122 Replies to “May 14, 2021: Reader Tips”

  2. The Hollies ~ “On A Carousel”
    https://youtu.be/5XRjp7vClT8
    This is rare footage. They didn’t know how handsome they were right then, relaxing in their rehearsal, in casual, comfy clothes, singing away. Go all the way to the end – their harmonies were sweet, sans instruments.

    1. Like the one I referred to, I remember when this one was on the radio. Of course, that was back in the Devonian Era. Back then, a hit song had characteristics such as a catchy beat, lyrics that people would want to sing, and one might want to dance to it.

        2. You guys and your heavy songs … I love the Hollies for their light breezy tunes. Here’s THREE of them …
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWPsjGnLexg
          On Carrie Ann … damn! I so LOVE that happy little song! The last member “introduced” is … Tony Hicks. Is there a sweeter, young-faced kid rocker of the 60’s?
          The Hollies signed him at 17 or 18yo.

          Bus Stop is one of my faves. In the mid 60’s … The Hollies did the happy little “Bus Stop” … followed by The Who’s much harder “Magic Bus”. I loved BOTH of those ‘bus’ songs.

        3. The Who’s Magic Bus at the Isle of Wight 1970 …
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJiirorCMcs

          Jusssssst a bit harder edged than The Hollies Bus Stop (although the lyrical theme is identical …). Speaking of YOUNG!? Look at how young-looking Pete Entwistle was in 1970.

          BTW … I’ve just recently rediscovered The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival which was Britain’s answer to 1969’s Woodstock Festival. Just picked up a super live lp of ‘The Doors’ at that Festival, and a cd (no vinyl, boo) of ‘Free’ at the Isle of Wight. Both are superb

          2. Yep. They said he just stood in the middle of the stage near motionless … but still sounded at his very best. His indecency case in FL was still pending … so he kept his pants on, and thankfully no Bobbies rushed the stage.

      2. I looked at the credits for the second video and was surprised to see that Albert Hammond was the writer. If you look at his Wikipedia page, you’re bound to recognize a number of the titles:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hammond

        He was a solo performer as well and, perhaps, his best-known recording was It Never Rains in Southern California.

          1. I first heard that song courtesy of Voice of America. I was an active shortwave listener in my last two grades of high school and I listened a lot to VOA in those days.

          4. Sheesh … thanks Nancy. I need an ice cold shower every time I see that clip of Michelle Phillips singing about her own infidelity with bandmate whatshisname DD … soooooo HOT … want to touch her heiny…

            If there’s one thing I want you to do
            Especially for me
            And it’s something that everybody needs

    3. Oh NR, that brings back sweet memories, I was in Montreal that summer not for the EXPO but the French Ladies, ma cherie. Wild nights in Montreal, TO was rolling up the sidewalks and Montreal was wide open.
      Nothing sweeter than a French gal when you are a young man, probably an old man as well.

      1. Well, I’m not French but from my perspective by 1967 the French Canadian chicks already had an inkling that French Canadian guys weren’t the marrying kind, thanks to their Premier and the Quiet Revolution that was happening in Quebec. We saw them hooking up with the ‘Anglais’. The environment was a big deal too. The Steven Guilbault types were hugging trees and not committing to anything nor anyone, and certainly not them. Here is an early song about “l’environment”– bet you remember it:
        https://youtu.be/0WxgeYXCjM8

        3. I found the French chicks irresistible, so feminine. But of course at 18 The Mysterious and Divine Laws of Life rule everything.
          They still do.

    4. Supremely confident in their performing ‘act’. Magical. Nash leaving the group left a gap in those perfect harmonies but I still liked them enough to keep buying their records.

      1. I was reading about how die hard fans of the Hollies were disappointed that Nash left the group but they got over it and moved on. The Hollies still produced good music without him. I miss those days when there were so many musical bands that it was hard to keep track of them all. Now there’s hardly any new stuff, just noise. The old stuff, even going back to classical music, never really died. Remember this Hollies hit, “Bus Stop?” It brings ya back, huh? …
        https://youtu.be/XOI4yAPYmag

        1. I was 15 in 1967. I remember each and every one of those tunes…that was to me, the Greatest Summer of MUSIC EVAH…Evah I tell ya..!! That started a few yrs of nothing but phenomenal musical Genius by many many artists.

          My 30 yr old kids tell me all the time.. “You guys had the best music dad” to which I reply Yep..!!

          First Album I ever bought was the Doors, Strange Days…!!

          3. @ 1:12 Kenji —
            “Rubber Soul”…I know the words to that whole album, my only Beatles album– a gift.

            Maybe John, Paul, Ringo and George adored Michelle Phillips too…

            “Michelle, ma belle
            Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble–
            Tres bien ensemble”…

          4. I agree, Steakman. The boomer era (’46-’64) was booming– for the boomers, by the boomers. The non-boomers are still in awe– we worked hard and played hard, no friggin’ tattoos either.

          7. Football matches have cheerleaders? Hmmmmm….. times have certainly changed.

          9. The first album I bought was School’s Out by Alice Cooper when I was 13 or 14. Think I paid $5.35 for it.

    1. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, but I’m sure that wasn’t what Behar had in mind.

    1. Well duh! It it was held outside, you’re not going to find any cases, are you!
      Stupid gits!

      (Them, not you)

      “In a closed-door UCP caucus meeting the Sunday of the event, Kenney said in reference to the attendees of the rodeo, “If they are our base, I want a new base.””

      Oh I’m sure you’re gonna get your wish…

    2. Ah, but that’s the deadliest variant: the no-case Covid. Its symptoms are no detectable symptoms. Lock down even harder!

      1. If there is a pandemic, maybe live on a secluded island or in the rural countryside. You are pretty safe, Kate! Local rural rodeos outdoors are excellent, non-spreader events, way different from a multi-cult Toronto concert. I certainly understand why seasonal communities may not especially welcome tourists for now. That is their judgment call – tourist$ vs. safe health. That said, viruses and variants will always be with us and our immunity systems are actually rather adept. Let the children and adolescents play and go to school! I hope that we silent Canucks just ignore everything for the summer and start telling the fake health bosses that we are completely done now with your inconsistent, not very scientific rules.

        I am guessing that my ancestors who obviously survived all plagues ever, from the first “Eve”, and did so by either living in rural areas, being a bit careful or moving to safe spaces. Avoid crowded urban areas might be good council.

        Just read our old Canadian census/death certificate data! It is very revealing about who died of what, when and where. Have we learned nothing since the dawn of history? We do not need government edicts/propaganda to tell us.

        https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html

        1. My namesake died in an epidemic of Cholera about 1820 in Upper Canada. When I was doing the family tree, I found out what became of him. He was just thrown in a mass grave along with his Father in Law and neighbors and no records kept except a note had been made in a travelling Preachers log book. No marker no records. There were no official records for many of these epidemics and plagues.

    3. Remember Covid is the disease that doesn’t make most people ill.

      1. Actually the test is inaccurate and not designed for diagnosis. THAT is the real problem with so called “cases”.

  5. Kenney expels 2 Caucus Chair and MLA Drew Barnes Cabinet row. Hopefully they support Wildrose Independence. Albertans have had enough of his useless ass.
    Kenney has to go.
    https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/05/breaking-drew-barnes-todd-loewen-expelled-from-ucp-caucus/

    The Useless Conservative Party is fracturing. Drew Barnes Defiant. He has made a point of standing up for his Constituients he has principals.
    https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/05/barnes-defiant-after-expulsion-from-tory-caucus/

    3. Sadly, there way too many compliant sheep out there. The neighbour at the summer trailer site, who I thought was rational, when into a complete meltdown because I didn’t buy into the government’s bull shit.
      News about the expulsion is irritatingly anti-Barnes and Loewen.
      Drew Barnes is a great MLA. Mine, Peter Singh, has been missing in action since day one.

    1. More than 15 years ago, NASA launched the Deep Impact probe. Its mission was to deploy an impactor to collide with the comet Tempel 1. The purpose was to learn about the comet’s composition and interior. That took place on July 4, 2005 and was successful.

      In celebration, NASA threw a party shortly afterward at, I think, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The surviving members of The Comets provided the music and they were honoured to be part of the occasion.

      The crater formed by the impact was obscured by the ejected debris. A few years later, the comet probe Stardust was re-tasked to look at it.

      1. B.A.D. – You are a living encyclopedia. Er, sorry, a Wikipedia… Either way, a great source of interesting facts and stats.

        1. Thanks.

          I remembered the event because I watched the NASA live stream of the impact. I think the date was coincidental, but there was the promise of fireworks.

          1. BAD is a very likeable Brain. Kinda Nerdy but very BAD
            PS he can also spell and his grammar.
            He raises the game for us all. Well for me anyway. I have been out of school too long and the lessons learned with the odd clout between the ears from Miss MacKenzie my old English Lit/Grammar Teacher have began to fade. She would make there on ski’s in a blizzard if need be and you damn well better be there.
            Besides just a nice guy

          2. What? You mean all that education I got wasn’t a waste?

            Seriously, though, thanks for your comments.

    2. I recall hearing that song, thought nothing of it but it would certainly be in racists category today!

      1. Liz – For sure. It had been used in a racist manner a hundred years ago, but that wasn’t the intent of the grade school teacher who used it to teach her students to count from one to ten and back. It doesn’t sound right if you replace little Indian boy with vertically challenged indigenous testicle-bearing cis-gender homo sapien.

        1. exceptional response. No idea yet wtf a cis is, I used to call my sister sis. The only other cis I ever heard was cis and desist, and cyst maybe plural of this cis you refer to. Although a cyst is a lump a bulbous fatty growth. Maybe that covers it, so from now on it will be cyst-gender what ever the F-ck that is hey cyst gender yah you.

          1. You forgot ‘comedian’. He’s one. Lot of you guys are, too. You included. He told us things like that he was a rat and then another big one was that he said that people thought he fell off a turnip truck. Well of all the, the… I dunno.

            I think, but I’m not sure, that I was his wife in another life, and that I died laughing. He was so much fun and comical. Ultimately, though, he was a gentleman and a scholar then too, I think. I dunno. Ha! Ha!

    2. Hey, B. C. Trade you Hinshaw for Henry. Failing that, please send over some beefcake to distract Dr. Deena…..

      1. That’s like making a current day trade of Loui Erickson for Luongo. A piece of garbage for rusty old broken tools.

        Both are professional goal post movers and deceivers. Both have zero business sense.

        Why do those dosed with experimental shots require masks, if the goo works? Why do restaurants remain shut down when case loads are half of when they were closed 6 weeks ago?

        They remind me of the ckteasers back in my tail chasing days, “Just wait a little longer dear……….”

        Bought takeout on Mother’s Day from a good Greek restaurant. Showed up to pick it up, and there were others waiting in the lot outside the joint. Everyone standing around, distanced, was wearing their face diaper. I was the only one showing my freedom from the face wrap. Stupid, stupid Victorian SHEEP. This is how obedient sheep act in a government town!

        Henry should be one of those charged with crimes against humanity at future Nuremberg 2.0 trials

        1. Dan…agreed.

          In Calgary now, it seems many of the Grocery chains have gone full pin with MASKS must be worn or NO entry. Ok, I need to eat, but i wear one with my nose free. No one has said boo to me … and once done paying, the mask comes off – IN Store. Yea I know, such a terrible shit disturber… but wearing one OUTSIDE is total IDIOCY that I see repeated everywhere I go.

          Creeping NAZIism is what this shit is . 100%

          1. Do you tell them you’re exempt? Under the by-law the store and their security aren’t allowed to challenge your claim.

            These new guidelines don’t change anything. Only a by-law enforcement officer can challenge your claim, and common sense says you’d respond by getting letter from your doctor justifying the exemption. No letter? Not a lot of by-law enforcers on the mask exemption beat. I’ve never even heard of one. So your odds are good.

        2. When I drive to and from my house in B. C., I often stop to refuel at an Esso station in Grande Prairie. (It’s actually a convenience store that sells gasoline and diesel, but that’s another story.)

          Earlier this week, I noticed that the Tim’s it’s adjacent to closed its restaurant because, according to the notice, there wasn’t enough staff available due to the you-know-what.

          Also, I like to stop at the tourist information centre just outside Valleyview. Only the washrooms were open this time.

        3. DanBC, I drive in Mississauga, ON every day and almost EVERYONE wears a mask outside. Doesn’t matter if they are alone.

    3. Face diapers are turning into the modern day version of the swastika arm band. Heil!

  14. FOX news is reporting that Bill Maher has tested positive for the China virus, after getting both doses of the virus shot. Friday’s taping of his show has been cancelled.

    1. In Cambridge, Ontario, the people currently being hospitalized in the emergency ward at CMH with COVID symptoms have ALL been vaccinated previously. The media is not covering this fact because it would kill the narrative that COVID vaccines are safe and effective. And the nurses, who are talking about this privately, are not making waves because it would cost them their jobs. Narrative is more dangerous than the disease.

      1. No one should be surprised by this. The “vaccine” stats were “relative” stats –comparison of vaccinated and unvaccinated where not very many ever came down with Covid — in part because the groups did not include the vulnerable demographic, So the 80% or 90% reductions reflect a few people in one group vs. a few more in the control group getting seriously sick. The “absolute” reduction of serious illness was estimated at 1% — hardly worth the money, effort and risk of vaccination. You can find articles which explain the relative vs. absolute reduction/risks. Pharmaceutical marketing always focuses on relative, and it is always misleading.

        1. In BC 1% of our cases are in people who have been vaccinated. So it’s probably way more effective than even thought. I respect people’s choice here don’t get me wrong but it does work.

    2. David
      Well that should come as no surprise should it.???

      “..”…The natural infection is known to cause coagulopathy (blood clotting), due to the spike protein. Yet All gene therapy vaccines direct the body to make the spike protein…”

      “vaccines” my ass.

  15. Did line 5 get closed?

    You’ll never know until our supplies run out.
    Our media and politicians will NOT be reporting any of this until it’s too late.
    With these lockdowns, it makes it far easier for citizens to comply until it’s too late.

    1. Starts off with the “rising sea level” claim. Let me check….nope, sea is still where it was sixty years ago when I first swam in it. Still not exceeding the one millimeter per year normal rate of increase.
      BTW, does anyone have any idea when the current ice age is due to end? Promises, promises, promises!

    2. Perhaps the solution is to cut down all the trees. The government might even subsidize such an initiative.

      1. Perhaps the solution is to cut down all the trees.

        That happened on Easter Island. How’d that work out?

    1. I was a CAUT member for 33 years, before retiring, and trust me the union is as left wing as one can get. One example: at the OISE college, one hard-left graduate student wrote a blatently anti-Jewish thesis, one that had in its reference list extremist Holocaust-denialist literature. The MA thesis was heavily criticised by politicians and Jewish groups, but the CAUT defended the graduate student and OISE, even going so far as to write a lengthy article in is dead-tree monthly newsletter, together with a full-page cover photo of the anti-Semitic student.

  18. The Toronto Star’s iPolitic website informs us today that Adolf’s Justice Dept. has reviewed the censorship bill and there is nothing wrong with it. You can trust the Liberal government to review its own bills.

    1. I’m reminded of something that happened at Armpit College one year.

      A new staff association contract was negotiated and the membership voted on it. When it was rejected, it went to arbitration and the arbitrator was–wait for it!–the chief negotiator for the administration. Three guesses as to what his decision was….

  19. Variety magazine breaking news!! Ellen DeGeneres, in her first TV interview since having her talk show cancelled, blamed her show’s demise on a four-month long misogynistic media campaign! Misogyny! Misogyny!

    1. Ellen Degenerate’s show’s off the air, eh? I never watched it, so it makes no difference to me.

  20. It is a serious fracture in the Useless Conservative Party all caused by Kenney.
    Instead of listening to his bench and elected members and Albertans. He packed his office with Ottawa Harperite swamp critters.
    And at this point he is seen as the same as the NDP.
    And honestly you can’t split the right because the UCP/NDP are the same.
    His heavy handed top down garbage is classic Harper.
    Harper killed the CPC as well by not listening to his base, top down authoritarian approach and his creeping crud incrementalism. Instead of swinging the axe when he had full power and ending programs and things like the CBC and CRTC he wet his wool suit and sucked his thumb. He also was a vey weak leader, who should have groomed his replacement the 2nd year of his majority.
    People don’t want to hear this but Harper destroyed the modern Conservative Party in Canada the same as the twit Parson Manning did in Alberta.
    When You Have Power Wield It.
    Kenney has big problems now. He is done in Alberta.
    https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/ucp-caucus-chairs-call-for-kenney-resignation-sign-of-deep-fracturing-commentators-say

    1. Yup. Harper shut down Canada’s SW radio service and leased the towers to China and signed FIPA, to protect Chinese investments from Canadian courts. Traitors are traditionally treated worse than the enemy, and the entire “conservative” establishment in Canada are traitors to their base, and the entire Canadian political class are traitors to the people. They need the Mussolini treatment.

      1. Harper shut down Canada’s SW radio service and leased the towers to China

        Radio Canada International was struggling for existence well before Harper. At least the CBC’s Northern Service and Quebec Service (both on SW) served a purpose because it provided a connection with the southern part of the country. However, the NS and QS were likely replaced by satellite service, one advantage being that the signals are more reliable.

        As for farming out the transmitter in Sackville, New Brunswick, that’s not unusual. Many SW stations, such as the BBC World Service or Deutsche Welle, had agreements with their counterparts in other countries to use their transmitters or arranged to build relay stations in those regions. It allowed those stations to serve a certain area of the world without having to build a hay-burner of a transmitter in their home countries.

        China Radio International used Sackville, which happened to be a convenient location for the station. (I’m pretty sure that at least one other SW station used it as well, but I can’t remember which.) The CBC benefited from it as it provided revenue from the site since RCI’s funding, programming, and schedule were cut back.

        But, we don’t have to worry about CRI putting a SW signal into North America via Sackville any more. The site was closed down and dismantled some 10 years ago. The towers were brought down with dynamite, then cut up and sold for scrap.

        A number of years ago, a documentary about the Sackville site was made and the title escapes me right now. It’s about 2 hours long and it’s worth watching, particularly if you have an interest in radio or you’re from that part of the country.

    2. Watcher..+++++/\

      Yep and Yep…
      Kenney is beyond toast. When you start crapping on those who voted you in..?? Your end is nigh. But I really believe this asshole has been bought n paid for…as were Iveson & NenXi.

      There is only 1 party worthy of my vote: Wild Rose.
      There is only 1 leader worthy of my vote: Brian Jean. (IMO)

      1. Brian Jean is likeable but struck me as weak. However, weak is better than someone who French kisses the opposition leader’s ass.

        1. Agree that Brian Jean is weak. Somebody please tell me of even one time that Brian Jean held Notley’s feet to the fire when he was opposition leader. I can’t think of one. He is a nice guy but certainly isn’t a leader. My take is his current swipes at Kenney are personal – from losing the leadership contest.

    1. I have hated Kenney since the first time I laid eyes on him. I wish I could claim I had some clever insight, but quite honestly, it was totally visceral and I used to feel a little guilty about it way back then. I saw him as a pudgy little arrogant prick who to me epitomized everything I detested about political opportunists and trough feeders. The Harper years only solidified my bigotry, but I never, ever, expected to be proven absolutely right.

      Great post @ 8:56, I agree with everything except that I seem to be one of the few conservatives who think that Harper didn’t have what it takes to take down the CBC and it would have been a spectacular political failure for him to even have tried.

      1. Regardless CO, Harper had an absolute iron clad majority. He could have wielded the axe for that one event every 50 years when a Conservative gets a majority. When You Have Power Wield It.. Always made me laugh at his timid attack on Trudeau. “Just Not Ready” Yah and the Drama Puke kicked Harpers ass. Harper was the one who was not ready. He could have killed the CBC and the CRTC and endless other Socialist Scams, dumped all the Crown Corps clean. Ended the Privy Council Scam. He could have done major re organizing but he tinkered and did baby steps, like a introverted toddler sucking his thumb. He should have withdrawn Ottawa out of all Provincial Jurisdiction, the overlap is killing the tax payers he could have undone almost all of The PET’s moves and instead he sucked his thumb and pissed his wool suit, made him warm and fuzzy. He Was Just Not Ready. And when I point out this shit to so called Conservatives they get all butt hurt. Fact is Harper added to the Total Public Debt and sat on 4.1 Trillion in Total Government Debt and made no great changes at all. Like a fart in the wind.. Nothing to show at all really of Greatness. Total Government Debt 2014 4.1 Trillion. Tell me again who was PM in 2014, louder I can’t hear you, Yah HARPER, the Fake Con. “Just Not Ready.”
        https://torontosun.com/2014/04/11/all-levels-of-canadian-government-debt-total-41-trillion

    2. Kenny forgets that: We elect politicians to serve the public not to rule over us.
      We hire bureaucrats under the same standards.

  24. Great Leader Kim Sung Trudeau will not be giving his traditional Friday briefing to his loyal, drooling media. He’s back on the election trail. Today he addresses the council of Quebec cities on how wonderful he is. He then virtually visits the plant in Thunder Bay where he gave election money to build more shitty street cars. And finally he attends a virtual meeting with the New Zealand prime minister to discuss Islamophobia or something. Then its off to a relaxing sunny weekend at his Harrington Lake summer palace.

  26. National Post reports on university teachers calling for a boycott of the University of Toronto, because it won’t hire an anti-Semitic, Israel hating candidate.

  28. Here’s one. The privy council released a report outlining the great reset plan :

    http://canadabeyond150.ca/reports/capital-and-debt.html.

    Canada Beyond 150’s Capital and Debt research team explored the future of ownership. The team looked at how accessing services, rather than conventional ownership, could benefit all Canadians. Its proposed policy recommendations include measures that could drive the development of new types of assets, and potentially lead Canadians to participate in the access economy.

    You conspiracy nuts geez.

    1. Ugh.
      Check out the “team photos” at the bottom of that drivel.
      Of course Kleptocrats will insist there is no such thing as private property,for if there is private property,then they are thieves.

  29. Blacklock reports that a Canadian Senator told a group that its ok for Chinese Canadians to agree with the commie government in China. People should not be stigmatized for agreeing with the Chinese government.

  31. Question: Elon Musk’s Starlink world wide satellite internet vs Justin Trudeau’s internet censorship bill; how will this play out?

  32. Did anyone fill out the census and have a confusing question about our present gender? Did anyone else have the same gender as me: GFY?

    In the comment line at the end of the census I wrote:
    Your question about current gender is offensive and has no place in this census. If birth gender can be replaced with a chosen gender from the spectrum of genders now accepted by this government, why is the gender question even on the census? It could change an unlimited amount of times in a day. You might as well as if we are feeling full or even sleepy. What does it matter? Maybe just ask if we are feeling mentally ill at the moment.

  33. Blacklock reports that former finance minister Morneau had his staff instruct a Liberal MP to meet with the WE brothers to keep them happy.

    1. Gateway is beginning to report what we already knew.
      Rice is in charge. They’re actually trying to keep him propped up. They’ll move to Harris when they have to. Right now she’s being trained.

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