47 Replies to “June 15, 2024: Reader Tips”

  1. I for one welcome our self driving overlords:

    This guy does a lot of good work exposing the idiocy of EVs, driverless cars, etc.
    Waymo CRASHES into telephone pole – MGUY EV News Friday 14 June 2024 | MGUY Australia

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6s9kwXKW90

    They’re basically beta-testing these things in the streets.

      1. I saw one in Scottsdale stop dead in traffic, nowhere near an intersection or a crosswalk, 90 Degrees off the front door of the restaurant the passengers were traveling to. Just spontaneously stop.

    2. Indeed, Garf is fully captured by the Laurentian mind virus. He’s an institutionalized lefty, still in denial of everything that has happened since he was in office.
      He was smarter than Harper, dontcha know? When he ran and lost for leadership, he got a chip on his shoulder, where it continues to metastasize to this day. He won’t stand for criticism of his beloved Trudeau Libbies, except for Freeland, and yes, he has full blown TDS. He believes the Biden Demarxists are doing an AOK job of running the US, all criticism is conspiracy theory and racist. Yes, Garf is an Idiot, masquerading as an expert. No wonder he’s a loser in politics.

  4. Book recommendation: Zhukov’s Greatest Defeat
    The Red Army’s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942
    by David M. Glantz

    One of the least-known stories of World War II, Operation Mars was an epic military disaster. Designed to dislodge the German Army from its position west of Moscow, Mars cost the Soviets an estimated 335,000 dead, missing, and wounded men and over 1,600 tanks. But in Russian history books, it was a battle that never happened—a historical debacle sacrificed to Stalin’s postwar censorship.
    SNIP
    Mars proved a monumental setback. Fought in bad weather and on impossible terrain, the ambitious offensive faltered despite spectacular initial success in some sectors: Zhukov kept sending in more troops and tanks only to see them decimated by the entrenched Germans.

    Illuminating the painful progress of Operation Mars with vivid battle scenes and numerous maps and illustrations, Glantz presents Mars as a major failure of Zhukov’s renowned command. Yet, both during and after the war, that failure was masked from public view by the successful Stalingrad operation, thus eliminating any stain from Zhukov’s public image as a hero of the Great Patriotic War.

    For three grueling weeks, Operation Mars was one of the most tragic and agonizing episodes in Soviet military history.
    https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700614172/

    1. It is good that Zukov is getting demystified. Western perception of Eastern Front needs demystification and Zukov is a great place to start.

      1. I am waiting for the Presidential debates with Joe in a mobility scooter like Captain Pike’s in the early Star Trek, but with a full voice provided by ChatGPT.

    1. How many of the protestors in Europe and North America who are female have had this done to them?
      Because that would explain a lot.

  12. I am staring an economics research project, with an economics professor from Crandall University, comparing the finances of anti-abortion with pro-abortion charities. We want to look at size, sources of revenue, these sort of things..

    I have been spending a few hours this spring and summer gathering data from the CRA web site. One thing that strikes me is how well organized the anti-abortion side is. I have over 200 such charities entered into my spreadsheet, and these are just groups with charitable status. Many others have no status. Not all anti-abortion people are conservative, and 80% of activists are women.

    I became conservative in the 1980s, and the first thing I noticed is how poorly organized conservatives are. I joined the National Citizens Coalition, read their stuff, but quickly found out they avoided any type of grassroots organization. It’s basically four or five people working out of an office in Toronto. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is better decentralized across regions and has more staff. But the CTF largely educates and complains a lot, but doesn’t really help people with income tax problems.

    One thing the anti-abortion side has done is to set up “crisis pregnancy centers” everywhere (there are 120 of these in Canada), to help pregnant women care their babies to term. The pro-abortion side hates these centers, for their grassroots work helps to reduce the number of abortions made.

    So I sm wondering why the smaller-government side doesn’t set up tax help centers to help the beleaguered Canadian taxpayers as to try to minimize taxes. The financial gulf between the over-paid federal bureaucracy and private-sector workers has become obscene. Actually helping the average taxpaying schlep could make conservatism grow.

  13. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canadian-warship-sharing-an-anchorage-with-russian-vessels-in-cuba/ar-BB1ogxKu?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=65becc85b8184aabbbce33a48500202b&ei=34

    Why Canada’s navy ship got an invite? Juthtin the Commie.

    From the Ceeb via MSN.

    “No Canadian naval vessel had visited Cuba for more than 50 years until Justin Trudeau came to power at the end of 2015.
    In November 2016, he visited Havana hoping to meet the dying Fidel Castro. That didn’t happen but Trudeau did publicly embrace Raul Castro and the Castro brothers’ chosen successor, Miguel Diaz-Canel, and called Cuba an “ally” of Canada during a talk at the University of Havana.
    Three days later, the frigate HMCS Fredericton set sail for Havana for a visit then-defence minister Harjit Sajjan said would celebrate the “strong, positive and productive relationship” between Cuba and Canada.”

    1. A calf rampaging and threatening people? It was scared shitless. Police everywhere seem to recruit the most clueless and useless sacks of shit.

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