72 Replies to “April 16, 2023: Reader Tips”

  1. That song was a classic from the sixties. I miss the unique sound of the Hammond Organ coupled with Leslie Speakers (rotating baffles creating a Doppler effect to their speakers in a box with a variable speed) giving the tremolo sound to the organ voice, common in the late sixties. I don’t think that sound has been equally replicated digitally. Like the vacuum tube amps for warm guitar sound. here is a demo https://youtu.be/ZdmTkqN5BmI

    1. Was that how Whiter Shade of Pale was done then, John?

      If so, that was one of the better examples of the effect. I did not know about that little bit of inside baseball.

    2. Yes getting stoned watching the horns start spinning. Getting laid in the back of a ’65 Dodge,listening to that song.

    3. Funny, I thought Winwood was a keyboard player only until I saw Blind Faith live. Turned out he was easily as good as Clapton on a Strat. I thought Dave Mason was the lead guitar player in Traffic but it turns out most of that was Winwood too. Talented cat.

    4. Thanks Bobby … for playing another one of your favorite classic 18yo little Stevie Winwood tunes 🙂 Love the Leslie effect … and of course the warm tube sound of the cabinets.

      But Leslie’s weren’t JUST for organs. In the hands of a guitar genius … Leslie created HISTORIC sound …

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQP24vx7Pss

    5. Rotating baffles? Certainly found it confusing myself.

      But to redeem my weak joke, I believe that it’s the rotating baffles of a Leslie speaker that makes the curious flapping noise at the beginning of “Black Dog” by Led Zeppelin.

  3. The Economist says that America is getting richer, quicker (than its rich peers).
    America’s economic outperformance is a marvel to behold. “But the country could still undercut its own success”. In other words the US is still performing well in spite of Biden.

    “American economic declinism is a broad church. Voices on the right claim that big government has stifled the frontier spirit and that soaring debt has condemned future generations to poverty. The left worries that inequality and corporate power have hollowed out the economy. In a rare display of unity, all parts of the ideological spectrum bemoan the death of American manufacturing and the crushing of the middle class.

    There is just one snag. On a whole range of measures American dominance remains striking. And relative to its rich-world peers its lead is increasing.”

    https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/04/13/from-strength-to-strength?utm_content=article-link-2&etear=nl_today_2&utm_campaign=a.the-economist-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=4/14/2023&utm_id=1562449

    1. When government budgets overspend every year, going deep into deficit annually, it’s no surprise that an economy is “running well”. Canada and the US are prime examples of this dysfunctional illusion.
      Massive deficit financing in the short term “works”. Sooner or later, those interest payments add up to insolvency. The objective of both far left governments is to recklessly overspend in their terms, kick the can down the road, so that the next governments become THE BAD GUYS, cutting back needless gubmint programs, while the leftists scream.
      Rinse and Repeat.

  4. Yes getting stoned watching the horns start spinning. Getting laid in the back of a ’65 Dodge,listening to that song.

  5. I’ve heard there were two versions, in North America we got the good one with some crowd noises added, increasing the intensity. It’s always on the play list.

  7. Tim Reid, the Regina SK Tourism CEO, is in a bit of trouble over his group’s Experience Regina ad campaign, when it makes fun of the city’s suggestive-sounding name:
    https://www.sasktoday.ca/provincial-news/ceo-reid-apologizes-over-experience-regina-campaign-6728161

    Turns out the campaign ruffled the feathers of a few old-fart nannies and left-wing feminists (is there any difference?). Reminds me of an old joke about a psychiatrist (psy) and his patient (pa) undertaking a word association test:

    Psy: table
    Pa: sex

    Psy: window
    Pa: sex

    Psy: coffee pot
    Pa: sex

    Psy: vagina
    Pa: Saskatchewan
    (OK, kinda funny, sort of).

    1. Years ago Letterman had a guest by the name of Dick Assman from Regina on his show. Dave made hay not only of his name, but that he was from Vagina, no, Regina, SK.

    1. David, great article. It should be posted in SDA if it hasn’t been already. I was surprised to get to the end and see that it was written by Jonathan Kay.

      Lawyer Smith comparing Trans women raping biological women in women’s washrooms to white women worried about getting syphilis from black women in washrooms is comparing something that is happening to something that never happened. They are dismissing the fears of biological women. What happened to their safe space? The question becomes, how can women tell if the Trans person is sincere or a horny man taking advantage of the situation.

      Nick should have asked Smith if being Trans is a physical or mental condition.

    1. ” super important ” FOAD. Same with the ” literally ” and ” seriously ” people.

    1. You know the answer.
      It’s our Diversity at work again, can’t upset the narrative.
      Now if it was a bunch of whitey’s , well……

  15. LEVY: TDSB’s latest mandatory course – how to protest 101
    https://tnc.news/2023/04/11/levy-tdsb-how-to-protest-101/

    … Now trustees Alexis Dawson and Debbie King – both of them community organizers and anti-oppression black activists – want all Grade 12 students on the board to study a course called Deconstructing Anti-Black Racism.

    A motion to the board’s program and school services committee this week suggests that the course – which was created by the board’s Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement – become accredited and part of the Ontario school curriculum…

    1. Pandering to the 13% again.
      Remind me , when do we start paying slave reparations to them for non-existent slavery EVER in Canuckistan ?
      I still have to set aside some bucks for our First Nation wards for their reps.
      Soon I will be moving to the garage to make room for our new gimmegrant friends so they can live rent free in the rest of my house.
      Ain’t DIEversity grand.

  16. School staffer, director of child development programs among 6 arrested in Portland-area child sex sting
    https://thepostmillennial.com/school-staffer-director-of-child-development-programs-among-6-arrested-in-oregon-child-sex-sting

    … 26-year old Te’Vari Jenkins, of Gresham, was the Director of Childhood Development Programs for the Club K program in the Wilsonville area. The second was 29-year old Sean Baba, of Portland who was the Director of Music Ministry at St. Pius X Church and School in Cedar Mill…

    1. Assassinating Bush’s , now that’s something I can get behind.
      If they could wipe DC off the map , keep that border open then and come on in.

    1. Soooo when do we start seeing the public floggings, beheadings , hand choppings and stonings ?
      Asking for my klepto and Adulterous friends.

  29. I remember the song well. I was only 27 at the time but – after just listening to it – the music seems like I was listening to it for to first time.

    Thanks for the link.

    1. Should have spelled “liquor” differently. Arf!
      Why, yes, I am enjoying Grade Nine. Why do you ask?

  34. I imagine the Canadian system is just as FUBAR’d.

    Is Social Security Worth Its Cost?

    https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/social-security-worth-its-cost

    “Americans would be better off keeping their payroll tax contributions and saving them in private retirement accounts than having to contribute to the government’s broken Social Security system.”

    Related:

    Biden Fiddles While Social Security Burns

    https://issuesinsights.com/2023/04/04/social-security-is-in-far-worse-shape-than-you-think/

    “The latest Social Security annual report, projecting that the Trust Fund will be exhausted in 2033, a year sooner than previously thought, politely explains that the Trustees “reassessed their expectations for the economy in light of recent developments.””

    1. Jeebus, with a name like Kye and Sebastian “SB” Lucchessi you’d be mistaken for assuming they be whitey , namely Italian descent.
      Nope, they be from the 13% tribe.
      Keep ’em coming Reader, I bet you got a million of ’em 13% ‘ers enriching our High Society.

        1. Only their Momma would know, I mean they WERE changing their life around, good boys salt of the Earth she sezs.

    1. Shocka , beautiful music to my ears offing oneself , better than taking a few guns and killing some school children instead and dying via Cop assisted suicide.
      Too bad the zueer didn’t live in the Great White North , Blackie’s MaID could’ve helped take care of him/it/zee much earlier.
      At least ze/zer won’t be a burden to the Penal Colony but zit did deprive a few Bubbas of some fun times.

  43. Man charged in relation to New Year’s Day homicide in Edmonton: police
    https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/man-charged-in-relation-to-new-years-day-homicide-in-edmonton-police

    Edmonton police also said they issued a Canada-wide warrant for the arrest of 31-year-old Tevahn Orr, who turned himself in to police in Hamilton, Ont., on March 21.

    Orr has since been transported to Edmonton, where he was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault and discharging a firearm with intent, Edmonton police said.

    Hamilton police were also seeking Orr on several charges including assault, assault with a weapon and four counts of breach of recognizance.

    1. Tevahn , I guess a long distant relation of Hockey Legend
      Bobby Orr’s family tree , perhaps the proverbial ‘ Black ‘ Sheep of the Clan ?

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