Crash On The Potomac

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I watched this news unfold last night, and now that more details are available, there are lots of questions.

A PSA Airlines plane operating an American Airlines flight collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening. After generating a large fireball over the Potomac River, the remains of both aircraft dropped into the frigid waters.

As authorities do not expect to find any survivors amid the ice and debris, rescue efforts have given way to recovery efforts.

The Federal Aviation Administration, which has launched a joint investigation into the deadly incident with the National Transportation Safety Board, confirmed that American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas, a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet, collided midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to runway 33 at the airport just before 8:50 p.m. local time.

There were 60 passengers and four crew members on board Flight 5342. Three service members were aboard the helicopter, which the Pentagon indicated was out of Ford Belvoir, Virginia. […]

U.S. Figure Skating told the Post that several members of its skating community were aboard the commercial airliner when it crashed. The likely victims, including athletes, coaches, and family members, were on their way home from the National Development Camp held in Wichita in conjunction with the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Via Scott Adams, a a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief and flight instructor provides important context.

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SDA regular ‘FC’ posted something in last night’s Reader Tips that’s well worth a greater discussion:

Well now…
I seem to recall many moons ago where I said that PP will lose ground if the turd resigns, which was precisely the reason why I suggested that he stay on. Unfortunately, we got the worst of both worlds. The Lie-berals get a bump, as the stupid Canuckistans actually believe the turd has “resigned,” but not realizing that the Turd is still the PM! And as such, the turd prorogues parliament so that nothing can be said against the party, and the turd, until parliament resumes after a new leader is selected, probably Carney, making him the first UNELECTED PM in Canuckistan history.

What could happen next, you ask?

  1. Trump imposes his threatened tariffs, sparking an economic crisis.
  2. The tariffs throws the Canuckistan economy into a tail-spin recession
  3. Carbon-tax Carney declares an economic emergency, prompting the liberals to postpone the election.
  4. As more workers lose their jobs, the government steps in to bribe them with “support,” using something like a UBI [Universal Basic Income] program.
  5. Canadians get fooled once again thinking that the lie-berals are on their side with their “support,” and re-elect the lie-berals with a brand new mandate after the lie-bs actually decide to call an election… that being, of course, after the UBI-like program is in place, and more and more Canuckistanians become more dependent on big (re: socialist) government, as the entire population’s standard of living drops like a rock, and the people settle on a life of permanent servitude to the state… just like the old Soviet Union!

The only fly in the ointment in step 3 is that CT Carney needs a 2/3 majority vote in parliament to officially declare an emergency. Speculation is that would be difficult, because hopefully the cons won’t fall for it. Then I can imagine the government, and the media, blaming the conservatives for “not putting Canada first!”

We’re done, folks. Unless these stupid Canuckistans finally wake up in time to avoid the trap that’s being laid out for them, we’re going to get spoon-fed socialism for generations to come.

Wise Words

Canada’s Bolsheviks Gradually Then Suddenly nannystate 43 Comments

Some serious self-reflection is in order, according to Jordan Peterson, before Canada embarks, panic-stricken, on the path to economic and cultural suicide. I hope enough people are listening.

Such behaviour is, sadly, a Canadian norm, particularly wherever the country is left-leaning; particularly wherever everyone believes axiomatically that we have all the virtues of our democratic compatriots to the south, and then some; particularly wherever everyone is inclined to point self-righteously to the wonders of our now-dreadful and even oft-murderous “free” health-care system and its associated highly dysfunctional, expensive and increasingly unsustainable social safety net…

That combined attitude of essentially socialist sentiment and moral superiority was exemplified above all, perhaps, by former Prime Minister Trudeau — … [the père] who dallied so self-aggrandizingly with the Chinese Reds and the dictatorial communist Fidel Castro and rubbed the Americans’ noses in it, moralizing intellectually and oh-so-fashionably all the while.

“An abandoned recreation vehicle containing a significant amount of explosives and the address of a synagogue “

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Jeff Goldstein;

Australian authorities thwarted a potential mass-casualty event aimed at Jewish targets in what is becoming a dangerous and hostile environment for Jewish citizens in Western countries. While mainstream media and Western universities push narratives of an Israeli “genocide” of Gazan children, social media has been likewise flooded with non-stop anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-Jew propaganda.

Now, the fruits of that poison tree are beginning to flower. Australian officials hid the news of the averted attack from citizens until a reporter broke the story independently.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

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Sam Cooper;

Friends of Hong Kong, a non-partisan diaspora group that withdrew from Ottawa’s Foreign Interference Commission a year ago over concerns it would whitewash Chinese interference and endanger diaspora groups, has issued a blistering rebuke of Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue’s final report.

The group argues the 16-month inquiry fails to show the federal government can counter foreign interference.

In a statement detailing their misgivings, the human rights group says the final report “only serves to deepen our serious reservations regarding our government’s willingness and ability to tackle foreign interference.”

The group criticizes Commissioner Hogue for what they deem to be a pattern of “wilful blindness” in assessing the significance of alleged meddling in Canada’s democratic processes. They also take issue with Hogue’s characterization of foreign interference as “isolated cases,” emphasizing that “even one such case is too many for a democracy like ours.” […]

Meanwhile, Duff Conacher, a longtime transparency advocate with Democracy Watch, also took aim at Hogue’s final report, calling it “mostly a cover-up of foreign interference, because it ignores a dozen loopholes in federal laws that allow for secret, undemocratic and unethical spending, fundraising, donations, loans, lobbying and disinformation campaigns by foreign proxies.”

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