76 Replies to “November 23, 2023: Reader Tips”

    1. Jackbooted thugs one an all.

      Chauvin got what he deserved. Glad his appeal was denied. Hope he gets plenty of prison justice. Hope this thug joins him.

        1. End times fast approaching! I actually agree with GYM!
          …although I won’t reiterated what GYM said to end the post.

        1. Which evil is that? Can you be more specific? Evil defenseless, non violent, man being killed by officer Cartman with a bad case of authoritah?

      1. You only support the police when they are YOOOOCraniums arresting grandma, grandpa and the grandchildren for conscription or they said something critical about Saint Elenskyyyyy of Snow Mountain.

  1. Who knew??????

    “More than half of Edmonton’s electric buses need replacement parts, according to Leigh McCabe, a maintenance representative with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 569 and a heavy equipment technician who has worked on the electric buses. “We’ve had some that have been down for over a year waiting for parts,” he said.”

    “In a court filing last month, the city’s U.S. lawyers wrote that Edmonton’s electric buses have failed to meet contract qualifications with respect to range, battery life, reliability and durability. The document says the range of the electric buses is shorter than Proterra stated — “an issue that is exacerbated in Edmonton’s cold winters” — and there have been problems with the software that controls the vehicles. Because of these problems, the city has incurred damages of $1.3 million US, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in internal labour costs and replacement parts. The city also spent more than $200,000 on “battery blankets” to keep batteries warm and working.”

    “On Monday, McCabe told CBC News that only 16 of the 60 buses were able to go on the roads that morning; the rest needed repairs.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-buses-proterra-1.7035186

    1. Edmonton voted for this, so I suggest transit riders start walking.

      PS walking is a traditional method of travel for First Nations, so Edmontonians walking is a great way to demonstrate reconciliation.

    2. So Edmonton has people buying buses who have zero experience buying busses or any form of transportation whatsoever.
      Did they develop amnesia and forget where Edmonton is? Freaking Canada you idiots and electric buses are useless for winter use that area.

      1. Edmonton had electric buses until about 20 or 30 years ago when they ripped out the overhead lines. Edmonton, for eons, has elected the stupidest people on earth to city council. Tens of millions on bike lanes in a city with 6 months of winter and billions on trains that nobody rides. True retards.

        1. What we used to call street cars, and yes that is correct and is the only way they can be viable. In TO they used to have to beat the ice off the wires but it could still be done.

    3. LMAO….
      hmm..
      And NO one saw this coming…?? Cracks me the F up..!
      And on the Fire Truck event horizon..?
      …I guess no news is good news.

      Those that thought these things were a good idea, need to be stood up against a wall & blinfolded…&..?

  2. Who knew???? PART II

    “A Winnipeg couple who publicly announced they’d given up their vehicle last summer are now throwing in the towel on their car-free lifestyle, citing problems with Winnipeg Transit as the biggest obstacle.”

    “We want to do our part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” said Ryan Palmquist. “We want to do our part to show that even in Winnipeg, you don’t have to depend on a car for every single thing you do.”

    “But a little over a year after ditching their car, Palmquist and his wife, Meghan Waters, said unreliable schedules and safety concerns made taking the bus from their Old St. Vital home “too dicey” with their three small children, especially during winter.”

    “Most of the bus shelters have homeless people living in them,” said Palmquist. “There’s meth pipes, there’s broken beer bottles.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/family-quits-car-free-lifestyle-transit-struggles-1.7034206

      1. Come VOWG, ease up on them a bit, they have seen the light. And felt the cold, and lack of motion 🙂

  3. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/21/us-backing-new-plan-to-cripple-coal-industry-at-un-climate-conference/

    “France has no coal, so their position banning it is easy. The U.S., on the other hand, has the largest coal reserves— by far— in the world,” Dan Kish, a senior research fellow for the institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation

    India is reportedly likely to push back against the proposal, or any other proposal to set a deadline for a fossil fuel phase-out, according to Reuters. Indian delegates may reportedly push representatives of developed countries like the U.S. and France to become carbon negative, rather than merely carbon neutral, by 2050 to keep targets within grasp.

    international climate reparations program, at COP28. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry recently suggested that the U.S. will pay “millions” into the fund, a number that many activists and representatives of poorer countries find to be inadequate. China is unlikely to have any significant obligations to the fund because it is classified as a developing country, despite its status as the world’s top emitter and second-largest economy.

  4. I hope the author is right about people wising up to the climate change hoax:

    The Return of the Edsel?: https://the-pipeline.org/the-return-of-the-edsel/

    Scrapping reliable thermal generation plants and replacing them with unreliable wind / solar is a surefire way to crash the electric grid. Electric vehicles hasten the crash by causing a massive load increase

    1. I just installed a Generac backup power generation system running off natural gas. Wasn’t cheap but when the lights go out mine will come on.

  5. Happy Thanksgiving to all in the USA.

    Enjoy giving your mother in law the bird, and telling your other relatives to get stuffed.

    1. Joe, I join with you in wishing our American friends a happy Thanksgiving. Yesterday my wife and I listened to a sermon by Rick Warren, stating that being closer to God means being thankful to Him all of the time.

      (Secularists and atheists out there can slag me for this post, but the founders of Thanksgiving, in Canada and the U.S., were devout Christians).

      1. The irony is I an two other academics have an artifle coming out in the Journal this winter or spring (a project six years in the making). I was going through the CJPS’s website yesterday– I have an Idea for a follow-up piece and was skimming through the website when I tumbled upon this drek.

        Anti-intellectualism has hit the Canadian Political Science Association.

    1. Hitler also wanted “peace” after capturing Sudetenland in 1938. We can tell which side you would’ve taken then.

      Your IQ must be below 75.

      1. “Are you on some serious drugs?

        Who invaded Ukraine you effing moron?”

        and

        “Hitler also wanted “peace” after capturing Sudetenland in 1938. We can tell which side you would’ve taken then.

        Your IQ must be below 75.”

        At the risk of seeming petty, I have to admit that it is fun to see you finally lashing out like the good little left-wing propagandist that we always knew you were, Allan (channeling your inner Colon, perhaps?). You held out for a good long while, yes, but in the end you just can’t hide your true nature forever, can you?

        The mask of moderation and reasonableness now stripped away, we can all see you more clearly now. Thank you for the vindication, of a sort, for all the times we have laughed at you here in the past….

    1. A nation of fools David. Have the Christmas concerts and “invite” all to come. That sir is as inclusive as one can possibly get.

  6. Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends!
    Skip the woke ‘parade’, and read some scripture instead!
    We grew up close to the Windsor-Detroit border and celebrated American Thanksgiving with family and friends, and occasionally got the day off school!
    Focus on gratitude in these days, It is therapeutic.

    1. We love to celebrate American Thanksgiving as much as our own. Football and roast chicken. Oh yeah!

      Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless America!

  7. The 30-50 rockets fired from Lebnon to Israel is the largest number since October 7:
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/30-50-rockets-said-fired-at-israel-from-lebanon-in-largest-barrage-since-star-of-war/

    An article a while ago (lost the link) says that Israel has invented a laser weapon that can knock out rockets from the sky, that in two years will be part of the Iron Dome system. The two things preventing its use now are: (1) the lasers are not available in numbers and (2) the lasers have to be integrated into the current system. But once operational in 2025 this will be a game changer.

  8. Okay, I’ll admit it.

    I’m kind of looking forward to the videos tomorrow of America’s urban version of ‘The Running of the Bulls.’

    Since they don’t really have to pay for stuff anymore, I’m wondering if some stores will just be looted. And just once, I’d love to see a group of the urban youth running out of a store with books and educational supplies….computers don’t count.

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