68 Replies to “March 1, 2022: Reader Tips”

  1. Anyone else having bank closures ‘due to Covid?’

    Our RBC has been closed since last Wednesday. One guy at the ATM, now with NO CASH for 2 days, said other nearby banks were also closed.

    Convenient…

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    2. RBC branch closed AGAIN today along with a few other smaller nearby ones. Covid….yeah, right. It’s been closed since last Wednesday.

      ATM is empty since at least Sunday night.

      1. The TD branch near where I live had about 10-12 people lined up which was unusual. The BMO branch was normal and its ATM worked fine

    1. The first 24 I bought cost me 10 bucks which included the extra charge for the guy who got it for me. I think it was 1976 and the actual cost of the case was around $8.50.

  4. In yesterday’s Tips, there was a reference made to two movies featuring actress Sheree North. Here’s another one, Breakout with Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, and John Huston (who doesn’t like a Charlie Bronson action flick?):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu4hgxnnFfo

    By the way, they both worked in a later film, Telefon.

    How about an earlier Charlie Bronson film? Try X-15:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhrv1EFbQIw

    It has some great flying scenes but the side soap stories are rather lame. Jimmy Stewart (known for being an avid aviator) narrates and it features Mary Tyler Moore as well as character actors James Gregory and Kenneth Tobey.

    1. By the way, X-15 was, apparently, the first cinematic movie directed by Richard Donner. If his name isn’t familiar, many of his films definitely would be. Among his work were the first two Christopher Reeve Superman flicks, the Lethal Weapon series, and The Goonies.

      1. I believe Donner recent passed from this Earth.
        I am looking forward to seeing his version of Superman II.
        I understand he was essentially fired by the producers. The movie that was eventually released was not that great.

        1. Donner died 2 or 3 years ago. From what I understand, a director’s cut version of Superman II has been released.

          Unfortunately, film studios have had a tendency to meddle with directors. One example is Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee. The version that was originally released wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great. Significant cuts were made to not just get it into the 2-hour requirement (after all, movies are really about “bums in seats”), but to tone down the content. Peckinpah was not pleased.

          Nearly 20 years ago, a restoration, of sorts, was released. I use that term with hesitation because much of the film that was originally shot–and cut–has been lost forever. The result was a grittier film plus it had a new soundtrack. (The only good thing about the original was the theme that played over the opening credits and, briefly, at the end.)

          Similarly, the original version of Blade Runner is significantly different than the final director’s cut, which was released about 15 years ago.

          One example of where cuts made no difference was Apocalypse Now. I saw both the original released version and then the 4-hour restoration. I didn’t find that the extra material added a lot to the overall story.

          1. Speaking of jumping off the Mortal Coil, Sally Kellerman of MASH fame and the first Star Trek episode with Kirk, just left us.

            Loved her with Rodney Dangerfield in ” Back to School “.

      1. I remember when Breakout was advertised on TV in the mid-1970s. It’s not outstanding, but it’s certainly an entertaining 90 or so minutes.

    1. The first casualty of war is…

      Don’t trust anything you hear on the news or from politicians pretending to be gallant in the face of the tyrannical bear.
      Wait for all the facts to come out before making a judgement.

      (NME666 with more slander against my credibility in 3… 2… 1…….)

      1. That’s why the news that comes out shortly after the shooting starts is often referred to as “the fog of war”.

  6. The Real Reason All Eyes are on Ukraine
    They’re working on a legally binding pandemic treaty for 194 WHO member countries.

    That’s right, while everyone is on the edge of their seat over the events unfolding in and around Kiev (will Zelensky take the US’ offer of help or won’t he? Will the US drop him out of a helicopter and say their fingers slipped or won’t they?) the self-identified “adults in the room” will be quietly hammering out a “global pandemic treaty” that has the unusual distinction of being legally binding internationally – that means it supersedes the national laws of any of the 194 WHO member countries that will be expected to sign it.

    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/02/28/the-real-reason-all-eyes-are-on-ukraine/#more-261562

  8. Another failed comedian has decided to risk death by Russian in a desperate attempt to seek publicity.

    Anthony Walker is a Torontonian known before now, if at all, for unfunny YouTube videos (mostly recycling leftist talking points). He has decided to earn notoriety by enlisting in the Ukrainian army and tweeting about it for the benefit of armchair warriors back home.

    Walker speaks none of the local languages and was rejected by the Canadian armed forces a few years ago as medically unfit. Zelensky can’t afford to be as picky.

    “‘Having a wife and kids isn’t a reason not to go,’ said Walker. ‘It’s a reason TO go. Because I’m doing this as much for them as I’m doing it for Ukraine and everyone there.'”

    I’m sure the outcome of Tony’s misadventure will be worth it to his wife and children. Just not in the way he intends.

    Should we wish him luck? Because he’s going to need plenty.

    So will his new comrades. They don’t need someone with no common sense any more than we do.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/canadian-comedian-anthony-walker-flew-to-europe-to-enlist-against-russia

    1. He’s putting his ass on the line. Action, not words. More than I can say for Joffrey Trudeau.

    2. He’s a f*cking moron and when he eats a bullet or gets blown to smithereens he’ll have proven it.
      He’s not protecting his wife and kids by fighting “over there”, he’s abandoning them because he’s delusional.
      Idiots happily went over to Europe in WWI to be slaughtered like pigs for nothing.
      Of course idiots in Canada signed up and went to Viet Nam and Idiots did it in the Spanish Civil war as well.
      And then their are the ISIS lovers…

      The exception being WWII, you don’t fight on foreign soil.

      1. Disagree on Vietnam, those who volunteered to fight communists weren’t idiots.

        1. While I was growing up in northern B. C., there were a number of American citizens living in the area. I got to know one family as they attended the same church as I did.

          Their eldest son either volunteered or was conscripted and served as a helicopter pilot in the Mekong Delta. I recall an article in the local newspaper about him being decorated. I don’t remember what happened to him after that and if he ever returned.

          1. Reality was that – during the Vietnam war – a lot of Canadians who did not know they were also US citizen ended up as getting conscript notices. Back in the ’50s’, women living Tulsequah mine in NW British Columbia were sent to a nearby city in Alaska to give birth as there was only a nursing station at the mine. Come the ’60s, and all the boys who were born in Alaska got “sign up or else” notices from the US government. Given that their families had moved back to SE British Columbia and the boyos were accustomed to going to and from the US without impediment, this was a shock. The wise men stayed north of the 49th.

        2. Understood for sure but it was also a civil war in some ways and that’s why it was messy in so many ways.

    1. I read about that. My bet is that the locals scuttled it rather than let it be captured by the Russians.

      1. Not many of those around.
        Was a nice little bit of an airline running them making coin transporting all sorts of stuff after the Soviets fell.
        A few videos on utube, very professional group.

  11. Very good explanation simple explanation of what and why in Ukraine and the NATO role: https://youtu.be/h25dIdYBE20? watch first 19 or so minutes. It is broad strokes but it is to the point. The author is a retired Royal Navy who likes to supplement his pension with revenues from a gaming channel, hence Cyberpunk scenes in the background.

  18. THE ART OF BEING A LOW LIFE, SCUZZ BUCKET, LYING THROUGH THEY’RE ASS, HYPOCRITICAL MORONIC, ASS KISSING, SELF SERVING JACKASS, WHO ARE TWO FACED SONS OF BITCHES, ALLIANCE FOLLOWING ASSHOLES AS OUR LEADERSHIP AND IDIOTIC LAWMAKERS PUSHING SHIT YOU DON’T AGREE WITH OR LIKE.
    To be continued…

    Domo Arigato Mr Roboto…

  19. Let’s say that Russia prevails and Ukraine falls. Russia installs a puppet government and claims peace. Western countries including the EU members and the USA continue to talk big but do nothing – some sanctions but not enough to force Russia to leave Ukraine.

    Europe imports 25% of its petroleum from Russia and almost 50% of its natural gas. It’s March. It’s getting warmer. There is no other oil & gas that could substitute easily for the Russian supply. Europe is ending coal and nuclear energy. Wind and solar are known to be emerging secondary sources but they can’t support the baseload and many people don’t heat their homes with electricity.

    What is going to happen in December when it starts getting cold again?

    1. Alliances break, like we currently see where everyone follows the same politicians scripts.
      Hopefully real leaders will jump up and take over.
      Instead of this one big alliance.

    2. Steve from Rockwood

      But you failed to point out that “talk big but do nothing” is the desired stance. Would that gobblements did this more often.

      1. I’m not sure what your point is but I am sure that either EU countries will continue buying Russian oil and gas or some people are going to freeze to death in about 9 months from now.

  20. Pollspotting! “Do you agree with the federal government invoking the Emergencies Act last month?”

    It was running almost 80/20 “Yes” when I first saw it this morning. Getting closer to 50/50 now.

    https://899thewave.fm/

    1. Yes is in the lead right now, but go ahead and worry about the ukes and the ruskies.
      Freedom for thee but not for me.
      Fuok Canada.

    2. “NO” has pulled ahead. But not by much.
      The walking brain dead in the Maritimes love the free stuff.

  21. If you are charged with a gun crime in Canada, bail is easy to get. If you are a repeat criminal, bail is easy to get. If you are a foreigner convicted of rape, bail is easy to get. If you are a Freedom Trucker arrested in Ottawa, bail is very unlikely. A third Freedom Trucker is denied bail:

    “Tyson “Freedom George” Billings will remain in an Ottawa jail after he was denied bail Monday, the third accused organizer of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” to be denied bail since large-scale arrests the weekend of Feb. 19 brought an end to the three-week “occupation” of downtown streets.”

    https://ottawacitizen.com/news/third-accused-convoy-leader-remains-in-custody-as-tyson-freedom-george-billings-denied-bail

    1. The First Commandment in Canada is “Thou shalt not stand up to and defy Prinz Dummkopf.”

    3. The Lieberal corruption in this country runs very deep. Only an asteroid will cure it.

  22. While the RCMP were ready and willing to assault the unarmed Freedom Convoy protestors in Ottawa with weapons drawn, it was a very different story in 2020 when the mass killings by Gabriel Wortman began in Portapique, Nova Scotia . The first officers arrived at the outskirts of the community within 22 minutes of the first 911 call, but, out of fear, decided to abandon their vehicles and walk into the darkened community. Over the next 20 minutes while they were walking slowly into the community many more innocent and unarmed citizens were murdered.

    “But while the Mounties took a cautious approach to entering the rural community, leaving their vehicles behind and walking slowly down the dark, wooded roadway, the gunman continued his killing unabated. Over the course of at least 40 minutes after the first 911 call, he went house to house, killing 13 people in Portapique and lighting their homes on fire – before it’s believed he avoided a police roadblock by driving down a little-used private road through a blueberry field.”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-police-ditched-cars-took-cover-according-to-documents-released-at-nova/

  27. CDC: Gee, Maybe Young Men Might Be At Risk for Myocarditis From Covid Vaccinations Like Those Conspiracy Theorists We Pressured Internet Monopolies To Deplatform Accurately Claimed

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/397980.php

    “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said younger males should consider waiting longer between doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in order to reduce the risk of a rare form of heart inflammation.

    In an update on its website, the agency suggested an eight-week interval between the first and second doses of a primary mRNA vaccine schedule.

    The “mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at the FDA-approved or FDA-authorized intervals, but a longer interval may be considered for some populations. While absolute risk remains small, the relative risk for myocarditis is higher for males ages 12-39 years, and this risk might be reduced by extending the interval between the first and second dose,” the agency said. “

  28. Here’s one that just broke. A couple weeks ago the chairman of BKK ProVita in Germany, a major health insurer, wrote to the German vaccine regulator to raise concerns about side effects of the vaccines being much higher than the official reports. And he brought the stats to back it up. A meeting was set for today for the two sides to discuss.

    Guess what just happened to the chairman.

    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/andreas-schofbeck-german-insurance?utm_source=url

  29. Banned for year at CBC in less than an hour for posting misinformation on covid. Misinformation being telling people to go look at their provincial health websites and read the data themselves.
    Anyone not of the body….

  30. Naill Ferguson believes Biden has only days to salvage a legacy as being worse than Carter.
    I think that boat sailed a long time ago.
    As bad a President Carter may have been, he at least made an attempt to free the hostages.
    He did not order troops out of a country, leaving citizens and material behind, for a photo op, nor did Carter call in an airstrike on innocent women and children, to be the big tough “don’t mess with Joe” in the Democrat media, after he ffed it up and got 13 servicemen killed.
    I think if Biden was merely as incompetent as Carter, it wouldn’t be that bad.
    But….. what do I know?

    https://www.wwsg.com/news/joe-biden-has-only-days-to-avoid-becoming-jimmy-carter/

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