October 23, 2020: Reader Tips

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On the recommendation of readers: James Randi Demonstrates How ‘psychic’ Uri Geller Bends Spoons And Other Magic Tricks On The Tonight Show

Your own magic tricks and debunkings are welcomed in the comments.

84 Replies to “October 23, 2020: Reader Tips”

      1. New detailed report on the China – Biden corruption and the most in-depth yet and from non partisan source. This is a must read as covers the China connections.
        Sample: “Though the entire size of the fund cannot be reconstructed, the Taiwanese cofounder who is now detained in China, reports it to be NOT $1-1.5 billion but $6.5 billion. This would make Hunters stake worth at a minimum at least $50 million if he was to sell it.
        “https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blockbuster-report-reveals-how-biden-family-was-compromised-china

          1. Thanks Nancy
            Yes I have read it and this is stunning. This man under any circumstances can not be POTUS and not so many years ago ( in my lifetime) and if he would be executed for Treason.. The media can not ignore this no matter how they try.
            He is finished and thank God and DJT ( and the Computer shop repair man )

          2. You’re very welcome.
            Thanks for your find @ Zero Hedge.
            The MSM hecklers are going to be tongue-tied now!

          3. Ah but the fact checkers at Politico ignored the story, which means it didn’t happen, so it’s fake (but true) news.
            They can verify without fact checking it’s all Russian disinformation because it has all the earmarks of their denial.
            Trump got a nice Ronald Reagan “there you go again” moment where he outed Biden whining about the Russians.

            Biden buried himself with his idiotic oil and gas “cause pollution” and not understanding that solar and wind are massively subsidized yet are nowhere near replacing fossil fuel or any other type of infrastructure energy.

            They only exist with subsidies, not viable at all. Fossil fuel “subsidies?” That idea is depreciated, pardon the pun.

            Say good by to Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states.

            Trump gets thousands to his rallies. Obama and Biden attract dozens. Hillary very quiet lately.

            54% of Americans say they’re better off than 2016. Biden campaign has zero energy and Kommie Kamala is scary.

      2. All the usual suspects(including poor Drudge) are calling no knockouts, which in non-lying Media speech means Trump wiped the floor with him.
        The BBC couldn’t even lie for Weekend Joe and ended up calling the Democratic moderator the winner.

        The biggest loser?
        Once again, truth, integrity and honesty in Media gets massacred.

        1. I agree it’s code for Biden got his butt kicked. Trump crushed Biden on covid, hunting Hunter and new green raw deals.

    2. “Queens”. Heh. I can’t watch the debates. They’re like an I Love Lucy episode. But listening to the speech cadences when Biden was talking was alarming. He’s not losing it. He’s already lost it.

    3. I didn’t watch the debate as I was busy doing something else. Did I miss anything important?

      1. Well, Biden after lying about his statement on fracking saying he NEVER said he wants to get rid of it ends the debate by saying he wants to END the oil industry. That’s kinda important. His Spin Team are working over time tonight.

      2. Biden looked foolish. He lied his way throughout the debate.

        Yes Boots, that’s astonishing that Biden actually admitted that he would get rid of the oil business in the U.S.A.

        That’s not going to happen. There’s enough there for hundreds of years.

        1. I have to give props to Biden. He finished the whole debate without a “you know the thing” moment. Man he must be on some good drugs.

          1. Not really. He forgot the name of the leader of North Korea. Couldn’t remember a lot of things but that was the one that really stood out to me.

        2. SOP. I don’t think he said more than or two honest statements last night
          Biden has been LYING as a way of life.
          It’s like Scott Adams said since Trump was elected, America is a tale of Two Movies.
          Which movie are we watching? Obvious.
          Biden’s movie is spinning every yarn, tall tale, lie, obfuscation and outright fantasies, based on their lust for power. Biden’s performance has been pathetic, along with his surrogates, including the Anointed One, there is no lie they won’t tell.
          He deserves the loss, people see through endless streams of lies, though not enough.

  2. Maybe Prinz Dummkopf watched one too many Uri Geller stunts when he was younger. How else can he make his outrageous claim about the budget?

    1. TEFLON Trudeau is an excellent magician! He can make his many scandals disappear. His magician’s assistant is Jagmeet Singh. He can make cold hard cash appear out of thin air for his family and friends. He can make his skin switch color like a chameleon. He can raise his legs parallel to the floor by applying all his weight on 2 fingers. He supposedly makes dead people vote for him. He can even become Superman like he did at the end of October a few years ago and he probably flies too. He even can make us sick.

      What a man!

      1. An excellent summary. I couldn’t have said it better myself. I doff my chapeau to you.

          1. That money will disappear before our very eyes! (“Carbonuth takthithium makthimuth! Poof!”)

          3. He’s a Canadian Media-made man.(I use that term loosely).

            A specious,diaphanous, supercilious, simple-minded twit flouncing from one media myth to another.

            A sobering daily reminder of this country’s ongoing failure.

          4. Nancy:

            Poof is right!

            That poof indeed made my money go poof. I found an old copy of a spreadsheet I made of my investment portfolio, dating back to a few months after my father died. It was painful to see what some of the stocks were trading at back then, compared to now.

            Most are down by a third and, no, it wasn’t entirely due to the fake plague. For example, in October of 2017, Akita Drilling was trading around $7.00. Now it’s around $0.30, nearly worthless. The company has moved most, if not all, its rigs into the U. S. and why not? Prinz Dummkopf and Red Rachel have all but destroyed the oil industry in this country.

          5. B — @12:32 pm

            Yeah. If you’ll pardon the expression, the market is like a damsel’s drawers: up and down. As long as the banks still pay their dividends –aka good assassination insurance. Sometimes you have to bite the bullit and ditch the dogs though, the really hopeless ones.

          7. “Carbonuth takthithium makthimuth! Poof!”
            Heh heh heh! Btw– one of your bestest!!!!

          8. Here’s the real Bullitt that we must dodge…
            thought you might like this…

            I have a copy of that flick in my collection. That was the grand-daddy of all car chases. The only one after that which came close was the one in the movie The Seven-Ups with Roy Scheider. I didn’t think the one in The French Connection (also a Scheider film) wasn’t as good.

          10. As long as the banks still pay their dividends –aka good assassination insurance.

            Just don’t make too much money in dividends as the associated tax credit might be disallowed. One can’t have too good of an income, as I found out recently.

            Sometimes you have to bite the bullit and ditch the dogs though, the really hopeless ones.

            Akita Drilling is a good company and I’ve owned it for around 20 years. It used to pay a nice dividend but thanks to the shenanigans of the aforementioned political dolts, that’s no longer the case. I can’t even sell my shares for a tax loss as they’re in one of my retirement funds. (There’s a story associated with that, but that cretin Jim Flaherty is partly to blame for that.)

            Meanwhile, while western Canada is forbidden by law to produce oil and gas, it’s OK to import it from the Middle East if one just happens to have a financial interest in doing so. (Why to I feel like spitting right now?)

        2. Achilles: “He’s (Trudeau’s) a Canadia-made media man”.

          Indeed. CTV’s Craig Oliver, a crony pal of the late Pierre Trudeau, used to drop by the Trudeau household, watching son Justin grow up. So Oliver, a political commentator, helped Trudeau all along.

          1. David:
            I had a Bob Stanfield sticker on my bedroom door when I was twelve.
            I am nauseatingly familiar with the Trudeau tragedy that has twice afflicted this country.
            Possibly to its demise.

            Upside?
            I shall never need an emetic, just a trip down Librano memory lane.

  3. Lots of competition as usual but this has to be ranked the dumbest tweet of the night. Or week… month… EVER?

    **Did @realDonaldTrump just say 545 kids they can’t find their parents for came over through “cartels and coyotes”?! How the hell does a coyote bring a whole human across the border?! Lord—–stop talking.**

    And she’s a Democratic…
    Corporate Attorney & Investment Advisor. GA State Representative- Chief Deputy Whip of @gahousedems

    https://twitter.com/DarshunKendrick/status/1319459569073008641

        1. Boots, watch for it: The U.S. main stream heckler media are going to harp on this tomorrow. They’ve ‘got’ nothing else. OTOH, the UK’s Daily Mail was a lot kinder than the others so far, IMO

          I thought Trump was very Presidential tonight.

      2. Correct. Ignorance is bliss in many quarters, especially liberal democrat, socialist/communist quarters.

      3. It is so typical that the media and ignoramuses on social media deliberately misconstrue what Trump says. They have done this from the start. The bleach comment is another example, as is “good people on both sides”. So often I understand Trump to say one thing, and the media twists it into something quite different. It is truly remarkable that Trump has prevailed despite the relentless malicious attacks. What I have not figured out is who is behind the virtually monolithic anti-Trump media attacks. Who controls the media? And why are they so obsessed with hating Trump?

        1. They do not, for some reason, understand that they will be consumed by that which they support. Communists kill everyone including supporters.

          1. Things (and people) could be erased from photographs and books, with some effort, eighty years ago. Today it is much easier. Useful idiots will only come to that realization when it’s too late. Some things truly don’t change. We’re going to have to try and live through it so that we may pick up the pieces later.

      1. Omri Ceren, national security adviser for Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), had the following to say in response to Hill’s unfortunate query:

        “It’s not the lack of knowledge,” he wrote, “it’s the confidence in that lack of knowledge.”

    1. Who enforces court injunctions and other laws?
      Who steps in when injunctions and laws are not followed?
      I used to think I knew the answer to these questions.

  6. Since there is a political angle in every subject imaginable, The Amazing Randi was exposing BS con artists for decades.
    Kinda like the Democrat party, Uri Geller, and Justin Turdeau!

    1. Brandon was almost right – AntiFa/BLM is only the second-greatest scam of all times. Global warming is the greatest. Remember the IPCC demanding $249-a-gallon gas and $122 trillion to SAAAAAVE the EARTH?!

      For those of you who find yourselves across the mic from a GWA, here are the numbers: CO2 is 0.04 of one percent of the atmosphere – in other words, 4/10,000ths. Humans are responsible for 5% of the CO2 – ants are responsible for 10%, and I invite you to look-up termites. It is slowly increasing, which is possibly our fault – it’s increasing at the rate of 2 parts-per-million per year. Oh and, ask them what would happen if we granted the Hadley CRU its one favourite wish and magically eliminated all our greenhouse gases (almost all of which is water vapour, BTW) – the average global temperature would drop 55 degrees Celsius. Yes folks, the Earth is outside the Sun’s liquid water band, so getting rid of all the greenhouse gases would result in our little blue-green planet becoming a little white planet.

      Nonetheless, Brandon delivered a FINE smackdown there; well done!

  8. Before Angry Adolf heads for Harrington Lake today, he will make an appearance before his loyal drooling media to explain what a wonderful job he is doing. Meanwhile Blacklock reports that Great Leader’s cabinet is deciding how much additional money the CBC needs because of falling revenues due to the China virus. And Blackie has introduced a bill to make changes to the citizenship oath to reflect that Canadians are racist bastards towards indians.

  9. CBC needs another billion bucks because nobody wants to watch propaganda all day long.
    Maybe if they were a tiny bit less of a Liberal Party of Kanaduh disinformation network, people might even watch and then the CBC could become a viable entity, instead of a drain on the economy. FEAR-PORN just doesn’t appeal to the masses the way Trudope would like. DEFUND the entire network and sell it all off. It might cut alittle bit off of the debt Trudope is going to leave us with, if the Dicktater ever leaves.

  10. Its a good thing we had the CBC to bring on Rev. Al Sharpton to explain the debate. And the CBC sent its indian reporter to Caledonia to show how racist police forced innocent indians to commit peaceful violence.

    1. They hzd Sharpton covering the debate? That’s pathetic. The CBC is pathetic. They need to be dumped.

    2. Al Shakedown is just looking for another opportunity to rook someone for cash.

  11. Joe looked like a deer in the headlights which is sort of what you might expect from a north PA guy.

    His core message seems to be “let’s roll the dice on a green economy, suck up to China, and wear masks forever.”

    Oh and also, if you can swim the Rio Grande, you’re an American.

    2. This will eventually be why cops get killed by reasonable people. Anyone who thinks I am wrong needs to get their heads out of their arses.

  13. Johnny Carson was himself a rather skilled amateur magician and he knew full well Uri Geller was a fake and a fraud, that’s why he had Randi on his show.

  14. Canada is a beacon to the world!
    Watch the world’s ideal Affirmative Action Country in all its ludicrous glory as it literally melts before your eyes.
    Media promulgated, encouraged and approved.

  18. I think the Nationsl Post is blocking me from commenting on articles. Anyone else have this hsppen? It’s insane. I am never disrespectful or rude. I was even thinking of resubscribing, but won’t bother now. Canadian media is quickly heading towards tons of government money, but no readers/viewers.

    1. Postmedia Financials just came out. Q4 2019 Revenue was $145 million. Q4 2020 revenue was $105 million. At this rate they will be done in a year or two.
      Faster please. And good riddance.

    2. Happened to me awhile ago. Was never able to figure out what sin I had committed, other than opposing liberalism. Seems that if it happens once, you’re done forever. Obviously they mistook me for someone who gives a shit what they think! Except for a couple of columnists, like most, NP has become pretty much a waste of time anyway.

      1. Isn’t their comment section run by a Facebook app? I can never see their comments because I have an ancient browser (Firefox) with NoScript running in the background.

  19. Oh Nooo! Climate Barbie has screwed up again. Blacklock reports while Barbie was calling for a motion declaring a climate emergency in 2019, because of the increase of tornadoes, federal environment officials now state that there hasn’t been an increase in tornadoes. This is what happens when you eat dog meat.

  22. Conrad Black writes about the China virus at the National Post. And now your whiny indian stories for today. The Grand Poobah of indians wants the head of the RCMP to be fired. And Tanya at the Liberal Party’s Globe and Mail thinks the term moderate fishing for indians is insulting. Indians should be able to fish as much as they like, whenever they like, wherever they like. Damn “Settlers”.

    1. I would let them do that provided that their fishing fleet were decolonized. No gasoline or steel for you. Neolithic fishing at its finest.

  24. Keep embracing the freaking flu folks, it will kill you a second time after the government kills you. Isn’t there something Biblical about a second death? I don’t think the whu who flu was part of it, but hey, who gives a damn.

  27. When the Liberal Party’s CBC wants a sane conversation about whiny indians, they know who to bring in. Yes Big Chief Pam of the famous Ryerson University tribe was on trashing the RCMP and demanding that the head of the force be fired.

    1. “Ewathe Wwongthink?”
      Huh?
      Puhleeze, Justin!
      Yo winging da wong number, Justin!

      Shame on Prime Minister Fascist Trudeau for stealing $250,000 from Canadian taxpayers to hire people to stifle free speech.

      As Ezra Levant would say, “he needs a Judge to tell him it’s wrong.” Remember this passionate argument from last October 2019 in Edmonton? You were there, if I remember correctly B. It took place at Ezra’s book signing for his book, “The Libranos.” Ezra’s argument was perfect. Watch the full argument here:

       “Sheila Gunn Reid and Ezra Levant on being deplatformed”
      https://youtu.be/Wgg_9xlyVcM

      P.S. Wonder how this case went, or if it ever went to court?
      Is Mike Barrar, owner of the Princess Theatre still in business?
      Any news?

      1. Yup, I was at that gathering. The last I heard was that Rebel wasn’t going to sue the theatre owner for breach of contract, but those lefty/commie thugs who threatened him.

        The Princess is in Strathcona, a part of town I seldom go to but I gathered the place is still in business.

        As for a judge scolding Prinz Dummkopf, I doubt that’s going to happen, considering that he’s bought the judicial system.

        1. This is so wrong. We live in a genuine Communist state, no judges, no Official Opposition.

  29. Much of the success of charlatans is based on our own arrogance. We think we’re too smart to be fooled, and this is especially so when we have advanced degrees. But a PhD in physics is not useful when debunking “psychics” — training as a magician is.

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