54 Replies to “August 17, 2026: Reader Tips”

    1. Thanks Larry, that is excellent.
      Staffing the Canadian military with foreign mercenaries? No problem!

    1. Thank you for sharing – I remember seeing this when it first came out in the 1990’s. The three leads were excellent as well as the supporting cast. It could be any small town in Alberta or Saskatchewan.

    1. Psssst … Dear media; Check the map. Russia hasn’t given up any of the land they’ve seized by military force. They’re not giving it back, and Ukraine is utterly unable to TAKE it back. All these other skirmishes are just so much noise.

  7. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/dallas-airport-shelves-muslim-washing-facilities-after-texas-governor-threatens-airport-funding-6075683?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge

    Texas governor Greg Abbott intervenes to prevent the Dallas-Fort Worth airport from setting up separate washrooms for Muslims only.

    (Reminds me of a summer day maybe 10 oe 12 years ago. I was using our academic departmen’s men’s room, and a Muslim student stepped up beside me and, one foot at a time, started to wash his feet in a lavatory sink).

    2. More likely … Reebok is too frightened to say anything. Their stock price would crater if they lost all their institutional ESG investors … investors who will only support racist corporations that kowtow to BLM, DEI, and the LGBTQueers. Psssst … DeJOnay is a lesbian … who just caught her dildo partner pleasuring other women. DE-JO-nay is pissed … and she’d unleash holy hell on Reebok if they suddenly grew some morality balls.

    1. While American manufacturing booms … some factories overseas (or over our borders) are slowing to a crawl. America is benefiting greatly from the deindustrialization of our fellow Western nations. Go for it! Embrace Net Zero with every last brain cell, my fellow Westerners. And then flood your nations with incompatible freeloaders.

  15. Interesting piece, very germane to the upcoming midterms in the U.S.:
    https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2026/08/12/how-americans-view-capitalism-socialism-and-free-enterprise/

    Socialism is still seen negatively, but our young people have grown up in a system that hasn’t shown capitalism in a very good light — the prices we pay for the neocon policies supported by the right. But, they still favor free enterprise. So, time to stop stepping on our tenders in marketing. Hint: telling them that the only reason they are in the rather bad position that they are is to go all doomer, tell them they are just lazy, etc. Acknowledge that mistakes were made, show that fixing it is possible, and accept that they’ve been put into a position where socialism might start looking good when it really isn’t. Remember: free shit starts looking pretty good when you can’t afford rent or groceries; fatal, but still looks good.
    We owe it to our children to not let them fall.

      2. I would consider that misplaced life priorities and financial illiteracy, but hey…capitalism! Rather like how everyone was sold the notion that getting a college education was going to open up the world as one’s personal oyster.

        We have created our problems; now it is time, past time, to fix them.

        1. Lots of mistakes for sure, can’t argue that.
          But…
          The politics of envy (“Eat The Rich”) is a powerful tool in the “Democratic Socialist” toolbox.
          It appeals to the lazy and to the idiot.
          And they are legion.

        2. Buddy, it also appeals to the desperate, and yes, there is resentment — but resentment is a human vice that all have.
          The way forward is to create an environment where resentment is quelled and hope is returned, and none of us will achieve that if we allow the youth to be seduced by communism through our inactivity. Leadership school says what? Instruct but also support; nobody gets left behind.

    2. Perhaps ask young people a Socratic question, like, “what happens after all the billionaires’ money has been confiscated and redistributed?” Arriving at the Thatcher “running out of other people’s money” by an alternate route.

      1. Wrong Socratic question.
        They are not seeing that because it incorrectly places the focus on other’s lives rather than their own. Instead, maybe start doing some things that could give them some hope for improved lives of their own (we’re doing that; not without some headwinds from the left and the old right), start advising them on how they might be able to take advantage of these opportunities as they come about.
        Then, and only after you have done that, can you start talk about other people running out of money.
        Honestly, just don’t. The right has been horrid at marketing for precisely that reason; it’s led to laughably bad PR (and the right has earned it — seriously, I watched the right do the Maggie quote…to people returning from the GWOT, from people who lost their homes during the banking crisis…absolutely, stupidly tone deaf).

  16. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260817/dq260817a-eng.htm

    Mark Carney’s CPI inflation index this morning comes in hotter than expected, at 3.0% at annual rates for July. Not much in the way of good news to report. Food inflation slowed, but still came in at a higher rate than the CPI increase as a whole. Check out Chart #1 in the article. CPI inflation has been steadily increasing during the past several months.

    Mr. Carney said he enjoyed his holiday last week.

    1. I don’t need official government numbers to know significant inflation is still with us.

      1. Canada’s excise gas tax is set to come back into effect in September. You’re also printing money at a much higher rate than even the U.S. I think you’re going to see prices increase.
        Your young people are set to go full on commie, not the least because they will see no other way to stay afloat (see above).

  20. I’ll beg forgiveness and paste the whole post:

    “Socialism is the perfect business model for politicians: It creates dependency, and dependency creates voters. Those who live off the state—through transfer payments, subsidies, “social” safety nets, centrally planned privileges—vote for the one who keeps the taps turned on. The politician becomes the provider, the citizen the client. The greater the dependency, the greater the power. That’s why they love it. Not out of ideology, but out of naked self-interest.

    Capitalism, on the other hand, is an existential threat to the political class. It rewards personal responsibility, risk, innovation, and private initiative. It makes people independent of the state—and thus uncontrollable. Those who earn their own livelihood, make their own decisions, and create their own prosperity don’t need patrons in Berlin, Brussels, or anywhere else.

    Every regulation that’s supposed to “tame the market” is in truth an instrument to stifle competition and protect entrenched interests. The free market doesn’t need a politician as an intermediary. The politician needs the free market as an enemy image.

    That’s why the eternal rhetoric: Capitalism is branded as “greedy,” “unjust,” “unsocial”—while the state, which monopolizes with violence, redistributes, and controls, postures as a moral authority. It’s the oldest strategy of power: selling dependency as a virtue and independence as a danger.

    The state has no interest in free people. It has an interest in subjects who are grateful to it. Socialism delivers the subjects. Capitalism delivers the free.”

    https://x.com/WeimarClub/status/2088480803378634869

    2. What kind of capitalism? To quote the Bard: “ah, there’s the rub!”

      For myself, I prefer the idea of it being merely the notion that individuals have the right to property and profit from their labors, but never overriding moral and ethical considerations (some could even say ‘legal’ here, but the two mentioned are greater).
      But there are/have been far too many who have meant it to just involve the first half of that statement and not the last. Thus here we all are…with the communists, as was stated by Speaker Johnson, inside the gates.

      1. Your right on the money Jane.
        Capitalism without more choices or even a shred of integrity, shouldn’t be respected.
        In Canada, we just go thru the motions .
        Yeah we aren’t Zimbabwe…… Yet.
        But where we are headed isn’t a Utopia far from it.
        And I don’t know if the progressive distractions are going to keep the curtain closed to our real destination as a “country”.

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