This blog commences its 17th year of publication today, which makes it something of an institution in Alberta political commentary. The blogger in 2023 (Photo: Daniel St. Louis). On Christmas Eve, someone I don’t know called me “the hardest working blogger in Alberta,” which might be true, at least if
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Yo, Podcasters! Read This.
An excellent, important video was the inspiration for this short post (linked here, below) from a generally lackluster podcast. The musings arising after watching the video, however, I would say are even more important. The podcast host asked for video ideas at the end of his presentation. Here is my
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Escaping the Woke Matrix – Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger lays out some of the societal ills we face today and some solutions as well.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk discusses the 10 inescapable laws of pandemics – and the grim future they portend in light of our pitiful response to the social challenges posed by COVID-19. And Jessica Wildfire writes that the effects of repeated COVID infections on people’s immune
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Premature PP Blew It
Leader of the Official Opposition shared Fox News BS in Parliament. Premature PP blew it.He got tricked by far-right Fox News propaganda and declared a terrorist incident when a spectacularly bad driver caused an explosion at the US border.#cdnpoli https://t.co/SU7xb3GKe1 — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) November 23, 2023 " the
Continue readingScripturient: Council’s First Year Continued Part 3
The third part of the series in Collingwood Today asked members of council what “surprises they’ve experienced so far in their terms.” As a former councillor, I appreciate how stepping into the role for the first time is a bit of a shock; it takes a while to learn everything,
Continue readingAlberta Politics: ‘Lunatics’ really are running the asylum: UCP-TBA fusion starts to sink in with the Alberta commentariat
It was finally starting to sink in with Alberta commentariat yesterday in the aftermath of the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting that the lunatics really are running the asylum, to borrow a colourful metaphor from former premier and UCP founder Jason Kenney. Calgary Herald political columnist Don Braid (Photo:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Helen Joyce – Articulate Defender of Female Rights – Playing Nice Hasn’t Worked
Imagine being reported for misconduct for saying that :”If a woman cannot stand in a public place and say ‘men cannot be women’, then we do not have women’s rights at all.”. I cannot believe the college even entertained the thought of sanctioning Kelvin Wright. The woke rot
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre joins Alberta pension plan uproar, proffers weak endorsement of Canada Pension Plan
In an obvious effort to inoculate himself against being identified as an enemy of the Canada Pension Plan, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre yesterday inserted himself into the open-letter uproar over the Alberta Government’s plan to force the province’s citizens out of the CPP with a statement of his own.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Big Lie of Covid Herd Immunity
Why do some healthcare professionals still insist that herd immunity will work despite visual evidence to the contrary? A nicely explainer came out in Journal of Infectious Diseases March 2022: “As commonly understood, herd immunity thresholds are reached when a sufficient proportion of the population is vaccinated or has recovered from
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Manufacturing Consent to Spread SARS-CoV-2
Like the political/media machine convinced citizens that invading Iraq was necessary, we’re being convinced to spread a virus that will come back to destroy our own lives. Yesterday, Arijit Chakravarty, who specializes in applying mathematical modeling to drug discovery and development, and Martha Lincoln, assistant professor of cultural and medical
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Thoughts & Prayers to [____]
After the terrible attack by [___] on the good people of [___], we’re sending payers up to the victims. justin bieber posting “praying for israel” using a picture of a destroyed gaza is actually insane pic.twitter.com/GNcEyhNk6V — Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) October 11, 2023 he could’ve addressed it, he could’ve also
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Media Subterfuge
Want to be a respected news outlet? Stop writing horribly misleading headlines. An article in The Guardian is causing a stir, not because of what the article says, but because of the heading and subheading: “Thousands of Covid generation under-fives excluded from schools in England: Nearly half of children in some
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The Truth is Out There
Because it’s harder than ever to discern fact from fiction means we have to work harder. Don’t give up! Definitely not an example of Art Deco. I once dated a guy I thought was absolutely brilliant. He seemed to know everything about every topic. He could answer and explain every
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Ignorance is No Longer a Defence
There is compelling evidence that vaccines work, with few serious side effects, yet they’re still being demonized while media continues to suggest Covid ended. An Australian 8-year-old went into cardiac arrest but was saved her mum’s ability to do CPR until an ambulance arrived. The Australian news mention that “cardiac arrest
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Myths We Live By, and Die By
A brief but poignant thread by T. Ryan Gregory: It’s painful to think about how much damage these myths have caused. Myth #1: Droplet vs airborne transmission. Myth #2: Pathogens inevitably evolve to become more benign. Myth #3: Endemic means mild. Myth #4: Viruses quickly run out of evolutionary space.
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: The New CPC
Image from this great Breach article Remember back when Harper was PM, and he opened Canada’s media to foreign ownership despite widespread protests? So now Poilievre all but owns Canadian MSM. Media is backing him and many pollsters are backing him, and Trudeau has little mainstream media on his side. Even
Continue readingAlberta Politics: We’re closed … but not for long (and we hope you had a happy Labour Day)
Labour Day – the traditional end of the Canadian summer and supposedly the moment when we all get seriously back to work, or school, or whatever – has come and gone. Blogger and podcaster Dave Cournoyer (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). To Alberta’s United Conservative Party government, Labour Day was worth
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Environment minister in government that won’t approve geothermal projects visits new geothermal project in Germany
Alberta’s environment minister, Rebecca Schulz, is in Germany today, getting set to celebrate the opening of a large geothermal electricity-generating project that uses technology designed by a Calgary company. Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). At the same time, back home in Wild Rose Country, geothermal projects
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Over 90,000 Canadian Deaths and Counting
A JAMA article called out 52 medical health professionals who knowingly posted misinformation on social media. About a third of them are primary care physicians. It doesn’t name any names, but the funny bit is that some of them have outed themselves on Twitter as they complain about the post. The
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