Today in Gov’t Incompetence

They can’t even figure out how to pay themselves.

Blacklocks- Phoenix Failure Is Now $3.7B

The Phoenix Pay System was launched in 2016 on a promise it would save taxpayers $70 million by centralizing 46 separate federal payroll departments into a single office in Miramichi, N.B. Auditors in 2017 determined new software was used without testing and immediately garbled paycheques for a majority of employees.

Federal auditors called the Phoenix system an “incomprehensible failure.” No one was fired.

Decolonizing The Friendly Skies

Some days I’m floored at how many nonsensical concepts can be packed into one article, but someone seems to have outdone themselves once again. These folks might want to take a step back from the race baiting mill and acknowledge the benefits of a technology that exists thanks to a culture of entrepreneurship and individual rights that they routinely conflate with colonial oppression.

“It’s really a decolonial effort where it returns the power into our hands so that we can again assert our own self-determination, determine how it unfolds within our region,” said Jacob Taylor.

“There have been no treaties signed for the sky, so Indigenous people have an inherent right to participate in the aerospace industry.”

Surprised no one brought out a pitchfork

Pitchforks not included. Not sure about torches.

Pipeline company comes to oil town to build a wind project, and gets hostile response

You’d have thought they were proposing a pipeline in Nebraska.

This was a very hostile crowd. I’m surprised no one brought out a pitchfork or torch. I’m sure the Enbridge folks figured they were now working for TransCanada, running a Keystone XL open house in the States.

Meanwhile, in Alberta, on Sunday:

Fool me three times: Alberta’s 4748 megawatts of wind hits one, one and zero megawatts over three days

That followed this story on Friday which went viral:

Alberta’s wind power flatlines again this week, hitting 1 megawatt out of a capacity of 4748

And if you didn’t see this, it’s worth the hour.

Jordan Peterson Podcast: Danielle Smith on Bill C-59, freedom of speech, CO2, wind, solar and more

Facebook loved it so much, they immediately pulled down the post, claiming it “violated community standards” as spam.

Monday On Turtle Island

Blackie’s Canada:  The reaction in Montreal to the attempted assassination.  Censoring negative comments about Indians (CBC).  A CBC journalist tweeted in sympathy for a Palestinian who wanted to kill Jews and drink their blood.

Dementia Joe’s America:  Now that he’s quit the race.  A decade of conspiracists.  – Victor Davis Hanson

Woke Britain:  The Albert Memorial is offensive.  A war on the family home.

Your morning meme.

Kiss Of Death

Ed Morrissey: Biden’s Revenge?

There’s no mystery why Pelosi and the establishment want a do-over rather than a succession. Harris had already become deeply unpopular with Americans long before this election cycle began. In fact, her favorables went underwater in mid-July 2021, a month before Biden’s inverted during the Afghanistan disgrace. That’s the last time any poll showed Harris’ favorability rating in anything other than negative numbers. That followed a series of embarrassing media interviews and personal appearances that exposed her as an intellectual and policy lightweight, which prompted Biden to shelve her until now.

one wonders if it was released before Biden could change his mind.

@alx Can anyone find another example of Joe Biden underlining his signature?

@lansingThe WH Chief of Staff called Cabinet officials to tell them, not Biden?

@TriciaTx84It tells you something when not only do they want the opposition candidate taken out but they want their own candidate out too. #Democrats

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