42 Replies to “May 4, 2022: Reader Tips”

  1. Surprise!

    “Using data from 35 countries and 602 million people, peer-reviewed study confirms previous research and cautions use of face masks “may have harmful unintended consequences.”

    “…the correlation between mask usage and deaths was positive and significant. That is to say, more mask usage correlated with a higher death rate.”

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/326734

    1. It’s obvious. A face mask gets wet nearly instantly and captures virus and holds it right next to your mouth and nose. Masks aid the spread of covid.

  2. Good movie choice. It was shown on TCM’s Noir Alley a few months ago.

      1. That’s one older movie I haven’t seen yet. It shows up on TCM from time to time. Maybe I’ll have some round tuits handy the next time it’s on.

  3. No Star Wars link on May the forth?

    You know there are some geeks as regular visitors.

    1. And tomorrow here (Oz),is the Fifth Element of May Day. One network ids LOOPING the movie for the day

  4. Re: Feature movie on last evening’s Reader Tips. (Patterns.) Thanks!! Great stuff!!

      1. Wrong thread shorrbus.
        Also all bullshit and none can even be called a source.

      1. That’s right, stick to unfunny memes, that’s you intellectual limit. When you try thoughts the results are embarrassing.

  5. Kelly McParland has a piece in the National Post on how the Baby Boomers have only themselves to blame for the lack of senior’s health care.

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-boomers-only-have-themselves-to-blame-for-governments-that-cant-afford-to-care-for-them

    The problem is the article is really about people aged 80 and over. The oldest Boomers don’t turn 80 until next year. And while I’m on the Boomers, the vast majority were born from 1958 – 1962. This group won’t die en masse for another 20-30 years.

    If you think the health care system is under-funded now, wait about 10 years.

  6. Today on CNN.

    1. Dave Chappelle is attacked by a “trans man” in Hollywood. Someone with a gun and a knife was later arrested. A sense of humor was not found.

    2. Europe is proposing to ban all imports of Russian gas and oil. I’m not sure what is funnier – Dave Chappelle getting attacked by a “trans man” or Europe freezing to death this winter on principle.

    3. It looks like Bell has dropped CNN from its regular line-up. It is still offered in hi-def but the normal res channel 506 is gone – at least on my box – did someone do me a favor?

    https://www.cnn.com/

    1. Europe is not going to freeze to death. There is plenty of excess capacity for energy generation within Europe. They’ll just have to inform the bought and paid for by Kremlin green lobby that adults are talking now. About time anyway.

      P.S. People still have cable?

      1. satellite tv. Germany will still be buying Russian gas 9 months from now. Otherwise, a deep freeze.

        1. Deep freeze in Germany? Not not really. And the days of russian fuels in Europe are numbered. The biggest obstacle is not the lack of alternatives but the German politicians and green movement owned by Kremlin. Necessity will take care off it.

      2. P.S. People still have cable?

        And like you, they get all their marching orders “news” from CNN. Moron.

          1. That’s it, be a SOCK PUPPET. That REALLY lends credibility to the conservative cause. Moron.

          2. He can’t help it. It is a combination of OCD and room temperature IQ.

  7. The British Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, has been going on for months about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Partygate scandal, where the PM broke his own government’s COVID laws by partying with staffers.

    Is seems Boris the Boob has some company…

    https://www.gbnews.uk/news/keir-starmer-squirms-as-hes-probed-on-beergate-why-wont-he-just-tell-the-truth/286649

    The politicians are all a bunch of narcissistic hypocrites.
    Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

  8. The economic bar has been lowered so low that Joe Biden will be able to announce his government’s new “fiscal responsibility” as he moves to reduce the deficit from $2.8 trillion to $1.3 trillion.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/with-deficit-falling-biden-pivots-to-fiscal-responsibility/ar-AAWUbsN?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=abd86932ffbd4b44959c2bd0cba38456

    Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid spending has “already paid off”.

    But according to one Ivy-leaguer, voters may not reward this deficit reduction.

    “Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, noted that deficits are often “abstract” for voters.”

    “They’re more likely to respond to things that are in their wheelhouse or that they believe will have a more direct effect on their lives,” Ornstein said. Deficits are “a step removed for most voters, and we’ve been through periods where we’ve had the big deficits and debt and it’s not like it devastated directly people’s lives.”

    So high inflation (the direct result of too much stimulus spending) has not directly devastated people’s lives? Obviously not if you work at the American Enterprise Institute or any other NGO or government funded institution. But for the rest us…

    Lowering the deficit from $2.8 trillion to $1.3 trillion will be known from now on as “reducing the Trump deficits”. Get it? The Putin Price Hike? The Trump Deficits? Today’s problems are always caused by yesterday’s leaders or someone outside your own country.

    1. Well I agree with that, Steve. Conservatives always want to reduce the deficit and pay down debt but (a) it never happens and (b) people don’t care. Deficit reduction is not a winning platform. Unfortunately.

    1. Since whatever Prinz Dummkopf says is the law now, the DND did nothing wrong.

    2. What?
      Still imagining Rule of law?
      And Civil Society that respects and honours the individual?
      This is Trudopia.
      We have our Emperor; Justine the Petulant.
      And he wears those fabulous New Clothes.
      Displaying Wisdom and intelligence to match.

      Of course they were spying on the Truckers.
      But it was “Not Illegal” as the Canadian participants sat back and watched as their American trainers showed them how to Spy on their citizens..Training..see.

      This became obvious from the Spying on President Trump,whilst he was President..
      Oh no,not illegal cause the other members of the 5 eyes did the dirty work…

      How can you tell when a government minion is lying?
      Same test for politicians..
      Are their lips moving?

      Every day I ponder the mystical values of 338.
      Civil War?
      Or Western Independence?
      Or are they one and the same?
      Is there a sane and non violent way out of the trap we are in?

    3. That spy plane was flying out of Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, two hours west of Ottawa by road:

      “In 2019, U.S. special forces personnel were in Ottawa and Petawawa doing similar training. In mid-November of that year, members of 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron and the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, both based in Petawawa, conducted an exercise supported by one of the American aircraft. The U.S. plane operated from the Ottawa airport, and flights occurred between Petawawa and Mansfield-et-Pontefract, Que., according to Canadian special forces.”

      Some may recall that Petawawa is the same military base which members of Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army visited at the invitation of the Dear Leader, who is well known for his admiration of Communist China:

      “The Department of National Defence has confirmed China’s People’s Liberation Army was indeed on Canadian soil in February of 2018 for the Canadian Armed Forces winter training exercises.”

      https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-communist-chinese-troops-observed-military-exercises-on-can

    4. Who you gonna call?

      Laughable Constitution.
      Joke Legal System.
      Co-opted Supreme Court.
      Co-opted Opposition.
      Co-opted RCMP.
      Co-opted Media.
      Dumb as dirt populace.

      Calling Ghostbusters would be as effective as calling ANY of the above!

  9. The Liberal Government plan to trade Canada’s First World standard of living to China straight up for their Third World standard of living continues.

    The Liberals will destroy the Canadian economy and bring in the Great Reset otherwise known as Globalism or Worldwide Communism.

    -Before COVID, Canada ranked near the bottom among advanced countries (30th out of 38) on average economic growth from 2015 to 2019.

    -Then there’s Canada’s inflation rate, which for 2021 is expected to rank sixth-highest of the 35 advanced economies.

    -We’re also expected to have the eighth-highest unemployment rate.

    -On the so-called Misery Index, determined by the inflation rate combined with the unemployment rate, Canada ranks sixth most “miserable” among 35 advanced economies.

    -Well, in 2022, according to OECD forecasts, Canada’s economic growth will rank 21st of 38 countries, despite Ottawa’s ongoing stimulative spending.

    -Looking further out, the OECD predicts Canada will be the worst-performing advanced economy from 2020 to 2030, with inflation-adjusted per-person GDP growth of only 0.7 per cent per year over the decade, due in part to our sluggish rate of private-sector investment.

    -The Trudeau government increased the top federal tax rate from 29 per cent to 33 per cent.

    -Then there’s the national debt, expected to reach $2 trillion by 2025-26.

    -But a recent study found that Canadians aged 16 to 25 can expect to pay an additional $118 billion ($20,000 each) in personal income taxes over their lifetimes to pay the higher annual interest payments on federal debt accumulated from 2019 to 2025.

    -This does not include the additional tax burden required to actually pay the $686 billion in federal debt expected to be accumulated over that time, nor the $2 trillion in outstanding debt expected as of 2025.

    -Canada’s total government debt relative to GDP is the fifth-highest out of 29 advanced countries.

    -Ottawa’s $170 per tonne carbon tax, which the government claims will have “almost zero” impact on the economy.

    -However, Prof. Ross McKitrick’s study found that the carbon tax will lead to 185,000 jobs lost nationwide and a massive $38 billion decline in GDP.

    And all this with the lies baked in.

    Woo baby. Tough times a coming.

    https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2021/12/30/year-end-facts-prime-minister-trudeau-doesnt-want-you-to-know/#.YnKPS1TMKw4

    1. Don’t you know it!
      Even our Canadian Bank(Royal Bank) has a RED ALERT out on the Canadian Economy.
      1/5 th the fleet 344 Ships you say?

      https://www.rt.com/business/554951-supply-chain-bottleneck-warning-issued/

      Our politicians foolishness in globalization policies for strictly importing manufacturing from China which is currently CLOSED.
      On top of this, the global prices of fossil fuels has increased to record levels.

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