59 Replies to “November 10, 2020 – Reader Tips”

      1. Wasn’t there a rumour circulating about Samantha Fox coming out as a lesbian?

          1. I’ve seen a number of “yes, she is–no, she isn’t” stories in the some 20 years since it first surfaced.

    1. Would not surprise me if some of those pics were photoshopped. They are somewhat selective if nothing else. Just another attempt to push the narrative. And how about those Antifa attacking Dem headquarters in Portland. What no pics?
      I believe Trump supporters are heading to Washington for Saturday.

  1. Proud Mary was one of those songs that just about every wall-of-sound bar band had in its playlist. Similarly, it was on the turntable at nearly every kegger I attended during my undergrad days.

    By the way, bass player Stu Cook was apparently a radio amateur at one time, though I’m not sure what his callsign was.

  2. And, for some humour, how about Up Pompeii:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4Y5QlidVCjWOEo0V7ZuHQ/videos

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW7OCa-5etw

    I never saw the series before, though I heard about it. (The movie adaptation was awful.) I remember seeing it listed in CBXT’s, Edmonton’s CBC TV outlet, schedule, but it was run after the late evening news. I guess it was considered to be too risqué to be shown earlier.

    If you watch all the episodes, you’ll see some future cast members of Are You Being Served? making brief appearances, including Wendy Richard (Miss Brahms) and Mollie Sugden (Mrs. Slocombe).

    1. Copied “Up Pompeii” – looks like fun.
      I’m delighted, many thanks BA that’s terrific.

        1. B– I’ve enthusiastically copied this as well as I haven’t seen any of these either.

          I shall find the joy of ‘Being’ with this comedy therapy, considering the state of current affairs, one needs a means of escape occasionally. Much gratitude for this kind gesture on your part!

          1. I’ve long liked the British style of comedy, which ranged from the daft and absurd (The Goon Show, It’s A Square World, I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again, and, of course, Monty Python) to the cheeky (e. g., the Carry On movies).

            The best that was available in North America while shows like Up Pompeii were on would be stuff like Wayne & Schuster (limp at best) and Laugh-In (sometimes funny at the time, but quickly became dated).

  3. That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
    The Dominion Voting Machines in Georgia had a software update the night before the election which halted voting.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/georgia-election-official-machine-glitch-caused-by-last-minute-vendor-upload/ar-BB1aGQY4

    Dominion is Canadian company which has links to the Clinton Foundation.
    https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/commitments/delian-project-democracy-through-technology

    1. Don’t forget that nobody will miss Trump more than Erin O’Toole.

      The Canadian Media is about to rediscover Canadian politics.

      Along with the scary, racist, right wing, warmongering,extremist new Conservative Leader.

      Fake News at 11:00.

    2. It’s my understanding that the Dem speaker of the house Pelosi, has some connections as well to Dominion: Her Long time serving chief of staff is an Executive of the company and registered lobbyist and her husband has significant holdings of said company,

      No conflict there of course…

      I also understand these voting machines were used in the last couple of Canadian elections as well. What’s the Chance that they were tampered with here hmmm..??
      Given: A There are deep ties between the Dems/Clintons and our Libs. B: Our Civil Service is near 100% loyal Liberals, I’m thinking anything less than 100% is BS…??

    1. China is rightly peeved to find out that Big Guy Joe was skimming yet another 10% off the top.
      Honor among thieves and all that.

    1. Philanthropist, that’s a powerful and accurate description of Canadians: children of government.

      It neatly explains the 100s of blanks I’ve drawn from interlocutors after expressions of a desire for smaller gubmint. It also seems to explain the general lack of anger and push back after all these phony false positive WuFlu tests. And why people in BC call our chief medical officer BONNIE (and not Dr. Henry), who I just learned is from New Brunswick.

      It’s a mommy thing what?

      1. To be expected in a country that allows local school boards to describe themselves as co-parents and institute policies accordingly, be damned the parent’s wishes. Even in so called Conservative held provinces this is given no push back, just the government taking care of it’s children….correction, future sources of income. If people can’t bring themselves to put a stop to things like that there is not much chance of ever going back.

    1. Thomas Sowell
      @ThomasSowell
      One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason.

      Liberals, teenagers and wives have depended on a collective “whatever” for eons.

  4. According to the bought and paid for media, its a tossup between Terry Fox and Pierre Trudeau on who will be on the new five dollar bill.

      1. It’ll be a plastic bill, so it won’t take no snit off of anyone.

        If it is Trudeau, should they print it on teflon?

        1. Will the scene on the back show Craig Oliver(representing the entire Canadian Media) kissing Trudeau’s ring or his ass?

    1. If they put Pierre on the five dollar bill, Justin will have to hire thousands to try and clean the ink off bills that are marked up.

      A Stalin Stache…
      A set of devil horns…
      A full Castro beard…

      Some of the many possibilities.

    2. If you put PET on the $5 bill it will instantly devalue to a since discontinued $2 bill or perhaps a loonie.

  5. United American Wokestan will have to wait a while yet…

    Beyond Meat (BYND-Nasdaq) shares lost 20% after swinging into an unexpected loss in its third quarter. I guess all the new grocery shoppers had a taste and said “no thanks.”
    “…missed analysts’ estimates for both earnings per share (500% lower) and revenue (60% lower)…CEO Ethan Brown said that consumers aren’t stockpiling Beyond’s meatless products like they were at the beginning of the pandemic.”
    https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/09/beyond-meat-has-a-mcfaceplant/

    Coincidentally (or not), petroleum-related stocks rose…
    Occidental Petroleum (OXY-NYSE, up 27%), Centennial Resource Development (CDEV-Nasdaq, up 21%), and oilfield services company Core Laboratories (CLB-NYSE, up 21%)

  6. True North reports on how Blackie’s CBC is lecturing us that pronouns matter. We should all follow President Harris’s example and use she/her/it on twitter.

  7. Our problems are solved! The federal NDP leader will be holding a virtual meeting today with muslim and other groups, to fight white supremacy.

  8. Jimmy Dore is demolishing Steven Colbert

    `Colbert WEEPS Over Trump’s Press Conference!`
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHc1pJ7MBM

    Dore is somewhat of an asshole. He does not know what he wants and mostly does not know what he is talking about, while he will completely surprise hisself and will accidently tough rarely talk the truth from time to time.
    Here he is completely demolishing Colbert, without mercy, though he complains and damns just about everybody.
    He keeps saying that Trump took health care from everybody.
    Anyway this is an example how they eat their own.

  9. Benford’s law is a statistical analysis that many have been using to debunk a bunch of the late votes. I’m no statistician but I find it fascinating how much the Wiki article on this analysis tool has been edited in the last three days.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benford%27s_law&action=history

    Of course the page has way more traffic now so maybe the attention is warranted. I’m sure there is a statistical tool to explain that as well.

  10. Hysterical lies by Environment Canada
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/snow-vancouver-warning-1.5796486

    I live here and it was actually a rather nice day yesterday after the fake severe warning for Monday evening snow. I was out Monday night and, yes, a few drops of rain, as it is November, but that was it. For sure, we can expect EC to tally the number of weather warning events (that did not happen) to prove that the crazy kid in Sweden is right: our climate is in the toilet! TAX IT ALL!

    I actually like weather forecasts, as I can plan around them, but the severe alerts from Ottawa are now severely laughable.

    1. During my year at UBC, it snowed once during the winter. It was wet, making it hard to drive. It was amusing to see how Lotusland panicked about the 1 cm or so that fell.

      I simply put the snow tires on my car and drove as if nothing had happened. Having grown up in the Peace River block, I was used to that sort of weather.

      1. exactly, I did the same from Ontario/Alberta, but now we have these insane severe weather warning for light snow!

      2. After we moved to Victoria we soon learned that the one annual snowfall would turn the roads into one big pinball arcade.

        At that time about half of everyone in Victoria had retired there from the prairies.
        It was as if they got their winter driving skills extracted when they drove off the ferry.

      3. We were there four years while spouse went to UBC. Since we headed back into the interior for Christmas, we had snow tires put on at the beginning of every winter. This proved to be valuable as spouse had no problems driving to UBC no matter the weather.

        Do remember one particular winter when roads on North/West Vancouver were blocked by vehicles who had spun out. One night, the councils of those two entities decided – in concert – that the owner of any vehicle who got stuck and was found to NOT having proper winter tires would be seriously fined. The next day, the roads were clear, with no one stuck.

        That being said, winter strikes Vancouver more than its denizens like to admit. Do remember a time in the mid ’60s when the temperature was down to about +6 in Fahrenheit which translates to about -14 Celsius. Given the moisture in the air, it was bloody cold. And the winter of 1968 – 69 was vicious as well. Mum flew down to help her sister care for their dying mother and recalled walking through very high snow piles as she went to their home. Vancouver gets more snow than it admits.

  11. BTW, for all of you folks on this amazing site that complain about captcha etc. I love this site and visit it daily for news that one never finds, the quips by the owner and other amazing content by friends,
    I have some advice:
    Edit your stuff and use real words or put them in quotes.

    I get through Cap 100% of the time these days and do not have to find stoplights. The software apparently trusts my communication, as it is clear and to the point.

  12. “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it is “unacceptable” that Toronto MP Yasmin Ratansi hired her sister to work in her constituency office, a job paid for with taxpayer dollars and over which she resigned from the Liberal caucus on Monday night.”

    Now if she wanted to hire her mother or brothers, then it’s no problem, but not her sister.

    Like WE BS, there is a law against that too. Meanwhile Trudeau phones Biden to congratulate him for not winning yet.

    https://globalnews.ca/news/7453810/yasmin-ratansi-hiring-sister-liberal-ethics/

    1. Thanks.

      Many years ago, when we could still get the Red Deer’s CKRD on cable here in Edmonton, it ran a number of the Carry On flicks as late night movies. There were some classics in that lot, including Carry On Cleo, Carry On Cowboy, and, my favourite, Carry On Up the Khyber.

      Aside from regulars like Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, and Barbara Windsor, a few other actors, perhaps better known for their other work, appeared in them as well. There was Frank Thornton (Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served?), Frankie Howerd (the aforementioned Up Pompeii), and Jon Pertwee (the third Doctor Who).

      They weren’t Shakespeare, but who cared? They were cheeky and a lot of fun, well before political correctness and “feelings” killed everything. They definitely don’t make ’em like they used to.

  13. I see the mentally ill Whoopee Goldberg told her audience on the view that republicans should just suck it up and accept the loss. I wonder if she means the same way the democrat’s accepted the 2016 loss.

  14. L – Oops, I’m past my “best before” date. However, doubt my customers would appreciate my “shuffling off this mortal coil” as my late and much-revered aunt was wont to say. They’re much more of the “okay, retire, but just keep ME on” variety.

    On the other hand, offsprings were with us when Great-aunt and Grannie died at ages 92 and 99 respectively. While acknowledging the issues with supporting these ladies through their final years, they feel their lives were enriched by knowing them and walking with them through their final years.

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