65 Replies to “April 16, 2024: Reader Tips”

    1. It’s a ridiculous analysis from beginning to end. It gives far too much credit to Iran and not nearly enough to Israel.

    2. My understanding is that the attack was pre-agreed between the US, Iran, Israel. Two air bases were hit, damage unknown and the missile attack was overcome with assistance from US, UK and France. More than these genral points, I know nothing. Certainly they help both Netanyahoo and the Ayatolahas, politically.

      1. “My understanding is that the attack was pre-agreed between the US, Iran, Israel. Two air bases were hit, damage unknown ”

        I believe it was only one air base with two missiles impacting, and causing only minor structural damage. The base remained fully operational. The only person injured in the entire attack was a Bedouin girl hit by shrapnel. Iran was VERY CAREFUL not to do any actual damage, because they know very well how they would fare in a real military confrontation with Israel. Now they are practically begging the rest of the world to stop Israel from any retaliation for their ‘symbolic’ missile attack.

        I hope Israel hits them back hard enough to teach them the error of their ways.

    1. There’s no plan like no plan.

      Most notable in the CO2-fighting edicts issued by a dozen or so US blue states is the absence of conversations, discussions and/or negotiations with the companies providing those states with electricity.

      Across the US, only Dominion, who supplies electricity to the state of Virginia, has stepped forward and pro-actively advised of the impossibility of achieving the carbon reductions the state has mandated, while simultaneously keeping electricity flowing.

      Virginia will likely forge ahead, without considering holding any conversations or negotiations with Dominion; thereby leading to electricity blackouts. Then people will die, because modern civilization and simple survival require affordable energy.

      Objective reality cannot be legislated, and that will soon be demonstrated, in winter.

    1. That’s a fairly old video from Sweden. The really relevant part is when a local in a mobility scooter saves the journalists by running over a gang member, and then the journalists take the opportunity to bugger off and leave the local senior to fend for himself.

      You think you hate journalists enough, but I assure you you don’t.

  6. Robert … sadly … Shocking Blue is viewed as a one-hit-wonder … but they really weren’t. Rather, they might have been just a little too avant-garde, artsy-fartsy for their time.

    Here’s my ALL TIME FAVORITE … “California” … song. It still kicks ass … after all these years. There’s nothing quite like 1969 psychedelic rock … check out the lead guitar break … so cool. It still holds up … here in 2024. I’d like to hear AI replicate the originality of 60’s and 70’s rock! Ha! Good luck.

    https://youtu.be/eOKGUWjHWHA?si=YcAWBszkHTIFArqv

      1. Oh Well – Part II …
        Honey, I’ve finished the Internet …

        I love me some Danny Kirwin (who actually played everything most people credit to Peter Green). Such a sweet soul … and The Shocking Blue may have been influenced by Oh Well Part II. That OK … influence and inspiration is good. Plagiarism is bad mmmkay.

        https://youtu.be/0qi5u2RXLcY?si=7U2tkO7HtnpFy2lo

    2. I doubt there is any artistic creativity or artistry in the AI chips, Nvidia or other. That’s okay, because future life in the struggling Republic will reflect the lives of serfs, essentially slaves, laboring in underground coal mines in 16th century Wales.

  13. Statistics Canada just released its March inflation (CPI) data.

    Total consumer prices rose by 0.6% month-over-month, or 7.2% measured at annual rates. But the corporate pundits at BBN-Bloomberg new are all happy with the inflation print. You see, stripping out energy and food costs, “core inflation” came in slightly lower than expected, 2.8% year-over-yezr vs. the 2.9% that was expected by economists. The business class is not worried about people struggling with higher food, rent znd gasoline prices.

  15. Hmm. I just encountered my first experience of a disappearing post. No vulgarity used.

  17. I just got off the phone with the stockbroker who does all my trades. He said he checked his Twitter this morning and the oil and gas analysts are all worried that the tax increases in this afternoon’s federal budget might be focused on Western Canada’s energy sector. Could be a revisit to the National Energy Plan tabled in 1981 (1980?). You know, senior Trudeau’s money grab that sank Alberta into an economic depression.

    The media reports this morning talked of tax increases on “certain” corporations. On wonders what corporations these might be.

  18. For what it’s worth, I would like to add to this article:
    https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/04/09/a_heretics_view_blaming_food_for_obesity_is_like_blaming_water_for_drowning_1023353.html

    I come from a farming background. I have had success in changing my diet to an “old school” diet. This is basically the way people ate in the 1940’s~1950’s. This was spurred on by looking at old photo albums and family movies and noting how no one was fat. Even those who (at the time) were thought of as fat were not fat (compared to today).

    I think the current diet of low fat/no fat food is the problem. As the brain is ~70% fat, I think the body craves fat to feed the metabolic processes. Trimming fat from your diet causes “cravings” that cause people to eat far too much.

    I know many people who are “gurus” of healthy eating; while at the same time are as big as a house. That doesn’t seem right…

    1. Larry, I think that the biggest problem with obesity is the inactive lifestyle. You were blessed to grow up on a farm where there is always a physical task to complete. When you were farming, you probably didn’t have any issues with being overweight. Full disclosure – all my aunts, uncles and most of my cousins come from farming stock. While they were on the farm, obesity was not a problem.

      So my theory is that it isn’t so much what you eat, but what you do after you eat. I offer this theory for what it is worth – an opinion.

    2. Back then, lots of physical work, much in industries that no longer exist here, and attitude to work. Have you seen a government worker actually pick up a shovel, or broom? Not happening when the front end loader can “try” to scrape gravel off of the pavement…

      And….smoking…..the nicotine being an appetite decreaser. Lots of smokers back then.

      Nictine has many health benefits, just a bad delivery system…..

    3. I don’t know if “right” is the correct word. It darn sure doesn’t make any sense.

      My personal dietary guidelines:
      1. Never eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize.
      2. Never eat anything that comes in a box.
      3. “Eat food, not a lot, mostly vegetables.” – Michael Pollan

      It is postulated that today’s processed foods provide no nutrition, and because of this consuming them does not create a sense of satiation. This is why people can eat vast amounts of junk food…and thereby gain weight.

      Everything I eat comes in this house in a recognizable format, ie. tomatoes, celery, lettuce, cucumbers, beans, carrots, chicken, bacon, eggs. No over-packaged processed foods filled with incomprehensible, un-pronounceable ingredients EVER.

  28. I must be getting old. I thought someone said that Chrystia had an insatiable desire for Canada … but what was actually said was she has an “insatiable desire to fvck Canada”.

    ‘Shell game’: Liberals to spread Tuesday’s big-ticket budget spending to burnish deficit
    https://archive.is/HqGpE

  30. Arrests made in $20-million Toronto Pearson airport gold heist, police say
    https://archive.is/DFkMw

    Journalists have been invited to a media conference at 8:30 a.m. in Brampton where Peel police Chief Nishan Duraiappah is expected to be joined by Peel Detective Sergeant Mike Mavity, and ATF Special Agent-in-Charge Eric DeGree…

  36. ‘April’ ha ha! speaking of ‘April’, Lynn Johnson who penned ‘for better or worse’ now in reruns, is about to kill off Farley the family dog from exhaustion and who has just helped rescue April the littlest one after she falls in a spring runoff stream.

    https://fborfw.com/strip_fix/strips/fb240416.gif

    the flak that woman got. oyph. uber ‘how dare you traumatize bla bla’
    l sent a letter to the editor described it as a beautiful way reminding the little ones and parents how deadly that water is.

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