49 Replies to “September 9, 2018: Reader Tips”

      1. It means our country is not completely lost yet.
        No American would have stood up against our dumbass pronoun laws, they would have just laughed at us and taken it as a warning for their own issues. He also would have been lost in the noise in America without this absurd Canadian issue to draw attention to himself.

      2. I think we deserve him as he’s a great balance to Jr.
        I’d hate to think the world believes all we have to offer is Justin.
        I’m surprised you had to ask, Linda. It’s one of those things that to me is screamingly obvious.

        2. Yes. Now that I think about it more, I agree. If he were an American, he would be easily ignored in Canada. As a Canadian, working in Canada, even reluctant Canadians must sit up and pay attention.

          1. Peterson has been featured in the US in various media, including FoxNews, and has a huge following there.

  2. Diversity is good: Canada has Justin Trudeau, but we also have Jordan Peterson.
    Diversity is not so good: Canada has Jordan Peterson, but we also have Justin Trudeau.

    1. I’m sure I’ve heard Dr. Peterson says he once would have considered running for office as a Liberal, which he is. But, he seems to be thinking that Conservatives aren’t such a bad lot after all, because of Trudeau.

      1. I suspect that Peterson has realized that the Liberal Party of Canada has moved markedly to the left and no longer represents classical liberal democracy but represents a bastardized form of Marxist totalitarianism. Peterson is intelligent enough to see the trends and analyze the ideologies.

        1. The NDP are trying to out green the Green party because the Liberals have shifted left to capture the NDP voters.

          Andrew Scheer as CPC leader is despised or at the least disliked because he is an 80s LIberal that isn’t Trudeau.

          Bernier is a Conservative without a party and no support amongst CPC members like Pierre Poilievre Tom Lukiwski and Michelle Remple.

      2. Our Conservatives our much closer to liberal than they are to conservative. Since our Liberals were taken over by a marxist, PM Castreau’s father, they have been ever since somewhere left of social democrats. They will never come back.

  4. Speaking about Canadians to follow, CTV NEWS did a piece last night about Dr. David Saint-Jacques who will be our latest contribution to the Space Station. He will be blasting off December 19th for a 6 month stay. It will be one of the longest for an astronaut to the Space Station. Do look him up, he has an interesting bio. He will be another great contributor to the cause of Space missions. We will probably hear a lot about him in the next few years.

    Over the last Labor Day Weekend, Sept 2-4 th, there was an interesting thread here at S.D.A. entitled “Embrace Hollywood.” There were 45 posts, most were contributions by B A Rupertslander who is an avid follower of Space Missions, be it Moon missions or about them. Thanks, Dr. B A for your input, it was great!

    1. You’re welcome.

      I’ve been a space buff for most of my life, I worked in the business for a while, and, yes, I applied to be an astronaut three times. I didn’t make it, of course, but I did pass the initial selections.

      The closest I now come to all that is through amateur radio as well as my dabbling in amateur astronomy. I dust off my telescope once in a while, but the viewing conditions inside city limits leave a lot to be desired.

      On the other hand, I’ve make many contacts with my fellow hams via a number of amateur radio satellites. I’ve worked over 40 states, 6 Canadian provinces and 2 territories, and 5 different countries, including Canada.

        1. Ahem! I’m B A Deplorable Rupertslander, not Unsomethingorother.

          However, I can confirm that Galileo was right. It’s quite easy to see the 4 largest moons of Jupiter with just a spotting scope and to see their positions change from one day to the next. One can actually see the closest of them, Io, move during the course of an evening.

          I bought a second-hand 100 mm diameter, 400 mm focal length reflector telescope and use it with a clock drive. I’ve seen Saturn’s rings and I’m sure I’ve seen its largest moon Titan. Even better, though, was to see Jupiter’s cloud bands, though I’ve never seen the Great Red Spot. Not bad for something set up inside city limits.

          Once I’m done settling my father’s estate, I might spend some of my inheritance on a better telescope.
          The best I’ve been able to do was to see Jupiter’s cloud bands.

  5. So it seems the Flat Earth Society have come out as believers in climate change.

    “It would be nothing short of irresponsible to question something with so much overwhelming evidence behind it, and something that threatens us so directly as a species.”

    https://www.sciencealert.com/flat-earthers-understand-climate-change-science-we-are-not-sure-what-to-think

    Because, of course, it would be absurd to conclude that the climate change crowd are another pseudoscientific cult, who only differ substantially from the flat-earthers in being far more profitable for the well-connected.

  6. watching the Kenyan Muslim try to take all the credit for the booming economy was a joke. The black Muslim for eight years revised racism spied on anyone who disagreed with him and piled on more debt than all previous presidents before him. Unfortunately there are a lot of dumb Americans who still think he was great.

  8. Our Man from Fording River.

    Bravo Premier Doug Ford!

    …-

    “Ontario cuts natural gas price after revoking cap-and-trade regulations

    The price reduction will kick in on Oct. 1, Premier Doug Ford says” (cbc)

  9. Had a nice conversation last evening with an old friend. He lives in Ontario and was telling me about a dinner he attended this past spring that featured a federal cab minister. He was sitting at the head table next to the minister.

    During the course of the evening the topic naturally gravitated to politics. The cab minister said that bongo was resolute in his determination that the KM pipeline was going ahead. Armed with this info my buddy called his broker and bought KM. A nice gain followed and some money was made.

    Think librano friends weren’t afforded the same courtesy? Just sayin’

  10. “They could also ask voters to support a tough pushback on Trump on cultural protection and dispute settlement under any NAFTA deal. ” Comment RE Canada election
    Trump could counter punch Cultural Protection with regard to American content on Canadian Television.. The practice of using American production and adding Canadian Commercials (deleting original paid Sponsors).. No more USA Network or Cable free content…..
    I get more USA coverage in Canada than in Arizona, would guess >80% is American… Shut that down & you just have CBC whining

    1. Quite frankly, the chickens are coming home to roost.

      I started my post-secondary teaching position nearly 30 years ago and I saw some of what she described even then. I had students who were rude and ill-mannered, thinking that they could behave as they pleased because they thought they were the ones paying my salary. (Sorry, kiddies, but my money came from the institution, which was funded by the taxpayers.)

      I remember discussing the difficulties I had with my first department head. His response was that the problems originated in the high school system, where, for example, there was a policy of social promotion. No one was allowed to fail a grade more than once.

      My next department head was quite lax in that respect. If I had a problem with my students, it was my problem and my fault. He rarely supported me, preferring to take the side of the students. One reason was that he was bucking for promotion and he didn’t want any negative comments from the “customers” (which our students eventually became when the place adopted that tomfool doctrine of “student as customer”).

      The problem got worse with time. Not only did I get more unruly students, the senior administration changed was its members retired or quit, only to be replaced by more “progressive” types. One vice-president, who was quite old-school (no pun intended), was succeeded by someone who graduated from the Seagull School of Management. She probably took the job because the institution made her a good offer and, when her contract was up, she left and probably got herself another well-paying gig. It was bad enough that she had progressive ideas, but she didn’t seem to do much to earn her salary, either.

      Every time we complained to the administration that we were having problems, the administrators told us to make do with what we have. We often pleaded to put pressure on the high schools to improve academic and disciplinary standards and all we got was a “we can’t do that” response.

      Each level in the educational system simply washes its hands of whatever problems it had with students, passing the buck to the one above it. The government refuses to give proper funding for the institutions to deal with the issues. The government also imposes regulations and standards that allow those problems to not only start but to worsen.

      At the institution I taught at, I think the average length of time for the teaching staff was about 5 years. Some quit because they found a better job in their field and some, I’d wager, quit because they got fed up. That was one of the reason I eventually left. I didn’t see any point in putting up with all that abuse and idiocy.

      1. No excuse for rude and ill mannered, however I do think students and parents (who are likely footing the bill) have a right to expect good value for the money they give to post secondary institutions. They do not always get that. Unions are part of the problem. They sometimes bend over backwards protecting incompetents.

      2. if I had the guts and strength, there were a couple ‘class clowns’ who I would have LOVED to haul out into the hallway and bloody their snotty faces. it was hard enough for my to learn the stuff through all that catatonic boredom without putting up with those shytstains that tried to outdo each other in the ‘Im gonna irritate the math teacher today’.

        ha ha!! captcha was a bunch of school buses.

    2. This is what happens when progressives take control of our schools.

      See also her followup video.

    3. That was a very disturbing video. In fairness it sounds like that particular school is for students with problems. Hopefully this is not typucal of middle schools. Still the situation was allowed to get out of hand. I think it is a symptom of our decaying society. I am not sure what would need to be done to address the situation, but the teacher is entirely right to leave to preserve her sanity and safety.

  12. Looks like the libranos are setting the table for an early election call. They gotta fight the bogey man Trump on behalf of all Canadians!
    The strategy seems to be to run out the clock on NAFTA and wait and see what happens with the quebek election….. then pounce.

    Jim Prentice got hammered in AB when he went with an early election call. We can only hope the ponce gets the same treatment.

    1. “The strategy seems to be to run out the clock on NAFTA”
      Thats their mistake to believe they would still be fighting for a “good” deal.
      The first deadline was for Trump to notify congress, that was when he got his agreement in principle with the Mexicans and wrote to Congress that he will be sending them the text of the deal, which is now named the US/Mexico free trade agreement, which Canada can sign on “if they want to”. We have until Oct 1 to get on board before NAFTA is replaced with this new deal. If we don’t sign on before then, then we will be stuck trying to convince Trump to offer Canada a bi-lateral deal, in those cases he sets the same demands he previously put down only then he has no requirement to compromise on anything.
      The train left and team Sockmonkey didn’t get on board because they got told by Democrats not to.

    2. Jim Prentice got hammered in AB when he went with an early election call.

      Don’t forget that Prentice was never elected as premier, getting the job when Redford was given the boot by the party.

      It’s customary when a political leader is chosen for their position by their party, they call an election soon afterwards to get a mandate from the voters that they deserve their office. PET was chosen Liberal party leader in April 1968 and he called an election for the following June. Canadian voters, of course, took leave of their senses and actually elected him as PM.

      1. BA – Prentice won the party leadership when redford resigned. He then won a bi election which gave him his seat. You are correct that he didn’t have a mandate as premier. The PC’s had won a majority in April 2012 and Prentice called an early election in May 2015. He claimed he needed a mandate after 37 months and less than a year from the 4 year anniversary of the last election.

        The electorate turned on Prentice – he lost his own seat and the ndp formed government. I know you know all this stuff.

        My point is there is a high risk to going early. Da liddle thief pulled it off in the 90’s when the conservatives were in disarray but this time the CPC has 100 MP’s. Their support has been solid. There is little reason to think it will run off the books. Conservatives were not swept away by bongo in ’15 and I suspect now that we’ve seen what he’s got they wont be tempted.

        1. Little Pierre doesn’t want to get double barreled by a Liberal loss in QC and a Kenny statist shellacking in AB in 2019.

          Plus, he is inert by virtue of the QC election and Trump’s trade deadline, both set for October 1st.

          He can’t win one without losing the other.

          Add to that his Captain Canada routine is gaining him support, enough to form a majority according to Nanos.

          If he calls a snap election later in October with 36 days campaigning, the minimum, he might escape the political carnage of auto tariffs imposed by Trump for Canadian trade intransigence.

          In 2015 he got in under the wire of anti-establishment just beginning to take route, by false pinning Harper as the establishment elitist and Trudeau as a populist despite the crony capitalist puppeteers making his moves.

          One more lie like that gets him elected as the saviour of the Canadian economy when he will preside not only over its destruction, but also that of the nation. That is what he try and what will happen if he succeeds again, imho.

    3. It would be a cynical move by the Libs to do so, with the only reason being to try and guarantee an additional 4 years. Then they can bend over and drop the bad news on their dairy farmers and others they have coddled and misled, the Liberal double cross, all in the name of securing their own power first. They know that this country is on the precipice of a big fall, without any agreement.
      They know they have limited options, but their own power and control comes before anybody else. And despite public pronouncements, the power behind the throne knows that NO DEAL would be devastating to Canada.
      The outside chance is that their socialist pals in the Dumbocrat party get control of the house, but with a blossoming economy, voting Dumbo seems counterproductive. Irregardless of that, the Trump administration can STILL induce much economic pain to Trudope, without Congress or the House involved.
      Odds better than even money that the cynical Libs call an election, its a crisis they cant afford to waste!

  13. …_

    “A sketch of democracy

    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    An excerpt from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s forthcoming memoir Between Two Millstones.”

    “The chief magistrate of the canton, Landammann Raymond Broger, with grayish fuzz on his head, his
    face intelligent and energetic, gave a speech that filled me with wonder. If only Europe could lend its ears to its half-canton Appenzell! If only the rulers of the big nations could adopt such ideas!

    For more than half a millennium, the Landammann said, our community has not significantly changed the forms by which it has governed itself. We are led by our conviction that there is no such thing as “general freedom,” but only various individual freedoms, each associated with our obligations and self-restraint. On an almost daily basis, the violence of our times proves to us that the guaranteed freedom of person or state is impossible without discipline and honesty, and it is precisely on such grounds that our community has managed to perpetuate its incredible vitality through the centuries.

    Our community never gave itself over to the folly of total freedom, and never made a pact with inhumanity with the view of making the state almighty. There cannot be a rational functioning state without a dash of aristocratic and even monarchic elements. It goes without saying that in a democracy the ultimate judgment in all important issues falls to the people, but a people cannot be present on a daily basis to run the state. And the government must not rush to cater to the changeable popular vote just so that its rulers will be re-elected, nor must it give misleading speeches to sway the voters, but must move against the current.

    In deed and in truth the government’s task is to act the way a reasonable majority of the people would act if they knew everything in all its details, which is becoming increasingly impossible under the growing civic overload. It therefore remains for us to elect the best possible individuals to guide and govern us, and to give them all necessary confidence.

    Democracy without mettle, democracy that seeks to grant rights to each and every individual, degenerates into a democracy of servility. The soundness of a system of government does not depend on the perfection of the articles of a constitution, but on the ability of leaders to bear its burdens. We sell democracy short if we elect weak individuals to its government. It is in fact the democratic system, more than any other, that requires a strong hand able to steer the state along a clear course. The crises that society is currently facing were not triggered by the people, but by their governments.”

    https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/9/a-sketch-of-democracy

  14. University of Ottawa professor defends recently fired, tenured East Indian professor Mehta at Acadia University in Nova Scotia.

    As I just said to a friend, hopefully in due time he will see this to have been a blessing. Who would want to work in such a toxic environment?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xYXT6dvAuo

    1. “Freeland says losing NAFTA would be a blow to U.S. …’”

      Yes, Minister, one usually does suffer some … inconvenience? … when the house next door burns down and the good neighbour who lived there has to move away and leaves a smoldering eyesore that devalues one’s property a bit. But you know, it’s rather worse for the homeless neighbour, which will be us when you have finished burning the NAFTA agreement and our whole economy goes up in smoke with it.

      1. plus to follow the analogy, it gives the remaining homeowner the opportunity to buy the empty lot and incorporate it into their own in perpetuity. oh wow, I spelt perpetuity correctly first try !!!
        I still gots the ‘stuff’ !!!

  16. Obama must be off his tether:
    “President Obama lectured President Trump, accused him of racism, and attempted to take credit for President Trump’s economic miracle.

    But Barack Obama’s worst lie was his remarks on Benghazi.

    Barack Obama: “The politics of division and paranoia has found a home, unfortunately, in the Republican party. … they’ve embraced wild conspiracy theories by those surrounding Benghazi. Or my birth certificate.”

    Benghazi hero Kris Paronto responded to the former president.
    Kris has not forgotten about the men lost as Obama did nothing.

    Apparently Kris ‘Tanto’ Paronto can’t defend against the lies so Twitter promptly put him in a timeout.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/twitter-suspends-benghazi-hero-after-criticism-of-president-obama/

  17. Bruce Ohr says the Mueller Inquisition was the ‘insurance policy’…
    ————
    Strzok launched the “counter intelligence” investigation against Trump after being fed the Clinton / DNC funded fake Russian dossier from no less than three sources. John Brennan leaked it through Senator Harry Reid. John McCain fed it to the FBI through Fusion GPS spy Christopher Steele.

    Bruce Ohr leaked it directly to Strzok through Steele and Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS, which wrote the dossier with the help of Nellie Ohr, Bruce’s wife, who actually worked on the dossier.

    The entire conspiracy was a disinformation campaign. Clinton and the DNC paid 9 million dollars to Fusion GPS to buy Kremlin disinformation to feed to the FBI to spy on a leading opposition candidate for the Presidency.
    —————–
    https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/bruce-ohr-mueller-inquisition-peter-strzoks-insurance-policy-105738/

  18. ‘Peers to Me.

    Astonished to learn this evening that faux-journalists maintain rigorous standards, occasionally going so far as self-categorization, up to and including comparison with their not-peers. Woodward has been toiling at it for decades, so who better to attempt a comprehensive analysis of the craft?

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/watergates-woodward-says-times-trump-op-ed-not-165820438.html

    Imagine the data-collection process…
    “Compare and contrast your anonymous sources with those used by the New York Times.”

    “Select the description below, which you feel best describes your work:
    a. Lerner-like

    b. Pocahontesque

    c. Comey-style

    d. Bureaucratese, legislative subcategory (“If you like your doctor…”)

    “Are you bothered by the term “fake news?”

  19. Rampant speculation alert:

    There was this professor who was used by the FBI to set up a low level Trump associate, George Padopolous, telling him there was dirt on Hillary, who then told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who apparently alerted the FBI, who by sheer coincidence is connected with the Clintons.

    When that turned out to be drunken nonsense, Mueller’s goons went after Papadopolous, apparently, who’s “lying prevented the FBI from interviewing Mifsud,” who was their guy all along.

    Then they killed him. Anyway it’s alleged he’s dead. Maybe he’s hanging out with Foster & Rich.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/10/dnc-says-papadopoulos-tipster-and-key-figure-in-russia-case-might-be-dead.html

    In totally unrelated news, Alexander Downer has gone into hiding.

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