54 Replies to “December 28, 2018: Reader Tips”

  1. A moving sidewalk in the 1890s? Wowza! And all those lumps of carbon road apples on the streets.

  2. Venezuela murder rate dips, partly due to migration: monitoring group- Reuters

    CARACAS (Reuters) – The murder rate in Venezuela, one of the world’s highest-crime countries, dipped in 2018 as some criminals apparently joined millions of law-abiding compatriots in leaving the crisis-stricken country, a local crime monitoring group said in a report on Thursday.

    The South American country is in a fifth year of recession caused by a crash in oil prices and an unraveling socialist economic model. Three million Venezuelans have fled violence, hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods, most since 2015, according to the United Nations.

    The Venezuelan Observatory of Violence (OVV) said in its annual report that Venezuela still had the world’s highest murder rate, 81.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, but it noted that figure was down from 89 in 2017 and 92 the year before. Director Roberto Briceño attributed the drop in part to migration. …
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-crime/venezuela-murder-rate-dips-partly-due-to-migration-monitoring-group-idUSKCN1OQ1GJ
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    L- Now, which countries would psycho-pathic, murdering criminals flee to, so as to claim refugee status(for 2 plus years of processing or more) and receive shelter, food, spending money, medical and dental care at a higher level than the local homeless and the working poor?

    (Hint- Which S.J.W. governments just signed on to the U.N. global migration (suicide) pact.) Hint #2, which country’s leader is most internationally infamous for being a virtuoso virtue signaler? ) Hint #3, whose fed. government, like Venezuela’s, mismanages it country’s oil wealth? Thus imposing needless human suffering on it’s citizenry?) I mean, really what are the odds, they’ll show up here ?

        1. @ 1055 nice choices.

          https://youtu.be/t4kYvGg2-6A

          Hope you like ‘Spring in Paris’
          I do, und this music….
          …… sort of grows on you!

          (trying to find a song about Paris that isn’t too ‘sticky’ is nearly impossible, yikes! With few exceptions I’m trying to stick to the instrumental versions of songs)

          [More: …all thumbs up:
          -the flick “De-Lovely” life of Cole Porter features his music.
          -The Avalon Jazz Band, “I love Paris”- sweet!
          -Joni Mitchell, our Alberta born lady, one of the greatest.]

          1. Rammstein is a band I don’t know much about. I thought they were more oriented towards heavy metal.

            Another movie that features Porter’s music is Kiss Me, Kate with Howard Keel and Katherine Grayson. TCM is featuring movies by her next month, so maybe it’ll be shown.

          2. @ 7:45 B A
            re: the group: Rammstein
            “Spring in Paris” must be an exception, something of a departure from what I could see. They ‘ve great d-e-e-p voices! I just discovered them and they’re not what I would get excited about, but I like this song- it’s so different.

            I still do enjoy the oldies on the T.C.M. Channel too. Lately, the 1960s movies are enjoyable because occasionally there are features that are “new” to me.

  4. Under Paris Skies. Love the concertina.

    I’m in the thunder bay airport. Big blizzard going on here. Can’t wait to get outa this place. Ech!……as Chekhov might utter.

      1. NR: your on the good tunes this morning. Thanks

        Thunder Bay came about in 1970 when the cities of Port Arthur and Fort William amalgamated. The population then was about what it is today 108m. 20,000 indians have moved into town from northern rez’s.

        Gangs roam the streets and kids that have the chance get to hell outa town do.

        It’s a town of unionistas socialists natives and gangs. Good riddance! Arrrrugh.

      2. There are many songs written about Paree. Almost as many as Texas……ha
        I think Lyle Lovett has one, ‘If I Hear one more song about Texas’…..

          1. I’m a LL fan. I’ve forgiven him for marrying the nut bar Julia Roberts.

            I’ve never seen him but I did see her one time in NYC. I went to the Lettermen show and she was a guest.

            LL is on my list. One if these days….

          2. Paris Texas – a good but little seen movie.

            I bought it a few years back and then gave it to someone who forgot to give it back. Then I forgot who I gave it to…
            ha

  5. The 2019 campaign has an early start with Shiny’s visit to the troops in Mali, he’s going with the selfies again.

  6. https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/12/31/swedens-parallel-society/

    I put this out yesterday but probably a little late.

    “Sweden’s institutionalization of multiculturalism began in 1975, when a parliament led by Social Democrat Olof Palme rejected assimilation in favor of policies that encouraged minorities to keep their separate identities. “Of course, if you say these things [critically] in Sweden, you’ll be ferociously attacked by social workers and the dominating left-wing academia for being inhumane,” Adamson says. “

    1. Olof Palme a friend of Palestine, Castro the ANC……..sounds like somebody we had here in Canada about the same time.

      He was murdered on the street. Unsolved just like his countrymen Dag Hammarskjold. A pair of commies.

    1. I’m all for Alberta opting out of the dairy supply management.

      Time for a referendum on equalization too!

    1. I’ll bet it won’t be for the same political ideology as that of her father Jon Voight.

    1. Fascination- thought you mighta set us up for a Jack Benny routine….

      He used this song in one of his skits.
      He played the fool but he was an accomplished musician. As was Victor Borga. Dudley Moore as well.

  13. I’m pretty sure I saw Laurel and Hardy strolling down the street together in one of those scenes.

  14. Fox News reports that a climate change expert has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend. These are the type of people Groper is relying on in order to tax us to death.

  16. God rest ye merry gentleman. Richard Overton, oldest US WW2 vet dies at 112.

    “The WWII veteran served in the all-black 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion from 1942 to 1945, a period that included stops in Angaur, Palau; Peleliu, Micronesia; and Iwo Jima, Japan.”

    Overton, in later years, could often be seen on the porch of his home, which he built in East Austin in 1945.”

    “He’s like a gift to Austin that keeps giving,” Overton’s friend Steve Wiener said last summer. “He’s a crackerjack. When people sense his humor and playfulness, it just lightens everyone’s step.”

    His favorite pastime was smoking his 12 daily cigars on his front porch, which friends dubbed his “stage.”

    I left out the Obama identity moaning part since it didn’t seem to bother Mr. Overton as much.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/nations-oldest-military-veteran-dead-at-112

    1. Well, the most common baby name in Mississauga Ontario, is now mohammad. Trouble is, they will expect all Canadians to follow Sharia law and the written rants of their pedophile prophet.

  18. National Post reports that the Tide Foundation in the States, has been pouring money into the Progress Alberta organization. Progress Alberta supports the Alberta NDP government, and of course the Tide Foundation bankrolls anti-pipeline groups in B.C. Kind of makes you wonder if Notley is serious about a pipeline.

  19. under the category ‘no description of the suspects’:
    https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/cash-stolen-in-milton-home-invasion

    who in their right mind keeps 50 GRAND in CASH on the premises?
    take a look at the house:
    https://www.cp24.com/polopoly_fs/1.4233186.1545993674!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_225/image.jpg

    lemme guess, the dumfcuks came in to some money, bragged about it, blabbed and blabbed and blabbed, and now there are a 100 suspects.
    kinda like the ones who win 50 million and sluice thru it in 3 yrs time, wondering where it went . . . .

  20. I finally have my first “sanitized” $10 bill. Old Macdonald bought the farm, e-i-e-i-oooo.

    Then again, when Sir John A. first appeared on that bill, $10 was $10. Now, thanks to Lord High Admiral Prinz Dummkopf, we’re lucky if it’s worth half that.

      1. Can you imagine, say, 50 years from now, how much numismatists would be willing to pay for it? After all, it might be a collector’s item by then, assuming, of course, that there will be a society left in which one can accumulate such things for fun.

      2. Unfortunately we won’t have much choice, as we will get it in our change.

        Gives a whole new meaning the phrase, “The beaver sh*ts”.

  21. Back home in AB. Why do I ever leave?

    Redd says her Canada includes Alberta.
    My Alberta doesn’t include her.

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