27 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Re: Trudeau outburst in Parliament.
    Do remember that poor Justin has been under a lot of pressure from Alberta lately. Under continuous pressure, and upon entering a pack of angry NDP and Conservatives in the house, Trudeau may have visualized a group of oilfield workers. ”I’m sorry for elbowing your breasts Madame Brosseau, but I could have sworn they looked and felt like the brass buttons on Carhartt overalls.” And do remember that old Margaret did some pretty weird stuff under stress.
    Four women were playing cards and sipping tea one afternoon. One of them, Margaret, was sulking. ”What is it Marge, you look upset?” asked one of the women.
    ”I’m sick and tired of hearing that you three are going around telling everyone in Ottawa that Pierre has a wart on the end of his penis” said Marge.
    The three women became royally agitated.
    ”We never said such a thing, ever” said the elderly lady.
    ”Well! Then exactly what is it that you said?” asked Marge.
    The elderly lady thought for a moment. ”All we ever said is that if FELT like a wart.”

  2. Blame it on climate change. Why not? Everything else seems to be.

  4. Re: Crown Vic
    Twas a sad day when the last Crown Vic rolled off the assembly line at St. Thomas Ontario on Sept. 15, 2011. There are more than one videos on the car. Sadly, it ended up in Saudi Arabia, a testimony that the car had a good reputation all over the world. I sold Fords for many years, to subsidize my farm and my expensive habits. The Crown Vic was a signature car.
    https://youtu.be/ys5J-IUar_U
    Twas an even sadder moment for the factory.
    https://youtu.be/b8pioQiKK90

  5. One thing I learned is that if an investment prospect seems too good to be true, it probably is.

  6. Holy Mackerel! The Pope…
    “In a shocking interview, Pope Francis likened Jesus Christ to ISIS and said Muslim migrants must breed with Europeans to counter ‘declining birth rates.’
    ‘Today, I don’t think that there is a fear of Islam as such but of ISIS and its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam,’ he told French newspaper La Croix. ‘It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam, however, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.’
    The Pope also said he ‘dreaded’ hearing about the ‘Christian roots of Europe’ because, to him, they take on ‘colonialist overtones’ and he called on European nations to ‘integrate’ Muslim migrants into the continent.”
    http://www.infowars.com/pope-francis-likens-jesus-to-isis-says-muslims-migrants-must-breed-with-europeans/

  7. They’re all I drive, either the Grand Marquis or the CV(PI). I love the 4.6L engine, the low end torque and the “goes like a frightened deer” acceleration. Throw in the six body trunk and I’m in love.
    The fact that everyone ahead of you sees the headlights in the rearview mirror and immediately slows down is just cheap fun.

  8. Loved mine .except on ice.the big plant in front made spinning the rear tires too easy. Rode like a cloud and could corner great on dry pavement.
    Gradually everything broke that was fancy.autoset air. Outside thermometer. Auto seat settings. Auto light dimmers. And everything was a grand

  9. I think the Europeans are quite capable of having babies should they choose to do so without the help of the Muslim migrants. Europe men should be outraged.

  10. Bully Boy Trudeau surely can’t be let off the hook for losing his temper and getting physical, manhandling an MP and “accidentally” elbowing a female MP in the boobs. Is he going to be the House bouncer and manhandle MP’s?

  11. Oh give him a break, Liz, he’s just frustrated with democracy. That’s why he wants to change the voting system to create a perpetual Liberal party government.

  12. Well he bested his father on the “fuddle duddle”. It’s being reported he did actually say “get the f%#@ out of my way” as he was storming towards the MP he decided to man handle to his seat. The members in opposition better stay clear of his elbows, it appears they go up when he’s riled.
    If it wasn’t so serious it could be a comedy skit.

  13. WOW!! So many things I COULD say…. but really, why isn’t this bigger news? The “invention” is apparently a HUGE fraud. It’s like saying Bone’s tricorder really didn’t work (“He’s dead Jim. No, wait, I just saw him move.”)

  14. The growth of bureaucracies never stops. Wonder how much will be left in the CPP fund when our kids retire. Of course they will have the Ontario Pension Plan which will save them…..yeah right.
    Dave
    The results of this experiment are clear, at least to anyone who wades through the board’s opaque, ever-lengthening annual reports. The number of employees, from just five at the fund’s inception in 1999, has grown to roughly 1,200. Where total compensation for the CPPIB’s founding president, John McNaughton, was limited to just over $300,000, Wiseman pulled in 12 times as much last year. Indeed, the fund’s top five executives received an average of more than $3.4 million apiece.
    Overall, operating costs have risen from $3 million in 2000 to $54 million in 2006 to $803 million in 2015. The growth in external management fees has been even more explosive: from $36 million in 2006 to $1.25 billion in 2015. Throw in commissions and transactions, and total costs added up to more than $2.3 billion in 2015. It would not be surprising to find they exceeded $3 billion in the year just ended, or roughly one per cent of the fund’s assets. By comparison, the management expense ratio on a large, passively-managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) can be less than 0.1 per cent.
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/andrew-coyne-cpp-board-cant-escape-blame-for-its-bloated-state

  15. Liberal Justine twitterrs apologyias:
    Moi am not now a Bully; nor, have Moi ever been a Bully.
    …-
    “Justin Trudeau apologizes for racist 1914 Komogata Maru immigration incident in Vancouver” (NP)
    …-
    “Margaret Trudeau: ‘Someone is Bullying my Justin and That Makes Me Mad'” (dailybeast)
    …-
    “Canada PM Justin Trudeau: I’m sorry for manhandling parliament members”
    “Trudeau, impatient to get the vote started, is seen on video striding over to Opposition whip Gordon Brown. He grabs Brown’s arm to direct him to his seat. New Democrat Party (NDP) Parliament member Ruth Ellen Brosseau gets elbowed by Trudeau in the process.”
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/asia/canada-trudeau-apology/index.html

  17. The Vatican is going to have to intervene, unless all the cardinals are thinking like him. This pope is coo-coo. He is eroding the catholic faith as energetically as Obama has watered down American exceptionalism.

  18. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Current Solar Cycle Now 3rd Weakest Ever Observed – Least Active Since Dalton Minimum 200 Years Ago!”
    “The Sun in April 2016”
    “The sun in April also was quiet in what has been so far a relatively calm solar cycle (SC). The sunspot number (SSN) was 38.0, which is 50% of what is typically normal for month no. 89 into a solar cycle. The impressive drop in activity is seen clearly in the following chart: …”
    http://notrickszone.com/2016/05/19/current-solar-cycle-now-3rd-weakest-ever-observed-least-active-since-dalton-minimum-200-years-ago/#sthash.WWeGhwdd.dpbs

  19. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/neb-trans-mountain-kinder-morgan-1.3589029
    Huge announcement coming 5 pm eastern today.
    Check out those against this expansion because “it provides no benefits to British Columbia/Vancouver.”
    That’s the narrative/meme. Albertans better wake the FU! We are already getting hit hard by nature and now these paid obstructionists/extorters are moving in for the kill shot.
    If the NEB approves the pipeline they (the obstructionists) will claim that there is malfeasance or political cow towing from the Harper approved Board or that the rules/regulations that KM has met have been watered down by the previous Harper government’s ‘attack’ on the environmental rules/regs.
    I expect the feds to come out and say that the approved pipeline doesn’t meet the ‘current’ government’s expectations and will require further review to ensure items like indigenous people’s social justice issues (they just ratified the UN Indigenous People’s Declaration yet no one knows what those implications will mean or the means test in a supreme court of law precedent), GHG emissions rules and regs, strengthened environmental laws and regs and whatever it takes to drag this out into the next election cycle 3 1/2 years from now.
    Kinder Morgan have already been going thru this current approval process for 3 years, add another 3 and 1/2 and it is death by delay of process. Eventually they move on, it’s a feature not a bug.
    The flip side of the NEB approving is dis-approving the pipeline. I can foresee the circumstance whereby a member/members of the board itself start to see self preservation take ahold of their inner conscious. Remember how the Liberals (and Media) insisted the Harper appointees to various boards all resign after the Liberals won the election, since they were Harper political appointments? That’s a pretty strong signaling technique right there. Harper did the same thing, probably not as fast as most here would of liked (CBC still around and about to get even stronger than before). Pipeline gets denied, Liberals claim higher ground on environmental concerns and social justice issues, seek to ‘study’ whether such projects are in best interest of nation. Death by delay. What’s another 3 years KM?
    The Retardo

  20. Also from the National Post article:
    http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/andrew-coyne-cpp-board-cant-escape-blame-for-its-bloated-state
    “Throw in commissions and transactions, and total costs added up to more than $2.3 billion in 2015.”
    “The CPP has the same guaranteed inflow of funds from CPP levies, in excess of $4.5 billion annually, whatever its performance.”
    Expenses of the CPP Investment Board total $2.3 billion, about half of CPP levies, and rising. If that isn’t a recommendation for privatization, nothing is.

  21. Justin the bully wasn’t wasn’t in the House today, any chance he went for anger management?

  23. Socialism: the religion of the stomach.
    “They doused Bernal’s head and chest in gasoline and flicked a lighter. And they stood back as he burned alive.”
    “next to a supermarket”.
    …-
    “Venezuela Prepares for Biggest Military Exercise in History” (bloomberg)
    “‘We want food!’: Venezuela crisis deepens” (digitaljournal)
    …-
    “Man burned alive over $5 theft as vigilante justice takes brutal hold in despair-ridden Venezuela”
    “CARACAS, Venezuela — The mob didn’t know at first what Roberto Bernal had done, but he was running and that was enough.
    Dozens of men loitering on the sidewalk next to a supermarket kicked and punched the 42-year-old until he was bloodied and semi-conscious. After all, they had been robbed of cell phones, wallets and motorcycles over the years, and thought Bernal had a criminal’s face.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/man-burned-alive-over-5-theft-as-vigilante-justice-takes-hold-in-despair-ridden-venezuela

  24. Mohammed loves Paree.
    …-
    “Did brief Paris stopover prove fatal for passengers and crew who flew on EgyptAir MS804?” (telegraph)
    “French intelligence warned of ISIS attacks before missing EgyptAir …
    The head of France’s internal intelligence agency had warned the country was being ‘clearly targeted’ by ISIS a week before the Paris to Cairo flight took off.” (dailymail)
    “Wreckage found near Greek island ‘did not come from plane'” (telegraph)
    …-
    “EgyptAir crash: Plane still missing after debris in Mediterranean deemed unrelated”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/19/egyptair-flight-from-paris-to-cairo-disappears-from-radar/

  25. I think he is having a melt down. He is not qualified to be PM and he knows it. I do not think he is a strong personality. I also think he needs constant admiration and will not perform well under criticism. I predict a stress leave at some point, likely before 2 years are up.

  26. I suspect that JT’s past week wasn’t much fun after his wife got a resounding public smack-down for her desire to have a staff like Michelle-O. No wonder he was grouchy.
    In any case JT literally ‘crossed-the-line’ with this stunt. He had no business leaving his seat, and should have addressed his concerns to the Speaker.

  27. No, certainly don’t try this at home — unless, of course, your home happens to be in Moab, Utah.
    In that case, fill your boots.

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