Well, this isn’t good. Thread with more photos here.

Westshore Coal Terminal at Delta Port is on fire.
Located near Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal
Vancouver pic.twitter.com/ooW8LtXNjh

— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) December 28, 2024

Later reports say it’s been extinguished, so that is good.

Here’s hoping your Christmas Day is going well. To help elevate your spirits even more, here’s a lovely video for you and your loved ones.

Update: Or if you prefer something more comical, here’s a video compilation of cats & Christmas trees!

Financial uncertainty hits B.C. dairy farmers as major operation forced into creditor protection:

“The dairy community in British Columbia is relatively small, and I have friendly relationships with a large number of farmers across the province. As I understand it, in 2019, right around the time of the loan, The Bank [of Nova Scotia] became very active and aggressive in lending to the dairy industry,” Dykman’s affidavit says.

“I am personally aware of at least six other dairy farmers who are in a similar position as me with the bank in that they fell into default as a result of increased interest rates or other circumstances outside their control and are now either in a forbearance agreement with the bank or being pushed to sell lands, quota or entire operations.”

I recently discovered John Papola, who hosts a great podcast on YouTube called Dad Saves America.  A few weeks ago, he interviewed German historian & sociologist, Dr. Rainer Zitelmann about Hitler and the true meaning of national socialism.

Off the coast of Oregon and Northern California  after 7.0 earthquake . Expected wave arrivals at approximately 12:10 PM.

As if carbon tax, output based pricing, oil and gas emissions cap, Clean Fuel Regulations, Clean Electricity Regulation, and EV mandate weren’t enough, apparently the federal government has now decreed that for the sake of saving the planet from climate change, no more than 10 % of new heavy trucks (Kenworth being the example in this story) can be sold with a manual transmission. And that’s coming in just a few weeks time.

Several Kenworth models will be discontinued. In southern Saskatchewan, the vast majority of trucks in the patch that I see are Kenworth.

To quote C-3P0, “This is madness!

An offering from Robert Graboyes.

This evening, we present How Was Germany Formed?

Bonus: This is a rather cool video from SpaceX!

Your best tips are always welcome here!

This evening, we return to 1950, to enjoy 711 Ocean Drive.

Do share your best tips of late!

Tonight, we return to 1969 to present The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. With an RT rating of 85%, it’s well worth a watch.

Speaking of which, we’ll be waiting and watching for your best tips of late!

A personal question for the SDA hive mind.

My mother(81 years old) just found out via x-rays that she has no cartilage left in either of her knees. Continue reading →

This evening, we learn all about The Origins of COBOL. There may be a quiz later!

Bonus: Carl Benjamin went to the Leftist Insane Asylum known as Bluesky, so you won’t have to.  You should be grateful to him!  It provides an interesting insight into a whole lot of LIbtards stewing in their hate in their own echo chamber.

Do share your best tips, software engineering related or more conventional ones.

Peter Santanello is a citizen journalist who travels the world, providing first person videos. He was recently in San Francisco and published this video. This interview is particularly interesting and illustrates the complete lack of free speech in the SF Bay Area … if you dare deviate from The Narrative™.

The Rent-a-Mob Anti-Trump protests are suddenly back.  Translation: We don’t accept the democratic will of the American people, we believe in endless inflation & poverty for Americans, we want more non-Americans entering our land (which was stolen by racist dead white men, don’t ya know), we want endless wars and are fine with billions of our tax dollars (oh wait, most of us protesting don’t pay taxes) going to Ukraine.

Such folks don’t deal very well with reality.  Here’s a glimpse of the reality they’ll be fighting against every single day for the next 4-8-12 years…