73 Replies to “May 14, 2020: Reader Tips”

      1. Burt Lancaster, who’s not known for his comedic roles, is absolutely terrific as an eccentric oil company executive in that movie.

        Watch for Peter Capaldi (a future Doctor Who) and John M. Jackson (perhaps best known for his role as Admiral Chegwidden in the TV series JAG).

        It’s directed by Bill Forsythe, who only made a few movies (e. g., Gregory’s Girl, Comfort and Joy).

        1. One of the greatest actors of all time, Burt Lancaster made 85 films over his 43 year career. How can one pick a favourite? 

          As for Peter Riegert I really enjoyed his role in the movie “Crossing Delancey.” (1988) However, this film likely would be considered a chick flick to some.

          On television, Riegert had a recurring role as crooked Newark Assemblyman and later State Senator Ronald Zellman in seasons three and four of the HBO series “The Sopranos” (2001–2002). He was superb in that role as well, imo.

          I must say that I’ve never seen the film “Local Hero.”  Where have I been? I plan to watch it very soon. The comments that I read about it are very favourable, some consider this an all time favourite movie.

          Looking forward to it.
          So, thanks very much.

          Came across this commentary from the director Bill Forsyth. For film fans, there are some interesting details here:

          “LOCAL HERO” Commentary (1:51:28)
          With Bill Forsyth & Mark Kermode
          https://youtu.be/sHysMbWHNiU

          1. THE TRAIN (1964) is my absolute favorite Burt Lancaster film. (Also my favorite John Frankenheimer film.) I am an evangelist for that movie.

          2. And then there was Riegert’s role in Animal House….

      2. By the way, tomorrow (i. e., 2020-05-14) at 12:15, TCM will be showing The Adventures of Don Juan. It’s one of Errol Flynn’s last swashbucklers and it’s a merry romp.

        Watch for a young Raymond Burr playing a Spanish officer.

    5. Favored here was Leopard, an Italian film with international cast.
      Lancaster was in the title role.

      1. I’m not sure which is my favourite Lancaster movie: Run Silent, Run Deep (one of the best sub pictures ever made) or Seven Days in May.

  3. A story at Western Standard claims that Ottawa could break the 1T in debt this year.
    https://www.westernstandardonline.com/2020/05/canadas-debt-could-hit-1000000000000/
    If only that were true. Unfortunately I have a long memory.
    You see 6 years ago 2014 it was at 4.1T Total Public Debt, which I doubt was paid off.
    So add this new 1T and we are probably 5-6T in debt.
    The Chinese Organ Grinder will soon demand their due from their dancing monkey Trudeau. Dance Little Monkey Dance. So beginning with PET the scumbags in Ottawa PC/Libs have sold off all of Canada’s 1000Metric Tonnes of gold reserves and racked up 5-6T in debt. And the average Canadian Family pays more in taxes than they are allowed to keep for the necessities of life. Food, Clothing and Shelter.
    At what point will the Tax Payers revolt? When they are in cardboard boxes and chasing cats for meat like in Venezuela I suspect. https://torontosun.com/2014/04/11/all-levels-of-canadian-government-debt-total-41-trillion/wcm/5ce2d058-f666-4105-8ace-a7be79c9d674

    2. That article says it all.
      The World’s politicians of are to blame for all this evil.
      Friggin Trudeau.

      Worry deeply about food shortages. Mum used to say all the time that without one’s good health one has nothing. Without healthy food we are not going to survive no matter how much deflated money we have.

      Damn Liberals– you work your whole life and then poof!
      Voilà. Gone. How the hell are we going to get out of this mess?

      Hope and pray for the best, prepare for the worst.

      1. N R it still amazes me that so many people are so dumb and sheep like. I guess irrational fear creates dumb and sheep like.

        1. Hey, but the Raptors are back! What, me worry? Da Gubmint pays you to stay home. The biggest bug bear out in Calgary is when are the golf courses opening? To most people this COIVID crap is an inconvenience, at worst. Unless you work at Cargill or JBS in Brooks Alberta, its a big yawn. Calgary supposedly “opens” today. In about 2 weeks watch for a spike in cases, flaming hair, shrieks and whatnot. I’ll sit out back and watch from the patio. Got enough TP to last a while and the freezer is full.
          Wash yore hands and stay away from transit.

          1. Ahhhh Po’ed. Good rant..Love it.
            I’ll be doing the same from my balconey in Walden…few boxes of beer, freezer is full, pantry as well.

            his whole thing is total BS in my mind, and the sooner it open back up the better.

            Even the Prov Campgrounds are only allowing 50% occupancy…like WTF.?? 30′ between sites ain’t enough.?
            TALK about Bureaucratic Idiocy.
            That one pisses me off….

      2. Well Canada’s GDP before the chicom virus lockdown was maybe 1.6T and with our total public debt at 5-6T how much longer can Trudeau borrow to maintain the Socialist Post National Canada. How long until the lenders quit lending. Think Venezuela. And yes think Food Inflation which is already spiking. With a tax base of 19M workers probably 30% unemployed right now, how long can this continue.

  5. Thanks Kate, Sultans takes me back to university days. Like Mark says, “milestones”. My genius friend Ron White, not the comedian, introduced me to the song and the rags to riches story behind it. Magic.

  6. I think couple of comments in the last day indicated that the RCMP gives out traffic tickets and speeding citations. Is this true? I grew up with Sargent Preston of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the radio, and the Mounties always get their man. This sounds to me like the same as if the US FBI were to enforce traffic laws.

    1. I’m not Canadian but was raised to have the highest regard for the RCMP. As recently as the 1990s, a passing friendship brought us into the sphere of a Mountie who was the brother of our acquaintances. A formidable individual he was indeed. His sister despised him, and he her. Very interesting table dynamics at that Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. They didn’t warn us we’d be participating in a 250 mile parade from Toronto to Sudbury. But the autumn colors were gorgeous.
      Back in the ’70s I trained and worked with an ex-Mountie who covered territories in the far north. He had hair raising memories of very inclement weather and dog teams.

    2. After learning that the FBI participated in the attempted unseating of the legitimate President, we’d all be better off if traffic citations was their role. That was the final straw for me. People don’t seem to comprehend what this means to the country and what it says about the country. Third world sh!thole indeed.

    3. They have contracts with small towns and municipalities to provide local policing, usually at below cost, so yes they do a lot of traffic citations, and it was well known not to speed within hundred mile of Regina because they were all out training to write tickets. I suspect the below cost policing is so that Ottawa can keep some control, they don’t want locals with ties to the communities to do like some Sheriffs in the US.

      Technically they are the RCMP/GRC, and a lot of people call them the Gravel Road Cops.

      1. A few of the roads in Ottawa are under federal control and don’t allow commercial vehicles except for work specific need. So if you cheat some overpaid dick in an RCMP car is out there waiting to give you a ticket. But it might be a better duty than sitting on Parliament Hill with your thumb up your ass, or guarding Blackie Shit-for-Brains…
        I think I’d rather shovel shit at the stables of the Musical Ride then have to guard and listen to Blackie’s passive-aggressive lithping all day like a bipolar queer.

    4. Being an immigrant, I am not familiar with Sgt. Preston. I am however familiar with Sgt. Renfrew and his dog Cuddles.

      Beginning to sound like that is a more appropriate memory.

    5. In Canada with the exception of quebek and Ontario (ok (NFLD…sort of) the rcmp are THE police force. They are a federal force supplied to the provinces to carry out municipal policing. Cities wisely dont trust the rcmp and for the most part have their own policing.

      Think a system designed like that could possibly work well?
      Exactly. They are lousy at municipal policing and enjoy an international reputation at about at the joke level they have in Fwance. Not Inspector Clouseau…..the official fwench force.

  7. Wow. Thanks, Kate. That song has to be one of the most beautiful, haunting rock (?) songs ever written. I obviously prefer the studio version, but seeing the musician fiddle with his instrument is always entertaining.

  8. This is a favourite tune, these two have chemistry… s’wonderful…
    From June 28th, 2006 at the Gibson Amphitheatre in L.A.
    In support of their album: “All The Roadrunning”

    Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – “So Far Away”
    https://youtu.be/3PHaGgpFH4g

  9. Chris Selley at the National Post writes about Blackie’s Elections Canada going after a small anti abortion group.

  12. I haven’t seen anyone commenting on the fact that pharmacies are only filling 30 days worth of any prescription. What a great way to keep old folks down on the farm and pump up pharmacy revenues, three fees verses one fee per prescription.

    2. OWG: This is what has been happening in Ottawa for the last month. And no comment from the pharmacist that you will be paying three dispensing fees rather than one.

    3. Still only giving out 30 days worth of medicine at the Shopper Drug Mart here in Burlington, Ontario.

    4. Yeah, I saw that with my recent “fill”. Probably has a lot more to do with Chinah putting the squeeze on supply chains over here to get what ever they can think up next for graft, political leverage or just because “Chinah is Asshoe”.
      I write my drug costs off against my taxes. They aren’t insignificant….drug costs that is. Taxes, not so much. Nil for this year with the medical deduction. Works for me and mine.

      1. My stuff is made in Ontario. Why would there possibly be a shortage? Did a tremendous increase in A-fib occur because of the “virus”? S/

        1. It may be “made in Ontario” but it’s almost a certainty that some of the ingredients come from China. And if those ingredients aren’t available, the drug’s not going to be produced.

          1. Yeah. They make something of everything and nobody thought that might be an issue. Fuuctards. Like unme

  13. The “twiddly bits” make the song! I’m still disappointed that when I saw him, he refused to play Sultans. I mean … WTF?

  14. Great day for fascism. Our little dictator in Ottawa will be signing over a large chunk of B.C. to four or five hereditary dictators in that province. Elected indian leaders are outraged, but who cares about democracy in Big Chief Gay Eagle With No Balls Canada. Blockades of railways and roads must be rewarded.

    1. One reason Trump has been as successful as he has been is because he’s a negotiator. As a businessman, he knows how to haggle and deal. Each party may not get everything they wanted but what they do agree to, they can work with.

      Dear Leader hasn’t figured that out yet. Is it because he’s not that bright or does he think he’s so politically insecure that he has to bribe everyone by giving them everything they demand?

      Then again, maybe he was brought up that way.

    2. I am thinking this is follow-up to Caroline Bennet’s negotiating. Is there a source telling us about this immanent transfer? I don’t see how that could be done without Parliamentary oversight.

    3. The “Wet’suwet’en First Nation” has a population of 256, that’s right, two hundred and fifty-six (see link below). And how many elected and hereditary chiefs are there? eight? ten? That’s a lot of chiefs and not many…

      Of the 256, over half do not even live on the reserve.

      And Canada is “negotiating nation-to-nation”. Only in Canada you say? Yes, we are the world leader in nations within a nation, and it is a constant source of pride. All praise be to the Dear Leader.

      https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNRegPopulation.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=725&lang=eng

      1. Or looking at something else below the waistline, if you get my meaning. A lot of politics is simply a game of “mine’s bigger than yours” and he doesn’t seem to play it very well.

  19. JUST NOW ON C.T.V. HEADLINE & DISCUSSION:
    “Ontario asks education workers to help Long Term Care Homes.
    Govt looking to fill staffing gaps in hospitals and other settings.”

    Will the teachers… h-a-v-e … to go to work now?
    I guess a government worker is a government worker is a
    government worker!

    Ha! Prediction:
    Not going to happen! The divas don’t do …
    t-h-a-t … sort of work!

  20. Saw this on Twatter.

    Marijuana is legal.
    Haircuts are not.

    It took 50 years but the hippies have finally won.

    1. Cops should not be allowed to wear beards. Most don’t. There is your first clue.

  23. How much more of this insanity can the country endure? A minority leader in out of control spending mode never being called to account in the legislature by the people?

    Holding a daily briefing like a 3rd world dictator, and then answering puff ball questions from his friends. What kind of a country allows crap like that to take place?

    The libranos have so misplayed their hand that they have to keep going no matter what the cost or consequences.

    1. I thank the B.Q. the Dippers and the Cons…who aren’t really Conservatives but real con men. They are all propping the Liberals because you know, WhuFlu … the ultimate wet dream.

    2. Justin’s performance is getting very stale. Spending is excessive and not in the interest of most Canadians– especially foreign spending, propping up WHO, research spending in partnership with China. If collusion with China can be established, the military should step in.

    1. Was a standing joke for years prior to the reform movement,
      “Get a government job,hasten the end”.
      Now we are at the 2020 tax form.
      Simplified version:
      Line 1 Have you wealth?
      Line 2 Give all.
      And now we arrive there,as the “economy” is dead and the tax taking group have no tax paying group to feed off of and even if they did,these makers are vastly outnumbered by the takers.
      So we retreat back to claw and fang.
      Cycles of life I guess.

      The comedy of government is the minions extreme difficulty understanding their place in society.
      A little government expedites and improves trade,so the taxpayers become richer.
      More government crushes the taxpayer killing trade and wealth.
      Our minions have been insisting we need them,we have always known we can survive just fine without them.
      Most of the current crop have no concept at all of how they disrupt,destroy and waste wealth and productivity.
      For they have never participated in productive activity and constantly,for the good of their self image,conflate parasitic activity with production.
      As Canada collapses,evolves into Zimbabwe North and Venezuela on Ice,the rate of theft and blatant fire sale of national resources will accelerate.
      None of our Bureaucrats care as long as they make it to pension status.

      On the bright side,Justine’s middle class will be the easier target to identify.
      Cause ,briefly, they will be the only holders of wealth.
      Billionaires in Justine Bucks.
      We need a 3 dollar bill.

  25. NDY

    I will tell you for the asking my friend, the RCMP do that in any of the provinces that do not have their own provincial police force.

    They just won’t enforce laws on those that blockade Trains, or alert Folks that a psychotic killing lunatic is on the loose and will be glad to carry Illegals Luggage across our border.
    They are unionized and its the Union leadership that has much to say on who how and what they do. They recruit Gang members – (MS-13), as they apparently have “relevant experience” – White Males need not apply (Which is just like the CBC).

    They also provide “security” for the Prime Minister – and likely procure his Blow when he needs some. Justin Trudeaus Praetorian Guard.T

    They are NOT at all the REDCOATED Mounties of old…not even close

  26. A court in Wisconsin just overturned the politicians lockdown order. Bars opened immediately. Video is circulating showing packed bars full of people.

  30. The latest Bidenism:

    “We’re in the middle of a pandemic that has cost us more than 85,000 jobs as of today. Lives of millions of people, millions of people, millions of jobs.”

    https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1261021660318179328

    There you have it from “I’ll never lie you you” Joe Biden. Millions have died.
    Reminds me of Biden’s claim that since 2007, 150 million Americans have died from gun violence.

    Democrats, please nominate him.

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