63 Replies to “July 17, 2019: Reader Tips”

  1. Maxime Bernier Retweeted

    David Millard Haskell
    @DMillardHaskell

    And this is why @peoplespca
    policy on free expression must become law.

    Lindsay was silenced for pushing back against a predatory individual.

    She was doing what good citizens are supposed to do. She behaved with courage & stood up & spoke out.

    I pray for more Lindsays. Soon

    Barbara Kay
    @BarbaraRKay

    BREAKING: Twitter silences Canadian free speech activist Lindsay Shepherd

    https://www.thepostmillennial.com/breaking-twitter-silences-canadian-free-speech-activist-lindsay-shepherd/

    https://mobile.twitter.com/peoplespca

    Maxime Bernier Retweeted

    Tom Quiggin
    @TomTSEC

    Remember.

    Politics today has nothing to do with solving problems or creating opportunities.

    It is about virtue signalling/media ops to exploit identity politics to impress folks how woke you are.

    Western civilization has lost it values and we are being run by ignorant fools.

    1. It sure looks post-national to me, completely lacking in a core identity.

    2. one day when she realized the country’s shorelines and provincial borders could be represented as animals.

      Uh … yeah … if you draw contorted bears and God knows what kind of rodents into shapes that look nothing like Canada’s profile.

      That “one day” must have been when marijuana was legalized in Canada

    3. 1st thought. That’s a coin?
      2nd thought. I’ve seen better fridge magnets
      3rd thought. Why is there a dog humping a bird?

    4. There used to be a time when Canadian kids would collect stamps or coins and end up with a reasonably complete collection quite far back. Then the government decided to ruin the hobby by creating many coins and 100 or so stamps a year for the “collector’s market”. These are items that don’t generally circulate and 99.999% of the population never sees. Greed has no bounds.

      1. I was like that. When I was a kid I used to buy every new issue of a Canadian stamp. Somewhere or another in the house I have a collection of every Canadian stamp from about 1973 to 1978.

  3. After a long delay, John Paul Stevens’ date in the Court of the Almighty arrived Tuesday, after he suffered a stroke on Monday.

    According to the CBC, Stevens will be bound to explain to the Court—one where, unlike most earthly courts, only the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth may be spoken—why he “acted to limit the death penalty, squelch official prayer in schools, establish gay rights…and preserve legal abortion” in flagrant defiance of the divine Law.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/john-paul-stevens-supreme-court-obituary-1.5214443

    1. Good riddance to a man who comprehensively violated his oath to uphold the Constitution of the US.

    2. The scoc has been a pox on Canada and Canadians for generations now. anytime anything is refered to the scoc you can be sure of a left leaning socialist outcome.

    1. From the info @ 1:05 am…re: “The Landing…”
      ….”unexpected boulder field and an unacceptably sloping crater loomed below. With fuel dwindling”…

      Not for the faint hearted. The astronauts had courage beyond belief. I hadn’t remembered that critical close call until reminded at this 50th Anniversary!

      Enjoyed the link.

      1. Nancy, I look forward to all the claims of fraud and it didn’t happen memes that are going to be all over the net. I particularly get a kick out of Americans who are more than willing refuse to acknowledge an American accomplishment that is possibly the greatest maned flight feat ever.

        1. Going to the moon was all about weight. That’s one reason that lunar orbital rendezvous was chosen. Whatever didn’t need to be returned was abandoned.

          That included fuel. Why launch more than would be needed if it’s going to be left behind? The missions were planned to the exact second and the required fuel load was determined accordingly. However, since Apollo 11 was the first attempt at a landing, it would likely have carried more fuel than would have theoretically been required in order to allow for last-minute changes in the procedure.

          Later missions had even slimmer fuel margins but, by then, the crews had a better sense of how to land and the time required for that.

          1. methinks out of the 100s of millions of Americans who, given other circumstances, may have become candidates for the astronaut corps . . . . it was Neil and only Neil who was the right choice.

            the 20 seconds of fuel tells me that.

            migawd, talk about cool headed. did *anything* fluster that man ever?
            I hope there is a hereafter sose I can shake his hand in a private moment and tell him my view of his view emphasizing TEAMWORK over and over again.

            and Buzz. migawd, the p-e-r-f-e-c-t other member of the Apollo 11 team. like these 2 were so in synch with providing what the other, and listening to the other, only what needed to be shared in those numerous time critical moments.

            and watching the recent slew of documentaries, Mike Collins rounded it all out, providing exactly and only what was necessary. so grateful I lived thru that exciting time and historical moment.

            I used to have that 3 foot tall Revel plastic model of the Saturn vehicle. gave it to the neighbor’s kid when we moved.

            God Bless the American taxpayer who paid for the whole thing !!!!

      3. You’re welcome.

        Deke Slayton couldn’t have chosen a better crew for the first landing. Both Armstrong and Aldrin flew jets in Korea (Armstrong USN and Aldrin USAF).

        Armstrong demonstrated his ability to get out of difficult situations during one mission over North Korean territory. The Norks were known for placing steel cables across valleys and gorges as a way of bringing down enemy aircraft. During one mission, his plane hit one of them, taking off a large part of one wing. Instead of immediately ejecting (and likely being taken prisoner), he managed to get back over friendly territory, after which he bailed out.

        He was also an experienced test pilot, having flown the X-15.

        Aldrin developed many of the techniques which are now common practice during an extravehicular activity, trying them out during Gemini XII. His background was in celestial mechanics and he studied orbital rendezvous for his doctoral thesis. During his Gemini mission, the on-board navigation computer malfunctioned, so he helped Jim Lovell find the Agena target vehicle using a sextant.

        I’ve heard two different accounts as to why the landing didn’t quite go as planned.

        One is that Armstrong landed long as the intended landing site was covered with boulders that nobody knew were there. The other is that there was a programming error and the computer took Eagle along a different trajectory. (One consequence of that would have been that the crew wouldn’t have found certain lunar landmarks that would have been necessary for navigation and as timing points.)

        Armstrong, I believe, overrode the computer and started flying the Lunar Module manually.

        As for the 1201 and 1202 alarms, nobody seemed to know what those meant. As it turned out, it simply meant that the computer was overloaded. Ground controllers decided that this wasn’t a problem and decided to continue with the landing.

        2. @ 10:33 am :

          Appreciate your informative insight.

          The collective experiences of these men and the others on the ground who added valuable imput is what made the first moonwalk a complete success.

          Would’ve liked to have been a fly on the wall at the Johnson Space Center on July 20th,1969.

        3. BA.

          Apollo was long supposedly due to the separation of the Lunar Module from the command module. There was a tiny bit of air pressure between the two modules when the first separated. This gave the LM a little extra velocity and they ended up a little down range from the target. Hence they encountered a crater and a boulder field.

          Gene Kranz wrote an interesting book, I think it was called “Failure is not an Option”. In it he mentions giving the flight controllers some extra simulations (ones with lots of problems, hence designed to fail). During the simulations they discovered the 1201 and 1202 alarms. Can’t remember if they aborted the flight in the simulation, but they discovered the 1201, 1202, and a few other alarms could be ignored.

          Fascinating the amount of team work required to pull off the launch, landing, and return.

          1. I heard the docking tunnel air story as well, but I can’t see how that could have had such an effect. Both spacecraft were below atmospheric pressure and there’s not that much volume inside the docking tunnel.

            As it turned out, the boulder field wasn’t anticipated because previous observations that were made of the area indicated that none were there.

            During training, the simulation operators did whatever they could to kill the crew, so to speak. They tried all sorts of combinations of failures or glitches to, if nothing else, see how Armstrong and Aldrin would react.

            Apparently, during one session, Armstrong damaged the simulator. The operators had, if I remember correctly, cut out the engine and the Lunar Module was coming straight down. Armstrong deliberately didn’t do anything because he wanted to see if the ground controllers would notice and give further instructions.

            From what I heard, most of the controllers didn’t know what the 1201 and 1202 alarms meant. It was, apparently, the back-room boffins who figured out that they weren’t fatal.

            Since the alarms meant that the computer was overloaded, I wonder if the discrepancies with respect to the landing site might not have been a result of something like round-off error.

  5. It takes a real artist’s vision to see that Saskatchewan is shaped exactly like a whitetail deer crammed into a rectangular box. (I was born and raised here, have lived most of my life here, and I had to look it up, I couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a gopher crammed into a rectangular box to represent Saskatchewan or a coyote crammed into a rectangular box to represent Saskatchewan. )

  6. It’s not quite the loonie,
    or the toonie,
    or even the galoonie,
    but how about that…
    introducing the zooloonie!

    1. Animal Porn.
      I don’t know if the artist can claim We Were Here First Nation status. If not then the animal depictions are cultural expropriation for sure, eh.

      1. Perhaps they should have shown all the large mammals that became extinct after the First Nations arrived.

    1. Great article

      All truthful

      Time will tell how brainwashed Canadians really are well find out October 22 morning I think It’s going to be a close one

  10. The Black Hole of Debt

    The total amount of city, county, and state retirement debt Chicagoans are on the hook for amounts to $150 billion, according to Moody’s most recent pension data. If we look at the city’s one million plus households, that means that each household is on the hook for nearly $145,000 to cover government employee pensions. They can forget their own pensions. One-fifth of Chicagoans live in poverty and nearly half of all Chicago households make less than $50,000 a year. There is no possible way to raise taxes to cover these obligations.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/pension-crisis/the-black-hole-of-debt/

  12. File this under May Spells Disaster:
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/what-elizabeth-may-wants-to-do-with-canadian-oil/ar-AAEpKWm?ocid=spartandhp
    Liz: “And now that we know we have to hold at 1.5 or we really are playing Russian roulette with whether humanity survives.”
    and “The IPCC report of Oct. 8, 2018 [which warned countries have 12 years to avoid a climate catastrophe] changed a lot for the world. It is absolutely required reading for anyone who’s a serious political figure.”

    1. Ah, bull pucky.
      If it was a concern I wouldn’t be watching car ads on TV.
      This American, “scientific” retard would not be living on Salt Spring Island if there was any truth to this claim. You see her paddling a carved out log to go to the nearest grocery store, once the ones on SSI are outta grub? Hubby is blind, to boot.

    2. They said much the same thing in 1989 only it was 11 years to catastrophe. So it’s now 30 years later and no catastrophe.

      If global warming was a real emergency, Liz May and her green friends wouldn’t fly on airplanes. They wouldn’t drive SUVs. They’d travel in electric cars, recharging them using solar panels. If flying was necessary, then solar powered dirigibles would suffice for them.

  13. Here in “progressive” Canada we don’t believe in locking dangerous criminals up. We put them in one of the few mental hospitals left in the country, because obviously they are just suffering some form of mental illness caused by colonial attitudes and white supremacy. The Toronto Sun reports that an Asian man who can’t speak English very well, walked away from the mental hospital in Toronto and took an international flight out of the country. The man was put in the hospital for murdering someone but declared mentally unfit. Seems he was mentally fit enough to grab his passport and money to buy a plane ticket. Its so progressive. The Toronto Star hasn’t blamed Doug Ford yet.

    1. “…and took an international flight out of the country. …”

      Never mind pursuing, let’s see if we can keep him out.

  14. Edmonton area is epicentre for syphilis outbreak in Alberta and has almost two thirds of the cases.

    A ten fold increase in cases from 2014.

    Now correlation does not mean causation, but this increase from 2014 to 2018 corresponds fairly nicely to when the NDP were in power. And the vast majority of the cases are in the NDP city.

    I won’t say the NDP causes syphilis, but the “science” that it does is stronger than the global warming science.

    https://www.google.ca/amp/s/edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/infectious-syphilis-outbreak-declared-in-alberta/amp

    1. So if Toronto is The Big Stink I mean Smoke wouldn’t this make Edmonton The Big Drip?

  15. “Yet we may also reasonably ask: What explains the Pollyanna-ish declinism of so many others? That is, the stance that Things-Are-Really-Bad—But-Not-So-Bad-that-We-Have-to-Consider-Anything-Really-Different! ”

    http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/

    I was reading that. Came to that “things are really bad but not bad enough” line, and wow, is that spot on, or what. When you hear yet another person saying something like “Scheer is the only chance to get rid of Trudeau” “don’t throw your vote away”; these are the words that describe precisely what is going on.

    Is this election Canada’s flight 93 election? Maybe, maybe not. It is looking that way to me; but then again, I am the one who always assumes a rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and not just the wind. So I will survive either way. Maybe 2015 was the flight 93 election, and the only chance now is to rush for the exists with UDI parachutes.

    UK might have also already passed the point of no return under May.

    1. What was the name of that guy who was on here saying “I’ve been on the front lines for 30 years”?

      Well, you delivered continuous and uninterrupted failure. It is as if they really do believe that everything is wrong, but nothing has to change.

      1. Ahem! Knitting would require that he has certain talents….. and I’m sure you know which ones I’m referring to.

  19. and another thing on the entire space exploration issue:
    I firmly believe some time in the future, crew and payload should arrive in SEPARATE vehicles.
    ie the shuttle was a seriously flawed notion right from the start.

    why not put the mortal crew in a much smaller vehicle with all sorts of backup safety measures including such things as one of those ‘airplane parachutes’ and such? why the f not? WHY does the multiple tonnes of payload HAVE TO go along with the crew? hmmm?
    *make an extraordinarily reliable MANNED vehicle with the usual improvements, to get the crew in orbit safely, and then the payload separately. for that matter, *launch the payload first to make sure it gets launched ok*.

    fer cryin out loud, NASA could put all manner of payloads in orbit as opportunities occur and just LEAVE THEM THERE until a crew trained and prepped follows many months later. satellites of all sorts, parts of bigger vehicles, on and on.

    it aint like hauling a camper trailer along for vacation. space flight is different mr NASA.

    1. It’s a matter of money. Having to prepare two launch sites for two flights would, most likely, be more expensive.

      One time NASA used two separate boosters was Skylab. The station, Skylab 1, was launched using the last Saturn V, which made sense as the orbital workshop was built inside an S-IVB frame. The ascent went wrong and the exterior of the station was damaged when parts of the exterior micrometeroid shielding, as well as one of the main photovoltaic arrays, were torn off.

      The crews for Skylabs 2 – 4 were launched on Saturn S-IBs and the first two worked on the station in order to make it habitable.

      1. perhaps.
        but methinks also the crew vehicle by its very nature could be made so robust as to be very reusable.
        also, compare this notion against the ginormous costs and losses with the status quo approach.
        and YEARS of delays fixing things when crew die as opposed to yer typical payload launch oopise . . .

        Im having flashbacks this talk of Saturn boosters . . . .

  23. Matt Drudge’s future is now realized:

    “In 1998, Drudge gave a speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in which he mapped out a future. He dreamed of a national press free of editors and beholden not to corporate masters but driven by the ever industrial spirit of the American citizen reporter.

    Back then, after taking the lead on the explosive Monica Lewinsky scandal, Drudge told the Press Club that ‘…clearly there is a hunger for unedited information, absent corporate considerations.’

    But despite that hunger, the beast of the internet was misunderstood by those who considered themselves ‘experts.’ But Drudge, operating out of his Hollywood bedroom, knew that the world had ‘entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.’

    As he explained that night that with each technological advance that causes disruption, what separated the internet apart from even talk radio was the ‘the two-way communication.’ ”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/07/15/matt-drudges-future-is-now-realized-and-that-has-legacy-media-enraged-n2550087

  25. 715 pm Eastern
    Trump is holding a rally in Greenville North Carolina at any minute.
    VP Pence is speaking at present. The stadium is packed, the crowds are going wild.

  26. President Trump addresses feud with the
    “Progressive” “Squad” @ NC Rally… you know who they are.

    He is VERY comical tonight!

    1. He was great. Very inspiring. I think those who hate Trump never bother to watch his rallies or State of the Union — always good. They just accept media slurs at face value.

  27. Great Leader continues his taxpayer funded election tour in Quebec Thursday. He meets once again with elites from the European Union. Climate Barbie will be joining him, so God help us what those two dolts promise Europe. And don’t think that little Justin has given up on burning jet fuel. Tomorrow afternoon he spews carbon into the air as he burns jet fuel all the way to B.C. to throw money around. Nothing to do with the election of course.

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