74 Replies to “February 3, 2024: Reader Tips”

      1. VOWG – At least she’s not a pretendian. Kelsey Asbille Chow is a Chinese American and plays Native American Monica Long on Yellowstone. Apparently those in charge of casting assumed that most Americans could not tell the difference between an Asian American and a Native American. Asbille has received criticism as a prominent pretendian. “She told The New York Times that she was of “Eastern Band Cherokee descent” and that playing an Indigenous woman was “in [her] blood”.[8] This resulted in the tribe issuing a statement that they have no record of Chow, nor did they find any evidence that she is a descendant” – (Wikipedia). 23 and Me could provide a definite answer. Both Chow and Strongarm are beautiful women, and are working hard so deserve some degree of success. But why do so many people (like Chow) have to pretend they are something they are not? Societal pressure?

        1. I know a family that their children are considered 25% indigenous. Their great grandfather was a blond haired blue eyed Mohawk.

  3. A reminder to dial into the ongoing Mann v. Steyn ‘Defamation’ trial ongoing in DC.
    Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer are doing an excellent job of presenting the ongoing trial by having the daily trial transcript read by voice actors for the various participants.

    Alternately entertaining and horrifying, as it illustrates the insanity of climate activism/lawfare in our times.
    11 episodes so far, more to come:
    https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/climate-change-on-trial/id1713827256

    1. Maikeru – If the MSM was confident of an outcome in favor of Mann I would think that they would be covering it like a modem day version of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 100 years ago. If Mann loses, and that’s not a certainty in a DC court, they will bury the story faster than the discovery of another Hunter Biden laptop. Thanks for the link!

      1. PHp2 – Phelim pointed out the lukewarm, so to speak, lack of interest by even ‘conservative’ news organizations.

    2. The same David Eby whose gov’t is quietly considering “sharing” all decision making for public use of Crown land with the Indigenous.

      You’ll need to get Indigenous permission to use what is public lands. They will have veto power, because “Stewards Of The Land”.

      We have until March 31st to let gov’t know what we think about this profoundly offensive plan:

      https://engage.gov.bc.ca/govtogetherbc/engagement/land-act-amendments/

    1. She is right it was mostly desert, the Jews turned it around using new irrigation methods they developed.

    2. David – you can’t say “Shithole” or “Ivermectin works” on the internet now or the bots will erase you. Clearly she is an islamophobe for publicly stating easily verifiable facts.

      1. If you can’t say “Shithole”, how do you discuss African politics? Isn’t that a common name there?

  8. Popular support for Quebec premier Francois Legault and the CAQ has completely collapsed. If an election were held today the CAQ would win only 9 out of 125 seats, down from 90 at the October 2022 election.

    https://qc125.com/

    The PQ would win a majority with 67 seats, up from only 3 at the last election. Their signature issue is lowering immigration to 35,000/yr. in Quebec, and they want to hold a first-term independence referendum.

    The next Quebec election is not until 2026 but if the PQ win there will likely be another referendum before the end of the decade, fought between immigration restrictionist separatists, and multiculturalist, open borders federalists.

    Canada delenda est

    1. I was born in Quebec, do I get a vote? Viva Canada Libre!! After losing the last two referendums, we can do better this time.

    2. “multiculturalist, open-borders federalists”. And that’s one problem with Trudeau’s corrupt, Ottawa-centric government: it risks Quebec and Alberta separating, given Trudeau’s patronage payoffs and woke ideology.

      Maritime, I’m a maritimer too, living in Fredericton. A PQ separation would hurt us disproportionately, but then again the PQ stance on immigration is spot on.

    3. Well, you know what they say… Third time’s the charm.
      (Crossing fingers…)
      And this is from a former Quebecer who stood under that now iconic giant Canadian flag during the federalist rally in Montreal back in ’95 (just before migrating to Ottawa).
      I learned my lesson good and hard.

    4. Quebec? The only state in North America that issued a curfew on their adult citizens and whose courts are still standing by these decisions? How about JUST GO! & F/O.

        1. Joe, the guy who gets idiots to eat spiders and other weird insects and gets them to jump off buildings. At least he did when he hosted “Fear Factor”.

      3. Here’s Joe Clark’s Wiki entry:
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Clark

        It’s an interesting read. Skipping past all of the little things he did as a politician, his post-political life how’s that he has played the appointments game like any other liberal-left politician. Everything from patronage jobcwith international agencie to teaching positions at various university “studies” programs, to honorary degrees plus the Order of Canada. A very establishment king of guy.

        1. The thing about Joe Clark that I remember is that he said we needed a 5 cent increase in gasoline taxes. Trudeau (the elder) promised no increase for 18 months. So care to guess what happened?

          1. It was 18 cents per gallon but the point is that Joe Clark was the only person in the history of the world running for election that promised a tax increase. Any guesses if it had anything to do with his loss? He was stupid, maybe not Kim Campbell stupid, but nevertheless stupid.

          2. Clark, with a minority government, introduced the 18 cent a gallon tax in his budget, which was then defeated by the Liberals and NDP, forcing an election.

            Clark also said he’d introduce mortage interest tax deductability. He rather stupidly said, he’d pay for it by raising gas taxes 18 cents a gallon,

            Trudeau Sr. said he’d not raise gas taxes 18 cents a gallon. He kept his promise, he raised them by, I think it was something like 22 or 26 cents a gallon, but he did it in several increments.

          3. “The thing about Joe Clark that I remember is that he said we needed a 5 cent increase in gasoline taxes. ”

            That was hard lesson, but it has certainly resonated down through the years:

            Never tell the public the truth, tell them what they want to hear.

            I felt bad for Joe (especially when Trudeau turned around and raised the gas taxes even higher), but he was politically naive. BIG guy, too…he almost bowled me over once in an elevator at the CBC in Vancouver.

    1. Steve from Rockwood: “Someone should write a book “How to sue a company that has no money”.”

      Maybe the jury will award them office supplies or something, Steve.

    2. They might want to google “judgment proof.” Nothing more satisfying than getting sued by someone who isn’t ever going to see a penny because there are no pennies. Make-work for lawyers.

    1. “size-inclusive” aka fatty. By normalizing overweight people (I’ve nothing against them) we are baking in their associated health problems.

  15. Another pessimistic financial outlook from Market Insider, this time from Jeremy Grantham:
    https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/us-stock-market-outlook-grantham-ai-bubble-crash-recession-economy-2024-2

    Market Insider is a funny online business magazine. Financed by a billionaire German oligarch, it’s left-wing. Therefore the multi-billion-dollar internet servers (e.g. Google, Yahoo) like the mag’s woke politics and give it a heavy push. But the financial commentary is level-headed and cautious, much like the conservative business commentary.

    1. I follow Zero Hedge. My theory is that there should be less bullshit from the financial media than from the disgusting mainstream media. So far, it’s mostly working out.

    1. We know Biden was paid off by the Chinese, Russians, Ukrainians, and Romanians. It’s starting to look like he received a lot of millions from the Iranians. Considering how Obama also knelt before the Ayatollahs, did he share in the good fortune? What other motivation could there be for such Iranian ass kissing?

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