Because there is no tomorrow.
November 1, 2023: Reader Tips
As we enter the second last month of the year, and things start to slow down, for the next 30 days we’re going to present a series of free movies available online. We’ll start things off with Made for Each Other (1939).
Your somewhat newer tips are mightily appreciated.
Well, Isn’t That Precious.
Trudeau’s kid goes trick-or-treating, dressed as a dog whistle.
I suppose it could have been worse. Could have gone as an oven.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The asuang ruse is part of the legend of Edward Lansdale
Hurray For Pallywood!
He’s revived! The actor paid by Hamas, who almost died yesterday in the hospital in Gaza, today praises Allah in the street. An endless soap opera.
An offer he can’t refuse
As the strike by workers at Manitoba Public Insurance drags on, Wab Kinew is finding out that the very people that he thought were carrying water for him during the election are not as grateful as he had hoped. If he didn’t see this coming, then it’s pretty clear that the guy is already in over his head. If he’s not careful, he’ll be the next Bob Rae.
The MPI strike lasting more than two months will continue after the union representing the workers rejected an offer from the employer Monday.
MGEU members voting “overwhelmingly” to turn down the offer, according to union president Kyle Ross.
Smell Ya Later
Sun- Immigrants leaving Canada at faster pace, study shows
The lack of enthusiasm for staying in Canada, which led to onward migration by some newcomers, is also behind a sharp drop in immigrants choosing to become Canadians, according to Bernhard. The proportion of permanent residents who took up citizenship within 10 years of arrival dropped by 40% between 2001 and 2021.
Food for Thought
A fascinating discussion on everything to do with brain health.
Yes, it’s two hours. No, there’s not a Coles notes version. Yes, we are well aware that not everyone has the time or ability to listen to a two hour podcast but a surprising number of you do seem to have the time to complain about it in the comments every time we post one. There’s plenty of quick hit content on the blog as well.
The first couple of minutes gives you a good overview of the podcast. It is time stamped so you can check out clips on specific topics if you like.
“put a chick in it and make it gay!”
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.“ – Michael Moore
As I reported last Friday, the irreverent and often hilarious show South Park took a swing at the infection of woke culture in the arts and took specific aim at Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and Disney. The clips of the show alone went viral across the internet, sparking a very unwanted conversation for Disney about the direction it’s gone and the bad will it created with audiences.
But amid all the voices commenting about Disney, Carano’s words were the loudest as her post on X contained an insider’s look at, not just the state of Lucasfilm, but the terrible weakness and insecurity of its studio head, Kennedy […]
Carano revealed that, during her employment with Lucasfilm, she was asked to unfollow certain accounts on Twitter because they’d said some bad things about Kennedy. Carano saw this as an issue because she knew that being in the public eye meant getting haters, but Carano also saw these people as opportunities to win over new fans. Moreover, some of these “haters” were actual fans of Star Wars that felt the universe had gone in the wrong direction, and that their criticisms were worth listening to.
But Kennedy didn’t just ignore them, she actively had these fans attacked, causing one of the worst collapses of a fan base in history.
I Amuse Myself
In Saskatchewan, a GMC diesel slows for a rare Tesla sighting. This one was unfortunately, dead.
The Libranos: Performance Bonus
A government of parasitic incompetents, from penthouse to parking garage.
CMHC admits it must “do better” after building 12 homes in eight years under a federal program to convert surplus Crown lands into affordable housing. “That does take some time,” an executive told the Senate banking committee: “We want to do better for sure.”
Last year, the CMHC gave themselves $27 million in bonuses…
Paying more for everything was the plan the whole time
Brian Zinchuk: To save the world, the Liberals got what they wanted, but now they don’t want what they got
Also, Saskatchewan MLA stand united on the carbon tax fight, even if not paying the carbon tax might be illegal.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
“The future is batteries”, they said. “We’re going to store the wind in ginormous batteries the size of Pluto“.
Mining remains a deeply divisive industry, as manifested by the explosion of popular rage that’s paralyzed Panama in recent weeks.
After spending the best part of a decade and more than $10 billion building one of the world’s biggest copper mines, First Quantum Minerals Ltd. now finds the project hanging in the balance.
The country’s president this weekend caved to pressure and agreed to hold a referendum on its future, sending the Canadian company’s stock plunging the most on record.
While Panama’s electoral court has since offered a lifeline, saying such a vote can’t proceed without congress first passing legislation, prospects for development look deeply uncertain.
The drama in Panama highlights a growing global trend. Many people don’t want new mines built, judging the environmental impact to be too great despite the boost to jobs and local coffers.
Yet mining has never been more important. It’s impossible for economies to decarbonize without hundreds of millions more tons of metals such as copper, nickel and lithium being pulled from the earth.
In the past decade, the industry has transformed the way it engages with those on the receiving end of massive mining upheaval. Aware of the need to have a social license to operate, companies have gone to great lengths to win over community leaders and politicians.
But they still often fail to garner wider public support. Some of the world’s most crucial new mines are currently stuck in limbo in the face of local opposition.
The development of Europe’s biggest lithium deposit was brought to a sudden halt last year after thousands of protesters took to the streets of Belgrade, Serbia. In the US, what would be the country’s largest copper mine has been stalled for years.
Give the people more stuff. Ban all the things.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: Biden officials are clueless. Math is racist. Gavin Newsom is China’s useful idiot. FBI investigates Cornell University messaging board. Tlaib’s ties to Hamas.
China Virus News: A vaccine stroke risk. Fragments of DNA that cause genetic changes.
Religion Of Peace News: Apparently it’s ok to kill baby settlers. The CCP terror connection. A cartoon. Shani Louk kidnapped and beheaded. Meanwhile in Africa (JW). Hamas and Hezbollah are social movements (JW).
Blackie’s Canada: CBC celebrates an abortion clinic in Newfoundland’s Bible belt. Moderate Muslims in Canadian universities. The unmarked graves hoax continues. Justin conducts a poll for Muslims.
Your morning meme. Bonus meme.
October 31, 2023: Reader Tips
Happy Halloween, everyone! In honour of this unique day, we get a glimpse of what Halloween was like in the 1960’s.
Do share your most scarrrrrry tips! Or some fun ones too.
Blast off!
The United States federal government ran up a $1.6 trillion deficit in just the first half of this year, as compared to a $1.7 trillion deficit for all of the previous year. Since all borrowing, no matter whether it is productive or not, gets lumped into GDP, it’s no wonder that the most recent GDP stats surprised to the upside.
From Treasury: borrowed $1 trillion last quarter, expects another $776 billion this quarter (would be miraculous since it borrowed $500 billion this month alone), then $816 billion in Q1 '24, so on track to borrow $3+ trillion this FY, as projected…
Interest going to the moon: pic.twitter.com/4TX3yBnWO7— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) October 30, 2023
Bending Over Backwards
A Midwestern Doctor- The Many Dangers of Spinal Surgery
In the case of neck and back pain, I feel the primary issue is that limited knowledge exists regarding what causes pain there. This is important because many of the existing “treatments” for back pain actually worsen the underlying causes of that pain. For example, ligamentous laxity underlies many chronic spinal pain conditions, but one of the primary treatments for spinal pain (injected steroids) directly weakens the affected ligaments, creating a situation where therapies which are good for business but bad for patients frequently end up being chosen.
The Power Of No
This is what we’ve been waiting for.
Transcript and more, at Pipeline Online.
Alberta Premier Smith reacts.
Meanwhile, over at NDP Xquarters..
What’s good for the Atlantic goose is good for the Saskatchewan gander
A.I. Will Save Us All
Read the whole thing.
The Sunday Times- The app that promised an NHS ‘revolution’ then went down in flames
At the time, the “AI” Parsa was selling was a symptom-checker that would suggest possible treatments based on answers to prompts. Behind it, though, was not a complex algorithm but “decision trees written by doctors, put into an Excel spreadsheet”, Harvey said. It was, in short, a zippier way to look up answers in a medical textbook. Harvey was dismayed.