It depends on how you mean by “transitory”: Inflation ticked up to 3.2% in July in setback for Biden and Fed
Eat Your Bugs Peasant
Neil Oliver on why the push to eat bugs.
America (and Canada) Needs A Leo Amery
Victor Davis Hanson on who will say no to the current madness?
Thursday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: Old Joe touches a woman’s chest. Biden visits the Grand Canyon and makes a fool of himself. Dem begs for National Guard. Obama’s fraudulent legacy. The Biden crime family. Your morning meme.
Global Warming Scam News: The fake climate consensus. Today In Islam: Tourism in Germany (JW).
Trudeau’s Canada: After spending billions of taxpayer money on the Trans Mountain pipeline, Justin wants Indians to buy into the pipeline. Apparently they will not have to use their own money (CBC). Trudeau gives a big cheque to fight homophobia. Canadian hospitals and assisted suicide. While Justin’s media rants about Ford and the Greenbelt, no mention was made about Trudeau’s Calgary fundraiser. Liberals pretend they are concerned about Chinese influence. Today Dear Leader burns jet fuel to British Columbia for private meetings (fundraising or new girlfriend).
The Pronoun Game
Via the CBC, a tale of pronouns, vomiting, and very niche woe:
Again, as so often, one has to ask – exactly which player in this drama is doing the misgendering? The unnamed presenter who sees a young woman named Julia and refers to her as she; or the young woman named Julia who expects to be perceived as something other than she is? Indeed, as something that doesn’t exist.
The kind of young woman who tells us, with an air of triumph, “I had been thinking about my pronouns daily for over two years.”
As one does, when one’s mental wellbeing is not at all in question.
August 10, 2023: Reader Tips
Though the end of the summer has not yet arrived, I’m making a brief guest appearance to try to shed my “shirker” reputation and try to climb back into Kate’s good graces. Here’s a fun documentary video from the 1955 British Grand Prix. And here are 10 of the funniest moments from Fawlty Towers.
These two links may lead one to believe that I’m in Jolly Olde England. While I will indeed be there in a few weeks, I’m currently finishing up my last few hours in Skopje, Macedonia. This was preceded by 2 days in Belgrade, Serbia and will soon be followed by 6 days in Kranj, Slovenia and the Dolomites region of Northern Italy. While I’m not so sure I would actually enjoy living here in Europe, I absolutely do love visiting. Unlike North America, where there’s a general consistency of language & services across the continent, over here one can often drive a few hundred kilometres in any direction and be immersed in a completely different culture & language. It’s absolutely fascinating! And, dare I add, that there’s a certain bliss about being around people where you don’t speak the language; it’s all white noise to my ears. OMG was that racist?!? Finally, amongst the many conversations I’ve had in Eastern Europe, people seem concerned with REAL issues. They’re generally familiar with the Woke Insanity overtaking the West but don’t seem to buy into any of it.
Hoping the summer of everyone visiting SDA is going well!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Ghost Towns Of SW Saskatchewan (h/t Yeti)
Canada is Back
This is the Canada I remember. When I was 18, fresh out of school, the job market was so bad that you had to know someone to get a job at McDonald’s. Things slowly got better, but I never saw a ‘Help Wanted’ sign anywhere other than in the movies until 1995. In less than 8 years Justin Trudeau has taken us back 40 years.
Ban All The Things!
Stephen Guilbeault intends to ban the plastic that keeps the chicken salmonella from smearing all over your grapes.
Which is a much more effective way to explain Trudeau government insanity than this 916 word blah blah that (astonishingly) manages to include the word “commendable”.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
The other 39% are newly arrived immigrants: A recent survey by Ottawa-based Abacus Data showed 61 per cent of respondents believed Canada’s immigration target is too high, and 63 per cent of them said the number of immigrants coming to the country was having a negative impact on housing.
Wind produces zero power in Sask three times on Sunday
Total flatline: For 3 hours, 17 minutes on Sunday, not one lightbulb in Saskatchewan was powered by grid-scale wind. Three times wind power went to zero. Not 1 per cent. Not half a per cent. Zero.
Think tank changes copyright policy right after Pipeline Online asks to use their content
The whole idea of a think tank is to broaden public discourse and widely disseminate ideas. So why did the Public Policy Forum refuse to allow Pipeline Online to republish their energy transition report and promptly change their copyright notice?
The Most Interesting Man In The World
…according to sources connected to White House security, the bag of cocaine that was found in the White House belonged to someone in the “Biden family orbit”–and Joe Biden knows the individual.
Three sources reportedly told Susan Katz Keating of “Soldier of Fortune” magazine that the Secret Service told Joe Biden the name of the person who brought the cocaine inside the White House last month, and the three sources all identified the same individual to the magazine. According to Keating, the sources “work for a U.S. government agency, and are not authorized to speak to the media.”
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: The fatal stabbing of Oshae Sibley. Trump will pay for Biden’s crimes. For some strange reason, San Francisco lacks police. The grooming and mind control of kids. The Great American Divorce. Your morning meme. Bonus meme.
Global Warming Scam News: Solar power from slave labour. Biden’s EV maker goes bankrupt.
Trudeau’s Canada: Wilkinson threatens provinces. Probe needed on election interference by Iran (JW). NDP MP defends Kojo. Speaker justifies squandering taxpayer money. Raising geese will save the environment or something. Liberals fund fetish and BDSM seminar.
Today In Islam: What Barack Obama doesn’t know about Islam (JW). University withdraws invitation to historian (JW).
Has Your Country’s History Been “Queered” yet?
And if not, why not?
Because when you look at a sixteenth-century mirror salvaged from a warship belonging to Henry VIII, the first thing the want to know is how it might induce psychological crises in the sexually dysmorphic.
Clearly, our culture is in the best of hands.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
NEW: FBI agent Charles McGonigal who investigated Donald Trump for colluding with Russia, is set to plead guilty for colluding with Russia.
Read that again.
McGonigal, who was a key figure in the Trump-Russia hoax investigation, will be pleading guilty after being accused of… pic.twitter.com/z8b7arBOHu
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 8, 2023
Totally unrelated: Charles McGonigal’s and Hunter Biden’s daughters play on the same Lacrosse team.
More related: FBI Agent Lied Under Oath About Knowledge of Hunter Biden Laptop: Rep. Jordan.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Jesus, help me! Texas woman says a snake fell out of the sky and onto her arm – then, a hawk swooped in and attacked
Reader Tips
Well, it appears that Kate has gone on strike, something about shirkers.
This is in honour of the Ken Petkau, whom you may remember with the handle of Ken Kulak.
Those who may have known him, know.
The central bank casino
It’s not news that many of the industries of the Western world have gone overseas since the late 1970’s, thus creating the “rust belt”. What’s largely missing is a proper understanding of why this happened and how that trend is accelerating, with so many companies now involved in what can be accurately termed as “financialization”. With central banks pricing capital at an absurdly low cost and governments happy to cover any and all losses, what could possibly go wrong?
At the heart of the issue is government intervention designed to provide the investor class with greater gains and fewer losses.
Yet the prevailing “wisdom” among policymakers and central bankers is that ever greater amounts of financialization—propped up by repeated government interventions — are somehow just a natural and inescapable feature of the market economy. With each new bubble and each new crisis, the central banks become ever more willing to try risky and “nontraditional” interventions, whether it’s negative interest rates, the abolition of physical cash, or ever larger purchases of near-worthless assets. Thanks to decades of government-fueled financialization, the stakes climb ever higher.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Writing Overlords
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.“ – Michael Moore.
The first draft is the most lucrative step in any feature writer deal. A rule of thumb is that a “rewrite” pays two-thirds of a “first draft.” So if you’re being paid $75,000 for a rewrite, you should expect to get $100,000 for the first draft. In practice that gap tends to be a little bigger but for our purposes, two-thirds is a good benchmark (Remember that calculation because it’s going to become very important later on in our discussion of A.I.).