There’s so much wrong with this story one doesn’t know where to start.
The early morning raid on Roger Stone’s house had a Kafkaesque quality to it , which is to say, it smacked of police state mentality and measures. Mueller has nothing and he is grasping at straws.
You never know what a 66 year old, with a deaf wife, who had to sell his 25 year old car will do . 24 + in vests, night vision, full auto assalt weapons, flash bang granafed and 17 vehicles for a old, skinny guy whose never been arrested, and fully cooperated.
Maybe there was a Pug guard dog.
But this is the FBI, the corrupt, pratorians, Americas KGB that fkd up both World Trade bombings, WACO, Ruby Ridge, Boston Marathon bombing and decades of Whitey Bulger, has in a Spanish speaking flooded Anerica no Spanish speaking agents on MS-13 investigations. Maybe Jeb Bush could help?
Well, at least the Federalie Judge let him go by 9 on bail cause he’s such a threat.
Nancy, the police state mentality exists in Canada as well.
This is exactly the same type of tactic the Liberal government of Jean Chretien used ona Manitoba farmer who dared to sell his wheat to an American company without going through the Wheat Board.
An RCMP swat team crashed into the man’s house where he lived with his elderly parents, at 2 AM and threw everyone to the floor, handcuffed them and carted them off to jail,all for what was at most a white collar crime, not a drug bust.
Thugs of a feather,I suppose. The idea is to terrorize the citizenry and keep them in line in case they have rebellious ideas.
If a real justice system existed in the USA, Stone would have been invited to report with his lawyer to the prosecutor’s office during business hours, but it seems nowadays gangster mentality has taken over the government’s enforcement agencies.
They seized his passport too. His EXPIRED passport. I wonder how much this “training” exercise cost taxpayers?
Canada? Yes well it is a deplorable state of ninnies and nannies.
What happens in the US happens in Canada, with lower intensity. That’s how Trudeau achieved his populist fiction.
Don’t forget Cretin ordering the RCMP to kick down the doors of that guy who headed up the so called BDB ( Business Development Bank) because the head of the Bank refused to lend money to one of Cretins gangster buddies in order for the gangster to buy Cretins money losing Grane Mare Inn… Cretin just couldn’t steal enough taxpayer cash… later on the gangster that Cretin wanted to give that taxpayer money to was arrested for arson, attempting to burn down the Gran Mere Inn. Canada is far more corrupt than the USA.
The charges are ridiculous. Stone knew the FBI had all his communications for the last 2 1/2 years so deliberately lying is improbable. Apparently he bribed a potential witness, Jerome Corsi. This was based on an InfoWars severance payment to Corsi, their Washington correspondent, per his contract. In Corsi’s last appearances his face was bright red and bloated and he was not fully coherent making him very unappealing. Also Stone would have had no idea who witnesses were because he hadn’t yet been accused of a crime.
Corsi was on Hannity last night, right after Tucker and Stone. He was well composed, and not confrontational. Also, he was not dissing Stone, very telling.
Chasing old men, on shaky ‘process crimes’ shows that Mueller has NOTHING, and is desperate himself. Keep in mind that Stone is an old school political operative, and while he’s as pure as New York snow, he’s no Russian spook either.
This is going to get very Interesting , love his “I shall not bear false witness” statement. I can only imagine how entertaining his grilling with Mueller went previously. Despite the rankings and ravings of the media, this looks like there are plenty of holes in these charges to confidently say “Reasonable Doubt”. However, Mueller is practicing LAWFARE, designed to financially destroy Stone, and to attempt to manipulate him. Soviet style.
“Chasing old men, on shaky ‘process crimes’ shows that Mueller has NOTHING, and is desperate himself.”
Go ahead, tell yourself that. The indictments will keep coming anyway. Mueller’s a machine. A paragon. You can’t stop him.
10 or 15 years ago I used to go to Scopes to try to find the truth. Now, unfortunately, it is more likely to be untrue than true. I can’t believe that someone would care so little about their reputation that they would tell so many lies. Only hard core Marxists believe Snopes any more.
Regarding the “Modern Art” feature in this link: a ‘Black’ canvas is no more inspirational than the ‘White’ canvas which was recently featured in Art circles as being a piece of Art. The above article features what Calgary City Hall thinks is “Art.” What do you think? Isn’t it mind blowing?
Yesterday, January 25th @ 2:03 am, B A Rupertslander wrote in reply to Colonialista that he thought the black canvas “art work is rubbish, so I guess I’m a philistine.” I’m with B A on that one and the aforementioned pieces, especially Bowfort Towers on the Trans Canada in Calgary. So, I guess I’m a philistine too. Ha!
Installing all that scrap metal, under the premise of it being art, makes about as much sense as turning Edmonton’s High Level Bridge into the world’s largest carwash with its artificial waterfall.
I don’t know what’s worse: the city politicians who think up these cockamamie ideas or the clowns who vote them into office.
I guess my education must have been severely deficient as I actually consider something like a painting by Rembrandt as art and this stuff as complete nonsense.
Okay the artificial waterfall as a car wash could be cool, kinda like a log ride at Disney. As a young child I remember enjoying going through the tunnel of the car wash being pulled through the series of sprayers and brushes.
As to art, somewhere along the line the “arts community” decided that all that mattered was the message of the art, and it seems that artists now spend more time writing the artists “vision statement” about the message than in creating the art. The idea that the art should be able to make its own statement without external essays is considered passe. Actual technical skills in the selected media are considered vulgar and a liability.
Yeah, but the “artist statements” are often computer generated. Modern art is a scam.
The giant carwash is a much better idea-rinsing off all that road salt would extend the cars’ lifetimes a great deal!
Having Lived in Harvest Hills, we who were forced to look at the Big Blue “O” just off the D’Foot & 96th, really had no say in it, just as no other Calgarian who’s taxes were spent on all the other Frivolous BS this Council and its spendthrift mayor have embarked on. A 25million dollar pedestrian Bridge over the Bow no one asked for, numerous BOGUS “Art” projects around the city…
GARBAGE…every bit of it….inlcuding the Bridge that required a few more million as it wasn’t welded properly.
Calgarians have had tax increases of 3.5% or more percent every year this Arrogant (_i_)hole of a Mayor & his Champagne Socialist Council has been in control. With a shrinking tax base, now they still “need” more $$$.
Strange that one never sees a reduction in their # 1 Budget Line Item..??
MUNICIPAL SALARIES – Benefits.
An issue that pervades Provincial and Federal Budgets as well.
it is time for Right to work legislation – De Certification of Public Service UNIONS.
Can you just imagine if after today’s 9°C Chinook weather what the City would charge for snow removal if the rest of the winter were like as in the featured link?
I shudder to think of snowfall amounts like that! Let’s hope we don’t get socked now.
On Monday, city council will consider capital spending on four major projects: a new $600-million event centre/arena, a field house, expansions to Arts Commons and enlarging Stampede Park’s BMO convention centre.
Not including the arena, the capital cost during the building phases through 2026 would be $1.7 billion, according to a report by consultants Ernst & Young LLP. The projects would also contribute $297 million in operational benefits, while creating a total of 6,300 jobs, said the report.
And did I mention that there is a provincial and a federal election coming up this year?
I wonder how much is going to end up in the begging bowl.
Finally, did the city ever return the unused money from the Olympic bid to the province?
There are young beggars out panhandling. The rigs left for USA., some businesses are hurting. New houses aren’t selling as quickly as they used to in the past, resale housing is moving, but at a slower pace.
When times were great the city was happy to assess homes based on rising market value rates. Now that home prices have dropped guess what the city does? They raised, instead of lowered assessment rates to make up for a reduction from a vacancy rate downtown. Guess what that means? Property taxes are going up, yet again. One contractor announced that all new homes that they will build will now have solar panels. Not an option. I bet you they got a grant to foist this lovely new feature on buyers.
Nice screw, eh? A lot of them. Ho, hum.
We are well into the end times of Calgary’s and Alberta’s ‘progressive moment’ which was born of easy money and an influx of transplants. It’s over, Nenshi’s re-election notwithstanding. The easy money is gone. Thank God for the 2014 oil crash.
The perfect gift. Jim Acosta has written a book called “The Enemy of the People”, a phrase that dRumpf uses to try and discredit the fair and balanced media (unlike Faux).
I can’t wait to read it! I predict it will sell as well as Hillary’s book What Happened (dRumpf conspired with Putin to steal the election)!
30 day ban for quoting a widely read author? Hunter S Thompson would be shocked and he was hard to shock:
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”
Now, that’s art…knitting together well chosen words…ha!
Thank you CNN for your instincts on getting footage of the extremely dangerous Roger Stone getting arrested this morning at 6 AM!
CBC should hire that CNN psychic douche… member when Elections Canada “raided” Conservative headquarters with CBC douchebags and camera crew in tow !?!? That was kewl, and an astonishing act of extra sensory perception from the Liberal Party Broadcaster… It certainly wasn’t a supposedly neutral government agency, EC and the Liberal Party State Broadcaster CBC colluding together in a staged stunt before the taxpayer funded cameras in an effort to influence public opinion by showing the Conservatives in a negative light… no way Jose… uh, uh… besides Mueller and CNN are neutral, they don’t have an agenda to “get Trump”… I mean, come on…. evryone knows that, duh… anyhoo, I think that CNN dick-weed’s super powers could be put to good use for the Liberal Party Broadcaster CBC… Mueller is a such a nice man and of course he is the main actor in the contingency plan (coup) just in case Americans don’t elect that corrupt bitch Hitlery and somehow Trump wins… well, i gotta go look at my sock collection now… busy, busy, busy… toodles.
You parody yourself
BS is still BS and cr@p is still cr@P.
OAC wants a 70% tax on the rich and the bandwagon is filling up.
The journalist quotes the founding fathers of America. For example, Jefferson…
“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right…It is too soon yet in our country to say that every man who cannot find employment but who can find uncultivated land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it, paying a moderate rent. But it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
Or British political theorist James Harrington…
“where there is inequality of estates, there must be inequality of power, and where there is inequality of power, there can be no commonwealth.”
I have just one problem. People, like OAC, only talk of taking money from the rich. They never talk about putting the peasants back to work with their little plots of land. This is because the politicians are using the poor peasants only as a convenient example to further concentrate their own wealth. The money will be taken, but it will not be redistributed in earnest. When money is taken and reallocated who wins? The sick peasants or the insurance companies who lobby the politicians with trips to the Caribbean?
In short, it’s nothing but elitists deciding who gets to join their cozy little club. Those who don’t qualify need to have their wealth confiscated through “taxes”.
Wise words.
In the inevitable end, the collectivists always claim it was not their intent to put the citizen into serfdom, just its “unfortunate” outcome, which is of course the fault of the capitalists, whom they replace as our oligarchical, walled in neo-regents.
It doesn’t matter which people, country or hemisphere, good or bad leadership either.
Statism purportedly starts as individualist, but always ends up collectivist.
The only discernable difference is the direction from which the draining of prosperity and liberty circles down to servitude.
Trudeau’s media is excited that Mohammed Justin is giving 15 million dollars to Toronto in order to move illegal migrants from shelters to nice hotel rooms. No word yet on whether they get free passes to theaters in the entertainment district.
Here we go again. No pipelines will ever get built in Canada again. Tides et al have done their work well while Canadians and our oil companies slept. Tides should be charge with domestic terrorism.
“Coastal GasLink stops work on pipeline in northern B.C., says traps placed on site
Coastal GasLink has stopped work on a pipeline project in northwestern B.C. where 14 people were arrested earlier this month.
In a notice posted on its website Thursday, the company says it halted work in an area south of Houston, B.C., because traps had been placed inside construction boundaries and people were entering the site, raising safety concerns.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if Prinz Dummkopf or Buttshead paid Tides for those activities.
Then again, thinking back to my time in Vancouver while I was a grad student nearly 40 years ago, I met people there sufficiently unhinged that they would do that sort of thing for free, believing that they were serving some higher purpose.
Running a D8 thru the right of way should take care of that quickly.
Back in the day, that was the very quick way to clear out all the pecker poles.
Sorry this is not a tip,
just wanted to say,
those who say Trump caved, probably did not listen to his speech,
he did not give up or cave, he gave 3 weeks to democrats to behave, thus offered a 3 week truce, and warned them if they don t behave and cooperate, then he will declare a state of emergency and use the military to build the wall
he gave Democrats one last chance
he did not cave
he gave them an ultimatum
ul·ti·ma·tum
Dictionary result for ultimatum
/ˌəltəˈmādəm/
noun
noun: ultimatum; plural noun: ultimata; plural noun: ultimatums
a final demand or statement of terms, the rejection of which will result in retaliation or a breakdown in relations.
Well, the simpleton press had to take their premature victory lap. Don’t expect them to examine things seriously or deeply. Shallow schmucks.
Unfortunately, the shutdown was also affecting allies of TRUMP, indirectly. Government approvals to businesses, all travellers, etc. Look at the travel controllers, nice strategy, all call in sick, shut down La Guardia. Pathetic.
Going Reagan on them would not have worked, not in this day and age
Of course it’s an honest interview, after all when the conserative vote splits Juthin wins!
“Something I never thought I would see on the CBC An honest interview with Max!”
You’ll be seeing more of those interviews in the coming months. You will see just enough of them to ensure that the non liberal voter is aware there is a choice other than the conservative choice.
remember those bumpah stickas ‘cops are tops’?
whens the last time ya saw one of those?
maybe they’re not so ‘tops’ anymore.
my 2 most recent OIPRD complaints against the local boyz in bloo were successful and resulted in discreditable conduct added to the personnel file of three of them. I sent a 3rd complaint for the exact same thing via registered mail last tuesday 22nd or whatever. plus I have 2 more in the ‘out mail’ box for 2 different issues.
cops are now and have been for decades turning on their OWN people.
kinda like communism eh?
‘the mounties always get their man’. uhuh. and female colleague and student work placement candidate and civilian employee and civilian volunteer.
and who the FCUK gets to pay the ginormous settlement? do the offenders get their ASSests seized?
hell no, ’tis ye taxe paiyer’ eh !
time to get WOKE o conservatist reflex supporter of law enFARCEment.
I had a 1 season I.T. contract with a stage company back in ’90.
the term ‘artspeak’ was bandied about.
it’s an old practice.
Seems like former Liberal (now independent) addicted gambling MP Grewal announced late last night that he has gone thru treatment and paid back the millions of $$$’s of loans he racked up with family and friends.
CNN lying swine.Also I forgot about the Manitoba farmer arrest I wonder if freedom of info would point to who actually ordered that Gestapo action.
They’re just mixed up adolescent terrorists so counsel them, make them feel good about themselves again, that’s the ticket.
Unless they’re adolescent Catholic boys with MAGA hats at a pro life rally, then ruin the mother(you know the rest).
“Empathy for the Devil.”
Embattled congressional freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., once asked a judge to show leniency toward a group of Minnesota men accused of trying to join the Islamic State terror group.”
“The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion,” she wrote at the time. “We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to effect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation.”
The nine Minnesota men were facing decades in prison after being accused in 2015 of making plans, including buying fake passports, in an effort to travel to Syria and fight for ISIS, which was at its peak level of activity and held territory in Syria and Iraq.”
Hug a thug, punch a Catholic in the face, especially when they smirk. Got it
Almost four years after the nation’s first “food freedom” law was enacted, hundreds of new local businesses have sprouted across three states, and without a single outbreak of a foodborne illness. Completely exempt from any licensing, permitting, or inspection requirements, residents operating under their state’s food freedom act can create and sell almost any homemade dish imaginable, except those that contain meat.
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Homemade food businesses are also free to sell at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and from farms, ranches, and homes, so long as they sell their goods directly to an “informed end consumer,” i.e. someone who knows they’re buying something not regulated by the government. Selling food freedom products across state lines or through grocery stores, restaurants, or wholesalers does remain verboten.
This was on the radio 45 years ago when I was a freshman undergrad:
It still sounds as fresh and alive as it did back then.
More of Kevin Williamson’s apparent epiphany that maybe the Fake Future is a greater threat to civil discourse than Donald Trump.
Many are coming late in the game but they are not playing.
“The Future Is Fake.”
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was challenged by 60 Minutes on one of her patently absurd claims — that there are trillions of dollars in Pentagon accounting errors, sufficient to fund most of her Medicare-for-all scheme — the New York socialist elected as a Democrat protested that it was morally wrong to be “more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” No, she apparently does not know what “semantic” means, but she knows what she is trying to say: Lies — and a willful exaggeration is only a cowardly kind of lie — are just another tool in the arsenal of social justice.”
This is the new normal for American democratic discourse — a national conversation that no longer performs the function of democratic discourse at all.”
In the absence of a hierarchy of credibility, the only hierarchy that remains is the crude hierarchy of popularity. Rage and extremism build audiences, especially on social media. Measured and intelligent conversation? Not really. Celebrity (or notoriety, increasingly indistinguishable commodities) is the reason Kanye West is a more important voice in the national political conversation than is, say, George Will. President Trump may be vain to fret so much about his ratings and crowd sizes — or he may just be ahead of the curve.”
Toronto Sun reports that two Toronto hotels are now full with illegal migrants. They are provided with maid service, gym, and swimming pool services. One of them received a new electric wheelchair at taxpayer expense. That is so progressive.
This just in from CBC.
Trudeau has just fired McCallum.
Well its not like the drunken McCallum was a good friend of Justin. If it was a drunken good friend he would just get another cabinet position.
I guess Prime Minister Butts could not handle any more gaffs from Johnny Walker McCallum, so like a good liberal he had to walk the plank. I’m not sure what sort of plum job he will get but he probably be well paid.
I wonder where he will end up. I am sure he will get another appointment, guy has been around so long he must have dirt on people.
Incidentally, every time I see him, I think of Droopy Dog.
Yes. For letting the cat out of the bag.
Good riddance. Now we must fire Trudeau before the Marines forcibly retire him from his post as Beijing’s man in Ottawa.
Rather they tie him to a post…
Good riddance to McCallum for sure.
Here’s a post on McCallum’s doubling down on his previous stupidity, which even this government couldn’t abide.
“Canada’s ambassador to China John McCallum resigns at Trudeau’s request.”
The prime minister did not immediately issue an explanation, but the move came just hours after McCallum was quoted in a Vancouver newspaper as saying it would be “great for Canada” if the United States dropped its extradition request for Meng Wanzhou.”
“From Canada’s point of view, if (the U.S.) drops the extradition request, that would be great for Canada,” McCallum told the StarMetro Vancouver.”
UK security services are investigating 700 live terror plots as counter-terrorism bosses reveal they have thwarted 18 since Westminster horror
700 live investigations into terror plots are being carried out at present
Britain’s most senior counter terrorism officer Neil Basu warned of deadly plots
He revealed 18 potentially deadly plots had been thwarted since March 2017
Said a resurgent Al Qaeda remains ‘a prominent threat to the UK and its… allies’
…MI5 chief Mr Parker briefed the Cabinet yesterday about efforts to deal with the risk from individuals known as ‘closed subjects of interest (SOIs)’, who have been investigated in the past but are considered still to pose a threat.
Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood and Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi were both classed as closed SOIs when they carried out their atrocities in 2017.
However, we’re more likely to get a response by asking the F.B.I.?
End game for Venezuela’s Maduro…
Enduring and daily insults (however much deserved) from foreign gov’t and some media, would see Maduro die at age 90 like a Castro, however isolated / hated.
But having the squeeze put on him while his access to capitalism’s cash dries up and being unable to fund / grease the palms of the military, I’d expect a heightened sense of desperation to set in, in the next few weeks.
… and a cascading affect on Cuba’s new-ish regime. Recall what the Cubans term the “special period” after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
“The only way to have quick fair elections is to let Europe and other countries run the elections directly. Which they cannot do, nor a willing to do.”
yup, “good luck with that” …
CTV reports that Canada’s obsolete military helicopters have reached the end of the line. However they will not be replaced, instead 800 million dollars will be spent to upgrade them. They will go nicely with our used jets from Australia.
Trudeau and the Libranos are afraid of Canada having working military helicopters, for good reason.
Perhaps Butts et al are waiting for solar powered helicopters to be developed.
And, instead of bullets, they’ll shoot marshmallows. After all, if you kill the enemy, the enemy wins, right?
The stripper who looks like a senator, or is it a senator who looks like a stripper:
Tucker interviews Roger Stone. Maybe you’ve heard of him.
https://youtu.be/U1lMgkIGogI
There’s so much wrong with this story one doesn’t know where to start.
The early morning raid on Roger Stone’s house had a Kafkaesque quality to it , which is to say, it smacked of police state mentality and measures. Mueller has nothing and he is grasping at straws.
You never know what a 66 year old, with a deaf wife, who had to sell his 25 year old car will do . 24 + in vests, night vision, full auto assalt weapons, flash bang granafed and 17 vehicles for a old, skinny guy whose never been arrested, and fully cooperated.
Maybe there was a Pug guard dog.
But this is the FBI, the corrupt, pratorians, Americas KGB that fkd up both World Trade bombings, WACO, Ruby Ridge, Boston Marathon bombing and decades of Whitey Bulger, has in a Spanish speaking flooded Anerica no Spanish speaking agents on MS-13 investigations. Maybe Jeb Bush could help?
Well, at least the Federalie Judge let him go by 9 on bail cause he’s such a threat.
Nancy, the police state mentality exists in Canada as well.
This is exactly the same type of tactic the Liberal government of Jean Chretien used ona Manitoba farmer who dared to sell his wheat to an American company without going through the Wheat Board.
An RCMP swat team crashed into the man’s house where he lived with his elderly parents, at 2 AM and threw everyone to the floor, handcuffed them and carted them off to jail,all for what was at most a white collar crime, not a drug bust.
Thugs of a feather,I suppose. The idea is to terrorize the citizenry and keep them in line in case they have rebellious ideas.
If a real justice system existed in the USA, Stone would have been invited to report with his lawyer to the prosecutor’s office during business hours, but it seems nowadays gangster mentality has taken over the government’s enforcement agencies.
They seized his passport too. His EXPIRED passport. I wonder how much this “training” exercise cost taxpayers?
Canada? Yes well it is a deplorable state of ninnies and nannies.
What happens in the US happens in Canada, with lower intensity. That’s how Trudeau achieved his populist fiction.
Don’t forget Cretin ordering the RCMP to kick down the doors of that guy who headed up the so called BDB ( Business Development Bank) because the head of the Bank refused to lend money to one of Cretins gangster buddies in order for the gangster to buy Cretins money losing Grane Mare Inn… Cretin just couldn’t steal enough taxpayer cash… later on the gangster that Cretin wanted to give that taxpayer money to was arrested for arson, attempting to burn down the Gran Mere Inn. Canada is far more corrupt than the USA.
The charges are ridiculous. Stone knew the FBI had all his communications for the last 2 1/2 years so deliberately lying is improbable. Apparently he bribed a potential witness, Jerome Corsi. This was based on an InfoWars severance payment to Corsi, their Washington correspondent, per his contract. In Corsi’s last appearances his face was bright red and bloated and he was not fully coherent making him very unappealing. Also Stone would have had no idea who witnesses were because he hadn’t yet been accused of a crime.
Corsi was on Hannity last night, right after Tucker and Stone. He was well composed, and not confrontational. Also, he was not dissing Stone, very telling.
Chasing old men, on shaky ‘process crimes’ shows that Mueller has NOTHING, and is desperate himself. Keep in mind that Stone is an old school political operative, and while he’s as pure as New York snow, he’s no Russian spook either.
This is going to get very Interesting , love his “I shall not bear false witness” statement. I can only imagine how entertaining his grilling with Mueller went previously. Despite the rankings and ravings of the media, this looks like there are plenty of holes in these charges to confidently say “Reasonable Doubt”. However, Mueller is practicing LAWFARE, designed to financially destroy Stone, and to attempt to manipulate him. Soviet style.
“Chasing old men, on shaky ‘process crimes’ shows that Mueller has NOTHING, and is desperate himself.”
Go ahead, tell yourself that. The indictments will keep coming anyway. Mueller’s a machine. A paragon. You can’t stop him.
The Washington Post
Report on global warming
https://johnansell.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/global-warming-report-washington-post1.jpg
And for whatever its worth
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/warm-welcome/
10 or 15 years ago I used to go to Scopes to try to find the truth. Now, unfortunately, it is more likely to be untrue than true. I can’t believe that someone would care so little about their reputation that they would tell so many lies. Only hard core Marxists believe Snopes any more.
All cultures are equal: https://www.france24.com/en/20190125-ebola-death-toll-surges-dr-congo
“Hospital beds at the Ebola transit centre in Beni were stored outside in December, after anti-government protestors ransacked the tents.”
Nuke it from the orbit. Its the only way to be sure.
I Napoleon.
An axe to grind edition: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/755694/transgender-axe-attack-australia-evie-amati-ben-rimmer-petition-7-eleven-tinder love how they refer to that axeman as “she”.
https://calgarysun.com/news/local-news/bell-calgarys-bowfort-towers-how-city-hall-finally-stopped-spending-on-a-stupid-project
Regarding the “Modern Art” feature in this link: a ‘Black’ canvas is no more inspirational than the ‘White’ canvas which was recently featured in Art circles as being a piece of Art. The above article features what Calgary City Hall thinks is “Art.” What do you think? Isn’t it mind blowing?
Yesterday, January 25th @ 2:03 am, B A Rupertslander wrote in reply to Colonialista that he thought the black canvas “art work is rubbish, so I guess I’m a philistine.” I’m with B A on that one and the aforementioned pieces, especially Bowfort Towers on the Trans Canada in Calgary. So, I guess I’m a philistine too. Ha!
Installing all that scrap metal, under the premise of it being art, makes about as much sense as turning Edmonton’s High Level Bridge into the world’s largest carwash with its artificial waterfall.
I don’t know what’s worse: the city politicians who think up these cockamamie ideas or the clowns who vote them into office.
I guess my education must have been severely deficient as I actually consider something like a painting by Rembrandt as art and this stuff as complete nonsense.
Okay the artificial waterfall as a car wash could be cool, kinda like a log ride at Disney. As a young child I remember enjoying going through the tunnel of the car wash being pulled through the series of sprayers and brushes.
As to art, somewhere along the line the “arts community” decided that all that mattered was the message of the art, and it seems that artists now spend more time writing the artists “vision statement” about the message than in creating the art. The idea that the art should be able to make its own statement without external essays is considered passe. Actual technical skills in the selected media are considered vulgar and a liability.
Yeah, but the “artist statements” are often computer generated. Modern art is a scam.
https://artybollocks.com/
https://wisetoast.com/35-most-famous-paintings-of-all-times/
Here’s a link: the World’s most famous paintings.
My favourites art pieces have always been by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.*
* Released in 1956, “Lust for Life,” Kirk Douglas did an outstanding portrayal of Vincent van Gogh in a film about his tortured life.
Don’t forget Renoir.
Oui, oui, Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
https://youtu.be/o6amlRsb1n4
The giant carwash is a much better idea-rinsing off all that road salt would extend the cars’ lifetimes a great deal!
Having Lived in Harvest Hills, we who were forced to look at the Big Blue “O” just off the D’Foot & 96th, really had no say in it, just as no other Calgarian who’s taxes were spent on all the other Frivolous BS this Council and its spendthrift mayor have embarked on. A 25million dollar pedestrian Bridge over the Bow no one asked for, numerous BOGUS “Art” projects around the city…
GARBAGE…every bit of it….inlcuding the Bridge that required a few more million as it wasn’t welded properly.
Calgarians have had tax increases of 3.5% or more percent every year this Arrogant (_i_)hole of a Mayor & his Champagne Socialist Council has been in control. With a shrinking tax base, now they still “need” more $$$.
Strange that one never sees a reduction in their # 1 Budget Line Item..??
MUNICIPAL SALARIES – Benefits.
An issue that pervades Provincial and Federal Budgets as well.
it is time for Right to work legislation – De Certification of Public Service UNIONS.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/every-time-i-see-it-i-still-get-mad-calgarys-big-blue-ring-turns-three-years-old
The vulgar garbage that passes for art is theft of city money. They should be ashamed of themselves.
https://youtu.be/5WN8IAuUUuI
Can you just imagine if after today’s 9°C Chinook weather what the City would charge for snow removal if the rest of the winter were like as in the featured link?
I shudder to think of snowfall amounts like that! Let’s hope we don’t get socked now.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Council set to stickhandle fate of new arena, other mega-projects
And did I mention that there is a provincial and a federal election coming up this year?
I wonder how much is going to end up in the begging bowl.
Finally, did the city ever return the unused money from the Olympic bid to the province?
There are young beggars out panhandling. The rigs left for USA., some businesses are hurting. New houses aren’t selling as quickly as they used to in the past, resale housing is moving, but at a slower pace.
When times were great the city was happy to assess homes based on rising market value rates. Now that home prices have dropped guess what the city does? They raised, instead of lowered assessment rates to make up for a reduction from a vacancy rate downtown. Guess what that means? Property taxes are going up, yet again. One contractor announced that all new homes that they will build will now have solar panels. Not an option. I bet you they got a grant to foist this lovely new feature on buyers.
Nice screw, eh? A lot of them. Ho, hum.
We are well into the end times of Calgary’s and Alberta’s ‘progressive moment’ which was born of easy money and an influx of transplants. It’s over, Nenshi’s re-election notwithstanding. The easy money is gone. Thank God for the 2014 oil crash.
The perfect gift. Jim Acosta has written a book called “The Enemy of the People”, a phrase that dRumpf uses to try and discredit the fair and balanced media (unlike Faux).
I can’t wait to read it! I predict it will sell as well as Hillary’s book What Happened (dRumpf conspired with Putin to steal the election)!
https://www.apnews.com/d537f08a238f47438ff26e72dc2bf3a8
Check out the description of the media at the end of this
https://intellectualfroglegs.com/new-season-democrats-on-a-bus/
got him banned from Facebook!
The bus is too long.
30 day ban for quoting a widely read author? Hunter S Thompson would be shocked and he was hard to shock:
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.”
Now, that’s art…knitting together well chosen words…ha!
Thank you CNN for your instincts on getting footage of the extremely dangerous Roger Stone getting arrested this morning at 6 AM!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/25/cnn_reporter_instinct_led_us_to_get_footage_of_roger_stone_arrest_not_tip-off.html
Give this patriot a Pulitzer Prize!
CBC should hire that CNN psychic douche… member when Elections Canada “raided” Conservative headquarters with CBC douchebags and camera crew in tow !?!? That was kewl, and an astonishing act of extra sensory perception from the Liberal Party Broadcaster… It certainly wasn’t a supposedly neutral government agency, EC and the Liberal Party State Broadcaster CBC colluding together in a staged stunt before the taxpayer funded cameras in an effort to influence public opinion by showing the Conservatives in a negative light… no way Jose… uh, uh… besides Mueller and CNN are neutral, they don’t have an agenda to “get Trump”… I mean, come on…. evryone knows that, duh… anyhoo, I think that CNN dick-weed’s super powers could be put to good use for the Liberal Party Broadcaster CBC… Mueller is a such a nice man and of course he is the main actor in the contingency plan (coup) just in case Americans don’t elect that corrupt bitch Hitlery and somehow Trump wins… well, i gotta go look at my sock collection now… busy, busy, busy… toodles.
You parody yourself
BS is still BS and cr@p is still cr@P.
OAC wants a 70% tax on the rich and the bandwagon is filling up.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-aocs-billionaires-taxes-hannity-american-democracy.html
The journalist quotes the founding fathers of America. For example, Jefferson…
“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree is a politic measure, and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right…It is too soon yet in our country to say that every man who cannot find employment but who can find uncultivated land, shall be at liberty to cultivate it, paying a moderate rent. But it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
Or British political theorist James Harrington…
“where there is inequality of estates, there must be inequality of power, and where there is inequality of power, there can be no commonwealth.”
I have just one problem. People, like OAC, only talk of taking money from the rich. They never talk about putting the peasants back to work with their little plots of land. This is because the politicians are using the poor peasants only as a convenient example to further concentrate their own wealth. The money will be taken, but it will not be redistributed in earnest. When money is taken and reallocated who wins? The sick peasants or the insurance companies who lobby the politicians with trips to the Caribbean?
You can add Bono to that:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/bono-capitalism-is-a-wild-beast-that-if-not-tamed-can-chew-up-lives.html
In short, it’s nothing but elitists deciding who gets to join their cozy little club. Those who don’t qualify need to have their wealth confiscated through “taxes”.
Wise words.
In the inevitable end, the collectivists always claim it was not their intent to put the citizen into serfdom, just its “unfortunate” outcome, which is of course the fault of the capitalists, whom they replace as our oligarchical, walled in neo-regents.
It doesn’t matter which people, country or hemisphere, good or bad leadership either.
Statism purportedly starts as individualist, but always ends up collectivist.
The only discernable difference is the direction from which the draining of prosperity and liberty circles down to servitude.
Trudeau’s media is excited that Mohammed Justin is giving 15 million dollars to Toronto in order to move illegal migrants from shelters to nice hotel rooms. No word yet on whether they get free passes to theaters in the entertainment district.
Here we go again. No pipelines will ever get built in Canada again. Tides et al have done their work well while Canadians and our oil companies slept. Tides should be charge with domestic terrorism.
“Coastal GasLink stops work on pipeline in northern B.C., says traps placed on site
Coastal GasLink has stopped work on a pipeline project in northwestern B.C. where 14 people were arrested earlier this month.
In a notice posted on its website Thursday, the company says it halted work in an area south of Houston, B.C., because traps had been placed inside construction boundaries and people were entering the site, raising safety concerns.”
https://energynow.ca/2019/01/coastal-gaslink-stops-work-on-pipeline-over-trapline-dispute-in-northern-b-c/?source=de&wtv
It wouldn’t surprise me if Prinz Dummkopf or Buttshead paid Tides for those activities.
Then again, thinking back to my time in Vancouver while I was a grad student nearly 40 years ago, I met people there sufficiently unhinged that they would do that sort of thing for free, believing that they were serving some higher purpose.
Running a D8 thru the right of way should take care of that quickly.
Back in the day, that was the very quick way to clear out all the pecker poles.
Sorry this is not a tip,
just wanted to say,
those who say Trump caved, probably did not listen to his speech,
he did not give up or cave, he gave 3 weeks to democrats to behave, thus offered a 3 week truce, and warned them if they don t behave and cooperate, then he will declare a state of emergency and use the military to build the wall
he gave Democrats one last chance
he did not cave
he gave them an ultimatum
ul·ti·ma·tum
Dictionary result for ultimatum
/ˌəltəˈmādəm/
noun
noun: ultimatum; plural noun: ultimata; plural noun: ultimatums
a final demand or statement of terms, the rejection of which will result in retaliation or a breakdown in relations.
Well, the simpleton press had to take their premature victory lap. Don’t expect them to examine things seriously or deeply. Shallow schmucks.
Unfortunately, the shutdown was also affecting allies of TRUMP, indirectly. Government approvals to businesses, all travellers, etc. Look at the travel controllers, nice strategy, all call in sick, shut down La Guardia. Pathetic.
Going Reagan on them would not have worked, not in this day and age
He folded like a cheap suit.
Huh. John Himpe. I remember when.
Something I never thought I would see on the CBC
An honest interview with Max!
https://youtu.be/NFwj4jStIlM
Of course it’s an honest interview, after all when the conserative vote splits Juthin wins!
“Something I never thought I would see on the CBC An honest interview with Max!”
You’ll be seeing more of those interviews in the coming months. You will see just enough of them to ensure that the non liberal voter is aware there is a choice other than the conservative choice.
remember those bumpah stickas ‘cops are tops’?
whens the last time ya saw one of those?
maybe they’re not so ‘tops’ anymore.
my 2 most recent OIPRD complaints against the local boyz in bloo were successful and resulted in discreditable conduct added to the personnel file of three of them. I sent a 3rd complaint for the exact same thing via registered mail last tuesday 22nd or whatever. plus I have 2 more in the ‘out mail’ box for 2 different issues.
cops are liars and bullies and/or tolerate that behaviour when they see it.
cops are NOT ‘tops’ in 2019. want further proof?
https://cfjctoday.com/article/627331/11b-rcmp-bullying-and-harassment-lawsuit-no-surprise-retired-cop
cops are now and have been for decades turning on their OWN people.
kinda like communism eh?
‘the mounties always get their man’. uhuh. and female colleague and student work placement candidate and civilian employee and civilian volunteer.
and who the FCUK gets to pay the ginormous settlement? do the offenders get their ASSests seized?
hell no, ’tis ye taxe paiyer’ eh !
time to get WOKE o conservatist reflex supporter of law enFARCEment.
I had a 1 season I.T. contract with a stage company back in ’90.
the term ‘artspeak’ was bandied about.
it’s an old practice.
Seems like former Liberal (now independent) addicted gambling MP Grewal announced late last night that he has gone thru treatment and paid back the millions of $$$’s of loans he racked up with family and friends.
How is this possible? Why is he still an MP?
https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/247729/MP-learns-gambling-lesson
Where did he get the money?
CNN lying swine.Also I forgot about the Manitoba farmer arrest I wonder if freedom of info would point to who actually ordered that Gestapo action.
They’re just mixed up adolescent terrorists so counsel them, make them feel good about themselves again, that’s the ticket.
Unless they’re adolescent Catholic boys with MAGA hats at a pro life rally, then ruin the mother(you know the rest).
“Empathy for the Devil.”
Embattled congressional freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., once asked a judge to show leniency toward a group of Minnesota men accused of trying to join the Islamic State terror group.”
“The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion,” she wrote at the time. “We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to effect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation.”
The nine Minnesota men were facing decades in prison after being accused in 2015 of making plans, including buying fake passports, in an effort to travel to Syria and fight for ISIS, which was at its peak level of activity and held territory in Syria and Iraq.”
Hug a thug, punch a Catholic in the face, especially when they smirk. Got it
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-ilhan-omar-plea-for-lenient-sentences-for-men-accused-of-trying-to-join-isis-resurface
Hundreds Of Homemade Food Businesses Flourish Under State Food Freedom Laws
link to Forbes piece at Dyspepsia Generation
http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=182443
This was on the radio 45 years ago when I was a freshman undergrad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0OwvsP0ek
It still sounds as fresh and alive as it did back then.
More of Kevin Williamson’s apparent epiphany that maybe the Fake Future is a greater threat to civil discourse than Donald Trump.
Many are coming late in the game but they are not playing.
“The Future Is Fake.”
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was challenged by 60 Minutes on one of her patently absurd claims — that there are trillions of dollars in Pentagon accounting errors, sufficient to fund most of her Medicare-for-all scheme — the New York socialist elected as a Democrat protested that it was morally wrong to be “more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” No, she apparently does not know what “semantic” means, but she knows what she is trying to say: Lies — and a willful exaggeration is only a cowardly kind of lie — are just another tool in the arsenal of social justice.”
This is the new normal for American democratic discourse — a national conversation that no longer performs the function of democratic discourse at all.”
In the absence of a hierarchy of credibility, the only hierarchy that remains is the crude hierarchy of popularity. Rage and extremism build audiences, especially on social media. Measured and intelligent conversation? Not really. Celebrity (or notoriety, increasingly indistinguishable commodities) is the reason Kanye West is a more important voice in the national political conversation than is, say, George Will. President Trump may be vain to fret so much about his ratings and crowd sizes — or he may just be ahead of the curve.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/02/11/the-future-is-fake/
Toronto Sun reports that two Toronto hotels are now full with illegal migrants. They are provided with maid service, gym, and swimming pool services. One of them received a new electric wheelchair at taxpayer expense. That is so progressive.
This just in from CBC.
Trudeau has just fired McCallum.
Well its not like the drunken McCallum was a good friend of Justin. If it was a drunken good friend he would just get another cabinet position.
I guess Prime Minister Butts could not handle any more gaffs from Johnny Walker McCallum, so like a good liberal he had to walk the plank. I’m not sure what sort of plum job he will get but he probably be well paid.
I wonder where he will end up. I am sure he will get another appointment, guy has been around so long he must have dirt on people.
Incidentally, every time I see him, I think of Droopy Dog.
Yes. For letting the cat out of the bag.
Good riddance. Now we must fire Trudeau before the Marines forcibly retire him from his post as Beijing’s man in Ottawa.
Rather they tie him to a post…
Good riddance to McCallum for sure.
Here’s a post on McCallum’s doubling down on his previous stupidity, which even this government couldn’t abide.
“Canada’s ambassador to China John McCallum resigns at Trudeau’s request.”
The prime minister did not immediately issue an explanation, but the move came just hours after McCallum was quoted in a Vancouver newspaper as saying it would be “great for Canada” if the United States dropped its extradition request for Meng Wanzhou.”
“From Canada’s point of view, if (the U.S.) drops the extradition request, that would be great for Canada,” McCallum told the StarMetro Vancouver.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-s-ambassador-to-china-john-mccallum-resigns-at-trudeau-s-request-1.4270477
UK security services are investigating 700 live terror plots as counter-terrorism bosses reveal they have thwarted 18 since Westminster horror
700 live investigations into terror plots are being carried out at present
Britain’s most senior counter terrorism officer Neil Basu warned of deadly plots
He revealed 18 potentially deadly plots had been thwarted since March 2017
Said a resurgent Al Qaeda remains ‘a prominent threat to the UK and its… allies’
…MI5 chief Mr Parker briefed the Cabinet yesterday about efforts to deal with the risk from individuals known as ‘closed subjects of interest (SOIs)’, who have been investigated in the past but are considered still to pose a threat.
Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood and Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi were both classed as closed SOIs when they carried out their atrocities in 2017.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6621287/UK-security-services-investigating-700-live-terror-plots.html
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L- Who will ask Mr. Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and P.M. Justin Trudeau
“How many live investigations into Islamist terrorist plots are ongoing in Canada?”
However, we’re more likely to get a response by asking the F.B.I.?
End game for Venezuela’s Maduro…
Enduring and daily insults (however much deserved) from foreign gov’t and some media, would see Maduro die at age 90 like a Castro, however isolated / hated.
But having the squeeze put on him while his access to capitalism’s cash dries up and being unable to fund / grease the palms of the military, I’d expect a heightened sense of desperation to set in, in the next few weeks.
… and a cascading affect on Cuba’s new-ish regime. Recall what the Cubans term the “special period” after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/01/26/bank-of-england-blocks-maduros-access-to-venezuelas-gold-holdings/
Meanwhile in the E.U. …. they’re giving Maduro 8 days to call an election:
http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2019/01/myths-snap-election-venezuela.html.
“The only way to have quick fair elections is to let Europe and other countries run the elections directly. Which they cannot do, nor a willing to do.”
yup, “good luck with that” …
CTV reports that Canada’s obsolete military helicopters have reached the end of the line. However they will not be replaced, instead 800 million dollars will be spent to upgrade them. They will go nicely with our used jets from Australia.
Trudeau and the Libranos are afraid of Canada having working military helicopters, for good reason.
Perhaps Butts et al are waiting for solar powered helicopters to be developed.
And, instead of bullets, they’ll shoot marshmallows. After all, if you kill the enemy, the enemy wins, right?
The stripper who looks like a senator, or is it a senator who looks like a stripper:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/she-looks-like-a-stripper-dem-az-senator-kyrsten-sinema-wears-a-mini-dress-with-thigh-high-boots-on-senate-floor/