The original Chevy Camaro was one of my favourite cars. I wanted one when I was a young teenager.
Two years ago, I saw restored vintage model in downtown Edmonton. Talk about a thing of beauty!
Speaking of car commercials and beauty, I remember when the first gen Viper was introduced. One of the advertising slogans in a car mag went like this: “ABS? Air Bags? Forget it, you’re gonna go so fast even dental records won’t help”. Not a Chrysler fan, but always had a soft spot for the mighty 8L V10 Viper.
Sorry – you got me talking – I’d think you’d know better by now… 😉
The first-year Viper did not even have door windows – but it did have door locks, because it’s illegal to sell a car without door locks in the ‘States.
Its V10 is the stuff of legend; the wrong kind of legend. In 1964 Chrysler brought-out the first LA engine, the 273, as an eventual replacement for the old 318 A-engine. It was significantly lighter, and promised better performance; the old A-engine was a slug, and expensive to make. Chrysler had had a “better idea” and made the A-engine’s combustion chambers polyspherical; in street slang, it was called the ‘semi-hemi’ because its two rocker-arms (per cylinder) moved opposite to each other, like the legendary Hemi’s did. But the head only had one rocker shaft instead of the Hemi’s two, and the semi-hemi was a dog; furthermore, it was heavy. And it was a 90° V8, but because its rocker-arms took their pushrods on opposite sides of the rocker shaft, the lifter valley was set at a 114° angle, to ‘split the difference’ and keep the pushrods at straighter angles to the rocker arms.
The LA was ~50 lb (IIRC) lighter, as it employed thin-wall casting techniques to reduce the amount of cast iron the block had to lug-around, and it had a conventional rocker-arm arrangement with quite efficient wedge-shaped combustion chambers. But to cheapen the effort, Chrysler used many casting cores from the old A-engine – including that 114° lifter valley. And that lifter valley, plus the strangely-shaped exhaust ports, made the LA engine unsuited to stock car racing. I can’t remember which period racer it was, either “Grumpy” Jenkins or Dandy Dick Landy, tried to race using MOPAR engines; he couldn’t do it. Above 7,000 rpm the engine would start spitting pushrods; finally he hacked the lifter valley out of one block and welded-in a sheet-metal 90° lifter valley. This did the trick, he had the engine rev’ing up to 10,000 rpm; but he was two years behind the Bowtie-boys who were all racing Chevy smallblocks, and once he caught-up to where they were at that time, they’d still be two years ahead of him because they’d’ve had two more years of engine development too. So he gave it up and switched to GM engines.
Fast forward a bit; Chrysler did something incredibly stupid, one of the many stupid things they’ve done over the years which resulted in several near-bankruptcies and their current ownership by Fiat. They threw-out the block tooling for their big-blocks, the B’s / RB’s. These may well have been the best big-blocks of all, they were put in several European sports cars like the Jensen, but Chrysler was concentrating on the K-Car and the Caravan, which saved their bacon during the fuel crisis, and had no plans to ever make another big-block. But inevitably, as computerised fuel injection and catalytic converters worked their magic, the big-blocks came back – and GM and Ford dusted-off their old big-block moulds and sent them back to the foundries. Chrysler didn’t have theirs anymore; somebody had scooped them out of the trash can though, and he was prepared to sell them back – for a WHOLE LOT of money. Also, the old 400 / 440 predated modern pollution spec’s, and would be very expensive to retool to where they passed emissions tests.
Their biggest engine at the time was the 360, and it passed current emissions tests; so, needing more power, they added two cylinders to the 360 and brought-out the 450 V10, which they started selling in trucks in 1994. At some point along the way, they decided to bring-out the Viper; they owned Maserati at the time, so they crated-up a couple truck V10’s and flew over to Italy: “Hey there, Maserati – we’re going to build a new sports car we’ll call the Viper, and we’re putting THIS V10 in it – and we want YOU to develop it!” Maserati looked at the truck V10, went home and cried themselves to sleep.
But they got on with it. The Viper V10’s only resemblance to the truck V10 is the number of holes in the block; Maserati sat down with several clean sheets of paper and totally redesigned the engine. And one of the features that the Viper V10 does not have is the old A-engine’s 114° lifter valley – which the 360, latest iteration of the LA-engine, and its two-more-cylinder modification, the truck V10, still had after all these years. The Viper V10 has a 90° lifter valley.
I’ve been a MOPAR man all my driving life, “I’d rather push a Dodge than drive a Ford – and I have, many times…” but I’ll be honest, there’s nothing MOPAR has sold for the past half-century that I’d wish on my worst enemy.
Had a Chrysler Intrepid as my company car. The engine blew at 15K as the oil was not being circulated properly. Dealer rebuilt it for $9K, I was hoping they would junk it as it was a terrible car.
Bought a two year old Intrepid a number of years ago with 75,000 k. Drove it for the next 12 years and when it finally died at just over 500,000 k, all I had done with it was oil changes, brakes, tires, etc. Wasn’t exactly fun to drive but it had lots of room for kids, friends and their sports gear. Guess it depends on what day it was built. 🙂
Must’ve been a “Wednesday car”…
Well…only Chryler product Ive ever had or owned was an 05 Dakota. First year of the retooled model.
4.7 L model Quad Cab.
Gutless Fuel PIG. @ 89,000km best it would get at 120 was 16.5 mpg.
Needed Brakes at 18,500 kms
Look at the interior for 10 seconds and its Filthy.
Best thing I ever did was sell that pce of Junk.
Sold it at 107,450 kms….Happily..!!
Then went & bought my current RIDE: Feb 2007
2500 lbs Heavier
2006 6.6 Diesel now sitting at 595,945 kms
21 mpg Hiway at 124 km/hr
Can tow at least 12,500 with air bags
Significantly nicer interior materials utilize that stay clean.!
Brakes last 150,000 kms
There will never be any Dodge crap in my garage….no insult intended.
“Just the FACTS ma’am”.
My father drove 3 Dodges and 1 Fargo.
His first truck was a Fargo Transiline van, which turned out to be a garage queen. It was one of the first production models and it had a lot of problems.
It didn’t discourage my father, though. He traded in his Fargo and bought a Dodge Tradesman in the early 1970s. (The Fargo line had been closed by that time.) After a dozen years, my father wanted a diesel 4 x 4 and, if I remember correctly, Chrysler didn’t make one, he got a Toyota Land Cruiser. (My mother comment was that he bought it so that he could get stuck in deeper mudholes.)
In the early 1990s, the Toyota was gone and he bought his first Dodge TurboRam, driving that for about 20 years. The only reason he got rid of it was because the truck started falling apart. He liked that model so much that he bought a 2013 edition, which I inherited and am driving now.
“4.7 L model Quad Cab.
Gutless Fuel PIG.”
Yep – the 4.7 was a Mercedes-derived engine, and it had a pretty bad reputation. And Dodge trucks back in the ’70’s (my generation) had a pretty bad rep’ too – it was said that ‘everybody bought a Dodge as their first truck, and never bought another one’. This was only logical; Dodge trucks were hundred$ cheaper, but Dodge kept them cheaper by taking-off all the heavy-duty parts that work trucks need to survive, with reputation-destroying results. And it was true – NOBODY bought Dodge trucks back then. Shocked… -_-
I’ve seen some examples of this. A farming neighbour had Dodge trucks; they were all he ever bought, he swore by them, and he never had a problem. But he’d played the game once or twice, and he didn’t buy strippo’s – a reasonable number of heavy-duty options checked-off on the order sheet, and Dodges would work as well as any of the others – and cost as much.
The Chrysler dealership near where I worked at the time – I bought all my parts from them until the magical day I discovered K-Mart oil filters cost half what MOPAR wanted for them – had the reputation of the one place in this city you DID NOT buy a car from. But I’d hang-out occasionally with the parts counter guys, and I picked-up a few war stories. They had an old parts delivery truck, and when they’d initially bought it, the purchasing agent specified a full complement of heavy-duty parts, the big transmission (for MOPAR fans, the 727 vs the 904), oil and trans coolers, etc. The dealership’s owner blew a gasket when he got the bill; he declared (very loudly, I gather) that the next truck they got would be the cheapest thing on the new-truck lot. Well, after several years of sterling service, the old parts truck was “last year’s model” so they went out to the truck lot as directed and took the cheapest truck they had, painted the dealership logo on its doors and set-out to deliver parts in their new delivery truck. But it spent so much time broken in the shop that they had to go out to the used-truck lot and reclaim the old parts truck to make deliveries.
Thanks for the Mopar history lesson Y. Knott. Speaking of Chrysler and Maserati there was another jewel that was born from this relationship: Chrysler TC by Maserati a true disaster of the 80s (early 90s I know, but the roots were in the 80s) probably matched only by Cadillac Cimarron.
Good Lord! The 1980’s absolutely WRECKED automobile styling for a FULL decade! Those ads in the 80’s are shameful. How could they DO THAT to their muscle car response to the Ford Mustang!? Well … the good news is that the 1980’s RUINED the Mustang too …
One correction: “wrecked US (and Italian) automobile styling”. Germans and Japanese did all right: Audi Coupe Quatro, E24 and E30 BMW, VW Corrado and Sirocco, Merc SL and SEC, Honda Prelude and Accord, Toyota Supra were beautiful cars. There were many others.
On the other hand Italians and US were awful. The ugliest Ferraris in history. And WTF happened to Maserati? And then there were US cars most looking like contemporary stove ovens from the front.
Anyone that quotes Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steel is good by me.
I spent some time in physio with Harley. Great guy. We chatted about life long before the woke mobs took over.
OMG (forgive me) !!! This guys is fricking awesome. He should be running for PM, I’d vote for him.
Definitely want him in my corner in a dust up.
Boots; This guy is amazing. He said a lot of truths no one wants to hear because as he said it would “hurt their feelings”. He is right about a lot of the Chief who want the money and stature but not the responsibility of managing a native community. I would vote for him if he ran as leader of Canada but I also think he would be eaten alive by the pin heads in Ottawa. He reminds me a lot of Clarence Lee. BTW what is this guy’s name does he have any other posts………Steve O
FANTASTIC video.!!
Goes to show what happens when Libs take over…. I would note, one of the first things TRUDEAU (~2016), did was to remove the Cdn law that forced Each Band to submit to annual Deloitte n Touche audits of their books.
That to me was akin to legalizing NATIVE Bands’ Corruption.
Always been a Mustang guy, I’m still driving my 3rd, a 2006 GT. My first was an 83 5.0 with T-Tops, one of my friends had a new Camaro Z28. The early 80s Camaros were nice looking cars, and they generally had a few horses on the Mustang, but were a tad heavier, with good driving, either car could win any stop light affair.
Weird thing about car guys I noticed a long time ago: despite fierce brand loyalty, they still have a sincere respect for the competition, because they know that without it, there would be no fun.
I’m going to the bank today to pull out $1000. I am taking McAfee’s Dead Man Switch very seriously.
He’s one of the very few who could put a program on the internet that just moves all the data he has targeted to NEVER to be found. https://britbonglogpost.com/
The internet has fixed data that our bankers and many internet businesses use as addresses and just moving the pathway to a different location would totally lose that address forever as that targeted data is now floating and not fixed.
So, yes, I do take McAfee’s countdown quite seriously.
Better to be safe than…..oh fuck, I shoulda….
Ha, Ha! Blacklock reports that Adolf’s government lost the court case over coal mining, because they failed to consult with the indian tribe that endorsed it. I guess Big Chief Gay Eagle With Tiny Balls in Ottawa, only consults indians when it suits him.
Everybody is always picking on Moslems, but Juthtin will fix that: “But recognizing that systemic racism exists in all of our institutions, in all of our governments and all of our organizations…” He really is a sick individual.
There are usually not too many comments on my MSN feed articles. This one is an exception.
L – Trudeau has to intervene quickly to prevent going public: M.B. front group funding jihad against Israel by terrorist group(Hamas) is revealed; that to be receiving public taxpayers money.
All of this is an open secret and has been for years. Trudeau +M.B.+C.C.P.= post nation-state
Note the lack of reporting regarding what precisely, led CRA to revoke Human Concern International’s charitable status.
LILLEY: Let John Tory and other politicians have a private life
“How do you feel being here knowing that you’ve destroyed every small business?” is how “The People’s Media” opens their talk with Tory as the mayor tries to have dinner with his wife on a patio.
“How many families have you destroyed? How much child mental health have you destroyed? How many businesses have you destroyed? Do you feel any guilt?” the unnamed questioner asked in rapid-fire not waiting for an answer before moving on to the next question/accusation.
Yes find them where ever you can and make their lives a living hell.
Hound them to hell. Just as they did our families and business’s.
And keep telling them, we are going to put you on trial eventually for your Crimes Against Humanity
Same shit goes for Mayors Nenxi and Iveson.
Two more Pieces of Globalist SHIT that deserve Derision 24/7
As does Kennney, Hinshaw, Shandro…hell, the entire Canadian Body Politic.
FASCIST Lying ASSHOLES the entire Lot.
The past 17 months have Absolutely annihilated any small measure of trust I might have had for Politicians, Govt Health Agencies & Main Stream Media (although with the Latter, that’s been 35 years already)
“I DO NOT BELIEVE A THING ANY OF SAY”
Message to Brian Lilley…
Referring to today’s political class as “public servants” is absurd and totally out of touch with reality.
Also, almost all politicians want to control my private life, so I will be fucked if I will waste any energy being concerned about theirs.
Finally, respect is something to be earned and Canadian politicians deserve NONE of it, especially when they are constantly spitting in our faces. I am so tired of Conservatives always being held to a standard triple that of the leftist assholes we deal with daily.
With all due respect Brian, to hell with your cowardly conservative sensibilities, we are in a class war with these entitled elitist pricks. They should have turned his frigging table over.
It’s the bureaucrats that are doing that. Politicians, that don’t push back, are their proxies.
SAFETY FIRST: Toronto bathhouses and sex clubs open once again
Quite the chuckle comment:
LetLogicPrevail v2.0 – 8 HRS AGO
When I went I was disappointed not to find any women. Some of the men were even dumb enough to confuse me for one on account of me being so short and all. I again got the comment though about me looking I was wearing a full length fur coat with only one button, whatever that means.
“The “intimate and heartfelt” book will provide a “definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him (Harry, Duke of Sussex),” the publisher said in a statement.”
Thanks to James Moore for the pithy “privacy” tweet.
Presumably he got a 20 million $ advance for that — in an industry ( book publishing) that is dying. Not that many people buy books these days, so I can’t imagine they will make their money back. I did read somewhere that publishers are a front for money laundering. Same with art houses.
Firefighters suffered the Munchies before getting the blaze under control.
He admires their basic dictatorship. Blacklock reports that Benito Trudeau’s diplomats are praising Cuba for its record on human rights and free speech.
When indigenous people claim “racism” and “discrimination” from any part of Canadian society the Liberal government and their woke army of followers immediately condemn them and try to cancel them. When the Liberal Government itself does that… crickets….
“…but their complaints fell on deaf ears…” (No kidding. LOL)
“Three verbal complaints also went to officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, but they resulted in no action, according to the former staffers.” (again: No kidding. Must protect Dear Leader at all cost.)
“(Minister Bennett) is very much convinced what the solution is and she has the right way of doing things and looks down on anyone that doesn’t see it her way”
“When I got there, I quickly realized I was a token,” said one former Indigenous staffer.
Whatever happened to that recent salacious story about abuse– sexual and otherwise – in the PMO?
I am told by an insider that the woman hired a lawyer who told her to shut down her twitter. They are apparently collecting all their stories and evidence and planning on launching a class-action suit. They might do it in the first week of the election campaign to maximize their leverage. Who knows? It might work. Although “blackface” happened in the middle of an election campaign and the Liberals, with their media friends, were able to ride it out.
We must open borders again. NOW. For the sake of the drug addicts…
“The borders are closed, so the drug channel is closed,” Gale said. “And so people at home are trying to make their own drugs and they don’t know anything about it. So it’s not very good drugs that they’re making. That’s why it’s killing people.”
Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in the United States in more than a decade — a new domestic supply of an essential ingredient in electric car batteries and renewable energy.
The mine, constructed on leased federal lands, could help address the near total reliance by the United States on foreign sources of lithium.
But the project, known as Lithium Americas, has drawn protests from members of a Native American tribe, ranchers and environmental groups because it is expected to use billions of gallons of precious ground water, potentially contaminating some of it for 300 years, while leaving behind a giant mound of waste.
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Ever seen an aluminum mining operation? Or iron ore? Or platinum? Silver? Oil-sands? Pulp-paper mills and their cut-blocks?
Or any metal, element, chemical, or fibre that humans require to build anything that helps feed, cloth, and equip them? But, according to millennials, everything comes from store shelves or Amazon warehouses.
Not a tip, just an observation.
In all this virus mess. Has anyone heard any Leader of any Government anywhere.
Demand that any Scientist or Head of State that Knowingly or Unknowingly allows the creation of a Lethal Pathogen or Virus or Bio Weapon. Be put to death or incarcerated for the REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Were is the Out Cry From the UN and Human Rights Groups? So Far they have killed 4-5M Globally.
That Should Not Be OK.
The jury is still out.
China, USA or Canada.
Likely all three responsible for the virus.
#Fauci the Rat gets Cornered By #RandPaul Fauci can not lie his way out of this! #IndictFauci Fauci is a hack for Bill Gates and the chief medical advisor to the Biden regime. He is the highest-paid unelected government official…read the rest at https://grrrgraphics.com/fauci-cornered-rat/
Well he Fauxi certainly is Central to the funding of corona virus research as far back as the year 2000.
Pretty hard to for him to deny those allegations.
“Were you not the Head of: NIH, NIAID, CDC since 2000.???”
Did you not knowingly approve of the funding that went to U of North Carolina.???
Dr David Martins’ expose’ of the ~4000 patents since 2000 would seem to indicate that without question, that was the case. those PAtents will also show that not only was SARS (2003) manmade but so was CovSars2.
Pretty hard for him to deny it was on his urging that Lancet and NE Journal of Med publish FRAUDULENT studies trashing Hydroxy.
May he be the First to Publicly hang at NUREMBERG….followed immediately by Bill Gates. A fitting end for that pair slimy fucks.
This also interests me — about whether or not kids should be wearing masks. Looks like not: https://rclutz.com/2021/07/19/covid-masks-make-co2-toxic/
Yet the “authorities” keep claiming masks are important. I am beginning to think that many of our ” authorities” are not following the science — or ( and quite likely) science has become a Tower of Babel. In Ottawa, masks are being pushed for schools, but around the world, places not requiring masks or distancing for kids are not having problems with the virus spreading. Kids are not much affected by Covid and they are not big spreaders. To their credit, Sick Kids in Toronto does not make a recommendation about masks for kids at their experts could not come to agreement. This supports my Tower of Babel theory.
Linda. DEfinitely Tower of Babel idiocy
NO ONE in Govt – Govt paid Health- MSM follows the REAL Science on Mask wearing.
Viral particulate is ~ .06 Nanometers. .06 Billionth of a meter. So…pretty tiny, so tiny in fact that there are ONLY 3 types of PPE protective gear that will 100% prevent ingress or egress of said particulate:
SCBA: Self Contained Breathing Aparatus NBCW: a Military style “Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Warfare” suit that is 100% enclosed. HAZMAT Suit. Like those worn in Level 4-5 Bio Containment Labs.
Anything else is akin to building a chain link fence to prevent mosquitos from coming in.
In lay Terms 100% BS…..and it forces folks to re-breath Excess CO2 which by any measure is not a healthy thing…particularly with kids.
Oh come on Steakman – everybody knows an old sock on your face will save you!
A wet Sweaty one of course……ensure its yellow to match ones Yellow Star of David.
Rex’s latest on Canada’s silence on Cuban protesters at NP. Rex was too subtle so I posted the following comment and they deleted it:
All that we’ll hear from Ottawa regarding the Cuban souls seeking escape from socialist dystopia is ineffectual virtue signaling. The current crop of Canadian sociopaths in power are losing their guiding light if Cuba’s communist regime collapses. While brave Cubans risk everything protesting against totalitarianism, Trudeau’s gang plots the extinguishment of free speech and latest gun grab from peaceful citizens in our deranged dominion. Any number of Cubans allowed into Canada would likely offer experienced-based dire warnings about where that road leads. This must be distressing for personal and ideological reasons to the PM so, no, don’t expect him to wade in on saving Cubans with his special brand of “wisdom”. When you’re into building Gulags, don’t expect any relief for those fleeing them.
It was the last American manned suborbital mission. The astronaut was Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom.
It will always be remembered as a mission in which the spacecraft was lost after splashdown. The explosive bolts holding the hatch in place suddenly detonated, allowing seawater to enter the Mercury. It took on so much water that the recovery helicopter couldn’t maintain lift and the tether was cut, resulting in the Mercury sinking. The spacecraft was located and recovered more than 20 years ago and, after restoration, is now on display at the Cosmosphere in Hutchison, Kansas.
Grissom always claimed that the hatch blew off all by itself. The subsequent investigation found that he was not at fault.
Grissom’s reputation was tarnished by the press because of what happened 60 years ago. However, it didn’t affect his career as an astronaut. He was selected by Deke Slayton, who was the head of the Astronaut Office, to command Gemini III, which was the first manned mission of that program and, later was the commander of Apollo 1.
I heard a story that had he not died in the Apollo 1 fire, Grissom could likely have been the first man to walk on the moon. He was not only a good pilot, but, apparently, there was a plan–though, it seemed, unofficial–to have one of the Mercury Seven make a landing. By the time Apollo began, there were 3 left in the flight rotation: Grissom, Wally Schirra (who retired after Apollo 7), and Al Shepard (whose flight status was questionable due to a persistent ear problem). Gus would have been the only one who would have been eligible.
They went looking for that capsule – and found it; it was the first sonar-detected item on the seabed that the tethered survey drone looked-at. But then they lost the position and had to re-find it. Which they did – and it’s been recovered. And the hatch jettison switch is still in the “off” position; Gus did not jettison it.
Considering what happened to Apollo’s 1 and 13, NASA had no business pointing fingers.
The great vaccination farce: Twice vaccinated Boris Johnson ordered to self-isolate Vaccinated Health Minister was the quarantine-triggering contact.
By the way, would you like to know who was the Covid positive individual who caused Boris’ prompt removal to the British countryside? He was no other than his new Health Minister Sajid Javid. And guess what: Sajid Javid is also fully vaccinated.
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So here you have two fully vaccinated individuals deep in the Covid pickle: one who has tested positive and the other in forced quarantine.
Increasingly it looks like those vaccines don’t do much with respect to preventing transmission or contracting the virus. However, the original claim was only that they prevented serious cases. I don’t think any other benefits are claimed, although media and some public health “experts” are trying to push that the vaccines lead to herd immunity. That has not been tested, as far as I aware. Correct me if I am wrong on this.
Another question– are either of these guys ill? Why quarrantine if you are not sick? Asymptomatic transmission is insignificant. I am to the point where I think the pandemic would be over if we stopped testing healthy people.
Yet we the dastardly “Imbeciles” who remain UNJabbed (and likely IMMUNE)…are the Danger eh..?
For those with 2 jabs and subsequently contract the Vid Again…..?? Ah yes…your symptoms are far less Severe – in fact you may not have any, yet you DO in fact have a Full Viral Load and as such Pfizer/Moderna has created in you, a Super Stealth Viral Spreader…. with not one of you IMMUNE or even Immunized.
The unmitigated EVIL by Big HARMA which that represents, is off the Charts.
Am I the only one who sees it like this..???
Sorry to root AGAINST my country of birth … but … THANK YOU Sweden!
Case being brought forward by America’s Frontline Doctors against US Department of Health: https://t.co/JvZxow16zN?amp=1 They are seeking an inunction and challenging the vaccine emergency use authorization.
Apologies if this has already been posted.
AWESOME LindaL
Long overdue for significant pushback against the MSM/Govt narrative.!!
I’m having a hard time understanding this story, but then I was a member of the evil Cdn. military. The media on Turtle Island are outraged that General Rick Hillier hired advisors from the military to help roll out Ford’s vaccination plan in Ontario. But its ok for General Blackie to have the military run the federal vaccine procurement plan.
Blackie’s CBC has a glowing account on how wonderful his summit on anti-Semitism is going. Blackie started off the election ad summit with a great speech. Although it was sad he wasn’t holding his traditional teddy bear. Lots of cabinet ministers spoke. Lots of talk from the Liberals and the CBC on the importance of passing the censorship bill. Brief mention that opposition leaders were not invited, including the only Jewish leader(Green Party). I guess she isn’t Justin’s kind of Jew.
Survey could use some help.
It seems that after 50 years of saving downtown Winnipeg, downtown Winnipeg needs to be saved. The tall foreheaded are so flummoxed by recent, unexpected events that they actually want input from the people that have had to foot the bill for their grand schemes falling straight, flat on their face as soon as an excuse was available to avoid the whole shit-hole.
I said to build a 1.5 mile diameter, 8 lane traffic circle around the whole thing and fill the center with broken concrete slabs and rebar. As a public art project with commentary on the anti-urban landscape in a post climate-tipping point world I feel my idea is meritorious.
One reason by Stephen Guilty, er, Guilbeault, is pushing C-36:
Nope. We mustn’t find out that Steve is a crook…..
While Mohammad Justin turns Islamophobia into an election ad tomorrow, today Rex Murphy at the National Post writes about the burning of churches.
Some are fighting back. An online “list” created to promote businesses with Wu Flu vaccination policies has been forced to shut down.
“After just a few days, a growing online list of Ontario businesses that had vaccination policies and promoted the vaccination of their staff has shut down because some of those businesses faced reprisals.”
More news on the sabotage of the western economy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-nixes-lng-plant-that-would-have-carried-western-canadian-natural-gas-to-overseas-markets-1.6111248
Quebec will not support it. Legualt thinks he has friends in Alberta waiting to partner on another project. The feds were killing it for endangering beluga whales. Apparently only ships carrying western products endanger whales. Also noted that the proposed terminal will be responsible for 8 million tons of ghg. Has to be the terminal because the pipeline was already exempted from environmental review. So Kenney what are you going to do?
The original Chevy Camaro was one of my favourite cars. I wanted one when I was a young teenager.
Two years ago, I saw restored vintage model in downtown Edmonton. Talk about a thing of beauty!
Speaking of car commercials and beauty, I remember when the first gen Viper was introduced. One of the advertising slogans in a car mag went like this: “ABS? Air Bags? Forget it, you’re gonna go so fast even dental records won’t help”. Not a Chrysler fan, but always had a soft spot for the mighty 8L V10 Viper.
Sorry – you got me talking – I’d think you’d know better by now… 😉
The first-year Viper did not even have door windows – but it did have door locks, because it’s illegal to sell a car without door locks in the ‘States.
Its V10 is the stuff of legend; the wrong kind of legend. In 1964 Chrysler brought-out the first LA engine, the 273, as an eventual replacement for the old 318 A-engine. It was significantly lighter, and promised better performance; the old A-engine was a slug, and expensive to make. Chrysler had had a “better idea” and made the A-engine’s combustion chambers polyspherical; in street slang, it was called the ‘semi-hemi’ because its two rocker-arms (per cylinder) moved opposite to each other, like the legendary Hemi’s did. But the head only had one rocker shaft instead of the Hemi’s two, and the semi-hemi was a dog; furthermore, it was heavy. And it was a 90° V8, but because its rocker-arms took their pushrods on opposite sides of the rocker shaft, the lifter valley was set at a 114° angle, to ‘split the difference’ and keep the pushrods at straighter angles to the rocker arms.
The LA was ~50 lb (IIRC) lighter, as it employed thin-wall casting techniques to reduce the amount of cast iron the block had to lug-around, and it had a conventional rocker-arm arrangement with quite efficient wedge-shaped combustion chambers. But to cheapen the effort, Chrysler used many casting cores from the old A-engine – including that 114° lifter valley. And that lifter valley, plus the strangely-shaped exhaust ports, made the LA engine unsuited to stock car racing. I can’t remember which period racer it was, either “Grumpy” Jenkins or Dandy Dick Landy, tried to race using MOPAR engines; he couldn’t do it. Above 7,000 rpm the engine would start spitting pushrods; finally he hacked the lifter valley out of one block and welded-in a sheet-metal 90° lifter valley. This did the trick, he had the engine rev’ing up to 10,000 rpm; but he was two years behind the Bowtie-boys who were all racing Chevy smallblocks, and once he caught-up to where they were at that time, they’d still be two years ahead of him because they’d’ve had two more years of engine development too. So he gave it up and switched to GM engines.
Fast forward a bit; Chrysler did something incredibly stupid, one of the many stupid things they’ve done over the years which resulted in several near-bankruptcies and their current ownership by Fiat. They threw-out the block tooling for their big-blocks, the B’s / RB’s. These may well have been the best big-blocks of all, they were put in several European sports cars like the Jensen, but Chrysler was concentrating on the K-Car and the Caravan, which saved their bacon during the fuel crisis, and had no plans to ever make another big-block. But inevitably, as computerised fuel injection and catalytic converters worked their magic, the big-blocks came back – and GM and Ford dusted-off their old big-block moulds and sent them back to the foundries. Chrysler didn’t have theirs anymore; somebody had scooped them out of the trash can though, and he was prepared to sell them back – for a WHOLE LOT of money. Also, the old 400 / 440 predated modern pollution spec’s, and would be very expensive to retool to where they passed emissions tests.
Their biggest engine at the time was the 360, and it passed current emissions tests; so, needing more power, they added two cylinders to the 360 and brought-out the 450 V10, which they started selling in trucks in 1994. At some point along the way, they decided to bring-out the Viper; they owned Maserati at the time, so they crated-up a couple truck V10’s and flew over to Italy: “Hey there, Maserati – we’re going to build a new sports car we’ll call the Viper, and we’re putting THIS V10 in it – and we want YOU to develop it!” Maserati looked at the truck V10, went home and cried themselves to sleep.
But they got on with it. The Viper V10’s only resemblance to the truck V10 is the number of holes in the block; Maserati sat down with several clean sheets of paper and totally redesigned the engine. And one of the features that the Viper V10 does not have is the old A-engine’s 114° lifter valley – which the 360, latest iteration of the LA-engine, and its two-more-cylinder modification, the truck V10, still had after all these years. The Viper V10 has a 90° lifter valley.
I’ve been a MOPAR man all my driving life, “I’d rather push a Dodge than drive a Ford – and I have, many times…” but I’ll be honest, there’s nothing MOPAR has sold for the past half-century that I’d wish on my worst enemy.
Had a Chrysler Intrepid as my company car. The engine blew at 15K as the oil was not being circulated properly. Dealer rebuilt it for $9K, I was hoping they would junk it as it was a terrible car.
Bought a two year old Intrepid a number of years ago with 75,000 k. Drove it for the next 12 years and when it finally died at just over 500,000 k, all I had done with it was oil changes, brakes, tires, etc. Wasn’t exactly fun to drive but it had lots of room for kids, friends and their sports gear. Guess it depends on what day it was built. 🙂
Must’ve been a “Wednesday car”…
Well…only Chryler product Ive ever had or owned was an 05 Dakota. First year of the retooled model.
4.7 L model Quad Cab.
Gutless Fuel PIG. @ 89,000km best it would get at 120 was 16.5 mpg.
Needed Brakes at 18,500 kms
Look at the interior for 10 seconds and its Filthy.
Best thing I ever did was sell that pce of Junk.
Sold it at 107,450 kms….Happily..!!
Then went & bought my current RIDE: Feb 2007
2500 lbs Heavier
2006 6.6 Diesel now sitting at 595,945 kms
21 mpg Hiway at 124 km/hr
Can tow at least 12,500 with air bags
Significantly nicer interior materials utilize that stay clean.!
Brakes last 150,000 kms
There will never be any Dodge crap in my garage….no insult intended.
“Just the FACTS ma’am”.
My father drove 3 Dodges and 1 Fargo.
His first truck was a Fargo Transiline van, which turned out to be a garage queen. It was one of the first production models and it had a lot of problems.
It didn’t discourage my father, though. He traded in his Fargo and bought a Dodge Tradesman in the early 1970s. (The Fargo line had been closed by that time.) After a dozen years, my father wanted a diesel 4 x 4 and, if I remember correctly, Chrysler didn’t make one, he got a Toyota Land Cruiser. (My mother comment was that he bought it so that he could get stuck in deeper mudholes.)
In the early 1990s, the Toyota was gone and he bought his first Dodge TurboRam, driving that for about 20 years. The only reason he got rid of it was because the truck started falling apart. He liked that model so much that he bought a 2013 edition, which I inherited and am driving now.
“4.7 L model Quad Cab.
Gutless Fuel PIG.”
Yep – the 4.7 was a Mercedes-derived engine, and it had a pretty bad reputation. And Dodge trucks back in the ’70’s (my generation) had a pretty bad rep’ too – it was said that ‘everybody bought a Dodge as their first truck, and never bought another one’. This was only logical; Dodge trucks were hundred$ cheaper, but Dodge kept them cheaper by taking-off all the heavy-duty parts that work trucks need to survive, with reputation-destroying results. And it was true – NOBODY bought Dodge trucks back then. Shocked… -_-
I’ve seen some examples of this. A farming neighbour had Dodge trucks; they were all he ever bought, he swore by them, and he never had a problem. But he’d played the game once or twice, and he didn’t buy strippo’s – a reasonable number of heavy-duty options checked-off on the order sheet, and Dodges would work as well as any of the others – and cost as much.
The Chrysler dealership near where I worked at the time – I bought all my parts from them until the magical day I discovered K-Mart oil filters cost half what MOPAR wanted for them – had the reputation of the one place in this city you DID NOT buy a car from. But I’d hang-out occasionally with the parts counter guys, and I picked-up a few war stories. They had an old parts delivery truck, and when they’d initially bought it, the purchasing agent specified a full complement of heavy-duty parts, the big transmission (for MOPAR fans, the 727 vs the 904), oil and trans coolers, etc. The dealership’s owner blew a gasket when he got the bill; he declared (very loudly, I gather) that the next truck they got would be the cheapest thing on the new-truck lot. Well, after several years of sterling service, the old parts truck was “last year’s model” so they went out to the truck lot as directed and took the cheapest truck they had, painted the dealership logo on its doors and set-out to deliver parts in their new delivery truck. But it spent so much time broken in the shop that they had to go out to the used-truck lot and reclaim the old parts truck to make deliveries.
Thanks for the Mopar history lesson Y. Knott. Speaking of Chrysler and Maserati there was another jewel that was born from this relationship: Chrysler TC by Maserati a true disaster of the 80s (early 90s I know, but the roots were in the 80s) probably matched only by Cadillac Cimarron.
Good Lord! The 1980’s absolutely WRECKED automobile styling for a FULL decade! Those ads in the 80’s are shameful. How could they DO THAT to their muscle car response to the Ford Mustang!? Well … the good news is that the 1980’s RUINED the Mustang too …
One correction: “wrecked US (and Italian) automobile styling”. Germans and Japanese did all right: Audi Coupe Quatro, E24 and E30 BMW, VW Corrado and Sirocco, Merc SL and SEC, Honda Prelude and Accord, Toyota Supra were beautiful cars. There were many others.
On the other hand Italians and US were awful. The ugliest Ferraris in history. And WTF happened to Maserati? And then there were US cars most looking like contemporary stove ovens from the front.
Here’s a Native that won’t get on CBC….
https://www.facebook.com/harley.munro.73/videos/2980504722223809/
Anyone that quotes Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steel is good by me.
I spent some time in physio with Harley. Great guy. We chatted about life long before the woke mobs took over.
OMG (forgive me) !!! This guys is fricking awesome. He should be running for PM, I’d vote for him.
Definitely want him in my corner in a dust up.
Boots; This guy is amazing. He said a lot of truths no one wants to hear because as he said it would “hurt their feelings”. He is right about a lot of the Chief who want the money and stature but not the responsibility of managing a native community. I would vote for him if he ran as leader of Canada but I also think he would be eaten alive by the pin heads in Ottawa. He reminds me a lot of Clarence Lee. BTW what is this guy’s name does he have any other posts………Steve O
FANTASTIC video.!!
Goes to show what happens when Libs take over…. I would note, one of the first things TRUDEAU (~2016), did was to remove the Cdn law that forced Each Band to submit to annual Deloitte n Touche audits of their books.
That to me was akin to legalizing NATIVE Bands’ Corruption.
Good old black market, a universal response to communism.
Paris Clinics Offering Fake COVID Passes For £250 as Black Market Surges
https://summit.news/2021/07/20/paris-clinics-offering-fake-covid-passes-for-250-as-black-market-surges/
Always been a Mustang guy, I’m still driving my 3rd, a 2006 GT. My first was an 83 5.0 with T-Tops, one of my friends had a new Camaro Z28. The early 80s Camaros were nice looking cars, and they generally had a few horses on the Mustang, but were a tad heavier, with good driving, either car could win any stop light affair.
Weird thing about car guys I noticed a long time ago: despite fierce brand loyalty, they still have a sincere respect for the competition, because they know that without it, there would be no fun.
A more recent ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVPEuBjJjEo&t=01s
“July 24 is World Ivermectin Day”
https://catallaxyfiles.com/2021/07/20/july-24-is-world-ivermectin-day/
I’ve been suggesting to politicians that they add it to their events calendars.
NASA caught adjusting temps to make 2021 look hotter again. To help save the AWG LIE.
Absolutely no trust left for any government or just about any expert anywhere.
https://electroverse.net/nasa-caught-adjusting-global-temperature-graph/
I’m going to the bank today to pull out $1000. I am taking McAfee’s Dead Man Switch very seriously.
He’s one of the very few who could put a program on the internet that just moves all the data he has targeted to NEVER to be found.
https://britbonglogpost.com/
The internet has fixed data that our bankers and many internet businesses use as addresses and just moving the pathway to a different location would totally lose that address forever as that targeted data is now floating and not fixed.
So, yes, I do take McAfee’s countdown quite seriously.
Better to be safe than…..oh fuck, I shoulda….
Ha, Ha! Blacklock reports that Adolf’s government lost the court case over coal mining, because they failed to consult with the indian tribe that endorsed it. I guess Big Chief Gay Eagle With Tiny Balls in Ottawa, only consults indians when it suits him.
Everybody is always picking on Moslems, but Juthtin will fix that: “But recognizing that systemic racism exists in all of our institutions, in all of our governments and all of our organizations…” He really is a sick individual.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/feds-looking-into-muslim-charities-concerns-pm/ar-AAMmZzi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531#comments
There are usually not too many comments on my MSN feed articles. This one is an exception.
L – Trudeau has to intervene quickly to prevent going public: M.B. front group funding jihad against Israel by terrorist group(Hamas) is revealed; that to be receiving public taxpayers money.
All of this is an open secret and has been for years. Trudeau +M.B.+C.C.P.= post nation-state
Note the lack of reporting regarding what precisely, led CRA to revoke Human Concern International’s charitable status.
LILLEY: Let John Tory and other politicians have a private life
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-let-john-tory-and-other-politicians-have-a-private-life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofe3Nb07h8k
“How do you feel being here knowing that you’ve destroyed every small business?” is how “The People’s Media” opens their talk with Tory as the mayor tries to have dinner with his wife on a patio.
“How many families have you destroyed? How much child mental health have you destroyed? How many businesses have you destroyed? Do you feel any guilt?” the unnamed questioner asked in rapid-fire not waiting for an answer before moving on to the next question/accusation.
Yes find them where ever you can and make their lives a living hell.
Hound them to hell. Just as they did our families and business’s.
And keep telling them, we are going to put you on trial eventually for your Crimes Against Humanity
Same shit goes for Mayors Nenxi and Iveson.
Two more Pieces of Globalist SHIT that deserve Derision 24/7
As does Kennney, Hinshaw, Shandro…hell, the entire Canadian Body Politic.
FASCIST Lying ASSHOLES the entire Lot.
The past 17 months have Absolutely annihilated any small measure of trust I might have had for Politicians, Govt Health Agencies & Main Stream Media (although with the Latter, that’s been 35 years already)
“I DO NOT BELIEVE A THING ANY OF SAY”
Message to Brian Lilley…
Referring to today’s political class as “public servants” is absurd and totally out of touch with reality.
Also, almost all politicians want to control my private life, so I will be fucked if I will waste any energy being concerned about theirs.
Finally, respect is something to be earned and Canadian politicians deserve NONE of it, especially when they are constantly spitting in our faces. I am so tired of Conservatives always being held to a standard triple that of the leftist assholes we deal with daily.
With all due respect Brian, to hell with your cowardly conservative sensibilities, we are in a class war with these entitled elitist pricks. They should have turned his frigging table over.
It’s the bureaucrats that are doing that. Politicians, that don’t push back, are their proxies.
SAFETY FIRST: Toronto bathhouses and sex clubs open once again
https://torontosun.com/health/safety-first-toronto-bathhouses-and-sex-clubs-open-once-again
Quite the chuckle comment:
LetLogicPrevail v2.0 – 8 HRS AGO
When I went I was disappointed not to find any women. Some of the men were even dumb enough to confuse me for one on account of me being so short and all. I again got the comment though about me looking I was wearing a full length fur coat with only one button, whatever that means.
They can still mask up:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6c/b5/24/6cb524eff80bffb9883455b596f65668.jpg
The elusive struggle for privacy continues…
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/prince-harry-will-publish-memoir-late-2022-2021-07-19/
“The “intimate and heartfelt” book will provide a “definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him (Harry, Duke of Sussex),” the publisher said in a statement.”
Thanks to James Moore for the pithy “privacy” tweet.
Presumably he got a 20 million $ advance for that — in an industry ( book publishing) that is dying. Not that many people buy books these days, so I can’t imagine they will make their money back. I did read somewhere that publishers are a front for money laundering. Same with art houses.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/07/21/cannabis-processing-facility-fire-milton/
Let the jokes begin.
Firefighters suffered the Munchies before getting the blaze under control.
He admires their basic dictatorship. Blacklock reports that Benito Trudeau’s diplomats are praising Cuba for its record on human rights and free speech.
When indigenous people claim “racism” and “discrimination” from any part of Canadian society the Liberal government and their woke army of followers immediately condemn them and try to cancel them. When the Liberal Government itself does that… crickets….
“Liberal Crown-Indigenous Minister Carolyn Bennett’s office is a ‘toxic’ workplace, Indigenous ex-staffers claim.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bennett-staffers-workplace-1.6109493
“…but their complaints fell on deaf ears…” (No kidding. LOL)
“Three verbal complaints also went to officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, but they resulted in no action, according to the former staffers.” (again: No kidding. Must protect Dear Leader at all cost.)
“(Minister Bennett) is very much convinced what the solution is and she has the right way of doing things and looks down on anyone that doesn’t see it her way”
“When I got there, I quickly realized I was a token,” said one former Indigenous staffer.
Whatever happened to that recent salacious story about abuse– sexual and otherwise – in the PMO?
I am told by an insider that the woman hired a lawyer who told her to shut down her twitter. They are apparently collecting all their stories and evidence and planning on launching a class-action suit. They might do it in the first week of the election campaign to maximize their leverage. Who knows? It might work. Although “blackface” happened in the middle of an election campaign and the Liberals, with their media friends, were able to ride it out.
We must open borders again. NOW. For the sake of the drug addicts…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/opioid-related-calls-edmonton-drug-poisoning-emergency-1.6110494
“The borders are closed, so the drug channel is closed,” Gale said. “And so people at home are trying to make their own drugs and they don’t know anything about it. So it’s not very good drugs that they’re making. That’s why it’s killing people.”
VIA the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/lithium-mining-race.html
I wasn’t aware that ‘billions’ of liters of water is required to extract lithium. That’s certainly eco-friendly – not.
Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in the United States in more than a decade — a new domestic supply of an essential ingredient in electric car batteries and renewable energy.
The mine, constructed on leased federal lands, could help address the near total reliance by the United States on foreign sources of lithium.
But the project, known as Lithium Americas, has drawn protests from members of a Native American tribe, ranchers and environmental groups because it is expected to use billions of gallons of precious ground water, potentially contaminating some of it for 300 years, while leaving behind a giant mound of waste.
…
Ever seen an aluminum mining operation? Or iron ore? Or platinum? Silver? Oil-sands? Pulp-paper mills and their cut-blocks?
Or any metal, element, chemical, or fibre that humans require to build anything that helps feed, cloth, and equip them? But, according to millennials, everything comes from store shelves or Amazon warehouses.
Senator Rand Paul. Referring Fauci to DOJ for prosecution. Lying to Congress.
https://thelibertydaily.com/rand-paul-is-referring-anthony-fauci-to-doj-for-criminal-inquiry/
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/paris-clinics-offering-fake-covid-passes-ps250-black-market-surges
Not a tip, just an observation.
In all this virus mess. Has anyone heard any Leader of any Government anywhere.
Demand that any Scientist or Head of State that Knowingly or Unknowingly allows the creation of a Lethal Pathogen or Virus or Bio Weapon. Be put to death or incarcerated for the REST OF THEIR LIVES.
Were is the Out Cry From the UN and Human Rights Groups? So Far they have killed 4-5M Globally.
That Should Not Be OK.
The jury is still out.
China, USA or Canada.
Likely all three responsible for the virus.
Scary thinking going on at Davos. https://rclutz.com/2021/07/19/gruesome-climate-crisis-talk-at-davos/ Wonder where Carney will focus in his efforts to “save the planet”?
#Fauci the Rat gets Cornered By #RandPaul Fauci can not lie his way out of this! #IndictFauci Fauci is a hack for Bill Gates and the chief medical advisor to the Biden regime. He is the highest-paid unelected government official…read the rest at https://grrrgraphics.com/fauci-cornered-rat/
Well he Fauxi certainly is Central to the funding of corona virus research as far back as the year 2000.
Pretty hard to for him to deny those allegations.
“Were you not the Head of: NIH, NIAID, CDC since 2000.???”
Did you not knowingly approve of the funding that went to U of North Carolina.???
Dr David Martins’ expose’ of the ~4000 patents since 2000 would seem to indicate that without question, that was the case. those PAtents will also show that not only was SARS (2003) manmade but so was CovSars2.
Pretty hard for him to deny it was on his urging that Lancet and NE Journal of Med publish FRAUDULENT studies trashing Hydroxy.
May he be the First to Publicly hang at NUREMBERG….followed immediately by Bill Gates. A fitting end for that pair slimy fucks.
This also interests me — about whether or not kids should be wearing masks. Looks like not: https://rclutz.com/2021/07/19/covid-masks-make-co2-toxic/
Yet the “authorities” keep claiming masks are important. I am beginning to think that many of our ” authorities” are not following the science — or ( and quite likely) science has become a Tower of Babel. In Ottawa, masks are being pushed for schools, but around the world, places not requiring masks or distancing for kids are not having problems with the virus spreading. Kids are not much affected by Covid and they are not big spreaders. To their credit, Sick Kids in Toronto does not make a recommendation about masks for kids at their experts could not come to agreement. This supports my Tower of Babel theory.
Linda. DEfinitely Tower of Babel idiocy
NO ONE in Govt – Govt paid Health- MSM follows the REAL Science on Mask wearing.
Viral particulate is ~ .06 Nanometers. .06 Billionth of a meter. So…pretty tiny, so tiny in fact that there are ONLY 3 types of PPE protective gear that will 100% prevent ingress or egress of said particulate:
SCBA: Self Contained Breathing Aparatus
NBCW: a Military style “Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Warfare” suit that is 100% enclosed.
HAZMAT Suit. Like those worn in Level 4-5 Bio Containment Labs.
Anything else is akin to building a chain link fence to prevent mosquitos from coming in.
In lay Terms 100% BS…..and it forces folks to re-breath Excess CO2 which by any measure is not a healthy thing…particularly with kids.
Oh come on Steakman – everybody knows an old sock on your face will save you!
A wet Sweaty one of course……ensure its yellow to match ones Yellow Star of David.
Senator Rand Paul on Fox. I am requesting that Fauci be under investigation for lying to Congress A felony in the USA.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rand-paul-asks-doj-investigate-fauci-lying-congress
Watcha Gonna Do? What’s The Number of your TATTOO.
Pentagon now tracking web searches for White Supremacy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pentagon-reportedly-tracking-extremist-web-searches-including-truth-about-black-lives
Rex’s latest on Canada’s silence on Cuban protesters at NP. Rex was too subtle so I posted the following comment and they deleted it:
All that we’ll hear from Ottawa regarding the Cuban souls seeking escape from socialist dystopia is ineffectual virtue signaling. The current crop of Canadian sociopaths in power are losing their guiding light if Cuba’s communist regime collapses. While brave Cubans risk everything protesting against totalitarianism, Trudeau’s gang plots the extinguishment of free speech and latest gun grab from peaceful citizens in our deranged dominion. Any number of Cubans allowed into Canada would likely offer experienced-based dire warnings about where that road leads. This must be distressing for personal and ideological reasons to the PM so, no, don’t expect him to wade in on saving Cubans with his special brand of “wisdom”. When you’re into building Gulags, don’t expect any relief for those fleeing them.
Child abuse by the US Government:
https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/June-2021/dc-minor-consent-to-vaccination.aspx
July 21, 1961: Liberty Bell 7.
It was the last American manned suborbital mission. The astronaut was Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom.
It will always be remembered as a mission in which the spacecraft was lost after splashdown. The explosive bolts holding the hatch in place suddenly detonated, allowing seawater to enter the Mercury. It took on so much water that the recovery helicopter couldn’t maintain lift and the tether was cut, resulting in the Mercury sinking. The spacecraft was located and recovered more than 20 years ago and, after restoration, is now on display at the Cosmosphere in Hutchison, Kansas.
Grissom always claimed that the hatch blew off all by itself. The subsequent investigation found that he was not at fault.
Grissom’s reputation was tarnished by the press because of what happened 60 years ago. However, it didn’t affect his career as an astronaut. He was selected by Deke Slayton, who was the head of the Astronaut Office, to command Gemini III, which was the first manned mission of that program and, later was the commander of Apollo 1.
I heard a story that had he not died in the Apollo 1 fire, Grissom could likely have been the first man to walk on the moon. He was not only a good pilot, but, apparently, there was a plan–though, it seemed, unofficial–to have one of the Mercury Seven make a landing. By the time Apollo began, there were 3 left in the flight rotation: Grissom, Wally Schirra (who retired after Apollo 7), and Al Shepard (whose flight status was questionable due to a persistent ear problem). Gus would have been the only one who would have been eligible.
They went looking for that capsule – and found it; it was the first sonar-detected item on the seabed that the tethered survey drone looked-at. But then they lost the position and had to re-find it. Which they did – and it’s been recovered. And the hatch jettison switch is still in the “off” position; Gus did not jettison it.
Considering what happened to Apollo’s 1 and 13, NASA had no business pointing fingers.
The great vaccination farce: Twice vaccinated Boris Johnson ordered to self-isolate
Vaccinated Health Minister was the quarantine-triggering contact.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/the_great_vaccination_farce_twice_vaccinated_boris_johnson_ordered_to_selfisolate.html
Increasingly it looks like those vaccines don’t do much with respect to preventing transmission or contracting the virus. However, the original claim was only that they prevented serious cases. I don’t think any other benefits are claimed, although media and some public health “experts” are trying to push that the vaccines lead to herd immunity. That has not been tested, as far as I aware. Correct me if I am wrong on this.
Another question– are either of these guys ill? Why quarrantine if you are not sick? Asymptomatic transmission is insignificant. I am to the point where I think the pandemic would be over if we stopped testing healthy people.
Yet we the dastardly “Imbeciles” who remain UNJabbed (and likely IMMUNE)…are the Danger eh..?
For those with 2 jabs and subsequently contract the Vid Again…..?? Ah yes…your symptoms are far less Severe – in fact you may not have any, yet you DO in fact have a Full Viral Load and as such Pfizer/Moderna has created in you, a Super Stealth Viral Spreader…. with not one of you IMMUNE or even Immunized.
The unmitigated EVIL by Big HARMA which that represents, is off the Charts.
Am I the only one who sees it like this..???
Sorry to root AGAINST my country of birth … but … THANK YOU Sweden!
https://thepostmillennial.com/us-womens-soccer-team-takes-a-knee-during-anthem-goes-on-to-lose-3-0-in-olympic-opener
Get woke … you choke!
Case being brought forward by America’s Frontline Doctors against US Department of Health: https://t.co/JvZxow16zN?amp=1 They are seeking an inunction and challenging the vaccine emergency use authorization.
Apologies if this has already been posted.
AWESOME LindaL
Long overdue for significant pushback against the MSM/Govt narrative.!!
I’m having a hard time understanding this story, but then I was a member of the evil Cdn. military. The media on Turtle Island are outraged that General Rick Hillier hired advisors from the military to help roll out Ford’s vaccination plan in Ontario. But its ok for General Blackie to have the military run the federal vaccine procurement plan.
This is a good discourse on getting vaccinated
https://youtu.be/hXV7i1yxu6c
Blackie’s CBC has a glowing account on how wonderful his summit on anti-Semitism is going. Blackie started off the election ad summit with a great speech. Although it was sad he wasn’t holding his traditional teddy bear. Lots of cabinet ministers spoke. Lots of talk from the Liberals and the CBC on the importance of passing the censorship bill. Brief mention that opposition leaders were not invited, including the only Jewish leader(Green Party). I guess she isn’t Justin’s kind of Jew.
Survey could use some help.
It seems that after 50 years of saving downtown Winnipeg, downtown Winnipeg needs to be saved. The tall foreheaded are so flummoxed by recent, unexpected events that they actually want input from the people that have had to foot the bill for their grand schemes falling straight, flat on their face as soon as an excuse was available to avoid the whole shit-hole.
https://downtownwinnipegbiz.com/have-your-say-in-downtown-recovery-post-pandemic/
direct link: https://dtbiz2021.questionpro.ca/
I said to build a 1.5 mile diameter, 8 lane traffic circle around the whole thing and fill the center with broken concrete slabs and rebar. As a public art project with commentary on the anti-urban landscape in a post climate-tipping point world I feel my idea is meritorious.
One reason by Stephen Guilty, er, Guilbeault, is pushing C-36:
https://rumble.com/vk5cdw-censorship-minister-awarded-sole-sourced-contract-after-declaring-intent-to.html
Nope. We mustn’t find out that Steve is a crook…..
While Mohammad Justin turns Islamophobia into an election ad tomorrow, today Rex Murphy at the National Post writes about the burning of churches.
Some are fighting back. An online “list” created to promote businesses with Wu Flu vaccination policies has been forced to shut down.
“After just a few days, a growing online list of Ontario businesses that had vaccination policies and promoted the vaccination of their staff has shut down because some of those businesses faced reprisals.”
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-online-list-of-vaxxed-businesses-forced-to-shut-down-over-backlash
Has the beast began to stir? Good read of the coming massacre of the left.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/07/14/nobody-knows-the-trouble/
It Isn’t Paranoia If They Are Really Out To Get You.
https://www.clairewolfe.com/blog/2021/07/20/whos-in-denial-part-ii/
More news on the sabotage of the western economy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-nixes-lng-plant-that-would-have-carried-western-canadian-natural-gas-to-overseas-markets-1.6111248
Quebec will not support it. Legualt thinks he has friends in Alberta waiting to partner on another project. The feds were killing it for endangering beluga whales. Apparently only ships carrying western products endanger whales. Also noted that the proposed terminal will be responsible for 8 million tons of ghg. Has to be the terminal because the pipeline was already exempted from environmental review. So Kenney what are you going to do?
That’s just awful. Why is Canada even a country?
Watch “Team Trudeau cuts our mic — Terry Guillon RETURNS to bully Rebel News!”
https://youtu.be/9DZPMK1XIGY