57 Replies to “July 24, 2020: Reader Tips”

  1. GGs house has been politicized for so long now all those progressives over the years have ruined it.

    https://twitter.com/smithjoanna/status/1286454527504388096

    Took my kids on an official tour some years ago. We had just read The 39 Steps by John Buchan and we wanted to see how he had lived as Canada’s GG. The tour didn’t allow for that. The tour/guide was totally focused on female GGs. She didn’t have a lot of facts correct on the ladies and when I pointed the odd thing out I was followed by a manager who descended from above. We tried to linger in the portrait room to see John Buchan’s portrait and security was called but they did relent when I explained our interest. The tour guide took me aside after the tour to prog-splain her Liberal views. Was a total disappointment and I wouldn’t do an official tour again! Can’t remember if we had to pay for it.

    1. Your 15th GG was quite a character. He wrote quite a few Richard Hannay novels. I read all of them and some others he wrote too.
      If you liked The 39 Steps you may like Greenmantle. You can get it online free from the Gutenberg Project, Australia. I have to warn you, you have to take him with a grain of salt. He was a bigot through and through. (I don’t think that was so obvious in 39 Steps since he only showed dislike for the Germans, which was natural enough.) Not only did he have a low opinion of other races, he had a low opinion of almost all foreign (to Great Britain) countries. I think he did like the French though, for some reason. I guess that made him a good candidate for GG for a country with Anglo and Franco populations. But his books are great rollicking fun.
      He was born in Scotland and worked in South Africa, and used both extensively as background for his novels. So he was quite a world traveler even before Canada.
      Of course, he was not unusual for his time. Discordant notes of racism seep through much of British literature of the period, even when not directly relevant. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Mary Poppins. Allan Quartermain, Horatio Hornblower …

    2. I remember getting hates stares from a tour guide at the Alberta Legislature about 50 years ago because my commentary was way better than hers, especially the part about Premier Brownlee humping his secretary.

  2. Nancy:

    I responded to your query at:

    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/07/23/july-23-2020-reader-tips/#comment-1339722

    only to have it end up in moderation limbo. Maybe I was too long-winded (ya think?) or I posted too many URLs. Anyway, I’ll consider it gone, so I’ll try again and focus on answering your question.

    The shortwave arm of the South African Broadcasting Corporation was known as Radio RSA (for Republic of South Africa). On New Year’s Eve, it devoted its programming time to an international call-in show and people did indeed telephone the station, exchanging greetings and telling the host(s) where they were from.

    One year, the host brought along his dog and one could sometimes hear the critter barking in the background. Another time, there were two hostesses and they were an absolute riot. They sounded like they had already sampled some bubbly and they pushed the limits of what could be considered prim and proper on-air conduct. One caller was invited to come from his country to the studio and find out what the ladies were really like….

    Some time after apartheid ended, the station went by the name of Channel Africa. I have no idea if the New Year’s Eve call-in show continued.

    1. Too bad you went ‘high and dry’ with your first post, B A.

      Your story is just what I thought… liquor-lip talk on New Year’s Eve!
      Ya gotta watch those Afrikaners…
      I too have crazy story, if I may:

      Years ago, in a professional capacity, I once spoke to a stranger overseas around the Christmas season who asked me how the weather was in the fair city of Montreal. Not surprised, with tongue in cheek, I told him that we were freezing our Christmas ‘balls’ off. Of course, I then asked about Capetown’s weather and he replied that he came to work that day in his Bermuda shorts, and that his balls were just fine and firmly in place!

      Yikes! Just scandalous, I say!

      Over & out…73,
      N.R.

  3. Love Doc Watson. Another good listen of similar but “different” blues is Leon Redbone. Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSdSn9J2J8U&list=RDxSdSn9J2J8U&start_radio=1&t=0
    Stuff you drink whiskey and burn the midnight oil with.
    My first bush camp had a Geologist (Armenian) who played guitar blues like this. Lots of whiskey and black spruce burned listening to this stuff. He’d play for hours. Lotta ‘skeeters died ’round those camp fires. My guitar stayed in the case when he played.

    1. POd, Nancy and OWG:
      When I was a young hippie-leftist living in the U.S., I came across Doc Watson’s early albums, and was flummoxed by his flatpicking and 3-finger picking. His “Black Mountain Rag” is a slide-off-the-chair hum-dinger, that still leaves me amazed. He inspired me to flatpick and three finger pick. I like the first four acoustic albums by Ian and Sylvia too, on Vanguard.

    1. Maximum Normal Pool level is 175 meters.
      The top of the dam is 185 meters.
      I don’t know where or at what height it will overflow if it goes above 175 meters. If it overfows through rock and dirt, the entire river could bypass the dam, as it floods the entire downstream valley all the way to the sea.

      With all the rain they are getting, it is a terrible balancing act. They are trying to keep the downstream flooding to a minimum by filling up the pool behind the 3 Gorges Dam, but they cannot risk overflowing and destroying the dam. As long as the monsoon rains keep coming, they are going to have flooding above and below the dam.

  4. Great Leader Kim Sung WE Trudeau is in private meetings today. Which means of course, he is heading early to his Harrington Lake resort.

  5. I encourage everyone to read Victor Davis Hanson’s July 21 article ” Will 2021 be 1984 “. Canada is already there with the pack of miscreants running the show .

      1. In many respects, it’s already there. Recently, I got yet another message from an administrator for the Antifa Anarchists for the Annihilation of Science (the modern-day mutation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) in which he trotted out Prinz Dummkopf’s “diverthity ith ouw thtwength”, but without the lisping.

        It seems that many AAAS members, including me, told the administration to stick to science. Ah, but think of all the miracle cures for cancer that will be discovered if only Oogoo from Coleslawvania was allowed to import himself into the U. S. (Now that is real science, isn’t it?) Consequently, all of our concerns will be completely disregarded.

        That kind of rubbish was never discussed before Trump was elected. No doubt, once Beijing Biden wins his landslide in November, it’ll stop being a problem.

        1. Do you really think Biden will get in?
          They’ll have to have over 100% voter turnout, perhaps.
          ( Stuffee la ballot box, oui, oui?)

          Can you just imagine 8 more years of Pelosi?
          Holy Hanna!!!

  6. The media are reporting that Telus is severing its contract with WE Charity. The Globe and Mail is allowing its contract with WE to run out on August 31 with no renewal. Other corporates are reconsidering their WE relationship.

    1. In keeping with current Liberal Party efforts, the new top soldier will be a half black, half indian, muslim, lesbian, in a wheelchair who at a later date may become transgender.

    2. I am sure he will. So predictable. As a woman, it makes me feel patronized, and In an odd way, also devalued.

      1. Juthtin didn’t make his cabinet 50% women. He limited it to 50% women. The fact that all the stupid Karen’s don’t think like that is perverse.

  7. CBC’s Liberal engineered narrative paints the police are racist bastards in Canada.

    Black, Indigenous people disproportionately killed by police: CBC research
    https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1767432771743
    Black and Indigenous people are disproportionately killed by police in cases of force being used, according to a CBC News analysis of data from the last 20 years. There are growing calls for systemic change in policing from families of those killed, experts and stakeholders.

    CBC’s Deadly Force database looks at role of race, mental health in deaths
    https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/fatalpoliceencounters/

    IMO CBC’s expose and narrative is about undermining the ‘Rule of Law’ in Canada. If you want to bring about fundamental change in a society you have to undermine the pillars on which fundamental freedoms are enshrined and then undermine the groups that are charged with protecting those freedoms. CBC’s targeting of law enforcement as racist bastards is yet another step on the road to civil unrest and anarchy.

    1. If black and indigenous people are disproportionately killed by police, the obvious question is whether they are disproportionately involved in crime. However, consistent with the conspiracy of silence among the mainstream media, the CBC database will never include data on whether those arrested, charged or convicted are black or indigenous.

      1. I read the CBC propaganda piece, and they divided deaths-by-police by general population, and NOT by number of perps committing crimes. So the research is utter garbage.

  8. When is this country going to grow up? Canada does not need a Governor General nor a score of sub Generals across the country. The idea that these people continue to suck at the tax payer tit after ‘serving’ for 5 years is horrendous. There is no end to how the civil service devises schemes to take taxpayer’s money. The recent WE corruption is the tip of the iceberg.

    The classic play is to take a government position at no or minimal pay. As time passes that pay goes up but what most people do not realize is the expenses rip offs. Expense compensation often far exceeds direct payment. These people are expert at mining the system. Harper’s effort to wring costs out of the civil service had as much to do with his defeat as anything else. Ottawa was out to get him.

    1. “Canada does not need a Governor General”

      Yes it does. Responsible government needs someone to hire and fire the prime minister. I don’t know that she needs a staff of 126. 26 sounds like too many.

  9. Blacklock report that its cost over a billion dollars to repair the subs the Liberals bought. Almost double the cost of buying them. I wonder how much it will cost to repair the old fighter jet junk the Liberals bought from Australia.

  10. A liberal Facebook posts asks why the American gun owners aren’t flocking to Democrat cities to protect the citizens against the mean old government.

    Larry Correia reponds:

    “You ban everything you can get away with. You ban things that literally make no sense. You ban shit just out of spite.
    When we fight back against gun control laws, you declare we are stupid because only the police should have guns (hey, aren’t those the guys you are protesting right now?)
    “Stupid racist rednecks! We live in a civilized society! Don’t you realize the police will protect us?” until when your democrat cities are on fire, and you call 911 and the operator tells you sorry, the police can’t come to your house right now, please try not to get murdered… How is that strict gun control working out for you?
    Then you did everything in your power to chase gun owners out of your sainted liberal strongholds. You passed laws. You banned everything we like. Forced all the shooting ranges to close. Forced most of the gun stores to close. And just generally let us know that our kind is not welcome there.
    But now you’ve started some shit, YOU want US to go into democrat cities, with democrat mayors, and democrat police chiefs enforcing democrat policies which cause strife among democrats, in order to get into gun fights on your behalf?”

    –snip–

    “You’ve already thrown the black community under the bus, cheering as their neighborhoods get burned and yours are safe. Seriously, white liberals are the s******st “allies” in history, and your moral foundation has the consistency of Play-Doh. Your moral compass is a wind sock.
    Just a little while ago, gun nuts had a massive peaceful protest in Virginia. Tens of thousands of people turned out to protest gun control proposals from a democrat with a penchant for wearing black face (he still considers himself an “ally” though!) They didn’t break any windows. They didn’t kill any puppies. They didn’t burn any horses. They didn’t flip any police cars or murder any security guards. They were downright boring. They were polite, and even cleaned up their litter.
    Except then you called them domestic terrorists, and were super sad that they didn’t get massacred by the government (said government you are now mad at for killing people, because again, you *****s ain’t exactly consistent)”

    It’s well worth reading the whole thing, I excerpted the bits with the least cussing at liberals.

    https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/06/04/where-are-all-you-gun-owners-now/

  11. This being Friday should we expect a resignation from Morneau?
    I say no, if he goes his leader would have to do the same and chances of that are zero.

    1. A Liberal cabinet minister resign? This isn’t America, this is Canada!

  12. A quick check on my investment shows almost nothing but red. So what stock(s) are Soros, et. al., shorting today, using “new infections” as an excuse?

    1. I’m buying today – utilities. Short the banks, especially up here in Kan-eh-duh.

      1. In recent months, it seems that whenever the market has a decent run for a few days, a new “outbreak” of Trudeau typhoid conveniently seems to occur. (“A dozen new cases of Corona have been discovered. Medical authorities are debating on what to do with the empties.”) The news media, as it usually does, portrays it as the end of the world being at hand, so the market responds accordingly.

        One might begin to suspect that there’s some manipulation behind the scenes, not that it’s anything new.

        1. Stuff used to happen on Friday. Now it’s moved to Thursday. Plan/play accordingly.

    1. Why should that be surprising? We have a prime minister who thinks he’s out of this world.

  13. Blacklock reports that it has now cost us 623 million dollars for federal civil servants to be on paid leave because they are to afraid to come to work.

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