87 Replies to “August 9, 2019: Reader Tips”

    1. Interesting, but I won’t accept any energy source advice from someone until they can explain the difference between higher and lower heating values of different fuels.

      Hint: There is no difference for coal, there is a lot of difference for gas.
      Hint 2: It has something to do with how much hydrogen is in the fuel source.

    2. Allan, when all the “green” foolishness has been washed away, and oil and gas are finally depleted, how ever long that may be, coal will again be used for hundreds of years to enable man to survive. It exists in massive quantities and can be changed from solid to liquid to gaseous. You nor I will be around.

    4. The coal is still there and will be used beneficially for everyone – the greens can, of course, forgoe electricity in the future as it will be produced by coal and nuclear for centuries to come 🙂

    5. I suggest you folks have a look at a couple of the charts in that article.

      Sleep you say? Maybe. Pretty hard to make coal both economic and clean. It is currently neither unlike NG. Simply market forces at work with the side benefit of much cleaner air and less carbon pollution if you are into that sort of thing.

      1. Technology advances and economic realities change. Clean air is great. Funny how so many eco-f**ktards hate nuclear energy.

    6. Coal has been “dead” for millions of years. Folks have only been “recycling” it for a few hundred years.

      It does not require special pressure vessels or pipelines for transport. You can store the stuff in bulk, outdoors and in all sorts of weather, for years, if needed. Try that with gas.

      You CANNOT (economically) make steel with gas. Look up the chemistry of reducing iron oxide. Then you need a fair bit of oxygen to process the “pig iron” (loaded with carbon and other impurities) so that it can be made into something useful, like steel.

    1. SOOO … Irish-Mexican O’Rourke is running to be the last President of the USA?

  6. MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI counterintelligence official, proves dRumpf is a Nazi!

    FRANK FIGLIUZZI: “And I’ll give you an example of that. We have to understand the adversary and the threat we’re dealing with. And if we don’t understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to counter them. So, it’s little things and language and messaging that matters. The President said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8th. That’s 8/8.
    Now, I’m not going to imply that he did this deliberately but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers “88” are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet and, to them, the numbers “88” together stand for “Heil Hitler.”

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/07/msnbc_contributor_frank_figliuzzi_discovers_hidden_nazi_message_in_white_house_statement.html

    Also, white supremacists are running wild in Canada too! If you doubt this, turn on the news!

    1. Pat,

      You are downplaying the credentials of Frank F.

      “C. Frank Figliuzzi is the former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence and a previous chief inspector of the FBI.” This guy ran the FBI Counterintelligence and National Security Division from 2011-2012 in the Obama years. He was promoted all the way to Chief Inspector and reported directly to the guy running the FBI.

      This man was one of the best and brightest stars of the Famous But Incompetent. A Numerological Loony Tune that could give Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam lessons in the meaning of numbers. Now he says anything that his paymasters at MSNBC demand to denigrate President Donald Trump.

    2. Pat are all socialists as foolish as you? Trump is a Nazi? Everyday the stupid gets deeper.

    3. That Andy Scheer … wheeew … radioactive!

      /sarc just in case. He’s a nice man, we can say that about him.

    4. Pat, your parody of a progressive wasn’t funny more than once. You’re just boring now.

      1. Pat’s parody is still great.Reality however has moved on.
        What we once thought was utterly impossible,as in the progressive comrades will never be so stupid as to go there,has become real.
        They are evil and stupid and they want power,power at all costs.
        Possibly because they cannot imagine that other persons holding power might be less vicious than they know themselves to be?

        The Media and their useful idiots are franticly digging, even as saner citizens back away from the ever expanding hole, more progs leap in with shovels;”We can fix the whole,we just need to dig deeper”.

        Watching them demonstrate their decent into total batshit rabid craziness , is fascinating.
        Frightening, but fascinating.
        How low will they go?
        I believe the hole will be their tomb, this insane ideology is flaming out.
        The partial collapse of civil society they are causing will bury them.
        Big Government is going down,for a generation or two.
        Until the citizens once again forget the incompetence and madness of the bureaus and the useless eaters.

    5. “Also, white supremacists are running wild in Canada too!” It’s funny how I have never met one since they make up half the population.

  7. Get Woke, Go Broke!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySVxs7bRjh8

    “Doctor Who is rumored to be in turmoil at this moment as Series 12 concludes with major sackings and an angry BBC! Both Chibnall and Whittaker have allegedly been replaced for Series 13…and the next Doctor will be MALE! Join me for this breakdown of the latest rumors from one of my industry spies!”

    Apparently there was outrage among the licensees of merchandise about the poor sales, and a few other things.

    1. That’s Nothing! Disney took the entire Star Wars Franchise and trashed it.

      http://ace.mu.nu/archives/382714.php

      Ace also goofed on the Disney announcement that they were going to reboot “Home Alone,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” and “A Night at the Museum,” in a funny post on Wednesday, 8/8. I would link it, but Kate’s blog doesn’t like multiple links in a comment.

      At least the Dr. Who people appear amenable to reason?

      1. My association with Doctor Who goes back to the original series with William Hartnell in the role. CBC used to show it on Saturday afternoons, which then moved it to Wednesdays, after which it disappeared.

        It wasn’t until the early to mid-1980s that I started watching it again, thanks to PBS. The show had pretty much run its course by the time that Sylvester McCoy played the Doctor as the stories were becoming limp and the writers had run out of ideas.

        I started watching the revived series when it was on CBC, but I gave up part-way during David Tennant’s tenure as the stories had become far too silly for me. The show simply wasn’t as good as the original run.

        Actually, I think the series started going downhill when the late John Nathan Turner took over as producer some 40 years ago. He changed a lot of things, including the opening title sequence and theme, variations of which were used for years. The stories became more violent, something that upset a number of fans.

        I’m sure that JNT might have contributed to Tom Baker leaving the show. Baker is considered by many fans to have been the most popular actor in the role.

        Hey, BBC: if it works, don’t fix it!

        1. It never worked, hence the BBC producing it. Much like anything the CBC produces.

          1. The original show, produced by Canadian Sydney Newman, was originally meant as children’s entertainment and was designed to last only a few weeks. The premiere episode was well-received by critics, though it was overshadowed by JFK’s assassination.

            It was able to continue, at least until John Nathan-Turner took over, because the writing was good and imaginative. Fans loved the show and it spawned two movies, a stage play, and, I believe, some radio dramas.

            The whole gimmick of regeneration began because William Hartnell wanted to quit because of health reasons. Rather than ending the show, it was decided to have another actor take over. That happens often in TV shows, but this was done with a twist. The Doctor was an extra-terrestrial (a Gallifreyan Time Lord, as it turned out) and, so, their bodies would be renewed through a metamorphosis. The Hartnell Doctor was transformed into the one played by Patrick Troughton.

            It was things like this that kept the show fresh and running for as long as it did at first. However, the BBC went through a strike nearly 40 years ago and just about everything was shut down. One Tom Baker episode was never completed and fragments of it were used in the 20th anniversary special episode The Five Doctors.

            At around that same time, John Nathan-Turner was made producer and he changed a lot of things with the show. Many fans disliked what he did.

            As I mentioned earlier, the opening sequence was changed, including the theme. The same tune, written by Ron Grainer, was still used. However, the arrangement, based on the original version played by Delia Derbyshire (performed on an early synthesizer), was replaced by one that was more rock-oriented. (I actually liked it myself.)

            Tom Baker continued for another year and many of those episodes weren’t particularly good. He was replaced by Peter Davison, but, by then, a lot of what made Doctor Who a fun show was gone.

          2. Tinkering with what worked is nothing new to the BBC.

            During the late 1980s, it produced the excellent science fiction series Star Cops, which starred David Calder as the lead character. The show was set in the late 2020s and was based on what people imagined what life in space would by like, including several orbiting space stations and bases on the moon. It even foresaw a hand-held computer which used a form of artificial intelligence and was a lot like a smartphone.

            The gimmick was that there were enough people in space in the early 21st century that there would be a need for a police force.

            It was quite good, but only 9 episodes were made, even though the potential for several more were there. On the other hand, it did end while it was ahead. The series has, as a result, gained a cult following.

            In the commentary on my DVD copy of the series, one of the writers explained that there was a lot of in-fighting and questionable decisions were made, resulting in the show running aground.

    1. I guess Juthtin needs foot soldiers for the completion of his plans to make Canaduh sharia-compliant. Please re-elect the stupid prick for 4 more years, so we can GTFO out of this mess of a country.

      1. He will cheat and “win” We all know it. Doubt whether Alberta will go. The Feds will surround the place, I fear.

        1. The Feds can surround the place but Albertans have a long history of keeping the “RATS” out.

  9. Muslim Brotherhood Has “Infiltrated Canadian Government, Society”: Ex- Muslim Journalist

    CAP doesn’t see Ivison, John Ibbison, Chantal Hebert and Andrew Coyne enlightening Canadians regarding any element of King Justin’s covert plan of cultural eradication. This would, in effect, CUT OFF the tax-payer funding the Liberals have blessed Liberal-Globalist media with.

    Muslim Brotherhood calling the shots within Canadian society? Of course, it SOUNDS absurd, but the sound of it in no way negates the possibility. We are living in a Trudeau Canada–a precarious place to live for Conservatives, Christians and Anglophones. And yet within Justin’s “no core identity” Canada these folks benefit from “white privilege.”

    How absurd.

    — BRAD SALZBERG

    https://capforcanada.com/muslim-brotherhood-has-infiltrated-canadian-government-society-ex-muslim-journalist/

    1. “… the fall of Rome in 476 AD when the last pretend Emperor reigned (Romulus Augustus (575-476AD)).”

      Apparently, Romulus was a time traveller.

      1. Indeed.

        And he we go again with this “Fall of Rome” nonsense too, one of the oldest – and most hackneyed – analogies on the books.

        The disintegration of the Roman Empire in the West is simply a conventional “marker” for the end of the classical era, and not a particularly trustworthy one at that: under Justinian I, the Romans would even reconquer Italy and other parts of Spain and North Africa.

        Those were the “Eastern Romans” of course, the people traditionally labelled “Byzantines” by historians, though they would not have recognized that name; they considered themselves “Romaioi” (Romans), right up until their last emperor died fighting as Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks nearly a thousand years later.

        Taken together this represents two millennia of history. Judged by that, modern empires are strictly johnny-come-lightlys.

  15. Another success story for Groper. Canada lost over 24 thousand jobs in July and the unemployment rate has gone up. I’m waiting for the statement from Justin blaming the Scheer/Ford/Kenny/Hitler alliance. Its a good thing we have all those muslim migrants to create jobs.

    1. “Its a good thing we have all those muslim migrants to create jobs.”

      If it wasn’t for their child tax benefit payments all the 7 Eleven clerks might get laid off and have to go back to India.

    2. Its a good thing we have all those muslim migrants to create jobs.

      Not just that, but they’re paying our pensions, too. (Yeah, right.)

  17. White girls at Brunch?
    White lady has a hunch,
    da link no workin!
    What was it about?
    Anyone know?

    Oh well. (deep breath)
    Nevermind. (channeling Rosana Rosannadanna)

    Have a nice weekend everyone!
    ♡ NR

  20. 8chan: The Latest Fearporn Drive
    Guardian in Hysterics Over Threat of Homeless, Anonymous Shitposters

    THE PROBLEM

    8chan may have been shut down, but that doesn’t mean we’re safe.

    You see, all the people that used 8chan before it was shut down are still out there. They might be on Twitter. They might be on Facebook. They might be ordering coffee at a Starbucks. They might be plotting some sort of far-right apocalypse. They might just be talking about movies on reddit. There’s no way of knowing.

    We should all be terribly worried.

    At least, according to The Guardian, who headline today:

    8chan: ex-users of far-right site flock to new homes across internet

    First off, of course, 8chan was not a “far-right site”, it was a site with some “far-right” people on it.

    There are hundreds of boards on 8chan, with thousands upon thousands of different posters. Boards could be created by anyone to discuss anything.

    The vast majority were dedicated to perfectly ordinary topics. Video games, fashion, cars, movies. There were many much more specific, fetishy, niche and weird…but not “far-right”. The site didn’t have an ideology except “free speech”.

    The general shifting of “free speech” from something we all take for granted to being described as a “far-right agenda” is one of the most worrying trends in modern politics.

    The article is actually funny, not least for the total lack of web literacy on display:

    https://off-guardian.org/2019/08/09/8chan-the-latest-fearporn-drive/

    1. Any place with free speech will become right wing, the left can not compete in the marketplace of ideas without censorship as their arguments are seldom supported by reality.

      (I am quietly doing jazz hands now to see how many leftists I can trigger.)

  21. CP24 in Toronto reports that Trudeau’s social activist judges have released over three hundred gang members on bail for weapon offences. Many of them are repeat offenders. Perhaps Ralphie should take time off from chasing Nazis, and talk to Justin’s latest lackie justice minister.

  23. Ezekiel 38 unfolding…

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-07/russia-gains-stranglehold-over-persian-gulf

    Russia Gains Stranglehold Over Persian Gulf

    Excerpts;

    In a potentially catastrophic escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf, Russia plans to use Iran’s ports in Bandar-e-Bushehr and Chabahar as forward military bases for warships and nuclear submarines, guarded by hundreds of Special Forces troops under the guise of ‘military advisers’, and an airbase near Bandar-e-Bushehr as a hub for 35 Sukhoi Su-57 fighter planes OilPrice.com has exclusively been told by senior sources close to the Iranian regime. The next round of joint military exercises in the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Hormuz will mark the onset of this in-situ military expansion in Iran, as the Russian ships involved will be allowed by Iran to use the facilities in Bandar-e-Bushehr and Chabahar. Depending on the practical strength of domestic and international reaction to this, these ships and Spetsntaz will remain in place and will be expanded in numbers over the next 50 years.

    As it stands, then, Russia not only has unfettered access to all of Iran’s onshore, offshore and Caspian Sea oil and gas reserves to sell on as it wishes, however it wishes, but also is set to secure two of the most strategically well-placed ports and surrounding areas in the world’s most sensitive oil and gas hotspot, giving it effective control over the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait, of course, remains the world’s most important oil transit chokepoint – and the key route from the Arabian Gulf to the Far East via the Indian Ocean – with roughly 35% of all seaborne oil and about a third of global liquefied natural gas supplies passing through it.

    “Bandar-e-Bushehr and Chabahar will give Russia a potential stranglehold over the entire Persian Gulf area and into the Indian Ocean, which will allow it as well to conduct joint naval operations with China with more ease in the U.S. sphere of influence in the East, including around Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines,” a London-based intelligence analyst told OilPrice.com last week.

    “The fact that Russia also intends to use these two ports not just for warships but for nuclear submarines as well when the waters in its more northern ports are frozen is significantly upping the Russian ante on the West in general and on the U.S. in particular,” he concluded.

  24. Ignore flawed Fraser Institute report, Canadians get a good deal on taxes

    By Alan Freeman. Published on Aug 9, 2019 12:44pm

    “It’s quite clever, talking about taxes rather than detailing the things that taxes actually pay for. Can I give you a list? Universal free medical care, free public education, heavily subsidized universities, policing, highways, roads, parks, old-age pensions, policing, garbage collection, national defence, and the list goes on.”

    https://ipolitics.ca/2019/08/09/ignore-flawed-fraser-institute-report-canadians-get-a-good-deal-on-taxes/

    1. The problem is, taxes also pay for a lot of useless things. In the case of the Trudeau government, we are paying for gay parades, money for Khadar and his 5 cronies, a bloated public service, promoting women’s interests, Trudeau’s self-promotional travel, the truly unhelpful commission on missing aboriginal women, etc. etc. There is a lot of waste.

    2. Most, if not all of the above could be provided far more cheaply and efficiently by the private sector.

      A stiff tariff on imported luxuries (you don’t need French wine or a smartphone cheaply made in China to live) would be enough to pay for all the things government has any real business doing—enforcing laws and securing the nation’s borders.

      The current system is an excellent deal, ’tis true—for holders of Canadian government debt secured with the future tribute payments of tax-peons. Only fools pay Canadian taxes. The wise buy the debt and make the fools pay them.

    3. “… and the list goes on.”
      … Human Rights Tribunals to adjudicate whether self-employed recent immigrants are obligated to wax a “woman’s” balls… yeah, the list certainly goes on… and on… and on…

    1. I doubt that these are “debates”. Will anyone be free to challenge AGW? I doubt it. It is just more promotion of an issue that has already become totally skewed. It would be great if those not believing in AGW came out and challenged them, but I am sure questions would be controlled.

      1. Imagine the “human rights” lawsuits if she/he/it ends up with scalded naughty bits.

  27. SURPRISE: Internal Government Report Contradicts Trudeau’s ‘Diversity’ Rhetoric, Says Focus Needs To Be On ‘Social Cohesion’ & ‘Shared Values’

    The report clearly points out that identity politics must be avoided:

    “When it comes to future communications, deputy ministers stressed the need to “focus on shared values rather than diversity values when framing the social cohesion narrative,” the meeting summary says.”

    What’s so interesting about this is that, when Maxime Bernier said something similar, he was condemned by much of the political class.

    https://www.spencerfernando.com/2019/08/08/surprise-internal-government-report-contradicts-trudeaus-diversity-rhetoric-says-focus-needs-to-be-on-social-cohesion-shared-values/

  28. And now today’s edition of Canadians are racist bastards. Justin has found another group to apologize to. Two cabinet ministers are in B.C. at taxpayer expense to attend a ceremony regarding a ship from India that was turned away in 1914. Nothing to do with the election of course.

  29. Epstein owns the Zorro Ranch in NM, and via Zorro Trust has given to politicians including Gov. Bill Richardson.

    Suspiciously, in 2008, a lump-sum after-tax Powerball jackpot of $29.3 million was paid out to Epstein’s Zorro Trust on a ticket allegedly sold at a convenience store.

    Arapaho415
    @arapaho415
    Replying to
    @ml_bear
    @ThomasS4217

    The New Mexico aspect of Oklahoma lottery payouts and Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Trust fascinates me, so will collect as much information as possible in this : cc: @michaelcoleman
    (more…)
    1/ Aug 26, 2008

    mrs panstreppon
    @mrspanstreppon
    Replying to
    @kelly2277

    @DerWouter
    and
    @FBI
    ..Zorro Trust’s Aug ’08 $85 million “win” was reported in the Bismark Tribune. Out of curiosity, do we have any idea who is behind the WJW Investment Trust which won $101.8 million in ’06? Never heard of trusts winning lotteries, let alone two within two years….

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-6AaRZW4AIgtWI?format=jpg&name=medium

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ShawnPLeary/status/1148761333044842501

    1. Second tweet is missing. That tells me that something suspicious was going on. The corruption is like a bottomless pit.

    1. Don’t forget that people coming home from work after they plug in the electric car will then go inside and turn on the stove to make dinner, the TV or radio for background noise, whatever else they turn on, all at the same time. Huge spike in demand with unthrottlable “green” energy means electric cars charging must all be covered by the less efficient peaking stations, and not the more efficient base load generators.

  33. More shootings in diverse Toronto this afternoon. Mayor Tory must be really mad. All those Somali migrants our Somali immigration minister is bringing in is really working out well.

  35. Rex Murphy at the National Post website, has a good story on the global warming scam.

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