134 Replies to “March 16, 2023: Reader Tips”

    1. Not one person posting here, myself included, can state that anything they think they know about Russia and the Ukrainian war is true.

      1. By the number of vatnics experiencing menstrual cramps in response. Do some breathing exercises.

      1. “Sounds just like WWII after Russian troops moved into Germany.
        I see a pattern.”

        Me too, only the Japanese did it first.

          1. “Actually no, russians have been doing it for centuries.”

            Actually no, since Japan is the oldest country in the world they have been doing that sort of thing for millennia.

          2. Idiotic comment, as usual. Anyway, orcs are and have always been unparalleled in their incompetence and cruelty. It really is the combination of both that makes them so vile. The fact that they are a King Midas of fecal matter, while demanding respect for it, and usurping themselves a right to turn the lives of their betters into the same.

    1. Date of publication: 27.1.2016
      Source: dead link
      LOL, keep grasping for straws.

      1. What, you think they got rid of the labs after 2016?Of course they did not. Nuland admitted there were bio warfare labs in Ukraine, and it is an important factor in legitimizing Putin’s invasion. Why are the labs there?

        1. “What, you think they got rid of the labs after 2016?”

          No, I think Hobot’s link is entirely irrelevant even for the absurd conspiracy theory that you keep peddling.

          There was no reason for Ukraine to get rid of perfectly legitimate bio labs. Every larger country has bio labs. Every university with a med school does. Nuland admitted to bio labs (duh) not “bio warfare labs.” It is a year old nothingburger, get over it already. The whole theory is a ridiculous afterthought, not a legitimization of anything. Russia does not get to object to anything.

    2. Countries are allowed to have biolabs. They’re even allowed to have dangerous viruses or bactera and study them.

      Nothing here indicates this was related to the USA other than the name of the virus. It also doesn’t indicate any violation of the biological weapons convention.

      I will give you $10,000 for proof Ukraine has violated the biological weapons convention post 1991.

      1. Countries are also allowed to object to foreign funded biolabs on their doorstep. It’s an ongoing provocation. I suspect the US would object to Russian biolabs being located in Canada.

          1. I haven’t seen anything that explicitly states that, but they were definitely involved.

        1. Russia is a threat. Perfectly legitimate bio labs are not a threat. Since Russia cannot exist without being a threat, russia has no right to exist in the first place. Therefore, Russia does not get to make demands regarding anything. Film at 11.

          1. I think we have more to worry about than Russia.
            The Claws of the Panda are getting mighty sharp.

          2. But you can’t decisively deal with Chicoms while Pootin is backing them up. Collapse Pootinistan and Chicoms have lost a strategic ally, add to it their disastrous demographics and Xi wrecking their economy and all of sudden they need to look inward and worry about India (not an ally of the West either). They have a narrow window and have just realized that majority of their russian derived arsenal is garbage.

        2. It’s not a provocation. It’s a propaganda talking point.

          My $10,000 offer still stands.

    1. “Is bigger always better?”

      No. Often times it leads to large oligopolies, less competition & higher prices for consumers.

  1. That’s a great Skynyrd show I’ve never seen. Their performance at the same venue a year later is pretty good and also features their backup singers “The Honkettes”, a name which would certainly put them on some sort of terrorist watch list in Turdeau’s Canada. Tuesday’s Gone 3/7/76 https://youtu.be/_7p2ogicS1U

    1. Come on.
      Their moms said they were good boys and changing their lives for the better.
      Good role models for our yutes.

    1. God bless Anthony Watts:

      About 15 years ago I found his site, and began reading. Ten years later I stopped, because I was convinced that the entire global warming idea was utter garbage. Nothing I’ve seen since has changed my mind.

      Oh, and it’s not a religion, it’s a doomsday cult.

      1. “Yes it is under a paywall, but it can still be viewed at:”

        No paywall for me. Great read…I finally found something to respect about the former woke NDP mayor of Vancouver (who never did anything else but make my commuting more difficult and my lunches more expensive with all his virtue-signalling BS).

        Now I have to wonder if voting for Ken Sim was a mistake. It was my first time voting in a Vancouver election in decades.

  2. Here I am posting in Reader Tips. An uncommon occurance because I typically read today’s Tips tomorrow. I have been doing this for years. Reader Tips is a great place to find links to news from sources which I would never find otherwise. Lately, the Reader Tips page has become very scrollable. I decided to review yesterday’s Tips in detail as it started with two tips then a long back-and-forth throwing insults.

    When I read yesterday’s tips there were 56 links. Not all of these are valuable, several are just photos – i.e. commentary, but let’s use this number anyways. There were 141 ‘Replies’. This means 85 entries were comments. So what?

    The following is a sampling of the personal attacks from yersterday’s Tips. These comments do inform me – to keep scrolling.

    Geez you trigger easily
    perhaps you should try Preparation H or Vagisil or Livia
    WTF is wrong w/you
    I knew there would be schweinie-lovers here
    we all knew there would be Nazi-lovers like you
    Another silly and stupid utterance from the piehole of an Nazi schweinie-lover
    You can’t read English, can you
    Thought you’d know the difference , it being in English
    You do lack coherence
    are you too stupid to figure out what’s going on
    I don’t speak Imbecile
    you’re a lunatic

    I lost 2 IQ points just copy/pasting this crap.

    This is Kate’s website. I don’t know Kate and have no authority to tell anyone what to do. So I will be polite and just ask:

    Please stop with the tribalism, hatred and name-calling. Please stop using the page as your personal chat room. I wonder how many readers do not post simply because they don’t want to be attacked? If this page gets much worse, I will stop scrolling because I will no longer drop by. That will be a sad day for me.

    Here’s a tip for good measure: EU Takes Step to Force All Homes, Buildings to Meet Crushing Energy Efficiency Standards
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/15/eu-takes-step-to-force-all-homes-buildings-to-meet-crushing-energy-efficiency-standards/

    1. We upgraded our small 1912 home in Calgary ourselves, over a decade, installing insulation where none was, replaced windows, added insulation on exterior. Some of the material cost was recovered thru residential retrofit programs. Home is now more comfortable and Enmax rated better than efficient(?).
      Gas heat. Looked at going electric solo, but Danielle bucks skewered the numbers. Carbon tax not a big hit.

    2. You just have to ignore certain people and scroll past their posts. These people either live in their parent’s basement and have nothing to do all day, or they are not even real people but rather paid propagandists for one side or the other. The same things are being said by the same types on multiple platforms.

      Until someone figures out a way to filter these types from the internet you just need to ignore it as background noise.

    3. It’s difficult to balance free speech with hate speech, isn’t it? On the one hand, we should be able to say whatever we want, but on the other, it ruins the credibility of the author when they start diatribing.
      My recommendation is not to enforce a moral code, but to gently persuade posters to act with civility. I don’t know how much good that will do, but that’s the standard that I try (although not always successful) to uphold. I wish others would follow suit. They know who they are.

    4. ” If this page gets much worse, I will stop scrolling because I will no longer drop by. That will be a sad day for me.”

      That’s nice. It won’t mean a damn thing to anyone else, since we already have more than enough drama queens here…

  3. DeSantis Says Deborah Birx Conducted COVID-19 Lockdowns As ‘Science Experiment’

    https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/14/desantis-deborah-birx-covid-19-lockdowns-science-experiment/

    ““I said, ‘Deborah, just tell me. When in American history has this been done and what were the results because I kind of feel like we’re flying blind here and we may be doing things that are gonna be damaging.’ And she said, ‘You know, it’s kind of our own science experiment that we’re doing in real time.’ That didn’t sit well with me, you’re a citizen of a republic, not a guinea pig.””

    Bold mine.

    Yeah, if I had wanted to be a rat in a Skinner Box, I’d have signed up for it.

    1. Have to protect Democrats’ donors. If Biden doesn’t bail out rich Democrats who had money in SVB there will be fewer campaign contributions in 2024.

  4. Talk about a punchable face.

    Transgender predator who only started identifying as a woman after being released from prison for sex attack on an underage girl is convicted of raping a ‘vulnerable’ friend just weeks later

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11855869/Transgender-sex-offender-raped-friend-penis-just-weeks-leaving-jail.html

    “It is believed Crawford will be sent to a male prison if she is handed a custodial sentence…”

    There may be some justice, after all…

    1. Not surprising, considering the same government shelled out $8000 for a wine fridge so Queen Sophie could enjoy her chilled Chardonnay when slumming it at the Harrington Lake dacha. Meanwhile us mere plebs scour Kijiji for a second hand beer fridge for the basement.

      1. Dedicated beer fridge? What luxury! I’ve got a cooler with a hole shot in the side of it from the last hunting trip, repaired w/ bathroom silicone & cooled w/ ice I chopped from the Oldman River w/ a dull axe. After spring breakup, no more cold beer until next winter.

        BTW, I was just reminded I owe you an email.

  5. The anti- Freedom Convoy law suit has just ecpended to include more people as litigants and defendants. This law suit is outrageous. This was not a violent protest and the cause ( getting rid of mandates and opposing government oppression) was supported by close to 1/2 of Canadisn Citizens. The case is a pretty obvious attempt to discourage any sort of large scale group ptotest. Anyone living in a particular area is included in the class action unless they supported the Trucker’s.
    I am disgusted by this law suit. It is using the law to squelch democratic expression and our right to launch an effective protest. The suit is spearheaded by Zexi Li. She is the same woman who got the injunction against honking, which was fair enough. This lawsuit however is punitive and puts a chill on any kind of protest. People should object to being included in this anti- democratic measure without their permission.
    Who is behind it? Where is the money coming from? Is Li in any way being directed by the CCP? The CCP would certainly support something that opposes totalitarian measures put in place by their guy ( Trudeau). So many people suffered significantly from Trudeau’s draconian policies. Many are still out of work. They are the ones who should be compensated. This lawsuit is undemocratic and unCanadian. I would like to know who is behind it. And I do think there is more here than meets the eye.

    1. Zexi Li is a communist. The class-action law suit is heavily funded and supported by highly organized leftist groups, including public service unions. She is an authoritarian to the bone.

    2. Here is the law suit web site: https://ottawaconvoyclassaction.ca/ Mostly it is Zi spearheading this. I think she is just the front person.
      They seem to have set up an ” arms length” fund raising initiative. So who’s contributing?
      Sorry for the above rant but something does not smell right about this.

      1. LindaL, never apologize for a good rant.

        And, you’re correct: this smells like shite. But then we are talking about Sodom on Rideau here. The cowpie never falls far from the cow’s backside.

  6. But it’s all about batteryphobia.

    E-bike Batteries Are Burning Down New York City

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/03/14/e-bike-batteries-are-burning-down-new-york-city-n1678099

    “E-bike lithium-ion batteries have already ignited 25 fires within New York City limits this year, killing at least two and injuring 36.”

    Time to require liability insurance on e-bikes. Won’t stop them from self-igniting, but at least it will cover some losses. Mebbe dissuade folk from buying them. That & a few lawsuits targeting battery makers.

  7. Give ’em hell, boys!

    Dutch farmer protests: Emissions regulations lead to rise of new political movement

    https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/13/dutch-farmer-protests-emissions-regulations-lead-to-rise-of-new-political-movement

    Yesterday The Netherlands had an election. Grass roots BBB knocked it out of the park! Screw Rutte!

    Dutch pro-farmers party wins big in provincial elections

    https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-farmers-party-bbb-mark-rutte-netherlands-big-winner-in-provincial-elections/

    1. So how was his sexual assault case resolved? Was it in court or over drinks in the officer’s mess? In the past, the normal way to resolve sexual assault cases was to ignore them. Note, there is no criminal case without a complainant. The government should fight the civil case with his victim? front and centre.

  8. The Trans Mountain financial fiasco just got worse
    Will go down in history as a shockingly high-priced project with startling cost overruns
    https://financialpost.com/opinion/trans-mountain-financial-fiasco-got-worse

    Late Friday afternoon, the traditional slot for bad news, Trans Mountain Corporation (TMC) announced its pipeline expansion costs have ballooned to an eye-watering $30.9 billion, 44 per cent more that its year-ago estimate of $21.4 billion, which was up from its previous guesstimate of $12.6 billion, which was more than quadruple its first pie-in-the-sky projection of $7.4 billion and 5.7 times original owner Kinder Morgan’s (KM) costing of $5.4 billion. Also, the operational date was extended yet another six months, to the first quarter of next year. When it is finally completed, the expansion will nearly triple the flow of crude oil and refined products from Edmonton to Burnaby. Remarkably, Trans Mountain will remain the only Canadian oil pipeline to tidewater…

    1. Welcome, NatPo, to the 20th century! Sometimes accurate, but always a decade or two late to the party. Here’s s’more taxpayer money!

    1. “I jes’ luvs me the SR-71.”

      Most awesome aircraft ever. Saw it once at the Abbotsford air show (many years ago). The announcer said that it was “has left Hawaii right now, and it will be here in about an hour”. It was.

      Same show had the Harrier. it was pretty thrilling when it hovered over the runway and turned to face the crowd, with missiles clearly visible on the wings.

  9. CBC Will Not Take Questions
    https://www.blacklocks.ca/cbc-will-not-take-questions/

    CBC managers refuse to testify at a Senate hearing on Islamophobia, claiming it would undermine “journalistic independence.” It follows a 2022 Ombudsman’s report that the network breached its own ethics code with a website article that depicted elderly white Canadians and Conservative Party voters as bigots: ‘Senators questioning news leaders about their editorial decisions and practices undermines journalistic independence.’

    The rest of the story is behind a paywall.

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