84 Replies to “July 26, 2020: Reader Tips”

    1. is John, the author, in BC for the weather? I am, but might consider a return to Stampede Week and winter if you actually did the deed, Alberta.

    2. Boychik would say:
      “Goodth riddanceth la L’Ouest, now weith wiw definthatelyth meeth ourth Pawis Accordth goalsth and Macron wouldth be happyth.”

  2. Peter Green, one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac, died earlier today. When asked about the band, most people think of the California version of FM, being unaware that it was originally a blues group. Only John McVie and Mick Fleetwood are left from the original lineup.

    Here’s an example of what Fleetwood Mac sounded like some 50 years ago:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjOGaDseKgw

        1. The rock music scene was a small world in the 60s to 70s!

          Glad you brought this up. I always thought “Black Magic Woman” was Carlos Santana’s which he recorded in 1970. But, it was Peter Green who wrote the song in 1968.

          Here’s a jam session with:
          Green & Clapton:
          https://youtu.be/ek17bQZkfd4

          Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac ~ “Rattlesnake Shake”
          live at The BBC 1970
          https://youtu.be/op2JJC4xGpo

          1. Found this interesting for all the name dropping, the small,small world, Charlie Manson and really, really strange how so many famous musicians were connected to the CIA through family.

            https://www.amazon.com/Laurel-Canyon-Rock-Rolls-Neighborhood/dp/0865479666

            “How did an uncanny quantity of rock superstars emerge from the country Laurel Canyon scene of the mid 60s when the first music facilities of the US at the moment have been NYC, Nashville, and Detroit? Why have been many of those future stars little kids of the army/intelligence complicated and excessive privilege who simply occurred to all arrive in LA on the similar time? From the Lizard King Jim Morrison to Frank Zappa, the Mamas and Papas, the Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, even the Monkees, all of them had conspicuous household heritages that didn’t precisely jive with what would develop into the free love, anti struggle soundtrack of a era. Meanwhile, looming behind these musicians was a darkish underbelly of Hollywood stars, younger turks, the mob, shadowy intelligence belongings, and charmers like little Charlie Manson who everybody appreciated at first.. How and why did this all occur? And what about that covert army set up on Lookout Mountain? Are you able to have your rock and roll fantasies challenged? You might by no means take heed to this music the identical approach ever once more.”

          2. Great stuff. Thanks.

            Those who think what’s on the radio nowadays is music could learn a few lessons from listening to that. It’s something that comes from within and they knew what worked and what didn’t. As well, they knew what people liked to hear and what got them going.

            I always thought “Black Magic Woman” was Carlos Santana’s which he recorded in 1970. But, it was Peter Green who wrote the song in 1968.

            Like you, I thought it was a Santana tune but a cover of a great song by another great guitarist is always worth listening to.

            By the way, I couldn’t find who the BBC host was in the second clip, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the legendary John Peel. He was renowned for introducing up and coming musicians on his show and played progressive rock as well. For many years, he was a fixture on the BBC World Service, though I don’t think I ever listened to him.

      1. When I was an undergrad, songs by the early edition of Fleetwood Mac didn’t get much airplay, at least on the stations I listened to.

        It wasn’t until my junior year that I first heard about them. I saw their first California album in the on-campus student record shop. Later, during my last summer at the oil refinery I used to work at, I shared an office with two plant engineers, one of whom was an FM fan.

        Then Rumours was released and it didn’t take me long to become one myself.

      2. Actually, I became intrigued with Fleetwood Mac during that summer at the refinery I mentioned.

        During the late local evenings, propagation conditions on medium wave were good in my part of the country, so I often listened to radio stations out of Seattle. One song off FM’s self-titled album happened to get a lot of airplay at the time and I happened to like it.

        As it turned out, that same song was on the radio here in Canada, but, thanks to PET’s idiotic Cancon rules, it was a cover version and not a particularly good one at that. The irony was those rules were meant to discourage us from listening to music from outside of the country, but I’m sure that many people went to buy copies of the original recording. Smart move, Pierre.

  3. Saputo testing “Get woke, go broke” .

    Going to kill the “Coon Cheese”label in Australia

    https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6847749/saputo-to-change-the-name-of-coon-cheese/?cs=4708

    “Coon” being the surname of the bloke who invented that cheese making process

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_cheese

    Can that family sue for misappropriation of the surname?

    Some more local content on that

    http://joannenova.com.au/2020/07/friday-unthreaded/#comment-2349747

    And following. I’m in on that – we have other choices

    1. Does that mean that frontiersmen like, say, Davy Crockett will have to be expunged from history because they wore coonskin hats?

  4. It’s Saturday nite jazz cats.

    Time to get down, try and relax. Take a few hours off from saving the world. Chill out with a cool one.

    Speaking of cool how about a hip swing tune Delbert McClinton’s, ‘No Chicken on the Bone’.

      1. Nancy Ross@1:15am
        Long ago (in a far-away land) Delbert McClinton was touring in Europe. He had a band ,who was just getting started, as his opening act. Their name was The Beatles (yeah, those Beatles). As an interesting aside, he taught one of them (George Harrison I believe) to play the harmonica!
        I have been a Delbert fan for a looooong time. He NEVER disappoints!

        1. Delbert taught John Lennon some harmonica licks.

          By the time Delbert met Lennon, the Beatles had already recorded ‘Love Me Do’ which is harmonica driven.

        2. John Post…..

          I know nothing!!!
          Abtrapperdude is the man!

          So too, B A D R,
          — these 2 can take us on and we’d lose, big time!

        1. With the Pandemic these bands have taken a serious financial hit:

          James Pennebaker:

          “All I want to do is get back on that bus with Delbert and play shows,” he says.
          A loss of touring income this summer comes as a particular sting, as Delbert McClinton and his Self-Made Men are coming off a fresh Grammy Award win, having won the trophy for Best Traditional Blues Album for “Tall, Dark, and Handsome” at the 2020 ceremonies. “It’s my first trophy, but I still don’t have it.”

          Here’s more:
          https://internationalmusician.org/multi-instrumentalist-james-pennebaker-ready-to-return-to-the-road/

          Pennebaker also self-released a solo album, “Under the Influence”, in January of this year, recorded in his home studio with a who’s who of Nashville’s finest.
          Here’s a song: “Remedy” Live
          https://youtu.be/UDDPY5pM9Q0

          1. Indeed. These guys live to play and play to live.

            No summer festival circuit. Money will be tight. It always is. A lot of these guys own very little other than their instruments. Being a sideman even in a successful band wont make you rich. Some band leaders are cheap and pay poorly but because they are ‘stars’ they can get away with it.

      1. NR

        What’s not to like? Good stuff.

        Lyle Lovett said, “if everyone could have a choice in what they sounded like when they sang they’d all want to sound like Delbert McClinton.”

        About 20 years ago I was in Austin TX. I’d been there for a few days and overdosed myself in the incredible music scene. I missed Delbert by one day. He was playing a gig in a bar the day I left. It’s one of my gentle regrets.

      2. Delbert McClinton and the Self-Made Men and Dana. Dana Robbins on tenor sax.

        Delbert said, “I don’t want bullshit in my band.” Leave your ego at home.
        He always has a smoking band.

    2. P Drifter

      In Saskatchewan ‘hang fire’ causes the accidental discharge of a firearm. That was Gerald Stanley’s successful defense in the killing of Colton Bushie.

      Yes there were extenuating circumstances.

    1. “He may be attempting to flee to China”???

      Ah haha! It’s a joke. The place is flooded and Boychik and Wife are alledgedly wearing leg jewelry!

      Remember this?

      Trudeau & Wife Under House Arrest?
      https://youtu.be/KzTal1rg_Wg

      1. I saw that vid Nancy…watched it a few times in fact.
        I guess that was all a con eh..??

        1. It still bugs me! Rather, it still bugs some of us!
          What the xxxx is going on eh? Stupid press should be ashamed of themselves.

          If it’s any consolation, I read or heard somewhere that when the Press people are out and about in their marked vans, people driving or on the street, give the drivers the finger!

    1. Pete does his loyal opposition impersonation via Twitter now.
      Very #LibCons of him.
      He even turned down the CPC leadership…

    1. Thank god we’re having a secret review of the whole ordeal, where no one can be forced to testify, the public cannot hear any testimony, and the results will only be give to the government in private.

      Whew. For a minute there I thought they might try to cover something up.

    2. “At 9:48 a.m., GW visited the house of a couple he knew who lived on the 2900 block of Highway 4, in Debert, just north of the intersection with Highway 104. The couple hid under their bed, a gun cocked and ready. The killer backed off and continued moving south. GW left without harming them, and the couple called 911.”
      Guns save citizens’ lives.

    3. This just stinks the hole RCMP is run by idiots . The government mandate is all messed up . Just like Health Canada there job was to protected us from Covid or any other threat but they failed just as bad as the RCMP did in Nova Scotia. We need a new government that sets mandate .

    4. Another incredible rcmp failure of command. Needless deaths.

      It in keeping with Mayerthorpe, Moncton Kamloops etc

    2. I’d like to read that article…but the crap that comes at ya when ya try is just too much for me to try to get through. Typical G & M crap…..I guess 600 million still aint enough.

      This country in EVERY aspect is soooOO far beyond “Fkd” its unreal.

  12. The American Thinker is reporting that the A&E network has seen its viewership numbers cut in half, since it dropped “Live PD” from its broadcasts, in reponse to the po-criminal lobbying. The “Go woke, go broke” rule does apply, eh?

  13. Would apologizing and declaring you take full responsibility clear you, wipe your slate clean? Works for Trudeau.

  14. It’s quite odd to have a minister of finance who has no clue about his own affairs including forgetting he had a villa in France.
    He and Morneau are quite the act. Shall we call them Slick and Slimy? Weasel and Foxy ? Dumb and Dumber?

  15. Our Great Leader Kim Sung WE Trudeau, is having another wonderful day on the beach at his Harrington Lake resort. Praise Great Leader!

  16. Why do human commenters on this blog have to prove to a robot on this blog that they are humans, up to 20 times? Not clicks, times. It takes about 50 painfully slow clicks for all of these badly-dithered and hardly readable images to load. There are free, open source captcha snippets online. I used one where the user has to drag a slider until a certain text shows, and that had completely cut off the robots that could even OCR traditional captchas. So, why do we have to prove to the Google robot that we are humans, even if the said Google robot is incapable of detecting that we are, within reasonable number of tries? This is the only site on the Internet that cannot detect it on the first attempt.

    1. I use Microsoft Edge. Few issues with recaptcha. Usually 2-3 screens but lately its been 2-6. Must have hired some retardas.

  17. This is a total surprise. Charged: Muhammed Ebrar Aydin (28- years) Hamilton resident
    Charges: Sexual Assault X 6

    A muslim sexually assaulting women in Hamilton. Probably now out on bail as I write this.

    1. Inshallah. Those women prolly showed a bit of wrist or ankle so its their fault for tempting him.

  18. Warm Sunday morning.
    Lots of noisy bird activity lately especially from baby birds just learning the ropes.
    I’d kill all the Eurotrash Starlings if I could.

    1. That was painful ( as in ugh!). So does systemic racism also explain why we have so few Chinese players in the NBA?

    1. Then you’d see comet Neowise here in the Calgary area, with no light interference: https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnists/mike-drew-comet-chase-a-neowise-decision

      Even the other wildlife photos (taken in daylight hours) were a bonus. A welcome respite from all the Trump, Antifa, politics and crap. Sometimes it’s good to find some other stuff to do these days. Will see if I can take some shots from our vantage point in Calgary. We’re shanks mare these days.

  21. And now the CBC’s Political Scrum Clown Show. Today the Unifor journalists consisted of a whiny indian in her car, Shree from the Toronto Star, and a couple of socialists from Quebec and Alberta. Topics included how evil Scheer is for wanting Groper to resign. the shooting in Nova Scotia happened because men are sexist pigs, blah, blah, blah. And don’t miss the CBC’s special presentation tonight on how Canadians are racist bastards towards black people.

    1. Like I always enjoy saying… “The CBC perfectly represents the immediate downtown Toronto neighbourhood where it is headquartered.”

  23. Don’t know if this Brian Lilley column was posted on any SDA thread or not, but the last part of this July 15 column is interesting. It hints at WE Charity malfeasance in Kenya, where Lilley mentions nine transactions from the WE Charity to a privately-held firm called WE Education for Children Ltd. (registered in Kenya):
    https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-we-charity-listed-real-estate-holdings-worth-43-7-m-in-2018

    Canadaland has an earlier article (July I think), an explosive article that talks about mega sleaze going on in that country. Get on the Canadaland.com/news page to find it. Kate posted a rudimentary blog two or three weeks ago by one Santau Kimakeke, a WE Charity higher-up in Kenya who exposed all the sleaze. Unfortunately he has recanted his entire testimony under pressure. So this link Kate posted is now down.

    On the positive side there is a reformist-minded on-line newspaper called cnyakundi.com — which has on its site a number of good articles which recopies and reviews Mr. Kimakeke s lengthy testimony. I encourage SDAers to read the four or five articles posted on WE.

    So far it is the left-wing dissident press in Canada which has discussed the Kenya WE sleaze — Canadaland one or two student newspapers. Plus only Brian Lilley, a very keen research-minded conservative. But the Kenya story could topple the corrupt Trudeau government, if only our media and opposition politicians want to investigate the rot thoroughly. As of now, I have my doubts as to whether or not this will happen.

    I encourage SDAers to read cnykundi.com.com s articles. I know it is crazy to read an African on-line newspaper, but please do. It is compelling stuff. My feeling, as an economist, is that there is HUGE money laundering going on, everywhere, enriching a few WE people. No proof, but that is my gut feeling. And in Canada, white-collar crime is tolerated, especially by the well connected.

    1. Good article at cnyakundi.com. Well written and to the point. Tells it like it is and he flips the bird at the Kan-eh-jian “media”. I’ll bet our polis wollies would fit right in….no winter in Kenya, they should move there. Permanently.

    2. I agree with you that the big stinking WE albatross and its cult-masters, the Brothers K, are going down. However, I don’t see how any Liberal politician is going with them. The Liberals are going to skate because enough Canadians, in enough strategically-placed electoral districts (TO, Montreal, Maritimes), are absolutely fine with it.

  26. What a silly Country…Watched the CBC parade of brilliant brains opine on WHY Canada will not have an Election to replace the Corrupt Liberals….(They act like SLED DOGS waiting for the usual situation)
    1. The Conservatives don’t have a Leader…(Golly! with Turdo gone Liberals have nothing but scars)
    2. NDP is short of Cash….(They are always short of Cash)
    3. Nobody is ready or wants an Election ( brilliant deduction)

    Perhaps Canada could for once do something unusual & try door # 3…..Good Government does not need a graciously planned movement….. GET HER DONE

      1. Conservatives need Laurentian votes to win. Therefore, no election. Sorry.
        (Plus, the NDP are really, really, really broke. Way more than usual.)

  27. Paul – That was good..!!
    …real good.
    Should be mandatory watching…for all the youngans..

    “wigsplitter”…love it.!

    1. Heh agreed!
      I was reminded me of that “scared straight” stuff they did in the 80’s, without the screaming. Millennial’s today would have aneurysms if you raised your voice to them, I could see this guy getting through to some.

    1. WTF??? Kind of fits with those house arrest devices on Trudeau and Sophie, and the Liberal shutting down of Parliament. I think Canada has sold its sovereignty to the Chinese.

    2. But Canadian troops marching in the streets because Harper, allegedly, would order them to is anathema.

      Nice country we got, huh?

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