By the time I left the law in 2010 primary legislation was in excess of 2000 pages per year and usually required 3 to 5 volumes. Legislation is law. The government was making new law constantly, and I assume still is. Last year the Queensland parliament passed 38 Acts (primary legislation),
    and 270 subordinate pieces of legislation (regulations). Most of the Acts would exceed a hundred pages in length, and some of the regulations even more. I guess the total would be between 5 and 15 thousand pages per year. In the same year the Federal government passed 1713 legislative instruments including 129 Acts. Lets be kind and assume the total Federal legislation in length is the same as Queensland and you have between 10 and 30 thousand pages of legislation being created in a single year affecting you. Much of the legislation is narrow or esoteric stuff, for instance Act 9 of 2019 (Cwth.) was a Northern Territory Land Rights amendment act of only a few sections redefining certain terms. But buried in that mountain of legislation are laws which affect all of us in different ways. Those laws constrain what the individual can do, and their enforcement is handed over to the public sector, which is thereby empowered and enlarged. Yet Queensland today is little different than it was in 1975. Industry is the same, the internet is new, but not much else in a physical sense has changed. So why the need to make 10 to 20 times the law? A few things have influenced it. The first initially was Labor gaining government after being in the political wilderness, and wanting to put its imprint on the statute law. The second has been the explosive growth of the public service, with little else to do but draft more law. The third in my view has been a fearful public who have no extended family or childhood friends living nearby. In other words their only sense of safety comes from the government. For sake of comparison the UK government last year passed only 31 Acts of Parliament, and this from a nuclear armed permanent member of the UN, with an economy more than three times our size and going through a generational change in its society and economy. Believe me when I say Australia has a problem with governance.

    1. …and the many statutes and laws, whether they are environmental or what have you, have 1 purpose.
      They are put in place to circumscribe and limit the authority you once had over your own affairs.

  8. So while Angry Adolf still hasn’t given the provinces money for nursing homes, Blacklock reports that almost half a billion dollars was given to Ukraine with no plans to make sure the money was spent wisely. However they did hire a gender equity advisor for the embassy there.

  9. The Liberal Party’s CBC has Big Chief Pam of the famous Ryerson University Tribe on this morning. She explained that white lobster fishermen are not only racist bastards, but terrorists as well. In fact all Canadians are racist bastards.

  10. Today I learned that there are actual Dodgers fans. Also, today I learned that they are playing baseball. Who knew?

    Is baseball just another zombie sport, one more woke awaking away from absolute irrelevance?

    1. All ‘Big League”s ports have gone down the zombie hole. NFL, CFL, NBA, MLB, NHL. All went woke and they are dying.

      Whereas pro golf, which has largely avoided wokeness, has had a bump in viewership. Tour de France, which caved a bit to wokeness but not bad, also had a 10% spike in viewership. And pro wrestling, which mocks wokeness has ratings through the roof!

      1. “NFL, CFL, NBA, MLB, NHL. All went woke and they are dying.”

        The Edmonton Eunuchs went woke despite 78% of Eskimos in the Western Arctic being proud of the name.

  11. Check out “American Thinker” today, October 19. Several articles about what may be on Hunter Biden’s computer. Unspeakable. And deserving of a life sentence. As a minimum.

    If this is true, Biden is finished.

  12. True North reports that Blackie’s favourite country China, is arresting people who publish or distribute Christian material. Meanwhile on CP24 Mayor John Muhammad Tory of diverse Toronto, got upset that people think Thanksgiving is a religious holiday.

  13. Guy aul Morin was wrongfully convicted and spent may years in jail. He was eventually released and given 1.25 million in compensation.

    Compare that to Omar Khadr who killed an American soldier and was compensated 10 million for his troubles, and yet Canadians still support the liberal party.

    1. Black Monday 1987 happened at an interesting time for me. I became an investor for the first time the year before and I didn’t know a whole lot about the market. Considering what happened that day and how fast it occurred, I knew there was little I could do about it, so I simply held my nose, so to speak, and rode out the storm.

      Most of the stocks in my portfolio recovered. Two of them became attractive takeover targets and I made some nice profits from those deals.

      That day taught me that buying on margin wasn’t advisable. It was a good thing that I always paid the full amount for my stocks. I also learned that one needs to be patient if one wants to properly make money.

      1. I remember coming into work that day and telling my colleagues, “Wow, thank God I was already broke or I’d be wiped out now!”

  14. No wonder that CNN supports the pervert Dementia Joe. National Post reports on how CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin exposed his penis on Zoom. Meanwhile Blackie has no comment on China demanding this morning, that the government apologize for letting his media say negative things about China.

  15. Oh Noooo! Say it isn’t true Joe. Breitbart reports that the co-chair of Biden’s transition team had set up a meeting in the Obama White House between Chinese commie businessmen and Joe on Hunter’s orders. I bet the FBI will look into Biden’s campaign team just like they did Trump’s campaign team.

  16. Well I guess that settles that:

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-director-of-national-intelligence-confirms-hunter-biden-laptop-not-part-of-some-russian-disinformation-campaign

    “We have passed no such intelligence to Adam Schiff because we have no such intelligence.”

    and “Hunter Biden is a US Person” who would be investigated by the FBI, not the intelligence community.

    https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1318169741131993088

    So you have the word of the current DNI against some anonymous “*former* officials familiar with the matter.”

    1. So, we’ve been snowed about Soapie!
      She’s a singing-swinging swagster!
      Say it isn’t so!

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