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Great Moments In Socialism Insufferable Twits It's Probably Nothing 25 Comments

When the pandemic lockdowns came into effect, the authorities assured us that the economy would seamlessly recover once the restrictions were lifted, just like hitting the pause button on your DVD player. Well, it seems that increasing numbers of restaurants simply didn’t get that memo.

Over the first 10 days in September, the number of seated diners in the city was down 10 per cent compared to the same period last year. The latest figures from the online reservation service mark a continued decline in the popularity of in-person restaurant dining, with the volume of seated diners in Toronto now below 2022 levels for more than three consecutive months.

And things are taking a turn for the worse in Winnipeg. But that shouldn’t be a surprise.

The head of the union representing workers at Celebrations Dinner Theatre says he’s surprised the theatre decided to close its doors rather than pay employees more than minimum wage.

 

“… recruiting numbers are lower than Kamala’s IQ”

CreepyJoeBiden Margin Of Fraud Military 26 Comments

Why fight for an elite that hates you? Here at home, we see normal, traditional Americans dragged through the dirt by a garbage ruling class that wants to castrate our kids, seize our weapons, and lock us out of political participation. When we protest, we’re terrorists – little did we know that it was an assault on Our Democracy for those of us who served and our families to presume to participate in it.

Our service means nothing to them. We are expendable and ignorable, unless we get uppity, and then we get their flunkies’ full attention. We just saw a guy with two Purple Hearts get nearly two decades in prison for a rowdy ruckus on Capitol Hill, a minor scuffle (except for when the government killed an unarmed protester) that was dwarfed in intensity and violence by the Los Angeles riots I helped suppress while in uniform. But our ruling class approved of scumbags like the Los Angeles rioters just like it approves of the BLM and Antifa scumbags who ran rampant across the country in 2020 and killed dozens of people. One of them burned a guy alive, and the Department of Justice, the same one that wants to steal decades of life from veterans for the crime of having dissident political views, actually went to bat for the killer and explained that this arsonist was merely upset by systematic racism or some other garbage. He got just 10 years.

Related: “I can think of nothing more un-American than to give the number one state sponsor of terrorism $6 billion…on 9/11!”

What Would We Do Without Peer Review?

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NY Post;

Florida State University criminology professor Eric Stewart was a guru of the claim that “systemic racism” infests America’s police and American society.

Now he’s out of a job on account of “extreme negligence” in his research.

The academic was fired after almost 20 years of his data — including figures used in an explosive study, which claimed the legacy of lynchings made whites perceive blacks as criminals, and that the problem was worse among conservatives — were found to be in question.

College authorities said he was being fired for “incompetence” and “false results.”

Among the studies he has had to retract were claims that whites wanted longer sentences for blacks and Latinos.

I, Napoleon

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Daily Wire;

Virginia Democrats and Loudoun County’s George Soros-backed prosecutor are lashing out at Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) over his Sunday pardon of Scott Smith, whose daughter was raped in school and who the prosecutor, Buta Biberaj, personally sought to put in jail.

Biberaj said Youngkin’s pardon “is an unprecedented and inappropriate intervention into an active legal case,” and said he was taking action “not for justice but for political gain.” Scott Surovell, the vice chairman of the Democrat Senate Caucus, said Youngkin’s pardon was an abandonment of “law and order” intended to “help his failing presidential ambitions.” […]

Biberaj ran on a platform lamenting “overincarceration” and has refused to prosecute many misdemeanors. Democrats, claiming to want to stop people from being arrested for minor crimes in schools, even passed a law that “Eliminates the requirement that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense.”

When it came to a parent whose lived experience posed a threat to Democrats’ effort to pass a transgender bathroom policy, however, Biberaj personally took Smith’s case and sought jail time. He was denied a jury because it was a misdemeanor, and he was convicted. A judge threw out the resisting arrest charge after Smith appealed, and threw Biberaj off the case for apparent conflict of interest.

But the government kept fighting Smith, forcing him to head towards a second trial for disorderly conduct. A judge was brought out of retirement from neighboring, deep-blue Fairfax County who ruled that under the “peculiar” language of Virginia’s disorderly conduct statute, Smith arguably committed disorderly conduct by cursing at Schworm because it could “incite” her to violence—even though that interpretation would seemingly mean the leftist activist was guilty of the same crime.

Governor Grisham: Stupid or Evil?

Baiting The Left Cold Dead Hands Democrats 23 Comments

The following was sent to me by a reader:

Wow… This crazy bitch just became a full commie tyrant.

New Mexico Governor Governor Lujan Grisham – No Constitutional Right “in Her View” is Absolute, including Her Oath of Office.

Most likely criminals with illegal guns while driving shot and killed a kid and this evil commie is politicizing his death & stripping away constitutional rights under the guise of “public health”.

Sorry bitch, the constitution doesn’t get suspended because “Your View” doesn’t align with it.

When an “emergency” can bypass our constitutional rights, there will always be an “emergency” created by evil people to bypass our constitutional rights.

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One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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@CollinRugg;

BREAKING: A whistleblower has come forward alleging the CIA offered officials a significant amount of money to say that COVID did *not* come out of the lab in Wuhan.

“The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have received new and concerning whistleblower testimony regarding the Agency’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19,” a letter to CIA Director William Burns said from House COVID Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup & House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner.

“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed that intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” the letter continued.

“The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the one officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis.”

“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”

The conspiracy theorists were right again.

Crescent Point is spending 70% of its CAPEX in Alberta. Not that long ago, it was more like 80+% in Saskatchewan

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I’ve been saying for a long time now, Crescent Point has been increasingly losing interest in Saskatchewan. Monday’s CAPEX budget solidifies that, as they’re spending 70 per cent of a billion dollar budget in Alberta. They used to easily spend a billion in Saskatchewan per year, and often a lot more. So anyone who relies on Crescent Point should take note, including the province of Saskatchewan.

As recently has February, 2018, Crescent Point had 27 rigs drilling in Saskatchewan. Today that number is 4.

If you want to know why things are slower in Saskatchewan, even with higher oil prices, here’s your first clue.

Crown corporation Trans Mountain wants a blank cheque from shippers for pipeline cost overruns

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Cenovus calls Trans Mountain’s desire for a blank cheque on cost overruns “commercially absurd” It turns out when you run a project something like 4 to 6 times the original budget (depending on what you consider the start and the original budget) the people expected to pay for it might balk a bit. In the letter quoted in the story, Cenovus basically tells Trans Mountain to, well, you figure it out.

Unintended Democrats

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Self-own story of the day.

California may soon lift a ban on state-funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ laws and instead focus on an advertising campaign to bring anti-discrimination messages to red states.

California started banning official travel to states with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ people in 2017, starting with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. Since then, the list has grown to include a total of 26 states, most of them Republican-led, following a surge of anti-LGBTQ legislation these past few years.

The prohibition has prevented elected officials, state workers and university scholars from traveling to more than half of the country using the state’s money.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

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Biden’s America:  The FBI failure.  A crime and punishment edition.  Biden wants to shrink marine sanctuary.  A child abuse sanctuary.  The modern man and his time of the month.  A Philly soda tax.  Your morning meme.

Today In Islam:  CAIR wants schools to consult mosques.

Blackie’s Canada:  A complaint in Ottawa.  Poilievre speech on Westjet sparks strong reaction.  Some vaccine events unreported.  Justin’s CBC pays 144 executive directors.  The Ottawa trustee vote.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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I used to think I paid too much for my 2018 Savana. Now I wonder if I paid too little.

As part of the move toward electric cars, most automakers are copying Silicon Valley’s playbook and making drivers pay monthly or yearly fees to unlock new features. Sometimes those features are fairly basic, like a remote starter; in other cases they’re more advanced, like autonomous parking assistance. Accessing them typically requires just a few taps on a car’s touchscreen or its related smartphone app, the same way you might subscribe to anything else online. It’s part of why the new generation of cars is often described as “smartphones on wheels”: Cars now offer various downloadable apps, automated driver assistance, and even integration with platforms such as Spotify and TikTok. But more digital features that connect your car to the internet provide openings for data theft, tampering, and other cybersecurity risks that simply have not existed on the roads until now.

Car hacking may call to mind action-movie-like scenes of millions of Teslas being remotely seized by terrorist groups and commanded to drive into hospitals. That’s thankfully far-fetched. The bigger risk is to personal and financial information related to various digital add-ons and connected features, which are essentially unavoidable with modern EVs—as is the requirement that you pay for them over time. Mercedes-Benz will unlock more horsepower for up to $90 a month, BMW lets its cars’ safety cameras record 40-second snapshots of video for $39 a year, and Ford’s BlueCruise hands-off driver-assist feature is now $75 a month.

Of course I don’t use a “smartphone on phone” either, so I might be an outlier.

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