February 27, 2021 – Reader Tips

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This evening we present you a video that is sure to trigger the Woke Wallflowers for multiple reasons, which makes it all the more delightful!  About 4 minutes in, you may recognize a very young future President.

Your most interesting tips of the past day would surely be welcome!

94 Replies to “February 27, 2021 – Reader Tips”

  1. About 4 minutes in, you may recognize a very young future President.

    Biden sure looked a lot like Ronald Reagan back then, didn’t he? (sarcasm = off)

    1. They’re updating Bidens replacement as he may have accidentally bombed Syria by mistake.
      This is the jist that I’m getting from others and why President Putin is pissed.
      President Trump already had agreements in place and all of a sudden you have a President with dementia blowing up places unexpectedly.

  3. OK, so the fossil fuel age is ending, again.

    https://theline.substack.com/p/ed-brost-the-oil-age-wont-end-because

    What I would like to see is a graph produced by these visionary scientists that shows exactly how/where all the electricity is going to be generated to run all this 40 million electric cars they talk about.

    That has to reliable energy of course, or you wind up with a disaster like Texas and the south.
    It’s one thing to generate electricity from solar panels when you are south of 40 degrees north where there is a net GAIN Total Solar Irradiance in contrast to north of 40 D north where there is net LOSS of TSI.
    So how else are they producing the power?
    Should be simple for these futurists.

    2. rockyt – from the horses mouth:
      1. Musk Says Nickel Is ‘Biggest Concern’ For Electric-Car Batteries
      “Elon Musk has had it with nickel” Ok, no wonder he wants to go to Mars.
      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-25/musk-says-nickel-is-biggest-concern-for-electric-car-batteries

      2. Mars is a hellhole – Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.
      “But what motivates Musk? Why bother with Mars?” Maybe these stories are related.
      https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/mars-is-no-earth/618133/

    3. I don’t think the peasants will be allowed to drive. They just haven’t explained this yet. Every road will be a zil lane for our betters.

    4. The biggest thing with solar if one is concerned about CAGW is the change in albedo when one covers the land with solar panels designed to absorb all the suns energy. The average albedo of the earth is about 0.3, the average albedo of a solar panel is about 1.0. If we tried to replace all the fossil fuels with solar with a grid that circumnavigated to globe so that it was always available, the most recent estimate I heard was that we would raise the temperature of the earth by 16 C.

      Those solar farms would be more beneficial if they were replaced with sheets of plywood painted white.

      As for electric vehicles reducing energy requirements, I must laugh. Electricity consumption and generation must balance at all times, and if we don’t do it, physics will, in inconvenient ways. The most efficient generation is base load, the least efficient and most expensive is the intermittent generation to cover peak load. Peak load occurs when everybody gets home from work and turns on the TV and the stove and whatever other appliances they are using. With all electric vehicles people will come home and plug them in to charge just before turning on those appliances, meaning that charging the vehicles will happen during peak load making the grid less efficient. Gonna be a lot more fuel burned if everyone switches to electric vehicles.

  4. Here is the 2019 IOE predictions for power generation out to 2050 by type of fuel.

    https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/pdf/ieo2020.pdf

    Chart shows order of production:
    1 – Renewables (barely more like wishful thinking)
    2 – Petroleum products
    3 – Natural gas
    4 – Coal (that’ll blow some ecofreak heads)
    5 – Nuclear.

    Of course with crap leadership around the world right now, we’ll probably all be back in caves soon.
    I know that Canada is sure working on it.

    1. You could create the most fantastic energy efficient crap on this planet and they don’t listen.
      Been there, done that for 20 years now.
      Our corrupted government only care about themselves and who gives them a payoff.
      As Trudeau and our politicians clearly show.
      Buying made in China crap has been a disaster in the making.

    1. They can force kids to go meatless but teach them that their gender is fluid and a personal choice.

      The world has allowed crazy to rule, it will not end well.

  7. New Zealand to Impose Carbon Taxes on Tourism?
    Given New Zealand’s effort to wreck manufacturing and farming with cow taxes and renewable energy rationing, why should the tourism industry be left unscathed?
    Correction (EW): Not all tourism activities are being discouraged. New Zealand’s Ardern government has paved the way for an expansion of sex tourism, giving honours and recognition to sex workers
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/25/new-zealand-to-impose-carbon-taxes-on-tourism/

    1. New Zealand: stupid, little, oh so diverse eco gulag. Probably further down the spiral of hysterical insanity than Canada or even UK.

      1. Flights are cheap to NZ at the moment UnMe, grab some lube, pink T-shirt, good corner standing shoes and get going. Bonus: it’s summer there now.

        1. You make a compelling case. It’s especially urgent to get going before they hit us with the tourism taxes.

  8. “Wind was operating almost as well as expected”… A Texas-sized Energy Lie
    “Even with all of the system-wide failures, natural gas is the only reason that this energy disaster didn’t claim hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.”

    “The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.” AOC This is why the Woke hate math…
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/25/wind-was-operating-almost-as-well-as-expected-a-texas-sized-energy-lie/

  9. The main story at the Liberal Party’s CBC website, is that Blackie is wonderful. The pandemic has not hurt our great leader. Everyone in the Chinese colony of Canada loves our little dictator.

    1. When you switch away from you own Country making products including vaccinations, you take away the great quality control we had and reliant on the honor system that the other countries would keep that up.
      As we have seen, over the decades, go cheap or go broke became the model and quality tanked.
      They even have exemptions from being sued.
      So, now it is at your own risk to take these vaccinations and if you get sick or die…
      It’s oh well.
      Even though it is our governments and media shoving it in your face.

    2. Get out while you can. Can’t drive and come April you will need a vaccine passport to fly.

      As of now, the USA will let you fly in with NO TEST if you had a case of covid in the past 90 days.

      The young and healthy have a social responsibility to get infected and build herd immunity so life can get back to normal as soon as possible. I’m +65 but will be OK with my face diaper.

      1. I will be doing more flying in my own airplane. I will not need a vaccine passport, nor will I require one from any of my passengers.

        I most certainly will not be wearing a face diaper and neither will I expect my passengers to do so.

        It is interesting to note that there is a robust market for small airplanes: I even received a letter from a broker offering to sell my plane for a really good price (not going to happen).

        For shorter trips, my plane is as quick as a commercial flight door – door. Last year I needed to fly to Ottawa for a client, my flight time from Kitchener to Arnprior (nearest airport to my destination) was under 2 hours. I live about 20 mins from my airport, and it takes maybe another 20 mins to get the plane ready. If I wanted to go commercial, I have an hour drive to Pearson, I need to be there an hour before the flight and the flight itself is about 45 minutes.

        Besides I am not held to a schedule, and it is really cool.

      2. If that happens (Vaccine Passport) it’s early retirement for me. Staring with a lay-off and full EI for a year of course.

        An American will take my job, and Trudeau can watch my high income tax dollars go bye bye, along with many more Canadians working abroad I’m sure…………..

    3. As a point of interest, no one has died from taking the J&J vaccine. That is a point in its favor.

    1. They talk about how racist you are.
      In their opinion, your a racist pig!
      But watch us we love you…

  12. After a busy week of kissing Biden’s ass, and lecturing us that we are all racist bastards, Great Leader is relaxing this weekend at his Harrington Lake winter palace.

    1. Since “we’re in this together”, Prinz Dummkopf isn’t relaxing, he’s “togethering”. We’re in this together, but some are more togethered than others.

    4. Was it parked outside the same massage parlor in Toronto where Jack Layton used to park his bike when he went inside for a “happy ending” from what is now referred to as a BIPOC woman?

  14. I’ll spare SDAers the Financial Post link, since all it does is regurgitate statements from BoC Governor Tiff Mackim this week. But here is an interesting nugget from the piece: roughly 71 percent of young Canadians aged 24-36 have some sort of post-secondary-education certificate. But only 29 percent of black-Canadians and 40 percent have such certificates.

    I know people bad-mouth university. But having a community college certificate in a trade is a good thing for people wanting to escape poverty. Conservatives write about the anti-education culture among black and native people, something that has seeped into white culture years ago.

  17. Another reason to get rid of the Senate. A member of Canada’s Senate has introduced a bill to lower the voting age to 16.

    2. No, they need to be elected by Canadians, not appointed for sexual favours by the PM.
      As it is, the only voices/votes that matter are those in S. Ontario and Quebec. It would be even worse without a Senate, if that is even possible.

    1. Mises is a shi*tshow. They lie and lie some more. They are the last people you should trust next to GateWay Pundit or such.

      That being said, neither the CDC nor the WHO ever recommended lockdowns as anything but a temporary ‘circuit breaker’ solution.

      1. Sounds like attacking the messenger to me.
        And . . . who then did order the extended lockdowns, and why? If not the WHO, or the CDC, perhaps it has nothing to do with health.

        1. If there was ever a messenger deserving of attack, it’s Mises. They’ve done a great deal of damage to US libertarianism. Turned into a sewer.

          ” If not the WHO, or the CDC, perhaps it has nothing to do with health.”

          It has everything to do with health and panicky inept elected officials using the only tool they know of.

  21. So Kenney introduces his budget. Austerity nowhere to be found. Remember all that stuff from Tulk and others about how Kenney was going to be The Bestest Most COnservatest Guy Evar? All lies. All fantasy.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-budget-impact-pocketbook-1.5928468

    The hilarious part is that this budget is predicated on high-ish/recovering oil prices, which appeared to be happening-until almost the day of this budget being released. The price of gold has nosedived, and oil always follows gold.

    1. UnMe – You picked a great example of a typical misleading headline from a left wing POV. “Prominent Conservative Group Seems to Suggest People Named “Weinstein” Are Predisposed to Greed, Thievery”. The article states that the “Conservative Group” clarified that they were making a joke about Harvey Weinstein and then apologized for any misunderstanding. Where is the apology from Slate for deliberately misleading readers with their discriminatory headline that attacks an identifiable minority?

        1. UnMe – They mislead anyone who expected the article to back up their headline. If you read SDA regularly, and I know you do, you’ll know that TPUSA would be more likely to be anti Semitic if they were left wing.

    1. The F35 is reasonably successful. It was clearly designed by committee and would be much more successful as 3 or 4 different fighters. If they just updated the F16, F18, and Harrier costs could have been minimized and the new aircraft might have better fulfilled their specific role. It’s a product of the corrupt swamp.

      2. The F-22 is ‘reasonably successful’. It can actually do its job. The F-35 is a disaster. They’re already talking about what to replace it with.

        2. I think we should not be designing human-piloted fighter aircraft any longer. The human has always been the weakest link in high-performance aircraft and drone technology has advanced greatly.

  27. BC SPEC TAX

    Just filed my BC Spec Tax on line (a special tax on houses not occupied by the owner).

    The colour brochure accompanying the letter, with the codes required for online filing, contains the “comforting” message that OVER 99% are exempt. OVER 99%, of course, could be true right up to 99.9% eh? Yeah, I’m thrilled wasting the 20 minutes or so to file two separate forms for myself and my co-owner wife knowing that the costs probably far exceed the revenues and knowing that there’s no rebate for my wasted 20 minutes of life.

    1. Yup, me and the wife wasted that time, too. Just like we did last year. I guess we need to repeat this crap every year, now.

      1. Stevie:

        YES, annually.
        But it could quietly disappear like the ridiculous “air care” farce.

        And in Vancouver it’s 3 things now. Pay the tax, file a EHT (empty homes tax) form AND the Spec tax form.

    2. It would be simple to allow only Canadian residents to own property in Canada and give them one year to sell the property after ceasing to be residents or they forfeit it.

    1. Canada taxes the carbon in Canadian goods but not Chinese goods. Those Trudeau communists, father and son, both hate/hated Canada.

  30. No link necessary.
    BC’s sainted Bonnie Henry is receiving death threats, which could be as few as two. Or could even be 0.

    Relax Bonnie dear. Death threats of this kind have a 0.00001% chance of materializing.

    Now get her olympian tone deafness:
    SHE’S CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON HER FAMILY.
    Not quite as tone deaf as Nazi Pelosi’s two sub-zero fridges containing multipe containers of $14 a pint ice cream, but still ….

  32. Rex Murphy at the National Post discusses Mr. Potato Head. There is also a review of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s new book.

  34. At the same time the decline in the Papermark’s purchasing power and external value accelerated until the currency, for all practical purposes, ceased to function as a viable medium of exchange.

    Indeed, printing money can be stressful. But printing extreme amounts of money can be downright terminal.

    By the time von Havenstein died in late-November 1923 of a myocardial infarction, the central bank of Germany had printed over 500 quintillion marks. Moderate inflation transformed to hyperinflation. One U.S. dollar was worth 4.2 trillion marks by December 1923.

    Moreover, the destruction of the mark brought destruction of society…and the rise of national socialism. The medium-term political repercussions of this economic catastrophe soon engulfed the whole world.

    Jerome Powell, like Rudolf von Havenstein, knows exactly what he’s doing. In fact, he’s told the world what he’s doing. It’s inflation or bust.https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/jerome-von-havenstein-inflation-or-bust

  39. In the absence of Readers Tips today ( Feb.28), I’ll post this goody here.
    This via CBC- Canada Post will be delivering 13 million postcards across Canada in an effort to have them used to communicate with family & friends that they are unable to visit due to the virus restrictions.
    My first inclination was to send mine to CP and ask them when I can expect delivery of my Amazon purchase sent January 6.
    But wait….. A better thought…..
    Why not encourage everyone to send them to the PMO and let Dickspank
    know what we think of him.
    Other suggestions are encouraged.

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