91 Replies to “August 10, 2020 – Reader Tips”

  2. There’s something about Gaffigan’s voice that I just can’t stand. I don’t find him funny. I don’t know why. He makes me shudder, not laugh. I love a good comedian, but he’ll never be one to me. Your mileage, of course, will vary.

    Jeff Dunham? Any day! Jim Gaffigan? Go away.

    1. I don’t find him funny.

      I just watched the video and I have to agree. I didn’t find him in the least bit funny. Then again, I’m a Monty Python fan.

      1. Gaffigan used to be quite funny and he still has his moments, but I think living with his wife and their four or five kids in a two-bedroom NYC condo has beaten the spirit from him. That would kill me. He’s a better man than me.

    2. Some of those jokes were fairly well researched or crafted, but his delivery is meh…
      He has a great voice for print.

  3. Poutine, Canada’s national food (except it isn’t but probably will be). I’d rather Montreal smoked meat or a Montreal bagel than grossly soggy, blandly cheesed goo.

    Hey Central Canada, we have potatoes, gravy, and suffer the costs of curd supply management like the rest of this fractured Liberal gold mine. Poutine is another maple leaf of over-hyped Eastern cluelessness. Like blackened anything in the 80s, can it go away fast enough?

    Better to make the freedom fries at the bottom of the MacDonalds bag our national dish, we’ve all dug for those.

    1. I forget the name of the place, but a hotel I stayed at in Bell’s Corners, Ontario many years ago had a restaurant that served the best Reuben sandwich I ever had. Along with it was a nice helping of fries, each one which seemed like the size of a Falcon 9 rocket. Those were fries one ate, not inhale like the ones McDonald’s serves.

      When I was finished, I had to push myself away from the table. Now that was a meal!

      1. It’s funny how you remember the best meals and the very worst.

        I was up visiting my in-laws in I believe your town, Edmunchuck, and was thinking of a great Chinese meal I had there 40+ years ago growing up. Lo and behold the restaurant is still open so a phone call and off we fly for takeout.

        Aside from the homeless camp across the street (I’m not bad mouthing Edmonton, we’re no different in Calgary), plexiglass, and stacks of Lysol wipes it pretty much looked the same inside.

        Sadly I re-learned a lesson, you really can’t go home again. The food was… not great.

        Wait, am I allowed to say “Chinese”?

        2. Sadly I re-learned a lesson, you really can’t go home again. The food was… not great.

          I learned the same thing about a certain pizza place I first went to while I was still an undergrad more than 40 years ago. The last time I was there was in the mid-1980s and I was unimpressed. It didn’t help that a fistfight broke out at the other end while we were having our meal.

        3. “am I allowed to say “Chinese”?

          As far as I know but these things change every day. Englishman is okay but Chinaman is apparently racist.

      2. “I forget the name of the place, but a hotel I stayed at in Bell’s Corners, Ontario ”

        Branscombe’s Motor Inn.

        My parents loved the piano bar there, little too “old” for me. Restaurant was good.

        1. Me too, Ben’s. Too bad they closed it. The waiters wanted to unionize so the owners sold the building and bid them all good bye.

          A great steak and salad at Joe’s (near Simpson’s) was my ultimate. Never had a bad meal anywhere, there, even the steamies at a greasy spoon were delicious.

    3. The only “POOTSIN” I ever enjoyed was in Eastern Ontario.
      Home fries
      Home made gravy
      The freshest Curds you could find.
      Add an order of Perch Rolls, good tunes, the St Lawrence River and fresh poured draft…?? Yea, that was A-OK

      Anything west of Cornwall..?? CRAP personified.

      1. Poutine? I only ever had it once, guilty pleasure, yikes!
        I sometimes bake thick fries in the oven now.
        It’s the salt that kills you!!!?

        1. “It’s the salt that kills you!!”

          Too much salt – you pee it out. Too little salt – you die. Presumes the amount is not stupid big and you drink enough water.

  4. I nominate Bison burgers and Saskatoon Berry pie as signature cuisine of The Republic of Western Canada.

    The high quality wheat of the whole wheat flour bun and fine crust* of the pie will be the gluten that will hold it together.

    Brave Wexiteers will require a pioneer level of sustenance.

    *(The lard in the crust recipe can be use for ballistic lubricant in a pinch. )

    1. I’ll jump into the food fight.

      I mentioned in another thread I’m currently in the bush. We’ve been overdosing on fresh fish. Last week we caught lake trout which I both canned and smoked.

      Walleye and eggs for breakfast and I slabbed a few for the smoker.

      We’ve been flying out (float plane). I have my new lab puppy (Shot Jackson) with me. I chained him in the back of the Cessna the other day. He laid down and was sleeping on takeoff!

      Pro tip: use alder or apple for smoking fish. Mesquite is too strong. It’s a red meat smoke.

      We’ve been eating bear sausage. Buddy wacked a bear last fall had made sausage- delicious. Too bad a guy didn’t have access to a decent bun. Ha

    2. I’ll back you on both bison and Saskatoon Berry pie. Was at the Vancouver Worlds Fair back in ’86 and the Saskatchewan Pavilion was serving Saskatoon Berry pie and the lineups to eat there meant a very long wait. When you talked with people around the grounds they would always recommend eating there.

      1. I’ll add my ten cents worth re food. The best burger I ever had, was at a pub in the west of England near the Welsh border. I can’t remember the name of the place now, but wow, that burger was amazing. Ironically, the best steak I remember was at a restaurant in Singapore, My first ever Ribeye! But jeez, Singapore!

    1. That’s quite likely. I once saw a video of a tornado (Category 5, I think it was) that struck a town in Manitoba. It lifted up a pickup quite easily and tossed it about before dropping it some distance away.

      Scary…..

  6. And now your Canadians are racist bastards story for today. The Liberal Party’s CBC website has the heartbreaking story on how blacks in Canada face discrimination in our health care system because of systematic, white, colonial, attitudes. Blacks need a cultural appropriate approach to health care.

    1. I read some of that out of curiosity, wrong move on a Monday morning. Couldn’t finish it, was interfering with enjoying my morning coffee.

      So does this group want separate services for PoC’s? Isn’t that called segregation?

      2. The activists seem to want things to go the way of aboriginals, with separate everything for blacks.

      3. “So does this group want separate services for PoC’s?”

        No.

        They want “services for PoC’s, and PoC’s ONLY”. No health services for whites – to he11 with whites – only PoC’s. The more whites die, the happier they’ll be – and the whites that die slowly of wasting diseases, well that’s bonus and serve them all right!

        Good thing that under Canadian mandatory Progressiveness doctrine, I can call myself Blak if I want.

    2. I am sorry but because of colonial attitude blacks actually have healthcare in the first place.

  7. Blacklock reports that one of Great Leader’s federal agencies is spending one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to fly trainers to Calgary for contemplative dialogue training. Civil servants will attend seminars titled, “Awareness And The Human Person”. Blacklock also reports that Blackie’s government was so unprepared for the China virus, that it shipped expired medical supplies to the provinces and had to rely on Home Depot for supplies. Also the amount awarded to the Quebec company that doesn’t have a factory in Canada, has been updated to over 380 million dollars.

    1. contemplative dialogue training Awareness And The Human Person

      That sounds like some of the “sensitivity training” claptrap I had to endure while at Armpit College. I guess snakes across the country are now well-lubricated, so someone has to try a different scam to bilk the government.

    1. Yes. Even the CDC website confirms that masks do not protect you from virus. Couple that with the fact that cases and deaths were already going down when they implemented mask requirement, and you have yet another completely bizarre policy decision by bureaucrats. I object to the masks because they are dehumanizing. Instead of a modestly congenial feeling in a public environment (with people smiling, making eye contact, etc.), it simply feels like the zombie apocalypse. Politicians must wake up. We do not need this additional stressor. It is driven by groupthink, and it is pointless.

      1. Politicians must be “seen” to be doing something. I does NOT matter if that thing works. And if they can pay their friends to do that thing, then even better. Hence, gun registries, paying student “volunteers,” safe-injection sites, mask laws, etc…

      2. LindaL, I agree with all you have stated, but at the end, It’s not group think and pointless from the Trudeau perspective. It’s a grand experiment to see how far they can push and control. To see how compliant we might be, this, I think, for future use involving edicts from the great leader. Covid came along at just the right time for them, when considering a possible no confidence vote, which would possibly have happened with the WE scam and other “discrepancies” coming to light. A parliament shut, keeps him in control with virtually no push back from the opposition, plus he doesn’t have to actually work much either. I’m sure the idea of citizen control has been on the shelf for some time, just needing a vehicle to use it effectively. Why else would they now start demanding we don masks at this stage of the experiment? We already know masks don’t work with this wuflu, so the reasons are obvious, at least to me.

        1. It also gives those over-tattooed soyboys in airport security yet another reason to abuse people. Those are people who’re too aggressive to be police, too passive to be Antifa, and too dumb to be mall cops.

          What I find disgusting here in Edmonton is how people seem all too willing to go along with it. I’ve yet to hear anyone else express their opposition to this contrived farce.

      3. The libertarian view on masks is the right one. It should be an individual’s choice. So again, if someone else is confident that their mask is effective, why do they care if I wear one?

    2. There are protests against the mask ‘law’ everywhere now.
      The fact that the federal government gave $ to a Mtl firm makes it all too contrived. They scam us at everything.

      Masks kill. They want us dead.

  9. BREAKING NEWS!!

    CBC News, this Monday morning, finally has gotten around to reporting the scandal involving Katie Telford’s husband and the federal government’s business rent relief program. The scandal was first broke last Friday, three days ago, by the Globe and PostMedia. The CBC covered Pierre Poilievre’s press conference yesterday.

    Global News also covered Poilievre’s presser, but CTV News is still censoring the story.

  10. The Empire of Japan knew as early as 1944 that the war was lost. They were looking for a face saving way out. The preservation of the monarchy remained their primary condition. FDR/HST’s insistence on unconditional surrender resulted in unconditional resistance. Sun Tzu observed: “deprive a man of escape, and he will fight like a demon.”

    After years of insistence on unconditional surrender, the US belatedly flip-flopped and agreed not to try, convict and hang the Emperor — deicide in Japanese eyes — something they were planning to do to top German leaders. Had the US agreed to conditional surrender earlier much bloodshed would have been avoided.

    A few years after VE/VJ the US leadership realised who the Chief Culprit was and then began the embrace of Germany and Japan in anti-Communist alliances.

    A majority of Americans even today support the terrorist attacks against urban Japan.

    For more reading:
    1. The Hiroshima Myth
    https://mises.org/library/hiroshima-myth
    2. Truman’s War Crimes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    https://www.fff.org/2020/08/05/trumans-war-crimes-at-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/

    2. Yea well sonny…those 2 “terrorist” attacks likely saved 500,000+ Casualties if looking at how things went on Okinawa, Tarawa Iwo Jima etc.
      Give your head a shake dude.

    3. Let me explain something to you Mooselimb:

      The Western World has a moral obligation to obliterate, eradicate and exterminate any and all challenges. The end.

      Hope it is clear now.

      1. Your post just proved his point, dingbat. That is, were you correct. You stupid racist, you are trying to cede the high ground to him.
        Luckily, as others have pointed out, that wasn’t the reason the bombs were dropped. It was to save a lot more lives. It was a demo. That’s why they were dropped on small towns. If the point was to “obliterate, eradicate and exterminate” they would have been dropped on Tokyo instead. They weren’t. What you said wasn’t the point. QED.

        1. Yawn. His point was stupid and million times refuted already. Broader point remains, all challenges since 1945 should have to been eliminated and not accommodated. There would be very few of them if the West acted decisively. Not racism just survival of the fittest, you pathetic blowhard imbecile. Nature abhors vacuum etc. We decided to stop leading and have been paying for it since 1945, now more than ever.

        2. Couple more things:
          Japanese atrocities and war crimes against Chinese (or anyone else) were no justification for nuking them. That is one argument that is breathtakingly stupid and all your emotions aside, below, you’re just handing the victory to the weaselly mooselimb. Thank you for playing. (and then you accuse me of doing it, idiot)
          Indeed, Japanese in Hiroshima or Nagasaki did not deserve to be nuked anymore than Chinese deserved to be eliminated for countless examples of multi million corpses, Chinese on Chinese genocides throughout your history.
          Japanese threw the gauntlet and therefore needed to be convinced not to do it again.
          Needed not deserved.
          Deserve has no room when civilizations fight for survival. Our is loosing right now, thanks to our stupidity, and we would be even stupider if we expected mercy or accommodation.
          P.S. How many times do you need to be reminded that you’re not an authority and that your holier than thou, self righteous, demagogical tirades only generate cringe?

          1. I never said it was justification for nuking them. I just said Japan did much worse things, and in the context of the war, nuking them was justified. Your reading comprehension =D.
            I have posted elsewhere that war is hell, and getting civilians killed is worse hell. I never said the citizens in Hiroshima and Nagasaki deserved to be nuked as retaliation. I said they should blame their own government. Your reading comprehension now = D-.
            I may not be an “authority”, but I am a hell of a lot more authority than you are. I am glad if I made you cringe. What I said was all facts. No, we did not drop the atomic bombs to kill as many civilians as possible. If we wanted to do that, we would have dropped the bombs on Tokyo. Your contention “The Western World has a moral obligation to obliterate, eradicate and exterminate any and all challenges. The end. ” is completely asinine. The “Western World” has no more right to do that than anyone else, much less moral obligation. Why western civilization is unique is precisely because it does not do that, and we exemplify that western civilization in that regard, and why we are morally superior than our adversaries. You are just a bastardization of western civilization. That is, of the tradition of Aristotle, Aquinas, Jefferson. The worst manifestation of the tradition, the colonial rules, still believed in the “white men’s burden” and noblesse oblige, not eradicate and exterminate.

          2. When in response to someone telling you: “your side committed atrocities” you reply “but others did worse” you are justifying what your side has done. You know it, I know it, so drop the pretense. That is exactly what you have said. Now you’re just backpedaling.

            You also have a tendency to hang for a dear life to literal interpretation of statements made by others completely ignoring the intent. It is pathetic really. Western world obliterated eradicated and exterminated challenges when that was necessary i.e. when we were fighting for survival or when not doing so would lead to greater loses on our part. We weren’t tolerating challenges when we could do something about them. No civilization was ever dominant when it tolerated challenges to its existence. Those are obvious truisms. No need to get all excited about them.

            We did not kill as many civilians as we could with nukes because we did not feel it was necessary. We would if we did. So drop the morality from the equation.

            And again Tokyo was already in ruins and wasn’t a viable target. I have already explained that to you. Kyoto not Tokyo was the target that would generate max casualties. Like I said your argument only goes that far.

            And again Nagasaki was a secondary target because weather. Not many targets were left.

        3. “If the point was to “obliterate, eradicate and exterminate” they would have been dropped on Tokyo instead.”

          Done and done, before the nukes fell, firebombing of Tokyo killed more civilians than immediate effects of either nuke. US (and UK) were willing to kill as many as necessary to break them. Period.

        4. Oh and regarding the whole “US was humane and therefore spared the most juicy targets”. This argument only goes so far as not selecting Kyoto. By the time of the nuke drop very few large Japanese cities were spared destruction via firebombing. Hiroshima in particular was not deemed a good target for firebombing because multiple nearby rivers would have reduced the effect. It was viable military and industrial target and one of the largest left untouched. Hence made sense to nuke it. Nagasaki wasn’t even initially selected, Kokura was. Weather conditions meant that the plane bound for Kokura was instead sent over Nagasaki. The bigger point is simple: they were looking for largest targets that weren’t already destroyed. Only Kyoto because of it is cultural importance was spared for more or less humane reasons. Had Japan continued fighting it probably would be nuked too.

          1. Your last sentence reveals your complete ignorance. We were bluffing. We ain’t got no more atomic bomb to drop on nobody.
            And technically, nuclear fission bombs were referred to as “atomic bombs”, and nuclear fusion bombs are referred to as “nuclear bombs.” So we actually didn’t “nuke” anyone. But that’s a common colloquial mistake.

          2. Of course no nukes were ready at the moment but they would have been dropped as soon as they were produced. Pretty obvious what I meant, but feel free enjoy a victory dance.

          3. Oh and BTW US planned to drop up to 12 nukes on Japan, Tokyo was on the list although not a priority given how burned down it was.

      2. Let me summarize your position from two of your posts. And that will be my last word on this subject.
        First, the post that I am replying to, again:
        “The Western World has a moral obligation to obliterate, eradicate and exterminate any and all challenges. The end.”
        Second, from a later post of yours:
        “When in response to someone telling you: “your side committed atrocities” you reply “but others did worse” you are justifying what your side has done.”
        It is your position that what we did were atrocities, not mine. So a juxtaposition of those two posts of yours would say:
        We committed atrocities, so what. We in the Western World are the strongest, and it is morally right, nay obligatory, for us to exterminate all challenges.
        Your aspiration for the Western World is no higher than that of a playground bully. No thank you. I’ll opt for Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence. And I want my republic to act in accordance of his aspiration.

        1. Yes our side committed atrocities (and by our side I don’t even mean Soviets) when you fight a titanic conflict like WWII and you are a major player you have to be a completely naive idiot to believe that you gonna came out of it clean handed. We slaughtered millions of civilians in the bombing campaigns, we assassinated inconvenient political allied leaders, we cynically sacrificed allies etc. We did all that, if we did not have the guts to do it we would be speaking German or Russian or Japanese now. Facts are facts. If, to sleep better at night, you decided not call incinerating 100 000 people in one night an atrocity, then it is your choice. Those were still atrocities.

          As for the Western World acting like a bully. Yes. Absolutely. If we don’t we will get curb stomped. And we have an absolute duty to preserve our world from all enemies (foreign and domestic). The post 1945 policy is one monumental multi stage suicide. The policies towards Soviets (Patton was right), Chicoms, Turbaned Tyrants of Tehran, Middle East and Far East all prove my thesis. At each stage, our indecisiveness caused more lives, their and ours.

    4. You want to talk about terrorist attacks and war crimes during the Second World War?
      If we truly pursued that, they would still be trying individual Japanese soldiers today for rape and murder.
      Do you know what the Japanese did? They nailed women spreadeagled on a board to facilitate matters, because there were so many Japanese soldiers and so few captive women. The soldiers coming off the front eagerly waited in long lines for their turn. And when a woman finally died from the torture, they just threw her body in the ravine.
      They had contests between lieutenants on who can cleanly behead more innocent civilians Samurai style in fifteen minutes. I saw this in a book that showed a photograph of the news report of the event in Japanese, together with the grinning picture of the victor. In a Tokyo newspaper.
      They strafe bombed lines of peasants walking along the road, trying to escape from the horrors of the war.
      They bombed a completely civilian hospital. A several hours old baby was lucky enough to have been carried to safety. That was me.
      Those are truly terrorist attacks on civilians and wars crimes par excellence. They were totally non-tactical, and carried out only to satisfy the basest animal instincts of the perpetrators. Not only the high command was guilty.
      In contrast, an act of war intended to save more lives, during the course of the war, is NOT terrorist attacks and war crimes.
      Oh yes, your precious Emperor should have been hanged. Deicide in Japanese eyes? That was the problem. He thought he was god, and could do anything he wanted. I don’t know how complicit he was in the whole conduct of the war. I do know there exist letters from him to Manchuria, avidly inquiring about the progress of the “experiments” performed on the Chinese population. He not only knew, he greatly approved. Dr. Mengele has nothing on this guy. There is no comparison of the evil perpetrated.

  11. Rizwan; does this look like an army ready and willing to surrender in 1944? The last surrender occurred in 1974; 29 years after the war had ended. The fighting leading up to the planned invasion of mainland Japan had been beyond fierce and waged with no surrender. The slaughter had been extreme. Truman decided to use the emperor to implore his people to cease fighting. The Emperor was so referred that Japanese people were frightened that hearing the Emperor’s actual voice would cause them harm.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout

  13. The bought and paid for media along with Mayor Jello are outraged by a report from the Ontario Human Rights Commission, that blacks are more likely to get arrested in Toronto than white people. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that blacks commit most crimes in the city. This is obviously the result of white colonialism. Toronto needs more social workers, basketball courts, and the police abolished.

  15. Blackie has appointed a muslim woman from Pakistan as the new head of the human rights museum in Winnipeg. Let the fun begin.

    1. Blackie is showing us how diversity is done.

      I do wish his wife or his barber/stylist would pay attention to his crazy eyebrows, they must be a strain on his brain.

  16. Terry Glavin of the National Post reports on twitter that the Toronto Star owns half of a pro China media outlet in Canada.

  17. After yesterday’s chain saw attack on Toronto Beach, Justin the redeemer and Bill ban-em-all Blair announced their intention to add Huskvarna and Stihl combat style chainsaws to the prohibited weapons list.

    https://twitter.com/AnnaMer_/status/1292889086055845889?s=20

    Greasy low riding tweeking gang bangers could not be reached for comment. Probably because they were already COVID released.

    Hey, just wondering, how would a social worker deal with that?

    1. Toronto the Good circa 1980s. Toronto gangsta land territory 2020.

      Zero chance of turning that around, even Doug Ford is scared of the 50 percent of the GTA
      3rd worlders not born in Canada, as is the C.P.C. now the Progressive Conservatives are back in charge.

      Indigenous gangs run much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, cultivated from the 1980s in a Cult. Marxist/Liberal/S.C.C. petri dish. All political mainstream parties curtsy to them, too.

    1. What greedy people. A red colored Mercedes, yikes! What a waste of money. Plus a chauffeur?

      They think they are Royalty. She was right, it’s “never enough”. Next thing she’ll be wanting a yacht and a winter Condo somewhere, if she doesn’t have that already.

      From the night of victory:
      Watch “Margaret Trudeau on victory: ‘Pierre raised his sons to serve’
      https://youtu.be/ti6oGy6gZYU

      Margaret @1:21 :  “I thought for awhile that we were kind of doomed as Canadians to have what we had and we had to accept it that this was enough and it was never enough to me and I gather to many Canadians….”

      Serve? What?
      It’s ”take”, PET raised his sons to take taxpayers’ money.
      We will all suffer for this sickness of theirs. Its disturbing.

      1. A red colored Mercedes, yikes! What a waste of money. Plus a chauffeur?

        Don’t be so cynical. Shouldn’t a son make sure his mother is comfortable in her old age? Besides, she needs all that compensation for her sham marriage to PET, doesn’t she? (Yeah, right. She’s probably already loaded with cash after 2 divorces. Maggie….. loaded….. why do those terms seem synonymous?)

        She’s simply another Liberal thief, grabbing all she can with both hands. She’s like a bad tooth that causes enormous, never-ending pain until it’s removed.

        1. @ 812pm and in reply to 8:34 pm but for some reason it didn’t copy there, so here is reply to both comments:

          t’s all an act about giving service to Canadians. Here’s an analysis about the money grubbing Trudeau Family and their greedy ways:

          See Maggie do her abnormal vibrations as she bends her knees and shimmies from side to side in an ecstatic frenzy over her son’s money launderers, the Keilbergers and their WE CHARITY:

          Watch “WE Day Canada – Margaret Trudeau speaks at WE Day Canada in Ottawa”
          https://youtu.be/uSv4egteiSE
          @ 0:28  I’m so proud to be part of “WE” (see Maggie’s eyes bulge)…
          @ 0:29  Now “WE”…I love it the most… (again, eyes bulge)
          @ 0:48  …”WE” can change the World and we know ‘we’ can… (eyes bulge)
          @ 1:54  …I’m so grateful to Marc & Craig (eyes bulge) who brought us “WE”

          And here’s another video of Margaret and her take on her son’s win.
          Watch — “Margaret Trudeau is still making headlines”
          https://youtu.be/Ca16MEqXRy8

          @ 06:19 saying that she taught her children “not to be greedy and grabbing, grabbing”…
           bla, bla, …”but to give service to others…”

          Very telling is the dance and eyes bulging in the first video, then the shy act with Wendy Mesley of CBC, she, like her son is fooling no one with the service spiel.

          1. Very telling is the dance and eyes bulging in the first video

            I held my nose and watched less than a minute of it.

            Yeah, very telling. How many drinks did she have before she went on stage?

            She’s getting rather long in the tooth to continue being a party girl. It wouldn’t surprise me if she’s got a tattoo or a nose ring.

          2. @11:36
            I agree. She was slurring at the beginning.
            Maybe due to the meds. Many people take medication but none are as kooky as this woman.

      2. Serve? What?

        To serve Canada, of course. (Uh-huh…..)

        It reminds me of a story I heard about H. G. Wells. He made the comment at one time that if an alien species was to land here and say they came to serve us, the proper response should be “Boiled or fried?” That’s how I feel about the constant BOHICAing we’ve been receiving from the Liberals since PET took over from Pearson.

  20. The Liberal Party’s CBC is excited about Mark Carney coming on board as an advisor to Blackie. This is the Mark Carney who hates the oil industry and is a big believer in global warming scams. He is probably part of the remaking of Canada that the Toronto Star reported on. Insiders told the Star that Great Leader wants to make dramatic changes to Canada.

  21. Press conference as we speak (we’re watching Newsmax) ….Sounds as though somebody made an attempt to take Trump out and the person is now being held by the police.

    Second attempt in the last week?

    1. From CTV:
      WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted by a U.S. Secret Service agent out of the White House briefing room as he was beginning a coronavirus briefing Monday afternoon. He returned minutes later, saying there was a “shooting” outside the White House that was “under control.”

      “There was an actual shooting and somebody’s been taken to the hospital,” Trump said. The president said the shots were fired by law enforcement, saying he believed the individual who was shot was armed. “It was the suspect who was shot,” Trump said.
      https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trump-abruptly-escorted-from-briefing-after-shooting-near-white-house-1.5058670

    1. That is absolutely awful news. Watch, in the future Doctor’s offices will likely have security guards at their front doors.

  26. Nancy:

    Further to our comments about movie soundtracks yesterday, this is the bit from The Right Stuff that I used to hear on the CBC, back when it was worth listening to:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCKZFJjiU38

    The opening sounds a bit like something that Aaron Copland might have written, and there are also Tchaikovsky-like passages in the rest of the piece.

    Stargate was made in the mid-1990s. Like many movies, I didn’t like it the first time I saw it, partly because it was chopped up by the network that showed it for all those dad-blasted commercials. But, like many movies, I gave it a second chance, watching it again soon after I finished my doctorate and I guess having that perspective (as there is some interesting science in it) made it enjoyable. (Who says my university education was wasted?)

    It starts with an interesting premise, perhaps inspired by Chariots of the Gods, so some suspension of disbelief may be required. Others than that, I found it to be quite entertaining and I have a copy in my collection.

    It inspired a long-running TV series, which provided Richard Dean Anderson (who played Kurt Russell’s character) with a paycheque for several years. That series spawned several more after that. I wasn’t impressed by any of those.

    1. I just listened to the music from your post here. It’s more powerful by comparison to the softer score, of “The Right Stuff” by Bill Conti, as posted earlier.

      Not sure you saw this, it was in here:
      http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2020/08/09/august-9-2020-reader-tips/#comment-1344304

      Nonetheless, both are the right kind of music to go with the view as shown from the movies as mentioned, be it, from the movies, “Cocoon”, “Chariots” or “Stargate.” Having seen the former two movies, it is the ‘right’ stuff, as they say.

      And it goes with fun stuff like this:
      https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200810.html

  27. For foodies
    When I lived in Eastern Canada over two decades ago, the best Canadian food ever was to be found in the Laurentian Auberges. I admit that I have always been a fan of French (and our version) and Italian cuisines, but a weekend stay at an auberge in St. Sauveur included the best 7-course, Canadian dress-for-lunch and dinner meals ever! I also admit to grabbing the best chips and gravy (not poutine) from a food truck near work in Ottawa.

    For now, west coast halibut and spot prawns, plus delicious Thai, Japanese and Indian restaurants fill the void, with pre-Covid escapes to Tuscany. Nothing, however, keeps me away from a good southern Alberta-grown steak with a potato laced with butter, green onions and bacon bits.

    Time for brunch ….

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