71 Replies to “October 29, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. Marc, thanks for sharing the documentary about my hometown. I’ve already sent it out to some Vancouver friends who are a little full of themselves and “their idyllic metropolis” IMO. No different than my SF friends are.

      And also thank you for your kind words re Sept/Oct. December will clearly be Xmas-themed. I don’t yet have a clear vision for November but will likely interweave a few different themes. Definitely looking for more cool drone videos!!!

      2. Thinking of the post below, you might also look at how the Canadian veterans, returning home to pick up their lives, did so. My father was a war vet, and we grew up in “wartime housing”, very basic housing built quickly in new communities as the men returning home needed housing for their families. We moved in essentially as soon as the interior was complete – as did other families in our neighbourhood – and the exteriors weren’t finished to the plasters/stuccoers got to finish the job (the old pebble/glass stucco) accompanied by all the neighbourhood young’uns for whom watching the men through the pebble/glass mixture onto the basic finish was a rare treat.

    2. A very good documentary. Everyone should watch. Even if you are not interested in Vancouver, it gives insight into governments’ misguided policies regarding drug use and related social problems. It’s a problem everywhere.

      1. The issue is not drug use, it’s housing. West Virginia has drug use and poverty out the wazoo and very little homelessness.

  2. If you still have Netflix –

    There’s a new German made version of All Quiet on the Western Front that’s quite good.

    I’m about 2 hrs in.
    Liking it better than 1917 from a few years ago that just followed two guys around while nothing happened

    English dub is tolerable. Battle scenes are better than most Hollywood productions.

    1. Bunnylicker – I saw it advertised last evening on Netflix and thought it looked like a future classic. Too busy to watch it last night. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 92% which is very solid. The WSJ review noted that “The cinematography by James Friend may be breathtaking for some, especially when the smoke rising up across No Man’s Land becomes both gray from gunfire and pink with blood” Some apparently don’t like that it is from the perspective of the common German,
      https://www.wsj.com/articles/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-review-history-muddied-in-the-trenches-11666909425

      In a free society, we have the opportunity to understand a number of perspectives. That’s the whole point of free speech. The German soldier may have had different motivations than the Canadian grunt, but their personal experiences are very similar.

      I’ll check it out. I wonder what Be a Deplorable Reupertslander thinks of it…

  3. The “Police audio of SFPD’s ‘welfare check’ call about Paul Pelosi says that he called “David” a “friend” who seemed “confused.”

    https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1586191001655222272

    No sign of a break-in, we don’t know how David peeled down to just his underwear.

    It’s going to be super interesting to hear what David has to say when he wakes up…
    *Did Mr. Pelosi pay David to “be a friend” for the evening while the Speaker of the House was away?

    and…

    https://twitter.com/marc58510/status/1586218474669760512

    *if the lights are off in a washroom, I believe a charger plugged into a wall outlet is off too, “wet location” and Calif. electrical code may differ….

    1. As Cernovich says “sketchy af”. I’m seeing reports the hammer attack occurred while the police were present.

    2. “if the lights are off in a washroom, I believe a charger plugged into a wall outlet is off too”

      Wrong! When I built my house in Alberta 33 years ago ground fault interrupters were required in bathrooms and yes, the circuits were 15 amp live. Now they are required in kitchens. This means the circuit trips off if a stray ground is detected. Also interrupters that detect sparking are now required on most circuits. Wiring has gotten to be very expensive but much safer.

    3. Marc – not in our bathroom, which is where I regularly charge my phone, and I’m in Calgary. We have a “protected” outlet, but it still works when the lights are not on.
      Actually, having to have the lights on for the wall outlet to work makes no sense. Unless one’s bathroom is windowless (which – I admit – a fair few are), there are many reasons why one would want to plug in an appliance such as a razor or hair dryer without also turning on unnecessary lights.
      I agree, though, the whole Pelosi incident as described does not in any way pass the “smell test”. It will be interesting to watch the spin in the coming days.

  4. “To effectively brainwash and mind control a population you first need to introduce fear. You then need a ritual or ceremony which relieves the fear. The ritual or ceremony must be simple enough that anyone can do it. You must make average people feel like heroes for doing exactly as they are told. The tyrant is best served by being in full control of the fear plus manufacturing the ritual that removes the fear. That pre-manufactured ritual will in turn trick the public into participating in their own enslavement and brings them willingly into the iron grip of the tyrant.” – Jason Christoff

    Put on your mask, stand six feet apart, and post your vaccination pictures on your Facebook page while patting yourself on the back for saving grandma.

  5. I’ve had the foie gras poutine at au pied du couchon, it is truly a delicious and decadent meal.

    Bravo on this Robert!

    1. Sounds delish, but I avoid poutine and have made my girls promise never to eat poutine. Do you know how many calories are in poutine? I can’t remember exactly, but it’s like 1400 or something. I guess it is ok if you eat nothing else for a week.

      2. Linda, calories don’t exist when someone is visiting somewhere. It’s a scientific fact.

        Okay, I do concede that everything I just wrote is complete nonsense but it’s a Big Lie I’m willing to live with once in a while. 😉

        1. A woman with husband and children at the front of a long line to enter an extremely popular donut stall at Granville Island suggested I could be the 6th person in the group in order to qualify for a discount.

          I demurred joking that I was “watching my figure”.
          She chuckled, wagged her finger and said, “Ah, but not on Saturday”.

    1. With the help of public health offices and governments around the world. They are all culpable.

      1. Agreed. But she was the only one talking about protecting our rights. I wish Brian Jean or frankly anyone else had proposed a Sovereignty Act, but you go to war with the army you’ve got.

    2. I hope the ET is just being full of crap as usual. Alberta has little to nothing to gain from any kind of unity with other prairie provinces. We need free markets and mass immigration not handshakes with leaders of milquetoast provinces and states. “Go to war with the army you have” -how about just governing the province you’re in charge of?

      1. When Alberta leaves this sh!thole of a country, we need to do it for ourselves, not anyone else. If someone else wants to join, fine, but they need to do it for themselves, as well. Agreed.

        Free markets? Agreed.

        Mass immigration? Not a chance. Carefully selected, limited immigrants? No problem.

        “…how about just governing the province you’re in charge of?

        Right. Like Red Rachel did such an outstanding job of. And Kenney. And Prenctice. And Redford. And Stelmach…

        1. Mass immigration built Canada and America and they will again. No ‘selection’ is necessary just free movement of free people.

          1. Let’s just say that the quality of immigrants has slipped some over the last few decades. That’s one of the reasons we’re in the situation we find ourselves. Hence the need for extensive screening.

  10. US Midterm elections looking positive if you can believe the MSM:
    MSNBC pundit terrified about midterms for Democrats: ‘I’m really scared about a bloodbath’

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/msnbc-pundit-terrified-about-midterms-for-democrats-i-m-really-scared-about-a-bloodbath/ar-AA13uh17?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=79e442c80fd84529a57cd92eb2245f48

    Trump’s Headed for a Major Victory on Election Night

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/trump-s-headed-for-a-major-victory-on-election-night/ar-AA13uGsh?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=45e2efd8fbf641c49e174f4a054a3be3
    Trump’s Headed for a Major Victory on Election Night

    2. “What’s your favourite political gathering?”

      A buncha Progs stranded on Ellis Island with no carbon-based fuels, clothing or anything else.

    1. Read a related article a few days back, don’t recall the source. Author noted that there may be a lot of Dems (and, possibly Independents) regretting their decision to vote early after Fettering’s performance.

      I’ve never been a fan of early voting, myself. Too much opportunity for last minute revelations.

    1. Municipal zoning is a joke.

      Developers making the right contributions can get zoning designations changed, in contravention of area plans.

      Perhaps it’s time to get rid of zoning period?

      You may object that it would be a free for all, but in Calgary it effectively is now given the number of exemptions council passes (except on council members streets).

      1. Yes! There is credible evidence that eliminating zoning would immediately goose GDP by 30%. We are wildly impoverished by zoning.

    2. You’re an utter idiot, as usual blindly destroying what is good out of sheer hatred of civilized, safe, stable and independent. You would feel right at home in a crowd of stampeding Koreans.

      If 3F wants to increase housing supply, the solution is not to grow denser but to grow out. Eliminate the greenbelt. But no, the one solution that is obvious, you millennial cretins don’t want. Instead you salivate at the opportunity to destroy single detached houses in the kolhoz of Moronto, destroy any opportunity to drive and park and make sure that the stable middle class frailly unit (foreign concept to you – a turd worlder who never knew his father) will forever be collectivized.

      One thing you’re right about. Abortion. We should have aborted your entire generation.

      1. 1) I want both

        2) The ‘family unit’ worked just fine with the triplexes and duplexes and quads and so on that used to comprise suburbs before the outbreak of single-unit housing. In any event, the family unit will just have to adapt or die. It’s dispensable to freedom.

        3) Why do you hate property rights?

        1. 1. … but argue for the one that will cut middle class down in size because that is the level you can aspire to … maybe … eventually.

          2. People wanted their own houses, always, they just could not afford them. Then they could afford them and everyone who could, abandoned inner city anthills. And you collectivist scumbags could not take it, and went after them in every possible way. That’s why your generation can no longer count on the standard of living the generation of your parents took for granted. You have accepted the new collectivist normal as the only benchmark you are familiar with.

          3. I love freedom. You have no understanding of it. We’re back to the old point that Econ 105 aka Economics for Non Specialists and the primitiveness of Atlas Shrugged constitute the entirety of your economic education.

          1. 1. More density will in no way shape or form cut down the middle class. Quite the opposite.

            2. WTF are babbling about? Also, please stop making a confession of every accusation. You are the collectivist here.

            3. Again, with the accusations being confessions. It is I who loves and understands freedom, not you. I understand that freedom includes freedom to do things that Colonialista does not arbitrarily approve of. You don’t, hence the tantrums over immigration and private property rights enhancement a la slight zoning deregulation. As with all conservaderps, your love of freedom ends the moment you realize the world isn’t turning out the way you want it to.

          2. Circular argument again. You’re making an arbitrary decision as to how much externality is fine and then call it freedom while simultaneously deciding less or more of the same is no longer freedom. Like I said, you have no understanding of the concept just using it like a monkey using a straight razor.

    1. Indeed, for a number of weeks I have been racking my mind in anguish, worried about rapists and pedophiles being forced to register as sex predators. I mean, who cares about innocent women and children? It’s Trudeau’s 2022. /sat.

      1. Sex registries are ineffective tools for combatting sex offenses, cause more harm than good, and mandatory ones flout due process rights.

        1. Don’t like the punishment? Don’t do the crime multiple times.

          But thinking about your comment, maintaining criminal records also violates ‘due process’.

          1. That would be insipid drivel even if the registry were limited to those doing the crime ‘multiple times’. The tough on crime zeitgeist produced much wreckage with little good. Glad Canada mostly skipped out on that madness at least until Harper was given his majority. That was a mistake.

            “maintaining criminal records also violates ‘due process’.”

            No it doesn’t. Making sentences such as permanent placement on a registry takes the judgement authority away from judges, undermining their independence which is at the heart of due process. Criminal records are a consequence of due process, and they also make a sex offender registry totally unnecessary.

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