21 Replies to “April 1, 2018: Reader Tips”

  1. Ah, yes, the spaghetti harvest–a comedy classic if there ever was one.

    1. It’s the 30th anniversary of one of the best April Fool’s pranks that I ever heard.

      I used to be a shortwave listener back then and one of the stations I liked to tune into was the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS). Much of its programming back then consisted of shows and newsfeeds from domestic American radio networks, one of which was National Public Radio.

      NPR had a weekday show called All Things Considered, which was similar to the CBC’s As It Happens. The lead item on its April 1, 1988 broadcast was that Canadian businessman Robert Campeau bought the state of Arizona.

      The reporter mentioned that there were several advantages to that acquisition. Not only did it extend Canada’s growing season, it also raised its average temperature. The entire presentation was completely dead-pan and I’m sure that a lot of listeners were taken in by it.

      I thought it to be quite hilarious. It was obviously a send-up of an actual business acquisition made by Campeau a few days earlier when he bought the American-based Federated Department Store chain.

  4. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may have a boring name, but it has a very important job: It measures U.S. temperatures. Unfortunately, it seems to be a captive of the global warming religion. Its data are fraudulent.

    Far from legitimately “adjusting” anything, it appears they are cooking the data to show a politically correct trend toward global warming. Not by coincidence, that has been part and parcel of the government’s underlying policies for the better part of two decades.

    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-stunning-statistical-fraud-behind-the-global-warming-scare/

    1. Many of the government agencies involved in that farce might be going along with it simply because their funding depends upon it. No bucks, no Buck Rogers, as the saying goes.

      On the other hand, much of that sort of thing could be due to back-room jockeying. For example, one of NASA’s white elephants, the Space Launch System (which has been years in development and won’t fly for the first time, by some estimates, until well into the next decade), has been firmly planted in Alabama. That is courtesy of Senator Richard Shelby. By ensuring jobs in his state, he gets himself re-elected. But, I’m sure, that he might have arranged a few political deals with certain people to make sure that the SLS maintains its government funding in the first place.

      It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if something similar could be said about NOAA.

  9. I too like the software update. I noticed, however, that the Lindsay Shepherd video from yesterday is missing. It was an interesting video and generated some good comments. I wanted to go back to them.
    Thank you, Kate, for all your good work! Increasingly, SDA is one of the few places where a conservative can feel at home. I seem to have managed to get myself banned from a couple of sites for non-PC comments (actually, I am pretty sure my comments were misinterpreted by some of the Neanderthals that serve as moderators) as well as having comments regularly deleted, which is of course frustrating if you were trying to have a reasonable conversation.

  10. …-
    “Corbyn’s anti-Semitism crisis proves one thing: The old Stalinist gang is back in charge of Labour” (telegraphuk)

    …-

    “The shame of antisemitism on the left has a long, malign history
    The origins of today’s crisis in Labour date back to the 19th century, and ever since Jews have been seen as a problem by a strain of socialist thought”

    “When the Soviet Union was finally forced to fight the Nazis, the suffering of Jews was deliberately and repeatedly downplayed. But after the war, things got much worse. The Soviet Union not only suppressed knowledge of what had been done to Jews but launched its own vicious antisemitic project, one that would have culminated in another genocide had Stalin not died.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/01/shame-of-anitsemitism-on-left-has-long-malign-history

  11. AGW Kills.

    “The bolts, made by German supplier Bosch, can begin to corrode after contact in cold temperatures with road salt.”
    …-

    “Tesla Driver Died Using Autopilot, With Hands Off Steering Wheel” (blmbg)

    …-

    “Winter corrosion prompts voluntary Tesla recall”

    “”We have observed excessive corrosion in the power steering bolts, though only in very cold climates, particularly those that frequently use calcium or magnesium road salts, rather than sodium chloride (table salt),” Tesla wrote …”

    https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/tesla-recalls-thousands-of-electric-vehicles-due-to-weather-related-corrosion/98472/

  13. What is the best April Fool’s story you ever heard?

    Our empty-nester friends told their only child that they were adopting 16 year old twins!

  14. The petition to ban DiHydrogen MonOxide come to mind.
    Was flipping channels in the cartoon region,I see being called Chicken Littles has stung the movie promoters of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, so much that they are remaking the Chicken Little myth by cartoon.
    This time C.L, is the hero not a gullible Zero.
    Amazing how far these “creative geniuses” will go .
    No new ideas in the playschool anymore?

  16. 2:34 p.m. that is 14:34 hours April 1st how did this post JUMP UP to second place on this thread? This is an April Fool’s joke? RIGHT?

  17. Art of the deal:

    “BEIJING (Reuters) – China has slapped extra tariffs of up to 25 percent on 128 U.S. products including frozen pork, as well as on wine and certain fruits and nuts, in response to U.S. duties on imports of aluminium and steel, China’s finance ministry said. ”

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/china-imposes-tariffs-in-response-to-u-s-duties-on-steel-aluminium-idUSKCN1H81J3

    “Trade wars are good and easy to win” – President Obesity

  18. Is anyone else curious about the timing of PET Jr and the Pope’s position on an apology for the residential schools being in the news just before a major Christian holiday?

    Social Engineering much?

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