Lockdown for thee. No lockdown for me.
No Christmas vacation for thee. Grab the swimsuits and call the limo for me.
What is going on?
Why do we listen to them?
Ontario Tourism and Hospitality Industries to Lose $2 Billion in Revenue With More People Staying Home on New Year Eve: Survey
Waiters, bartenders, and workers in the tourism industry are once again feeling the impact of the pandemic-related closures on New Year’s Eve, as more Ontarians plan to welcome 2021 at home.
An online survey of 1,091 adults revealed that Ontarians spend an average of $366 on New Year Eve in a typical year. But on the last day of the tumultuous 2020 year, residents in the province plan to spend an average of $170.
Twitter Suspended Blazingcatfur’s account – no reason given
Beats me why they did it, no reason given, woke up this morning and it was gone!
Thing is social media of all types has only ever amounted to between 3 and 5% of all traffic to BCF. We’ve been shadow banned and otherwise “managed” for years by Twitter and FB yet still pull in 5-6 million blog visits per annum without or despite their dubious assistance.
At any rate please refollow the blog at:
Blazingcatfur 2.0
‘Admitting mask/lockdown policy was a fail would be political SUICIDE’
Government, stop trying to make COVID panic happen for policy … it’s not happening.
Very interesting…
The Century Crammed Into a Year Mercifully Ends
2020 was mostly peaceful protests occurring within a mostly healthy year during which toilet paper remained mostly available.
Gerry Cheevers, Mr. Wrestling II, the Dread Pirate Roberts, and Zorro felt really at home in 2020. Everyone else wishes for the next few hours of this century of a year (so epochal that an entire nation, Chaz, rose and fell and both a plague and its vaccine announced themselves) to pass faster than you can say Alexander Vindman.
Enough Already With Using Cartoons and Cookies to Sell LGBTQ Agenda to Kids
The year 2020 was tough for everyone, children and adults alike. Most school-age kids were forced to attend school virtually, at least for part of the year. This, combined with lockdowns, caused screen time use to surge.
More than usual, parents may fear kids aren’t learning well or are being exposed to things they aren’t yet mature enough to handle. On this, their intuition may be correct: 2020 saw an increase in LGBTQ-friendly marketing targeted at kids.
Turks Celebrate Nazi Sympathizer
In November, the Istanbul metropolitan municipality, led by Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), named a park in Istanbul after Hüseyin Nihal Atsız, a racist anti-Semite and one of Turkey’s most prominent Nazi sympathizers. The request was made by members of another Turkish opposition party, “The Good Party” (Iyi). Atsız (1905-1975) was known for “measuring skulls” to determine people’s “amount of Turkishness.”
Bird’s-eye video shows bike gang’s attack on NYC cab
This video from above captures a bike gang’s “horrifying” attack on a yellow cab in the middle of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, carried out shortly before another, even worse assault on a BMW a few blocks away.
This horrifying scene on 29th St & 5th Ave yesterday – an arbitrary and unprovoked attack on this taxi driver. (the bikers then proceeded to do this to 2 other cars down 5th) Was anyone else a witness to this–please share your videos with the 13th Detective Squad! @kaptainjac pic.twitter.com/Zfnt42O3jo
— Teny Geragos, Esq. (@tenygeragos) December 30, 2020
Media Ignore ‘Most Admired Man’ Poll After Trump Edges Obama
On Tuesday morning, Fox News viewers got to see that, for the first time, President Donald Trump has come in first place in Gallup’s annual poll of “most admired man” of the year.
But in contrast with how journalists swooned over former President Barack Obama the last time he came in first place, the other networks have so far ignored the finding.
Nashville’s Big Bomb Was a Very Rare Device, Experts Think
“We’ve never seen an improvised thermobaric device before in this country or any country,” says Dave Williams, who conducted the FBI’s on-scene investigations of the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Pan Am 103 and Unabomber bombings, among other notorious incidents. Thermobaric refers to a gaseousfuel-air explosion.
Hacked home cams used to livestream police raids in swatting attacks
Hackers have livestreamed police raids on innocent households after hijacking their victims’ smart home devices and making a hoax call to the authorities, the FBI has warned.
It said offenders had even spoken to responding officers via the hacked kit.
It marks the latest escalation of a crime known as “swatting”, in which offenders fool armed police or other emergency responders to go to a target’s residence.
The FBI said there were “deadly” risks.
Toronto plans further restrictions on businesses as city braces for COVID-19 surge
Toronto is bracing for surging COVID-19 rates in the new year, starting with further restrictions on businesses.
Dr. Eileen De Villa, the city’s chief medical officer of health, said on Wednesday that Toronto will announce new restrictions on businesses early next week in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Shocked, Shocked to Find Europe Cutting Deals With China Behind Our Back
Europe and China yesterday signed a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment after seven years of negotiation. Why now? As I report at Asia Times, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron pushed the deal through to pre-empt anything that the new U.S. administration might have to say on the subject.
