66 Replies to “April 3, 2023: Reader Tips”

    1. I was sickened by that, then I realized it was budlight and accepted it as shrewd marketing.

    2. Hey, John. I just ran across it – no details – elsewhere only about an hour ago and was going to search on it. Say what? Tranny Bud Light?!?

      Thanks for the link. I hope I’m not too late to the mockery party.

      “For those times when you are feeling a little light in the loafers, make it a Bud Light.”

      1. I’ve been boycotting AB InBev beer for decades. I also add to the list whenever they pick up a new craft brewery. Some of my favorite stateside craft breweries I no longer support because of that.

        It’s not just AB InBev. I avoid all the big corporate breweries that have been selling swill under the guise of “beer”, and their freshly purchased craft breweries, in the interest of remaining relevant: Molson-Coors, Labatt’s, SAB Miller, Sapporo, North American Breweries, Constellation Brands.

      2. Disappointing that Stella is on the list. That Goose Island beer was pretty good too. Oh well, plenty of fish in the whatever…

        1. Goose Island IPA was one of my favorites. Their bourbon barrel-aged Bourbon County Stout is excellent. 10 Barrel out of Bend, Or, had a good IPA, too. Elysium in Seattle brewed great beer across the board. That one hurt. Also in Seattle, Red Hook brewed some good IPA’s. Widmer Brothers in Portalnd, OR makes one of my favorite pale ales.

          I talked to an Elysium rep at a brewfest in Cody, WY, a few years back. He admitted that sales had taken a hit when they were bought out. Good. Then it’s working.

    4. I never thought of Budweiser as beer. Too much rice in it.

      On trips to the US I’d ask my American colleagues why they drank sake. Much puzzlement all around until I told them to check the ingredients on the label.

      1. It’s not just the rice. They use also use corn syrup during the brew, as do a lot of the corporate breweries.

  3. Kate, It looks like Tuesday is going to be another busy Midwest Storm Watcher Day. Thunderstorms Storms from Arkansas to Minnesota. Same as Friday.

    We in MN will get more rain, then snow again. Saturday we had 10″ / 25 cm of heavy white mush. Enough to push us to the third snowiest winter ever. 10″ again and it will be the snowiest ever recorded.

    More Global Warmening signs here in MN? It finally hit 50F / 10C Sunday. Normally it reaches 70F / 21C at least once by now. Last year it did not reach 70F until April 23, three weeks from now. No more 50F or warmer days this week either.

    1. I don’t think a lot of that assessment. It looks stupid.

      Also “One big blind spot is their general hatred of Trudeau. Conservative supporters hated Justin Trudeau from the start and were surprized he was able to sweep into a majority against Harper in 2015. Surely that must have been an anomaly and voters would regain their sanity once they realized the error of their ways?”

      So what?

      It was the so called 3rd parties and the media which was also the 3rd parties.

      Grant Johnson is a P.O.S..

      https://ca.linkedin.com/in/grant-johnson-7ba1b58?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

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      What a fraud.

      If you trust that crap, you deserve it.

    1. ‘Emily Yoffe’, the ultimate liberal. She used to appear on the Charles Adler radio show.

      It’s too bad about her son. She will be guilt ridden for the rest of her life for what she did.

  18. Canada has close to a million foreign students attending university. Apparently there is a university in Cape Breton that has a student body of about 7k. Yeah, I never heard of the place either. 70% of the students are foreigners. The school wouldn’t exist without the fees paid by the foreign students. Whats the point of having the school?

    1. Job creation in a depressed area that votes Liberal – jobs for university bureaucrats and professors.

  19. Just…stupid.

    GM Blunders So Badly We Thought It Was an April Fool’s Joke

    https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/gm-blunders-so-badly-we-thought-it-was-an-april-fool-s-joke-44500177

    “The company will drop support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in certain future EVs. Instead, it will use a native Google system.
    …
    The replacement system will have Google Maps, Google Assistant, Audible, and Spotify.”

    ‘Cause Apple just isn’t intrusive enough…

  28. The Inconvenient Gun Deaths

    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/96148-the-inconvenient-gun-deaths-2023-03-31

    “One hundred seventy-five children have died since the massacre at Columbine, Colorado, a school shooting that happened during the assault weapons ban. In 2021, 465 children died on the streets of just nine American cities. You should really pay attention to this. In one year in just nine cities, more children died from street shootings than all school shootings in the last 24 years.”

  29. Weekend knife attack on B.C. bus was ISIS terrorism, RCMP alleges
    https://globalnews.ca/news/9597664/knife-attack-surrey-bc-transit-bus-terrorism-rcmp-inset-abdul-aziz-kawam/

    An attack on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C. over the weekend is being treated as terrorism after RCMP national security police took over the investigation.

    Abdul Aziz Kawam was initially charged with attempted murder for allegedly slashing a bus passenger’s throat on Saturday morning, but prosecutors added four counts of terrorism on Monday.

    A second victim was also allegedly assaulted with a knife.

    The charges allege the attacks were carried out for the so-called Islamic State.

    1. Not surprising that the average non-Prog citizen can draw up a better budget than Freeland, et al.

    1. I read something on this earlier. In that article Brandon claimed that LED lights last 5 times as long as incandescent. We have 3 LED bulbs in one of our bathrooms. Their rated life is 10,000 hours. At 8 hrs/day, said life should come close to 5 years. The bulbs see some use in the morning, less in the evening & otherwise pretty much stay off. A few hours of use/week. I’d guesstimate <4 hours, so ~200 hrs/year. I've replaced 2 of them in the last 3 years, one at around 18 months of use, the other around 2 years. I actually took a black felt marker & dated the replacements when I installed them.

      In another room we have some 60w & 100w incandescents. They see a lot more use than the LED's, 3x to 4x more. I can't recall when I replaced them last, but it was prior to the coof. That, and they cost a tenth of what the LED's did.

      We tried the CFL's, too, and found real life nowhere close to their claimed life.

      1. “We tried the CFL’s, too, and found real life nowhere close to their claimed life.”

        In large part because they last longer *the less you start them* (they also gradually dim as they age, like most florescent). The worst incandescent option every devised, IMHO. For a porch or yard light they are fine (but not in freezing temperatures, or they may not start at all)… for regular on-off daily use, not so much.

        LEDs are great, but have their own issues. The LED diodes themselves will last many years, yes (and gradually dim as well, but much slower than CFLs) but the drivers don’t. It does help to buy dimmable bulbs ones even if you aren’t dimming them because they have better heat sinks and are built to a higher standard…it just costs more money.

        1. Fred, I find for the most part, LED incandescent replacements suck balls. They’re spendy & they don’t last in residential use. Plus, I have a few inexpensive 4′, 4000 lumen fixtures in the shop that replaced 8′ fluorescents. They’re brighter & use less juice than the 8 footers, but they’re electronically noisy. Doesn’t bother me, but drives my HAM neighbour nuts when they’re on. Yeah, they’re cheap PA specials, but I’m not going to spend a hunnert bucks/fixture for electronically quiet ones, either.

  40. How Anti-White Discrimination Undermines Our Culture and Citizenship
    https://pjmedia.com/columns/philip-carl-salzman/2023/04/02/how-anti-white-discrimination-undermines-our-culture-and-citizenship-n1683935

    Job Number: J0223-1057 Job Type: Tenure-track Job Category: Academic Faculty: Faculty of Social Science Department: Political Studies Union: The Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (APUO)

    The hiring for this position will be done in accordance with the University’s initiatives to combat systemic racial discrimination as announced by the University President in January 2021, which aim among other things, to remedy the under-representation of racialized peoples and Indigenous peoples within the ranks of its faculty members. In order to strengthen the diversity of the School of Political Studies, only qualified applications from racialized or Indigenous peoples will be considered and evaluated for the position.

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