She speaks our language.
If Women Ran The World
Because they’re leftists: Why is #MeToo Covering for Hamas?
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Today In Islam
Hamas’s toys. A moderate imam in Michigan. Hamas terrorists use UNRWA school (JW). A moderate Hamas official (JW). The treatment of women in Islam (JW). Bringing Hamas to Manitoba (CBC).
Saturday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: People actually think this is beautiful. Some fixed leftist memes. A new Meathead film. Biden turns on Israel.
Britain: Another history lesson with Neil Oliver. The tyranny of nudge.
Save The Planet Scam News: Eco-imperialism. Blackie’s Canada: Streets should have Indian names.
Your morning meme. A cartoon.
Evil Incarnate
If you want an example of pure propaganda, which goes a long way to explain why Leftists think the way they do, watch this “interview” of Gavin Newsom.
One thing that is not clear is whether Brian Tyler Cohen was wearing kneepads the entire time he was “interviewing” Newsom. Another curiosity is whether Cohen has had his conscience surgically or chemically removed given the massive damage Newsom has done to California generally and the people of San Francisco and Los Angeles in particular.
December 16, 2023: Reader Tips
This evening we present a cover of Satisfaction, as performed by Ksenia Buzina. Who is the lovely Ms. Buzina, you ask? A key member of Leonid and Friends, who I’ve been fortunate to have seen 6 times in concert the past two years! Here she is performing with them.
Your best tips are mightily appreciated!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
NSFW
More, if you think you must: Cardin staff wildin’. Making porn at work and yelling “free Palestine” at a Jewish congressman?
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Hit me baby, one more time…
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
General Motors’ Cruise on Thursday announced internally that it will lay off 900 employees, or 24% of its workforce, the company confirmed to CNBC.
The layoffs, which primarily affected commercial operations and related corporate functions, are the latest turmoil for the robotaxi startup and come one day after Cruise dismissed nine “key leaders” for the company’s response to an Oct. 2 accident in which a pedestrian was dragged 20 feet by a Cruise self-driving car after being struck by another vehicle.
The company had 3,800 employees before Thursday’s cuts, which also follow a round of contractor layoffs at Cruise last month. Affected employees will receive paychecks until Feb. 12 and at least an additional eight weeks of pay, plus severance based on tenure.
Things You Won’t See on CBC
Nothing to see here, just move along. Every single government official did everything perfectly throughout the pandemic and continues to do so. We are truly blessed to ruled by such divine and omniscience individuals.
Dr. John Campbell- Canadian Citizens Inquiry
National Citizens Inquiry- Commissioners Final Report
Anyone who participated in the hearings or watched even a small fraction of the more than 300 recorded testimonies will have been changed forever. Many of the testimonies were heartbreaking, shocking, and often terrifying. Over the 24 days of hearings, witness testimonies provided an overall sense of how Canada has been transformed by the actions of all levels of government to address to address the pandemic.
The transformation from what was once considered unthinkable — e.g. sweeping restrictions of Charter rights — to the to the acceptance of draconian government lockdowns within a span of just three years is indeed a remarkable phenomenon.
The testimonies objectively demonstrate that an unprecedented attack has been carried out on the citizens of Canada and that not since World War II have so many Canadian lives been lost due to a single aggressive attack on its peoples.
Too little, too late
When even the leftist media starts to pick up on the utter lack of justification for many pandemic restrictions, you start to think that maybe there’s hope for humanity.
As part of the next volume on the COVID response, Martin found the Department of Justice and Public Safety’s hotel isolation program, cost taxpayers more than $5.4 million and only nine travellers tested positive for COVID-19.
The program, implemented in May 2021 to reduce non-essential travel and operated by the Red Cross until the end of June 2021, required leisure travellers to self-isolate at an isolation hotel at their own expense for at least seven days upon return to New Brunswick.
The department doesn’t know whether the program decreased travel or mitigated COVID-19 risks, he said, because it didn’t have clearly established goals and didn’t review the outcomes.
Enbridge sells one of its babies
Enbridge sells Alliance Pipeline, Aux Sable to Pembina Pipeline
This is part of a continuing trend of Enbridge selling assets to enhance its American expansion.
I worked on almost every dirt-moving crew on the construction of the Alliance Pipeline, from 35 C below to 30 C above. I started on road bores, special projects, ditch, tie-ins, did a bit of backfill and eventually final cleanup. I started work three weeks after my wedding, and out of the 12 guys on my road bore crew bus, I was the only one married once.
Justin’s Toronto Honours The Slave Trade
The new name for Yonge-Dundas square, has an interesting history.
Y2Kyoto: Money To Burn
Robert Lyman (Financial Post);
The International Energy Agency, in its reports on energy financing, breaks down global energy investment into investment in fossil fuels, on the one hand, and in “clean energy,” on the other. In 2023, estimated investment in “clean energy” will be close to $2.2 trillion (in C$). That is an almost unimaginable amount of money, made only slightly less daunting when portrayed as $6 billion per day. […]
What has been the result of these gargantuan expenditures? The effects of current investments in electrical energy infrastructure won’t be fully apparent for some time, but we should be able to see the effects of spending that has been rising for more than 20 years. To find out, I consulted the authoritative Statistical Review of World Energy 2023, published by the Energy Institute, the successor to British Petroleum as the producer of the Statistical Review. It works closely with KPMG to produce the report.
The share of the world’s primary energy consumption produced by renewable energy has essentially doubled since 2015, from about 3.5 to seven per cent of the world total. Yet, fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal), which accounted for 85 per cent of primary energy consumption in 2015, still accounted for 82 per cent in 2022. At that rate of reduction — three percentage points every seven years — we will not get to full decarbonization (i.e., zero use of fossil fuels) until well into the next century.
As usual, the news is buried in the opinion pages.
Related: Whoppers and moer whoppers in the WSJ
Today In Islam
UN vote upsets Jewish MPs. A Nir Oz survivor. The Israelophobes. Hamas conducts a fake killing for the media (JW). A new Palestinian poll (JW). Christmas in Delaware.
Friday On Turtle Island
Woke Britain: Democracy is dead. – Neil Oliver And colonization in reverse.
Dementia Joe’s America: Busted in Boston. Can men menstruate? A generation of mutants.
Blackie’s Canada: Taxpayers owe Indians 76 billion dollars or something (CBC). Justin’s NDP reject Christian Heritage Month. Getting rid of colonialism in Comrade Chow’s Toronto. Our Dear Leader is having a wonderful time in Vancouver. Hans Gruber’s Christmas gift to Canadians.
Your morning meme. Another meme. A cartoon.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including the designated drivers of yesteryear; where dimples are highly valued; how progressives destroy empathy; a scone pronunciation map; and when your new neighbour wants you to know that he’s a self-satisfied dick.
December 15, 2023: Reader Tips
This evening, sit back and enjoy the wonderful 1954 film, Sabrina.
Your most interesting tips of late are always appreciated.