Music producer Phil Spector has died from COVID-19 related complications at the age of 81.
Spector was diagnosed with COVID four weeks ago and was transferred from his prison cell at California Health Care Facility, where he was serving a 19 years-to-life sentence for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, to a hospital.
Weirdo, made good music.
You don’t need 25,000 armed National Guard troops to protect an inauguration, and you certainly don’t need that and more to protect a mostly virtual inauguration.
The riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, likely could have been contained and people kept out of the building with a couple hundred more riot police, or maybe a few hundred.
The failure to have any semblance of adequate security, despite apparent FBI warnings of possible trouble, is one of the baffling aspects of that day. It’s why the Chief of the Capitol Police has resigned, and there needs to be a thorough investigation of how the Mayor of D.C. and others rejected requests for additional help.
Yet what is happening in D.C. now looks more like a military defensive posture than riot control or even an attempt to defend against small groups planning violence.
Here’s what happened: a family of three came to Gladys’ store to pick up guitar strings. The store had already closed for the day, but she let the family in to purchase the strings. The father mentioned he was also looking to buy a piano for his son.
Given that the piano he was eyeing was about $5,000, he wanted to try out the piano before purchasing it. His request was perfectly reasonable, and Gladys gave him permission to tickle the ivories.
That’s when someone who likely deserves the 2020 title of “Ultimate COVID-Karen” wandered over and looked inside the store window. You see, there is an individual who “patrols” the strip plaza where Excel Music is located, dutifully ensuring that all the merchants play by the ‘rules.’
Replacing those significant history topics will be “systemic racism,” how democracy has “excluded certain groups,” an “awareness” of “the LGBTQ+ community” and how the disenfranchisement of freed blacks during Reconstruction connects to “persistent discrimination and inequity” today.
h/t Mom
Ontario is reporting 3,422 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 60,200 tests completed. Locally, there are 1,035 new cases in Toronto, 585 in Peel, 254 in Windsor-Essex County, 246 in York Region and 186 in Niagara.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) January 17, 2021
Uptake for the COVID-19 vaccine has been high among Toronto’s long-term-care home residents. For staff, not so much
They’re on the front-line of the COVID-19 pandemic, among the most at risk, and one of the first priorities for the rollout of the vaccine.
But vaccine uptake among employees of city-run long-term-care homes in Toronto has been spotty, and a lack of hard numbers in other regions is making it difficult to know exactly how many are on their way to being protected.
On Friday, the city announced a milestone, that vaccines have been administered at all long-term-care homes, ahead of next week’s goal. But according to Toronto Public Health, less than half, or 43 per cent, of the roughly 3,000 workers in city-owned homes have received the first dose of the vaccine or given consent to be vaccinated at an upcoming clinic. That’s compared to 91 per cent of residents within the city homes who opted to get the voluntary jab.
Mom is being transferred to a physio rehab today. It reached the point where I told the planner last week I would consider taking her home rather than have her imprisoned at the hospital. It was doing her more harm than good as conditions at the hospital were far from ideal. Broken hearing aids, stressed staff resulting in occasionally hostile nurses, it looked all too much like one of Ontario’s alleged care homes. I refuse to send Sainted Irish Mudda to one of those charnel houses.
Toronto police arrested three people amid anti-lockdown protests in the city on Saturday, including two people who allegedly organized the demonstrations and a protester who allegedly assaulted a police officer.
Toronto police also laid 18 charges of failure to comply with the provincial stay-at-home order that’s currently in effect. A Toronto Police Service spokesperson said they were unable to say if it was 18 individuals who were charged or if some individuals are facing multiple charges. No further information has been released on the exact offences.
A large group flouted the province’s stay-at-home order by staging an anti-mask protest in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square before marching down Yonge Street. Toronto police later reported there were two large gatherings in the core.
VIDEO: Toronto Police arrest protest organizer and confiscate audio equipment. pic.twitter.com/pF0uYcULUZ
— CrasHTalk (@CrasTalk) January 17, 2021
LIVE in Toronto: Police continue to arrest anti-lockdown protestors who attempt to re-enter Yonge-Dundas Square. Police have asked everyone to disperse
READ: https://t.co/g9q6d9Ct1W pic.twitter.com/XbKYHUGOJS
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 16, 2021
More – Police make arrests, disperse crowd of anti-lockdown protesters in downtown Toronto
“I had a dream Trump was on trial for sedition. And outside the courthouse, a noose was hung from a makeshift scaffold. The noose was made of recycled Covid masks.”
The National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will have key roles in President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to increase the numbers of Americans being vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The provincial utility said it would participate in a solicitation announced by the governor on Jan. 13 for “transmission arteries to bring renewable energy from upstate and Canada” to the Big Apple.
I would not trust this man to run a hotdog kiosk.
After last week’s deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, members of Congress are expressing something once unthinkable: that some of their own colleagues may be endangering their lives. Not in a rhetorical sense, but in a direct and immediate way.
They are floating the idea of a GOP purge.
As it stands today, Canada’s political parties operate in many ways as authoritarian institutions. It’s no surprise those attitudes are spreading out into our society.
All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown, with officials aiming to quell any potential violence that could arise behind bars as law enforcement prepares for potentially violent protests across the country in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday.
The lockdown at more than 120 federal Bureau of Prisons facilities took effect at 12 a.m. Saturday, according to an email to employees from the president of the union representing federal correctional officers.
“In light of current events occurring around the country, and out of an abundance of caution, the decision has been made to secure all institutions,” the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
Quebec announced that it would provide high school students and teachers with two surgical masks per day when it outlined the details of its back-to-school plan amid the latest lockdown.
“How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?” he asked.
A curious phenomenon keeps happening to me: I will say a basic fact about COVID-19 on the radio, write it in a column or post it on social media and people will respond with total disbelief.
They’ve never heard the information before, even though it’ll be something medical experts are routinely saying. Some of them react with great surprise. Others plug their ears and refuse to admit that it’s true.
Back in August, Revolver News published a groundbreaking exclusive study that concluded that COVID-19 lockdowns are ten times more deadly than the pandemic itself (more details below).
Now, a Canadian academic has published his own trailblazing study that confirms Revolver’s analysis.
The upstart InvestNow was launched in December by former Toronto Stock Exchange market intelligence head Gina Pappano, with a mandate to combat energy sector divestment and promote investment in it.
In an interview on The Andrew Lawton Show, Pappano said her organization hopes to raise awareness on why the activists seeking to keep capital away from the energy sector are off-base both economically and environmentally.
Friday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson questioned Democrats’ push for so-called unity, which he suggested modeled conformity.
Carlson noted the evolution of President-elect Joe Biden’s candidacy from his fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire Primary last year to what he is now on the eve of inauguration.
The info op continues. Another “FBI bulletin,” which warns of the dangers of claimed imminent pro-Trump revolts, has hit the press.
This latest FBI bulletin — which, similar to the first bulletin, was leaked to the press prior to the FBI even discussing the “urgent” matter — warns of “substantial,” imminent dangers to the public.
Typically, when I noodle around the idea for a column I choose a subject of interest and start gathering links to relevant articles as I come across them. I seldom go looking for links; most often I just come across them as I peruse the news.
So when I decided to write about revenge – specifically, how the left is waging an all-out war on conservatives – I duly began gathering links. Imagine my surprise when I sat down to write this column and realized I had nine pages of links about leftist revenge … most of them gathered just in this latest blood-bath of a week.
