Is “Nancyboy Surrender Monkey” A Gender?

Forwarded by a reader, this excerpt from an internal CAF/DND email (edited for length).

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Subject: CAF/DND CANFORGEN – standardized signature block including optional
gender based pronouns

From:
Date: August 4, 2021
To:
Subject: STANDARDIZED EMAIL SIGNATURE BLOCKS – BLOCS-SIGNATURES
DE COURRIEL NORMALISES

Ref: CANFORGEN 117/21 COS(IM) 004/21 301420Z JUL 21 STANDARDIZED
EMAIL SIGNATUREBLOCKS http://vcds.mil.ca/apps/canforgens/default-eng.asp?id=117-21&type=ca
nforgen

(le français suit)

Good day all,

For your information/action.

THE REF STATES THAT ALL DND EMPLOYEES AND CAF MEMBERS MUST ADOPT
STANDARDIZED EMAIL SIGNATURE BLOCKS (ESB).

ESB MUST APPEAR IN BOTH OFFICIAL LANGUAGES AND MUST INCLUDE A
SEPARATE SECTION FOR EACH LANGUAGE. THERE ARE ONLY TWO
AUTHORIZED TYPES OF ESB, ONE FOR DND EMPLOYEES AND ANOTHER FOR
CAF MEMBERS.

THE STANDARDIZED ESB FOR CAF MEMBERS IS:

2LT / SLT JOHN MILITARY, CD

GENDER BASED PRONOUNS, IF APPLICABLE / NO LINE
WHEN NOT APPLICABLE

(NO CONTENT – EMPTY LINE)

POSITION, UNIT

CANADIAN ARMED FORCES

JOHN.MILITARY(AT SIGN)FORCES.GC.CA / TEL:
613-955-5555 X 1234 / CEL:

613-818-1234 / CSN: 955-5555

(NO CONTENT – EMPTY LINE)

POSITION, UNITE

FORCES ARMEES CANADIENNES

JOHN.MILITARY(AT SIGN)FORCES.GC.CA / TEL. :
613-955-5555 X 1234 /

TEL. CELL: 613-818-1234 / RCCC : 955-5555

(NO CONTENT – EMPTY LINE)

DISCLAIMER TEXT (IF APPLICABLE)

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(Emphasis mine.)

Scarce capital

What prolongs the life of a terminally ill fiat currency? The struggles of the debtors. And that struggle is getting a lot harder, especially if you live in a large metropolitan area.

The housing affordability chasm in Metro Vancouver is measured in a new report by the National Bank of Canada, which found that an annual household income of $253,000 is now needed to afford an average house in the region worth $1.47 million.

It would also take 411 months (34.3 years) of savings to cover the down payment for this home type, with a saving rate of 10%.

Oops!

Alberta gas station mixed up diesel and gasoline for 3 days

For three days, motorists pumping fuel at this particular Gas Plus location were served a mixture of both gasoline and diesel.

“We can now confirm that there was a mix of fuel delivered on Saturday, July 24, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. affecting only the regular and diesel tanks,” GP Fuels Inc. told the CBC. “Diesel fuel was delivered into the regular gas tank, and regular gas was delivered into the diesel tank by the delivery company.”

GP Fuels estimates that during the mix-up period, the gasoline was tainted with about 20 per cent diesel and that the diesel was tainted with about 40 per cent regular gasoline.

Acceptable Catastrophic Error

Is the phrase of the day. When the goal is universal vaccination you can make as many of them as you like. Grab a coffee.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics, Part One

The former Director of the CDC is making what I call an Acceptable Catastrophic Error. This is the kind of error one is allowed to make when they are perceived to have the correct opinion. Arguments and statistics used towards the goal of getting every single person vaccinated for COVID are given far less scrutiny and are accepted as true more readily, than any arguments or statistics that might be perceived as counterproductive towards that goal.

When the former Director of the CDC, or anyone else for that matter, says someone who is infected with COVID is 100 times less likely to die if they have been vaccinated, it does not matter how far off that number is. It will be readily forgiven no matter how inaccurate. It is the goal of universal vaccination, not truth, that appears to be most important.

There are a lot of acceptable catastrophic errors.

Lies, Damned Lies, Vaccine Statistics, Part Two

The last article focused on severely misunderstood statistics. Today I am focusing on what can only be described as a deliberate lie.

Today’s example is an impressive tour de force of falsehood. This example contains

  • Cherry picked data
  • Getting the cherry-picked data wrong by an order of magnitude
  • Comparing the cherry-picked data against other data that do not represent what they are claimed to represent

All of which will be permitted, and repeated, because they promote universal-vaccination. They are Acceptable Catastrophic Errors.

It’s a long read but a very good one. You don’t need to be a math geek to see what’s been going on. The vaccine efficacy numbers are misinformation, and the authors explanation is excellent.

CBSA Strike Begins

CTV;

Nearly 9,000 Canadian Border Service Agency workers have begun labour actions across the country, potentially causing lineups and delays at border crossings and airports just days before Canada is set to further reduce cross-border restrictions on fully-vaccinated U.S. travellers.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada and its Customs and Immigration Union, which represents the workers, confirmed on Twitter early on Friday that the job action had begun.

Update: US Secretary of State Blinken comments.

Manitoba’s Back to School Plan

Schools to reopen to ‘near-normal’ operation, no masks required this fall

Education Minister Cliff Cullen and Dr. Brent Roussin unveiled the safe return to schools plan on Thursday which includes a recommendation but not a mandate for all students, staff and visitors to be masked up, continued work on ventilation systems and the inclusion of the Pfizer COVID vaccine as part of their standard in-school vaccination program.

What’s going on in all of your schools out there?

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