75 Replies to “October 27, 2019 – Reader Tips”

  1. Well .. here we go again … as of 8:30p this evening I’m sitting in the dark staring at the tiny screen of my iPhone 11. It’s the only modern accoutrement I have access to at the moment. Everything else is shut off … I’ve gone dark. The new normal here in woke CA. And the fools around me are treating this like some sort of eco-fraud summer camp as they post tips on how to “be prepared” for the “safety” outage. My ass. I don’t WANT to prepare for a third world existence!

    And please note that I have been on both sides of the Oakland hills as late as 7:00p tonight and the winds are DEAD CALM … not so much as a wisp of wind anywhere in my SHUT DOWN District. So much for the EXTREME 30-year wind “event” which prompted this current powerless fiasco

    Seriously … there’s not a bit of exaggeration when I say it is DEAD CALM … no wind whatsoever. It’s spooky calm

    1. To Kenji,
      Thanks for giving us the lowdown about the latest in California. I was watching FOX NEWS this evening and they reported that millions were without power again. So sorry to hear about that. When I heard that, I immediately thought about you and your Cali neighbour and pal OldBruin, though I’m not sure if he’s affected.
      I don’t personally know any people down there. Nevertheless, hope you and your wife are not cold or hungry.

      The following is a tune for when your power comes back on.
      Save your juice.
      Song is: ” Lowdown” by the great Boz Scaggs.
      https://youtu.be/-C6Azq3ecrA

      Take care Kenji, hope you get re-powered up real soon!

      1. Song is: ” Lowdown” by the great Boz Scaggs.

        One of the best songs of the 1970s from one of the best albums of that decade. (I have to add that one to my collection!) I was in my senior undergrad year when it was released, which was also the time when Boston’s first album and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors were released.

        Ah, the memories….

        For a bit of related trivia, Scaggs and Steve Miller were long-time buddies, having met while they were in school. They often collaborated with each other over the years.

        1. Steve Miller Band had so many great hits – played at every party one ever went to. Couldn’t choose one so here’s a whole live concert from 1992 – not too long ago, ha!

          For everyone’s Sunday enjoyment, let’s get a move on.

          Music to our ears perhaps, enjoy:
          https://youtu.be/PBYBiwRHSwI

    2. Sorry to hear that Kenji. Hope you and your family get through OK. I bought a Patriot solar system for my place in the mountains. Keep adding batteries and panels. I also have a 5K generator for cloudy days. But anyway the Patriot at least keeps comm’s up and a few odds and ends like lights. I keep adding to it. Best wishes

    3. Kenji, was watching some news media here this am and they were talking about power being out for weeks in some areas. I can’t say with 100% certainty but it seems to me that there has never been a year in my fairly long life that there has not been wildfires somewhere in CA. Incompetent government, poor forestry practices and building homes in scrub land that is essentially desert could exacerbate the problems. It is the type of observation that one might make when floods occur yet people keep expanding population growth in flood plain and coastal areas. Good luck. I have a niece who lives a bit north of San Fran, her boyfriend emailed some photos as he was flying up there from LA yesterday.

      1. Floods…eh, yea we know about that kind of Stupid.
        Theres a small town south of Calgary with the name of HIGH RIVER.

        Back in ~2013 When the Bow River flooded a portion of downtown Calgary, High River as well, was inundated…New develpments built not 6′ higher than avg. river height if memory serves me right

        One wonders what about the name “High River” so many didnt get..? And What really pisses me off..?? A: theres no such thing as Flood insurance in this Province and B: The Supreme Beotch (Premier of Alberta), at the time, Allison RedFRAUD gave millions of Taxpayer monies to those that lost….Now that may sound ignorant, But I’m sorry, if youre too Fkn Stupid to figure what living on a FLOOD plain means, don’t expect my tax dollars to bail you out of said Stupidity.

        As a side note, most of the town was told to lock up their homes and leave…so what does the RCMP do.?? Kick down hunreds of doors and STEAL those Firearms they could find under the guise it was for safety reasons balh blah blah.

        Kenji. WE ALL Wish you the Best during these crazy times.

        1. I remember that Steakman. Especially the Corrupted RCMPee Criminals breaking into folks homes. If Alberta ever does go UDI. Those Criminals should be the 1st shown the door.

          1. You could get rid of the RCMP now. Get your own provincial police force going so it’s ready when you separate.

        2. Actually, as I recall, the worst flooding in High River was in a subdivision which should have been safe, but somehow the powers-that-be managed to divert the floodwaters into said subdivision while trying to save another part of the town. The subdivision was in a bit of a bowl, so the waters couldn’t recede very well, and the authorities would not let the army get pumps going to salvage the situation. So the army left, and the RCMP came in for their little exercise in breaking and entering.

          There was a fair bit of feeling that the provincial authorities let all this mismanagement happen because High River had a Wildrose MLA.

    5. Time for a Genset, or similar backup generator. The irony, as noted in a ZeroHedge article, is Kalifornicas demand to “go green”, while enabling policies (direct or indirect) causing residents to take alternate methods to react, human nature and all.
      A modern society going backwards, hmmmmmmm, wonder if that could happen in another juridiction, a little bit north, all for saving Gaia from a trace molecule that only a mentally ill 16 year old scolding little girl can see…..
      I wonder what happens when the deaths start to occur from this preening? Bring on the wrongful death lawsuits, and include the green brigade as a party subject to suit

    6. Thank you all for your kind words. In all fairness the High winds that were predicted have arrived and it’s blowing hard outside, as I still sit here with no power.

      Despite the winds, it begs the question why are PG&E‘s powerlines not adequately designed and maintained to withstand normal wind events such as this? Sorry, this is not some “global warming” induced “EXTREME” weather event. I’ve lived in N.CAL for 64years … and this is not the least bit atypical.

      I am required by law and codes to design buildings to withstand snow loads, earthquake loads, and yes … wait for it … wind loads without collapsing. My buildings occupants are not required to evacuate their homes when strong winds blow. But PG&E is allowed to shut off its clients power … in the name of safety. So why are PG&E’s power lines and equipment falling down and failing? Answer: criminally negligent lack of inspection, maintenance and repair … not to mention modernization and reinforcement.

      Just imagine what YOUR life would be like, if every time a windstorm blew up, you were told to evacuate your home? This is utterly primitive and barbaric … and defeatist. The State of CA should FIRE every member of the CPUC … decertify PG&E as a Public Utility, and invite bids on the existing PG&E infrastructure, plant, and equipment. Put a NEW privately-held Energy Co. in charge of Nor Cals power.

      And cut out ALL the irrelevant crap that pg&e indulges in. No more CAGW propaganda, no more free electric car power, no more “advertising their virtue signaling” in endless high cost TV ads. The NEW CPUC should FORCE the new PUBLIC Utility monopoly to stick to its primary mission … deliver safe, reliable 24/7/365 power to every customer.

  2. October 27, 1960 hit song “Stand by Me” is recorded by Ben E King.
    This song is dedicated to Watcher who recently wrote about
    LIFE AND LOVE in yesterday’s Readers Tips.

    He mentions “Standby Me” in his moving description. It is a nice coincidence that this song was recorded on this day back in 1960, a time he longs for and writes about.

    There are no accidents Watcher.

    Without further delay:
    https://youtu.be/hwZNL7QVJjE

    1. Ah Ha you caught me, Nancy.
      I am driving these Fake Creatures Wacky. My daughter drives a midget Cadillac, not like my old beast of years ago. She insisted on showing me around my old town. So Dad obliged.
      She took me to El Hipster 2nd hand store. Staffed with Fake Mountain Men. Keep in mind my oldest brother many many years ago was one of Banff National Parks original Mountain Rescue guys who usually were called in to get out the bodies of another generation of climbers who made an error in judgement. I was schooled by my brother and his associates in wilderness survival to some extent and my own testosterone driven escapades of youth. From climbing to racing motorcycles ie Ducati, to getting bucked off horses etc. I was wild and did a lot of living wild up until I married.

      Anyways, mind games and hilarity. No one wanted to look at my hat. None of these doorstops would look me in the face, they always looked at my feet or the floor, I think it was my hat.
      Now picture this, a beautiful “Open Road” Stetson in what they call SilverBelly, a color. With a handmade rattlesnake hatband with mouth open showing fangs, with full rattles attached. I made it myself and cured it with my own recipe, 2 years ago when I was down south. Another adventure for another day.
      Anyway I liked their hiking socks mine are worn. But dang, I will not pay 25 to 50 dollars for 1 pair of socks. And I told these two hipsters that, one tried to be a wise guy. He says they could last you a lifetime. I went for that, hell I am past 70. I worked him good. I showed him my present pair which have a hole. Anyway fun and games. Settled on a used down vest for 15 dollars. My daughter Strawberry Shortcake knowing her Dad was just chuckling. When we left it was Oh Dad, you will never change.
      I caused confusion everywhere in this land of Fake Shit and dumb asses that pay will pay 500,000 to be shoe horned into a mini lot kind of a condo house with a zipper for a front door. And armed poop and scoop police. Even the Fwench Poodles are nervous and have counsellors.
      My daughter, Strawberry Shortcake keeps telling me Dad, you need to write about your adventures. She knows many of them but I always kept some back. So I say which ones, those 2 years I spent as an elephant handler, that time I hitchhiked across Canada leaving home with 7 dollars, and a hang over and falling in with 2 very attractive French Working Ladies.
      Or that summer I decided to get to the bottom of are Sasquatches real or a scam. This was after I ran into Rene Dahinden, Canada’s most famous Sasquatch hunter, while I was working remodeling a German café in BC one summer.
      Anyway daughter has gone to Calgary for the evening to her girlfriends, then will be back Tuesday. She has deals to close or conduct Monday up north of here and Tues over the other place. I have her place too myself.
      Maybe I will go find a Fwench Lady. They are so feminine.
      Almost got picked up by one years ago, I ran into one in a laundromat. My now deceased wife was not well, and I ran down town to the laundromat. The French gal suggested a coffee while we waited. Fine no harm in coffee. As we talked she kept getting closer and finally her hand was on my knee and she was purring. I shook my head and told myself. Wake up boy. You will get shot. I remembered my vows and quickly paid for 2 coffee and left.
      Ah youthful vigor. If I was young again what a harvest of beautiful women in this old town. And the soy boys ain’t up to the job. Yee Haw.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5dLU8UOrPI

      1. Your comments about Canmore reminded me about my freshman year roommate.

        After a career in the Calgary school system, I heard that he retired to that town. Apparently he’s now involved with strengthening this country through diversity and vibrantly enriching our culture by importing “refugees” from you-know-where.

        1. Yup lots of UN Agenda 21 soy boys and gals here BAD R. Writ large. The HooDoos still stand where we used to play cowboys and Indians with .22’s.
          Don’t know how we survived sometimes. The old horse ranch, where we used to catch an old cowboys mustangs he caught wild and was breaking for sale. We would get on them and ride like hell bare back. Is now all developed in fact my daughters place is on one of the slopes, gives a beautiful view of Mt. Rundle and the 3 Sisters. But dang these freaks even have the town cell tower disguised as a fake giant fir or spruce. Don’t want to upset the Greta Thang’s or their male versions gotta find a name for male Greta’s. Anyway get off the dang dope you fools. If you don’t want cell service get rid of it, don’t make a fake tree of it. Fake Fake Fake. Faking it in the HIVE.

          1. “Male” Greta things?

            How about “Hansel”?

            Diminutive of “Hans”, itself a variant on “Johannes / Iohannes”.

            They have a thing about gingerbread houses.

            See also: “Hansa” originally a league of medieval “merchants” in Germany, before it was Germany. Not unlike a “cartel”.

          2. Soy bois will do, it captures the dynamic of these weenie hipsters.

            sad to hear that about Canmore, though not surprised. being down the highway from Banff, I can see the similarities between Whistler and Pemberton. Anyways, yes Canmore certainly appears to be a nouveau riche community, we had thought about Canmore as an emigration destination. Still not ruled out, but, if its hipsterville………………SMH

            I suppose there’s no getting away from the soi boi/amibuguous grrrrl contingent, unless you’re 200 miles or more from a Starbux

          1. You should aspire to add as much value as does your former roommate.

            I don’t consider selling out my country “adding” value.

      2. LOVe the story Watcher.

        I hear ya on socks…and pretty much all NEW clothing today.
        Down Jackets at $12-1400 per. A perfect example. Pah, as if.
        The bride and I and our 2 adult daughters who all three are pretty fashion concious, have for the past # of years gone to Value Village…I decided to join them a week ago to see what they raved about.

        In 30 min, I ended up with two pretty much Brand New nice thick Zippered Hoodies (that I could not find anywhere else), along with 3 Brand new T-shirts for total of $14.50. I was floored.

        The place just became my favourite store.

      1. Good heavens! Yet another reminder of my youth! The Johnny Rivers song was on the charts a few months after I finished my B. Sc.

        I’m getting old…..

        1. Nah fellas, we’re all just getting better like Boz Scaggs!
          We have the smarts and memories to prove it.
          After all, we’re the Boomers!
          Keep on trucking, bad elections or not.
          Bad times or not!
          Dedicated to B A, WATCHER, and Kenji, who is with us in Spirit if not temporarily in the dark:
          https://youtu.be/tOyMpQQriY0

          1. Used in the movie Urban Cowboy. The plot was dreadful, but the soundtrack music had some good songs.

        1. In the fifties Prima and Smith performed a husband and wife act that was similar to what Sonny and Cher did in the sixties. Smith was the cool sexy foil to Prima’s wild antics.

  3. On Being a “Bad Muslim” (Pt. 1) | Tarek Fatah
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13tAAft2tJA

    On Islam, India, and Pakistan (Pt. 2) | Tarek Fatah
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vttj7ZKHhKY
    ————————————————————————————————
    L- Tarek Fatah is likely the most censored writer/commentator in
    Canada. He’s lost count of how many times FB has banned him.
    You wouldn’t guess how and who and why. More under the radar
    stuff than you can keep up with.

    His comment about western leftist SJW as “millionaires mimicking
    misery” is pretty astute, apply perfectly in Canada and abroad.

  4. On this day, October 27, 1938, eighty one years ago….
    Du Pont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon.”

    Will the World’s Greenies and Gretas shed their petroleum and coal based items for their cause? I doubt it very much. (Yawn!)

    See what else happened on this day in history:
    https://www.onthisday.com/events/october/27

    3. In cities with overhead powerlines, add a pantograph. The thought of tonnes of mean, green, lightning throwing mayhem driving down the street towards a protest… almost brings a tear to my eye.

  6. President Trump is supposed to be making an announcement today at 9am Eastern. Right on time to disrupt Chris Wallace FNC Show. Chris will have to make a comment.

    Something’s going on in the neighbourhood…who ya gonna call, Ghostbusters? Wonder what that’s about?

    1. Ha ha ha, is it a Dung Beetle. A constipated Dung Beetle. Yah that will work.

      These Agenda 21 HIVE creeps in Canmore are getting to me. They all carry backpacks and man purses. They carry special hiking staffs/sticks.
      As soon as I got up and after hitting the head, took Darling Daughters poochie for her morning walk in the dark.
      Was crossing the street from the bush and met a fat one with his pack, and his special hiking weapon. He seemed hyper, scurrying off quickly to keep his distance.
      I said “Good Morning” and he gets quickly under a lamp post on the other side and says “I didn’t want to surprise you”. And he seemed excited breathing and harrumphing. WTF. Had so much UN Agenda 21 training he must have thought I was “Yogi with Boo Boo on a leash”
      Maybe Wonder Daughter is right. Coming off the mountain after 2 months basically in the bush maybe I need a hair cut and a trim on my beard and mustache. Ha Ha Ha.
      Well get it figured out Canmore Hive varmits, cuz every morning “Yogi, will be walking BooBoo”

      1. You hardly sound scary. Unless pooch was a man eating dog!
        Don’t people know that Albertans, for the most part, identify each other by that “Hello, Howdy, Good Morning” type of greeting?Scary Cat was probably from Papineau riding where dangerous criminals roam.

        The first time I was greeted on the street like that I appreciated it and smiled at my greeter! It’s a very nice thing- sort of tells the other person that one is non-threatening. Don’t they know anything? Too many X-BOX games?

        About Greta- she’s a bug, all right! Ha, ha, ha!

        1. Poochie is a black Fwench Poodle called “Paris”. My Darlin Daughter is very Girlie. Like all Poodles, Paris is mildly neurotic. But not cuckoo chew all your things or anything like that she just loves people.
          Yah what happened to “Good Morning” and let me get the door for you.
          Thank you. And have a good day. I really bug them when I Yes Ma’am. So in honor of my Sweet Mother. And because it bugs the Hive Critters I always say Yes Ma’am. Short Circuits the Hive Training. I am a cheerful morning person. Right after coffee, up until morning coffee I am a bumbling, non verbal mess. But I still manage to retain my manners.
          Just make sure when I come on shift in the SILO with the Red Button that there is coffee, if it is early.

  10. Well to the severely normals here.
    Or the Martha’s and Henry’s as King Ralph used to call his base. The next big thing in the EnviroFascist’s Push to get you back to the Cave.
    They want YOU DEAD.
    You getting the picture yet. In the USA and probably very soon out of Ottawa we will see bans on using Natural Gas and Natural Gas Appliances.
    The plan is similar to Land Locking Alberta Oil. So hold that thought. We know how that affected Alberta and Sask. right.
    Well this plan is called Lock Up The Gas. They want to stop folks from using Natural Gas for cooking and heating etc.
    Remember the story here about the Farmer with Crazy Carbon Tax Bills for drying grain.
    Trudeau’s Plan For Blocking Natural Gas in my opinion. An opening Salvo in the EnviroFascists War on Humanity. They Want You Dead, Wake Up.
    Here is the US version of Back To The Cave. Listen up Boys and Girls.
    https://westernwire.net/no-more-cooking-with-gas-environmental-activists-going-after-the-appliances-consumers-love/

    1. A PS: Note to Kenji. After coming across this article about blocking the use of Natural Gas in the USA by the EnviroFascists see above. I am thinking that you are actually already caught up in one of these Blocking of Energy use schemes. Only a PG&E version of the Battle. Block Alberta Oil. Block and lock up the use of Natural Gas in the USA. and shut down the grid in California under Environmental Pretense or action.

  11. Watching the CBC this morning, they have a panel discussion on Canadian politics, I realised something. People in Toronto have ZERO idea about Alberta or the west. And I mean ZERO CLUE. I guess it is the after-effects of 2 billion dollars worth of brainwashing. I don’t know how they can actually call themselves a national broadcaster. This country can NOT survive this type of idiocy, we will be Venezuela before next Christmas.
    I am just so glad I get to pay for this crap forever.
    FREE SASKABERTA FFS !!!!!!!!

    1. “People in Toronto have ZERO idea about Alberta or the west. And I mean ZERO CLUE.”

      How true.
      Further to my above post @ 10:21 am …regarding the Western greeting…
      • Sometimes people just nod, as they look you in the eye. They rarely smile because they don’t want to appear fresh!

      • People are great about holding a door open for the next person, there is always a thank-you, for that.

      • Personally, I have a great time at grocery stores because I usually let the person behind me in the check out line, go ahead of me if they have less items than myself. I read years ago that men hate waiting in lines. They are always grateful for this chance to save time! Can get a smile for that!

      Further to your statement, they have finally caught on to the West WANTS out, rather than the West WANTS in!
      They know it’s all squandered in Quebec. Those arrogant little…nevermind… you know what we mean.

      It’s over Canada East. We don’t love YOU ANYMORE!

      1. Let me correct that for you.
        People in Toronto have ZERO idea about anything outside of the CITY LIMITS.
        There’s TORONTO and there’s HICKSVILLE.

        1. Vancouver’s the same way. They think the world ends at Hope and Mount Seymour.

    2. Self-torture OT. CBC is deleted off the dial, except for the occassional hockey game. I just dont care what the Cheranna millennials think, do or say. Their lives are irrellevant to me, and their wishful thinking will fail.

      They learned NOTHING from the Liberal WynneDisaster in Morontariowe, now wishing to inflict the same disaster on the whole country.

      Ideologically, they are muffins.

      C’mon Alberta, #WEXIT. Your ideological partners and friends are eager to join you, creating the new economic boom in ALberta.

  12. The future is coming on…

    “Currently, the largest player around is Bay Area-based Plenty Inc. With over $200 million in funding from Softbank, Plenty is taking a smart tech approach to indoor agriculture. Plants grow on 20-foot-high towers, monitored by tens of thousands of cameras and sensors, optimized by big data and machine learning.

    This allows the company to pack 40 plants in the space previously occupied by 1. The process also produces yields 350 times greater than outdoor farmland, using less than 1 percent as much water.

    And rather than bespoke veggies for the wealthy few, Plenty’s processes allow them to knock 20-35 percent off the costs of traditional grocery stores. To date, Plenty has their home base in South San Francisco, a 100,000 square-foot farm in Kent, Washington, an indoor farm in the United Arab Emirates, and recently started construction on over 300 farms in China.”

    https://singularityhub.com/2019/10/20/the-technologies-changing-how-we-grow-distribute-and-consume-food/

    1. $4.99 USD for 5 oz of salad greens should get you thru the day.
      80% of the world earns $10 /day so they’ll have lots left over to spend on extras.

  27. Three Ottawa men accused of sexually assaulting teen girl.

    Bile Mohamed, 27, Yusuf Yusuf, 30, Ismail Moallim, 21, are jointly charged…

    Really gotta do something about these “Ottawa men”!

    https://www.ottawamatters.com/police-beat/three-ottawa-men-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-teen-girl-1769486

    I Caldar
    @IraCaldar

    This is another one of those horrendous, tragic crimes that I didn’t hear anyone from our government apologize for – “this is not our Canada” – except it is. This story was kept silent, like many others

    https://beta.windsorstar.com/news/local-news/victim-of-ganatchio-trail-beating-dies-one-year-after-assault/wcm/841a60a4-e4f3-4cac-921a-8f22543b2bb8/amp/

  28. As long as they keep all of that cultural enrichment in Moronto, we shouldn’t have a problem with these animals, right?
    We had better get started on that border wall on the Ont-Man border.
    Maybe they should dump all of these types in the Maritimes. They can be surrounded by Liberals who will get them off to a good start in Canaduh.

  29. The weekend saved the best for last.

    Katie Hill has resigned from the US Congress after her ex-husband exposed her sordid sex life to a candid world.

    UnMe, THIS is why the Founding Fathers added the First Amendment—and no doubt why the globalists are trying with all their might to ban “revenge porn.” Katie won’t be the last “feminist” globalist stooge felled by her own inability to control her appetite for kinky sex.

    The good people of California, and the United States, owe a debt of gratitude to Kenny Heslep for exposing (in every sense) his faithless wife. At bare minimum, he should be excused from buying his own alcohol ever again.

    If they’re feeling generous…they ARE in need of a new Congressman.

    Meanwhile, the MSM are no closer to finding the “pee tape” than they are to finding the Loch Ness Monster. Whenever you’re ready, boys and girls.

    Hill’s resignation letter:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/RepKatieHill/status/1188591520531779584

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