81 Replies to “July 21, 2019: Reader Tips”

    1. Hope things are better now for you, Ken.
      abtrapper wrote here at SDA that he visited Sask and that the rain came too late and people had to replant.

      We’ve had a lot of wet weather in Calgary. Mostly showers here and there. It just poured an hour ago and stopped again. Had hail twice 10 minutes each time, yesterday. There were some scary looking dark grey clouds though, makes one want to run for cover.

      1. Thanks Nancy. Almost five inches here in the last two weeks. Actually, here, north of Saskatoon, the rains came in time two weeks ago and the crops across the board will be average, decent. Depending on when they were seeded. Early seeded not so good, later seeded are much better. They are short, but will be worth harvesting. Quite a bit of hail here also in small spots this last week.

        Hay crops are not so good except along the forest line in the province.

        abtrapper is right about areas further to the south where they seeded even earlier. There were even a few fields reseeded here.

        1. all that precip in sw ontariowe ruined my entire cherry crop again. 2+ bushels off one tree, all moldy and sloughed off.
          the good news, most of the brand new asparagus saplings are doing dandy. I just weeded the entire patch.

      2. More than 6 weeks ago, I flew to my house in B. C. The area around Edmonton was just turning green after the rain we had.

        Over 3 weeks ago, certain fields were just turning yellow and, this past Sunday, I saw that those fields look like they’ll be producing a good crop this year.

    2. Really? In my area of south central AB. we had rain on an almost daily basis, with daytime high temperatures of 12 to 17 C. No doubt it will be recorded as a historically hot summer.

      1. Not sure who switched off Summer.
        But at some point someone sure as hell did.

        Since coming to Calgary in ’76, I have yet to see Southern Alberta as GREEN and Vibrant as it is this year. RAIN..? I’ll say, since mid June a constant barrage with the odd sunny Break. Today notwithstanding as it looks like what we should have had for weeks.
        Perfecty clear sky…but it aint too all that warm….Not for July.
        7C this AM walking the Boss (dog).

        The first signs of a coming maunder min…??

    1. I watched the lunar EVA portion of my Apollo 11 DVD set earlier this evening. At the moment in the recording when Armstrong made his first step off the footpad, I saluted the event with a sip of XO cognac. (Nothing but the best for such anniversaries!)

      It completely slipped my mind that the past few days marked another space anniversary. (Yeah, another one….) In 1994, fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 entered Jupiter’s atmosphere, leaving visible evidence. Astronomers were hoping to observe the results using the Hubble Space Telescope which had been recently refurbished with corrective optical components.

      They weren’t disappointed. Not only did they see where each fragment entered the atmosphere, the details in the Hubble photos were outstanding.

      The comet was discovered by Dr. Gene Shoemaker, his wife Carolyn, and Dr. David Levy.

      It was appropriate for a comet named after Gene Shoemaker to be in the news at the same time as the 25th anniversary observance of Apollo 11. (What’s a milestone anniversary without some fireworks, eh?) He himself was an astronaut candidate but was, from what I understand, turned down due to an ear problem. He, however, continued working with NASA by training some of the Apollo astronauts.

      He was killed in a car accident in Australia 3 years later, but he still got to go to the moon. In July 1999, some of his ashes were launched with the Lunar Prospector probe. The spacecraft’s mission ended when it was crashed onto the lunar surface in an attempt to see if the debris that was produced contained traces of water.

      1. Cheers! Cognac to celebrate, you earned It!
        Hot coffee for moi,
        Strawberries, blueberries, dry “S” cookie!
        Storm watch and Moon songs too!
        Saw the stuff on the NASA Channel on cable. VP Pence speech.

        This is so neat. There are some more photos online of this-
        https://youtu.be/DBzU2voDKQM

        (Thanks for the reminder of the comet! I do recall that event)

        1. You’re welcome.

          A decade ago, the AO-51 amateur radio satellite broadcast a collection of sounds related to Apollo 11 during each pass, including a part of JFK’s Rice University speech and, of course, Armstrong’s first words.

          I’m not aware of anything similar having been done this time, particularly since AO-51 went out of service several years ago.

          1. July 1969

            Had grown up watching the early Mercury & Gemini Shots…all on black n white tv.
            I was in the foothills of Central Ab on a Bush Survival course with Air Cadets and saw nothing of those events till a few weeks later.

            My dad at the time was an avid Stamp/First Day issue collector. I’ve inherited two old style dedicated “Air mail” envelopes. Both of which have Canadian/US stamps and a USN Postal Seal.

            The First from CSN-12 USN Hornet, the Aircraft Carrier that picked up the Moon Landing Crew…dated July 24, 1969.

            The second from Apollo 14, dated 9 feb, 1971 from the CSN New Orleans, LPH 11.

            History…the real & right stuff.

    1. yea…mental illness.

      Seems his brother was “mentally ill” as well.
      His home was searched where police found some some 35+ 9mm handguns and ~40 kg’s of cartenafil. A Drug 1000 times as strong as fentanyl – enought drug to obliterate the entire GTA.

      Not terrorists of course
      But god forbid ya go shoot gophers w/a .22 on your own land…??

      LONG LONG overdue to form a new country.
      One in Which ISLAM and Public Service Unions are Outlawed.

      1. We know the that mooselimb terrorist killed two white people. We know that he told a brown man not to worry and let him go. Has anyone got the list of names and the race (preferably with pictures) of the twelve wounded victims?

          1. He was a moseelimb and a terrorist hence he was a mooselimb terrorist. Try to keep up skidmark. The question that the investigators consciously burried is whether this was jihad or hatred of whites (or both) that motivated that turdworlder.

          2. At the risk of offending my friends round here, assuming, of course, that I have any, my opinion is that that is both an observant, astute and true comment.

            Of course, I have no idea what inferences you draw from your statement, but I have, for a long time, drawn a few of my own, which, technically, may not align with your own, but we shall see.

          3. “The question that the investigators consciously burried is whether this was jihad or hatred of whites (or both) that motivated that turdworlder.”

            If only you had any evidence whatsoever.

          4. Do you have the list and details of the other victims? Din’t think so. Ever wondered why that was?

    2. I don’t weep for Tronna and their Peter Pan existence. They’ll get their just deserts, compliments of the Laurentian Elite. Their replacements have yet to acquire critical mass, about 10-15%. Being constantly focused on property acquisition, they’ll never see it coming. Their LE are delusional, thinking they can control the inbreds.
      It’s all moot, as the world will be overheated with Globble Warmenting. Pay your “indulgences” to the Church of Globble Warementing. Buy a new Jeep “now” and tear up the dunes in the meantime.

      1. Uh-huh. Just keep holding your breath. The world’s only getting more cosmopolitan and diverse.

        1. Translation: “Western World is getting invaded by hordes of low IQ turd worlder UnMes who contribute nothing and lay claim to freedoms and privileges they neither earned nor deserve”

          1. And yet we’re freer and richer than ever, and those immigrants certainly have higher IQs than you. Get rekt

          2. Yes you’re freeer and richer than ever. Civilized people pay for it.

            Unless that “we” includes civilized people. In that case: congratulations, you’ve managed to include three false statements in one sentence. That must be a new record for a low IQ turdworlder.

          3. “Civilized people pay for it.”

            I achieve more good doing research into disease than you ever could. To the extent that you pay for it (which I doubt), it’s the greatest thing you’ve ever achieved. So congrats and your welcome.

            [MASS IMMIGRATION INTENSIFIES]

          4. Yes you got your master rubber stamped at a university that taught you that mooselimbs invented calculus. We remember. I am sure that with such knowledge you’re a great help.

            But it is good that you finally admit that you’re working for taxpayer’s money. How libertarian of you.

    3. “A year on, Faisal Hussain’s shooting on the Danforth had nothing to do with radical Islam and a trip to Pakistan”

      Indeed there is no evidence Faisal was a jihadist.

    1. I humped and used this weapon (C-1) in the mid 70’s. Accurate. A big punch at 7.62 mm, but keep it clean. CIL ammo was “dirty” and used to carbon up the gas chamber regularly. I used to shoot 6″ bulls at 200 yards, open sights. However, most warfare is more up close and personal, so semi auto was changed to select auto and lighter ammo and weaponry to deliver it was optimal. Nothing like hearing that “click” when you’re outta gas (20 rounds a magazine) and, as we were told “50,000 ……k’s are coming at you, whadda ya doooo?”. “RUN?”, says we.
      There’s no life like it.

    1. Could the BC government be a**holes any more than they already are?

      They’re already taxing their domestic natural gas usage at 128%.

      Then they give that money to wealthy people like Andrew Weaver (BC Green Party leader) so he can buy an electric vehicle.

    1. F’n heavy.
      A couple young lads were shooting SKS’s near me at the range a few weeks ago. Gun laws are stupid.

      1. Heavy is right. I carried that around for a few years.

        I don’t know how they did it but if you stuck a paper match stick under the sear pin the rifle became automatic. I saw, or rather heard, that happen on a night exercise one night at Petawawa and the instructors were not impressed and made a B-line to the offending foxhole.

        1. It was probably our squad. It works, but you’ll burn out the barrel or jam real quick, with consequences. “You’ll put an eye out”, or worse. Petawawa, summer ’72.
          Weght/ Ammo/rifle, what’s the diff. More ammo would be a better situation, than carting 7.62 mm bandoliers.

          1. Summer 1967 here. Messed in 8th Hussars.

            That is probably why the FN has been prohibited. Too easy to auto.

            Also, take a look at the Sten/Stirling video on the sidebar. Great history there.

    2. It wasn’t light…and it had a habit of jamming.
      Drilled with it – shot with it on an MTR, along side a Browning 9mm and the C2. Recall using coca-cola to clean the gas pin…worked damned good.!

      1972. Basic training – Cornwallis, NS.
      January – May – 7203. Gold Platoon.

      Back in the day..

    3. Fired one at Cadet Camp in Valcartier Quebec. 1971.
      Was surprised at how little the recoil was, sort of a rubbery feel as I recall.

  1. Mr. Acosta’s role in allowing Jeffrey Epstein to get away with a slap on the wrist cost him his job as secretary of labor, to the cheers of the Democrats.

    Let’s see if the role of the pride of Westmount High in allowing a mayor of San Diego to get away with a slap on the wrist will cost her the presidential nomination.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/plea-deal-by-kamala-harris-ag-office-for-sexual-harassing-san-diego-mayor-was-too-lenient-critics-say

  2. B’nai Brith Canada wants Justin Trudeau to join the legal fight against Quebec’s secularism law, having guessed, correctly, that it will only be seriously enforced against pious Christians and Jews, as these are unlikely to set off bombs on Montreal or Quebec City public transit.

    Naturally, the Dauphin is not interested. Neither is the Dairy Queen, of course. Certainly not with an election coming up and both the Dauphin and Dairy Queen fighting for the vote of every inbred Jew-hating halfwit in Quebec, Muslim or French Canadian.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/federal-leader-religious-symbols-quebec-1.5219064

  3. Re: Where did July go?? Hell, where did the last 50 years go since they first walked on the moon?? Perhaps we should just start enjoying the very moment we’re in. Right here and now. Enjoy the song!! Happy moon landing day, what’s left of it!!

    https://youtu.be/cuSxfx9bNqo

    1. Years ago there was an article in “The Journal of Irreproducible Results” that set out to prove that, as you get older, time does go faster

  4. nice and warm here. 30 c which is not hot. people are feeling the humidity but hey, it is summer. I get a chuckle out of the “it feels like” numbers, feels like what to who?

    1. I’ve argued that the principles of ”feels like” temperatures are mostly BS. . An Inuit hunter out on his Polaris Voyageur on a windy day near Qikiqtaaluk does not feel the same pain in -40° C temps as a scientist from Tampa, Fl. does while he or she is retrieving ice samples in that same region of Canada. I’m from Southern Saskatchewan. I’ve bulldozed dirt at +40°C sitting atop a D-8 cat with no cab on bald prairie covered with cactus. I’ve also operated a snow blower mounted on a 97 Massey with no cab at -40°C on snow bound grid roads. Trust me when I tell you that I’ve adapted to extreme weather rather well. Yet the most uncomfortable weather I’ve ever encountered was in Queensland, Australia where the temperature was so hot there was hardly any swimmers on the beach, mostly because the sand was too hot to walk on and the UV was over 14. The exceptions were two old bachelors from Winnipeg, Mb. who raced dog sleds for a hobby and who had just arrived two days prior to our encounter. They were enjoying the hot sand and the hot sun. That would dispel any scientific theories about not adapting to extremes. The sad part of that day was the absence of bikini clad beauties from Sweden and Germany, who sat in the nearby bar all afternoon wearing hoodies because the AC was set too low.. I can’t recall the outside temp. however the humidity was brutal. Yet inside the bar, the cool breeze from the AC felt pretty good to an old Saskatchewan farmer.
      Conclusion: We all sense temperature extremes differently.

      Enjoy!!
      https://youtu.be/9JjxpGpKNR4

  5. Must be an election coming as Trudeau’s Unifor media ramp up support for our little dictator. Trudeau’s CBC is excited that Groper gave one hundred thousand taxpayer dollars to homosexual events in P.E.I. And Trudeau’s Sunday Toronto Star has a Scheer is Hitler editorial. Also Ralph Goodale has a story on the editorial page. Ralphie explains that Canada’s history is full of racism, Canadians are racist bastards, and that populism will result in the return of the Klan. Don’t support the Klan, join Team Trudeau.

  6. WARNING TO WOMEN! Groper is still taking personal time in B.C. at taxpayer expense. Don’t experience things differently with Justin, stay in your homes.

      1. Me thinks he is visiting a special friend. He often arranges personal junkets in BC. Poor Sophie. I guess she is stuck at home with the kids, while her “feminist” husband gallavants.

  7. Is Big Tech a threat to free and fair elections in Canada?

    Dr. Robert Epstein’s Testimony Before the US Senate Judiciary Committee July 18, 2019 (His testimony ends at the 2:13:34 mark)
    https://youtu.be/nO2hOe61yeM?t=7581

    Senator Ted Cruz Questions Dr. Robert Epstein (His Question and Answer Session ends at the 2:38:50 mark)
    https://youtu.be/nO2hOe61yeM?t=9131

    If Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter etc. can influence the US elections to the degree that Dr. Epstein has documented in his research then influencing the Canadian election in October may well be child’s play for Big Tech.

    For Canadians the big question is as follows.

    “To what degree will voters be able to get authoritative information about political leaders, the parties, the various platforms of the parties and be in a position to make an informed decision on Election Day?

    When you consider the role played by the governing Liberal Party in buying support for re-election, the role played by the Canadian mainstream media in being a 5th column for the Liberal Party and the role played by Big Tech in its support for left-leaning progressive governments, like the Trudeau Liberals, I ask this question.

    Should we fear for free and fair elections in Canada?

    1. The Toronto Star is the official newsletter of the Liberal Party.

      They receive ZERO pushback because of it.

      ZERO.

      And CBC? Wow.

      Conservatives have no game, no testicles and no love for their children.

      But they do love losing.

    1. Unme…. Don’t be so stupid!… That fake opinion is written by a fool who has never made a payroll… You don’t understand how SS & Medicare is paid through the Banking System…Defrauding a Bank is a federal crime…. Using a fake SS @ a bank is a crime….An employer knows better & just pockets the fools money

  8. Google rewards reputable reporting, not left-wing politics

    https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/08/google-rewards-reputable-reporting-not-left-wing-politics

    It’s too bad that it’s behind paywall but The Economist has effectively destroyed the myth that Google is out to manipulate the public.

    The data is presented in this article: https://reason.com/2019/07/18/dennis-prager-who-boasts-1-billion-video-views-a-year-decries-youtube-censorship/

    Breitbart and DailyKos suffer in Google News ranking for the same reason: they’re BS factories, not news organizations.

    1. good eye!

      also over at kinsella (buyer beware):
      “””Scheer says he will review ‘ideologically driven’ Food Guide if he becomes PM…

      Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the new version of Canada’s Food Guide is ‘not based on sound science,’ will hurt the dairy industry, and would be reviewed if he becomes prime minister. He made the remarks Wednesday, while speaking at the Dairy Farmers of Canada annual meeting in Saskatoon. “””

  9. And now the Political Scrum at Trudeau’s CBC this morning. Discussion was Scheer is Hitler, Trudeau is wonderful, everything about Trudeau is wonderful. Max’s People’s Party is racist, Trump is racist. Obese indian on panel goes a little further and explains that Canada was founded on racism, everything is Canada today is racist, Scheer is racist, Doug Ford is racist, Canadians are racist bastards.

    1. So the past 4 years have been Prinz Dummkopf’s Dreadnought Hoax?

  10. BC family battles government over secret land seizure & SNC Lavalin debacle:
    https://youtu.be/kwmvqEgL6UQ
    9.5 years of hell. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s obvious she should have recorded every interaction she had with these people. And NEVER have met with any of them without another witness or 2 with her. Put your cellphone on the table and push “record”.

    1. Isn’t it time for Canadians to quit fooling themselves and just ask the Government to pick the day we all became OWNED so we know when to celebrate?

      Or not?

      This is definitely NOT Canada’s Greatest Generation.

      Not by a long shot.

      Every single Canadian should start his/her day by looking in the mirror and soaking in the embarrassment and disappointment of both their ancestors and their descendants.

      We may well be Canada’s Worst Generation ever!

  11. In today’s episode of everyone in Canada is a victim, the National Post reports that Japanese Canadians not only want an apology regarding internment during World War 2, but want racism against Japanese Canadians addressed in schools. Well, it should go well with the current lessons about the genocide of indians, persecution of homosexuals, etc.

    1. Well…yeah. Of course they should want an apology for internment. And of course they should get it.

    2. Are the Japanese Canadians – particularly those who arrived after WW II – going to apologize for what their fellow countrymen did to Canadians stationed in Hong Kong? After the war, the Hong Kong war vets got special compensation (but not until 1998) to recognize their privations in the Japanese POW camps.

      1. What a stupid comment. Japanese people aren’t responsible for the actions of their fellow countrymen. The Canadian government is responsible for its actions.

        1. I think UnMe is the internet handle of Our Groping Nutless sociopath Prom Minister…..

    3. Oh just fit it in with tranny jobs lessons, how to give something or other and how to install rubbers.

  12. The day following the Apollo 11 landing, someone (I don’t recall who) asked PET that, since what had just happened was a pivotal event in history, if he, as prime minister, would declare a national holiday.

    Daddy Trudeau, in his usual oily and arrogant fashion, said that Canadians could celebrate it at their desks. That wasn’t surprising, considering the disdain he had for everything American, provided it wasn’t a draft-dodger, hippie, or urban terrorist.

    But, by doing so, he insulted the many Canadians who went to the U. S. and worked in the American aerospace industry, some of whom, as I mentioned before, contributed to the space program.

    One can only speculate what he would have said had it been a Soviet cosmonaut who put his bootprint on the moon first.

    (Captcha gets it wrong again. An RV is not a bus!)

    1. I do recall the surly remark from PET that you mentioned about his thoughts regarding the American lunar landing, and his rejection as to whether a holiday should be declared in Canada. Trudeau’s disdain for the U.S. was something that he likely earned himself as a result of being a Catholic Quebeçois trying to study in the States. After receiving a Jesuit education, its influence was likely responsible for his anti-Americanism.

      From Wikipedia:

      “Trudeau was interested in Marxist ideas in the 1940s and his Harvard dissertation was on the topic of Communism and Christianity. Thanks to the great intellectual migration away from Europe’s fascism, Harvard had become a major intellectual centre in which he profoundly changed. Despite this, Trudeau found himself an outsider – a French Catholic living for the first time outside of Quebec in the predominantly Protestant American Harvard University. This isolation deepened finally into despair, and led to Trudeau’s decision to continue his Harvard studies abroad. In 1947 Trudeau travelled to Paris to continue his dissertation work.”

      Moreover, Trudeau probably felt very rejected at Harvard where his Communist ideas were not welcomed.

      If Trudeau was going to decĺare any new holiday in Canada it would have been as a result of his own (Marxist) Doctrine and no one else’s.

      Let’s see, what did Nixon call Trudeau? Was it a part of the anatomy that would be a part of ones’ (pretty) derrière?

  13. where the time went Kate?
    my original joke-of-the-day:
    there’s sumptin wrong wit’ da calendar; the ’19’ is on the wrong side.
    baby boomers like moi get the joke right away.
    it always gets a laugh!

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