Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Re: Libertarian or Lunatics?

I haven't watched the video yet, but...

Each one of those points are logical implications of libertarianism.

The problem occurs when they try to inject libertarianism into a socialized system.

Without turning this into a rant...

For example, consider this paragraph:

"The report further suggests decriminalizing all drug use and drug possession as well as leaving homeless people where they are to engage in "life-sustaining activities in public spaces, such as sleeping, eating, preparing food, washing clothes...urinating and defecating, or for other analogous activities in public places."

The key phrase is, "life-sustaining activities in public spaces."

In a purely libertarian society, the logic dictates that there would be no such thing as "public spaces." There would be no public sidewalks, roads, parks, pensions, healthcare, media, or "education."

Whether or not "life-sustaining activities in public spaces, such as sleeping, eating, preparing food, washing clothes...urinating and defecating" were to be permitted would depend on the owners of the property.

Some property owners might be fine with "life-sustaining activities" occurring on their properties. These might be the same people who are often labeled as "slumlords." They might be owned by the Hell's Angels, Mexican cartels, the Russian Mob, or Liberal/NDP politicians who decided to build their own Utopian communities with their own money.

Other property owners might be more conservative.

It reminds me of a timeshare complex I visited about 25 years ago near Dubois, Pennsylvania. It might have been Wolf Run Manor. I instantly recognized it as a private neighborhood. The roads and sidewalks were privately owned. It had parks and other recreation, and one or more stores. One thing I didn't see there, was anyone shitting on the sidewalk, laying in a pool of vomit, or shoving a needle into their arm. Nor were there any homeless encampments. It was a very nice place to visit or live.

What I found most interesting were the armed private cops. They were nothing like socialized cops. They were polite, friendly, and helpful because the residents were their customers.

The problem with the mentality of the UN personnel who came up with these proposals is that they are all hard-core authoritarian collectivists. They would not tolerate privately owned communities for one millisecond.

Since we don't live in a perfect world, the best we can hope for, for now, roughly speaking, is the choice between, say, red states and blue states, or their Canadian, etc. equivalents.

And abolish the UN.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Ottawa’s response to Uber was “chaotic and unplanned”

Ottawa’s response to Uber was “chaotic and unplanned”

Shortly after Hamilton imposed mandatory in-car cameras, one driver put a sock over his camera for privacy, while alone in the cab. Another driver ratted him out and the city nailed his ass to the wall.

Memory fades, but I recall they put a real hurt on this guy for "thwarting the bylaw," including a suspension and something like a $1,000 fine.

The message was crystal clear. You DO NOT thumb your nose at the law.

... unless you are Uber.

Friday, April 7, 2023

The Time I Avoided the Strap

I have a non-strap Cooper story I would like to share.

One day, in Mrs. MacMillan's Grade 6 class, I stood up to rudely mimic a student who had answered a question incorrectly. I know it was wrong to do that, but I have a congenital defect.

As luck would have it, Cooper was silently standing at the back of the room. I was caught red-handed. I knew this was a 100% strapable offense.

Cooper asked why I had done what I did. In the usual state of terror, I started spinning a thousand, possible justifications around in my mind, but quickly concluded none were going to work. I was getting it for sure. But that was only half of the pain. There would still be the hour of psychological torture that preceded the appearance of the strap from his jacket pocket.

(You didn't think! Did ya? Look at my eyes. Stop fidgeting with your belt loops. Hands at your sides. Don't look at the floor, look at my eyes. Didn't think. You're impulsive! Look at my eyes.)

I decided to bypass the Lubyanka treatment and just get it over with.

So, in answer to his question, I defiantly stated, "Because I felt like it!"

His next question was, "Do we always do things we feel like doing at Westwood School?"

"No, Sir," I replied.

The conclusion of this exchange really threw me for a loop.

He told me to sit back down.

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Didn't some European country ban them because of all the accidents?

"a safety feature that helps prevent riding while under the influence of drugs or alcohol by forcing the rider to provide a keyword provided through the app."

I have had a lot of experience being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, AND drugs AND alcohol to know you have to be really, and I mean REALLY fucked up to be incapable of entering some fucking app keyword. Like the time the cops pulled me over on Woodward in my old man's station wagon when I was 18.

One cop asked me to look at his watch and tell him the time. All I saw was a vague circle spinning around. I told him I only had phree beerzh. My buddy, never a penny in his pocket, needed a dime to call his parents to drive the wagon home. I couldn't find a dime in my change, so I just dumped the whole pile into his hand. Anyone who is that fucked up shouldn't even be sitting in a chair without seatbelts, let alone riding a fucking scooter down Main St. at rush hour.

Friday, March 24, 2023

Harmony in Education

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A Strangely Inconvenient Observation

For those living in Hamilton, we were blessed with wonderfully springlike weather, today. I even sent out a few tweets to the usual climate alarmists, praising the great weather we've been having this February, presumably caused by the high standard of living we in the capitalistic West have been fortunate enough to enjoy.

(Yeah, I see the typos. Too late to change it now.)

Later, I tuned into Hamilton's Junk News "Leader's" six o'clock edition. Check out this snippet…

"The hottest February the 15 EVER ON RECORD!" exclaims teleprompter reader, Taz Boga.

If I've learned one thing about Junk News effluent, it is to take their claims with a big grain of salt.

Having watched many of climate historian, Tony Heller's expositions of the climate hoax, I knew that the decade of the 1930s was a very hot decade. Mr. Heller has frequently shown how the climate huxters ignore or cover up the heatwaves of the 1930s in order to push their anti-industrial agenda. So, I thought I would double-check Taz Boga's claim.

It didn't take me long to find this page.

Scroll down to the section entitled, "Hamilton Weather by Year."

You will see a table that looks like this:
(as always, click on the image for a larger image.)

Did you see what I saw?

Maybe this will help,

Go ahead, and click on 1929.

Scroll down to February. You will see a table like this:

For some reason, the data for 1938 is "incomplete," but if you jump ahead to 1939, you get a normal table:

Huh? How come there is no data at all from 1930 to 1937, and only partial data for 1938? Isn't that a question worth asking?

I thought I might try something clever, in case the pages are actually there, but someone innocently forgot to include links to the data for 1930 to 1937.

If you look at the URLs for any of the existing pages, they seem to have a standard format. For example, this is what the URL for 1924 looks like:

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/hamilton/year-1924

and this is the one for 1939:

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/hamilton/year-1939

my clever idea consisted of editing the URL, and plugging in any desired year. So, for example, I just change the last two digits in https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/hamilton/year-1939 to, say, 41. Voilà! I get the page for 1941.

The next step, is to change the last two digits into one of the missing years from 1930 to 1937.

Example: https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/hamilton/year-1937

Shit. That didn't work. I got this:

"There is no data for this year."

Maybe this was the same website Taz Boga used when researching her weather report? If so, no one can accuse her of lying. But wouldn't it be nice to get a look at the data for the 1930s?

Doesn't it strike you as the least bit odd, that the data from the hottest decade of the twentieth century isn't available? It does me. But then, I am a known "conspiracy theorist." There must be a perfectly reasonable explanation for why that data isn't there. It's probably similar to why the Ontario government stopped publishing their charts and graphs on COVID-19 back in June 2022. You know, back when the yellow line for COVID-19 infections per 100k, the one showing the infection rate for those who had been boosted approaching DOUBLE the infection rate for the unclean unvaxxed.

My final effort consisted of consulting the WayBackMachine. That effort was also unsuccessful.

In conclusion, due to the lack of data from 1930 to 1837, it is impossible for me to know whether Taz Boga's claim is true or false. If you are one of my two readers, and you know how to find the Hamilton temperature records for the missing period, I would greatly appreciate it if you would contact me with the information.

The question remains. What IF the Hamilton's temperature records for 1930 to 1937 inconveniently contradict Mz. Boga's claim? Could it be that the data for this period was intentionally omitted? Naw. That's just a conspiracy theory.

I will leave you with one of Tony's informative presentations.


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

(italics - mine)

And she calls me the fraudster!

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