Why is Canada insane?

In case you were wondering why the Canadian government seems insane, and why they keep doing things that fuck-over the general public, I have news. Canada is run by guys who think Canadians are STUPID, think we have too much freedom and too much money, and are determined to put a stop to it.

In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Mark Carney, former governor both of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, claims that western society is morally rotten, and that it has been corrupted by capitalism, which has brought about a "climate emergency" that threatens life on earth. This, he claims, requires rigid controls on personal freedom, industry and corporate funding.

Carney's views are important because he is UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. He is also an adviser both to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the next big climate conference in Glasgow, and to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

He's a Fascist, essentially. The capital "F", Third Reich, Hugo Boss wearing kind. And he thinks his star is so much in the ascendant he wrote a whole book where he says the quiet part out loud.

You're welcome. Vote accordingly. While you still can.

WorldCon finds Pre-Crime doesn't pay.

Ah yes, remember this little beauty?

Previously, Mr. Jon Del Arroz was banned from WorldCon and called a racist by them... for talking on the Internet. 

 

He hadn't done anything or said anything prohibited by the WorldCon rules. He mentioned he might wear a GoPro camera at the convention, in case some of the scooter-riders might try to hit him with their oxygen tanks. (Okay I made up the scooter part, but it was in that vein.)

Pre-crime. He -might- do something in the future, and they didn't like him anyway, so they banned him.

He sued them. And through the last several years, the suit dragged on.

Well, today the WorldCon apologized and paid Mr. Del Arroz money. I expect they thought it would be cheaper to admit the truth and knuckle under than continue to pretend they were in the right. Potentially be stuck for legal fees and court costs. That could hurt.

What goes around, comes around.

Fwd: Microsoft caught censoring the internet.

This time it is sufficiently unsubtle to be worth talking about.

One of the pics of Tank Man from that day.

That's Tank Man from Tiananmen Square. Very famous. You can't miss it. I searched and downloaded this one from Google today.

Search "Tank Man" on Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo.

Nothing.

Okay? Microsoft, red handed, carrying water for the ChiComs.

Time to switch to Linux? I'll be looking into it.

Google, don't be evil to the Jews.

Can't believe I'm sitting here, 2021, and we're having the "Jews are evil!" conversation. I thought the Greatest Generation settled that shit when they picked Hitler's dead ass out of his bunker in 1945.

But no. Here we are again.

Kamau Bobb, Google Diversity Tzar.

Kamau Bobb, who is also an 'Equity in Computing' don at Georgia Tech, wrote a 2007 blog post, which remains on his website, titled: 'If I Were A Jew.'

Bobb writes: 'If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering of others.'

This is not "Kamau Bobb the guy in charge of sandwiches at Google" okay? This is "Kamau Bobb, Google's head of diversity strategy." He's the guy who puts the "J" in SJW. Here's some more of what he wrote, published in the Daily Mail:

In his 14-year-old blog post, Bobb wrote: 'Suffering and oppression typically give rise to sympathy and compassion among the oppressed ... I would conclude that my Jewish faith and the history of my people render me closer to human compassion; closer to the instinct to offer healing to hurt, patience to anxiety and understanding to confusion.

'I don't know how I would reconcile that identity with the behavior of fundamentalist Jewish extremists or of Israel as a nation ...

'I wouldn't understand those who suggest that bombing Lebanon, slaughtering Lebanese people and largely destroying Beirut in retaliation for the capture of a few soldiers is justified.

'I wouldn't understand the notion of collective punishment, cutting off gas, electricity and water from residents in Gaza because they are attacking Israel who is fighting against them.

'It would be unconscionable to me to watch Israeli tanks donning the Star of David rumbling through Ramallah destroying buildings and breaking the glass.' 

The essay concludes with the paragraph: 'If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering others. My greatest torment would be that I've misinterpreted the identity offered by my history and transposed spiritual and human compassion with self righteous impunity.'

If it seems a bit much to be dredging up 14 year old blog posts to slam this guy, I kind of agree. They've been sitting there on his blog for a long time, where was all the outrage back then?

But then I remember stuff like people getting fired over Halloween costume pics from the 1980s, I remember Jenna Marbles being chased off the internet for "blackface" when it was just a friggin' makeup video, I remember director James Gunn getting fired from Guardians of the Galaxy over 14 year old tweets. And I remember Justin Trudeau being caught doing -actual- blackface 40 times and getting a free pass from the media because he's Justin Trudeau.

So no. It's not too much anymore. New Rules are a bitch, boys. The friggin' Diversity Tzar of Google wrote "If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing" and he left it on there for 14 years. If James Gunn can be fired for a joke, this asshole can be fired too.

Update: It seems Google is a little gun-shy. Mr. Kamau Bobb is FIRED today.

Google removed the head of its diversity team after a blog post about Jewish people resurfaced.

Kamau Bobb, whose LinkedIn page says he has been in the position since September 2018, "will no longer be part of [Google's] diversity team going forward," a Google spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on Thursday.

His removal, though he will remain with the company and focus on STEM work, came days after the blog post titled "If I were a Jew" resurfaced, though it has since been deleted.

 

Yeah, FIRED! Buuut not really "fired", right? More like moved sideways until the uproar dies down. "We're sorry you wingnuts were offended by this totally reasonable thing our guy wrote."

Still, I'll take it. Every time one of these pricks gets cancelled, all the SJWs feel the Breath of Righteousness on the backs of their necks. That little zing of fear that someday their very own Cancel Machine might pick them.

If they really believe that might happen, the Cancel Machine will get put back in the garage and we won't see it again.

"SHUT UP NERDS!!!" they explained.

Today in nerd hatred, we have the Netflix announcement that the character Death in their TV series of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" graphic novel will be played by Kirby Howell-Baptiste, a black woman. Oh, and they listed all the actors' pronouns too, to be absolutely sure we all knew there was a non-conforming gender actor in there. There is a controversy over this, because the character of Death in the graphic novels is depicted as a white Goth woman. Fans of the graphic novel have voiced their opinions on this casting choice, which range from unctuous and fulsome approval to serious disapproval.

(English speakers with a classical education will understand that "unctuous and fulsome" implies dishonesty and sucking up, just to be clear for you people who got ripped off by your teachers back in the day.)

Now, I must say at the outset that I do not care. I have not read The Sandman. I think I looked through it when it first came out in 1987, decided it was SJW trash and passed hard. Over the years it has generally been my opinion that Neil Gaiman writes stories in a way that I find intensely annoying, he is not well represented in my library.

Therefore, I can't offer an informed opinion of Ms. Howell-Babptiste's fit as the character Death, and on the whole I really don't care. It is most unlikely I will watch it if there's anything else on.

However, that is not what this post is about.

Comic book lovers will recall the Fantastic Four reboot. They cast Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, and the internet came alive with people like me predicting the movie would suck. And it did! The FF reboot movie could suck a golf ball through a garden hose. What was interesting at the time was the number of media people screaming "RAAAAACIST!!!1!" whenever anyone would object. 

 

We were all called sexist for saying Dr. Who would suck when they made the Doctor a woman. (It did suck.) 

 

But in the same breath, all the SJWs -demanding- that Iron Fist must cast an Asian as Danny Rand, or that Dr. Who must be black were brave fighters for social justice. 

 

As it happened Iron Fist and Dr. Who sucked anyway, but not because of them casting white actors to play white characters.

What this post is about is that one more time, comic book fans are not allowed to have an opinion. If you think that you want to see the Neil Gaiman version, with casting that reflects what he did in the comics, then you are a racist and you need to shut up before somebody shuts you up.

Sorry. Nerds have opinions. We're not about to shut up. Go ahead and try to make us, see what happens.

My prediction on The Sandman by Netflix? It will probably suck. Whenever the studio stars fucking with the story by using the casting as a vehicle for virtue signalling, that's a bad sign.

From the bulging "WTF did I just read?!" file, a Canadian speaks.

I don't go to TOR.com very often, because frankly it is painful. It's the Stupid. It burns.

But today, by misadventure, I went there, and found this:

Five SFF Novels Featuring Men Who Don't Give Up Easily

"When one thinks of science fiction and fantasy protagonists, one thinks of figures like Morgaine (Gate of Ivrel), Essun (The Fifth Season), Cordelia Naismith (Shards of Honor), Beatrice Clayborn (The Midnight Bargain) and Anna Tromedlov (Hench). A casual glance suggests these are generally women, which only makes sense. The majority of fiction readers are women and of course they want relatable characters."

This is by Mr. James Davis Nicoll who according to his bio lives in Kitchener Ontario. I'm tempted to drive up there and slap him for this article, except I don't know where he lives. Slapping every man in Kitchener seems excessive just to get this one guy, you know?

Bilbo Baggins? Allen Carpentier? Harold Shea? (Yngvi is a louse!)

At any rate, he continues:

"However, it's entirely possible to write a book with a strong male protagonist at its centre ("strong" as in striking, resolute, and/or determined, not as being able to dead-lift surprising amounts of weight, of course—assessing male characters purely in physical terms would be offensively reductive). Consider these five recent examples:"

And then he outlines five books I've never heard of, by authors I've never heard of except for C.L.Polk, another Canadian. Her I've heard of, she's nominated for a Nebula this year.

Now, leaving aside the obscure recommendations, I really do take exception to the "majority of fiction readers are women" business. That's true if you take the entirety of all fiction genres. Are the majority of SF readers women? I strongly doubt it.

The final howler is here:

Of course, I could have chosen other examples. There are literally dozens of books that feature strong male protagonists!

Dozens?  Maybe only dozens published by TOR, that's a possibility.

But my vote for "strong male protagonist" in a book coming out this year is Owen Zastava Pitt.

Happy Day After Molly Norris Is Still Hiding Day!

I just remembered that yesterday marks the day that Molly Norris got thrown under the bus. 2010, we celebrated.

Here we are, 2021, and Molly is still in hiding. Her old personal website is now a broken hookup site. http://www.mollynorris.com/

Is there anybody out there still noticing that Molly got dumped by the Free Speech Left, those defenders of human rights and stuff? Nope. Not really. Molly fell off the radar back in 2015, going by Google search.

So here's to Molly. Hoist a cappuccino to the brave cartoonist who at least stood up to the assholes. You'll know it's a free country again when Molly can reclaim her name in safety.

Ivermectin turns WuFlu around in India, home of the Double Mutant Strain Of Doom

Graphs are funny things. When you see a graph with a steep upward trend, that's a big deal. Something is growing. Likewise a steep downward trend, something is shrinking.

The media lately is pretty funny too. When it comes to the WuFlu, they only notice upward trends. The steeper the line, the more they notice it. When something goes down, that they don't really bother with so much.

Case in point, India. Remember three weeks ago when India was going to become a barren wasteland of WuFlu victims? The Double Mutant Indian Strain was going to come and kill everybody? Remember that? Steep upward curve on that graph. But this week there is an equally steep downward curve, and you don't hear about that on CNN, do you?

Yeah. Big spike on the right there, and then they did something and WuFlu fell off a cliff. And you, ladies and gentlemen, did not hear squat about it.

Because for whatever reason, the public health apparatus in Canada, Europe and the USA would very much like to keep pretending that Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin don't treat WuFlu. Even though they obviously do, and quite successfully. It's hard to deny that chart showing the dreaded Indian Double Mutant Strain falling off a cliff there as soon as they got their Ivermectin distribution going.

Just like they would very much like to pretend wearing a mask prevents the spread of WuFlu, and lockdowns prevent WuFlu, when there are plenty of charts out there showing they clearly don't. (Yeah, the dentist mask? It's not protecting you. N-95 at a bare minimum to filter out the WuFlu. The dentist mask is good for maybe 10% at best, assuming you wear it right.)

Just like they would prefer if you didn't call it WuFlu, or the KungFlu, or the Chinese Flu. But it's totally okay for them to say Indian Double Mutant strain, right? Because reasons.

Now, for you Canadian readers, you've heard the fuss about Bill C-10, the SHUT UP! bill from the Liberal Party of Canada. This blog post is exactly the type of thing that C-10 is meant to curb. They'll try to charge me money for posting that graph there, or they'll simply ban JoNova's blog from Canada so I won't have access to the graph.

Okay? That's where we are right now, May 21st 2020. Now get back to work, you've got taxes to pay.

Laziness and Stupidity: Colonial Pipeline

 Laziness and Stupidity. Capital L, capital S. That's why you can't buy gas on the eastern side of the USA today.

Excerpt from a Slashdot story:

In a separate report from The Associated Press, the East Coast pipeline company was found to have "atrocious" information management practices and "a patchwork of poorly connected and secured systems," according to an outside audit from three years ago. Slashdot reader wiredmikey shares an excerpt from the report: "We found glaring deficiencies and big problems," said Robert F. Smallwood, whose consulting firm delivered an 89-page report in January 2018 after a six-month audit. "I mean an eighth-grader could have hacked into that system." Colonial said it initiated the restart of pipeline operations on Wednesday afternoon and that it would take several days for supply delivery to return to normal.

I like the consultant guy: "I mean an eighth-grader could have hacked into that system." 

That means the company management could not be assed to apply basic security measures to their computer system. That's some capital L Laziness right there. And the various layers of alphabet soup government organizations didn't make them do it, even though that's their damn job.

And this is a PIPELINE company that handles the most, as in more than half, of the fuel for the eastern USA. Which is, among other things, a strategic asset. During a war, if your army runs out of gas, you lose. Leaving that type of thing unsecured is Stupid. Capital S kind of stupid. The kind that gets people killed. Possibly a lot of people. As in hundreds of thousands. Maybe millions, in a war.

But I am quite sure that the company management is 100% certified and current on all their workplace safety and social justice qualifications.

This is almost as lazy and stupid as the Line Five pipeline fiasco in Canada, where the governor of Michigan is threatening to cut off the entire fuel supply for eastern Canada, and it looks like the governments of the USA and Canada are going to let her do it. It is illegal for her to do it, because of international treaties, but environmentalists are more important than that. So when you can't drive and you can't heat your house this fall, at least you'll know why. Greenies.

Ashli Babbit investigation closed today. No rioting reported.

 The US Dept. of Justice has closed their investigation into the shooting death of Ashli Babbit. No charges will be laid.

 

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice will not pursue criminal charges against the U.S. Capitol Police officer involved in the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, the Office announced today.

            The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia’s Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section and the Civil Rights Division, with the Metropolitan Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division (IAD), conducted a thorough investigation of Ms. Babbitt’s shooting.  Officials examined video footage posted on social media, statements from the officer involved and other officers and witnesses to the events, physical evidence from the scene of the shooting, and the results of an autopsy.  Based on that investigation, officials determined that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution.  Officials from IAD informed a representative of Ms. Babbitt’s family today of this determination.

 

Translated from Officialese, "she was asking for it."

Based on the video I saw, "insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution" is a bold statement. But hey, Harris/Biden administration, amiright?

 So, just to recap for those who haven;t been paying attention: Black policeman shoots white woman for disobeying his orders, in front of cameras, "there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution." White policewoman shoots black man for disobeying her orders, in front of cameras, murder charge and riots. #BurnItAllDown.

Still, America, you can take comfort in the fact that no matter how fucked and crooked your gubmint is, Canada's is worse.

Why stop at defunding police?

 The Dips want to defund the entire Canadian Armed Forces.

The policy resolution titled “Elimination of the Canadian Armed Forces” was submitted by the party’s Spadina-Fort York Electoral District Association (EDA). 

It claims that “in a world with a globalized economy traditional militaries are becoming increasingly unnecessary” and points to other countries like Costa Rica and Iceland which have allegedly “abolished their armies.” 

“An NDP government will commit to phasing out the Canadian Armed Forces,” the policy resolution states. “All members of the Canadian Armed Forces will be retrained, at the expense of the federal government, into civil service roles that help expand Canadian, provincial and municipal social services, such as expanded health care, education, community services, public transit and parks.”

This is the type of thing that passes for "intellectual conversation" in Toronto these days. No word on what their plan is if the Russians start mining uranium in the Yukon and leaving an eco-unfriendly mess. Strongly worded letter, probably.

That sound you hear is my eyes rolling.

Did you think they would stop with Dr. Seuss?

No, not really. I figured they'd test the waters with Dr. Seuss and then put the pedal to the metal.

And they did. The new racist emergency is The Adventures of Ook and Gluck. No, I'm not making this up.

 

Cancelled!

On Monday, March 22, 2021, with the full support of Dav Pilkey, Scholastic halted distribution of the 2010 book The Adventures of Ook and Gluk. Together, we recognize that this book perpetuates passive racism. We are deeply sorry for this serious mistake. Scholastic has removed the book from our websites, stopped fulfillment of any orders (domestically or abroad), contacted our retail partners to explain why this book is no longer available, and sought a return of all inventory.

Dav Pilkey is the author of Captain Underpants. His caveman book has been circulating for 12 years without any concern. I'll add that 2010 was a year I remember pretty well, and I don't recall it being super racist. More the reverse, people walking on eggshells to avoid offending anyone. So, not having read anything but the blurb, I expect anyone who read it would be wondering what the "passive racism" was. Nobody is saying anything, which is usual for this type of thing.

Then there's this:

Throughout our 100 year history, we have learned that trust must be won every day by total vigilance.

(Emphasis mine, obviously.) That reads like the type of overblown rhetoric one expects from Pravda circa 1955. "Total vigilance!!!!" forsooth. Reading the reviews at Amazon, all the one and two stars are Karen complaining about the caveman spelling. There are -zero- complaints that the book shows racism that I saw, but I did not read all 2128 of the four-and-a-half-out-of-five star ratings.

Another SJW shirtstorm, basically. Really ramping up the cancellation machine, my friends.

When he finally pees his pants on TV...

Apparently the official Whitehouse website says this is the Biden-Harris Administration.

The White House is reportedly urging staffers in all federal agencies refer to the current administration as "the Biden-Harris Administration," a leaked email from a federal employee reveals.

"Please be sure to reference the current administration as the 'Biden-Harris Administration' in official public communications," a top White House communications official wrote.  "Biden-Harris Administration" was accented in bold.

Indeed, on the White House website, the administration is referred to as "The Biden-Harris Administration."

That's because Mr. Sniffer can't find the bathroom on his own.

It'll be the Harris-Biden Administration when the Depends give up during a speech. Or when he falls all the way down the fucking stairs of Airforce One. I'd be more disgusted at them for the obvious elder abuse if he wasn't the guy that he is.

"#BelieveAllWomen... except the ones groped by the Sniffer. Don't listen to those bitches, they're lying!"

Sure thing, mass media. Yep, we totally believe ya. Uh huh. That's right for sure.

I bet you didn't know...

...that Biden wiped out on the stairs of Airforce One on Friday. Yep. The old man nearly ate it on Friday. Three times! Down on his hands and knees on the stairs, nearly face-planted. Then he nearly fell again getting in the door of the airplane.

And you did not hear about it at all. Nobody said shit on the news. Instagram banned people from posting the video. 

Ask yourself, when was the last time the President stumbling wasn't front-page news? I'll tell you. Since Gerald Ford was president. 

I love it when they lie like this. It's so stupidly obvious, they're punching themselves in the face. 

 Update:  https://twitter.com/i/status/1372982815109840898  "It wasn't the wind, folks."

Dr. Seuss books to be removed from eBay.

 Moving ahead with the effort to make literally everything in life problematic, the screeching about Dr. Seuss books has led eBay to scrub them from it's service.

Online marketplace eBay Inc. EBAY -2.31% said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled earlier this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery.

“EBay is currently sweeping our marketplace to remove these items,” a spokeswoman for the company said in an email. New copies of the six books were no longer for sale online at major retailers such as Barnes & Noble on Thursday afternoon, which put eBay among the most prominent platforms for the books to be sold.

Hundreds of listings for the six books could be found on the platform as of Thursday morning, though the number appeared to be lower than it was on Wednesday evening. The eBay spokeswoman said that it would take some time to review seller listings and that the company was monitoring newly published listings.

  Just to reiterate: you can buy Mein Kampf on eBay. But not On Beyond Zebra.

Update! Here's a guy who did a ton of work running this thing down to its origins. So, where did this "Dr. Seuss is RAAAACIST!!!" thing come from? 

39-year-old Katie Ishizuka-Stephens and 36-year-old Ramon Stephens are race-obsessed college critters. Programmed by the far-left schools and universities they never escaped from, they see everything through a skin-color lens. Indeed, I would be remiss in not mentioning that Katie is half-white and half-Japanese, while Ramon is black. These details matter greatly to the pair, who likely chose each other genetically rather than by any other metric.

He goes into their claims in detail. He's pretty harsh. But here in 2021, there's not much point in holding back for people who make shit up to score political points by destroying the reputations of the dead. That's what we're talking about here.

Of note is that, according to author Rob Larrikin, both Ishizuka and Stephens have scrubbed their social media of pictures etc. It seems that many people didn't like that they lied about Dr. Seuss like that.

Freedom of speech inconvenient! US government hides report.

Look at those NAZIS!!! The nerve of them, staying between the ropes like that!

Further to the banning of conservative people and organizations on Twitter, Youtube, Farcebook etc. and further to the shuttering of Baen's Bar in the face of a de-platforming attack by the Left, a new government report has come out saying that:

 talking shit on the internet does not increase hate crimes. Like we needed a freakin' official report to know that. 

And they hid the report.

Freedom of speech on the internet did not lead to a rise in “hate crimes,” according to a report sent from the U.S. Department of Commerce to Congress in January — a report that has yet to appear on any government website.

Breitbart News has obtained a copy of the report, which is published in full below. But sources close to the government say they are baffled as to why it wasn’t released publicly after being sent to Congress.

The report was prepared by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which is responsible for advising the President on all matters related to telecommunication and the internet.

It was drafted to revise the findings of a previous report from NTIA in 1993 titled The Role of Telecommunications in Hate Crimes. Although it was prepared under the Trump administration, the request to revise the report came from the 116th Congress, which was controlled by a 35-seat Democrat majority in the House and only a slim Republican majority in the Senate.

The 1993 report is still publicly available on the web. But the latest revision to its findings is not.

Sources who were close to the drafting and approval process suspect that bureaucrats and establishment politicians with a vested interest in the “hate crimes” panic are trying to suppress it, because its conclusions challenge popular media narratives alleging a rise in internet-inspired hate crimes.

There is an awful lot of government effort going into making people shut up these days. The nice thing about this is it is so easy to thwart. All you have to do is talk. Be loud, be proud my friends.

And to all you little weasels with your deplatforming campaigns, your virtue signalling and your "if it only saves one life!" bullshit, you're liars. And we know that you know it.

So all you liars whining about Dr. Seuss and JK Rowling and Baens Bar, just know that we can see you lying.

 

Te-Nahisi Coates, the new Kryptonite?

 J.J. Abrhams seems to have decided that Superman must die. He's hired race-baiting, whiteman-hating Te Nahisi Coates to stick the shiv in.

There is a new, powerful and moving Superman story yet to be told. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the brilliant Mr. Coates to help bring that story to the big screen, and we’re beyond thankful to the team at Warner Bros. for the opportunity,” said J.J. Abrams in the statement to S&A.

According to sources, the project is being set up as a Black Superman story. This is something that the studio has been trying to wrap its head around for months, if not a year or two. Michael B. Jordan tried to develop a Black Superman project when he first arrived at the studio with his deal in 2019, but that did not go very far at the time, according to sources. It is possible that the studio could return to him to star down the line.

Coates is a superstar author whose books include We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, The Beautiful Struggle, The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me, the latter of which was adapted by HBO. In the comic book space, he has worked on Captain America and Black Panther, with Disney’s Bob Iger crediting his influential run on the latter in the decision to greenlight the groundbreaking film starring Chadwick Boseman.

To be clear, Mr. Coates's work on Captain America, Black Panther and Black Panther & The Crew was a colossal failure, resulting in the cancellation of those comics due to lack of sales. And when I say lack of sales, I'm understating things rather steeply. Nobody bought those comics.

Phantom prediction: This movie will suck. It'll suck like a black hole in the middle of a neutron galaxy. It'll suck the whole friggin' DC universe in and we'll never see it again. Because nothing escapes a black hole.

That's what will finally kill Superman. Boredom. The one thing deadlier than green kryptonite.

"SHUT UP!" they explained. Conservative commentators "gateway" to "extremism."

Speech is violence, y'know.

 

Further to the closing of Baen's Bar due to one (1) guy claiming (screaming) fascism and extremist views, a peek at the wider picture.

The wider picture is basically Leftists screaming "SHUT UP!" at everyone not on their side.

Exhibit A, the Anti-Defamation League:

The five authors of the Anti-Defamation League study titled “Exposure to Alternative & Extremist Content on YouTube” investigated the idea that YouTube’s algorithm radicalizes those on the right. The study’s list of “alternative” YouTube channels that may lead to radical content included mainstream conservative commentators like The Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro and comedian Steven Crowder, and widely popular members of the “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW) like podcast host Joe Rogan and author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson.

The authors of the study stated:  “We find that exposure to alternative YouTube channels that can serve as gateways to more extreme forms of content and to extremist or white supremacist channels is disturbingly common among a group of Americans.”

Yes, listening to Jordan Peterson's youtube videos will radicalize young men and make them go invade the Capitol building and kill fluffy bunnies. Okay? That's where we are. Won't someone save the poor bunnies?

This in the same week where you can read Leftists dancing in Rush Limbaugh's blood all over the internet. 

Exhibit B, Amazon bans select books. Guess which ones:

Sometime before this week, when it removed from its digital shelves a book critical of transgender ideology, Amazon altered its content policy to explicitly forbid books that promote "hate speech," a major rule change that could be used to rationalize action against a broader range of books sold by the digital retail giant.

Amazon this week yanked "When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement" from its main web store, its Kindle servers and its audiobook lineup with no explanation, even as the book had been available on the site for three years with no apparent controversy. 

In the 2018 book, author and political philosopher Ryan Anderson draws on years of scientific research and data to criticize the prevailing approach to transgender issues in modern medicine. The book "exposes the contrast between the media's sunny depiction of gender fluidity and the often sad reality of living with gender dysphoria," according to its sales blurb. 

Anderson told Just the News that he had received no explanation for the ban.

Reached for comment by Just the News, Amazon declined to provide any explanation, offering instead a link to its book content policy.

They've banned a bunch more books questioning the transgender thing, not much notice being given to it by the greater culture. All 100% in line with the US DemocRat Party push since stealing the US eleection.

Just in case you were wondering when they're going to go at it, this is it. They're going. This is the hill they've chosen to die on, metaphorically speaking of course.

Regarding Baen's Bar, a Phantom reaction.

More Science Fiction fandom nonsense, but worth mentioning because it illuminates the larger political scene these days.

TL/DR version of the retardation so far:

• Toni Weisskopf of Baen Books, venerable SF publisher, lost the Hugo Award for best editor to No Award back in 2015 at Sasquan. That was the year of the Wooden Assterisks, Sad Puppies and etc.
• This year, 2021, it appears certain factions within WorldCon felt pretty bad about fucking her over like that back in 2015, and invited her to be a Guest of Honor at DisCon-III, the 2021 WorldCon.
  
• Mr. Jason Sanford wrote a post at his Patreon page, basically claiming that the ancient and venerable Baen's Bar which started as a BBS and developed into a web-based comment forum. I'm not going to link to it, Mr. Sanford's ramblings amount to unsupported slander which I will not give further attention to here. If you're interested, Google it. The accusations boil down to "unspecified hate speech and promoting domestic terrorism".
  
• Immediately following Sanford's posting of accusations and insinuations, Baen took Baen's Bar offline.  The main reason they took it offline is because a determined group was taking accusations of domestic terrorism to their Baen's web service provider, and trying to get the company kicked off their web service. Apparently taking the whole Bar offline was sufficient to placate the web hosting company, as Baen's website is still up.
  
• Following a couple of days worth of shirtstorm accusations and virtue signalling, DisConIII disinvited Ms. Weisskopf.

Sounds like a lot of inside baseball drama, right? Well, it is. Except for the one little detail, where the determined group of crusaders is trying to get the Baen publishing company dropped by their internet service provider. 

That's a serious thing, particularly right now during the Covid-19 pandemic when retail outlets are shut for quarantine/lock-down/what have you. Losing web pages now is an enterprise-threatening occurrence.

Lots of people have an opinion about this. People like me feel that Baen should be able to post whatever the hell they want on their website, and if they let other people post as well then it's nobody's business. Absent any actionable slander or specific threats, aka illegal activity, it is all good.

But then there is the other side, which basically says everybody needs to shut up especially Baen. That's the Vile666/flopping camel side. None of those assholes get a free click from me. They can suck it.

Now we come to Leona Wisoker. She's an author, apparently. Has a few books out, etc. She's got an opinion. Pretty common one, the opposite of mine.

The following is a comment I put on her blog. Don't know if she'll let it out of moderation hell, but I think it illustrates the general point rather well. Ms. Wisoker's quotes are in bold.

Saw your post and was moved to comment.

"Does the host have the right to cancel the customer’s contract, when a shooting is traced directly back to remarks made on that customer’s forums?"

Has that ever happened, really? That you know of, I mean? Some guy posts a comment on a forum saying "This [person/group] is [bad thing] and so somebody should [bad thing] them!" and then some random guy goes and does it for them? Over a blog post? Because that doesn't seem to be a thing that happens, from what I can see. Maybe you know of a case?

"Do they really have to wait until the shooting happens, if there’s a clear pattern of escalation in progress?"

Yes, the police generally do really have to wait for a person to actually -commit- a crime before they can arrest that person. "Looking shifty" is not, generally speaking, grounds for police action. Well, unless you want to start in creating a Department of Pre-Crime, where people get arrested for thinking about it.

"At what point is it not only okay, but necessary, to start banning forum users, cancelling customer contracts, and generally stopping dangerous speech before that tenth person can get to the point of believing it’s a noble act to go out shooting?"

That is the question, isn't it? In a -free- country, those things are never even an option. Free speech is free, right? People don't have to like it, and they don't have to sit there and be quiet, but there is no question about a person's inherent right to have an unpleasant opinion. They're free to be all the idiot they can be.

What you're talking about is an Un-free country, one where Somebody makes these decisions and imposes them from above. Sounds like a great idea. But historically speaking, it never ends well. Ask the Uyghurs how they're doing with that plan this year. And be aware that there are people out in the world very eager to cancel -your- web presence for any number of reasons.

Personally, I'm pretty happy to take my chances with Mr. OneOutOfTen guy, the random idiot who gets convinced to commit an atrocity by somebody else, according to your theory. I at least have a fighting chance to deal with one guy. I can't deal with a whole police force.

At least in a free country I don't have to worry about the whole government coming after me because I'm a member of [bad thing] group, where the bad thing is my skin colour, religious denomination, orientation, the soccer club I follow or the kind of beer I like. Governments have been known to kill people over stuff like that.

They killed Ashli Babbit, right? Her crime was to climb through an already broken window. Seems excessive, given the video.

 

Now I post this not to pick on Leona Wisoker in particular, I really never heard of her before today. I know nothing of this person beyond this post of hers. 

 I posted it because it is typical of the type of thing I'm seeing out there on the WorldCon side of the issue. It is somewhat worthy of remark in the rhetoric department, she uses less swear words and less loaded language than most other partisans have.

"At what point is it not only okay, but necessary, to start banning forum users, cancelling customer contracts, and generally stopping dangerous speech..."

 The Leftist faction in SF fandom particularly and politics generally has decided that point is now.

They have decided it is time to silence conservatives and anyone else who disagrees with their faction about anything at all.

So yeah. That's what time it is, folks. In case you were wondering.

Update: Gentle reminder of who Ashli Babbit was. 

Upperdate: Leona Speaks! And the Phantom answers. 

 "Um. Yes. That is exactly the reason we’re even having this discussion."

But again, no example. So I'm assuming this is a much more theoretical danger for you, and less of a real one. The only arguable example I've been able to come up with of a guy going and shooting people because somebody else said so is Floyd Lee Corkins. Look that one up for a surprise, it does not help your argument much.

"You can say anything you like, sure. That doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences."

Yes, about that. It may interest you to know that there is a small but "motivated" group who have decided to make sure that DisCon-III does not get a hotel this year. If they collect a couple dozen angry fans to write all the vendors and hotels in the area, they could certainly do it. So that's one consequence right there that you probably didn't want.

On a larger playing field, we have Amazon. They have captured 83% of the book market. Currently they have begun banning certain books, due to "activists" protesting the "violent" nature of the books. It doesn't matter which ones, but I will note that "Mein Kampf" was not one of them. If you're interested you can look at my blog.

But historically, once a political faction gets the precedent established that it is perfectly okay to ban a book based on it having an unpopular message, then the things getting banned will only ever increase in number. Pretty soon they'll decide that any Baen book, or any book by an author who -ever- commented on Baen's Bar must be banned.

That happened already to a New York literary agent, Colleen Oefelein. She was fired from her agency because she had a Parler account. Not because she said anything bad on that account, just because she had one.

There's a technical term for this kind of thing: scorched earth. Your team goes and destroys anything and everything it can, leaving behind nothing. The other team therefore does the same, and pretty soon you have a landscape of lost jobs, ruined families, bankrupt companies, and a whole lot of people who are very angry and looking for someone to take it out on.

That's not a fun environment. I'd rather not live like that.

All of the above assumes the government does not get involved. But we know they already are involved, and pushing things along just as hard as they can. I speculate that government involvement is why Amazon is "voluntarily" banning the books they are, and also why Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO this year. He doesn't want to get caught in the fighting, or so I suspect.

"If I breach the Term of Service that I agreed to when I signed up for my web host, or break the rules of any forum that I post to, I deserve to be booted."

In the environment that is developing here, you will be taken down no matter what you say or do not say. See Colleen Oefelein for elucidation. I will also be taken down, because same reason. You can see that, right? For spite, if nothing else. Because when people are angry, they do things like that.

Regarding Ashli Babbit, you said "The way you stripped the entire context from that incident is both hilarious and terrifying."

I examined the video of that incident in some detail.

https://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2021/01/rip-ashli-babbitt.html

It stinks. And we have heard -nothing- from the official investigation. But we have heard a number of people, like Jason Sanford for example, use that event on January 6th as the sole justification for deplatforming things like Baen's Bar, or Gab, or Parler, and so forth.

Pre-Crime. In case something might happen. Which inevitably leads to an un-free nation where everybody shuts up in case they might lose their job. And leads there pretty fast, judging from how things are going.

That's more dangerous than one nut with a gun. Haven't we seen enough rioting all last year to understand how much more dangerous it is?

"Interesting that you keep conflating normal market pressures with authoritarianism."

Let's not pretend that these are "normal market pressures", shall we? Jason Sanford's attack on Baen is politically motivated. He thinks Conservatives are bad people who must be silenced, and says so. He has some political allies who agree, and they are busy trying to get Baen kicked off the internet.

The reverse is also true. People trying to get Sanford kicked off his ISP and DisCon kicked out of their hotels are also politically motivated.

There's the potential for some much bigger political players to get involved here, they live for stuff like this. I'm pretty sure we as authors and private business people do not want that.

Bottom line, this push we see these days to make people shut up is historically not a good thing, and will not lead to a happy conclusion. It never has, in the past.

It seems to me that Leona hasn't really thought this through. Oh well.

Rush Limbaugh 1951-2021

 Another giant falls, this time Rush Limbaugh. 

My first experience hearing the man with the golden EIB microphone was hanging out at a gun shop in 1993, listening to Rush. I became good friends with the guys there, and we would always have Rush on in the afternoon. 

For a Canadian boy just freshly in the USA, it was quite an education. Rush covered all kinds of things that had always puzzled and bothered me, letting some light in to shine on those issues that were never covered by Canadian media. Never even mentioned, for the most part.

Once upon a time I had occasion to visit Rush's hometown of Cape Giraudoux Missouri. In a two or three day trip, I never heard a bad word from anybody about Rush or his family. That's really saying something, when you go to the place where the guy grew up and there's no bad stories being told.

Godspeed, Rush.

When techies have no clue: Raspberry Pi phones home to Microsoft.

 Yes friends, Raspberry Pi. That thing you love that you thought was safe from the eeeeviles of Big Tech surveillance and Silicon Valley fuckery? Well, no. Not so much.

The latest update installs a Microsoft apt respository on all any machine running Raspberry Pi OS, and does it without any admin consent. As discovered by Reddit user fortysix_n_2, the official reason is an endorsement of Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE), Visual Studio Code (VSCode), which is fine and dandy. However, it's claimed this even gets installed on headless devices that used a light image without a GUI. As a result, every time you do an "apt update" on your Pi device, the OS pings Microsoft.

"By having this repo, every time an install of Raspberry Pi OS is updated it will ping a Microsoft server. Microsoft will know you're using Raspberry Pi OS/likely Raspberry Pi owner and your IP address. Many people try to reduce footprint as much as possible, so these are three additional datapoints Microsoft can use to build a profile about you," fortysix_n_2 explains.

So yes, the latest update of Raspian does include this thing, it does "phone home" to a Mickeysoft server and it does deliver information about the Raspberry Pi you're using, your IP address and make it possible to track your Raspy when it accesses GitHub, Bing or other Microsoft owned web site. And of course Mickeysoft owns much of the infrastructure the web runs on, so that's a long frigging list. Also it's more operating system bloat, it eats battery life and it adds a data load that doesn't need to be there.

For Raspian to have included this thing is not that big a deal, in and of itself. But.

"Never in my 2 decades of using Debian and Ubuntu has either modified my sources.list without my consent. What the actual f**k? I could understand if they just added it to the default installation image, but they had to actually write a script to add this repo to existing installations. That is shady as f**k!," a user commented in the thread.

"This is also on my 3 lite installations. I'm mad about this, because I always check what new dependencies are installed. Followed back the log, and can't find anything about this. Even the way it's installed is shady. With a postinstall script, not the usual 'extract' method," another user wrote.

This can make it easier for people who use VSCode, as some have pointed out. But phoning home has a way of giving people the heebie-jeebies (rightfully so in many cases), especially when it feels like the functional was added on the sly.

It was sort of "slid" in with no discussion, it isn't any use except to people using VSCode, and there's no mention of it anywhere. It's shady, or at least has the appearance of being shady. Like they took some money from Microsoft and didn't want anybody to know type of shady. The appearance of possible impropriety is unavoidable. (For the reading challenged, that means I have no evidence of improper deals, but this does not look good to me.)

But this here is the clueless part.

Eben Upton

@EbenUpton

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Feb 3

Sorry: I can't understand why you think this was a controversial thing to do. We do things of this sort all the time without putting out a blog post about how to opt out.

Eben Upton is a founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He and the rest of the developers at the foundation ought to bloody well know better than be surprised when their user community gets outraged at having their OS phone home to Big Tech. Regardless of the utility of the change to the "average" user, adding Phone-Home bloat to the Raspian-OS without telling anyone is stupid. Suggest a new policy, just make a list of shit that phones home and a checkbox next to it so people can shut it off. How hard would that be?

And let this be a lesson to you Linux dweebs: If you didn't personally build it, chances are it phones home to somebody. http://linuxfromscratch.org/ , build your very own OS from the source code, which you can READ first to see that it doesn't Phone Home to Google or whatever every time you boot it.

Update from the article comments: Dianne S said "It's MUCH worse than this. Microsoft has essentially been given root access on every affected Pi. If they push out a newer version of a package like (say) libc, it will be pulled from their repo in an upgrade and its postinstall script will run as root. I suspect very few people will notice this when doing an upgrade."

That is an excellent point.

A Lefty attacks Justin Trudeau

 This is just too sweet to pass up.

‘Fake as Fuck’: Ex-Politician Details Racism in Ottawa and Her Blowout with Trudeau

Celina Caesar-Chavannes said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tokenized her and was angry when she resigned. “I had to ask him, ‘Motherfucker, who the fuck do you think you’re talking to?”

 

That's the real headline of this piece. They really went there this time. It seems that Celina Caesar-Chavannes, the Member of Federal Parliament for  Whitby, Ontario, and a former parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has released a book wherein she tells some stories about her time in Ottawa.

TL/DR, she thinks they're a bunch of fake-faced assholes who do nothing but lie all the time. They lie to the public, they lie to the press, and it seems that they lie to each other as well. 

What I find interesting about Ms. Caesar-Chavannes is that while she's busy talking shit about the Prime Minister and calling him and his whole party a bunch of racists, what she actually did was give him exactly what he wanted.

Her decision culminated in an explosive conversation with Trudeau in February 2019, during which she alleges he complained to her about being confronted about his privilege. She said he was angry that she wanted to resign on the same day then Minister of Veterans Affairs Jody Wilson-Raybould quit her cabinet role, in the midst of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, the biggest crisis the governing Liberals had faced since Trudeau’s election in 2015.  

 “I was met with an earful that I needed to appreciate him, that everybody talked to him about his privilege, that he’s so tired of everybody talking to him about this stuff, and that I cannot make this announcement right now,” she said. She alleges he told her “he couldn’t have two powerful women of colour leave at the same time.” 

So after swearing at the guy, she put off her announcement that she was quitting the Liberal Party until March, so the Shiny Pony wouldn't look so bad.

Which, I'm sorry, doesn't seem very brave and transgressive to me. Leaving aside all the Woke(TM) racism bullshit, this is a woman who backed all the way down in front of the Shiny Pony and gave him every damn thing he wanted, even though he treated her (according to her) like a dog and "disrespected" her heritage.

Where I come from if somebody treats you like a dog, you find out the thing that'll fuck him over the most and then you do it to him as hard as you can.

About the only good news coming out of this is that The Rebel News is really, -really- getting up the Liberals' noses.

WHO admits COVID-19 test has "huge" false positive rate.

 Well well. Here we all are, one day after the DemocRats saved the world from Donald Trump.

According to this article, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a new report on the standard COVID-19 test. One hour after Biden was sworn in. Because they couldn't have got it out sooner, right?

"...literally one hour after Biden takes the oath, the WHO admits that PCR testing at high amplification rates alters the predictive value of the tests and results in a huge number of false positives..."

 

Yeah, those tests that PROVE we need a lockdown otherwise we're all gonna DIEEEEEEE!!!!!11!! are kinda wrong. False positive means they think you have it, but you don't.

Also contained in the article: the media fatality rate is 3.7%.  The actual, real, true fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.13%. And the WHO just admitted that 0.13% is the true number.

And just to add insult to injury, the normal everyday flu we get every year has a fatality rate about the same to slightly worse than 0.13%. Dreaded Swine Flu of 2009, ~0.1xx% range. Give or take.

US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 estimated survival rates by age: 

0 to 19: 99.997%  Translation, virtually no kid under 20 has died from Covid-19. The only ones who did die would have had serious health conditions already. Like they had one foot in the grave and the other on a vaudeville cliche. Or more likely they died of something else and the hospital called it Covid-19 to get money.

20 to 49: 99.98%  Translation: Virtually nobody from 20 to 40 years old has died of Covid-19. Unless they were already dying of something else, and maybe not even then.

50 to 69: 99.5%  Translation: If you are 50-69 years old you are more likely to die shoveling snow than you are to die of Covid-19. Nobody who wasn't already fucked died of Covid.

70+: 94.6% Translation: Old people MOSTLY GET OVER THIS. 5.4% of people die. The oldest and sickest, namely people in nursing homes, are the ones dying of Covid-19. 

And remember, these numbers are based on PCR TESTING using the same test that the WHO just admitted has huge numbers of false positives.

Nobody (statistically speaking) has died of this thing except the old and frail in nursing homes, pretty much. Which, just to emphasize for the stupid among us, is not okay. The whole point of nursing homes is to PROTECT old people from infectious disease, among other things. Instead, because our nursing homes are a disgrace, all they do is concentrate the victims into a nice handy petri-dish for the virus to kill in job lots. 

Who are the very last people going to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Ontario? Nursing home patients.

Who are they testing the vaccine on? Healthcare workers. Front-line doctors and nurses.

Okay? So now you know what's what. Funny you had to come here to read it, and it wasn't on the CBC.

RIP Kathy Shaidle, a mighty warrior falls.

 As reported at Blazing Cat Fur, Kathy Shaidle died today. She died of cancer in hospice.

Her farewell blog post is typical Kathy, which I love. 

"Her tombstone reads: GET OFF MY LAWN! She is relieved she won’t have to update her LinkedIn profile, shave her legs, or hear “Creep” by Radiohead ever again. Some may even be jealous that she’s getting out of enduring a Biden presidency."

I hope her tombstone really does say get off my lawn. That would be perfectly her.

I never met her in Real Life, but she was always kind and hilarious when we talked by email. And -smart-. So impressive.

Kathy is now standing in front of the Pearly Gates arguing with St. Peter and telling the guardian angels off. Go Kathy go!

My sincere condolences to Arnie and the rest of Team Kathy. There's nothing to say about it, except I'm sorry this happened to her, and to you. 

Capitol riot or guided tour?

 As the media continue to scream INSURRECTION!!! at the tops of their lungs, inconvenient video keeps showing up of police leading calm and obedient demonstrators through the building. Far from a violent riot, they are staying between the guide ropes as requested by officials.

 

The nerve of them, staying all quiet like that.

 

Meanwhile the DC Cops killed an unarmed woman live on video and the media have very little to say about that.

Pretty weak-sauce for an "attempted putsch", if you ask me.

Oh, and the assholes breaking the windows turn out to be Antifa/BLM, as predicted.

So, yeah. As far as "rioters violently storming the US Capitol building," yes Antifa was there and yes they did break a couple of windows. Including the one that Ashli Babbitt got shot through. Video shows she did not break that window, it was broken by a bearded hipster. She was killed for not following orders fast enough on her guided tour.

RIP Ashli Babbitt

Ashli Babbitt is the woman killed yesterday at the US Capitol building.

Here's the video of them doing it. Don't watch it if the sight of blood gives you nightmares. It is ugly, and pointless.

Going to point out a few things here. 

• This was an unarmed woman, squatting in a broken window, preparing to enter a hallway full of armed policemen. There were policemen literally arms-length away behind her as well. Threat value, zero.

• In the video, you can clearly see the shooter aiming at her head. Cops are trained to aim at the center of mass. Aiming at the head indicates the shooter is not following his training. To me, that means he has the intent to kill her immediately. Also he comes out of cover to get closer, showing he had no concern for his own safety, meaning he did not consider himself under threat in this context. He's threatening her.
  

• The shooter MISSED her head from under six feet and hit her in the neck instead. Pulling down on the trigger pretty hard there, Mr. Shooter. U mad, bro?
  

• The shooter fired into a room full of other policemen, never mind the unarmed protesters also present. Major no-no in the police business.
  

Just thought I'd  share my thoughts. Canadians, I hope you're paying attention to how this is being spun in the media. The media take pretty much sums to: White bitch was asking for it.

Prediction 1: shooter walks.

Prediction 2: this is the last unarmed protest we see in the USA for some time.

The Phantom

Happy New Year!

We made it!

 Happy New Year all! We lived! Woohoo!

Desert Chistmas in Arizona.

Christmas Ocotillo. It's red and green, close enough.

 

Merry Christmas!

Cops innocent, of course. Storm Trooper Guilty!

In a decision that should surprise no one, the -idiots- who took down a kid in a Star Wars costume at gunpoint in Lethbridge will not be charged, or even disciplined if I'm reading this right.

The restaurant was holding a May the Fourth promotion — that's a pun on the movie franchise's expression, "May the force be with you."

After police arrived, the young woman dropped the toy weapon, but police said she didn't initially comply with their direction to get on the ground.

With weapons drawn, police forced the woman to the ground and removed her helmet. That caused the woman to suffer a bloody nose, bruising and scratching, the woman's boss previously told CBC News.

The woman was handcuffed and later released. No charges were laid. 

A witness on scene captured the interaction, including the woman sobbing. The video went viral and prompted outrage, including from William Shatner, famed as Captain Kirk on Star Trek, who called for an investigation.

"Rifles drawn for a plastic toy Cosplayer? Didn't comply right away? Are you blind Chief? Watch the video to see how quickly she complied," the actor said on Twitter. "This cannot be covered up."

Sadly, Captain Kirk is missing the boat here.  The cops performed the arrest AS THEY HAVE BEEN TRAINED. That was Standard Operating Procedure there, as I said previously on the day of the incident.

And now another police force has confirmed that yes, this is how it is supposed to be done. SOP, no charges, tough shit Canadians.

Because the real issue is not stupid cops. They -are- stupid, don't get me wrong, but more to the point their training and the orders they get from their leadership are Soviet in nature. They act like the Stazi in East Germany because that's how they are trained and those are their orders. Okay?

Wake up and smell the coffee, Canada. Merry friggin Chistmas, better not go visit your Mom or they'll taser your non-compliant ass.

Ivermectin for Covid-19 treatment.

Back on April 4th I posted a piece from Small Dead Animals about Ivermectin being shown to fight Covid-19 in the petri dish.

Well, time has moved on. December, eight months later, and there is mounting evidence that Ivermectin is the Corona-killer drug we've been looking for. And by mounting I mean they've been using it all over the friggin' world and it works awesome. Check out the video, it will make your frigging hair curl. Kind of like how hydroxychloroquin works really well, and it's banned too.

That makes two (2) old, safe and cheap medications that work according to people I'd normally trust, but we're being told by government that no, those medications don't work and no, I shouldn't trust those scientists who say they do. And not just one government either, we're talking Canada, the USA, Britain and Australia.

Unfortunately I've personally seen HCQ work with my own two eyes, so I'm forced to assume they're also lying about Ivermectin.

So if you're deathly afraid of catching the Kung Flu, tell your doctor you have head lice. He will give you Ivermectin, and you'll probably be okay.

But then you'll probably be okay anyway, as most people NEED A TEST to find out if they've had the Kung Flu. Likely if you have a kid in school you've had it already and didn't even notice.

The Phantom