73 Replies to “July 30, 2020: Reader Tips”

    1. I’m a cyclist and I’m not some pestilence for motorists to eliminate. Unfortunately, many of the latter like to use us for target practice.

      Often, I can be biking along a stretch of road which has more than one lane going each way. There could be plenty of space for drivers to change lanes and safely pass by me. Instead, they can’t be bothered to do that.

      1. I try to give cyclists a wide berth, but expect the same courtesy from them in respect to moving right when they can. What gets me are the cyclists who aggressively ignore signs (like stop signs) and turn themselves into “pedestrians” with no warning. Saw one cyclist come up to a stop sign, do a hard left and drive in the pedestrian crossing, and then expect me (already at the intersection) to miraculously brake and let him as a “pedestrian” cross. Didn’t happen.

        Another time, was driving along a through road when saw a cyclist stopped at the stop sign. Coming toward me, a police car and another vehicle were stopped. I continued through the intersection as had the right of way. Cop does a u-turn, whips up behind me, and then does another u-turn so we can talk. He demands to know what I was doing going through the intersection. I replied I had the right of way. He then asked didn’t I see the cyclist and himself stopped at the intersection. I replied that I had no idea why he was stopped but the cyclist was under the same rules as a motor vehicle and I had the right of it. Guess he realized that I would fight any ticket so just drove off.

        1. One thing that irritates me about my fellow cyclists is that the majority don’t use hand signals. Yeah, it helps if one gives everybody else an idea as to what one will do next.

          Whenever possible, I try to stay off major thoroughfares, preferring to use side trails and bike paths. It doesn’t matter whether I have the right of way–I know I’m going to lose an argument with a motor vehicle, which is why I give them a wide berth and let them go ahead.

          1. While I’m surrounded by literally hundreds of miles of bike lanes and trails, my neighborhood has no sidewalks and the streets are extremely narrow, 20 MPH is a meaningful speed limit here for me who is a speed limit scofflaw. I’ve been taking morning walks but am careful to step off the street if I see and hear that cars are coming in both directions. Something has to give, and some of the motorists are impatient, in their 80s or both so why tempt fate? At the same time, there’s an alluring intracoastal bike trail I want to try, but will have to ride the two miles to the major thoroughfare through my neighborhood to get there. My confidence isn’t what it used to be so I keep putting it off, racking up the bike and riding elsewhere. As Dad told me years ago, “when you’re dead, you’re dead”.

        2. Good for you!

          I walk a lot and when some biker sneaks behind and flies past me on the sidewalk, of all places, without warning, I usually shout, “where’s your bell? “It’s the law!” They freaking scare the wits out of me!

          Usually the person ignores me as they’re too far gone past me. One time, though, someone was having a bad day and unjustifiably cursed me out. Nice kid. However, someone once shouted “Sorry” and others without a bell, shout,”Coming Through!”

          Aren’t these people supposed to be on the road?

          1. Whenever there’s a pedestrian ahead of me on a bike path/sidewalk, I try to go around them and give them lots of room. I use the bell on mine, annoying though it may be, but there’s always someone walking along who doesn’t think it applies to them.

            I often cuss up a storm when a driver tries playing chicken with me. A cyclist who’s behaving like a jackass gets the same treatment as it makes things difficult for me.

          2. Now, especially in Spring, Summer and Autumn, when bikers are out, I walk hugging the sidewalk on my right side, most often, and, most often, make a 180° to see what’s behind as well.

            In rural N.B. one rarely walks… bears!

            In Montreal, bikes stayed on the city streets only. Never on sidewalks. On the topic of pedestrians there, everyone, back in the day, Jay walked. There were no fines. The city blocks were too long. Crossing the street in the middle of the block was always a common occurrence. (Not so in Calgary)

          3. I got heavily into cycling in St. Louis during the 90s. The bike culture there mandates that when overtaking someone anywhere, the individual yells out, “On your left!”. You have to yell it back far enough so that people have a chance to react. It’s ineffective to yell when already right on top of someone. I’ve done that everywhere since even when walking. Sometimes people jump but few get angry. No one does that here so I’ve had extremely close calls walking the dogs and being caught unaware by a cyclist gliding past. You can’t hear cyclists coming up from behind with the wind in the trees and traffic noise. Then I yell at them, “Announce!”. Suspect they have no idea what’s being suggested. Also suspect they’re wondering what the weird old gal just yelled at them.

      2. “I’m a cyclist and I’m not some pestilence for motorists to eliminate.”

        In the ideal world cyclists would be prohibited from riding on the roads. Nor there would be waste of infrastructure for them like bike roads. This is not turd world, this is not China. Period. Go to the gym, ride in park, find another form of recreation, get out of the way of cars. That would be ideal. Also, Utopian. Also, just as arbitrary as current laws, so spare me any arguments about justice.

        It is not motorists who behave like a$$holes all the time every time. It is cyclists. Stop signs do not exists for you. Lights do not exist either. You’re privileged and no laws are ever enforced against you, because of political correctness and liberal war on cars. You are pestilence.

        Had cyclists behaved with minimum respect for drivers or pedestrians the attitude towards those a$$holes would be different. Drivers need to get somewhere and your recreational activity should never be a reason to block or slow them down. They should never be subjected to your obnoxious, asshoilish nonsense. And don’t tell me you use a bike for daily commute to work. Like I said, not a turd world, and if you do, you reek for your whole day at work. Another reason for people to hate you.

        Another reason we need Pinochet is to eliminate cyclists. But I meat you half way and agree on elimination of bicycle seats.

        1. It is cyclists. Stop signs do not exists for you. Lights do not exist either. You’re privileged and no laws are ever enforced against you, because of political correctness and liberal war on cars. You are pestilence.

          Excuse me, but I do obey stop signs and traffic lights. I learned early on that a bicycle is, legally, a motor vehicle and is subject to the same rules and regulations.

          I don’t use my bike for joy riding. I use it to get from one place to another. There are advantages to doing that. I get exercise that I badly need, particularly thanks to the Trudeau typhoid. I don’t have to spend money on fuel and I certainly don’t emit exhaust fumes. If I get onto a bike path or side trail, I don’t have to worry about traffic.

          An attitude such as yours is one reason my auto insurance keeps going up. An attitude such as yours is why streets are dangerous for cyclists.

          And, when I do drive, I share the road with cyclists. They have just as much right to be there as I do, so I give them lots of room and I honk my horn to let them know I’m behind them. I’m sure some of them appreciate the warning.

          1. If you obey the rules of the road while cycling then you’re a part of a tiny minority. Majority of cyclist don’t. Routinely. Regularly. You know it very well. That especially applies to holier than thou spandex clad pro a$$holes.

            As for rights. What rights? Rules of the road are purely arbitrary. Those are not rights. Rules are consistently tightened against drivers while there is virtually no enforcement against cyclists. And since those rules are arbitrary it is just as morally right to demand that rules are changed and that cyclists are removed from the roads as it is to demand the rules are kept as they are or tightened against drivers some more. Cyclists, speed cameras, insurance fraud etc are reasons insurance races are going up. Not my attitude.

            The closest I typically come to a collision with cyclists is not when I am driving but when I am crossing the road on a pedestrian walkway and the cretin in spandex almost crushes into me because stops are optional to him. Either that, or when I am waiting for lights to change and a prostate masseur tries to squeeze between cars to the intersection to be further nuisance when the lights change. That is provided he is going to stop on red in the first place (hopefully he does not an meets an eighteen wheeler coming at him at a right angle.

          2. Three people in my office regularly bike to work (we’re all working from home now, I mean in past years). They have been doing so, in Calgary, from before there were bike lanes. Two of the three are like you: they respect the rules of the road, they are vehicles, if they want to be pedestrians then they get off the bike and walk it (using crosswalks as opposed to waiting for the light and proceeding straight). They are visible, and signal their lane and direction changes. Good on ya!

            The third thinks the city exists for him and that cars should be banned downtown. He has had a couple of close calls and one bike that was a write-off because of dangerous “driving” on his part.

          3. Where I live, if my left wheels are at the center line without crossing it, a cyclist has five in width of the road in which to navigate a bicycle. Can’t ride in those parameters maybe walking would be safer.

      3. Sorry, but I find that bike riders are a nuisance. Many have an arrogant holier than thou attitude through the virtue signalling by their not driving a planet-killing motor vehicle.

        I don’t care if you get run over …. bikes are not cars and do not pay the license fees to support the roadways they are trying to usurp.

        There are safe places to ride bikes … busy city streets are not one of them.

        1. bikes are not cars

          Check the Motor Vehicle Act in your province.

          do not pay the license fees to support the roadways they are trying to usurp

          I believe licensing is up to the municipality in question. As far as “usurping” the road, I take it that your attitude applies to pedestrians as well?

          I bike because it often saves me time. I bike because it saves me money. I bike because I get exercise. I rode a bike while I was in school, but gave it up when I was in junior high. I started again more than 30 years ago and have been doing it ever since. No virtue signalling there. Just practical common sense.

          And, yes, I own two motor vehicles. I choose not to use them for every last little thing.

          1. Actually it’s the gas tax that pays for a large part of the streets and highways.
            Which varies from what, 40 cents to 80 cents per liter or more in some places?

            How much does a bike pay in gas tax?

            Asking for a friend.

          2. “Check the Motor Vehicle Act in your province.”

            That’s just saying “that’s the law” we know there is such a law. It is also stupid, arbitrary and should change.

        2. “…busy city streets are not one of them.”

          Agreed, but nor are the nice twisty country roads where one should be able to enjoy the weekend car/motorcycle ride without being slowed down and stuck behind an orgy of prostate masseurs in spandex laboring up the hill. Like I said, it is not China, it is not turd world, civilization has evolved. All hail the internal combustion engine.

      4. I “used” to be a cyclist – but there are too many idiot cyclists on the road, giving others a bad name.
        When I used to sail in Toronto, we were told that as the smaller craft, to always yield to the ferries crossing to the Island. As the smaller craft, you have much more ability to maneuver(sp?) out of the way. Same thing applies to cyclists.
        It all comes down to having respect for others on the road. Sadly, our society has become so disrespectful in so many ways.

    2. Ride a motorcycle and you’ll develop new ways to hate cyclists too when they come flying out of nowhere and nearly plow into you. If that happens when you’re in a car, it’s an inconvenience, but if it happens to you when you’re on a motorcycle, you’re having a really bad day.

      Also the area I live in is infested with pretentious graybeard a-holes on bicycles who figure the world should come to a screeching halt so that they can piddle their way through it in packs. They’re the sort that put ‘We’re voting CBC!” signs on their lawns…

    3. Bicycles are considered “motor Vehicles”. As such, you have ZERO Business riding one on a Sidewalk, nor do you have any business NOT using Hand Turn signals, nor do you fly through stop signs…. Which I see daily.

      As to the lorry driver in this case, good on him, smash one of my mirrors and you’ll end up just like this Entitled (_i_)hole did. ZERO sympathy for this cyclist.

  2. Bill Morneau is the new Jody Raybault.
    And the brothers K are two pieces of you know
    And Blackface is still an Uber hoe
    yo

    1. JWR had some integrity and refused to play the game, getting sacked for it. Morneau, on the other hand, doesn’t appear to have a shred of decency or honesty.

      As for the Kauliflower brothers, yeah, they’re creepy.

    1. I know it won’t happen but I’m really hoping Juthtin is made to eat his own shit today.

    2. Notice that the MSM have downgraded the WE scandal to a controversy. On its journey to be posted down the memory hole to be forgotten.

    3. My expectation is that the sock monkey will continue to receive cover from his paid scribes while others are punished for his malfeasance.
      But consider this.
      How long do you think it will be before he screws up again?
      Note: while the hanky panky with WE was going on the scandal de jour was SNC.
      He does not learn, he does not change, he believes once a scandal dies down with a ritual sacrifice all is good and he can continue to do it again.
      The risk for him is that there are ambitious MP’s that see their ambitions put in jeopardy because they could have their career canceled over one of his mistakes.

  4. https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/Autopsy_2020-3700_floyd.pdf

    The report is 20 pages long, and it is detailed. The autopsy was performed by a board-certified forensic pathologist and reviewed by a second board-certified forensic pathologist prior to release.

    The autopsy was thorough, the report fair, and unbiased.

    The first thing that jumps out when reading the Floyd autopsy report: “No life-threatening injuries were identified”. That is a direct quote. There were no facial, oral mucosal, or conjunctival petechiae noted.

    Most people have never heard the word Petechiae.

    Petechiae is a pinhead size red or purple spot on the surface of the skin which is the result of tiny ruptures in blood vessels resulting in hemorrhage just below the skin. Petechiae are normal and expected when air and blood flow are cut off at the neck by any mechanism. The eyes are the best place see petechiae. If you cut off blood circulation, blood pressure spikes up which breaks blood vessels, and that causes petechiae.

    The pathologist that did the autopsy dissected George Floyd’s neck muscles layer by layer. The dissection did not find any contusion or hemorrhage in any of the muscles. If Derek Chauvin’s knee on George Floyd’s neck cut off blood flow, the pressure would have ruptured blood vessels, which would have caused bleeding into the surrounding tissue. The bleeding would have been massive and visible to the naked eye. There was no bleeding into neck tissue.

    If Chauvin’s knee cut off Floyd’s air supply, the pressure would have broken the esophageal cartilage. That is 100% certain. Place your thumb and index on your esophagus. Press backward into your neck.

    When you get as far back as you can comfortably push, lock your fingers, pull them out and look how big your esophagus actually is. You don’t collapse the esophagus to the point of cutting off air flow without breaking the cartilage.

    In a forensic autopsy, the pathologist examines the esophagus in place, then removes the entire esophagus and cuts the entire length open and examines the inside.

    Floyd’s neck and esophagus did not have any trauma.

    The thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone were both intact and unbroken.

    The cervical spinal column was palpably stable and free of hemorrhage.

    The anterior muscles of neck and laryngeal structures were trauma free.

    That means Chauvin’s knee did not cause any trauma to any part off the neck.

    There was no scalp soft tissue, skull, or brain trauma noted.

    There were no chest wall soft tissue injuries, vertebral column injuries, or visceral injuries.

    That means Floyd’s internal organs did not show any trauma.

    Floyd did have a single rib fracture from CPR. That is normal.

    The pathologist rolled Floyd’s body over and incision the posterior and lateral neck, shoulders, back, flanks, and buttocks looking for deep tissue trauma.

    There was no trauma present.

    The pathologist did observe cutaneous injuries to the forehead, face, upper lip, the mucosal injuries of the lips, cutaneous injuries to the shoulders, hands, elbows, and legs.

    Cutaneous injuries are confined to the skin. Some of the injuries were healing and happened before Floyd’s arrest.

    The rest were probably the result of scraping contact with pavement during the arrest.

    There was no trauma below the skin.

    The pathologist noted and documented patterned contusions and abrasions to the wrists consistent with handcuffs.

    If you watched the video, you can hear Floyd saying he can’t breathe.

    If you can’t breathe, you can’t say you can’t breathe.

    Why is that is so hard to understand.

    The autopsy established that Floyd had a history of hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, severe arteriosclerotic heart disease, and an enlarged heart.

    Floyd had a left pelvic tumor which did not contribute to his death. Floyd tested positive for COVID 19.

    Toxicology puts the nail in the coffin of Ellison’s murder charge.

    The individual that called 911 said that Floyd was extremely drunk and not in control of himself.

    On one video, Floyd’s legs buckled and he fell beside a squad car.

    That shows a loss of control.Floyd tested positive for Fentanyl 11 ng/mL.

    Blood concentrations of 7 ng/ml have been associated with fatalities where multi drugs were used.

    Floyd was a multiple drug user.

    Floyd tested positive for Norfentanyl at 5.6 ng/mL a metabolite of Fentanyl.

    NOTE: The body metabolizes Fentanyl into Norfentanyl.

    Floyd tested positive for 4-ANPP 0.65 ng/mL. 4-ANPP is an intermediate in the synthesis of fentanyl and related opioids and is often found as an impurity in fentanyl preparations.

    A urine drug screen confirmation 86 ng/mL of free morphine.

    (NOTE: The body metabolizes opioids like Fentanyl into morphine.)

    Floyd tested positive for 11-Hydroxy Delta-9 THC 1.2 ng/mL; Delta-9 Carboxy THC 42 ng/mL; Delta-9 THC 2.9 ng/mL.

    That means he smoked weed.

    Floyd tested positive for Caffeine.

    Apparently Floyd ate No-Doz by the handful and slugged down 5-hour Energy Drinks, which are caffeine based.

    Caffeine may seem harmless, but it is a stimulant that increases heart rate and spikes blood pressure up.

    People with hypertension should limit their caffeine intake.

    Floyd apparently did not limit his caffeine intake.

    Floyd had 19 ng/mL of Methamphetamine in his system.

    Methamphetamine can cause confusion, hallucinations, convulsions, and circulatory collapse.

    A man with high blood pressure and heart disease should not be getting high on Meth.

    There is one more section in the autopsy report that precludes murder charges:

    The microscopic examination.

    The pathologist doing the autopsy takes multiple tissue samples from each organ in the body.

    The samples are sent into one end of Histology and come out the other end as slides that a pathologist can examine at the cellular level under a microscope.

    Seven slides of George Floyd’s liver showed marked congestion.

    Eight slides of his kidney showed marked congestion.

    Nine slides of Floyd’s adrenal glands showed marked congestion.

    Nine slides of his spleen showed marked congestion.

    Marked used in this context means evident and clearly noticeable.

    The most important slides, the slides with the big picture, concern Floyd’s brain.

    The pathologist that did the autopsy took tissue sections from Floyd’s hippocampus, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, and midbrain.

    The microscopic architecture of Floyd’s brain was normal.

    The slides did not show any sign of hypoxic – ischemia, or reactive, neoplastic, or inflammatory changes.

    Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is the result of a lack of oxygen to the brain. The lack of oxygen quickly damages brain cells.

    Floyd’s brain cells did not show any hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. None.

    Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is present in all strangulations.

    That blows up the narrative that Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death, on video for all the world to see. The slides of Floyd’s brain disprove what people think they saw in the video of Floyd’s arrest.

    The video looks bad, but Chauvin’s actions did not kill Floyd.”

    1. Derek, A long but amazingly detailed informative post, Thank you! you’re confirming my thoughts about the so called “Murder” of Floyd. The truth that Floyd, is a criminal, a drug user, and well rounded thug, won’t matter. His family is raking in thousands in white guilt money, and for the BLM marxists, and Woke SJW’s, Antifa thugs, etc, it won’t matter a damn! The whole country, including areas in Canada as well, are using the “Murder” as a plausible excuse to commit mayhem and “Protest” to Burn Loot Murder, TDS or whatever excuse they want to use to “Justify” their illegal activities, when conveniently idled by Covid, and seeking a “creative” outlet for their perceived or leftist manufactured frustrations.

      For Chauvin, whether a thug as portrayed or not, he and the other cops fired, are screwed. This will be a dog and pony show, and a show trial conviction. Why, because If we look at what’s happening now, before the trial, imagine what would happen if he/they are found NOT GUILTY, and that may happen, but only “IF”, there is an honest accounting of the truth, but I’m not holding my breath on that one. He/they may be scapegoated to appease the mob. If found NOT GUILTY, the Civil War will begin! Either way, Chauvin goes to prison, or he will be murdered in short order, failing that, his life is ruined, he will never be able to work or live in peace, and neither will his family. All this because of a false perception that White cops are racist and killing blacks by the thousand. It has been proven that this fallacy is not true, but facts and truth don’t matter to the mob. This is all the final end results of SJW’s, PC stupidity going ballistic, Twitterati fools, and deliberate manipulations by the woke left to take back power from the Trump horde. They have all gone down the rabbit hole en mass, and the vacuum caused by it, is dragging the rest of us down there wholesale! Fundamental Islamists, China and Russia, North Korea and Iran, are rubbing their collective hands with glee, because the West is doing for them, what they have long wished, planned, and tried to orchestrate, for years! I’m sure they all have their agents infiltrated and working to these ends, but the West is doing the bulk of the work for them….. We are indeed, truly screwed.

  6. Great story

    So, someone should let him know that if any of the story below ACTUALLY matters to him, he would quit using the Washington Post to undermine, not only America, but Western Civilization.

    Martin Luther King jr once posited that it is the content of your character that matters. Judge a man by his deeds. Bezos, at least as far as his deposition is concerned, should start doing deeds that match his rhetoric, otherwise the words he said don’t mean a tinker’s damn.

    Oh, and the Democrats today would consider his story a failure because his mother didn’t ‘free herself’ and abort him. His father, also a failure, for abandoning Cuba in the first place, but then having the audacity to not be dependent on food stamps.

    The Wall Street Journal.

    OPINION

    Jeff Bezos and America
    Congressional testimony brings a welcome surprise.

    There’s so much anti-American vitriol in current news coverage that it’s especially refreshing to find an unexpected argument for liberty floating along in the flood of contemporary events. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shared an inspiring message about this great land and its infinite possibilities as he appeared remotely before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. It’s no exaggeration to say that it was easily the most powerful and compelling testimony offered in the halls of Congress since Tuesday.

    Mr. Bezos was appearing along with other tech CEOs before Judiciary‘s Antitrust Subcommittee to discuss competition in digital markets. But he decided to set the table by pointing out that while he may be the richest man on the planet, he didn’t exactly start out that way. Here’s an excerpt from his opening statement to the subcommittee:

    My mom, Jackie, had me when she was a 17-year-old high school student in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Being pregnant in high school was not popular in Albuquerque in 1964. It was difficult for her. When they tried to kick her out of school, my grandfather went to bat for her. After some negotiation, the principal said, “OK, she can stay and finish high school, but she can’t do any extracurricular activities, and she can’t have a locker.” My grandfather took the deal, and my mother finished high school, though she wasn’t allowed to walk across the stage with her classmates to get her diploma. Determined to keep up with her education, she enrolled in night school, picking classes led by professors who would let her bring an infant to class. She would show up with two duffel bags—one full of textbooks, and one packed with diapers, bottles, and anything that would keep me interested and quiet for a few minutes.

    My dad’s name is Miguel. He adopted me when I was four years old. He was 16 when he came to the United States from Cuba as part of Operation Pedro Pan, shortly after Castro took over. My dad arrived in America alone. His parents felt he’d be safer here. His mom imagined America would be cold, so she made him a jacket sewn entirely out of cleaning cloths, the only material they had on hand. We still have that jacket; it hangs in my parents’ dining room. My dad spent two weeks at Camp Matecumbe, a refugee center in Florida, before being moved to a Catholic mission in Wilmington, Delaware. He was lucky to get to the mission, but even so, he didn’t speak English and didn’t have an easy path. What he did have was a lot of grit and determination. He received a scholarship to college in Albuquerque, which is where he met my mom. You get different gifts in life, and one of my great gifts is my mom and dad. They have been incredible role models for me and my siblings our entire lives.

    Whatever one thinks of Amazon’s business tactics, it’s hard not to stand up and cheer for the people who made it possible. Explained Mr. Bezos:

    The initial start-up capital for Amazon.com came primarily from my parents, who invested a large fraction of their life savings in something they didn’t understand. They weren’t making a bet on Amazon or the concept of a bookstore on the internet. They were making a bet on their son. I told them that I thought there was a 70% chance they would lose their investment, and they did it anyway.

  7. This is older, 2015, but it shows virtue-signalling Hollywood A-listers getting busted for not turning off their water sprinklers when “Experts estimate there will be less than a year’s worth of drinking water in California’s reservoirs at the end of 2015”. What would we do without experts? Who knew CA ran out of potable water in 2016?
    It also shows the size of their enormous mansions (Jo Lo, Anniston, Streisand, Cher etc) with very green lawns. These are the same folks who want the rest of us to take the bus.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3077917/Red-faced-Barbra-Streisand-cut-water-usage-pictures-emerge-lush-gardens-amid-California-drought.html

  8. Edmontonians …
    Just read on the 24HR CTV NEWS Channel that surgical masks will be mandatory in public spaces in your city as of August 1st.

    Vote from ‘Silly’ Council was:
    In favor 10 to 3.

    1. Why doesn’t this surprise me? Donny Bike Lane, our commie mayor, is an idiot, and so are most of the alderthingies. DBL is only doing it because Nenshi the Numbskull is. Then again, DBL wants to extend our house arrest.

      I reckon I’ll be paying a few fines over the next few weeks.

      1. Nah! Don’t let them make money off you!

        Wonder what the fines are? (I still haven’t checked)
        Can we opt for jail time for 20 minutes, instead? Ha!

        I hate the surgical masks. They reduce O2 consumption considerably.

        1. I’m with you, Nancy. I ordered some cloth masks off Anthropologie because the N95s my husband gave me made inhalation impossible. The first time I wore one at a CVS it was not only impossible to breathe, it was impossible to think. When I finally got back to the car, my blouse was on crooked, my bra was showing and I was beginning to hyperventilate.
          As an aside, don’t order the Anthropologie masks. They’re nice, made in L.A., but so thick, they’re hard to breathe with as well. Also, the ear loops are a tiny bit too tight and not adjustable. For the price, not a smart purchase. The paper ones are best with blue on one side and white on the other. No one I know wants to be a “mask” expert, but the county made them mandatory in businesses so had to find some that I could actually survive in for more than a few minutes. We all know they don’t prevent a thing but go along to get along. If some “Karen” confronted me, I’d probably commit homicide.

        2. If I’m forced to wear one, I intend to festoon it with a certain phrase that clearly expressed my thoughts on the, namely the title of a song that Mozart wrote. (I think people can figure out what it is.) If someone asks me what it means, I’ll tell them to look it up.

          1. I think I might get some and write MAGA on them and vote Trump on some others.

        3. Not wearing a mask in Calgary public places is a $50.00 fine. The purple prince says the city will not be “looking” for violations. And businesses are not allowed to refuse service for not wearing a mask.I will be testing this part out next week. Will the Karens stand for this? Look for more than a few altercations.
          It is all about encouraging folks to wear a mask says pp.
          Is he trying to encourage the same people who always exceed the speed limit and risk fines of hundreds $$? . And he thinks a $50.00 fine ,not enforced or enforceable, will be a deterrent?
          I think those opting for choice and not nanny state wokeness should get as many citations as possible. Pile em up.

          1. I know at least one business where masks are already mandatory for customers. It’s a small place, and the nature of the work means staff are at close quarters. So masks are there to minimize the risk of infection from outside. From what I hear, customers are very understanding as don’t want the place to have to shut up shop for several weeks for quarantine.

      2. In Ottawa they can also fine the business so businesses are forced to enforce. No mask, no service. The fines are hundreds of dollars. F’n brutal. I wear a mask…
        (I had a rude idiot stick of a young lady tell me last week that I had to remove my sunglasses at the Beer Store because she had to see my face. I believe she needed to know if I was underage. I’m 56.)
        Some Ottawa public health POS is saying they want to fine restaurants because people lining up to get in are not social distancing.
        Restaurants are barely hanging on and this cunned stunt is pressuring them to make patrons jump through a series of hoops.
        Public servants at all levels need to be culled.

        1. I would like to eliminate all public health jobs they are as unnecessary as politicians and far more dangerous these days.

    2. Hopefully, “public spaces” does not include outside! That should invite a charter challenge. Old Guy has a link to Off- Guardian regarding the mask issue. They have a debate on it. I did not watch, but a long post by someone named Nicos is enough to convince that masks should not be mandatory. It is creepy, and people need to start writing to those mandating masks, most of whom to not understand the issue.

      1. All of these laws have exemptions. Check out the ones in your area. There is always a medical exemption. In Ontario you can claim a medical exemption, but you do not have to tell them what it is. They can be sued under the Ontario Human Rights Act if they ask you. They cannot deny you service under the Ontario Disabilities Act. There has been a lawsuit filed July 6 here in Ontario.
        https://vaccinechoicecanada.com/
        This site has lots of good info.

  9. It’s simply outrageous that Morneau wants us to believe he intended to pay WE that $41,000.00 for expenses dating back three years. That sort of thing doesn’t just slip your mind, he got caught, like he forgot he had a villa in France.
    He needs to resign.

    1. As others have noted, did he inform CRA of these gifts?
      Does he now get to write-off the expenses as charitable deductions?
      Bananada.

      1. Apparently the trips cost almost $100,000 and he’d already paid back over $50,000. Would not be surprised if he received a donation receipt for the repayment. The rationale would be that since the trips were “comped”, any repayment was really a donation.

  10. Blackie’s Canadian media is excited about a new Youtube fictional drama series, that will center around brave former FBI director Comey standing up to evil Nazi Trump.

    1. RIP Herman Cain. He often appeared on the Fox News Channel.
      Mr “9-9-9” was so sensible and wise.

  12. Prompted by a post by Cronk in the WE thread about Trudeaus pedophile buddy Dalglish and his connection to the Killaburgers, I have been doing some clicking around the interwebs this morning and found the following.
    It will be of interest to us. Well, amusement anyway.

    A copy of the June 2007 newsletter of the Rotary Club of Burnaby. In which the author gushes over keynote speaker Craig Killaburger and mentions he has been nominated for the BARRY OBAMA PRIZE !!! http://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050003/en-ca/files/sitepage/the-leader-jun-07/the-leader-jun-07-pdf/June%20Leadersm.pdf

    “”Opening Keynote speaker CRAIG KIELBURGER from Free The Children held the audience in awe as he related his experiences and his life journey which led and inspired him to reach out to suffering and abused children in many parts of the world. At the age of 24, Craig is acknowledged as a pre-eminent child rights activist, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and is a true friend and advocate for poor, exploited, illiterate, hungry, thirsty children anywhere. ”

    Also highly amusing is an article in the September 6, 2000 issue of the Oakville Beaver newspaper.
    http://images.halinet.on.ca/OakvilleImages/Images/OI003390556pf_0001p.pdf

    Royal presence at Appleby conference
    — There will be a distinctly regal feel to the 33rd Annual Round Square conference this year.
    Prince Andrew, King Constantine of Greece, and Prince Alexander of Schleswig-Holstein, will be among the
    dignitaries attending the Sept. 29thOct. 5th sessions at Appleby College.
    Scheduled speakers include children’s rights activist Craig Kielburger,…. Street Kids International founder Peter
    Dalglish, ..and journalist June Callwood.

    I guess Epstein couldn’t make it ?? hahaha

  13. In response to all this control of our speech by MSM and the tech companies and the creation of an “approved” narrative, our new favourite slogan is “white lies matter”. Particularly applicable to the prime minister of Canada and his cronies.

  14. Watch “Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer speaks with reporters – July 30, 2020”
    https://youtu.be/u-Xwr1zQiJA

    Through this we learn that the Keilburgers “broke the covenant with their bank” by establishing the Real Estate arm of their business.

  16. Blackie’s loyal, drooling Globe and Mail reports that Great Leader has ordered a federal review of a coal mine expansion in Alberta. I guess Gerald Butts is upset about the expansion.

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