54 Replies to “January 1, 2025: Reader Tips”

  1. Cheers to all SDA’rs.

    Celebrating with a bottle of decent brandy and excellent food I cooked for myself.

    I’m heartened by the belief that things cannot possibly get worse…but I’ve been wrong before.

    3. “Hammered on nice Gibson’s Rye.”

      Rum and Coke for me. All the best to you and yours.

  3. Like most New Year’s Eves, a decent meal and knowing that next year is going to suck even worse.

      1. I want one, but I want one that’s affordable both to buy and replace the battery. BYD does that or comes close but Ottawa decided that my freedom of choice should be sacrificed for union entitlements.

  8. Left Saskatoon Christmas day, 36 hours or more later, was in Sydney, Australia. Spent New Year’s Eve on a tall ship in Sydney harbour.

    Another item scratched off my bucket list! Happy New Year!!

  10. So, my New Year’s wish is that instead of any armed goon asking me for papers when all I’m doing is minding my own business can be met in kind. In Canada, this is called “suspicious”, and indeed warrants having anyone who sees it to report it to the authorities, because we love Big Brother.

  13. It is probably Oban talking.

    A toast to SDA:
    (translation from Leszek Wojtowicz)

    For the records I have never recorded and will never record
    For the idiots I would gladly send to hell
    For the mad preachers who blaspheme in the name of God
    For those who speak so softly that it makes my hair stand

    For the angels who tried to convert me with their songs
    For the women who I had to throw out of my heart
    For the Judases who sold out their own nation in the most vile way
    For the truest geniuses of whom there were only a few

    For them who went crazy with money
    For them in shelters and the worst dens in the country
    For the reds who learned their prayers in time
    For the unwavering ones who stubbornly believe in the black and white world

    For the drunkards who drink because a drunkard has to drink
    For the nicotine connoisseurs who are choked by their stupid weakness
    For the gluttons who find paradise on earth at the table
    For the lazy whom no work will ever change

    For the leaders whom we ourselves have raised too high
    For the ghosts that still appear at dusk
    For the prophets who know what the Grand Finale will be
    For all of you good people whom I love and curse

    1. “The authoritarians in charge dont like this song… so they banned it… kind catchy…”

      It was…right up until the line about Israel, when it became just another boring left-wing whine…

  19. Meh, meet the new year. Same as the old year. Have a happy one anyway.

  20. Hope everyone has a great 2025!

    China lent Kenya $3.6 billion to build a Chinese railroad across the country using Chinese steel and concrete. The railway needs to move 20-50 million tonnes of goods per year to make money.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ALqdqoTYSE

    Four years later and the Kenyan government has repaid $0.3 billion of the loan ($3.3 billion remains) and the railway loses about $200 million per year moving about 5 million tonnes of cargo.

    The Chinese government is rethinking its belt and road initiative because such ventures can harm the Chinese banks that fund these projects.

    1. It is my understanding that the Chinese government is pleased when this happens as when the loan is not repaid in the time specified, the Chinese take over the railroad/road/infrastructure and charge twice as much to move goods. As the infrastructure is the only one in place or maintained, people moving goods have no other option but to pay the usurious rates.

    2. The original non standard gauge railway was built by the British 120 years ago. See the movie ‘The Ghost and the Darkness’. It went from the coast to Lake Victoria with labour provided by workers from India, many who stayed on to form the backbone of the new economy.
      The indigenous population at the time was around 2 – 3 million. So now here we are in spite of huge investments by the west. Hello CIDA. The population sits at around 45 million and the infrastructure has barely improved from what the Brits left behind in 1963. Huge mansions for the well connected are everywhere yet the nation’s road traffic still makes do with the two lanes built by Italian POWs in the 40s.
      China has built projects all over Africa in countries with worse credit standing. The end goal apppears to involve taking control of other assets as a form of payment.

  21. Pelly, Saskatchewan had a bad start to the year as their only grocery store burned to the ground.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tib0Oo-8ak

    The fire started at the back of the store and moved throughout the building. Fire fighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to other nearby buildings.

    1. Good old Pelly! The joke was that the opera “Peleas et Melisande” has never been produced in Saskatchewan, because they’re afraid that the moment someone says “Pelly ass” everybody will burst out laughing.

  22. To end the year I bought a nice Vortex Spitfire Prism ($150.00 off!) yesterday.
    All my semi-autos can’t leave the safe due to Turdy and the Liberal’s (illegal) OIC and I’m not going all the way to the range to just shoot my girlfriend’s Savage bolt-action .22. (Sigh.)
    So why the sight?
    Until I can put the prism on a proper mate, it’s going on the air rifle, lol.

    Happy New Year to almost everyone.
    Hope 2025 is a good year.

    1. I put that sight on .357 Mag lever action carbine, works well for short ranges.
      Happy New Year and keep the powder dry.

  23. Julie London doing “What are you doing New Years eve”. She was something. Sexy in a cocktail dress – and that voice! It would inspire you to crawl into bed with your wife…ha

    In the dense Boreal forest hanging out out with a trapping buddy. It’s a slow fur season – too warm. Damn global warming…

    Heading home to Alberta on the Via next week. Me and my dogg SJ.

    Happy New Year one and all.

  24. Best joke of the year so far – ‘They pushed Kamala so hard you’d think she was patented by Pfizer’ – Whitney Cummings. Very well done.
    Happy New Year Everyone!

  32. I just realized that 2025 is the Year of the Snake. I wonder what Justin has planned…

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