Like Canada, America is officially a fundamentally unserious nation.
Embrace Hollywood!
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.“. – Michael Moore.
I could draw a lot of parallels between where Star Wars is at now, and where Doctor Who is at as a franchise. It’s that feeling of the game is almost up, we’re running out of time, running out of money, and it’s just like, we’re into pure “f*** you mode” now. We know you don’t like what we’re making, and we just say f*** you, we’re just going to put everything in that we want to put in: All the sociopolitical messaging, all of our own personal hang-ups, all of our own personal politics, all of it. It’s just going to get rammed down your throat, because we know we’re in The Last Chance Saloon right now, so why not? Why not just throw all the s*** up a wall and see what sticks, and Doctor Who’s exactly the same way.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Per a new study, more than 2200 historical aerial photos of a 2000 km stretch of ice in East Antarctica have been recently uncovered. The rare images reveal what the glaciers in this region looked like in 1937.
Interestingly, the photos show all these East Antarctic glaciers have remained stable, thickened, gained mass, and/or increased in elevation over the last 85 years, with much of the growth and mass gains occurring since 1985.
There has been no warming in this region since the 1950s. This suggests that “global warming” plays a minimal role in ice thickness changes.
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Woke Britain: The self love in group hate. Your morning meme. A cartoon. Another cartoon.
Dementia Joe’s America: Celebrate Pride Month. Jordan Peterson explains why young women are more woke.
Blackie’s Canada: Ontario students ambushed. Toronto needs more money for Wakanda Square (CBC). Government defends China. Taxpayer money used to trash Conservatives.
Today In Islam: Inverted red triangles. Hamas’s Al-Jazeera.
June 19, 2024: Reader Tips
We interrupt our previously scheduled Reader Tips video to present this documentary about Willie Mays.
Willie Howard Mays Jr. was born on May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama and passed away on June 18, 2024 in Palo Alto, California. What an amazing athlete and such a great man! R.I.P
It’s Good To Be King
National Post- Airplane food cost more than $220K on Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific trip
The catering costs had previously been pegged closer to $180K but a response to an order paper question in the House of Commons reveals the final tally was $223,234.
Meals on-board the plane included beef brisket with mashed parsley potatoes with truffle oil, pan fried beef tenderloin with port wine sauce, braised lamb shanks with steamed broccoli and boiled baby potatoes, and baked cheesecake with pistachio brittle.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
More Like Austin Powers Than James Bond
I’m sure the Russkies were shaking in their boots.
Blacklocks- Claims It Was Secret Mission
Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the visit of the Margaret Brooke was a routine courtesy call “on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of our uninterrupted diplomatic relations” with Canada. Minister Blair yesterday insisted there was a secret military purpose.
“How could the Margaret Brooke be a deterrent?” asked a reporter. “Presence is deterrence,” replied Blair. “We were present.”
Proof Positive That You Don’t Hate the Media Enough
Chauncey Devega is not a character in a new Disney action movie but rather a Democrat apparatchik of the worst variety. Here’s what he/she/they/it recently wrote:
Despite how the mainstream news media and political class are committed to a belief in a “folk theory of democracy” and a “responsible electorate” and “normal politics”, most Americans are not politically sophisticated or ideological. They can be reasonably described as being inconsistent in their political thinking. The average American voter is also ignorant of factual matters about politics and policy. They instead rely upon intuitions and cues from elites and other opinion leaders and influentials to make their political decisions.
Styx has thoughts.
We Want … Unlimited Power(and more money)
Scratch A Leftist
The fight is part of a wider fracture within the Democratic Party caused by Israel’s war in Gaza.
I, Napoleon
The Sound Of Settled Science
When I was about 12, I read a book on “forensic science”, and for a time considered it as one of my career options. Little did I know, the field is more credentialist guesswork than it is solid science.
New research highlights the importance of careful application of high-tech forensic science to avoid wrongful convictions. The study was published on June 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In the study, which has implications for a wide range of forensic examinations that rely on “vast databases and efficient algorithms,” researchers discovered that the odds of a false match significantly increase when examiners make millions of comparisons in a quest to match wires found at a crime scene with the tools allegedly used to cut them.
The rate of mistaken identifications could be as high as one in 10 or more, concluded the researchers, who are affiliated with the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE), based in Ames, Iowa.
Flashback: Bite marks, blood-splatter patterns, ballistics, and hair, fiber and handwriting analysis sound compelling in the courtroom, but much of the “science” behind forensic science rests on surprisingly shaky foundations.
Juxtapose!
Petrified Covid Parent- It’s so hot that the city names on the map are starting to disappear.
Contrarian- My carbon tax worked so well it’s snowing in Canmore, Canada?
Eff U
In the midst of a nation wide Doctor shortage our federal government has decided to both punish and demonize the ones we have. Brilliant strategy.
Blacklocks- Doctors Have Plenty: Minister
Doctors have “huge advantages under our tax system” and can afford to pay more, Health Minister Mark Holland said yesterday. His remarks followed a warning from the Canadian Medical Association that changes to capital gains tax rates would cost most doctors nationwide.
“A doctor still has huge advantages under our tax system to be able to use incorporation as a tax deferral vehicle,” Minister Holland testified at the Commons health committee. Cabinet has served notice effective June 25 it will tax 66 percent of capital gains from the current 50 percent, an $18 billion increase.
Blackie’s Canada
Canada is not a country you love. It is a country you worry about. – Robertson Davies
Mayor Jyoti Gondek” Is Not A Character In A Tim Burton Movie
The buzz phrase “Calgary is a big city on a small river” is contained in the council briefing document along with the case for implementing mandatory restrictions. But is there a compelling case to compel water usage? Let’s look at the arguments.
Buy Saskatchewan? Major nuclear MOU signed
SaskPower, Cameco and Westinghouse sign MOU on future nuclear development
With Westinghouse now 49% owned by Saskatoon-based Cameco, the prospect of “buying Saskatchewan” becomes significant.
As a side note, I’ve been expecting this sort of development ever since Cameco announced it was buying nearly half of Westinghouse. While SaskPower is currently committed to building GE-Hitachi reactors at Estevan, at least two of them, it’s quite possible subsequent reactors will be Westinghouse models. And Moe has told me several times the government is considering big, 1000 megawatt reactors.
As for the fancy curved architecture, I expect the final product will be much more utilitarian.
Safe and Effective®
In his own words: Kansas Attorney General is SUING Pfizer for misleading people by HIDING the risks of harms from their covid injection.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Trump keeps confounding his enemies. U.S. intelligence agency celebrates gay sex.
Blackie’s Canada: Justin explains to his CBC that Canadians don’t want an election. Trudeau’s Governor General.
Today In Islam: A Gaza reporter. Biden’s new voters.
Your morning meme. Another meme. A cartoon.