VIDEO: The art of carefully balancing your diet

Meet Zhou Baizhou, the leading proponent of the Chinese system of balancing one's diet. It's like yin and yang. A little of this, a little of that, then repeat. Do this and you will lead a long and healthy life. 

I went to visit my own doctor -- Jack Daniels is his name -- and he told me that if I followed this diet I will live to 60. "I'm already 60!", I told him. "See?" he said, "What'd I tell ya!"

   

Thanks and a tip o' the toque to Agent 6, who has his snow tires on, I hope.

America in the Twilight Zone

Your Singhs today (Halifax edition)

Halifax, Canada, police have closed their file3 on the death, last October 19th, of Gursimran Kaur, a 19-year-old resident of the Canadian city. The young woman, originally from India, had immigrated to Canada with her mother about two years previously.

Balbir Singh, secretary of the Maritime Sikh Society, told the meeja that Ms Kaur's body was found by her mother at the Mumford Road Walmart, where the two had worked for about two years. 

According to police, the mother became frantic on the night of October 19th after her daughter failed to answer her phone during the Saturday night shift. The mother, whose name was not released, eventually opened the bakery oven and found her daughter's burned body.

On November 18th, a Halifax Regional Police spokesthingy posted a video on Facebook, saying police "do not believe that anyone else was involved in the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death." To this day, no further information, such as the cause of Ms Kaur's death, has yet to be released. 

If it wasn't for Mr Singh saying the quiet part out loud, we wouldn't even know her name, ethnicity, or religion. "We acknowledge the public’s interest in this case and that there are questions that may never have answers," said the cop in the video. "Please be mindful of the damage public speculation can cause."

So everything's OK then. Please stop asking questions such as:

- How is it that the mother was the first to find the girl's body?

- Did she not notify police before going to search the store by herself?

- How did she know exactly where to look, without saying anything to anyone else?

- Were there no CCTV cameras in the area?

- Did the oven not have a mechanism, similar to that on a microwave, preventing it from being operated unless it was locked from the outside?

- Was Ms Kaur engaged to be married to a suitable boy who was supposed to be coming from India?

- Was she, errr, with child?

On October 30th, the Sikh organization said Ms Kaur’s father and brother were headed to Halifax from the Punjab region of India, having received emergency visas on compassionate grounds. So far as is known, they arrived in Canada shortly thereafter, and are still in the country.

Any rumours concerning "honour killing" are, of course, completely unfounded.

Your Singhs today (Canada-US border edition)

It must be apparent by now, even to someone as tone-deaf as Canadian Prime Minister "Junior" Trudeau, that if he's going to honour his pledge made at Mar-a-Lago (see previous post) to tighten up security on the border between Canada and the US of A, he's going to have to confront his great and good friends in the Sikh community.

Because M Trudeau depends for electoral success on the multitudes of Singhs -- all Sikhs are Singhs -- in the `burbs of Vancouver and Toronto, his law enforcement minions and the lickspittle media tend to downplay or outright ignore the involvement of numerous graduates of the Singh School of Truck Driving (see WWW passim) in the cross-border traffic in cocaine, guns and other contraband.

You don't believe? Consider this report from the Illinois State Police, released yesterday. According to the press release, two Ontario men are facing charges after troopers seized 540 kilograms of cocaine from a tractor-trailer which they stopped on Interstate 80 on the afternoon of November 29th.

The cops were conducting a commercial vehicle inspection on a Volvo tractor-trailer on I-80 in Henry County. "During the commercial motor vehicle inspection, the trooper observed numerous indicators of criminal activity," the news release read. "A subsequent search revealed suspected cocaine. The total approximate weight of the cocaine located was 1146 pounds and has an approximate street value of more than $40 million dollars."

The accused, who police said are both residents of Ontario, have been identified as 27-year-old Vanshpreet Singh and 36-year-old Manpreet Singh. They have been charged with possession of cocaine, possession with intent to deliver cocaine, and cocaine trafficking. 

Homeland Security investigators have been called in to figure out how the Singhs and their very large truck got into the US of A without being challenged at the World's Longest Undefended Border (TM). Is a puzzlement. Perhaps if the border were properly defended, such things wouldn't happen.

Canada to become 51st US state? No, eh!

President-Elect Donald Trump had a weekend visitor at Mar-a-Lago, none other than the Right Honourable Blackie McBlackface, Prime Minister of All Canuckistan. Following Junior's ceremonial kissing of POTUS's ring [Which one? Ed.], he and his entourage were offered a sumptuous state banquet of roasted crow, followed by a dessert of humble pie.

Then came the after-dinner surprise. The atmosphere was convivial, with the two leaders nibbling on crab cocktail and slurping down oysters as they discussed issues of tariffs, border security and trade deficits. But for all the superficial chumminess -- like Spike the bulldog and his little sycophant, in the old Warner Bros. cartoons -- President Trump remained focused on what he wanted from Canada.

What would that be? He's quoted as saying that "Canada has failed the U.S. border by allowing large amounts of drugs and people across the border, including illegal immigrants from over 70 different countries."

But wait, there's more.... Mr Trump reportedly became more animated when it came to the U.S. trade deficit with Canada, which he estimated to be more than $100 billion, and told the Canuck "leader" that if Canada cannot fix the border issues and trade deficit, he will levy a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods immediately on returning to office."

At that point, sources say, Junior started whining and playing the victim card. While shedding crocodile tears, he told POTUS that he just couldn't impose such a tariff "because it would kill the Canadian economy completely."

One would have thought that M Trudeau would have made some positive response, such as an offer to tighten up the World's Longest Undefended Border (TM), but he said nothing, at least not anything that could be heard, about doing anything to stop the cross-border flow of illegal aliens and drugs. He just wanted President Trump to withdraw his threat for nothing, out of concern for the well-being of Canada!

President Trump wasn't biting. "So," he said to Chief Walking Goose, "your country can't survive unless it's ripping off the U.S. to the tune of $100 billion?" If that's the case, he suggested, Canada should become become the 51st of the United (?) States of America. The very idea! Not knowing whether or not to take the President-Elect seriously, the Canuck PM and his entourage laughed nervously.

The Donald followed up with the quip that Trudeau could be governor of the new states, although, he said, "prime minister is a better title." According to Fox News, someone at the meeting, then warned Mr Trump that, as a state, Canada would be deep blue, whereupon he suggested it become "two states, a leftist one and a patriotic one." LOL?

OK, seriously... He may be smiling and laughing, but President Trump is making it clear that he is very serious about tackling the problems that beset the US of A, and intends to do everything he can to solve them. 

That's why Canadians should be happy about President Trump's little jest. Walt's many Canadian agents and friends don't want to become Americans. They just want the American Sickness -- symptoms: wokeism, DEI, division, waste and enforced mediocrity -- to be stopped at the border. 

Thanks to Blackie McBlackface, Canada already has more than enough of those things, plus the 1000s of bogus refugees who used first Trump victory as an excuse to enter Canada illegally, and are still squatting there. What Canadians want is the Trump Cure... without having to become Americans to get it.

New poll shows more Canadians than Americans opposed to DEI hiring

The Association for Canadian Studies just released the results of a survey done for them by Leger Marketing. Surprise finding: A majority of Canadians say that employers should not take cultural or ethnic backgrounds into consideration when hiring.

According to the poll, 57% of Canadians disagree with the notion that equity should be a part of hiring. Jack Jedwab, President of the ACS, said, "The survey results point to some pushback on the issue of minority hiring in Canada and the United States." 

36% of Americans support affirmative action, while only 28% of the residents of Canuckistan support it. Leger didn't ask people why they were for or against equity hiring, but a visit to any Canadian government office... or any McD's in Toronto or Vancouver... will give you the answer.

Although diversity hiring is unpopular across all age groups, it's most unpopular, at 62%, among Canadians between the ages of 45 and 54. Even among supposedly liberal young Canucks (18 to 24 year-olds), 50% oppose hiring based on race and ethnicity. Men and women equally oppose such policies, with 57% against. 

The new poll disclosed some regional difference. In Québec, where the provincial government has attempted to prohibit the wearing of religious dress and symbols in some workplaces, the objection to equity hiring is most strongly held: 63% of Québécois disagree with it. 

In Alberta, 58% of respondents said background shouldn't be a consideration in hiring. The province's governing United Conservative Party now has policies that explicitly endorse the elimination of DEI hiring within the public service and Crown corporations.

In British Columbia, where 57% hold that view, while 55% of Ontarians polled agreed, as did 53% of residents of the prairie provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There was no outright majority only in the Maritimes, where 50% opposed diversity hiring.

The latest opinion survey comes as DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), has come under increased scrutiny in the business and political world. Last month, Walmart scrapped its diversity program, as did John Deere and Harley-Davidson.  

At the other end of the earth, the government of New Zealand is rethinking its promotion of DEI in its armed forces. Here's why.

Walt kids you now. That's a true story. Seems the lady (?) in command of the ship didn't have all that much experience at sea, and had the ship on autopilot. You won't find the part about the commander being a lesbian in the lickspittle media, but you can check out this thread on Reddit.

Back in the Excited States of America, America First Legal, a non-profit led by former members of the Trump administration, filed complaints with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that American, United and Southwest Airlines engage in "overtly discriminatory practices" in their diversity hiring and retention programmes.

The group pointed to the airline's focus on "expanding [its] Cadet Academy to ensure prospective pilots, particularly people of color and women, have access to the support needed to enter the profession." They also called out airline statements that it met "companywide diversity goals for any underrepresented positions," including "Black representation and retention."

America First Legal argues that such practices violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because they are "based on the race or color of the individuals involved." Earlier this year, they made similar arguments in complaints to the EEOC against Southwest and United, which it accused of using unlawful quota systems to further DEI goals. What do you think? Do you feel safe flying the inclusive skies of United?

The backlash against DEI policies isn’t just external. In a 2021 Gartner survey, 42% of employees said they resented their employers' DEI efforts. And in a November 2022 online survey by ResumeBuilder.com and Pollfish, 52% of hiring managers who work for a company with a DEI initiative said they believed their company practices "reverse discrimination" in hiring. Nearly half said they'd been told to prioritize diversity over qualifications. Now we see how that worked out for the Royal New Zealand Navy.

Further reading:"10 ways to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at your workplace", WWW 21/10/23.

Sleepy Joe pardons Creepy Son-o-Joe

Words fail us, so...

Really, the mind boggles. Senile Joe was expected to do this in January, but something must have happened. Such as a federal attorney heading for the courthouse to prefer new charges involving The Boy's dealings with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company.

Any such charges would necessarily involve the Soon-to-be-former President, who, while he was Vice President [Note the absence of a hyphen there. Ed.], improperly withheld a loan guarantee and took a bribe to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor general Viktor Shokin to prevent an investigation, and to protect Hunter, who was on the Burisma board.

Having pardoned The Boy, and thus covered his own sorry ass, Brandon scuttled off under cover of darkness, to appear the next day in the People's Republic of Angola, one of the most corrupt countries in Africa... which is really saying something. Perhaps he is there as a consultant, to advise the Angolans on how to get away with just about anything. [Whaddya mean, "just about"? Ed.]