Tonight we return to 1951 to watch the World Series and the Longhorne National Open.
Your best tips of late would be a good match for this post!
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait scored an own goal on Tuesday, handing Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre a powerful fundraising tool and making life harder for CBC journalists, particularly those in the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
RIP Burt Bacharach
Early on, Bacharach had horses with Whittingham. The best being Advance Guard, a Stakes Winner, but Mirlivam and Bdashed could run some as well. Bacharach wasn’t Charlie’s favorite type of owner. Whittingham thought owners should be treated like mushrooms — kept in the dark and covered with manure. Bacharach used to make surprise visits to the barn in the mornings and soon advised Whittingham that maybe one of his underachievers needed to be wormed. Charlie, noting a lack of recent hits, advised Bacharach to worm his piano. – via TB acquaintance Curtis W.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Journalistic standards: BBC journalist hugs Zelensky in the middle of a press conference with the UK prime minister.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
A former FBI special agent delivered an emotional testimony before the House Subcommittee on Weaponization Thursday, telling lawmakers that she had resigned from the bureau after it had become “politically weaponized.”
Nicole Parker, a former FBI special agent who served in the bureau from 2009 until 2022, reflected on her career, saying that she had felt she had been making an “impactful difference.”
“Every day, I woke up and embraced being an FBI Special Agent. Until things changed,” she said, adding that the FBI’s “trajectory transformed.”
Video here. (begins at 1:38:18 mark)
Related! So bad that FBI Headquarters pulled it: The FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass.
The Groomer Kingdom
Disney Actually Just Laid Off 2.4 Million People — Including Me
Do you know who isn’t getting the boot? Disney+ producer Latoya Raveneau, who admits to pushing a “gay agenda” by “adding queerness” to children’s programming wherever she can.
Or Jim Morris, who heads up Disney’s Pixar division. Pixar has been slowly losing steam since Disney purchased the computer animation studio from Steve Jobs in 2006, and its last three films — Luca, Turning Red, and Lightyear — have all been massive flops. Lightyear might have been the worst of the lot. It took a beloved Toy Story bad-ass astronaut whose catchphrase was “To infinity and beyond!” and turned him into an all-too-typical clueless white male clod who couldn’t even successfully leave a single planet.
Or Kathleen Kennedy. She runs the Lucasfilm division, purchased from George Lucas in 2012 for $4 billion. Since then, she’s run the Star Wars franchise into the ground with a combination of bad scripts and “the Force is female” wokeness.
Gonna get broker.
Killing Time?
A website with Canadian Homicide Statistics.
Mark Steyn Show
Is back, self-hosted at SteynOnline.com
Welcome to the first of Mark’s post-cardiac Steyn Shows – with all due thanks to Audrey and his other French nurses and doctors, and no thanks whatsoever to the duplicitous weasels of GB News.
On today’s show he welcomes back three of his most popular guests – Leilani Dowding, Alexandra Marshall and Eva Vlaardingerbroek – for a look at different aspects of the Big Picture, from the war on farming to the war on basic biology. They also find time to mull the British state censors at OffComm and the death of free speech in the wider west, and to ponder whether Klaus Schwab is pregnant.
Bailouts again?
You know your monetary system is in trouble when even the banks lose money. What most people don’t realize is that this is a feature, not a bug, of a fiat currency system. A house of cards analogy is quite appropriate here.
The second-largest Swiss bank (although it’s probably far smaller now) posted a fifth-straight quarterly loss of 1.39 billion Swiss francs ($1.5 billion), worse than consensus estimates of a 1.14 billion loss as revenue of 3.06 billion Swiss francs also handily missed expectations of 3.35 billion. But while the operating loss was hardly a shock for a bank which has been in a constant state of chaos and turmoil, what stunned analysts was what KBW analysts called a “quite staggering” level of customer capital outflows which hit a record 110.5 billion francs in the quarter, and although the bank said that some money has been coming back, it also concedes it’s now at a worse starting point for 2023.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Parents don’t like child sexual grooming in their public facilities, and Saskatoon city councillor and former CKOM News grievance reporter David Kirton is finding out the hard way.
Ward 3 Councillor David Kirton is the only Saskatoon city government person responding to the parents concerns.
However, Kirton’s email response to one of the concerned parents was that “our society is changing” to allow “a person to choose a change room based on their gender identity regardless of physical appearance.”
[…]The protests started after Saskatoon parents discussed the ‘naked man’ in a Facebook group because they objected to a ‘naked man’ walking around their young daughters while changing for their swimming lessons.
And that’s why he’s cut and run.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Between the China spy balloon and the Nord Stream news, I woke up in a cold sweat this morning asking myself, “Is our military gay enough to win WWIII?”
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) February 8, 2023
Indeed: I’m not sure which is more embarrassing: That Biden waited until the balloon had passed completely over the US before giving the shutdown order, or that the Pentagon keeps calling back like a spurned high school girl.
SaskPower may have no choice but to use SNC-Lavalin for SMRs
Ontario Power Generation recently signed up with the companies that are going to build its first small modular reactor. One of them is SNC-Lavalin.
And for those who don’t remember, SNC-Lavalin built the Boundary Dam 3 Carbon Capture Project. That didn’t work out as well as hoped. But we might not much choice in the matter.
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
Blacklocks: Feds Research National ID Scheme
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Privy Council Office commissioned confidential research on a national electronic ID system. No reason was given. Parliament has repeatedly rejected any mandatory identification program as intrusive and costly: ‘Adoption may be difficult especially among Canadians already distrustful of public institutions.’
It won’t go away until he’s gone away.
Ban All The Things!
WSJ Editorial Board (via Instapundit);
When progressives can’t pass their agenda through the front door in Congress, they sneak it through a regulatory back window. That’s what the Biden Administration is doing with gas stoves, as the Energy Department this week proposed new rules that amount to a gradual de facto ban.
A Biden appointee on the Consumer Product Safety Commission ignited a firestorm last month by threatening to ban gas stoves. After criticism from West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and others, the CPSC chairman rejected the idea, and White House officials said they didn’t support banning gas stoves.
Then why has the Energy Department proposed new efficiency standards that would ban the sale of most gas stoves currently on the market?
Well, they were lying. That’s why.
Nursing Home News
Victor Davis Hanson gives his take on Old Joe’s speech.
Thursday On Turtle Island
Biden’s America: What really happened. The 15 big lies of Joe Biden. Escaping socialism. The end of journalism. A gay subculture. Your morning meme.
Woke Britain: Want to know what Canada will look like, when Justin gets his censorship bills passed? Then look at Britain.
World War III News: The anti-war prophet. Today In Islam: Diversity in Scandinavia.
Trudeau’s Canada: Justin wants a national ID system. Marci rants about slavery in Canada. Everyone gets their own justice system. Liberals are entitled to their entitlements. Rex Murphy trashes the CBC. Ottawa doesn’t like truckers, but they love drag queens. Will Justin bring back the Emergency Act? A new course at York University.
February 9, 2023: Reader Tips
Tonight we return to 1948 to watch television commercials from that year. Also from that year is this debate: Should Communism Be Illegal
Your most interesting recent tips are very welcome here!
O’Keefe Ousted?
James O’Keefe, founder and CEO of Project Veritas, has been placed on paid leave by the organization’s board of directors as they consider removing him from leadership position.
Project Veritas without James O’Keefe doesn’t sound like a lot of fun, you guys.
I question the timing. More here.
h/t Vicki in Ontario
This Thing Is Ballooning Out Of Control
All socials were down. YouTube STILL down!
What's going on? pic.twitter.com/efpjmpVZjz
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 9, 2023
The Sound Of Settled Science
Quest for First People: Luther Cressman led a lifelong search for America’s first people in Oregon’s Great Basin. (1hr)