69 Replies to “April 29, 2020: Reader Tips”

  1. I discovered this song courtesy of The Sopranos.

    P. S. I think there’s a formatting error on this page as all of the text I’ve typed is coming out in italics.

  3. Not the song I was expecting, from Huey Lewis:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgdJnNc1Zns

    Not my usual results when I search the song, far better than the original music video. The Dems have no idea of the kind of Hell that they are risking with their civil war games. I know that it’s coming; (tree of liberty et al) I hadn’t expected it to be in my lifetime.

      1. I thought David Lee Roth’s cover version from the mid-1980s did the song a great disservice.

  5. It looks like the bug I noted earlier was fixed. Thanks.

    And, now, for your entertainment, a delightful vintage movie, The Million Pound Note, with Gregory Peck:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyePJXDB-uQ

    I found out about it through a different website I check in with. Someone happened to refer to it and, so, I watched it tonight. There’s no preaching, no sex or nudity, no violence, and no coarse language. It runs less than 90 minutes, so take a look at it and have a bit of fun.

      1. You’re welcome.

        I’ve seen several of the movies on that channel already, courtesy of TCM, but there are a number that I’m interested in looking at.

    1. Group this under “black people can’t be racist because they don’t have power”. Then if you ask “does that mean you think that black people are incompetent because they can’t hold power?”, expect the answer of “shut up you racist, you can’t hold her to the same standard”.

      Thereby proving that the protester doesn’t think that black people can be racist. Thereby proving that black people should be held to a lesser standard.

      QED?

  9. L- Kate Wand sums up the crisis in Canada with an apt quote.
    ———————————————————————————————————————————
    Arthur Koestler, who had a deep and personal understanding of Stalinism, Fascism and Nazism, wrote the following in his 1941 novel “Darkness at Noon”:

    “There are only two concepts of human ethics and they are polar opposites.

    One is Christian-humanitarian and declares that the individual is sacred and maintains that no calculations be done with blood.

    The other is based on the principle that the collective goal justifies the means, and this not only allows but requires that the individual be subordinated to the collective in every way, including as a guinea pig or sacrificial lamb.

    In a crisis – and politics is one permanent crisis – those in power could always declare a state of emergency to justify exceptional measures.

    For as long as there have been nations and classes, they live in a state of mutual self-defence, which constantly forces them to postpone their humanistic program to some ‘later date’…”

    https://katewand.substack.com/p/canadas-covid-coup?r=8somb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

    1. The sacredness of the individual, a truth that has been bent out of shape for a long time now.

    1. Would be funny if it were not such an accurate reflection of the ridiculous policies around masks.

    2. Uh, oh !
      I’ve been carrying a murse since the mid 80s.
      The Persian shop owner from whom I’d had bought some expensive Italian wool suits ORDERED me to begin the practice by buying one from his inventory. This to not compromise the cloth by carrying bulging things in the pockets.
      But it looks nothing like a handbag.
      That said, the “only MAN in the UK cabinet” at the time M. Thatcher carried a hand bag.

  12. Brilliant Kinks tune. And so appropriate in the wake of the Xiden-Heiress glimpse of America’s Authoritarian dystopian future. OBEY … wear your two masks. Get vaccinated. Socially distance. Live your life by Zoom. And Pay your Fair Share to the invading aliens, err “Dreamers”

    The early (British Invasion) Kinks were one of my favorites. I can still recall rocking out to the Kinks through my FIRST transistor radio in 1964. I listened to it in the garage … because I was being raised by my grandmother (dad liked the drink). She HATED that Rock and Roll … so I was banished to the garage. Love this tune that has TWO bridges in it … TWO choruses. Loved their sliding chords.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz64hWng2vM

        1. WOW, indeed it is.
          What a beautiful melody and chord progression.
          First hearing for me.

      2. I agree with you on Lola. That song put me off The Kinks for several years.

        Note the bitingly sarcastic lyrics in Dedicated Follower of Fashion:

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

        More than 50 years after the song was released, it’s interesting that it could be about a certain prime minister we all know and loathe.

      3. Another two classics that played through my transistor radio in grandma’s garage …

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46btBCJJjNg

        Sliding power chords before there was a thing called power chords. And the Kinks bridges are the most unique ever in music. Waterloo has about 3 or 4 bridges and some La la la’s toseed in for good measure. BTW … nothing quite like a professional chorus to make the La la la’s sound sublime.

        PS … the most I ever paid for an original, absolute pristine state lp purchased from a collector liquidating his collection of vinyl …
        https://www.discogs.com/The-Kinks-The-Kinks-Greatest-Hits/master/102455
        Just imagine … The Kinks already had a collection of Greatest Hits in 1966!

    1. That tactic worked so well for Harry and what’s-her-name, didn’t it?

    2. Elliott/Ellen Page is a pathetic “has-been”. Was only in a couple of movies and not even good ones at that (Juno and Inception).

    1. So Ability to Handle Baggage is at the forefront no doubt…?? Along with a full understanding the White Euro Centrics are at the root of all policing issues.

      The RCMP died after mayorthorpe…and the ROT had been seeping in since the mid ’60’s…..it’s what UNIONIZATION DOES…just look at Health Care, Education etc.

  17. Diverse Toronto has hired six diverse coordinators to decolonize the diverse city’s museums.

  19. Global warming alert from Blackie’s CBC. Shrubs are taking over the tundra in Labrador.

  20. Two Toronto-area politicians are attacking a Toronto doctor of Chinese decent who has dared to post a sign that refers to the WuFlu as “Wuhan pneumonia” ( but you have to read Chinese to know that’s what the sign says). One of the politicians, Vincent Ke, has “a history of ties to the Chinese government”.

    “Two Toronto-based politicians are pressing a Chinese-Canadian doctor to remove a sign on his office door – in Chinese – that refers to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan pneumonia,” complaining the wording could incite anti-Asian hatred.”

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-mpps-urge-chinese-canadian-doctor-to-remove-divisive-chinese-sign-referring-to-wuhan-pneumonia

  21. Air Transat finally agrees to refund customers for travels plans cancelled by the wuhan flu. But you’re not really getting your money back. No Sir, Air Transat will be keeping that.

    Instead, the “refund” you get will be courtesy of a “funding agreement with the Government of Canada.” Which really means that you and your children and your grandchildren be paying yourself back in lieu of Air Transat honouring it’s debt obligations.

    Just another case of us little guys with no political influence being bled to death by and for the scum that has it.

    https://tk.mst.transatmemberservice.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=%40A19fJ52tNifj8rF1DQOOqtSJPIPCxrXWhFG5ieyM%2Bho%3D

    1. The alternative is to have no Canadian airlines. No big deal, I guess, foreigners will fill the void.

      1. “The alternative is to have no Canadian airlines. No big deal, I guess, foreigners will fill the void.”

        An alternative. Not necessarily “the” alternative.

      2. The alternative is to have no Canadian airlines.

        I have to agree, after having flown on three different Canadian airlines in the past few years. On the whole, the overall service was dreadful on all of them. The days of “the customer is king” back when CP Air was operating are long gone.

    2. It doesn’t help that the proposed amalgamation of Air Canada and Air Transat has run aground for now.

  23. While Little Potato and Zhou Baiden strutted and preened to an adoring mainstream media in announcing more energy poverty for their citizens, China told the West to f*** off to demands that it commit to CO2 reductions:

    “China is hell-bent on increasing CO2 emissions to meet its often-stated strategic objective of world domination.
    …
    Last year, China’s 38.4 gigawatts of new coal-fired power was more than three times the new capacity built in the rest of the world, and another 247 gigawatts of coal power is being planned or developed. China’s proposed additional coal plants represent 73.5 gigawatts of power, five times what is proposed in the rest of the world combined.”

    https://financialpost.com/opinion/patricia-adams-chinas-energy-actions-speak-louder-than-its-climate-pledges?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NP%20Platformed%20newsletter%20%202021-04-28&utm_term=NP_Comments

      1. As a commenter in the comments section puts it, just how different from a divorce settlement is that really?

        1. Divorce is paying for no longer getting it.
          Dating and marriage is the art of paying as little as possible to get it.
          Adultery is getting it at someone else’s expense.

          1. It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that…..

  25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUsFm0BAu8

    From the seventies … the band “Ten Years After” with their song I’d Love to Change the World
    A musical commentary of the times.

    Everywhere is freaks and hairies
    Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?
    Tax the rich, feed the poor
    ‘Til there are no rich no more

    Best hear it while you still can. I have a feeling Guilbeault’s internet apparatchiks will take turns on the fainting couch with that one.

  26. Taxpayers paid $925k for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to drop the word, “Mortgage” from its name. What’s going to go down now? (See Blacklock’s website, sorry, can’t link)

    1. Uh, shouldn’t that name now be blacklock’s? As you spelled it, it’s cultural appropriation or some such thing.

      1. Yes, they might have to change the name of their website!

        Seriously, though, the piece also appears in the Western Standard. I think this is the beginning of changes in homeownership laws i.e., aka Property Rights.

        Will everyone have to be squeezed into a ghetto? Is the Liberal style of Communism moving into our a$$ets? Will portfolios be next?

        “You shall ‘av nothing and be happy of it”…
        “just pack your best clothes, you’ll have a shower when you get there… and a job….maybe.”

        P.S. please link it if you or anyone reading this subscribes to the Western Standard, I don’t subscribe yet, but have it on the ’round to it’ list.

    1. My pleasure. I don’t think I ever heard of such a thing as a Pink Moon before. Dave, the Local weatherman talked about it. Golly, we learn new things everyday. Some more pleasant than others.

      P.S. Yes I recall you wrote about hopes for NASA. It was their loss that you didn’t get there, imo.

      1. I worked briefly in the business. It was a rather disappointing experience, but that’s another story.

      1. Judging by his letters to the University of Alberta student newspaper The Gateway, he would have been a fiery lawyer. He was studying law at the same time I was finishing my first master’s degree and his comments were well-reasoned and well-targeted.

  29. True North reports on a Green MP who stated that Canada putting into law the United Nations declaration about whiny indian rights, is a step towards decolonization.

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