Forty deals to zero in the blink of an eye. That’s got to be a tough way to make a living, but in the current real estate market it’s becoming a reality. Ron Butler’s Twitter feed here.
On a personal note, my wife’s cousin from California was working as a mortgage broker. He is now laid off and looking for a new career. Another cousin in the GTA went from house flipping for a living to doing handyman work as house flipping now brings a negative margin.
Tim Cook is said to be a prominent member of the LGBT community and the Left. But when it comes to the human rights of a billion people in China, he is fully supportive of oppressing them:
🚨WATCH: Apple CEO Tim Cook ignores our questions on China as zero-COVID lockdown protests rage in the country. Full video 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/m0NpgRN6U4
— Hillary Vaughn (@hillary__vaughn) December 1, 2022
What an absolute coward!!!
And so do his friends.
On Parliament Hill, a Liberal government that claims to be terribly concerned about misinformation — and wants to regulate the internet to make it better — is either lying to fend off criticism of its latest gun-control push, or it has no idea what it’s doing. Even as it insists it is not going after hunting rifles and shotguns, it is clearly going after hunting rifles and shotguns.
But read on.
Pipeline Online column on Alberta’s two electrical grid alerts this past week. And it’s not even really cold there yet.
As evidenced twice this past week, the electrical grid can barely handle the demand we have, now, before we switch most of our transportation system to electric vehicles. What happens when half our cars and trucks are EVs? Then three-quarters? What happens when the wind doesn’t blow then? No one goes to work?
When will the other media take notice? When will they start to question this mad rush to wind and solar, and total adoption of electric vehicles? When will someone else in the Saskatchewan media declare “The emperor has no clothes?”
Biden’s America: The glorification of suicide. Rescuing America from idiocracy. Senator Kennedy nails Biden. U.S. ambassador wears hijab to meet terrorists. Project Veritas and its expose of HHS. The thieving nonbinary Biden official. This week’s big lies. Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Justin’s CBC spreads more COP27 propaganda. Trudeau minister and MPs meet with known anti-Semite. Doug Ford’s Christmas Drag Show. More money is sunk on the Liberal Party’s submarines. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel from London Ont, to Vancouver. Justin buying votes with federal jobs. Trudeau is speeding up those censorship bills. Anti-government views on the internet.
Today In Islam: The debate you need to watch.
Career News: Nine exciting jobs.
Including some scholarly ruminations on the anus; how bats pee; Cocaine Bear; when 4.7 million pieces of Lego were lost at sea; and when A.I. generates a 1987 Radio Shack catalogue.
Tonight we present a humourous lesson in how not to tie a Christmas tree to your car’s roof.
Your most recent funny or more serious tips are much appreciated!
Explore Mont-Saint-Michel by drone.
Alberta issues second grid alert in three days, as wind power generation collapses utterly, yet again, at suppertime.
Bob Iger, who recently returned to Walt Disney Co. as chief executive, said he feels “sorry” to see the entertainment giant getting dragged into a battle with Florida lawmakers over a ban on sex and gender discussions in early elementary classrooms.
The Florida law, in response to parents’ complaints that children as young as five are being taught about homosexuality, transgenderism, and other matters related to sex and gender, prohibits public school teachers from discussing those topics with students in kindergarten through third grade.
Disney didn’t immediately join other major corporations in condemning what progressive critics described as “‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill,” which became law in March. However, after a group of vocal activist employees criticized the company for not publicly taking a position, both Iger and his successor, Bob Chapek, spoke out in opposition of the measure.
“To me, it wasn’t politics. It was what is right and what is wrong, and that just seemed wrong. It seemed potentially harmful to kids,” Iger said during an interview with CNN on Mar. 31, adding he believed it’s a responsibility for a company’s CEO to “weigh in on issues, even if voicing an opinion on those issues potentially puts some of your business in danger.”
Eight months later, Iger appears to have regretted the company’s involvement in the fight with Florida.
Get off your high horse, you holier than thou, uptight Karen!
25 years ago today. The Shot. That sent Team Schmirler to the Olympics for Canada.
Schmirler the Curler from Biggar, Saskatchewan.
Three Scotties. Three World Championships. Olympic gold. Simply the best. #cbccurl
— Devin Heroux (@Devin_Heroux) December 1, 2022
Luckily, there were only a few oil cars this time. Between Midale and Macoun, SK.
It turns out that you can have battery-powered cars, or you can have renewable energy, but you can’t have both.
The Federal Council of Switzerland has therefore published draft legislation, which outlines four tiers of escalating measures to conserve electricity and avert potential blackouts. The first prescribes a lot of temperature restrictions for things like refrigerators and washing machines. The second includes more unusual rules, such as the demand that heating in clubs and discotheques “be set to the lowest level or switched off completely,” and that “streaming services … limit resolution of their content to standard definition.” The third foresees cutting business hours, banning the use of Blue Ray players and gaming computers, and also limiting the use of electric cars, which should be driven only when absolutely necessary. A fourth and final tier mandates closure of ski facilities, casinos, cinemas, theatre and the opera.
We’re number one!
New, from me, at The Brownstone Institute.
“As a result of the Trudeau Liberals’ governance, Canada now holds the unenviable position of being one of the world leaders not just in economic decline but also in complete moral decrepitude and decay.”
And they wonder why people are leaving mainline liberal churches.
Energy analyst Tammy Nemeth and a co-writer take on Catherine McKenna’s COP27 ideas regarding net zero. McKenna wants to shut it all down.
Two days ago, Canadian Members of Parliament, including Federal cabinet minister @OmarAlghabra and Green Party Leader @ElizabethMay, met with and hosted a dangerous antisemite and Holocaust denier.
“The Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group”, chaired by Liberal MP @SalmaZahid15, hosted Nazih Khatatba and his “Meshwar Media” on Parliament Hill for a celebratory event.
Khatatba’s Meshwar Media has referred to the Holocaust as the “Holohoax” – “the biggest lie in history.” In 2015, the newspaper called Judaism a “terrorist religion,” in which killing is ingrained.
In 2014, Meshwar Media praised the the synagogue massacre in the Har Nof neighbourhood of Jerusalem, in which Canadian citizen Chaim Rotman was murdered with an axe while at prayer, as “courageous”.
More recently, he praised the heinous nail-bomb murder of 16-year-old Aryeh Schupak as a “quality operation” by Palestinians.
The simulation is winking at us… @NazihKhatatba
And it’s not about South Africa’s murdered farmers.
South Africa is facing deep political turmoil and corresponding uncertainty across markets amid growing calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa to step down over an emerging bizarre scandal centered on the alleged theft of $580,000. The over half million in cash was literally found stuffed in a sofa at a farm that Ramaphosa owns. The timing of the crisis couldn’t be worse given long-awaited economic reforms had only just begun to take shape and improve the country’s outlook.
The mysterious cash payment has sparked outrage particularly among the opponents of the ruling African National Congress, and with his allies holding emergency consultations. On Thursday South African media is reporting President Ramaphosa is to imminently address the nation as prospect for his resignation grows, and as he faces impeachment.
More: Ramaphosa came to power after the ANC forced Jacob Zuma to step down following an almost nine-year tenure during which the government estimates more than 500 billion rand ($29 billion) was stolen from state coffers.
