80 Replies to “April 8, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. I’ve lived in Mexico for the past two years. It’s great; outstanding weather, affordable cost of living and far fewer rules. Check out comeondown.mx .

  2. *
    Build a wall, top it with razor wire… dot it with machine gun towers…
    and lay landmines…

    — “Sixteen men and three women were killed and four more were
    injured in a massacre at a clandestine cockfight in Michoacán,
    Mexico on Sunday night. It is the second large massacre in the
    state in a month.” —

    (AFP) – “Mexico has 37,000 unidentified bodies registered lying in
    forensic services and clandestine graves, the government reported
    Thursday. Since 2006, Mexico has accumulated more than
    340,000 homicides    .”

    That’s a hard pass for me, hombre.

    *

        1. The article was talking about retirement, not a week. Not even a freaking day for me, even when I was young.

  3. Earlier this week, I posted the URL for the Tyrone Power movie King of the Khyber Rifles. It was a remake of an earlier film, The Black Watch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0I55SDOHM0

    There are some interesting aspects to it.

    1. It was made in 1929 and, admittedly, it is rather clunky. Sound had recently been introduced into movies and studios, directors, writers, and actors were figuring out how to incorporate it.

    2. It was directed by John Ford (yes, that John Ford). This movie was one of his earliest, if not the earliest, talkies. It also stars one of the actors of his unofficial company, Victor McLaglen, who was in many of Ford’s films. (TBW wasn’t the only movie set in India that McLaglen would make. In 1939, he starred with Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in Gunga Din.)

    3. It was made a few years before the introduction of the Motion Picture Production Code, so the costumes that McLaglen’s co-star Myrna Loy wore might be considered to be a bit risque, though tame by modern standards.

    Of the two, KOTKR is the better one, but, by the time it was made, studios had gained considerable experience in making films with sound. Is TBW worth watching? I think so, but it may be of interest only to movie buffs, running for about an hour and a half.

    2. Is that the comet that the nutless wonders in California were tracking….now that’s commitment

    1. “Control your soul’s desire for freedom.”
      …Chinese government drone announcement in locked-down Shanghai.

      Shanghai residents go to their balconies to sing & protest lack of supplies. A drone appears: “Please comply w covid restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.”

      Source: The Economist, China Bureau, Alice Su
      https://twitter.com/aliceysu/status/1511558828802068481

        1. Who is going to do the killing? The people in Shanghai are among the richest in China, they directly benefit from the chicom slave state. They gotta suck it up because they serve and benefit from the slave state more than any other Chinese.

          1. A slave by any other name……
            Would you lift a hand to save anyone from anything?

    1. I’ll give it, maybe, 5 years before it goes belly-up or is taken over. It likely won’t serve smaller airports and there’s too much competition and too many restrictions for existing routes.

      The existing air travel system in this country is crap, as I found out for several years.

      1. Flair Air out of Edmonton recently revealed they’ll be flying 737’s from Lethbridge to Tucson come Q4. Apparently the first international flights out of YQL in 30 years. Surprised the hell out of me. I heard the rates were s’pose to be pretty reasonable.

        1. Rates are good, as long as you don’t want to choose your seat, don’t eat or drink anything for the entire flight, and have no baggage (checked or carry-on).
          Other than that, it’s great!

        1. I used to fly Central Mountain Air to and from Edmonton and Fort St. John before His Royal Fatuousness forced us into face diapers. When it flew direct, the planes were often close to full. After they were routed through Prince George (increasing the cost and travel time for me), they were lucky if half the seats were occupied.

          Then again, CMA is a bush-league outfit, no pun intended.

      3. Well, Porter Airlines found their niche and are around for longer than that. I used them over all alternatives back in my flying days.

    2. Richard Branson was once asked how to become a millionaire.
      His answer, start out as a billionaire and start an airline.

      1. I believe the same concept applies in the wine industry.
        “How do I make a million dollars producing wine?” Start with $10M dollars!

    1. Don’t worry about it, JC will save us!

      “Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest also recently proposed that Canada develop more military bases in the arctic. As part of his defence plan, Charest stated that if elected prime minister, he would “develop and properly support two military bases in the arctic, including a deepwater port.”

      Additionally, Charest’s plan included having drones surveil the north and to procure two armed icebreakers”

      Bullshit so thick I don’t know why Canadian farmers are worried about fertilizer shortages.

      1. Well, I feel better already! I wonder where he’s going to appropriate the cash for that little exercise from? Sans Alberta’s transfer payment cash, of course.

      2. Charest can promise the moon and stars, his chances are slim to none. If there’s anything we don’t need is another rehashed politician from Quebec for starters.
        If Conservatives are smart they have only one choice for leader, Pierre Poilievre. He’s up to the job on all fronts.

        1. “He’s up to the job on all fronts.”

          The only front I’m interested in is Wexit. I’m thinking PP’s support for that is going to fall somewhat short.

    2. He’ll whip out the F18’s to show how big a man he is….justin trolling Harper…

    1. I remember when the UN did its phony “inspection” of the Wuhan bioweapons facility, CBC and CTV News had on Peter Daszak (a member of the inspection team) to explain why the China flu did not originate from the facility. Needless to say the two pro-China networks did not inform their viewers of Daszak’s financial links to the Chinese state government.

      1. Curious how all those niggling little details always manage to escape the narrative, idn’t it…

    2. Related:

      Trump’s CDC Director Was Reportedly Sidelined By Fauci After Urging Him To Investigate Lab Leak

      https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/07/robert-redfield-anthony-fauci-lab-leak-coronavirus-covid-19/

      “Redfield, a virologist who headed the CDC between 2018 and 2021, urged Fauci to “vigorously investigate” not only a possible natural origin of COVID-19, but the possibility that it had originated in the Wuhan Institute Virology (WIV) and was accidentally released, according to Vanity Fair. Redfield said from that point forward, he was excluded from discussions about the origin of the virus.”

      Mustn’t fracture the narrative.

    1. This could be a blessing in disguise !! And she will become that angry old cat lady we all read about and some of us know one.

  12. A smart Alberta government (or federal conservative party), one that cared for it’s biggest industry and the hundreds of thousands of people who work in it, would produce an incredibly effective advertising campaign touting their own moral clarity and strength, in the face of war, Green idiocy, and woke fecklessness.

    Alas, we don’t have a smart Alberta government.
    The Ukrainians, on the other hand…

    The best television ad you will see this year…

    https://twitter.com/bopanc/status/1512110871656509448

  13. What it might be like to retire to a beach in Mexico is dying in a pool of your own blood.

    But at least you won’t be shivering.

  16. Reading all the revelations yesterday about “covid”, I was literally laughing my ass off as I told people from the start that this was bullshit and that the fraud had one purpose and one purpose only. I can’t believe people are actually waking up, I doubt enlightenment will continue very long, as well, you know, that pesky thing about intelligence.

    1. For those of us never fooled by the hysteria, this is true. However, rest assured, there is a vast percentage of the population, freaked out beyond all help. Covid will always be their eternal bogeyman
      My better half was at the doctor yesterday, and while waiting for me to pick her up, she overheard a conversation between 2 old hens, each bragging to the other, that they will be the last ones to give up their masks in Victoria.
      Costco visit yesterday, still, at least half in the store all masked up, and distancing. Though, it’s good to see many staffers dropping the face diapers, there are far too many under 25s wearing the diapers. Social media is the ultimate peer pressure, mind control invention of the century!
      With the ongoing fear factory still in paranoia mode, federal and provincial, it’s assured that these damaged robots will remain mentally disturbed for the long term. They’ve bought the narrative, without question.
      For that matter, was on the corporate call yesterday, regarding “back to the office” procedures. Well, the company and the management, are also fully bought into the “Covid will kill us all” narrative.
      Maybe there is graphene in those shots after all, something has caused terrible brain damage in the majority of our population. Because I don’t know this country anymore.

      1. I drove my truck to a nearby carwash earlier this week. Yeah, some face diapers there, too.

        1. Hit a local grocery store yesterday, entire place maskless until we were leaving, met a masked 20-something female at the doors.

          1. I was in the nearby Safeway earlier this afternoon. I’d say at least a quarter of the clientele were maskless, and that includes staff.

      2. Look, all of you! I wear a mask and stay home a lot because maybe I might not catch a cold. I am older and going into hospital soon.. You want freedom of choice and so do I. Go truckers. Shut up about mask-wearers – you are the new Karens now. Enjoy your freedom. Do not deride others.

        As for others, maybe they need to take time to get over the media and unelected health care professionals’ narrative.

  19. We are getting close to a hand-off of the economy from the baby-boomers to the millennials. It will be interesting to see if millennials will continue driving this rickety old bus down the same road of ever higher government taxes and unsustainable debt or whether they cut government support programs to balance the budget with negative impacts to old people and others increasingly dependent on government handouts. Should be interesting.

    In its current budget the government added new taxes to banks and insurance companies. It is looking at taxing the sale of the permanent residence. There will likely be a wealth tax. In previous budgets the government ended the tax-favorable corporate dividend payments to spouses and children. In future budgets look for estate taxes. “Loopholes” are being closed, taxes are going up. Will millennials embrace this new era of big government and big taxes? I wouldn’t be too keen on paying the debts of my parents.

    1. It says a lot about a society that it is more than willing to enrich itself on the backs of the yet to be born.
      The Canadian legacy, not one to be proud of.

    2. In future budgets look for estate taxes.

      They already exist, though they’re not officially called that.

      I paid a large chunk of money to Christy Clark’s government when I had my father’s will probated. It simply had to have its cut, based on what the estimated worth of the estate was.

      And don’t get me started on what I had to pay in income tax on my father’s estate when I filed the following year. That estate had to be liquidated on paper and the capital gain calculated from that.

      Buuuuut, those weren’t estate taxes, now were they? Uh-huh……

  22. There are a couple of good items today at Principia Scientific about the deadly covid shots.

    2. Ardern’s response? Maybe it’ll be: “New Zealanders aren’t people, are they, so how could we be violating their ‘human’ rights?”

    2. YAWN..
      No one cares other than the Smith family.
      Really, does anyone else care?

  29. Richard Branson was once asked how to become a millionaire.
    His answer, start out as a billionaire and then start an airline.

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