Trying to fix stupid

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Feb 22

RE: Emergencies Act gone, big questions loom.  Hamilton Spectator editorial, 28 Feb 22.

It is said that you can’t fix stupid, which raises the question of why write in criticism of editorials in the Hamilton Spectator?  The triumph of hope over experience, I guess.

Over the course of the Trucker for Freedom protest, the word never uttered was “compromise.”  It occurred to no one important that the trucker’s protest could have ended quickly and without resort to the Emergencies Act by redressing their grievance.  That would have involved compromise.  It would have involved Prime Minister Trudeau saying that the government could tackle this one aspect of the COVID spread problem in some other way.  But no.  It had to become a test of wills.  Trudeau couldn’t even have made a show of meeting a delegation.  Prime Minister Blackface had to demonize and belittle working class people whose grimy lives he was making unnecessarily tougher with unscientific regulation.  And the NDP went along with it.

The woke crowd and those with otherwise empty lives distain Neanderthals.  But Neanderthals have feelings too.  They feel pain.  They have human needs.  And they have human rights.  (They also have larger brain cases, but that’s for another time.)

Two weeks after the declaration of the Emergencies Act, the technical basis on which Trudeau’s ‘vaccinate or face fourteen days of quarantine upon re-entering Canada regardless of test results’ policy and order was supposed to work has disappeared.  Alberta no longer supports the QR code system.  Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec are soon to follow.  So, if you can no longer check vaccination status, other than a test of wills, what did Trudeau win?

It’s funny, but that now that people subject to the class distain of the latte-sippers are destroyed, are questions raised about the future use of the Emergencies Act (which isn’t “gone” it’s only in abeyance until the next “emergency").  The latte-sippers are becoming alive to what they cheered the unleashing of.  They cheered the proclamation of the Emergencies Act because it was unleased upon people they despise.  But there doesn’t seem to be a principled reason not to use it, to withhold its use, against causes the latte-sippers happen to believe in.

Maybe the latte-sippers aren’t as smart as they think they are.  Because even they know: What goes around comes around!

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Becoming 'illegal'

Vincent J. Curtis

27 Feb 22

I wondered how it came to be that the Truckers for Freedom protest became illegal.  News reports give a timeline, and it shows how perilous our Charter freedoms actually are.

On February 2, Prime Minister Trudeau warned that the Trucker’s protest was “becoming illegal.”  On February 11, a panicked Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency, stating that the protest in Ottawa was no longer a protest but an “illegal occupation.”  Immediately, Liberal cabinet ministers began chirping that the protest being ‘illegal.’  The media put the word ‘illegal’ in quotes to indicate that it was opinion, not a fact.

On February 11, the city of Ottawa went to an Ontario Superior Court to seek an injunction against all the breaking of city parking by-laws implicit in the protest.  This is separate from the injunction sought and granted – and respected – against horn honking.  I could not find reference to the city of Ottawa’s application being granted.  The Mayor of Ottawa never read the Riot Act to the truckers, perhaps because there wasn’t one.

Then on February 14, Prime Minister Trudeau proclaimed the Emergencies Act and used the extraordinary powers he granted himself to clear the ‘illegal’ protest.

To summarize, Premier Ford, in a panic, labelled the Ottawa protest an ‘illegal siege’, Liberal ministers started chirping ‘illegal’ and this, in turn, was amplified by the eunuchs of the Liberal media.  And just like that, the rights of the truckers under Articles 2 and 7 of the Charter disappeared!  Just like COVID, declare an emergency and rights vanish, like magic!

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A special kind of ignorance

Vincent J. Curtis

25 Feb 22

RE: When the alt-news bubble bursts.  By Noelle Allen.  Allen is the publisher of Wolsak and Wynn, a “small press located on James Street North” and she lives in the lower city.  The Hamilton Spectator 25 Feb 22.

It takes a special kind of ignorance to write a column like the one by Noelle Allen.  And the arrogance of the alleged genteel, “educated” class.  Allen must have taken mind reading courses.  How else could she pretend to know how the truckers – to a man (and woman) – voted?  How else could she know that all of them – to a man (and a woman) believed that they had rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. constitution, (actually, they do, but in the U.S.!)  - as if they all weren’t aware of their rights under Articles 2 and 7 of the Charter?  She alleged all of them belonged to a “hard-right fringe” that could somehow inspire 100,000 people to donate over $10 million to the cause!

She elevated one proffered solution to a grievance above resolution of the grievance itself.  She seems incapable of trying to understand what these thousands of truckers and the thousands of people who cheered their progress across the country were grieved about.  And it wasn’t a lack of understanding “the science.”  It was a recognition that the people exercising arbitrary and abusive power didn’t understand it!

Allen obviously doesn’t understand Canada’s constitution as well as she thinks.  She’s obviously unaware of the Byng-King affair.  The PM doesn’t just need the confidence of the House, the PM also requires the confidence of the GG.  Remember, Trudeau proposed that parliament be suspended for two years and he be given unlimited spending power to deal with the pandemic.  How constitutionally crazy is that?

The solution to the truckers’ grievance lay in compromise – which Trudeau was incapable of doing.  Lift the unscientific vaccine mandate on the truckers, and the protest would have been over.  But no.  It required the invocation of the Emergencies Act, like he were a Putin.  Then he revoked it when he was going to lose the vote in the Senate.

That Allen despites the truckers for their class is obvious.  But in expressing her contempt for the irredeemably deplorable, she betrays in herself an ignorance and an arrogance that is truly breathtaking.

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Tamara Lich – Political Prisoner

Vincent J. Curtis

23 Feb 22

I guess it would be too much for the MSM, having demonized Tamera Lich, to humanize her with personal details.  But a few came out in her bail hearing.

Because Lich isn’t vaccinated, she can’t fly home on a commercial flight;

Because Lich isn’t vaccinated, she can’t eat in an Ottawa restaurant;

Because Lich isn’t vaccinated, she can’t stay in an Ottawa motel;

Because the government seized her bank account, she can pay for a trip home;

Because the government seized her bank account, she can’t pay for bail herself;

Because the government froze bank accounts, others are afraid to pay her bail or can’t.

Lich is a middle-aged, middle class grandmother and former fitness instructor who stands barely over five feet tall.  This is the woman who scares the hell out of the Trudeau government, because she dared say, “enough!”

She can’t work because fitness studios are the first things to get shut down.  Simply by refusing to get vaccinated, the government reduced her life to mere existence in her home.

In a way, being denied bail was the humane thing to do because if she were released, she’d be left to freeze to death on the streets of Ottawa.  Lepers get better treatment.

There isn’t a hot enough place in hell for Bill Blair, Chrystia Freeland, and Justin Trudeau, the ones using their power to destroy a woman like Tamera Lich.

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Born yesterday journalism

Vincent J. Curtis

22 Feb 22

RE: Threats to media during protests a wake-up call. By David “he’s not your” Friend and Amy “not so” Smart.  The Canadian Press.

The self-serving editorial passed off as a news story complains that main stream journalists got treated shabbily (dangerously!!) by protesting truckers.  They’re surprised!  And feel wronged! As if being treated unfairly by the media would go unnoticed by the illiterate and unawares Neanderthals.

Obama’s former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes sagely observed that the media are a bunch of know-nothing 27 year olds - aching to be manipulated into advocating the correct narrative.  Main stream media are now little more than propaganda vessels of the progressive narrative.  Look at who the MSM regard as outcasts: Fox News and Rebel News; both those outlets being famously thought of as (gasp!) conservative!!

What media outlets were treated with consideration and seriousness by protesting truckers? Rebel News and Fox News!

Those outlets took the truckers seriously and covered what they were protesting against.  What were their grievances?  All other media outlets pushed the Trudeau line and those “unacceptable views.”  The MSM were too dumb to recognize one of their own: the Antifa plant carrying a Confederate flag with a swastika on it.  That joker was seen once, never again, and tellingly, nobody has found out who he was! But he was useful!!

The progressive narrative is adamantly pro-compliance, and MSM love the guy with the big hair, who pays them over half a billion a year to keep them afloat.

Even Neanderthals have feelings.  Treat them with distain, and they won’t respond with Christian kindness; though some will.

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Brent Jolly, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, was quoted as saying “This is what happens when you have your brains scrambled by misinformation.”  The contempt palpable in this, and other of his remarks, can’t change the fact that a brand new vaccine mandate had been imposed on the truckers.  That wasn’t “misinformation” however you try to spin it.  Jolly's contempt and utter disregard for the facts and a basic lack of self-awareness, characteristic of MSM journalism, gives are real edge to the class-contempt MSM journalists have for the working class who step out of line.

The problem in Canada is Lack of Manhood

Vincent J. Curtis

20 Feb 22

I’ve listened to all the critics and all the criticisms of Justin Blackface’s declaration of the Emergencies Act.  I’m unimpressed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Premier Jason Kenny of Alberta threatening to take the Blackface government to court over the declaration.  I’m not impressed that the head of the NDP is saying he will consent now but maybe not later.  None of them get it.  (The NDP have gone from being the workers’ party to the wokers’ party!)

The cause of the crisis is sheer lack of manhood.  The problem with all the responses is their sheer lack of manhood.

The metrosexual at the center of all this used to be a drama teacher.  He sucked at it.  Listen to him answer questions in the House of Commons.  He stammers, he can’t articulate a single sentence without stumbling.  And he gets breathy.  For a drama teacher, his performance sucks.  This explains his switch to poly sci, where an inability to focus the mind in answering the question at hand is an asset.

He has no grasp of the science.  His imposition of a vaccine mandate on truckers this late in the game was based on no science, no data, and in the end proved contrary to rationality.  Double vaxxed and boosted not thirty days previous, Blackface, when the truckers began arriving in Ottawa, somehow got exposed to a COVID positive person, and despite testing negative himself, started ten days of quarantine.  Later, he allegedly did test positive for COVID.  Therefore, the junk that couldn’t protect him from COVID and from spreading COVID – hence the quarantine – is what he mandated on the truckers! This isn’t a rational application of the science.

At least that’s the story.  My theory is that he came down with jaundice.  The colour of yellow was unmistakable.  The didn’t want to meet those big, bad truckers, Canadians to a man.

The Ottawa police couldn’t make the bad people go away, so something had to be done.  It wasn’t like he could meet face to face with the truckers, and reach a compromise.  Blackface is too weak to compromise.  He can’t admit he might ever had been wrong.  Hell, he couldn’t even admit that there might be another way to achieve the goal, whatever that goal is.  (Never really said what it is, except compliance with mandates.)

Men can admit they might be wrong.  No less than Winston Churchill at the height of his powers as a wartime Prime Minister said, “Living in a democracy means sometimes having to defer to the wishes of other people.”  Men don’t even have to admit they were wrong, just that they can work out another way, not having realized the problems the way selected created.  Nobody knows everything, except experts!  And Blackface is advised by experts.

The concept behind forcing non-vaccinated truckers to quarantine for fourteen days upon entering Canada regardless of whether they test negative or not was simply another turn of the “you must get vaccinated or else” screw.  It was simply punitive, that’s all.  Omicron did not arrive in Canada in a truck.  It did not spread throughout Canada on a truck.  Ninety percent of truckers are already vaccinated, so what was the point of a mandate?  You mean the vaccines didn’t produce herd immunity like they were supposed to?  So, what’s the point, again, of healthy young men getting vaccinated against their will and being at greater risk from the seasonal flu and from the side effects of the vaccine itself?

No matter.  The crazy Karens have spoken!  Have you notice that all the prominent health officials are women?  In Canada, B.C., Alberta?  Blackface is surrounded by women, the least impressive of which is Chrystia Freeland.

There is no science or rationality to mandating vaccination of cross-border truckers at this stage of the emergency.  Then Blackface got the idea that he was the embodiment of democracy.  His party got returned at the last election with a minority and only 32 percent of the vote, less actually than the Conservatives got, which was 34 percent.  But Blackface was the embodiment of democracy.  It’s got to make you wonder how much of that hair is growing inwards.

His will is not essence of democracy.  People massing to seek redress of grievance is a sign that the political leadership has lost touch with the people.  Redress of grievance, along with compromise, are things you never hear in the debates in the House.  No wonder the opposition to Blackface is so weak and feminine itself.

The obvious failure here is a lack of manhood, in the ability to act manfully to correct a grievance, to right a wrong, to reach a compromise.  The complaints about imposing the Emergencies Act is about “power grab.”  Who cares?  Of course it is.  Your observation is trivial.  Trudeau wants the big bad men to go away, and so he’s resorting to girlish methods: stealing their money from behind their backs, and bringing in his own bullies with guns to beat on those seeking redress and make them go away.

The opposition to Blackface is as contemptibly metrosexual and feminine as Blackface is himself.

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Singh despises trucker class

Tommy we hardly knew ye

Vincent J. Curtis

18 Feb 22

When Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau declared the War Measures Act in 1970, it was the NDP under Tommy Douglas who opposed it, “The fact is, and this is very clear, that the government has panicked and is now putting on a dramatic performance to cover up its own ineptitude,” said Doulas.

Today’s NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says much the same thing, except that he supports the declaration of the Emergencies Act by some other Trudeau.  Singh is not a civil libertarian, and the truckers are not of his class.  Like the Trudeau Liberals, today’s NDP distain the white working class for their class, or lack thereof.  They’re terrorists.

You won’t find goat’s milk latte offered at the Timmies – Petro Pass truck stop in Nipigon, ON, on Highway 17, ‘north of Superior’.  You won’t find avocado on the menu of most truck stops.  Truckers don’t drive BMWs and Audis worth a quarter million dollars, they drive Peterbilts and Kenworths worth a quarter million dollars.  Workers’ hands are large and calloused.  The hands of Singh, his colleagues, his supporters in academia, the media, the AOCs of the world, and genteel society in general are smooth and soft as a baby’s bottom.  Singh belongs to the soft-hands class.

Singh condemned the truckers as white supremacists, which would include a number of Sikh, aboriginal, and Black drivers, when all they are is confident in their self-worth.  They’re aggrieved by a useless mandate, but the word ‘compromise’ never arises in debate, or in the media.  (Why doesn’t Trudeau just compromise on the vax mandate for truckers?  It’s never asked.  Instead, “they’re a threat to democracy!”,Blackface being the embodiment of democracy.  As if it wasn’t Blackface himself who proposed suspending parliament for two years and he having unlimited spending powers. To deal with the pandemic, you understand!)

The NDP are abandoning the working class – because of their lack of class.  There’s no respect.  Want to understand why Trump is loved by America’s working class?  Because he respects them, and he openly advocates for them.  That’s what “America First” meant in practice: putting America’s working and middle class first.

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Getting fleeced

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Feb 22

RE: Historic green steel project gets $500 million from Ontario.  By Matthew van Dongen.  The Hamilton Spectator 16 Feb 22.

You have to admire ArecelorMittal Corporate’s ability to fleece Canadian governments.  They got them to pay for a new $1.8 billion electric arc furnace on the nonsense that it was “green.”

Electric arc furnaces enable the reusing of steel, but they don’t eliminate the need for primary steelmaking.  Being a world-wide steel making company, ArcelorMittal simply switches primary steelmaking from Hamilton to, say, India.  Hamilton’s loss also creates room for more Chinese primary steel.

The difference is that Dofasco Works knows how to produce pig iron with half the amount of coal that Indian and Chinese producers require.  The effect world-wide on CO2 production is for it to increase as a consequence of shutting down Dofasco’s production.  It’s just not being produced in Hamilton, and that makes Canadian politicians happy because it reduces the amount of CO2 they’re responsible for.  Smart for them, bad for the climate (if you believe that sort of thing).

Ontario is on the hook to produce the electric power to run the furnace, with all the costs associated with that.  It would be absurd for Ontario to generate the power by burning coal in a coal-fired electrical generator when the purpose of the new furnace is to reduce CO2 emissions.  But wind and solar are expensive and unreliable, so that leaves nuclear.  There are new, small nuclear generators now available with smaller capital costs than, say, Darlington or Bruce.  But behind the $500 million gift of Ontario to ArcelorMittal, is a further commitment of a few billion to be able to generate the power required to run the new furnace.

In summary, ArcelorMittal gets new production for free, Canadian politicians salve their consciences on the backs of the taxpayers, Ontario has to build new, carbon-free electrical generation, and the climate takes a hit.

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Analysis of a panic porn piece

Vincent J. Curtis

15 Feb 22

RE: Omicron expected to spread through March.  By Joanna Frketich.  The Hamilton Spectator 15 Feb 22.

The article is a good example of COVID panic porn.  It uses scary words and scary looking statistics without context.  It reports the word of a single source without question.  The word “endemic” does not appear is a story about the threat of Omicron.

Here are the few “facts” reported: “public health officials estimate that vaccines have saved 131 lives in the fifth wave.”  This number is meaningless.  It says nothing about the variable number of vaccinations individuals have had, and more importantly the age of the people whose lives were allegedly saved.  COVID is dangerous to those over 80, and less dangerous than the seasonal flu to those under 50.  So, what was the average age of death of those alleged saved?  Lastly, the difference between model projections and actual results might well be due to flaws in the model, which grossly overestimated deaths.

On page A4 it is revealed how the 131 saved lives was calculated: “Public heath used the rate per 100,000 to determine that 216 Hamiltonians would have died since December if there were no COVID shots as Omicron rapidly spread.  Instead, Hamilton reported 85 deaths from Dec. 1 to Feb 11 – a difference of 131 lives spared.  “This data just serves as a great highlight for the great importance of vaccination during this wave and ongoing,” said city epidemiologist Erin Rodenburg.

Of course, she’d say that.  It’s nonsense on stilts, and it’s self-serving as hell.  In the first place, estimating from old data does not constitute new “data.”  The old death rate did not take into account the milder effects of the Omicron variant, and so the estimated number of deaths ought to be high, a lot high.  But the self-serving epidemiologist put down the difference between her flawed estimate and the actual number to “vaccines,” with no mention of number of shots taken or who got infected or average age of death.  This is a farce of statistics.  Going unnoticed is the lack of credit for lockdown measures as a quantified element of success.  Why?  Are lockdowns, passports, and crowd size restrictions, and earlier closing hours now completely discounted, or was the point of the story to push vaccines?

Scarsin Forecasting warns of potential for 20,000 additional infections.  So what?  They grossly overestimated number of deaths.  Their modelling potentially is wrong, so why should we believe them?  If 20,000 cases occur in the under 40 crowd, there’s no reason to believe hospitalization or deaths will go up.  The figure of 20,000 is just to scare people; it’s only a guess and it matters who gets infected.  Hence, projections of 300 hospitalizations and 50 deaths involve assumptions about who gets infected and their state of health.  There’s no statement of estimated numbers of people saved as a result of vaccination.  Why?  Because it would expose the circular reasoning involved in making statements of success.

The skepticism developing over panic porn is reported at the tail end of the story, which indicates the degree of hesitancy over further vaccination.  The law of diminishing returns nowhere gets mentioned, but that’s what people are beginning to think about.

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Theatre, not science. Or, is Kieran Moore a jabbering idiot?

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Feb 22

We’re supposed to believe that Dr. Kieran Moore is a serious, scientific doctor and not some jabbering idiot.  The evidence, however, is strongly for the latter.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Moore’s boss, announced today the dates for lifting of COVID restrictions, saying that the (useless) mask mandate would be removed last.  Behind Premier Ford stood the fully vaxxed and boosted Dr. Moore and Health Minister Christine Elliott.  They were socially distanced, standing more than two meters apart, and both were masked and looking serious.  The two of them stood at least three meters behind fully vaxxed and boosted Premier Ford at the podium.

As Premier Ford was about to speak and tellOntarians how crucial mask wearing was, he removed his!  He then spoke at length and projected his voice, and Dr. Moore just stood there!!  The idea behind mask wearing is that masks prevent the projection of viruses, and the more active and dynamic the breathing is, as with public speaking and singing, the larger and more projective the volume of virus is.  Ford removed his mask at the very time it was, by the science, most needed; meanwhile those who needed it least wore theirs as well as socially distanced!

What are we to make of this?  This is political theatre, not the rational application of science.  Moore is all for the alleged science when it comes to ordinary people, but not for his political masters, who allegedly follow his advice.  Or does Dr. Moore truly have a grasp of the science as he maintains he does?

Who are the bigger fools here?  Ford, Moore, or Ontarians for listening to them?

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Becoming Baghdad Bob

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Feb 22

The Spectator is rapidly becoming the Baghdad Bob of the old Narrative.  It’s been hip-deep producing COVID panic porn, and any voice that differs from the official narrative of on high gets silenced for spreading “misinformation.”  It doesn’t matter how qualified the misinformer may be, their very dissent is sufficient to condemn them.

Mind you, the people being supported by the old Narrative are the same people who, in the first wave, used the force of law to close city parks and ban all outdoor recreational activity, despite knowing that COVID was a respiratory disease that affected almost exclusively the old.  The Spec and they still can’t get their heads around the folly of masking, in which any mask will do.  How a mask that doesn’t make a close seal to the face is supposed to seal out viruses – or in, as the case may be - is supposed to stop the spread never gets asked.  Never mind that the science of masking in support of the official policy never materialized, even after two years.  These same experts ordered lockdowns of everything and are still claiming success of the policy despite the findings of Johns Hopkins, Stanford University, and Ontario’s own COVID data.  You can’t keep the con going if you’ve admitted you conned people in the past!

The Spec continues with the panic porn over ‘climate change’ and continues to recommend Canada take on the solution to climate change alone, as if COP26 never happened.

The Truckers for Freedom are treated like criminal garbage in the editorial slant, and in all the letters to the editor.  It never occurs to a single reporter to ask Trudeau why he just can’t compromise on the one point the truckers are protesting.

People are noticing, and the credibility of the media, once lost, is hard to regain.  The people running the Spectator have no investment in its future.  So long as their pensions are secure, that’s all they care about.  The history of the paper, which began in 1846, means nothing to them.  The credibility of the paper would mean something if it was your legacy at stake.

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Kieran Moore prescribes thumb-sucking to the last

Vincent J. Curtis

11 Feb 22

RE:  Ontario announces review of all pandemic measures.  A CP story written by Holly McKenzie-Sutter. Published in the Hamilton Spectator 11 Feb 22.

The fact that Ontario is announcing a review of pandemic measures ought to give pause to the rational, thinking person.  Why weren’t they constantly under review?  These are extraordinary restrictions on normal life, so why wasn’t the efficacy of each one towards the achievement of the goal constantly under review?  In the quiet times between pandemic waves, why wasn’t there a systematic review of the efficacy of lockdown measures to determine which worked and which didn’t?

I’m not going to get into the Stanford University study of January 2021, or the Johns Hopkins study of January 2022, both of which showed that lockdown measures were worthless.  That Ontario’s measures were worthless is obvious from the pandemic data updated every day on Ontario’s website.  The high medical poohbahs completely mishandled Ontario’s response to the pandemic, caused the province to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars, and are only now reviewing whether their prescriptions actually did anything.  And none of them had ever been through a pandemic before.  That lack of experience didn’t give them pause to wonder if their prescriptions worked or not.

Of particular note, Dr. Kieran Moore said that thumb-sucking, er, mask wearing may be required in schools longer than “at a societal level.”  Why?  There never was any science to show that masking did anything, especially when the mask doesn’t make a close seal with the face.  It should be obvious that if a mask doesn’t make a good seal, how is it going to seal out viruses?  (or in, as the case may be.)  Even CNN now admits that masks are nothing but “facial decorations.”  Then there are the pediatricians who are reporting learning deficiencies and emotional problems in children forced to wear masks.  Dr. Jordan Peterson spoke of these problems recently on YouTube.

Alberta and Saskatchewan are both dropping masking of children in school immediately.  But no enterprising reporter stuck a microphone under Dr. Moore’s nose and asked him why Alberta and Saskatchewan health officials are dead wrong, and he’s right?  And can you please explain to us, Dr. Moore, the science of masking, so that we can measure your own understanding of it?

Could masking of kids to the last be because of lack of discipline in the teacher’s union?

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Being born yesterday

Vincent J. Curtis

10 Feb 22

RE: I’m for religion, just not like this.  By Kate McCullough.  The Hamilton Spectator 10 Feb 22.

It figures that the complaintant at issue would arise from among two of the rottenest of the rotten disciplines in the Arts: English literature and Education.  She’s challenging the constitutionality of the funding of Separate Schools in Ontario.

“Oh, I believe we have a separation of church and state…” she said.  No, honey.  That’s an American doctrine enshrined in the First Amendment, that we just follow as good practice.

“I think that faith contaminates public institutions, and I think that taking public money contaminates institutions that are supposed to be for worship!  To, me, it’s just an inherent a conflict of interest!!”  Of course you think that, honey.  That’s what you were indoctrinated to think by your postmodernist and Marxist instructors at university.  Do you have anything original?

In the application the plaintiffs say publicly funded Catholic schools violate the right to freedom of religion guaranteed by the Charter!  I don’t see how, but that’s enough of stupid for now.

Honey, read Section 93 of the Constitution Act, 1867.  The right of Catholics in Ontario to use their school taxes to support the school system of the Catholic Church has been a black letter right since Confederation.  In fact, it was an extension of the practice that existed in Ontario prior to Confederation.  The Charter did not overturn Section 93, and if it proposed to, wouldn’t have passed to law.

Who knows how rotten the judge may be?  But if a judge in a civil suit proposes to extinguish Section 93, there’s going to problems.

This suit is another example of American political practice being imported into Canada: to use the courts to achieve what you can’t achieve by legislation.  But not even an American judge would try to overturn, for example, the Fourth Amendment on the basis of the Fourteenth.

These are some of the problems that arise when the education system has been polluted with postmodernism, Marxism, and progressivism.  Everybody’s indoctrinated.  Nobody can critically think for themselves, and all these stupid, nihilistic ideas get insinuated into the empty minds of university students.  Of course, it would have been too much to ask honey to have researched her issue before she took it to court.

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The honey in question is Adrienne Havercroft, She looks to be in her mid-30s.  She obviously leads an empty life.

NDP break with working class

Vincent J. Curtis

9 Feb 22

The only one more denunciatory of the Truckers for Freedom than Prime Minister Blackface is NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.  Blackface called the truckers racist, misogynist, and science-deniers who held “unacceptable views.”  Singh denounced them as white supremacists.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath yesterday called upon Premier Doug Ford to suspend their driver’s licenses and insurance policies, saying that the truckers were engaged in “near-sedition.”

It must hurt to be that stupid.  If truckers’ licenses and insurance were suspended, who is going to drive the rigs off Wellington Street?  Those rigs still belong to the owners, and if some bloke tries to get in one and drive off in it, he is engaged in grand theft, which used to be a felony.  And when since 1848 has a socialist given a hoot about sedition? (Answer: only when they’re in power.)

The NDP have turned into a farce of their old selves.  They no longer are the defenders of the working class.  They’ve sided with the luxury class, the metrosexuals who have guaranteed high government salaries and soft hands, the easily frightened who drive alone in their BMWs with masks on and work from home.  Burly truckers are not their kind of people anymore.  They’re declassee.  Neanderthals.  The proper objects of snobbish scorn.

The NDP let itself get riddled with all the silly boutique causes of elites.  The boutique has taken over, and the workers cut loose.

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Defund Ottawa police

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Feb 22

RE: Police arson unit proves Ottawa fire allegation.  A CP story written by Laura Osman and Lee Berthiaume. 

The editors of the Hanon People’s Daily may not give a horn-honk about freedom and civil rights, dismissing the Truckers for Freedom as low-brow Trump supporters, but ordinary people ought to.  When the crunch comes, the purveyors of the “class struggle” support the fey, Ottawa metrosexuals and distain the working class.

The use of deep state tactics to discredit the state’s enemies which is now distressingly prevalent in the U.S. is now at work in Canada.  Ottawa’s police chief boasted of intelligence activities, that he and Ottawa city council were responsible for GoFundMe depriving the rally of $10 million, and boasted numbers of arrests for alleged criminal activity in relation to the rally.  The police have been seizing jerry cans of private citizens whom police suspect of providing the truckers with fuel.  The truckers report agents-provocateurs circulating among them.  The one guy carrying a confederate flag has been seen but once, but Prime Minister Blackface continues to cite this one person as representative of the deeper motivations of the truckers as a whole.

Speaking of wastes of human protoplasm, Federal Transport Minister Alghabra called on provincial governments to suspend the commercial driver’s licenses of the truckers and to cancel their insurance.  Even if the provincial governments can correctly identify which truckers are involved, who is going to drive these big rigs away from Parliament Hill if the driver has had his license and insurance suspended?  The truck remains the driver’s property and for anyone else to just get in and drive it away without the driver’s permission, that constitutes felony theft.  This is the kind of brain power that has been running Canada’s COVID response.  The truckers are asking to be relieved of stupidity!

Winston Churchill once said that living in a democracy means having to defer occasionally to the wishes of other people.  Blackface and his Liberal cronies believe democracy means their minority government is granted dictatorial powers from the last election.

The story about the fire in an Ottawa apartment that is hinted at being related to the rally looks like another false-flag operation.  Two men set a small fire, then another rushes in an puts it out, the carpet having barely been scorched, then all three disappear and police have no idea who they are.  Ridiculous.

Selective and punitive enforcement of the law is building a conservative case to defund the police.

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The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Feb 22

RE: Ottawa mayor declares state of emergency over protests.  By May Warren of the Toronto Star.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 7 Feb 22

“The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!” says Ottawa mayor Jim Watson over the Truckers for Freedom rally.  This would be the same guy who declared a climate emergency a few years back, and all that came of it was a broken-down LRT! Rallies for freedom are not respected in official Ottawa, whose city motto is “shut-up and obey!”

From his place of hiding, Prime Minister Blackface called the truckers the usual names, racist, white supremacists, etc.  That would include substantial numbers of Sikh, Black, and Indigenous drivers, as well as immigrants from other countries.  The legacy media lapped it up.  Obvious false flag operations continue to be portrayed as representative of the Truckers for Freedom, like the one guy carrying a confederate flag of all things (a media dog whistle that mean nothing to ordinary Canadians).  The truckers now post guards over the national war memorial and the Terry Fox statue to make sure they’re left alone, but this goes unreported in legacy media.  Blackface won’t come out until the big men leave.

The narrative of Canada’s legacy media is negative and worrying.  Everywhere else around the world, the Trucker’s for Freedom rally has received positive attention.  India’s media in particular, peeved that Blackface interfered in India’s farmer’s strike, are ripping him a new one for his hypocrisy now. 

Meanwhile, the Spectator’s own hate campaign against unvaccinated kulaks is breaking down.  The page 1 report on a march in sympathy with the Truckers for Freedom significantly contains not one quote from an identified participant.  The Spec did not report a single “march for mandates,” or “give us more repression.” counter-protests occurring anywhere in Canada.

The legacy media’s credibility with the folks is shot.

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Panic porn based on a prof's feelings

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Feb 22

RE: It may be possible to get Omicron twice.  Variant may not provide immunity.  A CP story by Allison Jones, published in the Hamilton Spectator 5 Feb 22.

The pathetic effort to discredit natural immunity and push the gotta-vaccinate narrative continues.  The story runs, “As many as four million Ontarians may have been infected with the Omicron variant…but their illnesses – particularly the milder ones – may not stop them from being re-infected.  “It’s too early to know for certain, but it doesn’t seem like Omicron provides durable immunity against COVID-19,” said epidemiologist and University of Ottawa associate professor Raywat Deonandan.

It feels like?  Is it too much for a journalist to ask a scientist and professor for his data?  Doesn’t data matter anymore, or is even science reduced to feelings?  Don’t hard facts matter to a journalist, or is Allison Jones a stenographer?

Here are some facts.  Studies in Israel and elsewhere show that recovered cases have on average better resistance and more than seven times durable resistance to reinfection than double vaxxed and boosted people.  In U.S. Senate hearings last week, Bill Cassidy (R-La) asked the CDC director under oath why the CDC hadn’t done studies on natural immunity itself.  The director responded with her usual babble and then collapsed into silence when Cassidy accused the agency of not doing it deliberately so that it wouldn’t know.

Talk about misinformation!  The CP story has no information! Yet, it still offers a scare-mongering headline based on some bloke’s feelings!  Somebody who evidently doesn’t know the science!

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In too deep to admit they’re wrong

Vincent J. Curtis

4 Feb 22

RE: Masking will be the last to go, Moore says.  A CP story by Allison Jones.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 4 Feb 22

For those who follow these things closely, the statements of Dr. Kieran Moore demonstrate either a near negligent understanding of the science, or deliberate obfuscation to hide the past the incompetence and fakery of Ontario health officials.

Take his statement that vaccines are “safe and effective.”  The vaccines wouldn’t be approved today for lack of effectiveness.  They lack endurance, and against delta and Omicron they don’t stop infection or transmission.  As vaccines, they’re failures.  As for safe, well that depends on age; if you’re a young man, they offer more risk than reward.

“Masking will be the last public health measure to go.” Cloth and surgical masks have been discredited as spread preventers.  CNN’s own medical experts called masks “facial decorations.”  It used to be social distancing, with masking only if close contact indoors was unavoidable.  Masking took on a life of its own as public health officials stumbled around looking for panaceas.  Wave 2, 3, and now 4 (or 5) came and went despite mask mandates.  The studies have long been in, that mask can’t filter out viruses.  There never was any science that established correct social distancing or effectiveness of masks, it was all guessing.  The science and data are in, and Moore refuses to take cognizance because to do so would expose that he and his colleagues had only been pretending to expertise.

Moore admits that Omicron is “difficult to control,” so how is it rational to continue policies and practices that failed against variants less “difficult to control” than Omicron?

Moore says that Ontario will reassess the need for vaccine passports because vaccination only seems to reduce severity of infection, and Omicron by its nature is less severe.  Comparing this with Moore’s statement that vaccines are “safe and effective” shows that he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth, if he even realizes it.  In his discussion about the unvaccinated – about ten percent of the population – being at risk of Omicron, Moore admits inter alia that the unvaccinated are likely to catch the disease from a vaccinated person. Mass vaccination was supposed to induce herd immunity at the 70 percent level, and it hasn’t even at 90 percent.  This once again undercuts the claim that vaccines are effective, and Moore is saying that they’re ineffective as vaccines against Omicron.  They’re usefulness is in reduced severity.

Moore then switches to the irrational statement that excluding the unvaccinated from gatherings “protects them well against transmission and against severe outcomes.”  Moore has already admitted that Omicron is less severe.  Omicron is wildly transmissible so there is no basis for saying that the unvaxxed are well protected against transmission and against severe outcomes by being excluded from society. We’re talking probabilities here, and in the absence of actual data Moore’s statement is unsupportable.  Actually, the evidence is averse, for passports and masks and lockdown did not prevent the rise of the Omicron wave.

By his own statements, Dr. Moore demonstrates that he has no rational grasp on the issues, he does not know the science; and there are a lot of reputations at stake if the public perceives that they have been misled by incompetence all along.  Moore can’t ever admit that either he or his colleagues were wrong, and have been relying on trial and error all this time.  They’re credentials weren’t worth spit in this crisis because they never took the courses that would have led them to right answers.

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Global warming strikes again!

Vincent J. Curtis

3 Feb 22

RE: Hamilton is expecting 20-35 cm of snow tonight, and a low of -18℃ tomorrow.

As Hamilton digs out from another dump of global warming, little doubt remains.  If this continues, this planet will be cooked in eight years and it will be Canada’s fault!

Until the planet cooks, Canadians need to keep from freezing to death.  Regrettably, the TV monitor that sits where a Prime Minister should be isn’t aware of the limitations of his favorite hobby horses.  The TV monitor didn’t know that solar panels don’t work when covered by a foot of snow.  Windmills don’t turn when under an Arctic high pressure system – there’s no wind.  This is important because when the TV-cum-PM was asked what percentage of Canadians heated their homes with Saudi Arabian oil, the image spoke in its breathiest voice about windmills.  The TV-cum-PM didn’t know that thirty percent of Canadians heat their homes with Saudi oil.

Luckily, Hamilton can rely on Alberta.  Alberta is Ontario’s friendly and reliable source of ethical oil and gas.  With oil trading at $90 per bbl and nat gas at $4.90, Alberta wants Ontario to burn carbonaceous fuel like it’s going out of style, as it may well be. (If they can ever fix the problems with windmills, solar panels, and batteries.)  The Alberta advantage is that none of the money leaving Ontario leaves Canada.  Some thirty percent of Canadians are paying for the upkeep of the Saudi monarchy.

With more global warming in the offing, Alberta will keep Ontario from freezing one way or another.

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Quacks still running Ontario COVID response

Vincent J. Curtis

2 Feb 22

RE: Easing restriction will increase cases, advisors say.  A CP story written by Allison Jones.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 2 Feb 22.

What is this story except another turn of panic-porn to justify lockdowns?  The alleged experts who said this don’t know the science, and don’t even understand Ontario’s own data.  Lockdowns don’t work on a mass scale.  They don’t prevent the spread and, as we’ve seen with Justin Trudeau, locking the uninfected up with the infected actually promotes the spread - duh!  That’s why case numbers continued rising weeks after lockdowns 1, 2, and 3 were imposed.

Omicron was so wildly contagious that no measures were going to stop its spread, and nobody’s claimed that restrictions did anything to change the Ontario cases curve since December.  Omicron peaked high and fast, and is dropping fast.  We also learned that vaccines are useless in preventing spread.  Even the vaxxed and boosted get COVID and transmit COVID, and the only benefit now claimed for vaccination is reduced morbidity.  Yet, Omicron is noted for its low severity even in the unvaxxed.

The quacks demonstrate their incompetence when they say, “Relaxation of these measures will increase the spread of COVID-19.”  They’re assuming against the science and data that their measures actually did something to slow the spread, like closing strip clubs at 11:00 pm instead of 1:00 am.  They don’t tell you that it’s the area under the curve, not the shape of the curve, that matters.  Those cases are coming willy-nilly sooner or later, measures or not.

They’re quacks pulling the wool over the eyes of the stenographers in the media.  The story goes to note that ‘expert modelling’ (is there any other kind?) shows a wide range of scenarios with hospital admissions rising to 6,000 from its current 3,000 in six weeks.  There’s no explanation as to how that happens, since it's nothing but fiddling with variables and watching how the outcome changes.  You can’t model the effectiveness of lockdowns because they don’t have measurable effectiveness.  It’s all a complicated business unmoored from reality, and the modellers are complaining about lack of good input data.  Garbage in, garbage out is screaming out of the story, and so is the adage, “if you torture the numbers enough, they’ll confess to anything.”  But admitting that might impugn the authority of the ‘expert modellers’ and vitiate the purpose of the story, which is to keep the scare in people.

This story had no business being printed because the ‘expert modellers’ can’t show a case based on the data they have.  Scaring people was all this story was about, but neither the writer nor the editor was ready to call b.s. on the quacks, er, their sources running Ontario’s COVID response.

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Proliferation of stupidity at Spec ‘alarming trend'

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Feb 22

RE: Proliferation of guns on city streets is an ‘alarming trend.’ By Nicole O’Reilly. The Hamilton Spectator 1 Feb 22.

They say that a fish rots from the head back.  Well, the rot at the Spectator has reached the level of crime reporter!  Take the fretting offered as a story-cum-editorial by Nicole O’Reilly at reference.  Its sole purpose is to establish the premise for a confiscation of guns from law-abiding gun owners.  “Criminals have so many guns, so let’s take guns away from the law-abiding!!!”  I can hear it now.

The gun shown at the top in the accompanying photograph appears to be an M&P Shield, which is illegal in Canada because the barrel length is too short.  That gun did not pass through the hands of a law-abiding Canadian gun owner.  The shotgun below, if it has a shoulder stock, is not easy to conceal, and if it has none, is impossible to shoot.

I say we should take the same approach to guns on the street as we did with COVID.  Very few people actually had COVID at any one time but we vaccinated the entire population to protect the vulnerable from it.  If we legalized concealed carry as they have in much of the U.S., it would be like mass vaccination.  Plenty of “the vaccinated” would be around to stop the spread of the few cases of “COVID” that crop up.

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Making global warming a cool idea

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Jan 22

RE: Record cold?  Not even close.  By Sebastian Bron.  The Hamilton Spectator 26 Jan 22.

The Spectator is trying its best to make global warming seem like a cool idea.  The cold January of 2022, didn’t even crack the top (or bottom) 25 coldest Januarys since 1959, the story says.  The coldest January was in 1994, so the global warming that has allegedly occurred since then has made this January more tolerable than it would have been otherwise.  Not bad.

What’s wrong with Hamilton having a climate something like that enjoyed in Ohio, I ask?  It’s better than having a climate like that of Sudbury in winter!

It’s amusing to read grousing about temperatures falling to -20℃.  In the three weeks that followed December 22, -20℃ was a good daily high around in southern Alberta, with nightly lows sinking to or below -35℃.  Try cranking an engine in that kind of cold.  After three weeks of that, at -10℃ it’s pleasant enough outside that lips can enjoy embracing a smoking stogie for more than an hour.  At -5℃, the temperatures Hamilton is complaining about, we’re ready to break out the tanning lotion.

Get used to that Alberta-style winter weather!  Alberta’ll send you as much of it as she can.  Sort-of as creative marketing.  That’s Alberta natural gas that’s keepin’ y’all warm and cozy in Ontario.  Burn it like it’s going out of style!

Global warming is a cool idea.  Let’s have more of it.  Alberta is all in!

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