49 Replies to “May 23, 2026: Reader Tips”

    1. Wow. Just wow. Let me remind you though … “he’s just a reality TV star” … just like Trump. Oh, and that Transportation guy who is far worse than the gay guy who came (sorry) before him.

      Let me suggest that the Narcan industrial complex is as much of a problem as the ‘free’ needles and ‘free’ drugs. After my recent hip surgery, they sent me home with a bottle of Oxycodone (a very small dose, that elicits ZERO ‘high’) … but … the hospital gave me mandatory Narcan when I was still in my hospital bed … and then, wouldn’t let me leave the lobby of the hospital without taking ANOTHER box of Narcan. WTF!? They even made me sign a document certifying they had sent me home with Narcan. I never took a single Oxy pill. The bottle is still in my med. cabinet. But … what’s up with the Narcan industry, and what laws and regulations are MANDATING the distribution of this drug as if we’re ALL street drug addicts now? We’ve jumped so many sharks my legs are getting tired.

      Pratt has a much greater depth and intelligence than JUST his humorous memes. However, he very cleverly distributed those memes FIRST … to get everyone’s attention. It worked. I sent him some money because of it … and now … I’m gonna send him more after watching this video.

    1. So … it may actually be ‘safer’ for the Singh family to defecate in Canadian waterways and beaches?

    1. gawd gawd gawd gawd. its like a form of mass hysteria. WHY does the left get SO MUCH backwards?
      up is down, right is wrong, every one of them at the top is hiding a double standard somewhere.
      and then they get elected ?
      ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

      1. Because there are no consequences for getting things wrong. If there were, they’d stop.

      2. “…up is down, right is wrong, every one of them at the top is hiding a double standard somewhere.
        and then they get elected ?”

        Yeah. Because the elections are rigged. The rest of it is squid ink to cover their fraud and pillaging.

        And it’s been going on since at least WWII, I’m going to guess possibly since WWI. Might be time we make them stop, eh?

    1. Gavin Newsom is actually … partially … right about Chevron (and all the other corporate branded gas stations in CA).

      The problem in CA is that all the truly INDEPENDENT gas stations have been driven out of business by draconian, unaffordable, environmental and business regulations. Few independently owned gas stations means there is no price competition (to speak of) in the State.

      I’m old enough to remember “gas price wars” … and gas stations who gave out blue chip stamps, or green stamps with every fill up to attract customers. They also used to give out free glassware with every fillup. Those were the days. Those things have gone the way of the rotary telephone. Why? Because ALL gas stations were forced to dig up and replace their underground tanks and replace them to the tune of millions of dollars. And the State offered ZERO economic assistance to those unbranded independent owner-operators. We give out free drugs to addicts to the tune of hundreds of millions … but gave no such support to productive businesspeople.

      So the major oil companies have completely taken over the marketplace and have NO incentive whatsoever to cut prices that they essentially FIX. No, I am not a communist anti-business goofball… but I am absolutely an anti-monopolistic free marketeer. The State … through all of its overregulation and outright hostility toward small business … have created a landscape where gasoline price fixing and collusion reigns supreme. Yes, gas taxes, and yes, special gas formulations … but a bevy of other so-called environmental regulations have completely KILLED competition.

      So yes, I actually NEVER buy Chevron gas at their corporate-branded stations. Nor Valero. Nor Union 76. None of em. I use Gas Buddy, and use the map function to find the cheapest gasoline nearby. Yes, I have to drive 5-10 miles to find it in local “little Mexico” neighborhoods … but I refuse to pay the +$0.75/gal. MORE at Chevron and other corporate stations.

    1. I worked adjacent to a HR department at a large corporation for almost 20 years. They too were “creating problems that didn’t exist”, especially my last 4 years or so, after they created their DEI program (they renamed it their DEIB towards the end, the “B” standing for “Belonging”). Just nonstop, left-wing propaganda jammed down the throats of all the employees seemingly 24/7. You’d walk in the lobby every day and the big giant propaganda screen would be celebrating some obscure minority with “blah, blah, blah awareness month” or something, then there was the Intranet which would be doing the same, on top of that was all the divisive “training” telling everybody how awful white men were. Anyway, I left there about three years ago, and as a foreign company, they’ve been getting slammed by Trump’s tariffs. Couldn’t happen to a nicer company! lol.

    2. I have a problem with this and it’s not because I love HR Departments. Where is senior management in all of this and how could they let their HR Dept get so out-of-control? It’s not cool to say “we had to fire our senior management because they were totally useless”. After all – who hired the senior management? The guy who fired the entire HR Dept. So yeah, it’s easier to say HR fugged up than it is to admit you’re a crappy CEO.

    3. Human Resources has become a marxist construct to redefine No Merit Troublemakers;
      ie DEI.

      Businesses hire lawyers to manage gov’t red-tape (a bottleneck conceived by & for lawyers),
      HR is lawyer advice to hire more gov’t red-tape conformists.

    4. The last HR Department I had to deal with … reprimanded me for mocking and telling sexual jokes at our mandatory “Sexual Harassment Training”. It was a JOKE … and I treated it accordingly.

    1. More irony:

      Christians believe their individual rights and freedoms were given to them by God and Leftists find this appalling.

      Meanwhile, Moslems have no rights or freedoms, merely demands and dictates from a god on every single aspect of living from what they can eat, to who they can kill and rape, to how to take a piss and Leftists are embracing them.

  1. I visited MIT as a 9yo back in 1976. My oldest brother, extremely brilliant, was thinking of going there for meteorology. An impressive and intimidating place, especially as seen through the eyes of a 9yo. The youngest of four, and so not the recipient of a lot of parental attention, it was then I knew I had to lower my expectations for getting into “a good school”. And I didn’t. Hello Rutgers! Luckily for me though, at least I didn’t come out of there brainwashed as a commie puke.

    1. I’m dealing with MIT and UC Berkley on a mining research project. These are very smart people. Hard to keep up with them. But I asked if they saw the irony in two “left-wing” universities having to reach out to a Canadian miner because their own states have no similar mining opportunities? Their reply was “let’s not go there”. The money is coming from the US Federal Government BTW.

    1. Do the Blackjacks play in Trudeau-style blackface? I suspect Xavier Trudeau was named in honour of F. Scott FitzGerald’s showbiz cousin, X. Factor FitzGerald.

      1. Xavier could wear blackface – getting tips from his gay father – and become their mascot, Blackjackoff.

  2. For those interested in hands-on: There is a computer “game” called Reentry (you can get it on Steam) modeling the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft including the LEM. This is a labour of love from an independant creator. This is hardcore, not for kids. If you have the patience and willingness to learn, you can work with those early specialized computers. (input nouns and verbs). A space flight is basically a program running throughout the mission with human imput updating the various variables through observation and correlation with mission control. The LEM was especially interesting going from automatic approach to semi-automatic with human input through an early fly-by-wire system. Merging the data from on-board observations and mission control observations. And the computer was designed to prioritize some routines over others, able to keep running even if some “crashed”. Space flight nerds should give this one a try (it’s cheap) just for kicks.

    1. there was a LEM lander simulator on the console of the cyber 6400 mainframe.
      l was the first to land it when l discovered on the system where l worked one could manually input and adjust the
      trajectory with the automatic pilot on. it alone always crashed. and manual alone always crashed.
      the landing site was way off target. but l did it.
      word is the apollo pilots practiced with it but l could not verify that.
      the mainframe had 2 console displays, the contents of either one was switched merely by tapping (a)
      letter(s) on the keyboard, or the name of the lander simulator.
      l once hung the system by initiating too many copies of the simulator out of boredom one night shift.
      this is a cyber 6400
      https://media.sciencephoto.com/c0/04/71/02/c0047102-800px-wm.jpg

    1. well good. serves them right for time and again acting in the interests of the muzzies.

  3. https://open.substack.com/pub/ftonindependent/p/fredericton-woman-admits-to-horrific?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1kvxpf

    This happened three years ago in Fredericton, NB, where I live. A Muslim mother beat, tortured and starved a 7-year-old girl, and beat two other children as well. The judge handed her a 9 1/2 year sentence, one more than the prosecution asked, given that the mother burner her with metal rods, etc.

    The mother complained about not getting halal food while awaiting trial in prison.

    1. I only found out about this after my wife talked to our local city councilman and his lawyer wife yesterday. You see, the father and kids were our next door neighbours, our back yards facing each other, after the mother was sent to prison. The first day they were here, their nine year old son was standing in our front yard, as if he owned the place. I talked to him for a bit, until his father came and gruffly took him away.

      That summer we wondered where the mother was, not knowing what happened. The teenaged daughter never came outside, except to attend high school. The father spent most of his time reading and smoking in a chair, sometimes talking to other Muslim men. We didn’t know this, but the father was under a court order not to have contact with his children — yet his kids except for his oldest daughter lived in his house and often played in the back yard.

      Last fall, 2025, the house and yard went empty. We thought the family was on an extended trip to the Middle East. It turned out the father was under a court order not to have contact with the kids, but was finally sent to jail for keeping the kids at his house. The two older girls are being fostered by two Fredericton High teachers, while the two boys are being fostered separately by two other families. The Crown dropped the charge against the father for not reporting the mother’s abuse earlier.

    2. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-child-abuse-sentencing-mother-2023-1.6892424

      This is the local CBC’s take on the 9 1/2 year sentence. The corrupt news agency spends the last half of the article whining about that NB social services is understaffed and underfunded, and this is why the little girl was not cared for. The CBC fully censored that the family is Muslim, this despite the fact that the mother’s lawyer complained that the women’s prison in Miramichi City didn’t serve halal food and that the prison staff threatened to take away her hijab if she didn’t behave.

      But note that this should have been a national story, given how the little daughter suffered. But the national CBC didn’t run the New Brunswick story. The Canadian Press didn’t carry the story either. Finally, this affair has made my wife and I angry and sad beyond words.

      1. I’m sorry you had to live through that, David. What a hell of a thing to have happen in your literal back yard, and nothing to be done about it.

        I have no doubt if you had tried to stick your oar in at all, there’d be a national story about -you-.

        1. no no no. cheap pot and a *post national state*
          he did get that right, having arranged it on his own by issuing edicts from on high. (pun intended)
          ?
          occurs to me, did he actually say POT national state?

  4. WINNING WINNING WINNING
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/trump-admin-order-force-hundreds-thousands-foreigners-leave/
    “Officers are directed to consider all relevant factors and information on a case-by-case basis when determining whether an alien warrants this extraordinary form of relief,” the release said.
    “We’re returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly,”
    “consistent with long-standing immigration law and immigration court decisions, aliens seeking adjustment of status must do so through consular processing via the Department of State outside of the country.”
    “it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency,”

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