38 Replies to “Sure Thing, Lucy.”

  2. Sorry … but I gotta post this again … such a kewl tune WAY ahead of it’s time

    Talk-talk … that’s all I got … so we might as well listen to that talk with a cool fuzz bass overlay!
    https://youtu.be/iZExWt-bj-k?si=V0fLABAsO5_Ytl5v

    Yes, my 10yo self LOVED this photo-punk tune in 1966 on my brand new pocket-sized transistor radio … that never did the fuzz bass full sonic justice.

    1. Kenji, I started university in Sep 1965.
      The band, me on Fender Precision bass, played Talk Talk.
      Yup, it was ahead of its time and a challenge.
      Thanks: haven’t heard this since then.

      1. Do you still own that Precision bass? $$$$$. I wish I was a little bit older then. My best friend’s mom was a guitar teacher … a really good one, who taught all the current rock music … but wouldn’t teach 10yo’s … because our fingers were too short. That was her excuse anyway.

        1. Sadly, nope. Financial stress not long after uni forced me to sell it. Bought a new American-made Precision 3-4 years ago when I got back into songwriting after a multi-decade absence.

          Man, your pop/rock knowledge is encyclopedic!
          Never too late to learn.

          1. The husband of a friend of mine was telling me about his bass playing years (he’s about your age) at a party at his house … so I asked him what bass he played … and he takes me to his bedroom and pulls a brand new looking Fender case from under the bed and pulls out a Pristine 1961 Fender Jazz bass. My eyes bugged out and I asked him if he was interested in selling it … he laughed and gave me a look that said … “you can’t afford it”. Probably not. It was a thing of beauty.

            No, I’m no encyclopedia of pop/rock … I simply remember what I like/liked … and YouTube has provided an amazing historic documentation of my era’s music.

  3. My friends in Canada, you need to start preparing your finances. I have a bad feeling about what’s going to be unleashed towards the end of July, and August. Carney is going to refuse to budge on the USMCA discussions, and the US is going to hand-over a six month notice of full departure while simultaneously doing a one on one trade agreement with Mexico. China is going to swoop in and buy your goods for a fraction of their worth. And, they will get concessions in the process including building unlimited autos in Canada. They will bring in their own workforce and all those Canadian politicians who have their hands in the Chinese pockets are just going to stay quiet. That’s not going to do your banks any favors, and the Canadian dollar is going to tank more than it is at present. US Dollars are going to become popular up there.

    This will be the first major step by China to gain access to Canadian Arctic claims and all the resources attached to that. The will additionally try to leverage out acquisition of Albertan and BC resources. My personal opinion is that things are about to speed up…and instead of pointing fingers at the parties in Canada that created this risk, they are going to be directed at the US as a misdirection while doing nothing to negate the repercussions of decades long dereliction.

    I noted that The Conservative Treehouse is thinking along the same lines ( https://tinyurl.com/y6rj4cvt ) although I don’t think he goes far enough on China’s ultimate goal.

    1. “I noted that The Conservative Treehouse is thinking along the same lines ( https://tinyurl.com/y6rj4cvt ) although I don’t think he goes far enough on China’s ultimate goal.”

      Yeah, that article impressed me so much that I posted the link in the Reader Tips thread.

      There is nothing in it that I can disagree with. We deserve everything that is coming our way. 🙁

  4. Remember, the Modern Monetary Theory people (Carney) don’t believe debt or printing money is bad because its more money in circulation!
    Isn’t that wonderful?
    More debt is actually more money and more money means we’re all richer!

    2. 1/3 for construction, 2/3 for grift and incompetence
      I’d like to see the books open on Trans Mountain and compare the cost of the actual construction contracts vrs “consultation”, administration and the financial costs of dragging the job out but that would require a change of government.

  7. This is socialism, defined!
    Only government can build things and do things. Because?
    The peoples have been so brainwashed into thinking government is benevolent, smart and caring. Instead it’s an uncaring behemoth, incapable of financial responsibility and will destroy you if you get in the way.
    These are all the things private industry was demonized for, by socialists, incorrectly.
    Now, in Canadastan, seems only government thinks it’s smart enough to do big projects, despite many, many examples that they Don’t, can’t and are irresponsible caretakers of the finances.
    Remember what Rafe Mair said years ago. Power Corrupts, but Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely!
    Yes indeed fellow SDA followers, get your finances in order and prepare. Despite socialism failing everywhere and destroying wealth, Canadastan is heading down that path of failure that has been followed all too many times in the past, always ending the same way.
    It ain’t “Prosperity”, to quote Marx Carnage.

  8. L – The industrial carbon tax on oil makes: oil development, building a pipeline to a (theoretical) B.C. port is uncompetitive. Therefore, no private company can justify investing in a Memorandum of (Mis-Understanding. Alberta has a number of oil and pipeline CEOs w/companies eager to do business, anywhere there is a profit in the oil/pipeline business plan, and they are. They are now investing in Venezuela.

    Jeff Rath, lawyer/A.P.P. advocate has spoken to the Oil executives in Alberta. Is Premier Danielle Smith’s naivite´or bad moral judgment, or is surrounded by corrupt advisors,(or I suggest a Hail Mary, 4th option maybe playing a longer game, “I tried in good faith and failed, vote as you choose in future referenda. I’m your servant, not Ottawa’s? “)

    Bottom line, by admitting it will take: 44 Billion of federal government money, an unknown number of years to build a pipeline to a coast, one that is still prevented by law from loading an oil cargo ship. The dead cat just fell out of the bag!

    Carney is going to have trouble hanging onto power long enough to enact and enforce his Chinese Social Credit policies and enslave the minds of Albertans and Saskies. Without the oil bilionaires pumping Mark Carney’s tires. Trying to drive on a flat tire economy ain’t going to feed the growing hungry and house the growing homeless. Year one was a propaganda job. Year two the bovine fecal matter hits the rotating aeration device.

    A Ukrainian refugee mentioned that the Canadian government is now depositing small amounts of $ for Canadians to buy weeks(?) worth of food. He laughed hilariously. Soviet Union breadline memories…

    The U.S. Treasury Sec. Bessent is already open to an Alberta pipeline south and southwest to the northwest coast of America. Exercise the obvious and $ Billions buy in, and she’s the hero, Alberta needs. Or Albertan’s will replace her, rather live as indentured servants(slaves)in their own land.

    *(Nothing stands in the way of China buying up 3 provinces of prairie farmland by the township)

  9. Government is going to build it? Then it will cost taxpayers a lot more than $44 billion.

    Like double that.

    And it will take 20 years to complete and will leak like a sieve.

    And likely never transport a drop of oil.

    1. Wait!
      I’ve got the solution!
      Build a high speed oil tanker train from Fort McMurray to Buttfck BC.
      Jesus wept, I should run for office!
      We’ll call it the Lac Megantic Express!

      1. That, perhaps geographically speaking, would be from Fort Mac Money to Prince Buttfck Rupert.
        More like the Ocean Gigantic route to other/also China express. Deeper ports for bigger boats is what I heard. Hence, a north oriented pipeline would have economies of scale, as opposed to tripling the TM route.
        Is that correct, Mr. Zimchuk?

  10. Byt the time (if ever) this pipline gets built, and the costs of carbon credits, indigenous grift, bureaucratic theft, Canadian taxes etc., etc., are built in, it will be the highest cost oil in the world. By then, Venezuela will be producing 4million bbl/day with none of those costs, Asia will buy that and this white elephant will sit empty as the high speed train. Canada is done, and it deserves to be done. Good riddance.

  11. According to the NIST graph of CO2 vs IR, and the Wein formula for temperature, CO2 absorbs little or no IR at 9.8 microns or around 20C. What gives?

    1. “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.” Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC
      When they tell you who they are, believe them.

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