Best wishes for the New Year 2022

from Walt Whiteman, Poor Len Canayen [and Ed.! Ed.]

 

"Till We Meet Again"

Tuba Skinny on Royal Street, New Orleans, 14 January 2019

You can't make this stuff up....

Ed. here. Thanks to Agent 6 for these two submissions to Walt's "True stories and photos" contest. You understand it's not really a contest, just our way of getting some funny (but true!) stuff to share to relieve the tension of a steady diet of unfunny (but true!) news. Check these out.

No wonder aliens don't bother invading us

This is shocking!

Thanks to all who participated. We hope to see more in the new (and better?) year.

Old copper wire shows who's ahead of the curve

Agent 9 has had a busy Christmas, but found time to send us a seasoned greeting and a little story which made us chuckle.

After having dug to a depth of ten feet last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and concluded that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago. 

Not to be outdone by the Brits, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet. Shortly after, a story was published in the New York Times: "American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the British." 

One week later, the Canadian Department of Mines and Resources reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in Newfouondland, Jack Lucknow, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Mr Lucknow has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Canada had already gone wireless."

Poor Len sez: Makes a guy bloody proud to be Canadian eh!

VIDEO LINK: Breitbart FULL interview with Victor Davis Hanson

Elites Are Destroying America with Globalism, Leftism, and Tribalism That's the headline atop Breitbart's two-hour interview with American conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian Victor Davis Hanson. In examining how America is being undermined by a modern globalist aristocracy, Mr Hanson draws on analyses in his latest book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America. 

Mr Hanson warns of lessening governmental accountability to citizens via the dissolution of American citizenship. The concept of citizenship, he adds is an essential component of Western civilization.

In his book, Mr Hanson argues that the concept of the "citizen" is historically rare. Yet it was among America's most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, American citizenship as we have known it may soon vanish. 

The historical forces that led to this crisis (Mr Hanson writes) are:

* the evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years, which has made many Americans dependent on the federal government

* open borders, which  have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place

* identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self, and

* a top-heavy administrative state which endangers personal liberty, along with 

* formal efforts to weaken the Constitution.

As in the revolutionary years of 1848, 1917, and 1968, 2020 ripped away our complacency about the future. But in the aftermath, Mr Hanson believes, we as Americans can rebuild and recover what we have lost. The choice is ours.

Having watched the video, Walt's New Year's resolution -- the only one -- is to run [or ski? Ed.] to the  nearest bookstore and buy the book!

An alternative to mass immigration?

Note from Ed.: This is for our Canadian readers, although we know many of our American (and Australian and British and French etc etc) would welcome this kind of initiative in their own countries. 

A poll by the well-known (and non-partisan!) Angus Reid Institute, published on the CityNews website six months ago, showed that a plurality of Canadians would like less immigration. 

The Liberal government of Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface plans to accept more than 400,000 newcomers in 2022. While there is some divide based on political stripes, 39% of those polled say the target is too high. A little more than a third believe that 411,000 is a good number and 13 per cent say Canada should welcome more people looking to immigrate. 

More people who voted NDP and Liberal in the past -- 43% and 47% respectively -- believed that Canada's target was appropriate. Residents of Alberta and Saskatchewan -- 50% and 54% -- were more likely to say the target should be scaled back. 

This opinion was also more common among people who've voted for Conservative in the past, 64% of whom disagreed with the target. Less than a quarter who voted Tory previously supported the Liberal plan to admit hundreds of thousands of new Liberal voters. 

Yet in the fall election, Erin O'Tool's CINO (Conservative In Name Only) Party did not raise, let alone oppose, the immigration issue. The only party to call for fewer (and better!) immigrants was Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada. See "Reducing Overall Levels and Prioritizing Skilled Immigrants", in the "Platform" pages of the PPC website.

Dear Canadian reader: If you would like to address the issue of mass immigration of people who cannot and will not be assimilated into Canadian society, consider joining Opportunities for Canadians -- a coalition against anti-Canadian bias in employment. Tell `em Walt sent ya!

VIDEO: Journalists out Canuck media's lack of balance on Covid "crisis"

You think the American lamestream media are guilty of pushing the Dempanic button over the Wuhan flu? At least in the Excited States you can get a reasonable facsimile of the truth on Fox News -- important because it's on "real TV" -- and Breitbart News. In Canada there are no TV channels which don't toe the Liberal government line on the Covid "crisis" and everything else. 

When it comes to telling the truth, or even giving a choice of opinions, the lickspittle media are failing Canadians! That's the message of Candice Malcolm's interview with Toronto Sun comment editor and columnist Anthony Furey, contrasting the more balanced coverage of the US media with the relentless stream of liberal propaganda broadcast 24/7 by the Canadian "Big Three" - CBC, CTV, and Global -- and echoed by City and lesser outlets.

   

Dr Jordan Peterson watched this interview and tweeted this trenchant comment. "The legacy media are in an unrecoverable death spiral, spinning ever more uncontrollably. The CBC has become a mewling, meandering, self-righteous, slogan-spewing narcissistic near-corpse." 

I wish I'd said that! With the "progressives" and their sycophantic propoagandists in the media, everything is a "crisis". Covid. Climate change. Opiods. Homelessness. Refugees. Everything! 

The only good news is that even sheeplike Canucks are getting tired of listening to the media boys (and gals and trannies) cry wolf. In Canada, just as in the US of A, yearend sales and ratings statistics show that establishment media outlets are being abandoned, as liberal control of  "the news" is rejected by the very audiences the lickspittle media seeks to braInwash.

Merry Christmas!

Glory to God in the highest,

and on earth peace to men of good will.

St. Luke 2:14

Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.] wish you a

Happy and Holy Christmas

Madonna with Child, by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1899