1971

Brand new to me.

Harry Manx.

All Fall Down

The first thing I thought of when I heard that harmonica, was the Mckenna Mendelson Mainline performance at the Rock Hill rock festival back in 1971.

Second song is playing now. Awesome. Not Mainline stuff. Just mesmerizing. Then again, I've had a couple of pipeloads. Man, I love this stuff.

So, it was 1971. I was in Grade 11 at Westmount. How can I be so certain? Because, every grade I completed ended the same year I completed it.

• Grade 1 - 1961
• Grade 2 - 1962
• Grade 8 - 1968
• Grade 11 - 1971

So, I really wanted to go to this rock festival near Orangeville. I was still at that age where I believed Woodstock was a very kewl and meaningful event, not the mud infested pre-woke shithole fest it actually was. I really felt like I had missed out on something.

"A love supreme," is playing now. I recognize the tune. John McLaughlin/ Santana. No wonder I like this stuff.

I ended up hitchhiking up to the event with the late Jim Anderson.

We didn't have any tickets or campsite reservations. Who thought of such trivialities back in 1971?

Nope. All we had was a pup tent, a can of fruit, and a two-four of Carlsberg Beer. No one can say we were not prepared.

So we get to the campground, only to discover there were entrance requirements. That was something we hadn't thought of prior to embarkation.

Anyway, and I can't remember how or why, we ended up in a yellow Cadillac convertible with some guy who looked just like Cat Stevens. I vaguely remember leopard skins playing a role, though I can't remember whether he was wearing them, or whether they were draped over his hood. Does it really matter?

He had a plan. With his appearance and Caddy, he figured we could get through the back entrance, reserved for band members and roadies.

We got through like a hot knife through butter.

Now to the next part of my story.

It wasn't long before Jim and I hooked up with our peers from Westmount.

I will list their names here, because I don't believe releasing this information fifty years after the event will cause harm, or embarrassment, to any of them, and because I believe that even though those who were not there, but knew these people, will enjoy a little bit of nostalgia.

• Myself - Hans Wienhold
• Jim Anderson
• Kim Zivanovich
• Dino Camposilvan
• Dave McKenzie
• Mike Rea

There were more, but my mind fogs up at that point.

I welcome any corrections to my version of events, but this is how I remember it.

Okay, like I sort of remember it.

Like the legendary Woodstock mudfest, drugs were freely available. I recall a pathway in the park, where drug vendors had set up their tables. There were cops there, but they didn't intervene.

So I ended up buying a blotter of acid. I was always cautious with acid, even in those days, so I might have only taken half. It was tattooed with either "Love Saves," or "Frog."

Needless to say, whatever dose I took turned out to be a mind blower.

I could feel myself getting a little queasy, as I often did on LSD, but I gave myself a stern warning. "YOU WILL NOT FREAK OUT TONIGHT."

One of the reasons, I think, that I followed my own advice, was the beams of light that were circling the park, at night, for the whole weekend. It was like something out of Apocalypse Now.

It was the ambulances that were filing into the park to pick up the victims of the insanity that had engulfed almost all of the attendees. I told myself, "no matter what happens tonight, I will not end up there.

Dino took me on a magical mystery tour. We walked around the park while he explained to me what was actually going on. I wasn't really listening to much of his story. I was just too busy trying to control the chemically-induced psychosis I was experiencing.

The stars were bright that night and I think the Milky Way was very prominent. I looked at the sky as each star exploded, and melted down the dome. I said to myself, "It's just a hallucination caused by the LSD. It's not real." But it was a fucking hell of a show.

In the end, I managed to get through it all. Amazing.

I remember, at one point, Jim Anderson, Dave McKenzie, and I crawled into our pup tent to smoke some hash. All of a sudden, Dave shook his head, as if waking up from a dream, and blurted out, "I didn't even realize I was here!"

If you weren't there at that moment, Dave's response would make no sense to you. But it made perfect sense to me. And I am confident that if you grew up in that era, you understand it too.

Even to this day, I have the occasional episode where I exclaim, "I didn't even know I was here!"

"I didn't even know I was here!". Nope. You won't.

And soon enough, all of the people in my age bracket will have the same realization, implicitly.

So what else can I remember?

Oh yes, it was the Mainline performance.

Despite all of us being in various stages of neurodiversity, we found some common ground.

We were all fucked up, but somehow we all agreed, that we were going to get as close to the Mainline performance as possible.

So we all held hands, so no one would get lost, despite our homophobia, as we wandered into the dust bowl in front of the stage. They were playing that song, "My baby's long and Tall, Weeps Like a Willow Tree." We let go of each other's hands and started dancing, clapping, and playing air guitar in front of the stage. It was one of those moments I will never forget.

Oh, the dust bowl?

I figured that out during one of the daytime performances. The dirt in front of the grandstand had been trampled into a fine dust. A giant cloud of dust rose into the sky adjacent to the bandstand.

And that dust was why the beams from the ambulances streaming in to the first-aid tent over the weekend gave the whole event that "Apocalypse Now" aura.

That's what I remember of the Rock Hill rock festival of 1971.

I could go on, but I ran out of rum.

She Called Me the Fraudster

I signed the list back in 2019 because I suspected they were just fishing for big numbers, like the bogus "97% of all scientists agree global warming is caused by man" claim. Once they had achieved a nice fat number, they would call a press conference, and the so-called "journalists" from all the mainstream Junk News outlets would gobble it all up and splash their headlines far and wide. And that is, of course, exactly what they did. Only this time, a few people were paying attention.

They should have, would have just kept the discovery of the jokester names quiet, but Ezra Levant beat them to the punch and the cat was out of the bag.

I woke up one November morning and checked Facebook. I had a deluge of notifications. "You're famous!" some of them said. When I checked my voicemail, a reporter from the Hamilton Spectator had left a message asking me to confirm whether I was the one who signed the bogus scientists list. I had already learned my lesson about talking to Junk News reporters. If you're not on board with the class of citizens holding "acceptable views," they will dishonestly twist your words and cleverly omit certain points with the aim of discrediting you. It is an invaluable experience because it gives you insight into how dishonest the Junk News industry really is.

I sent the reporter an email, explaining that I would be happy to answer his questions, but I insisted he use email so that I would have a record of exactly what was said. That way, I could expose them for the Junk News purveyors they are in my own blog,s and online posts if they pulled any monkey business.

I guess he passed the job on to Joanna Frketich.

That is a funny segment. She calls me a fraudster. Meanwhile, as Ezra Levant humorously shows in this next video, the list was heavily populated with fraudsters.

If Ms. Frketich were being honest here, she would have highlighted the true fraudsters. But she is not being honest. What she does here is label those who obviously see through the #ClimateScam and signed the list as a joke, or to see whether the list custodians were vigilant about the legitimacy of the "scientists" who signed that list, as fraudsters. But for anyone else, it was, "Come on down! Sign on the dotted line. Congratulations! You are a climate scientist."

As it turned out, they were not vigilant. They simply defined those who do not support the climate hoax as fraudsters, while anyone who promotes fraud are considered to be true scientists.

This is, of course, bullshit.

Read the archived Spectator article.

Retired Hamilton cabbie gets himself on list of fake scientists declaring climate emergency

Note:

"Newbold said some on the list may not appear to have expertise in climate change, but he cautions that scientists from a wide-variety of fields see and study the effects.

"Social scientists are also very much involved in climate change discussion because of the impact of climate change on our society," said Newbold. "It's not necessarily the scientist that's working in a lab and doing that environmental work, but they could be doing work about how populations are going to need to adjust or respond to climate change.""

"Social scientists are also very much involved in climate change discussion because of the impact of climate change on our society." Right. Well, if that's true, taxi drivers, janitors, waitresses, carpenters, and factory workers would all have the right to sign that list because they CAN ALL CLAIM to have knowledge of "the impact of climate change on our society." In other words, anyone in the world who doesn't sign it as a joke.

And,

"The final two signatories from McMaster are working scientists. Sebastian Irazuzta is a an environmental biologist and PhD candidate. Daniel Traylor is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of kinesiology."

So, according to Bruce Newbold, who is on the advisory board of the McMaster University Centre for Climate Change, kinesiologists can sign the list because of the impact of climate change on, ... on what? Sports injuries?

So, if a kinesiologist can sign that list, so can a fucking taxi driver.

Covid era excess mortality finally goes mainstream, but not necessarily in a good way

I don't want to jump to conclusions, but at first glance, it looks like typical Junk News Industry BS. It's fast and convenient, but has zero nutritional value. You would get more nutrients by eating your newspaper, instead of reading it.

It was published on Dec 14, 2022. A Google search, using the keywords "Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID," did not come up as I expected. I expected to see page after page of that headline quoted as the Junk News industry jumped on anything that would inflate the COVID-19 body count. It didn't.

That puzzles me because it's exactly the kind of headline I would expect convenience news to jump on with great enthusiasm to stoke the panicdemic narrative. These reports would, of course, be accompanied by photos of body bags stacked outside of morgues, intubated patients in ICUs, and forlorn-looking puppies waiting for their masters to come home, along with the photo of the bereaved family at the UK National Covid Memorial Wall.

Maybe they just don't want people thinking about excess mortality at all?

The report opens with,

"We will never know exactly how many people the COVID-19 pandemic has killed: too many deaths around the world still go unrecorded. Statistical analyses suggest, however, that in 2021, COVID-19 overtook coronary heart disease to become the world’s leading cause of death. This conclusion comes not from official COVID-19 records, but from estimates of excess mortality: that is, deaths that exceed the levels that are expected."

<italics mine>

That line sends my BS meter into the red zone. Clever BS, but BS just the same.

It looks like what they are trying to do is bundle the estimated, or observed, excess deaths into the COVID-19 body count.

Some of us have been noting, and screaming about, the alarming increase in mortality rates for some time now. However, those in the "anti-science, racist, misogynist, and people with inappropriate views," and "conspiracy theory" groups have been pointing to the economic devastation wrought by lockdowns, free government party money, and last, but not least, possibly the experimental vaccines as the likely force driving excess mortality.

Blaming the alarming phenomenon of excess deaths, since 2020, on COVID-19 is just too stupid to be stupid, therefore, my preliminary BS analysis gives this report 5 turds.

One final malodorous whopper deserves noting.

"These extra deaths also include those related indirectly to the pandemic, such as from illnesses that health-care systems might have been able to treat if it weren’t for COVID-19-related disruption."

<italics mine>

Let's not forget that the "COVID-19 related disruption," was ALL CAUSED by the knee-jerk, jackboot medicine responses of most governments (A.K.A. lockdowns), NOT BY THE FUCKING VIRUS!

Notes:

All Ages

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Australia's Former AMA President Defects, Exposes COVID Vaccines

Dr Kerryn Phelps reveals ‘devastating’ Covid vaccine injury, says doctors have been ‘censored’

Top doctor reveals both she AND her wife suffered 'devastating' Covid vaccine injuries - and slams 'censorship of public discussion' about adverse jab effects

Who Do These Tim Horton's Managers Think They Are?

She's had training.

Ironically, I got into a fight with a Tim Horton's manager in the dream I was having just before I woke up this morning. I was the only guy at the cash when I ordered a coffee from the manager. Then he started fucking around, going around talking to people and making weird adjustments around the store. After waiting an hour, I started to complain. So the guy started accusing me of sabotaging construction equipment in his parking lot, which was ridiculous because I never sabotage construction equipment in Tim Horton’s parking lots.

I decided to look for another person to take my order. Ended up walking down some crowded hallway when the manager got in my face and started attacking me. The guy was a useless fighter. Using some of my old judo training, I knocked him over a couple of times, but he kept coming back. Then he tried to kick me, so I used some Jiujitsu on him, grabbing his calf and kicking him in the nuts while he was spreadeagled.

Who do these fucking Tim Horton's managers think they are?

The End.

How Authoritarian Collectivists React When You Challenge Their BS

Introducing, Prof. Emmett MacFarlane.

On December 12, 2022, Professor Emmett MacFarlane posted the following Tweet.

In response, I posted the following Tweet.

This is how Prof. Emmett MacFarlane responded.

Does anyone need to guess what Prof. Emmet MacFarlane's position on internet free speech is?

Make Canada Warmer!

I looked out the window this morning to a depressing sight.

Fucking snow.

It's really starting now.

I have always been puzzled by the way Canadian thought influencers enthusiastically jumped on the "Keep Canada Cold" bandwagon in response to the #ClimateScam.

First and foremost in my mind was, why the hell should Canadians be concerned about supposed global warming? We must suffer this miserable, messy, expensive, gloomy, dark, and depressing period for about six months of every year.

I don't know about you, but I HATE winter. If it were possible, I would go into hibernation every December, until at least April. If I could afford it, I would spend every Canadian winter in Florida.

There is a very good reason why MOST of the Canadian population lives as far south as possible.

Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that Southern Ontario was more like Florida. Would you complain? I sure as shit wouldn't. Those who enjoy winter sports can move to Ellesmere Island, along with the contrarian whack-jobs who pretend they enjoy the winter freeze, just because most people don't.

Every day I see those obnoxious federal Liberals bloviating on Twitter about their heroic efforts to grease as many palms as possible with the next generation's dollars, ostensibly in pursuit of this insane "Keep Canada Cold" agenda.

The millions of Canadians that have been sucked in by this con is simply mind-boggling. Such mass stupidity is not natural. It has to be programmed. That's where government controlled public schools, along with a thoroughly corrupt Junk News media, leftist and "woke" political activists, Marxist university professors, and a very large portion of an apathetic population come in. The common objective of all of these pushers and followers is the destruction of consumer-driven (I.E. democratic,) free market capitalism, in favour of authoritarian collectivist economic, social, and speech control, led by brazen charlatans like Justin Trudeau.

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Project Veritas exposes the corruption at CNN.

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As the corrupt Canadian Junk News industry pivots from its wall-to-wall COVID-19 panic porn into climate porn, few Canadians even perceive the psychological manipulation. This year, much of the hocus-pocus focus has been on the costs of climate change, with the implication that, if we revert to a pre-industrial way of life with bicycles and windmills, even though it's really hard to ride bicycles in snow, and wind turbines don't work when covered in ice, we will be altruistically saving Bangladesh from any more floods. And it will be even worse than that, because burning wood for warmth will be banned, and there just ain't a lot of bugs to eat in Canada during the winter. Wouldn't it be easier if Bangladesh just built some dikes, even though they might have to wait awhile for the wind and solar-powered earth movers and bulldozers to hit the market?

I made two Google searches just now.

For the first, I used these keywords, "estimated cost of climate change in Canada."

There were plenty of results.

But when I Googled. "What is the cost of winter on the Canadian economy?" I got nothing. Zip. Zip. Zilch. Either no one is asking that question, or the corrupt Google search engine is not enthusiastic about providing those answers.

So, I had to broaden my search, starting with the question of how many Canadian climate refugees there are every winter. It is reported to be 300,000 to 376,000.

My next question is, how much does this cost the Canadian economy?

According to this site, Canadian climate refugees spend about $3,500 per month. It is unclear whether that figure in $CDN or $US. I will assume it's in $CDN. Using the lower estimate of 300,000 Canadian climate refugees, that works out to a cost of about $1 billion per year due to Canada's ongoing climate sameness crisis. That's just a drop in the bucket compared to the estimated $25 billion climate change supposedly costs Canada.

But there are other costs resulting from winter.

• snow plowing
• snow shovelling
• shovels
• ice salt
• vehicle boosts
• rust damage from ice and salt
• injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces
• vehicular accidents caused by climate-related road conditions
• money wasted on warm winter clothing and footwear
• the growing cost of home and commercial heating
• heart attacks caused by snow shovelling
• people falling through thin ice
• people freezing to death
• depression and loneliness resulting from climate-related isolation
• drownings and floods during the spring thaw
• snowballs being thrown at cars
• waiting for buses in the freezing cold
• unused unused <sic> bicycle lanes
• people getting splashed with slush
• wet and ruined footwear
• people walking on the roads because of unshovelled snow
• climbing over snowbanks and getting your pants and feet all soaked
• increased misery for homeless people

While road salt is great at melting through snow and ice, it is also harmful to our environment — here’s how alternatives could help achieve the same result pic.twitter.com/mbD68z8fMv

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 12, 2022

Canadian winters are dangerous and expensive. If one word could sum up Canadian winters, it would be "yuk!"

Liberal voters bite their fingernails, wave their hands, and pull their hair out worrying about some imagined future climate crisis when this country experiences a climate crisis every single year.

Think about it. Even if you're naive enough to believe that a bunch of political wind-bags have the magical ability to thermostatically control the climate, why in the fuck would you vote for them when they promise to keep Canada cold?

We need a new political party in this country. One that buys into the CO2 hoax, but instead of subsidizing wind and solar, offer incentives to all Canadians to purchase and operate their own CO2 generators. And farmers will be told to feed beans, Chinese food, lots of salad with Catalina dressing, and chicken wings to their cows. (It will "create jobs" and all that BS.)

I know what I am going to do. On the assumption that these charlatans are actually right about CO2 warming the planet, I am going to buy a commercial CO2 generator and run it in my backyard, 24/7. Maybe I'll buy two. And then, perhaps, I will be Prime Minister one day.

Get yours here.

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Update:

Someone post the link to this video in the comments section. I haven't had a chance to view it, yet, but will include it here in case anyone is interested.

More

Wind collapse in cold UK this morning.

Essentially banned coal is providing 50% more electricity than wind -- not including coal from the interconnectors with the Netherlands.

When you need them the most, wind and solar just can't deliver. pic.twitter.com/xVDYmhS5iJ

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 11, 2022

Taxi Drivers are Mining for Coal

Taxi drivers are now mining coal! I wonder if Uber will come up with an app for that?

"Some coal storage facilities have had to shop from supermarkets."

People are resorting to burning garbage.

And, of course, by-law enforcement is now involved,

"The city, meanwhile, is sending patrols to check on the places they know are popular with miners." (will Uber miners be exempt?)

"We are also spending more money on the sand we use to fill in the holes."

If this were just another Monty Python skit, it would be piss-pants funny, but it's the reality of what happens when governments create crises to "prevent" crises. JUST like they did with COVID.

It's all just another example of the unintended consequences of expecting politicians to come up with "solutions."

Climate idiocy-caused energy crisis revives illegal backyard coal mining in Poland:

"Coal is as little as a meter below the surface in fields, recreation areas and even gardens. Four men can unearth a ton per hour & make $220 each for half a day’s work."https://t.co/kwgy8wmR8Q

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) November 28, 2022

And now this:

Washington Post Tells Americans To EAT BUGS As They Can No Longer Afford Traditional Seasonal Dinners