November 18, 2021: Reader Tips

Reader Tips 59 Comments

I’ve long been a sucker for novelty songs and for women with powerful voices. Both of those appeals come together with We Belong by Pat Benatar.

Your tips most appealing to the brains of SDA regulars are strongly encouraged.

59 Replies to “November 18, 2021: Reader Tips”

    1. So I take it that Prinz Dummkopf, that Chinese pawn, is trying to go to the other side of the board so that he can become a queen.

      No details on whether blackface would allow him to change sides in a match.

  3. It’s better to have questions that can’t be answered than to have answers that can’t be questioned.

  7. The diverse Toronto media are excited that a teacher has been fired for wearing blackface. Apparently you can only wear blackface if you want to become prime minister.

  9. From the book, “Inferno”, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle:

    “But they cannot be sure. We might be important officials. But most of them think we are secret police.”
    “But how do you know there are secret police?”
    Benito looked very sad. “Allen, there have to be. You cannot run a bureaucratic state without them. Come.”

    1. *
      how can toronto police travel 150 km and shoot
      a 70 year old gunsmith four times… and refuse
      to show the grieving family the search warrant.

      google ‘roger kotanko’.

      *

  10. Here is a puzzling tidbit, but it is probably nothing. Brookfield Asset Management’s starbuilding asset, in downtown Chicago, is about to go belly up, according to today’s Financial Post. (I tried to post the link, but it doesn’t work).

    Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management (BAM.A-T) is a very large industrial asset holding company, and is held in very high regard by the financial talking heads over on the BNN-Bloomberg TV network. But looking at its balance sheets, the storied company is up to its eyeballs in debt. This it why it will not keep up payments on its $215-million Chicago building. A head-scratcher this.

    1. But looking at its balance sheets, the storied company is up to its eyeballs in debt.

      Over the years, I’ve analyzed the financial statements of a number of firms involved in the real estate business. It’s not unusual for them to have high debt-to-equity ratios.

    1. I tried to dig into this story, wondering why a company such as Brookfield (which has tons of cash) would allow one of their buildings to fall “into imminent default”. What is really appalling is the quality of journalism. Of the 4 “different” news media they all have the same story – word for word. Such as the one below, where at the end of it they write “quality journalism isn’t free…”.

      https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/brookfield-asset-management-faces-default-chicago-loop-office-building

      Quality journalism isn’t available, let alone free.

      The only relevant point is that BAM paid $300 million for the building and currently have a $259 million mortgage on it (20% equity, assuming the building’s value has held). It is 62% occupied.

      It wouldn’t surprise me if they own the building through a US subsidiary which could go bankrupt without affecting the Canadian parent. They could be using this threat to negotiate lower taxes.

  14. Pretty funny read.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/the-collapse-of-kamala-harris/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202021-11-17&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

    Can you find a single utterance of hers that has so much as approached being compelling or worthwhile? I doubt it. Harris is not interesting, she’s not substantive, she’s not provocative, or innovative, or wry. She’s not funny. She’s not amiable. She’s not accomplished or persuasive or adroit. She’s a heedless, cowardly, cackling cipher — an insipid, itinerant woolgatherer, whose first instinct in any situation is to resort to farcical platitudes or to suggest wanly that we should all have a “conversation about that.”

    1. You’re channeling some (great) inner-Monty Python there Buddy. Why don’t you just say Kamala Harris is a typical Canadian.

    2. As it turns out, she’s a typical leftist politician. O’Bummer wasn’t much better. The Hildabeast didn’t say or anything that didn’t help only her and her family. And then there’s Prinz Dummkopf…..

    1. I’m only halfway through and it’s clear this is one of the most brilliant things I’ve read on the culture war. I don’t remember it already being so bad in 1999 for God’s sake, but yeah – that’s only because I’m becoming inured to this insane new “normality.” Thanks for this!

  16. Tax dollars at work. Apparently the Toronto Housing Authority has no buildings to fix up. They are opening up a two million dollar centre to promote black interests.

  17. Blacklock reports Justin stated yesterday, that foreign goods coming into the country should have a carbon tax. And the organization that the environment minister was a director off, is calling for a four thousand dollar tax on SUVs.

    1. Might have to find me an old Lada and electro-fy it.
      Wonder if d-cells will work, could always put a windmill on it, charge the batts while it Flys down the hwy.
      Gonna miss my old smelly GM 6.5 TD.

  18. Flooding in BC

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9lsThbaQk

    Some well-detailed footage of the devastation in the Fraser Valley. Here in the S. Okanagan(a couple hundred kms E of this area), all highways to the coast are cut off and a visit to my local grocer yesterday afternoon yielded me nothing but bare produce, dairy and bakery shelves. Luckily, I am well-stocked at home and only went there for some ‘luxury items’, so it wasn’t problematic to leave empty-handed.

    As I go about my business today, it will be interesting to hear others’ experiences with shortages as we were already dealing, like the rest of the world, with thin inventories caused by delayed and inconsistent supply chains.

    1. I immigrated to Canads in 1971, and lived in the Byward Market from 1971 to 1977. I lived in a rundown apartment behind the Capitol Fish store, over a modest fish warehouse, at the corner of Clarence and Parent Streets. There was little violence then, no illegal handguns, save for the brawls outside of the Chez Lucien bar, a strip bar within close eyesight to our apartment. When a brawl broke out, the police would drive up to the bar from all sides with sirens blaring and lights flashing. That would quieten everybody down.

  22. I don’t know why you’d call Benatar’s song a novelty. Because she was pregnant at the time?
    Just another catchy pop tune with a pretentious video. I rather like it.

  23. Sounds to me like the vax can be dangerous, at least to a degree.
    So is heroin. I guess that should be voluntary, as well?

    1. I like it, but I’ve already memorized a more general form of the same idea:
      “I will not make any deals with you. I’ve resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.”

    1. The Sopranos used this song in the soundtrack for an episode in the second season.

  27. SWEDEN HAS FALLEN

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/11/18/swedens-vaccine-passes-should-teach-us-an-important-lesson/#more-253214

    CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS:
    Don’t part-accept irrationality in an effort to be reasonable. Don’t try and meet insanity in the middle. Deal only in what you can research and observe yourself.
    –
    Don’t attempt to compromise with the establishment, because they will never compromise back. There is no middle way.
    –
    Never, EVER, accept part of their narrative on trust.
    Sweden should teach us never to pick sides in the Covid game, because it’s all rigged and the only way to win is not to play.

    MND: This is basically what I’ve been trying to get across here. Don’t use the left’s phony lingo (even in quotation marks?). One example I provide is chiding hypocritical lefties for their high cxxxxn fxxxxxxnt.

  28. The big story in the UK this week – definitely not ignored by BBC or other MSM, has been the allegations of institutional racism (is there any other kind these days?) levelled by British cricketer of South Asian descent, Azeem Rafiq against Yorkshire Cricket Club and, by extension, English cricket in general.

    No sooner has the dust settled when horse and cart driven through the narrative when Rafiq admitted to anti-Semitic messaging: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59338118

    More to come, and you cannot make this up. One of Rafiq’s main charges was that of racist abuse, with some fellow players allegedly referring to him as a ‘P@ki’. Yet another horse and cart through the narrative, it turns out that ‘P@ki Power’ (without the @) is the name of a popular cricket team founded by players of none other than….South Asia Pakistani descent: https://twitter.com/tj1969t/status/1461026962781224978

    Can you make this up? No. but MSM seems to have….?

    1. Yes, I think so.
      That was very entertaining! Dogs skipping rope?

      That video reminds me of the doggos I walked a few years ago. They would entertain themselves by boxing with each other. I’d never seen such a thing. These guys were just teensy tiny — and so funny. They looked like they were dancing, not boxing. They’d stand on hind legs and their little paws would fly and punch– the air, not each other!

      It was a-friggingmazing! Ha!

    1. So that’s how you got “in”?
      From 8:31 till 11:25 pm Eastern, a few moments ago– SDA ARCHIVES was all I got– interesting. Thanks for the tip.

  31. Einstein the Parrot’s way of exercising:

    https://rumble.com/vkx3st-einstein-parrot-invents-a-unique-workout-routine.html

    I’m reminded of the second cockatiel our family had. Just like Einstein tossed his toy onto the floor and stared at it, our bird sometimes dropped things on the floor, accidentally on purpose, of course. Then she’d stare at it, first with one eye, then with the other after turning her head.

    She certainly had a way of entertaining herself…..

    1. “She certainly had a way of entertaining herself…..”

      Et moi aussi. Watching “High Anxiety” on TCM!

      1. I’ve got lots of stories to tell about that bird. She was a barrel of laughs even before my parents got their first dog.

        1. Do share more sometime. You wrote about her warning of the arrival of family members. Pretty cute.

  32. In other news. Sorry can’t resist, must risk cancellation.

    So sad to see a man so young needing brain surgery. Just asking, is this a good time for a coup, or should she wait for 30% approval?
    Let’s add to the intrigue. Will Joe expire under the scope? Does he have a terminal illness, never seen before – kamalagotpower?

    “Biden to transfer power to Harris while under anesthesia for colonoscopy at Walter Reed.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-routine-physical-walter-reed-day-before-79th-birthday

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