94 Replies to “December 7, 2020 – Reader Tips”

  1. And here is a brilliant three part documentary about the years of salvage effort following the attack. The men, who often at great personal risk, resurrected the fleet, were the true unsung heroes of the Pacific Theater.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB-V9cCSC8o
    The other two parts can be found on the same YouTube channel.

    2. Agreed, Colonialista. I highly recommend ALL the Drachinifel videos. There’s some very good ones on the last big ships of the RCN before Trudeau Sr. gutted it.

      1. And for those of you who love wild sea stories, I recommend DE 635, USS England for your study. Drachinifel has a short item on it; there are others, the History Guy’s is likely more complete.

        USS England was a DE or escort destroyer, of the same class as USS Samuel B. Roberts that distinguished itself at the battle off Samar. USS England was not named after the nation of England, it was named after an Ensign England who died at Pearl Harbor. Ensign England was not supposed to be on duty that day, he’d swapped shifts because his wife was due in Hawaii in a few days with their infant daughter who he’d never met, and he was banking hours to spend more time with her. When the Japanese struck, he was on deck of USS Oklahoma and could’ve gotten away scot-free, but instead he went into the badly damaged ship four times to guide sailors out; he saved three of them but he himself did not make it out from his fourth attempt. These things happen in war.

        The ship bearing his name was smaller and slower than standard fleet DD’s, and heavily equipped with AA (with which USS Samuel B Roberts made mincemeat out of the superstructure of a couple of Japanese cruisers before being sunk itself), and had a serious anti-submarine armament including a new British weapon system that was quickly being introduced into the USN, the Hedgehog Mortar. Ships tracked submarines with sonar, but during their attack runs they passed over the submarine and the sonar could not track it anymore – and all submarine skippers were thoroughly trained in executing unpredictable “dirty dekes” at that last moment when the ship was no longer tracking them, so the ASW weapons launched during the ship’s attack would miss. The hedgehog was an answer for this; it was a 24-barrelled spigot mortar that threw patterns of small bombs out ahead of the ship while it was still tracking the sub. These bombs were contact-fused, so if they missed the submarine they did not explode; and although the bombs were small, it only takes a small explosion against a submarine’s hull and the water pressure at depth would often finish the job.

        USS England started its career in the Pacific in March 1944, escorting convoys and joining hunter-killer groups to look for Japanese submarines. And such are the fortunes of war – in one such hunter-killer group, USS England sank six submarines in the space of 12 days, a feat unequalled in the history of warfare. The last sub was particularly illustrative of the ship’s run of luck-and-skill; England was told to stand back and stay out of the way, the other three ships in the group wanted to sink a sub too because throughout England’s remarkable run, none of the others had so much as hit one. So the other ships attacked this sub for hours, missing every time and achieving squat; finally in frustration, the group CO radioed “Aw hell; c’mon in, England…” England sank it with a single hedgehog salvo, causing the group CO to radio back “DAMMIT – how do you DO that?!”

        USS England would achieve another feat during the war, albeit a melancholy one; assigned to radar picket north of Okinawa, it was hit by one of the first kamikazes, which wrecked the ship and ultimately killed 32 of its crew. The remaining men fought the fires out, patched what leaks they could and kept the ship afloat. The ship made it back to the continental U.S., where it was waiting in line for major repairs when the war ended – at which point it wasn’t needed anymore, so it was judged uneconomical to repair and sent to the scrappers. I’m saddened by that, but I’m also saddened by CV-6, the USS Enterprise, meeting the same fate.

        1. The “hero ship” Big E was the Forest Gump of WW2 flat tops; she was everywhere and survived it all.
          WW2 aircraft carriers were known as the naval Joe Louis, but with a glass jaw.
          Despite her many battles and damage, she lasted the war rather than suffer the fate of her contemporaries.
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJgx425qF8

        2. Small correction: Roberts was Butler class and England was Buckely class. England had turbo electric drive Roberts had traditional steam turbines. England had thee 3-inch guns plus a quad Chicago Piano, Roberts had two 5-inch guns and two twin Bofors. Yes, yes I know I am nitpicking. Sue me, I am a naval nerd.

          1. Neenerneenerneener! 😉 I bow to your superior grasp of naval minutiae, as always – how do you DO that?! =D

            ( – And P.S. – are you aware of any easily-available reference on the Green Boy shells? – )

          2. I got nothing immediate in print in English on Green Shells, there is some discussion on some boards, plus drach talked about it few times. Some Polish sources mention the issue but no details.

  3. The Canadian Embassy in Cuba was allegedly ”bombarded” with high frequency radio waves in or about 2017, so the news media is saying. Radio waves that allegedly caused illnesses amongst the staff.

    With the Liberal government we have in Ottawa, obviously, we weren’t posing any threats to Cuba at the time. Why would they want to bombard our embassy in Havana??

    https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/u-s-review-finds-directed-radio-frequency-attack-likely-culprit-in-diplomats-illnesses

    BBC’s version of facts.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55203844

    1. Could be microwaves. However, did any one complain about their coffee NEVER cooling off? See, the absence of evidence is in itself evidence of absence.

      Here is my competing theory. Weird Cuban bugs make weird loud noises and some folks got dramatic about it. They become hysterical, hysteria is contagious. Americans and Canadians drink at the same bar, bitching about strange noises and headaches while salsa dancing. They drink and dance alot, every night. A bit of panic contagion, some bad rum hangovers (from bad rum), twisted salsa-ankle and Tito Puente ringing through the ear drums for hours.

      This of course is followed by a whole bunch of anxiety ridden diplomatic memos, complaining, and posting, and suddenly Nana in Sarnia is having anxiety about little Taylor-diplomat. It lands on the front page of the globe. Followed by an early rotation out of a third world (oh but the cars are so quaint) totalitarian shit hole.

      So to sum it up, my competing theory is that it’s questionable distillation practices and too much of that hot-hot salsa music.

  4. Meet Ralph Jones Sr.
    He is the 3rd identified irregular suitcase vote counter in Georgia.
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-exclusive-third-suspect-state-farm-center-suitcase-scandal-identified-ralph-jones-sr-news-shady-deal-atl-mayor-keisha-bottoms/

    Uh oh. It looks like he is the official spokesman for Georgia Senatorial candidate Warnock.
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/exclusive-ralph-jones-sr-outed-loud-mouth-gabriel-sterling-son-ralph-jones-jr-official-spokesman-democrat-us-senate-candidate-warnock-linked-stacey-abrams/

    3. My bad.
      It his son that is the spokesman for Warnock.
      Put them in a burlap bag and beat it until dust comes out.

    1. Trump has 74 million.
      Biden had 81 million votes?
      All the other candidates have about 2 million.

      157 million Americans voted?

      Year 2020, 153 million registered voters in America?

      Math is hard for Democheats.

  7. To ardent devotees on the subject of WW II:
    Here is a “lost and found” story of a B-17 Bomber from Pearl Harbor, “The Swamp Ghost” which was found in the Agaiambo Swamp, in Papua New Guinea. Video is 18:15 minutes.

    Watch “They Found This Pearl Harbor Plane Hidden In The Jungle, Then They Looked Inside” on YouTube
    https://youtu.be/_6yqC-il0iY

    1. Thanks for an interesting story. Few years ago a beautifully restored B-17G (a later version) visited Canadian Warplanes Hermitage Museum. I took my son to see her. A magnificent plane (museum’s own collection is also very interesting).

      2. I was in Palm Springs (old Palm Springs), back in 2003…On business, yet had no business to conduct on my arrival. There is Naval Air Station there with a pretty good Museum and that museum includes a B-17..among other naval WWII fighters and dive bombers…and even an immaculate P-51D.

        I was surprised at the size of the B-17….it’s not that big.! IN fact we were able to go inside and I can tell you its felt cramped to be honest. Being inside was an eerie experience…making me think of the 10’s of thousands of 18-25 yr old airmen who flew & fought these aircraft against the German war machine – especially those years without adequate fighter protection….BALLSY..?? I’d say. wow.

        Glad I took lots of pics down there…4 hours well spent.!

        As a side note, I was floored by the hundreds of wind turbines that dotted the surrounding hills..95% of which looked to be in not the greatest state of repair nor turning at all.

        1. I know, those planes are much smaller than we often think. PBY Catalina (or rather Canadian Canso) is another plane that I always thought was much bigger until I seen her in person.

        2. Yep, I think it is her, she looked great in Hamilton right next to their Avro Lancaster. Pity we did not see them fly in formation.

        3. I believe that one was in Edmonton a few years ago. Its flight path took it close to my apartment twice. It was a good thing that I was outside with one of my radios as I might have missed it.

  8. Destroyed Japan, destroyed Germany and can’t even tackle the communists in the democrat party or run an honest election, and cower in fear from a flu virus. How far we have fallen, morality and courage and even the ability to think logically and critically has been bred out of the people and they they don’t know or understand it, fascinating. It is a sad time we find ourselves living in.

  9. The CBC must be trying to get more money from Blackie to shut it up. CBC reports on its website that the Liberals won’t say who it gave over a billion dollars in China virus aid to. Its a secret.

    1. That’s been proven already; it was done by Harper, who donated it to Trump’s re-election campaign. Just like everything else “Canada’s Natural Governing Party” would rather you forget.

  10. Uh-oh. If you think the Wuhan flu came from China then you might be paranoid. Or if you think the Canadian government is using the pandemic for some type of “Great Reset” or that they’re going to confiscate guns, then you’re a right wing, Jew-hating Nazi.
    PMO Approved:
    https://globalnews.ca/news/7501783/neo-nazis-extremists-capitalizing-coronavirus-covid-19-csis/

    Seems like CSIS is spying on Canadians and making naughty lists.
    Seems like they’re kind of blaming the Russians, Iranians and Chicoms.
    Seems like criticism of the Canadian government means you’re a conspiracy theorist and a threat.

    1. It added that some right-wing extremists were discouraging their followers from spreading COVID-19 conspiracies and instead wanted them to promote “panic” in order to “accelerate the demise of the current social order.

      I thought that was the role of the government.

    2. Stewart like nearly all of his colleagues are to me nothing more than Court Jesters. Regardless of the supposed issue, 24/7 100% Fear mongering & kissing LIberal Ass.

      Irrelevant is what they are.
      So I guess this makes me a threat – so be it – I won’t wear a Yellow star of David either.

  11. it is disgusting that the MSM is still peddling the story that a French Canadian Marc Lepine was responsible for the Montreal massacre. The truth is the name Marc was used by a Muslim who carried out the massacre. Unfortunately liberals are too simple minded to accept the truth.

    1. The recent news articles only blather on about gender violence and men hating women. No mention of the killer being a Muslim. Yes, there are loser males(intels?) who hate women but if you are a Muslim, that’s frosting on the cake. A dangerous combination.

      1. Actually, I’d hesitate to call him a Muslim; I suspect he wasn’t religious at all. He was of Middle-East ethnicity, from a disfunctional home where he’d been serially abused over much of his life by his bully of a father, who treated the others in the family even worse.

        After the police were finished identifying his body, they called his mother and sister to come retrieve the corpse for burial; both of them refused to do so, so he was buried in an unmarked grave at City of Montreal expense.

  12. Today is the anniversary of Canada declaring war against Japan. No word yet on whether Justin will make a tearful apology to Japan today.

    1. Hong Kong was overrun about 3 weeks later and Canadian POWs there suffered brutally for the rest of the war. No mention from anyone ever about them.

  13. Thanks for the Pearl Harbor doc. The corporate media, of course, are not mentioning Pearl Harbor Day.

  14. Japan attacked Malaya after attacking Pearl Harbor. England declared war on Japan before the US did.

    FDR’s ‘day of infamy’ speech was drafted before Japan attacked Hawaii.

    More damage was done to the Phillippines than to Pearl Harbor, but it’s Pearl Harbor all the time.

    Japan went to war against the US before Germany did. The US pursued war against Germany first. Japan can wait.

    The USSR invaded Finland, so England declared war on Finland (Dec. 5, 1941), but not the sweet little USSR!

    Germany was compelled to concurrently surrender to the US, UK and the USSR. The Japanese sought, and were permitted to surrender to the US.

    1. Climate change did not bring about their Most DESIRED wet dream: Full on Communism. For that my friends was the Gambit and plainly told to our FACES by two of the TOP IPCC Execs: Christinal Figueres and Ottmar Edenhofer.
      ” We re-distribute the worlds wealth”
      “We are tasking ourselves to fundamentally change the world economic order of the past 150 years”

      Now if that ain’t Full on desire for 100% COMMUNISM, then I don’t know shit from shinola..??? COVID was supposed to be the final nail in the Capitalist coffin. Done so via Genetic mRNA Vaccines that may or may not include nanites. (See Gates Vaccine patent Mar 26, 2020).

      “what about that don’t YOU UNDERSTAND hmmm…? a question I have put to every Ecotard I’ve ever met.

      I’m old enough to “appreciate” what previous Dictators have pulled and also fully aware of the Media has been utterly Corrupted to join in this quest. I put ABSOLUTELY nothing past these Dangerous Fkers. To me it looks like they want it so bad they can taste it and will literally CORRUPT Everything and Everyone in their Maniacal quest.

      1. I’ve mentioned numerous times here on SDA that I sat through many Sunday sermons in which subjects like “social justice” or “wealth re-distribution” were the main topics. I find it peculiar that the advocates of those heresies are remarkably silent about this phony plague as well as “The Great Reset” and, as the saying goes, silence means consent.

        Like you mentioned, it’s the fulfillment of a life-long fantasy for many members of the clergy.

  16. Good Catholic Dementia Joe has named an abortion extremist as his health secretary. Free abortions for everybody! The new pick also worked with Heels Up Harris to prosecute any group or journalists that investigated abortion clinics.

  17. Pearl Harbor: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
    Murray N. Rothbard

    The cataclysm of Pearl Harbor occurred twenty-five years ago, and yet the average American, bemused by official propaganda, still thinks of Pearl as an unprovoked act of Japanese aggression that took the United States and the Roosevelt Administration unawares. Yet the ‘revisionist’ insight: that the attack was sought and welcomed, and known of in advance, by the Roosevelt Administration in order to get the U. S. into World War 11, has managed, despite overwhelming odds, to make a bit of headway.

    https://mises.org/library/pearl-harbor-twenty-fifth-anniversary

  19. Jeannette Rankin casts sole vote against WWII

    Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress and a dedicated lifelong pacifist, casts the sole Congressional vote against the U.S. declaration of war on Japan. She was the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. involvement in both World Wars, having been among those who voted against American entry into World War I nearly a quarter of a century earlier.

    Rankin was a committed pacifist, and she cared little about the damage her beliefs caused her political career. Although some male representatives joined her in voting against World War I in 1917, many citizens saw her vote as evidence that a woman could not handle the difficult burdens of national leadership. Perhaps as a result, Montanans voted her out of office two years later. Ironically, Rankin won re-election to the House in 1940, just in time to face another vote on war.

    While her commitment to pacifism was politically harmful during World War I, Rankin knew that in the case of World War II, it would be downright suicidal. The surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor was devastating, and zeal for revenge was at a fever pitch. The vast majority of Americans supported President Roosevelt’s call for a declaration of war.

    Rankin, however, believed that Roosevelt deliberately provoked the Japanese to attack because he wanted to bring the U.S. into the European war against Germany; she was determined not to cooperate with the president’s plan. After a 40-minute debate on the floor of the House, a roll call vote began. When her turn came, Rankin stood and said, “As a woman, I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.”

    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jeannette-rankin-casts-sole-vote-against-wwii

    1. Are you trying to blame the Allies for starting WW2 ? I don’t get the point of your posts.Your first rant claims Pearl wasn’t a surprise attack and your last one specifically says it was a surprise attack.In any case the good guys won.

    2. “In any case the good guys won.”

      The Soviets won. They were the good guys? Don’t tell it to the Finns.

    3. The claim that Japan was provoked is a lie. Japan wanted Pacific dominance, period. They wanted it for a long time. The US was right to start the work against them early. Pacifism is evil.

  20. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the WWII surrender of Japan the last time anyone has surrendered to the U.S.A.? Things seem to work out better when you get one of those thingies. Proxy wars should never exist. Take it to the enemy’s house from the start, and finish it. It wasn’t Hiroshima or Nagasaki, it was Tokyo that brought the Japanese to the table.

  23. Heather Mallick at the Liberal Party’s Toronto Star, explains once again that all men are sexist pigs, murderers, and rapists.

    1. I’ll miss “trump did a thing” freakouts every day. I can’t stand the Obama reverb that’s back already though. Hard to say just how badly Biden will screw this up but judging by his cabinet choices so far it’ll be bad. Like really bad. The jump will be shared when AOC gets a cabinet post and that will happen.

  25. the pacific war did not start on dec 7 41
    it started in 1931 when they invaded manchuria.
    thus a war waged for 14 years.
    and ended in a matter of days courtesy the ‘wake up call’ known as hiroshima and the ‘message’ known as nagasaki.

    my hi school english teacher bemoaned the use of the bomb. I wish I had known more about it at the time, my classroom speech assignment would have included the above factual statement.

    1. hb: After the surrender of Germany in May 1945, the Canadian military began planning on the transfer of Canadian Forces (the fourth largest of the allies after the Soviets, Americans & British) to the Pacific in preparation for the invasion of the Japanese home islands (the planners knew nothing of the atomic bomb then in an advanced state of development in the U.S.A.). If your high school teacher had had his way, thousands more young Canadian men would have died in WWII. Those that criticize the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan always omit any reference to the hundreds of thousands of young men in the Allied forces, including Canadians, that otherwise would have died during the invasion and subjugation of Japan.

  26. Great Leader Kim Sung Trudeau skipped his fake parliament today. Instead he appeared before his loyal, drooling media to announce that about one hundred thousand Liberal Party supporters will get the China virus vaccine by the end of the year. He started off of course by stating what a wonderful job he is doing. Rosemary Barton at the CBC was in tears and declared him the greatest prime minister in history.

    1. The petition was put forward on behalf of constituents. Many MP’s do that. Also, the recommendations are reasonable. Pro-vaxers need too calm down and accept that vaccines are not an unmitigated good and carry some risk. People have a right to have their concerns heard.

      1. 1) Don’t care his constituents are stupid

        2) The recommendations are neither reasonable nor based on anything reasonable

        3) No one claims otherwise stop strawmanning

  28. In honor of Bobby Zimmerman selling his entire collection of songs for a reported $300M … I offer what should be the themesong of the presumptive Harris-Biden Administration … Desolation Row.

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

    The lyrics of this 11 minute song too long to post, but suffice to say they describe the charade that is the Biden candidacy to a tee.

    1. The song, “The Eve of Destruction” comes to mind, if those 2 thieves come in.

      (So,he sold! Bob Dylan must need the cold hard cash)

  29. The nutty Connie Black.

    First paragraph of his NP piece.

    This week, I clicked on to a link sent by a correspondent and watched and listened to Justin Trudeau telling us how his government would take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to implement a positive “reset” of the country. I’ve written here before of my goodwill toward Trudeau as a person. He is friendly, intelligent, dashing, sincere and contemporary. But his government’s policy analysis is perversely stubborn and outdated.

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-trudeaus-reset-aims-to-revisit-the-failed-policies-of-yesteryear

    As mentioned a few dozen times here, Connie also claimed that FDR saved capitalism.

    1. Conrad is a criminal who fetishizes Big Bold Men Doing Big Bold Things, hence the slobbering over John A and FDR. He’s got the her worship complex, and he is indeed off his rocker. And an idiot.

  31. Farmers Expected To Shell Out Extra $235 Million
    https://torontosun.com/news/national/farmers-expected-to-shell-out-235m-for-carbon-tax

    World agricultural markets do not care about carbon taxes or Canada’s environmental policies. The prices on world agricultural markets are set by countries like the US. They rejected the Paris Climate Accord. Further, they removed restrictive agricultural regulations put in place by prior administrations. These changes helped US farmers. Their products are now among the most competitively priced in the world.

    Canada’s Government is going in the exact opposite direction.

    Our federal government’s policies are making farm products more costly to produce and less able to compete price wise on world agricultural markets. These polices are driving more farmers into bankruptcy and driving some farmers to commit suicide. Moreover, these policies drive up the cost of food products all across the country. This in turn drives up inflation and reduces the buying power of Canadians from coast to coast.

  32. Fox News reports that President Trump will sign an executive order tomorrow, that Americans must get the vaccine first before its shipped to other countries. I wonder if this will effect dickhead’s plans to bring the vaccine to Canada.

    1. It is at your own risk for taking this vaccine.

      It’ll be your mandatory risk for taking it. But, every loyal comrade would be willing to put his or her life on the line for the greater glory of the revolution, right?

  36. Another one of them thar “sustainability” outfits. I was made aware of that when its ad popped up over top of a Rebel News video:

    https://greenmunicipalfund.ca/

    I didn’t read through much of the material on the site, but it certainly seems to be something that Butts would support.

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