In the minds of some, media darling Greta Thunburg appears to have superpowers such as the ability to change the minds and lives of billions of people merely by uttering 3 magical words: “How DARE You!”
Long before Dear Leader Greta ever came to prominence, a cousin of hers named Pepi Longsocks exerted his superpowers over everyone around him.
Returning to more recent times, Auntie Maxine Waters, had some important words for the residents of North Carolina.
Both your funny and serious tips are appreciated, as always!

Interesting article at WUWT on the Australian fires.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/04/australia-fires-and-misses/
Rainfall data show the last 60 years have been wetter than the early 1900s.
And decades of fire suppression and greens preventing controlled burns are now resulting in lots of fuel for fires to burn. Now where have we heard that before?
The fires are a joint project by Islamists, climate cultists and the Chinese communists who control the Australian Labor Party to discredit the current freedom-loving Australian government and putting a pro-Chinese government back in power in Canberra.
Reminder that the areas burning in Australia have no significant Muslim or Overseas Chinese populations. The areas now being torched every year by eco-terrorists to discredit patriotic governments worldwide never do.
BC? How’s about Fort McMurray? I heard that one was set, similarly to the Australian ones. We’ve got a few weeks until the reg’lar fire season starts, so what gives? Looking forward to summer here in WEXIT country.
Fort McMurray is a suburb of Mogadishu. See previous comment about Muslim outposts.
The fort Mcmurray fire was years in the making. For the last 3 decades we have had major fires north and south of us. The fuel load in the bush immediately around the city was massive. Mixed with a dry spring (May 2016) , an unaware quad driver with a hot exhaust, and bob’s your uncle.
And how about building cities in the boreal forest without constructing a fire guard?
Houses are built so close together one can jump from roof to roof. Construction of the houses consists of asphalt shingles with vinyl siding – sounds fairly fire resistant.
Get a grip. Regardless of how the fire starts it is in a friendly environment. No fire guard, no clearing of under brush, build within spitting distance of the bush with a house that explodes upon contact with fire and yeah – blame climate change.
precisely ab.
migawd, when my kid brudder got married in fort frances, in the back of my mind Im thinking wtf??? arent these people even passingly aware of the fire hazard????
and the gnashing of teeth and nail biting.
kinda like the folks along the eastern seaboard getting washed into the atlantic sose they can remodel
in time for the next hurricane.
McMurrays fire smoldered for a couple days, there were photos. Notley’s geniuses had their thumbs stuck somewhere, while explaining the WATERBOMBER contract cancellation. They wanted the oil production destroyed, like all good socialists.
No one held to account, and she’s pondering another run for Premier.
Kate; Why did the Canadian Goal get called back? Kuznetsoff!
http://thedailychrenk.com/2020/01/03/australias-arson-crisis/
The author admits perhaps half of Australian bushfires are set deliberately. He claims that most “firebugs” are juvenile delinquents and that there is no conspiracy involved.
If that’s true, what were the delinquents up to last year? Did torturing small animals go out of fashion?
The race is on:
I asked a former #CPC staffer what they think of
@PierrePoilievre. Their response was so beautiful that I had to share it with the rest of you.
https://twitter.com/JessAMorgan89/status/1213284206689677313
So then if I get this right, Poliver would irritate liberals and progressives so much that they would be outraged everyday he sat in the leaders chair?
Sort of how most politicians that are right of center do everyday.
Just playing devil’s advocate but “political staffers” are of and for trying to get inside Ottawa, so getting political advice from them is based on the POV of what’s good for Ottawa.
As a parallel, and this is not a endorsement of Pierre, but didn’t they say the same things about Trump?
Having said that, I don’t really care if the CPC decides to have a turnip for leader, until they start to represent the 40% that sit out the election because they don’t see a real conservative choice on the ballot, the progressive set can feel secure that their march to socialism will continue unabated.
There was a conservative voice – Maxime Bernier – but you chose not to vote for him.
Actually the candidate running for the PPC in my riding was a complete loon.
No doubt due to the time crunch to make sure the party had a full slate of candidates.
Don’t have a problem with Max or the party.
There will be another election.
My point is that there is more or less 40% of the eligible vote that never shows up to vote because they don’t see anyone on the ballot that will work for them. Party leader can be what the dr ordered, but the local voter knows their vote goes to elect their MP. If the local candidate is a dud, those folks won’t see their vote making a difference and stay home.
If Max was the conservative option, there is no future. His message was soundly rejected. He couldn’t win his own seat as the incumbent!
Not sure what 40% you refer to? All voters who choose not to vote are conservative? That will come as a great surprise to conservative organizers. They’d figure out how to tap into that voting block as it would be instant majority. Why didn’t Max think of that?
Linda Ronstadt & J. D. Souther “Hearts Against the Wind”
https://youtu.be/vuEdxpDViqg
J.D. Souther– “The Best Of My Love”
https://youtu.be/eqFkkBJKuH8
J.D. Souther wrote this one as well Faithless Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd8R18MpFLU
That’s a good one.
Here she is in Atlanta… 1977…
“19 Tumbling Dice & You’re No Good”
From the comments…Ronstadt — R&R ♡throb & some killer pipes. Fine bandmates that adored her.
https://youtu.be/Ee_JltI6rHg
“Crazy”:
https://youtu.be/fa4Pm53aXw8
NR
I had opportunity to watch the CNN special on Ronstadt. She was really something. Had a set of pipes that could overpower a 40 piece orchestra. She could do a stadium concert without a sound system.
I never cared for her politics and thought her diction could have stood some work. It was especially noticeable in the Nelson Riddle arrangements (great American songbook material).
That aside I enjoy every note that came out of that songbird. It’s a tragedy she is unable to sing.
Just a comment…
Unable to sing? By the same token, does that mean Sinatra could sing just because his enunciation was perfection? Methinks she could sing. But I’m no expert in music since I can’t carry a tune.
I have no beef with you because I respect that you are a musician. And probably a good one. Your knowledge of songs is immense in most genres especially Jazz, R&R, Country, etc.
I’m crushed nevertheless because I never noticed that her enunciation isn’t good.
NR
I should have made myself clear. Linda Ronstadt is unable to sing because she has Parkinson’s disease. She did her last concert in 1999.
Although I question her diction I think you can see from my comments that I hold her in high regard. My criticism is more nit picking than criticism.
I love all her material and have many of her cd’s/vinyl including the Spanish stuff that I don’t understand but appreciate her voice.
She is unique in that although she is an untrained voice she sang Pirates of Penzance on Broadway to rave reviews. She cant read music but memorized the parts. This is opera! not some 3 chord country song.
Ronstadt has no equal. She is a female equivalent of Mick. A genuine rock star but so much more.
Don’t be so tough on yourself NR – enjoy the music
Whoops I think Ronstadt’s last concert was 2009 not 1999.
I had no idea that she had been diagnosed with a disease that rendered her unable, literally, to sing. Gosh, how sad.
From Wikipedia:
“In 2011, Ronstadt was interviewed by the Arizona Daily Star and announced her retirement. In August 2013, she revealed to Alanna Nash, writing for AARP, that she has Parkinson’s disease and ‘can’ no longer sing a note. Her diagnosis was subsequently re-evaluated as progressive supranuclear palsy.”
You learn something new everyday.
You learn how precious life is. How precious love is.
“How DARE you?”
That’s funny! The motto of the British S.A.S. is “Who Dares Wins”. lol
True North reports on how Blackie has his Elections Canada Commissioner investigate The Rebel. And today is the deadline to sign up for Blackie’s CBC trip to Cuba contest. Also Blackie’s Sunday Toronto Star reminds everyone today, that Canadians are racist bastards.
CBC trip to Cuba contest?
I thought you must be joking but indeed CBC is promoting the Castro’s Island Prison. Come for the socialism stay for the tasteless food, derelict buildings and the disheveled 3rd world ambiance.
ya.
I got a funny feeling the so-called ‘tourist areas’ are reaaaaaaal close to the day-to-day grind
cubans have ‘enjoyed’ some what, 50 years now?
are the beaches and weather so drastically different in koobah? or is it just that ‘see no evil speak no evil’
communist mindset that ‘fixes’ all the problems?
According to his schedule Great Leader Blackie is flying back to Ottawa today. Don’t expect we will see much of him as he recovers from a massive hangover.
….and BTW why was the Black-faced Pimpernel in Costa Rico for 3 weeks?
Since Trudeau has always admired Castro so much shouldn’t there have been a stop in Cuba as part of his warm-weather vacation?
Those Russian pranksters got Maxine twice now!!
The first time was 2017.
They have her on speed dial.
CBC wrote an article about the fires in Australia. Not worth linking to. They showed a “fires map” which shows the location of all the fires across that country. They made a big deal of the record temperature (43.6 deg C) across the entire country. But they didn’t mention that the high temperatures were concentrated in the center of the continent while the fires were all around the coast (where it was much cooler). So why are all the fires located along the coast where the people mostly live and not in the center where the hot temperatures are?
Piss poor Forest Management. Not allowing Anyone to enter, not allowing any Cattle to graze, not doing prventative burns, the list is long…and as per WUWT, the last 60 years have been wetter which promotes Growth – ergo more fuel htat piles up in dry times.
All that in forests that NEED fire so as to germinate seeds.
It’s N A T U R A L.
But the Green IMBECILES and their Arsonist Friends think they know better.
Like Kalifornica, Like Oregon, Like BC, Like Ft McMurray – so goes Australia.
Stupidity is not soley a North American trait.
Bill Whittle explains the Stockholm Syndrome affecting conservative politicians and why they don’t stand up for what they claim to believe.
How do you defend conservative ideals?
Here’s how:
https://youtu.be/Wgxlp2UJI5I
Residents look on as wild fires blaze in Lake Tabourie, NSW, Australia.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-wildfires-more-fatalities-1.5415175
Weather for Lake Tabourie today is a high of +19 deg C and light rain expected for the next 4 days.
Lake Tabourie is right on the coast. Why are the forest fires along the coast where it’s cool and not in the interior where it is piping hot?
I passed through that region on vacation (from Canada) in February 2016, driving from Sydney along the east coast, and then the south coast to Melbourne. Watched the 2016 Super Bowl in a bar in the town of Orbost, Victoria. It’s a beautiful country. I’ve been to Oz 3 times now. It breaks my heart to see fires happening in many of the towns and regions I’ve been to.
That’s easy. The coast is where most of the trees are. Most of the interior is desert.
You should be asking instead why nothing is burning in the major cities where the greenies and their Muslim and Chinese friends live. As in California, only “the white man’s country” is being burnt to the ground.
All the cities are getting is smoke. But boy, does it look good in the TV footage sent to countries where people know nothing about Australia beyond what they can gather from Mad Max.
Hey Skweeker and all you other Max lovers: HE’S A QUEBECER! LEARN SOME HISTORY!
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-uses-aoc-bernie-sanders-to-explain-the-ndp-to-americans/ar-BBYCxGm?ocid=spartandhp
Apparently Americans let Jughead in so he could defame their president.
#NorthernShithole
From 2013, a longish read on Suleimani, “The Shadow Commander”.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander?irclickid=UbTWBm26RxyOUHvwUx0Mo38TUknRs2Qx3xsLxI0&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Viglink%20Primary&utm_source=impact-affiliate&utm_medium=27795&utm_campaign=impact&utm_content=Online%20Tracking%20Link&utm_brand=tny
I thought he was a poet
“Welcome to the Middle East,” the Western diplomat in Baghdad told me. “Suleimani wanted to bleed the Americans, so he invited in the jihadis, and things got out of control.”
https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2018/01/09/the-birds-that-start-fires-using-indigenous-ecological-knowledge-to-understand-animal-behavior/
Australia has gone green nuts. In 1996 I think a farmer was taken to court for removing dead wood and building fire breaks on his land.The fire service used his land as a base in the following fires because it was safe. When the fire season was over the court found him guilty.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-december-29-2019-1.5399598/a-loss-of-consensus-why-the-last-decade-saw-growing-polarization-1.5399605
One guest calls Trump and Boris Johnson “liars” and wonders how they are able to get into power and stay there. Painful to listen to.
The other guest – clearly an idiot – argues that the American Democrats should get less votes and win more electoral college votes so that they would be inclined to change a corrupt political system (the electoral college system in the US that prevents the more populated areas – that are mostly Democrat – from dominating in elections).
Liberal international order … Liberal democracy … Neo-Liberal consensus [their words, not mine], is under threat, mostly by Trump.
My New Year’s resolution is to have nothing to do with the CBC — nothing, not even clicking on a link. There are better news sources. Everyone should do the same.
worth saying again L, if, IF I had the know-how and/or resources to involve others with the know-how I would arrange to sabotage every means and access point of info from the front street studio gang.
in the days of airwaves broadcast, I fantasized about setting up mobile jamming equipment spewing everything from annoying nursery songs to scathing criticisms put on a loop.
right on top of *only* the cbc frequency.
So it ain’t so joe. voter fraud
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/01/05/1724205/massive-new-cambridge-analytica-leak-will-show-global-voter-manipulation-on-industrial-scale
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-albertas-oil-and-gas-war-room-isnt-doing-albertas-oil-and-gas/
The inevitable result of voting for people who have “conservative” in their name. He set up a think tank to funnel government cash to sinecures for loyalists. And everyone keeps believing people who have “conservative” in their title, but have lived their entire lives without advocating for a single conservative principle…
You keep giving your vote away. Why would anyone buy the cow, when they are getting the milk for free?
A jackbooted thug threatens David with arrest for calling Soleimani a terrorist.
Tell me again how they are the good guys.
Sorry here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVWMR_NDMj8&t=37s sharia law enforced by moronto police, official no go zones next.
m-hmm.
‘cops are tops’.
some of them need to be lined up aaaaaand . . . . .
Top enforcers of sharia this side of Atlantic.
I do think that the attitude of the police is that they don’t want trouble. They were afraid that the Rebel media guy would antagonise the crowd into a riot with his questions about terrorism.
Then it would be their job to put down a riot. They do not get to shit on people’s rights because a band of medieval subhuman traitors can get antsy.
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2020/01/05/bryan-brulotte-launches-effort-monday-to-win-conservative-leadership-3/#.XhI2-1VKiUl
Here is a big 2020 prediction: I predict that every single CPoC leadership contender, is going to promise that they are the great white hope that can finally deliver the votes of the Free Shit Army (FSA). The leadership is basically going to be bidding war, of who is offering the most that Alberta will pay for without any say in the matter.
And they will be picking a Quebecer this time, because “that is the way”.
Oh he is perfect.
Exactly what the CBC has been campaigning for.
When is the Alberta Referendum?
We gotta’ go.
re speculation on sophie’s wherabouts, the TURDoo 2.0’s wherabouts and [non]activities, allow me to suggest that
‘the emperor’s new clothes’ syndrome is now in FULL EFFECT in the lieberal party hqs.
as a result of the TURDoo’s past and more recent VERY public gaffs and the loss in support in the last election.
none of them want to publicly speak out against the TURD and become a humpty dumpty.
and STILL Canaduhians keep putting these closet communists in ‘orifice’.
we are fuqued.
my contempt for CONservatists is a close second seeing as the golden opportunity to present some
viable alternative seems to scare them instead of emboldening them.
B.C. Court Injunction against natives vs. Band’s eviction notice against pipeline workers. Guess which one gets obeyed?
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/first-nation-issues-eviction-notice-to-coastal-gaslink-contractors/ar-BBYDA9q?ocid=spartanntp
regarding native issues:
there is a helluva lot of difference of opinion amongst natives as to right and wrong.
helluva lot.
I say this after observing same for almost 50 years.
Ricky Gervais jokes about “Epstein didn’t kill himself” during #GoldenGlobes
https://t.co/QFiCbsHIU2
Ricky Gervais,
“You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg,”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/01/05/golden-globes-host-ricky-gervais-hollywood-in-no-position-to-lecture-about-anything-you-know-nothing-about-the-real-world/
and the first ever award for “honesty” at the Golden Globes goes to Ricky Gervais… lol.
More? You’d like more?
“I came here tonight in a limo, and the license plate was made by Felicity Huffman. Epstein didn’t kill himself – I’m sorry, I know he’s your friend!
If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform for political speech, alright. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world.
You say you’re woke but the companies you work for run sweatshops in China…Apple, Amazon, Disney…if ISIS started a streaming service you know you all would call your agents.
Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So if you win, accept your little award thank your agent and your god, and f**k off.”
Thanks for that Marc. Good thing I’d finished my coffee.
Kuznetsoff
January 6, 2020 at 2:48 pm
Kate; Why did the Canadian Goal get called back? Kuznetsoff!