The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why y’all should be taking notes on how to ride out a blizzard in a homemade truck camper.
Happy New Year!
The Show Must Go On
EUGYPPIUS- The Year the Pandemic Ended: A Retrospective
Once a show has run its course, there is no saving it. You can cut ticket prices and hire cut-rate actors, you can promise new sideshows and free beer, but these measures are but life support. Sooner or later the acrobats are swinging and the magicians are stuffing flea-ridden rabbits into worn top-hats and the elephants are balancing precariously on balls before empty stands, and it is time to fold up the tables and the tents, lead the animals back into their cages, hitch the wagons to their teams and seek business elsewhere. Thus the Covid Circus in the Federal Republic of Germany finally folded up shop and left town in 2023.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
A hostile crowd formed around officers who chased down an armed robbery suspect on the edge of the Union Square neighborhood, San Francisco police said Friday.
The confrontation occurred about 11 p.m. Dec. 21 in the 200 block of Ellis Street at Mason Street.
Police said a man wearing a balaclava jumped over a counter, brandished a firearm and ran off with cash.
Officers saw a person who matched the suspect’s description running from the scene and arrested a man with a loaded firearm after a brief struggle.
During the arrest, an antagonistic crowd formed around the officers and suspect, police said. Officers were able to transport the man to a secure location for their own safety and the safety of the suspect.
Full interview with Scott Moe on Saskatchewan’s year in energy
Saskatchewan’s Year in Energy: Premier Scott Moe, 2023: Full Interview
If you didn’t have a chance to see this interview posted in four pieces before, here is the full year-end interview between Premier Scott Moe and Pipeline Online editor and owner Brian Zinchuk
Also, Premier Scott Moe’s social media folks posted the Pipeline Online story about the carbon tax on Saturday:
Saskatchewan families can say so long to paying the carbon tax on home heating beginning on Monday!https://t.co/y2ZC7fLaSN
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) December 30, 2023
That bill there is directly from my father’s Jan. 2023 bill, when the carbon tax was still $50 per tonne. In April, it’ll be $80 a tonne. Without getting into too much detail, the shop that was connect to his natural gas is no longer. Thank God.
It was rather entertaining to read some of the comments, like suggesting my 80-year-old father should pay for upgrading the heating on his home (with only his meager CPP and OAS). Because every 80 year old will see a return in 10 years on such an investment. Certainly.
Another suggested he must be in a high income bracket – nothing could be further from the truth. Or that Trudeau’s climate action cheques must be enough to compensate.
True believers, those.
Anyhow, happy new year, everyone! And if you live in Saskatchewan and have SaskEnergy or SaskPower for home heating, happy no more carbon tax, on that, at least, year!
Whatsisname’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “There were clashes in Camberwell after a protest related to tensions in the Eritrean community, the force added.”.
2024 Predictions
It’s the last day of what was clearly a very bizarre year. Please share your predictions for what you think will happen in 2024!
From Kate: Before you weigh in, first review your 2023 Predictions.
New Year’s Eve On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Invasion USA. A New Year’s resolution. Joe’s top five worst moments.
Today In Islam: Hamas and victimhood. The moral depravity of the radical left and Islam.
Blackie’s Canada: Campus craziness in 2023. It’s Islamophobic to lock up terrorists in Canada.
Your morning meme.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Don’t jump the gun there, Alice;
A 27-year-old trans pedophile drove 70 miles across state lines to meet who she thought was a 13-year-old girl. Instead, a camera crew with “Predator Catchers” was there to meet her with the police.
Aaron Blaze Clark, who uses the name “Alice,” was arrested on Nov. 4 at a Walmart in Winchester, Ind. Clark drove from Liberty Township, Ohio to meet who she thought was a child from the “Her” lesbian, queer dating app. Clark was charged with child solicitation and attempted child molesting, both felonies.
Related: Ohio GOP Governor Mike DeWine vetoes bill banning child mutilation
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
December 31, 2023: Reader Tips
To finish up the year, we present the 1960 classic, The Magnificent Seven.
A big thank you to everyone who has contributed to Reader Tips this past year. Tonight, rather than share tips, please do let us know what your New Year’s Eve plans are!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Questions from the lady with green hair: Who says Mary was a virgin?
So You’re Saying There’s a Chance
National Post- Jagmeet Singh rules out coalition government with Liberals after next election
“That’s off the table,” Singh said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, even though the two parties have been working closely together.
“That’s not something that we’re focused on. We’re focused on getting enough done in this Parliament and then running to win.”
Margin Of Fraud
I’m no lawyer, but I doubt the 14th Amendment was designed to empower unelected state officials to unilaterally strike major party frontrunners from the presidential ballot. If it was, that’s a shock. I must have missed that in AP Insane Legal Loopholes class. Is there any way this ends well? It feels harder and harder to imagine.
More Of The Same
Meet the new central planner, same as the old central planner. If even Danielle Smith cannot challenge the ludicrous premise behind single payer health care, then “reform” just means shuffling the waiting lists around.
Smith’s United Conservative Party government is expected in the spring sitting to begin passing laws to make good on her plan to dismantle Alberta Health Services, the centralized body that oversees health delivery on everything from acute care to community care.
AHS is to be replaced by four agencies, while being reduced to the role of service provider in acute care.
Well That Looks Safe
Daily Sceptic- The Strange Case of the Exploding Wind Turbine
Shocking footage showed the energy generator in Ayrshire, Scotland, wracking up speed before the blades suddenly come loose and are flung across a seemingly deserted field in opposite directions.
Loud crashes are heard as the debris lands on the ground, while bare trees surrounding the lone turbine are blown back and forth.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Spontaneous Lithium Combustion: A cargo vessel carrying lithium-ion batteries has been ordered to continue to Alaska after a fire was reported in its cargo hold. (h/t David M)
Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses
Yearning to breathe their last.
WTFTX?
The U.S. government is dropping six charges against crypto scammer Sam Bankman-Fried including campaign finance violations and conspiracy to commit bribery charges.
Making bribes with stolen money is fine as long as that money is going to U.S. politicians.
SBF donated $100 million during the 2022 midterms, pouring tens of millions into dark money groups with customers’ funds.Some of these groups were linked to Senate leaders including Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer.
h/t joe, marc in calgary