71 Replies to “November 23, 2019: Reader Tips”

  2. From Quincy Larson’s twitter account:

    “A private equity company just bought the rights to the entire .ORG domain registry.

    Oh, and @ICANN removed price caps, too.

    If your nonprofit owns a .org domain, go extend your registration out to the maximum 10 years before prices skyrocket.”
    ——————–

    “Special report – The sale of one of the internet’s most popular registries to a private equity firm has revived concerns over how the domain name system is governed.

    At the end of last week, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it has sold the rights to the .org registry for an undisclosed sum to a private equity company called Ethos Capital. The deal is set to complete in the first quarter of next year.

    The decision shocked the internet industry, not least because the .org registry has always been operated on a non-profit basis and has actively marketed itself as such. The suffix “org” on an internet address – and there are over 10 million of them – has become synonymous with non-profit organizations.

    However, overnight and without warning that situation changed when the registry was sold to a for-profit company.

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/

    1. 10 million .org addresses. Some legit, most not …. in my opinion. Most of them exist to beg for your money. Thinning the herd will be a good thing.

      Many comments at that site …. it’s political … evil US, evil capitalists, free stuff is what we want.

      1. Free speech is what we want. The orgs have a right to beg if they choose or to otherwise get their messsge out. I do think this is alarming. The purchaser could disallow some orgs and censor others.

        1. You’re talking as though that’s an unexpected consequence rather than the reason for the purchase.

    1. Man’s best friend. Dog’s are more reliable and trustworthy than 99% of people. Just met a weiner/chawahwah cross up the road, called ittybit a female. Hilarious, first she threatens to kill you, tear you limb from limb then she figures out your a good guy and is all over you. Guy said he found out she loves fishing. He takes her in the boat fishing when he hooks a fish. She leaps out into the water and attacks fish bigger than her. Then he has to get the fish in quickly and save the dog. Fish is thinking, shit bad day, hook in mouth and chawwahwah on my ass.

      1. Used to have a golden lab who was a genius. If you asked him if he wanted to go cross country skiing in the summer he’d look at you like you were crazy! He was a sneaky devil too, always hungry!

        1. I just love dogs NR. Son has a French Bulldog. A male. Granddaughters always packing him around, the 9 year old the other morning has him on the floor and playing dress up. I asked what in the heck is that you got on him, she said a training bra Grandpa. Who knew, I immediately switched subjects, like what the hell is a training bra? Pretend I didn’t see that maybe it will disappear. I am scratching my head but heck it is a never ending cartoon. If he is not grunting like a small pig and playing dress up. He is trying to hump the cat. Dang Fwench man.

          1. Haha! It’s a CUP-LESS contraption with all the bells and whistles like the real McCoy! Ha! Ha!

            My giant pup loved running, so during the winter months, asking him if he wanted to go skiing meant that one had be almost ready to go because he’d be at the door jumping and ready to take you on in a race!

      2. ever notice the smaller the dog the feistier they are?
        when Im 90 Im gonna get me a itsy bitsy canine suitable for my more limited lifestyle.
        as it is now, my part mastiff with the doorknob denting dental structure acts as a very very good deterrent
        to any nonsense.

        when I was in my mid teens, the most popular canine withing 10 blocks was Sam the lab/possibly shep mix.
        any circumstances make a move against any of the kids on THIS street.
        Sam used to chase cars and try to bite the tires.
        he escorted my ma to her night shift @ the hospital.
        genius? he was there in the morning to escort her back home.

        I would give half of everything to have one of his descendants.
        I may have done it, Juno the black lab was THE most loving, loyal and gentle canine I ever knew.

        1. Hey hb, I used to have a red heeler, when I was still ranching. He used to go everywhere on the ranch with me, 800 acres. He would not ride. He took to trying to herd my pick up as I drove. He would run in and nip at my front tire. He destroyed 2 front tires before I cured him. I cured him with a hammer. No I never hurt him. I would never hurt any animal. But he did not know that, I would grab my fencing hammer out of the bucket and threaten to clobber him with it, and he would veer away from the tire. He was the King of Dogs around there. I loved that dog. All my kids and grandkids loved that dog. When he died, he got a full Christian Burial. Sorta, I forgot to notify the Pope, the Pope wasn’t there. But my granddaughters were his official mourners and wailers who followed behind him as I carried him to his last resting place. Then they insisted he have his home made cross. Hell they even had me all watery eyed. It was windy that day yah know.

        2. To hb and Watcher…
          Doggie days and dogs with good doorknob denting dental structures bring to mind what my giant pup did.
          (Good alliteration there, hb)

          In the winter months if you asked him whether he wanted to go to the beach, here we go again, the genius that he was, again, he’d look at you as if you were crazy, for there was no going to the water in cold winter months.

          However, in the summer, yes, you got it, one had to be ready to go right away because he’d be jumping at the door ready to go ‘swimming.’

          Now, Labs are excellent swimmers and love the beach. Once there, there was no relaxing. It meant playing the fetching game. He’d chase a stick that one threw into the water, even if the stick was far away and the water had choppy waves. He’d faithfully and unfailingly bring back the stick and you had to receive it like it was a precious offering. Of course, one had to do this repeatedly until he or you, had enough. Then, if you weren’t fast enough in throwing the stick, he of course, would reward you and get really close to you, as if on purpose and on a mission, and shake his body fast and hard, it seemed, just get you ALL WET! With his longish hair and big body it was a helluva salty bath spray!

          He was not a fishing fish dog like Watchers neighbor’s nor a dog who escorted people to work, like a guard dog. He could be won over by any kind person, though his bark was loud, there was never any bite. In that way, he was a big pussy.

          They make good guide dogs for Blind people though, if professionally trained. They have such gentle souls.

          1. My daughter and her family had a Golden Lab named Clifford when the kids were growing up. He was an awesome buddy for them and a faithful guardian. My granddaughter had him trained when she was smaller to pull her on the skateboard on the sidewalk. What a pair of clowns. And yes he loved water. Perfect family dog. When they would come visit or stay over Clifford always came to, and there was never a moments problems with my LGD’s they seemed to know he was family too. And belonged with his people my grandkids. He did like chasing birds along the shore.

    1. Imagine all the rooms full of uncivil servants earning more in pay and benefits than the average Canadian, it takes to run the Velvet Gulag called Canada.
      I read that Canada now has over 500,000 PAGES of laws and rules and regulations. That is a stack of paper over 14 stories high. All shuffled back and forth by union scale workers. In both Official Languages.
      May as well just shovel tax money into a furnace. I am kind of Libertarian on this kind of thing. If you are 18 and want to eat rat poison be my guest. Same for smoking or drugs etc.
      Always so many confusing rules. Smoke tobacco bad, but while you are smoking we want tax money. Cause its bad, legalize pot smoke all you want, no warning label.
      Should have warning labels on all government services and how bad they are for us.
      Listened to that Old Commie Rat Mandel when he was Mayor of Edmonton, on the radio. Whining how he needed tax dollars for affordable housing and homelessness. Yet the Commie Bastard has over 20,000 dollars worth of regulations, and permits and rules added to the cost of every new home built. And the highest property taxes in Alberta. For all that property tax, they won’t maintain your street.
      Why do people vote for such useless braindead shit. Start carrying used plastic shopping bags and ask idiots like that to please wear one over their head and help Trudeau meet his UN CO 2 emission targets.
      Ask every greasy politician you meet especially when they come knocking wanting your vote. If they believe in recycling these bags and if they believe in helping reduce CO2, if they say yes hand them a plastic bag and tell them to wear the bag in support of the UN, do it for the kids. (SARC) in case some idiot takes me serious. But yah if they did I could run the backhoe.

      1. watcher, free needles and a free place to shoot up illegal drugs. That is the level of stupid in this country. CO2 could be slowed down if only those who think it is a problem would permanently remove their own carbon footprint, I have been suggesting the use of plastic bags ever since the foolishness started.

    1. I think the bad news is just getting started NR. Don’t know if it will get 1970’s bad but with the ship of fools in Ottawa can’t see how it can get better. US economy is slowing. If you look at the Baltic Dry Index, the rail shipping stats, and the trucking stats, they are all showing a huge slow down across the USA. The US economy gets a sniffle we get pneumonia.

      1. I don’t want to see a ghost town. As a result I NEVER shop on line. Some store people have thanked me when I told them that.

        The USA is lucky to have a business minded President. Wish we had a PM leading the way here. Nothing is as important as the economy. Everything PM JT does is utter nonsense.

        1. Remember when JT was running the 1st time against Harper. All the gusher stories on CBC, interviews with braindead soccer moms and such, how handsome and smart he was, how smart were they. Guess none of them in the east clued in because they voted him in again. To continue his project of creating a Post National state. Makes you wonder why they are upset at Alberta Independence talk. They should be happy to help JT break up the Nation.

          1. Brunswick News (Irving Empire) owns all the daily newspapers and radio stations in NB.
            How bad is it you ask?
            The CBC may be the best source for news in NB.
            Yes. That bad.

            Post Media owns all the print media in NS, Nfld and PEI.
            In other words, not an ill word to be found about Junior, the Libranos or any of their expensive boondoggles, utter imbecility, lies or corruption.

            And if you think the CBC,CTV or Global is any less partisan, biased and pro-Liberal in the Atlantic Provinces than they are in yours, then you would be more wrong than two Trudeaus in one Canadian lifetime.

            Can’t vote against horrors you never hear of.
            And propaganda, Canada’s default position, by definition is hard to ignore.

            It aint easy to own a country and its people.
            But they have lots of practice.
            And Canadians appear to be eminently ownable.

            Nothing will ever change in Canada until the Laurentian Liberal Party and their Canadian Media is exposed and destroyed.
            And the earth salted.

          2. re the irving ownership, I did a research paper back in the mid 90s suggesting at least the media etc were canaduhian owned as opposed to yanks using OUR dollars spent at THEIR firms bougt from canaduhians . . . . to continue the process.

        2. “The USA is lucky to have a business minded President.”

          Meanwhile in the real world and the comment you are literally replying to: “US economy is slowing. If you look at the Baltic Dry Index, the rail shipping stats, and the trucking stats, they are all showing a huge slow down across the USA.”

          1. I do like to look to see what there is online. It’s good homework. Ultimately one has to pay more for better quality stuff. There’s a lot of shoddy workmanship in things, these days, unfortunately. I’ll ultimately talk myself out of things or I’ll splurge.

            During the Boom Days here, one lost out because things sold out quickly. People tended to buy doubles if things were of good quality. Now, not so much. Quality stores like Hudson’s Bay are virtually empty unless there is a sale going on. One doesn’t have to go shopping on Boxing Day anymore. The sales are ongoing. Black Friday, consequently, is a myth.

            Generally I prefer to stay away from large crowds anyway. If I’m in a crowd it better be at the theatre or a musical concert.

    2. NR

      I have an inherent dislike of all things coop.

      Had a guy out bird hunting this fall that knows something about Calgary coop. He said they are run by an independent thinking free enterpriser. They dont fall in line with the commies at Federated Coop.

      I’m out in west central AB at the moment. Went to the local coop to get some essentials. The produce looked like it should be at the dump. The meat counter was uninspired and over priced.

      I’ll quit at that. The coop model of retail has had it’s best before date IMO. If the people who get laid off at Calgary coop want jobs they should head over to Sobeys- they’ll be hiring.

      1. Abt
        How sad! I was only lamenting the job losses! It seems to be a dominant news item lately that is a preoccupation for me since our Country is crashing.

        That said, I too gave up on the Co-op Grocery Store here nearby because after they renovated, opened up a mini food bar with ready made foods with a larger seating area, a sushi bar, a roast coffee kiosk, built a separate Liquor Store and raised their prices, I stopped shopping there. They outdid themselves.

        It wasn’t the terrible coffee nor the fact that they think they are a restaurant that did me in, though their sushi is good, it was the fact that they eliminated the book exchange in the inner atrium.

        They said that the books that people were starting to donate were supposedly inappropriate. When I told them that they could’ve easily eliminated those with a quick daily glance, they had no time for further conversation. I told them that due to this and the elimination of Vanhoutte coffee beans I was out of there.

        I since found my dark roast Columbian beans elsewhere and went and talked to the Master Roaster at Coop. Yes, that is his title. We gave me samples to try and I politely thanked him for this. All were horrible – weak and without body and bitter. So the coffin was nailed.

        I still check in on occasion but usually don’t get much. They still have no book exchange. Shoppers Drug Mart does though. And they now think they are a convenience store. Haha!

        You said you were temporarily in Rocky Mountain House, there’s a Sobey’s on 52nd Avenue. Hope it is better. Small Towns usually are pretty good but more expensive, sadly.

        Happy Chow Chow anyway.

        1. Small town northern Alberta here. The local Coop has only Maxwell house, Folgers or house brand, some Tim Horton Trash and that Seattle Junk. I guess I am spoiled rotten. I love Columbian Medium Roast beans, ground fresh every morning, then straight up. And as far as used books, it’s good night Irene not a hope in Hades. I am a voracious reader and have been since I learned to read. Coffee and books are like heroin to me now I have time. Have gradually been teaching my granddaughters how to cook, bit by bit. Parents don’t seem to have time. Todays lesson was just home made juicy hamburgers. She is 14 and never cooked or made a dang hamburger from scratch, wah no buns Gramps, lesson on bread and its many uses.
          The cooking lesson was after we did about a 2 mile walk in a near by hay field with the Great French Bull dog. She surprised me picking up deer sign and giving me back the name lectures on tracking that sounded very much like the ones I gave my son , her father many many years ago. Deja vu all over again.

    1. Fight Club! That’s 5 blows to the head, a punch in the ribs then another blow to the head, after he was down. That’ll teach him!

    3. no kidding.
      I got a hunch there’s a LOT of this in store for the antifa crowd.
      bam bam bam bam bam bam bam.
      what’s the avg time lapse before a pink dipwad like this tries it again?

  7. True North website reports that our Defense Minister stated that China is not our adversary. Gee, I feel much safer now. It must be true because he single handed won the Afghan war.

  9. Blackie’s CBC is excited this morning that a train load of propane is on its way from Alberta to Canada’s most important province, Quebec. Gee if only there was some other way to move fossil fuels out east in the future. I don’t know. Any suggestions?

  10. And now Blackie’s Saturday Toronto Star. Editorial that Ford is worse than Hitler. Editorial cartoon that Ford is worse than Hitler. Story that Ford is just trying to save his ass by being cooperative with Great Leader Blackie. Heather Mallick explains how Trump and Fox News hosts have very few actual brain cells. Major multi page story on how wonderful the Liberal election campaign was. Great photos of Justin. Reviews of the latest “woke” books. Justin is wonderful, the Liberal Party is wonderful, Canadians are racist bastards.

    1. Can you imagine how much better off we all would be if the FakeCon Harper had of manned up when he had an iron clad majority and sold off the whole mess of Commies called the CBC. Heather Malignant could have been giving her opinion at Mickey’s D at the take out window. The Ramification of his weakness is even more apparent today.

    2. A certain number of “Canadians” are “racist bastards”… that why they vote for a fellow racist bastard, old Blackie McTurdhole the blackfaced french language supremacist and supreme leader of the first Post National State, Turdholeland. #WEXIT.

  11. Venturing onto the Toronto Police main web page:
    http://tpsnews.ca/

    one notices that the lead article is entitled “Commitment to Inclusion on Trans Day”. Good to see that — with all of the gang-related shootings — our city officials have their priorities straight.

  12. Ever wonder why all of Blackie’s Toronto voted Liberal? Daily shootings, stabbings, and robberies in the city, but Levy at the Toronto Sun explains the most important issue Mayor Muhammad Tory and his socialist council are concentrating on. They spent over a half million dollars to set up a whiny indian office. This resulted in plaques being setup at city hall explaining how Toronto sits on indian land, and discussions on setting aside 50% of shelter beds for indians, and setting up a Kayak sharing program at the harbour front.

  13. The new Minister of Middle Class Prosperity, one Mona Fortier, hasn’t the slightest idea about what the mission of this wondrous new department is, or how to go about defining Canada’s “middle class”:
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-new-minister-of-middle-class-prosperity-declines-to-provide-clear/

    The Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau has just announced a new, quite useless line department, under Fortier’s watchful eye. And we can be sure the new highly-price bureaucrats there will be scrambling to find out what the ministry should actually do.

    Which leads to a story I have from decades ago. I had just graduated in 1975 with a graduate decree in economics, from the University of Zero — and I got a temporary job at something called “The Ministry of State for Science and Technology (or “MOSST” — in bureaucratic jargon). Earlier I was interviewed for a job with something called the Ministry of State for Urban Affairs. In 1975, Justin’s father Pierre ruled the country, and, like Justin today, Pierre had built up a huge federal bureaucracy. To wit, the above MOSST and Urban Affairs departments actually did not do anything, except to GIVE ADVICE TO FEDERAL CABINET — er, and that’s it. Nothing else but to send memoranda and idiot-proof talking-points to federal Cabinet.

    When I showed up for work on the first day, my easy-going boss explained to me the above. I was stunned to learn that mission statement, and that MOSST had 200 employees, many of which were highly-paid scientists and senior administrators, covering three large floors of a federal government building in downtown Ottawa. Talking to people there, in order to do my assigned six-week long project, I got the impression most bureaucrats there just sat around talking. So back then we had 200 bureaucrats sitting around, trying to GIVE ADVICE to federal Cabinet.

    Probably the new Middle Class Prosperity ministry will be doing something along these lines. The waste that goes on in Ottawa.

    1. Oh hoh hoh. Mona Fortier, my MP in the diverse, vibrant and blood-Red Liberal riding of Ottawa-Vanier.

      I could give Mona a few ideas with regard to supporting middle-class prosperity.

      Among my proposals would be to bulldoze most of Vanier, force the Third World filth who live there to go home and put Canadians to work building homes in the former Eastview fit to keep a dog in, never mind raise a family.

      Moving on: yes, most of what they do is write reports on policy, using the economic and engineering techniques the politicians don’t understand. (To get ahead in Ottawa, people learn French, not economics.) The reports that help rationalize what the politicians want to do any way are gratefully consumed. The ones that don’t are ignored.

  14. Don’t miss Conrad Black’s challenge to the climate hysteria crowd in the National Post today. Likely won’t have much impact, but he is brave to go against the propaganda. Most journos ( and others) are afraid to stick their neck out. That is why propaganda can be so effective. Black: https://tinyurl.com/wwwf4le

  16. The problem in Canada has been the constant 24 hr Propaganda (Social Engineering via CBC), since PET’s days on Multi Culturism, a Global(ist) theme yet restricted to soley Western Hemisphere Nations with Govt enforced migration of Islamics into all countries…its all part of the plan and should be Blindingly obvious to even the most obtuse among us.

    This shit didnt just start yesterday. Its initial germination was in the mid ’50’s Led by Eisenhower himself believing this Salafist Filth might be a bulwark against Communism.

    Saudi Arabia is ground zero for this. It is they who Finance EACH & EVERY Mosque built in the West.

    ..and what do we do.?
    -Sell them armaments….and in the end, dont even get paid.
    -Import ISIS Killers for PM Discspanks proletarion guard.
    -Pull False Flag events to bolster support for M-103 (Qubec Mosque Shoot and Hijabi girl).
    -Open our Border to let 100’s of thousand more pour in.
    Install 10+ into our National Cabinet.
    -Vote in the East with an overwhelming majority for parties that are Socialist – Fascist in nature & 100% in favour of the above.

    There’s more than 1 Reason I want us out of this Unholy Rotten Country. Canada is FUBAR..Truly.

  17. AC: methinks that will NEVER EVER happen.

    The longshoremem (mafia), run the Quebec City and Montreal Docks…and are “allowed to” by the Quebec Govt. As Such, this convenient arrangement allows for the funneling of MILLIONS of $$ worth of Nigerian, Saudi, Azerbijani, Eritrean & Venezuelan sourced Baksheesh to flow & Lubricate the Quebec Political Highway.

    Why else do you think they forced the cancellationof Energy East and are such antagonists against the idea of ANY Western Oil going their way.???

    FOLLOW the Fricking MONEY..!! (as always no.??)

    If Anything and should the West fail to cecede…? Watch for them to push Energy WEST. (pipelines are omnidirectional..right.?).
    I would not put it past those genetically Corrupt FRENCH MoFo’s.

    1. Has there ever been any contraband found on the docks in Montreal?

      Yeah, that’s what I thought.

  20. “Opponents of ‘Unfettered Capitalism’ Are Fighting a Phantom”

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/economic-policy-unfettered-capitalism-does-not-exist-in-united-states/

    “Recently, the concern with capitalism’s unfetteredness has become bipartisan. Senators Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio have taken up the cause in a series of speeches and policy proposals. Conservative intellectuals such as Patrick Deneen and Yoram Hazony have taken dead aim at unrestrained capitalism. J. D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, and Tucker Carlson of Fox News have suggested that economic policy is run by . . . libertarians.”

  21. A Chinese defector in Australia tells how China conducts interference in other countries. But our Defence Minister says China is not our adversary. Story on the defection at Blazing Cat Fur website.

  22. The MSM is constantly trying to gain the Boomers attention. We still are a large voting block. Remember Trudeaumania during Pierre’s era? The bought Press wanted and continues to demand for us to relive the 1960, 70s and 80s through the son of PET. It was all propaganda then, as it is now. They HAD to make us believe that these people, the Trudeaus, were special so that they could get away with stuffing the ballot boxes for a sure Liberal Majority win. Again, and again, and again.

    Once the Liberals were and are in, they expand the Government, thus ensuring that the gravy train continues. It’s a dream come true for the Communist state, the post National state, the U.N. State of one World Government, and the Sore-Os state of well being. That’s who Little Miss Sausage reports to and we can be sure that Blabber Mouth is taking over. She will answer the Loyal Opposition’s soft questions in the H of C. His Majesty will be silenced and more often than not, will be flying to more exotic places, for longer periods of time, doing UN work and throwing money around.

    They are upset at Western separation talk because they need all the cold hard cash they can get, in order to meet their immediate payroll requirements and pay bribes. They need to bully the Western provinces to show off their so called clout to the rest of the World. They will declare Marshall Law and send in the troops if they have to. It would be déjà vu for Canada. There will be no western separation, if they can help it.

    There will likely be several more Trudeau Governments long after the Boomers are dead. Younger generations will be kept in the dark and too stoned to care. They will be united under one flag for the sake of the joint. They will be united in a one world Caliphate under one leader of the entire Ummah.

    It’ll be between Communist China and the Ummah for World domination. Who will win?

    1. NR you are the best. You got it cased. And all we can do, as the brainwashing has been so effective. Even here in the Hallowed Halls Of The Dead Rodent is roll with it and try not to end up as road kill.

      1. I dunno…the worst sometimes… the worst happens sometimes…

        Like at funerals. Are people crying because they are crying for themselves? The deceased has ended his or her suffering.
        We all die. So live is for the Living. To Life.
        I’m sorry for your loss.

        Thank you for the link to the Eagles, below at 2:24 pm.
        To the Living. To happier times.
        To LIFE.

        1. Hell yes NR. Life is to be lived. To its fullest to the very end. Then throw my ass on a burning pyre and hoist a glass of ale to the old Gods of our forebears.
          The dang French had a word for it, the delicious Italians had a word for it, but hell I just try everyday to roll with it and embrace life. If that means chasing my loves a thousand miles then that is what I will do, if I decide to climb a mountain no matter how many times I fall I will climb that mountain. Got bucked off a horse a couple of years back and broke my arm near the shoulder in 2 places. My son was upset, and gave me a lecture on my age, and riding horses. Life is to be lived, sometimes that hurts. My Lady friend immobilized the arm, and after 2-3 days it was still fair painful so went to the sawbones and guess what he said yah its broken keep it immobilized. Yah thanks dumb ass. “Run towards Life and Embrace It, Never Hide From It Never” (Watcher) One of my lectures to my kids. Run Towards Life and Embrace It. Sometimes that hurts that’s how you know you are still alive.

  25. Furey at the Toronto Sun website reports on the Muslim vote in Canada. And Goldstein writes about Blackie’s silence on China while he supports opposition to Israel.

    1. Bongo sides with the Palestinians over Israel. He’s still trolling for a seat on the UN security council.

      Canada votes on the ‘wrong’ side of this and it’s over. What a bullshit country.

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