56 Replies to “December 24, 2019: Reader Tips”

    2. Right bk at ya Nancy..!!

      ..and to all my friends here, Wishing you all a Very Merry Christmas..!!
      May the next decade be better than the last…….half.

    1. I’m channeling Mordecai Richler (Oh Canada, Oh Québéc!) today!

      (Jeffery) Amherst (not Aimherst — the young lady continued to
      mispronounce the name throughout that segment of the video) captured Montreal for the British in 1760. He must be rolling in his grave to have his name vanish (somewhat) from Montreal. Nothing has really changed in Montreal. Those Montreal Communist Mayors continue to change the street names in the City but they cannot change history, as much as they’d like.

      I see the businesses on that street left the ‘Amherst’ name though. They’re not that stupid! One can still have brunch at “L’Oeufrier Amherst” at 1441 ‘AMHERST’ (ahem!) “Atatekin” Street, rather. The people probably still call it ‘Amherst.’ Screw Mayors Coderre and Valerie What’s her name.

      Ironically, the North to South street is between “Wolfe” Street (and Saint Timothy aka St Timothée) which they haven’t yet changed. (Wolfie you’re safe — for now!)

      As you can see this irks moi! My own street name where I grew up was changed a long time ago. I never got over it.

      Oh well, that’s life, as Richler might’ve said!

      1. Those Montreal Communist Mayors continue to change the street names in the City but they cannot change history, as much as they’d like.
        Oh, yes they will. They’ll change history so it is at last “correct”. We simply learned it wrong.

        There are lots of Winston Smiths out there making sure that it’ll happen.

        1. (From) Geo Orwell’s “1984” — a good comparison.
          (That City is a good place to leave!)

      2. And then Mountain Street named after Bishop George Jehoshaphat Mountain was renamed Rue de la Montagne. A particularly ignorant renaming.

    1. My favorite Jim Croce song, even though it’s the only one that I know of that somebody else wrote.

        1. So much for, as Scripture tells us, being in the world, but not of it.

          One reason Christianity is in decline isn’t because of its values but its refusal to defend them.

    2. Mathew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

  5. Our Dear Leader Eco-Justin is in Costa Rica working on his sun tan. It’s 20C warmer than Ottawa.

    How can he stand the heat?

    Oh and Eco-Justin would like to remind you to turn down your thermostats: to save the planet.

  7. Kenji,
    In reply to your comment elsewhere, yes, Liverpool are world club champions, a fact that should be celebrated.
    The fact that FIFA choose to treat what should be a first rate competition with third rate treatment is besides the point. (I won’t rehash how terrible the referee is. It’s all water under the bridge since we ultimately won.) It is indeed a playoff of continental champions. The fact that the clubs on different continents obviously have players with such different abilities is unfortunate (but hey, how many years in a row did the SEC win the pseudo playoffs in CFB?) but also besides the point.
    There is a poll of players to pick the top one hundred players. 99 of them play in Europe. The 1 who does play in South America was picked for his exploits in Europe last season. Liverpool has four of the top seven, and seven of the top twenty. How do any non-European club expect to compete?
    Monterrey probably went home thinking they held the world’s best club even for 90 minutes. They are wrong. Liverpool only had three players in their regular starting positions. Four starters were out with injury or illness, including Virgil who missed his first game this season, whose absence was why Liverpool failed to clear the high ball fed into the penalty area (offside, by the way), eventually leading to the tying goal. The manager chose to hold out three other starters, and one starter had to fill a gap at a position (DB) for the first time this season. The manager wanted to field a fresh team as good as he could with the available talent against the Brazilian team, and judged what he needed to beat Monterrey. He was right on the money, even if at the end he had to sub in the assist man and goal scorer to do it.
    The win against Flemengo is great if only to shut their followers up with that 38 year old taunt, about a game that happened before any of the players were born. As I said, the European champion should win almost every match, but Championship (second division) sides have managed to make the semi-finals or finals of the FA Cup on occasion. The reason they may not is only because they don’t care, whereas South America cares passionately.
    I love Brazilian players for their tactical skills and grace. We have three of their best to form our spine (goalkeeper, central midfielder, central forward.) I hate South American team play for their total lack of sportsmanship (which is also exhibited by Man City btw), falling down in agony at even the hint of contact. Among other things, that just gives soccer a bad reputation.
    Now let’s put Leicester out of their miseries on Boxing Day and put this EPL championship away.

  8. Today France Tomorrow The USA. About GDP, Debt Load and Taxes.
    Never see articles about Canada’s GDP to Debt and Taxes. Canada has one of the worst ratio’s in the West.
    GDP about 1.4T Total Debt 4-6Trillion depending on source and Taxes that consume more of the average families income than they get to keep for Food, Clothing and Housing combined…And only about 18m taxpayers.
    https://vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-today-france-tomorrow-the-usa

    1. Watcher, it seems that debt has become the “currency”. Eventually you will get your allotted credits and you will use them accordingly or you will starve.

  9. Information wants to be free

    A rumour that the White House is considering a policy that would make all federally funded studies free to read as soon as they are published has prompted a protest from academic publishers. […] This would follow an effort led by European funders — called Plan S — which will require that research they fund be open access immediately on publication, with liberal licensing terms.
    […]
    But requiring a similar policy for studies funded by the United States government would “effectively nationalize the valuable American intellectual property that we produce and force us to give it away to the rest of the world for free”, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) in Washington DC wrote to President Donald Trump.
    Nidhi Subbaraman 20 December 2019
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03926-1

    [A good part of this free access movement owes a debt to miss Alexandra Elbakyan]

    1. There would always be the choice whether or not to accept government money. Maybe if they chose not to publish valuable research the government becomes a 50% owner of the research.

    1. I don’t know how it works anywhere else but in every city and town in Canada washrooms are required as part of the licence to serve food or coffee. No washrooms, no business.

  12. Celebrate Christmas, or as we call it in Blackie’s Canada, “The Holiday”, with new stories this morning that Canadians are racist bastards at Blackie’s Globe and Mail and Blackie’s Toronto Star.

    1. Goddamned RIGHT….OWG.
      I, for the past 20 or 30 years, have refused to acknowledge this Happy Holidays BULLSHIT. I say and say it often: “Merry Chirstmas” to young and old – to white, brown and black…without distinction.

      as such..
      Merry Christmas..!!

    2. Merry Christmas !
      Still, Jesus would be celebrating Chanukah. You wouldn’t greet him with “Happy Birthday” ?

      1. If I knew when his birthday was and it was the custom of the day, I most definitely would.

  15. I wonder if prime minister Freeland will be giving the “Holiday” message tomorrow instead of Blackie?

    1. Well ABT he is a perfect ConCommie, he supports Gun Control, Carbon Tax, Big Government and all things Quebec and UN. The Conservative party left the Canadian Voter a long time ago its all COMMIE CANADA all the time…

    1. I and my fellow radio amateurs would be pleased if there were more. There’s hardly any activity on the HF bands.

  24. Heard on Fox News while driving …

    Two thieves broke into a store. One of them held the shop assistant hostage while the other shot the shop keeper, then pistol whipped him and finally started emptying out the cash register.

    The shop keeper staggered to get his own gun and returned two shots, killing one of the thieves.

    An overhead sign at the shop read “trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.”

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!

  25. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL YOU RACIST BASTARDS. Going to the legion for a couple of beers with some old army buddies, come back and do some farm chores, then wait for the family to arrive for Christmas Eve dinner.

  26. Jimmy Durante doing ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’. He does the classic version with a verse at the start. It sets the song up so nicely.

    Rudolph was written by Gene Autry. It was another time. Gentle and innocent.

    1. Jimmy Durante …”Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer”
      https://youtu.be/ItU3fw6Qeyg

      He was one of the most unique showmen of his era.

      From his mini bio:
      “His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, Lower East Side Manhattan accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America’s most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.”

      Here’s more about his amazing life:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Durante

  29. My son is taking part in a social experiment. He has to wear an “I love Justin Trudeau” hat.

    So far he’s been punched, kicked, spit on and slapped. He’s also had a bottle thrown at him.

    I’m curious to see what the reaction will be when he wears it out of the home.

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