65 Replies to “January 11, 2020: Reader Tips”

  2. The Wexit Party has today received approval to run as a federal party in the next election…
    They expect to run 104 candidates in the next election, and if their support exceeds the Peoples Party with Maxine, … this may give rise to the chance of permanent Liberal gov’t in Ottawa being as real as during the Reform/Alliance years.

    https://globalnews.ca/news/6395322/wexit-political-partycanadian-federal-party-status/?

    Support gauged from last January-Feb 2019
    http://angusreid.org/western-canada-separatism/?

    1. Considering that it was an Angus Reid poll, I wouldn’t put too much stock in the results. After all, isn’t AR being bankrolled by the Libranos?

      While I’ve been working on settling my father’s estate the past few years, I’ve had the chance to speak to a number of people in NE B. C., as well as in a few parts of Alberta. While none of them openly espoused separation, nobody likes Prinz Dummkopf. However, if the Wexit Party makes a good case for it, I’m sure that many of them would be willing to start a new country. What it needs in order to get that support is to offer a clear, workable alternative to the status quo which hasn’t served westerners very well.

    1. “Caused by American adventurism” or not, Iran admitted they shot down the plane.
      No American fire, no cross fire. Even Iran is more honest than American media and Democrats.

    2. Trudeau responds:

      “I am, of course, outraged and furious that families across this country are grieving the loss of their loved ones;….”

      Soon, immediately after writing a stern letter to the Ayatollahs, he will stamp his little feet and sob some more.

      1. Nina Saeidpour, whose friend Kasra Saati died in the crash, said Iran’s admission stirred up “mixed emotions.” Saeidpour, from Calgary, said Saati had travelled to Iran over the holidays for a reunion with his wife and two children.
        “In some ways we are happy that our government just came forward and said that they did it instead of hiding everything. On the other hand everybody is again in shock about why such a thing should happen,” Saeidpour said.

        Another one of the “Canadians” who refers to the Iranian government as “our”.

    4. Are they assuming that life is going to be easier if they are not Royal? They are fools. If they are not Royal, who’s paying for their security? I hopes it’s not me. And who is going to pay for their wedding? Wasn’t the wedding premised on a lifetime of public service?

    5. regarding this royal couple:
      dont fergit, ALL we hear about royals (ceppen those who are PERSONALLY acquainted and frequent contact) comes from . . . .
      from . . . . . MSM !!! wheeee !!!! what a WEALTH of unbiased strictly factual information !!!!!! wheeee !!!!!!

      I give Harry a pass because of
      -his bonafide military service in afghanistink and
      -he founded Invictus after seeing the dedication and continuing value of those who came out of it with missing limbs.

      I dont know squat about Ms Markle ‘cept mebbe this:
      https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620783/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

  5. Coming to a theatre near you:

    “The Gentlemen” January 24th
    https://youtu.be/2B0RpUGss2c

    Theme song ” Sunshine of Your Love” — Cream
     Link won’t work, sorry.

    P.S. yes, that Anglo is Hugh Grant! Great actors in this one!

    1. Hugh Grant? That’s enough reason for me to avoid it. He’s England’s Ben Affleck and ruins every movie he’s in.

      1. Naaaaa!
        Anyways, the others are terrific!
        They’ll carry him. Sounds just like Michael Caine, doesn’t he? So, he’s doing character acting now. There’s hope!
        (Maybe I’ll go see it)

        1. Caine at least isn’t pretentious and speaks with a working-class accent. He was one of the first British movie actors to do so and went on to a distinguished career, though he did make a lot of clunkers. (Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, anyone?)

          Grant, however, not only fakes his posh accent, he has nowhere near the talent as Maurice MIcklewhite has. I simply can’t imagine him playing, say, Peachy Carnahan in The Man Who Would Be King or the lead in Get Carter.

          It seems that Grant always manages to play an upper-class twit like the ones ridiculed by Monty Python and movies like that dreadful Four Weddings and a Funeral only confirmed it for me.

          1. I read that Michael Caine was told that he had to drop the working class accent. Evidently it is because of it, that he got offered the roles that he eventually did. He never refused work. Thus, his success. But, you’re right, he is a wonderful actor. I liked him in “Alfie” also “Hannah and her Sisters” to name just two. In the latter, what a Romeo!

            As for Hugh Grant there is no comparison.
            Perhaps his greatest role was the helpless look he gave Jay Leno, when Jay asked him, “WHAT were you thinking?”
            Ha!!

            You win, big guy!!
            (Smiles!)

          3. Michael Caine (look up how he got that name!) played a variety of characters throughout his careers. One of his earliest was as a British army officer in Zulu.

            Later, he was cast as an anti-Bond spy in The Ipcress File, Funeral In Berlin, and Billion Dollar Brain, all based on Len Deighton novels. (The first two were good, the latter a cinematic mess directed by Ken Russell. Two TV movies made more than 20 years later, and based on that character, were forgettable.)

            One thing he managed to do was to stay out of the tabloids. Grant, however, gave those scandal rags plenty of material when he was cavorting with model and actress Liz Hurley.

      2. Although I don’t usually go to the movies for obvious reasons, my wife and I are going into town today to see the movie “1917”. Hopefully its not full of social justice crap.

  6. President Trump reveals new details on imminent threat from Soleimani, responds to criticism -interview with Laura Ingram(15 min.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEeDJsmvKxs
    ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–
    L- Trump understands why some nations seek the added protection of the U.S. military, but requires them to pay for all or part of it.
    That being the case, when will he send an invoice to P.M. Justin Trudeau, and for how much ?
    Let’s see 2 percent of Canada’s GDP(NATO standard). Subtract the 1.2 percent spent on our military now = .8 percent of Canada’s GDP.

    Liberals and their voters tend to be innumerate. Therefore the Gov. General, an engineer by profession, will have to explain it to them.
    Maybe, using white chalk on a blackboard(remember that?). Oh right, since it’s 2020, coloured chalk on the sidewalk on Parliament Hill.

    1. If I were in Gail’s position, I would have felt obliged to share with Tommy. But then, I’m not like people like Gail, who by her actions demonstrated that she felt no such compunction. That’s what separates rich people from us poor.

      1. Same here, she should’ve shared the proceeds of the sale with Tommy, her so called friend. Why then, did she even bother to tell him that she was selling it?

    2. Chuck Chandler, the DJ mentioned, had a long career in radio in Edmonton. Why would anyone share current proceeds of something with virtually no value a generation before that they had the foresight to save as a souvenir?

  11. And now Blackie’s Saturday Toronto Star. Its the Trump shot down the airplane edition. Numerous stories by Unifor journalists that the downing of the plane in Iran is all Trump’s fault. One journalist wants Blackie the Pirate to get really, really mad at Trump. Tony Burman also blames Harper because he closed down the embassy. Harper is evil. Burman of course also blames Israel and the Jews. Carefully selected letters to the editor blaming Trump, Israel, and the Jews. Editorial that Australia is burning to the ground because of global warming, and Blackie must shut down the Canadian economy before it happens here. In other Star news, the paper ignores that the December job growth was primarily in Doug Ford’s Ontario, some Doug Ford is Hitler stories, we need more taxes in Canada, foreigners coming here to have babies in order to scan the immigration system is wonderful, Blackie the Pirate is wonderful, the Liberal Party is wonderful, Canadians are racist bastards. And Tokyo Rose CNN this morning had a guest on who explained that the dead terrorist general was simply a diplomat who was in Iraq to negotiate peace.

  12. There goes the narrative: Quds force has been designated a terrorist entity by CANADA since 2012.

    1. But it’s clean green BC eco-coal.

      And the steel will only be used to produce windmill towers. 🙂

    2. Thanks for your post. The Holocaust is an important part of history.

      I have read numerous stories on this topic over the last 30 + years. It is amazing how these people survived. One never knows when a new story will surface.

      In the book, “The Irishman”, Frank Sheeran (written with Charles Brandt) who went to WWII, described some of what he saw. In the chapter entitled “Doing Who had I Had to Do”, when his unit was on its way to Munich, and they heard rumors about atrocities at the camps, they decided to stop in one day at the concentration camp at Dachau.

      He wrote that they were not prepared for what they saw, nor the stench. There remained about 500 soldiers guarding the remaining prisoners. The guards were taken care of by the liberators. They were shot. Some of the camp victims who had the strength borrowed the liberators guns and did what they had to do. Nobody batted an eye when it was done.

      About two weeks later the war in Europe ended.

      Here is a link to the international holocaust remembrance day website. The date of remembrance is January 27th.

      https://www.ushmm.org/remember/international-holocaust-remembrance-day

    1. This is by Peter Schweizer. He is excellent and has several other books out which reveal the methods and levels of corruption by DC insiders. The Biden book is very timely.

      1. What a maroon!

        Five well done books uncovering massive political corruption and not a single ass in jail.

        Doesn’t he know the right political target and an $18 glass of orange juice can mean a Pulitzer?

        Televised perp walks, endless lying appearances on all the networks…….heck, maybe even a Nobel!

        Books and movies about you.

        A part of lying historical lore.

        And all gone for want of a Republican.

  16. It’s -16C in Calgary, heading to the -30s early this week.

    And how are our windmills doing? Well they are at 15% of capacity. I expect that that will drop to 5 to 7% of capacity like it did in last year’s cold snaps.

    I am thinking of running for political office. My one platform? Greens and New Democrats get solar and wind power electricity only.

      1. Scar, thanks.

        Brook Solar is producing at 7% of capacity. This is the first I’ve seen it above 0 in the last year or so.

  17. Germany’s Merkel is meeting Putin in Moscow today. Why isn’t the media ranting that she is in the pocket of Russia?

  18. Re: the TED talk Kate posted – Jack Horner’s dinosaur chicken, circa 2011

    Back then Jack naively believed that Dr. Schweitzer could tell the dinosaur was female by analyzing the medullary tissue. The Medullary cavity in the bone stores calcium when “female” birds or dinosaurs are pregnant. We now know that we can’t tell if an animal is male or female through archaic biological methods. Modern scientific thought believes that you must ask the dinosaur if it feels male or female…

  19. CBC Radio had on one Scott Gilmore — a weekly columnist with the moribund Maclean s Magazine, to apologize (of sorts) for his demagogic column, entitled Trump Faces Impeachment — 63 Canadians Die:
    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5422323/why-scott-gilmore-regrets-maclean-s-column-linking-trump-impeachment-to-iran-crash-1.5422328

    Except that Gilmore really did not apologize for his anti-Trump rant — he basically said that the column was ill-timed, given that Canada is in mourning for the dead. His original piece said that (1) Trump is evil, (2) the Democratic Party has no choice but to impeach him, (3) since Trump is being impeached, he decides to strike at Iran, and (4) since Iran was attacked, it accidently shoots down a plane full of Canadians. The causation, thus, is Trump is an evil president, so Canadians die. Scott Gilmore says in his CBC Radio interview that he believes this drivel, but it was ill-timed.

    About Mr. Gilmore. He is the son of an NHL hockey player; he has a brother who is a Canadian actor; he is a social entrepreneur, who believes capitalism should be used to solve our social and environmental ills. He has won awards from the left-wing Globe and Mail and rich business types, for his advocacy.

    Oh yes, he is married to Chrystia Freeland, former Foreign Affairs minister and now minister of just-about-everything in Trudeau s government. He donated $1,500 to the Liberals in 2015 for his wife s local riding campaign. Scott Gilmore says a lot about how the elites operate in Ottawa. He has friends in high places.

    2. That column was totally ridiculous — simple minded and nasty. I am not surprised he is married to one of those dimwit Liberals.

  21. A sad and shocking surprise to see such a person pass from our midst.

    Beyond being a master musician, lyricist, and author, he was a man of rare courage: despite having lost his family in his middle age (teenage daughter and wife) mere months apart, he managed to rebuild his life, to gain a second family, and to resume making the kind of art and music that only the members of Rush could.

    His departure is a loss to those of us whom he touched, but we were even more blessed for having him pass through our lives in the first place.

    God-speed, Neil Peart…

    1. Going to see it tomorrow.
      Knives Out is worth seeing as well, though for much different reasons.

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