53 Replies to “December 12, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. Because Elon Musk OWNS the platform you want him banned from.

      You should take a few moments to ask yourself why you needed this to be explained to you.

      And then, take a few more moments to ponder the fact that you have not convinced a single poster here to move to the left politically. And you never will.

      But, lest you be depressed after these moments of introspection, let me assure you that you have, more than once, amused many of us with your thoughts.

    1. The Poles whipped Russian ass in 1921 and doubled the size of Poland. The Russians took it back in WWII. I suspect Poland would love to get in a war and nab Belarus or at least the half they used to own. Part of Ukraine used to be Polish too. Half of Poland was Germany.

      1. You’re wrong about Polish attitudes today. They just want to be safe from russia. They have no intent to nab or reclaim anything, whether russian, Belarussian or Ukrainian it doesn’t matter. Poland is ethnically homogenous, with minorities very well integrated and small. That is good, that works. They want to keep borders as they are. They want them secure. They really want russia to once and for all f*** off. But russia is cancer that always inflicts itself on neighbors. Hence Polish politics of the way, support for Ukraine, support for NATO, reluctant support for EU, rearmament etc.

  3. Geopolitics expert Jessica Berlin on the reasons Germany won’t investigate its Moscow connection, Merkel’s reverence for Russia and Scholz’ China fumble.

    https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/security-expert-we-need-an-international-investigation-of-germanys-russia-ties-li.296074

    “At which points and when were our country’s Russia policy marred by actual corruption, when by mere incompetence, and when by short-term or cynical self-interest? We need to understand how it came to this. We have done business over the last twenty years that allowed us to be infiltrated by Russia and China and become dependent on them. It certainly wasn’t only corruption, but we need to determine where corruption took place. It’s no secret in international intelligence circles that German corruption and incompetence have played a role in our being infiltrated like this. Look at the Nordstream pipelines alone: a former East German security operative (Mathias Warnig, editor’s note) shapes German energy policy with a Russian state-owned corporation. It’s inconceivable.

    So far, there is only a single parliamentary inquiry in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (where the Nord stream pipelines end) looking into the work of the Climate Foundation that was used to cover for Russian meddling. ”

    RTRY, it contains some mandatory nonsense about russia-trump and russia-Brexit connections (which I am certain plenty of idiots will use to dismiss the rest of her points) and forgets that Trump was right about German energy policy and military spending, but there is tons of good arguments there.

    1. Merkel sold the Krauts out. She is a product of the cold war. Raised behind the wall she grew up playing the game. She knew the way to a comfortable life was to be a willing participant in the corrupt political system. It says something about her character.

      The wall came down but Merkel refused to accept that change had come. She left a successful scientific career to pursue politics. Rising through the ranks she never forgot the old ways and when she became Chancellor she relished her friendship with Putin. She speaks Russian and he speaks German. They were perfectly sympatico – comfortable in their conceit knowing that the ‘old ways’ were the preferred ways.

      Merkel never understood that while she played checkers Vlad played chess. He sold her out and she, perhaps unwittingly, the Germans. Maybe she was in on the game from the outset?

      1. Pootin definitely outplayed her, I agree. Germany’s problem is that they refuse to let go of pre Ukraine war ways and still are hoping that the old world order can be restored. It can’t but that stubborn insistence that it can, causes Germany to become the second biggest looser of the war after Pootinistan.

    1. Germans did similar during WWII, especially in Poland; the difference being, the Germans took only “Nordic type” children, whereas the “Russians” will take anyone who looks at least as remotely European as an average “Russian”. But we all know that the Ukrainians are the Nazi ones, because, well, Rogozin said so, and his father served on the front lines (despite being born in 1950s), so who would know better.

  9. The Wexford Carol is an ancient Irish carol (hence Wexford). And, this is about the nicest version I’ve heard.

  15. Thanks, hadn’t heard that carol before and have added it to my Christmas playlist. Beautiful and haunting. Allison Krauss is something else.

  16. If Black Lives Matter so much, why do they keep killing each other?

    Who In the US Is Objectively Racist? The Left. As the Data Show Definitively.

    https://streetwiseprofessor.com/who-in-the-us-is-objectively-racist-the-left-as-the-data-show-definitively/

    ” The increase in gun homicides documented in the Emory University study is attributable almost exclusively to one factor: a nearly 60 percent increase in homicide fatalities among black men. Not over a period of many years–but in a little over one year.

    And what year was that? 2020. And what happened in 2020? The death of George Floyd, and the subsequent revelation that black lives especially matter. “

  17. Or, he could just be taking a leak…

    Relief sculpture of man holding his penis is oldest narrative scene, archaeologist claims

    https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/12/09/relief-sculpture-man-holding-penis-oldest-narrative-scene-archaelogist-claims/4921670639497/

    “”It constitutes the earliest known depiction of a narrative ‘scene’, and reflects the complex relationship between humans, the natural world and the animal life that surrounded them during the transition to a sedentary lifestyle,” Eylem Özdoğan, the author of the study, wrote in the article.”

    1. One thing the writer missed was the explosion of illegal non-citizen voting in the 2015 election and presumably thereafter.

      It always happened a bit, but with the help of Team Obama™, Team Trudeau™ made it into a science, ensuring there would be a separate citizen die-hard Liberal already on the polling list, to vouch for each illegal voter they drove to the polls in the last two hours of voting to say they knew the person and they were eligible to vote even though in most cases neither was true.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0ddd5709d23a49e69eafb6d5b882546ea599356ab43b7d71d94ef2ccd4cbc7b.jpg

      As for the possibility of another federal election come this Spring, the Lieberals need to keep in mind what happened provincially in Ontario, when Liberal Premier David Peterson went to the polls early in 1990, only for the NDP to win the province because voters were unhappy with Peterson’s opportunism and the unnecessary election.

  25. The Dear Leader and our completely corrupted criminal justice system are pleased to announce:

    “…the rate of shooting homicides was up 6% in 2021. This marked the highest rate of police-reported shooting homicides since 1992 and, at 297, the most homicides by firearm ever recorded.”

    And you might wonder: are handguns, which have for decades been subject to stringent government restrictions, playing a role in gun violence in Canada? It turns out that they are involved in the majority of the incidents:

    “Overall, over half of firearm-related crimes involved a handgun, making handguns the most common type of firearm present.”

    https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/221212/dq221212e-eng.htm?CMP=mstatcan

    1. “…making handguns the most common type of firearm present.”

      Now, let’s talk legal gun owners vs illegal, and start making laws based on that data.

      2. DB: It would be safe to assume that close to 100%, if not 100%, of the handguns used in crimes were not legally owned by the perpetrator.

  26. Since Musk took over Twitter I have been able to click through to Twitter links and read beyond the first thread. Previously I was faced with logging into Twitter (don’t have an account) or going back a page to the original link.

  27. Anyone else receiving a phone call from Statistics Canada over the last few months?

    I have received multiple calls from 833-977-8287 which i refuse to answer

    They have left messages to call back and quote some long number letter combo reference?

    Just ccurious what this is all about

  37. Reply to georgeofthejungle and Stats Canada.
    We kept getting calls from Stats Canada, we didn’t answer. They were relentless so the wife finally answered. They wanted her to answer questions over the phone. She said no. Stats Can employee said you have to! Her reply, priceless, “The RCMP have advised us not to give out private information over the phone”. A bit more back and forth, Stats Can never called again.

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