91 Replies to “November 16, 2019: Reader Tips”

  2. Bridge work in Florida…
    “FIGG’s mystifying incaution as cracks spread remains puzzling—as does the failure of construction engineering and inspection firm Bolton, Perez & Associates, the Florida Dept. of Transportation and the university to intervene, each of which knew of the worsening cracks.

    NTSB said each member of the team had an “implied authority” to shut the road to all traffic or require reshoring—not spelled out in contracts but as tangible as the tons of concrete above the passing motorists. None acted on that authority.”

    https://www.enr.com/articles/48072-editorial-the-unspoken-messages-in-ntsbs-miami-bridge-collapse-report?

    Bridge work in Texas…
    “The FIGG Bridge Group also designed the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University that collapsed in March 2018, killing six people and injuring 10.”

    “The Texas Department of Transportation released a statement Thursday evening confirming design of the new Harbor Bridge has been “suspended.”

    “Last month, the National Transportation Safety Board determined that “load and capacity calculation errors made by FIGG Bridge Engineers, Inc., are the probable cause of the fatal, March 15, 2018, Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse in Miami.”

    “It decided that design flaws by FIGG, and later corrective efforts by FIGG to address cracking in the bridge, ultimately led to it failing.”

    “That pedestrian bridge was 174 feet long. The new Harbor Bridge’s main span length is designed to be 1,661 feet.”

    https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/breaking-design-of-harbor-bridge-suspended?

    Rockets into outer space…
    (Richard) “Feynman incredulously explains the magnitude of this error: A “safety factor” refers to the practice of building an object to be capable of withstanding more force than the force to which it will conceivably be subjected. To paraphrase Feynman’s example, if engineers built a bridge that could bear 3,000 pounds without any damage, even though it was never expected to bear more than 1,000 pounds in practice, the safety factor would be 3. If a 1,000-pound truck drove across the bridge and it cracked at all, even just a third of the way through a beam, the safety factor is now zero: The bridge is defective.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#cite_note-appendixF-6

    and… “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”

    *which would certainly apply to an entire swack of topics as of late, men dressing up as women to race/cycle as “women”, climate change as “science” …

    1. Folks if you haven’t figured it out already Eastern Canada is another world they are greedy,stupid,don’t care about anything but themselves,they insult the west on a daily basis.We as westerners need to move on and forget about Canada as a country we are being robbed and put down by Trudeau and his his left wing troop.Lets separate now while we still can

      1. Terry, it may come as a shock to you but there thousands if not tens of thousands of people in Eastern Canada that support the West. We are as outraged as you are about what both our own federal government and the climate change nuts have foisted on the country to the detriment of the West. Further, we will support Alberta and Saskatchewan and any other province or territory if they conclude that separation is the best chance for economic and political independence. But, myself and thousands of others believe that your best shot is to work diligently to bring about the conditions for a change in our federal government and an end to the influence of climate change nuts on federal and province policies. To that end Alberta and Saskatchewan, not to mention the rest of Canada, will be the benefactors of that effort. Fight the good fight. In the end we can and will win.

        1. We spent a generation working diligently on reasonable compromises to bring about conditions yada yada yada.
          We had twelve years of nearly insiginificant progress towards bringing about conditions yada yada yada.
          All undone within 3 months of the spawn.
          Things now are worse than when we started trying to bring about conditions and yada yada yada.
          We don’t even have the pretense of Rule of Law anymore, and that seems to be the way the east like it.

          Don’t even get me started on the Blackface media now, so that no message can get out that is not approved by the glorious party.

          How many generations should we sacrifice to nostalgia and inertia when we have never been treated fairly in the first place.
          The truth is we have fundamentally incompatible visions for a nation, and it is best for all concerned if we part ways.

          1. Can someone please remind of who was Prime Minister from 2006 to 2015?

            Where he lived, worked and represented?

            What party he came from and the ideals he espoused?

            What he accomplished?

            How about:

            Steve Harper
            Calgary,Alberta,WESTERN Canada
            Reform/Conservative ??????
            Boutique tax cuts

            Seems to me that Western Conservatives had a good decade to change things and in that respect were a huuuuge disappointment.

            The Conservatives were missing in such a big way in NB that we actually elected a Green nut. Only took 3 of what should have been 6 seats. Not bad when you consider NB is 1/3 French and wagging the dog just like ugly Quebec wags the Canadian Poodle. Easterners will vote for a good Conservative candidate with an actual platform, sensible policies and something useful to say.

            Apparently the Conservative Party can’t find an electable candidate, even when running against an imbecile who’s as erudite and loquacious as Dopey the Dwarf.

            Do better Conservatives. Much.

        3. Jim – The federal level of government serves no purpose to any Canadian. The best thing to do at this time is dissolve the whole federation and let the all the provincial governments become national governments.

        4. Well said Jim, my sentiments exactly.
          The whole East vs West divide is artificial. Currently Canada is divided between the three categories.
          1.Mostly Sane: Alberta and Saskatchewan.
          2. Evil: Quebec, Moronto, Chicouver, Victoria, Ottawa
          3. Mostly Insane: the rest.

      2. Is the issue East vs West or Lefties vs “Deplorables”? True, the distribution is different, but the underlying reason they disparage us every day is not geography; they have bought into the media lies of “intelligent lefties vs mindless conservatives”. There are thousands of them who are as upset at we are.

        1. Left vs. Right or East vs. West is a distinction without a difference.
          The real problem is that Canada is constituted as a Laurentian Empire, with the rest of us just colonies to be exploited and kept down. The federal government is too large to be properly reformed, especially with a constitution in name only, that places no limits on the federal government, and consists mostly of provisions for the federal government to ignore the ancient rights generations worked to establish under common law.

    2. That’s not ‘allying with ANTIFA’ that’s respecting individual rights. The courts should have struck down such a ridiculous law.

      1. That’s allying with ANTIFA. Respect for individual rights includes not facilitating the intimidation of individuals, suppression of free speech and free association, and assaults, and destruction of private property by gangs of masked stormtroopers.

        1. They aren’t doing any of those things. They’re just removing an idiotic ban on face coverings on protesters in a country that spends a quarter of its time in an ice age.

          1. Yes, who knew Canada’s winters extended into July and August? Quelle surprise!

            “As anarchists, we initiated attacks in this space because we’re not struggling for less murderous police, but for the destruction of all forms of policing. When the police kill someone, sexually assault someone, imprison someone, we believe in vengeance, but we don’t want to stop there. By opening up space and time in the streets through attacking the police, people create the conditions to destroy other components of the material infrastructure of colonial society.”
            https://medium.com/@williamray/why-the-canadian-left-need-to-confront-and-denounce-antifa-a45d71aa5e1f

        2. Of course, Antifa is a terrorist organization, the only reason they are legal is that they serve as brown shirts for the liberal elites. That is also the only reason they cancelled the ban on face coverings.

      2. Be quiet, you were already told that not every conversation needs to be dumbed down to your level. Go play with your antifa action figures… just try not insert them again.

    1. Nice list McLean’s…..

      A few years back 2 of my grandsons asked me to watch Survivor man. They were both in their early teens and wanted Papa to see what a ‘real survivor man’ looked like.

      After I explained that Survivor man had a tv crew and production truck out there in the wilderness and that the ‘star’ is a tv survivor man.

      I suggested survivor man might want to film an episode in Winnipeg. Start at Portage and Main on a Saturday nite and walk north on Main St…..

        1. NR
          I’m the Hemingway figure in my grandkids life. They think I walk on water…not just ice haha.

    1. “The prats you’re nominating can be female, male, or whatever they self-identify as, but it has to be some sort of hominid, preferably of the species Homo Sapien.”

      Well damn, I was just getting ready to nominate UnMe, but they won’t accept an uNPC.

    1. I would venture a guess that over 100 million know the guy’s name is Eric Ciaramella, and that hearsay is his so called whistleblowing.

    2. Apparently his name is Chiamarlla, a CIA agent amongst other things.

      I really on’t see how the Dementocrats can keep this up; all their witnesses were not involved, all being third or fourth hand; a secret whistleblower who met with Schiff to arrange the tale and won’t appear; the transcripts of the telephone conversations releasede and the Ukranians themselves saaying there was nothing irregular.

      But, hey, there’s an election the Dementocrats are desparate to wn and a compliant media.

  10. Freeland for deputy PM?

    Much as I can’t stand Trudeau or Freeland, this could get interesting.

    I think Freeland wants the top job, so I don’t know if Justin will give her this platform. On the other hand she was born in Alberta, so Butts and Trudeau might try to spin it as “listening to Albertans” and have her be the Alberta representative in cabinet.

    I don’t know if Freeland has enough allies in the party to eventually push Trudeau out.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-urged-to-give-freeland-domestic-portfolio-name-her-deputy-pm-1.5361811

    2. She has so many qualities that are reminiscent of Paul Martin.
      Ambitious-check
      Kiniving – check
      Social coat rider -check
      Thinks she’s owed the job – check
      Completely unprepared to be PM – check

      How did that one work out again?

      Someone should get the ball rolling by suggesting that the only liberal cabinet position that hasn’t gone to a woman is the PM.
      Gender balance and all.

    3. They did the same thing with Anne Mclennan. She was deputy PM.

      Freelands birth certificate might say she was born in AB but her credentials as an Albertan are about equal to those of k.d.lang. She hates Alberta.

    4. There is A group in the party that wants Trudeau OUT; whether they want Freeland IN is another matter.

    5. ?
      born in Alberta?
      on a beef farm where the stud bull stepped on her head growing up?

      that would explain things.

  11. America and the stock market is booming and CN is laying off 1500 people. Canada is losing jobs and economic activity at a rate that should be alarming, yet hey, liberal socialism will save us, NOT.

        1. He can’t, she kicked him out for the night, because her boyfriends are cheering for their favorite sports team Domebabies.

    1. Priceless….! and the best way to showcase Californian “Smarts”….
      That she was a Blonde is a bonus.
      wow…

  13. And now the Saturday Toronto Star. The Unifor journalists at the Star are upset on the front page, that CSIS doesn’t get permission from the Liberal Party before they investigate persons or groups. Major story that soldiers returning from World War One were racist bastards. Shree is upset at the treatment of muslims in jails. Tanya explains that white people are killing indians in Thunder Bay. Heather Mallick rants about Trump and white men. Don Cherry is Hitler stories. Heart warming picture and story about a Toronto United Church minister who doesn’t believe in God, and her outreach to muslims. Editorial that Doug Ford is destroying Ontario. Only the Liberal Party can save us. Ontario Liberal leadership hopefuls, must concentrate on issues like more abortion services, global warming scams, diversity, and FREE STUFF! Reviews of new social justice books. Trudeau is wonderful. The Liberal Party is wonderful. Canadians are racist bastards.

    1. “a Toronto United Church minister who doesn’t believe in God”

      The real headline would be to find a United Church minister who does believe in Canada.

  15. “There is a reason why you’ve never heard of the depression that began in 1920. While the stats vary, the first year of the 1920 Depression was worse than the start of the Great Depression in many ways, and was arguably the most deflationary year on record. However, during the 1920 recession, the government did not act with the conventional low interest rates and deficit spending that started with the Great Depression. And while the results might surprise many today, it is not a coincidence that the 1920 Depression was so short lived that history usually overlooks it, but the memories of the Great Depression still lingers.”

    https://www.aier.org/article/1920-depression-v-great-depression/

    Good video here too:
    https://youtu.be/czcUmnsprQI

    2. Runaway Govt Costs.
      Spending Billions to bail out failing companies and ensuring their civil service is more than well remunerated.

      I’m no economist, but the above 2 seem to mirror out own circumstances Perfectly.

      CUT Govt Spending.??
      …are you MAD.????
      FAT Chance of that with UNIONIZED LABOUR. Aint EVER gonna happen – not till sanity returns, Socialism is DEAD and we DE-CERTIFY the above lot.

  16. THEY WANT YOU DEAD
    In the late 1960’s into the 1970’s there was a resurgence of population control rhetoric coming out of globalist circles. Under the supervision of the UN and some related scientific groups, the Club Of Rome was formed. A prominent part of the Club of Rome’s agenda was population reduction. In 1972 the group of “scientists” under the UN’s direction published a paper called ‘The Limits Of Growth’, which called for greatly reduced human population in the name of “saving the environment”. This effort was directly linked to another agenda – the institution of a global government that could handle and enforce population controls on a wide scale.

    The elites had found a new scientific front for their eugenics obsession: Climate science. In the early 1990’s the Club Of Rome published a book called ‘The First Global Revolution’. In it they state:

    “In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes. and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”
    The statement comes from Chapter 5 – The Vacuum, which covers their position on the need for global government. The quote is relatively clear; a common enemy must be conjured in order to trick humanity into uniting under a single banner, and the elites see environmental catastrophe, caused by mankind itself, as the best possible motivator. It also outlines the perfect rationale for population control – Mankind is the enemy, therefore, mankind as a species must be kept under strict supervision and his proliferation must be restricted.

    The Club of Rome and the UN agenda have always been intimately connected. In the 1990’s at the same time ‘The First Global Revolution’ was being published, UN assistant secretary general Robert Muller was publishing his manifesto which is now collected on a website called ‘Good Morning World’. Muller argues that global governance must be achieved using the idea of “protecting the Earth” and environmentalism as the key components. Through fear of environmental Apocalypse, the public could be convinced to accept global government as a necessary nanny state to keep society from destroying itself.

    In a paper titled ‘Proper Earth Government: A Framework And Ways To Create It’ Robert Muller outlines how climate change could be used to convince the masses of the need for global government. Integral to his plan were the introduction of a new “global religion”, and population controls.

    It should come as no surprise that the UN established the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) and that this panel and it’s offshoots are now at the forefront of the argument for population reduction. As we close in on the end date for the UN’s Agenda 2030, which calls for a radical shift of human production from oil and other large scale energy sources into small scale “renewable energies”, there is only 10 years left for the globalists to achieve their goals if they hope to meet their announced deadline. This would require a violent change in human society and most of all industrialized nations.

    The human population would have to be reduced dramatically in order to survive on the meager energy output of renewables alone. A disaster of epic proportions would have to take place soon so that the globalists could then spend the next decade using the resulting fear to convince the surviving population that global governance is needed. Without aggressive crisis and change most people would never go along with the UN’s agenda, out of simple desire for self preservation. Even many leftists, once exposed to the true nature of carbon controls and population reduction, might have second thoughts when they realize they could be affected.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalists-openly-admit-population-control-agenda-and-thats-bad-sign

    1. As I said once – it’s no accident that Carbon Dioxide is the Globalist’s culprit in their climate farce.

      1. burton, as I have said in the past those who think CO2 is a problem need to tie a plastic bag tightly over their heads until they stop emitting CO2.

    2. Look no further than to Maurice Strong.
      The # 1 proponent of De-Population & De-Industrialization.
      Co Chair of the first World Congress on the Enviroment “92 Rio. UN apartachik – Friend of the Elites – Rothschilds – Soros et all

      A Liberal POS whose Co. Power Corp was on the privy council, and one who was convicted of thetTheft of Millions while involved with Iraqs Oil for Food program.

      Liberals…dont matter what decade – they’re all FILTHY Theiving EASTERN Bastards. Just a cursory look at your current crop will fully illustrate that in spades.

      Ground ZERO for Agenda 21 and later 2030.

    1. Did you actually read that garbage? They used Mann’s Hockey stick and a version that shows no medieval warming and the concluding sentence advocated adopting AOCs “Green New Deal”.

    1. After the SS executed over 100 Canadian troops during and shortly after the landing in Normandy, Canadian troops executed almost every SS soldier captured for the rest of the war. This would have been in the hundreds and possibly thousands. I knew an infantryman who drew straws to see who got to shoot the prisoners. There were no consequences. Some things just needed to be done. I remember talking to someone whose uncle, an SS member, was alive at the end of the war but disappeared. Perhaps he was taken prisoner by Canadians.

      2. The Geneva Convention pertaining to the Treatment of Prisoners of War stipulates that POWs “are in the power of the hostile Government, but not of the individuals or formation which captured them. They shall at all times be humanely treated and protected, particularly against acts of violence, from insults and from public curiosity. Measures of reprisal against them are forbidden.”

      3. drew straws?
        whallll shyt martha, I would pay cash for the exquisite privilege.
        and an utterly pristine clear conscience knowing ALL of them selected for the SS were pre-screened
        for their inclination and intent to commit unending war crimes.
        every. last. one. of. them.
        watched ‘Fury’ on the telly couple days ago. took special note the scene where sgt Pitt FORCES the chickenshyt newbie to SHOOT the kraut in a process to ummm, ‘get him up to speed’ as to the central aspect of war: kill as many of them as possible as fast as possible by any means necessary and then go out looking for more of them.
        one of my fav movie scenes: ‘Patton’ ‘make the other dumb bastard die for *his* country’.
        well there ya have it folks !!! OBLIGE THEM !!!

        Col Tibbets, any suggestions where to drop the next one?
        ooooh, I dunno, how’s about the fcukin PALACE. that would send a message eh?

        clear conscience. very clear. fcuk. I wish my teenage acne skin was that clear. I wish I was a teenager in 1935,
        if ya know what I mean. sorry about the rant, but Poppy Day was last week.
        oh ya. “I’m a pacifist,
        emphasis on the ‘fist’
        part for those unsure of
        my true nature and capabilities”

  20. I read a tweet by a guy who talked to someone who may have heard some inside information that…

    Ron Maclean may be out for Hockey Night In Canada.

    I know it’s not much in the way of a source, but if it’s good enough for impeachment….

    2. “He completely fails to understand the fundamental point that gender is an arbitrary social construct and has absolutely nothing to do with “biology” (except in the case of trans people who have been born in the wrong body).”

      Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. What a stupid c**t.

  23. True North website reports on the Parliamentary Budget Office announcement that the federal deficit will be 24 billion dollars in 2021. No problem, just squeeze some more money out of Alberta.

    1. Hell the total national debt plus deficits is only 5-6 Trillion for 18 million tax payers we need more government. More Taxes. More Laws More Rules.

  26. Oregon starting to stick it to electric car owners. Have a question as well. Does anyone know if cities in Canada are providing free charging stations for electric vehicle owners? I have heard talk of this, although never found supporting stories. If so why are cities not providing free gasoline as well? Ha Ha Ha. Imean after all country people are subsidizing city public transit. https://kval.com/news/local/electric-car-owners-subject-to-rising-vehicle-registration-fees-under-new-oregon-law

  28. The National Post among others had an item about a study of garbage in the Bay of Fundy.

    https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/1-8-million-items-of-garbage-strewn-over-bay-of-fundy-bottom-study-estimates

    “Seems that the “scientists” concerned are making it sound like the town dumps of the Maritimes have all ended up on the bottom of the bay and that “litter eliminates potential habitat by covering the bottom”. Here is my comment to the nonsense:

    Let’s do some math before getting our knickers in a knot. Claim is an average of 137 pieces of litter per square kilometer or per 1,000,000 square meters. That means one piece of garbage in a square of dimensions 85.4 meters by 85.4 meters on average. So if you were able to peer at a random 1 meter by one meter square, you would have 1 in 7299 chance of seeing a piece of garbage. The real garbage is in the sensationalism spewed by Walker. This is the kind of activist nonsense that is causing distrust of scientists and their institutions.”

  33. Kara D.
    @Kara_jd

    Great talk by @MaximeBernier today in Red Deer at the “Essentials of Freedom Conference” focusing on meeting the challenges of national unity . Please take a listen.

    https://m.facebook.com/LauralynnPPC/videos/10157888273204319/?_ft_=qid.6760107107902002590%3Amf_story_key.10157888273204319%3A31%3A0%3A%3Aimpl%3Atop_level_post_id.10157888273204319%3Acontent_owner_id_new.633429318%3Atracking_source.video_home%3Aphoto_id.10157888273204319%3Astory_location.31%3Astory_attachment_style.video_inline&__tn__=%2As%2As

    1. Federalist Max Bernier’s speech was terrific. The last election should have been a clean sweep for him.

      What chance do we have with him now that the Federal Government is bloated with big government policies concentrating on being pro East and anti West? It is hard to stop the water once the dam has been broken.

      The PPC was the only Party against the Paris Accord. They should have won on that one thing alone. We need to live, we need jobs. Everything else is utterly delusional. It’s not that people weren’t paying attention, it’s that the election was likely rigged. Trudeau and the Liberals should have been smashed to unrecognizable pieces just on obstruction of justice in SNC Lavelin case alone, not to mention the rest of the shameful things that the Liberals did.

      With the Liberals in power again, after all Trudeau has done, we are in a very dangerous place right now in Canada. What comes next from them will be worse than anything we’ve seen.

      I’m glad to have parked my vote with the PPC – I could not have stomached the rest. No strategic voting for me, I would have felt it difficult to live with the thought that I voted for anyone else.

      We, in Western Canada, must decide for ourselves as to the direction we will take. Max gave some good advice in that regard. We’ve purchased our way out in transfer payments a long time ago. If we separate from Canada, we must make it smart, we must make it peacefully.

      May God help us.

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