Author: Blazingcatfur

How Canadians got their beloved breakfast cereal back

Red River porridge, first concocted in Winnipeg in 1924, left a huge hole when it was discontinued

It’s been more than a year since Juanita Metzger cooked the perfect bowl of Red River hot cereal, a blend of cracked wheat, rye and flax that commands a cult-like following across Canada.

“It’s got to be thick enough but not gluey. It’s got to be crunchy enough but not undercooked,” she said of the porridge. And when she finally got her hands on a bag after weeks of waiting, she realised how quickly the skill can atrophy.

Hot porridge with milk and brown sugar, toast on the side. The breakfast of school mornings throughout the winter. I have few childhood memories of me Sainted Irish Mother ever sitting down at a meal, she was all hustle and pots and occasional swats.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Michael Taube: Flying the Less-Than-Friendly Skies in Canada

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” the philosopher Laozi wrote in Tao Te Ching. Yet, when it comes to travel in our modern society, it seems like there’s a thousand steps before we journey a single mile.

The state of transportation in Canada can certainly be described as one of constant frustration, aggravation, and consternation. There’s a steady stream of hurdles to bypass, hoops to jump through, and rivers to cross. And that’s before you even get on the plane!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

One leftist has ideas to prevent Kirk Cameron-style events in her community

Kirk Cameron, the former teen idol who became a devout Evangelical Christian and the father of six children, wrote a children’s book grounded in traditional values tied to the Bible (kindness, responsibility, honesty, pro-life, etc.). When he approached libraries to do a reading (the same libraries that have hosted drag queen readings about “transing” kids), he got over 50 refusals. However, Cameron was able to read in Scarsdale, New York, when he rented a meeting room (something the library was helpless to prevent).* One leftist’s response to the enthusiastic turnout for Cameron’s reading perfectly exemplifies leftists’ concern that free speech applies to their ideological opponents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, WTF?

Maggie, Hitler and the Leaders’ Club

ANYONE who reflects on 20th century European history will ponder the perennial question: do exceptional individuals make history or does change come about through impersonal events? Historian Ian Kershaw, biographer of Hitler, examines 11 men and one woman who left a significant mark on their times against the backdrop and context of their rise to power. They are Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, Adenauer, Franco, Tito, Margaret Thatcher, Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl: six dictators, five democrats and Gorbachev, who fits neither category. Each chapter follows a similar formula: the background of the particular personality; their achievements or otherwise; and their legacy. The result is stimulating, provocative, absorbing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inOur World

The Murderous Soviet Union Was Born a Century Ago

Alas, its terrible descendants still survive in Asia.

Acentury ago, on December 30, 1922, Russia signed treaties with Ukraine, Byelorussia (now Belarus), and Transcaucasia (combining Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) to form the Soviet Union. The latter continued to expand, reaching its apogee after swallowing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as part of Moscow’s booty from the Hitler-Stalin pact.

Of course, the 1922 treaty was not really the start of the USSR, but rather, the end of the beginning.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCommunism, Communists

“The police reckon the car hit me at around 46 miles per hour …”

The Home Office shouldn’t shy away from exposing Islamist extremism

Like many with an interest in national security, I’ve spent this week closely following the news that there has been yet another delay to the release of the long-anticipated review into the government’s counter-extremism programme, Prevent. But unlike many of my colleagues, these issues feel more intimate and closer to home for me, given my personal experience. In March 2017 I sustained serious injuries in the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack when an Islamist extremist targeted pedestrians, including me and my friends, with an SUV before stabbing a police officer outside Parliament.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

It’s time to give the diversitycrats their marching orders

In 2023, we need to wrest back our institutions from all those intersectional activists.

Have we reached peak woke – or will the cult of intersectionality grow even bigger in 2023?

If you think of the woke movement as fundamentally religious in nature, one way of answering that question is to see what the duration was of comparable outbreaks of religious fervour in our recent history. According to Wikipedia, there have been four ‘Great Awakenings’ in the past 300 years, the first lasting about 25 years, the second and third 50 or more, and the fourth in the 1960s and 1970s lasting about 20.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Diversity"

U.S. Start-Up Starts Making Clouds To Stop ‘Climate Change’

An American start-up has launched to make the controversial process of solar geoengineering a reality.

Make Sunsets claims to have already sent two balloons into the stratosphere to inject sulphur dioxide, intended to reflect the heat of the sun and cool everything under the man-made cloud.

“We make reflective, high-altitude, biodegradable clouds that cool the planet. Mimicking natural processes, our ‘shiny clouds’ are going to prevent catastrophic global warming,” the company explains on its website. “Specifically: we release a natural compound via reusable balloons to create reflective clouds in the stratosphere.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam, WTF?

NY Times Blames Refusal to Teach America is Racist for Complaints by Disabled Students

Sometimes I’m not sure if the education beat at the New York Times might not be worse than its foreign policy. And I’m not just talking about the paper’s prolonged antisemitic campaign against religious Jewish education.

Here’s a straightforward issue. Complaints by disabled students and their parents are high. So the New York Times blames Trump and the refusal by some schools to incorporate racist critical race theory texts and graphic sexual content for the problem.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Electric Vehicles: Views from the U.K.

“The real issue Mr Toyoda has opened up is this: Western societies are charging into the electrification of transport and heating without actually providing the electricity. This cannot be wished away.

In January, the then secretary of state for trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, told Parliament that “we are going to be requiring up to four times as much electricity” to meet demand for electrified heating and transport. Yet we are not building four times as much electric generation capacity.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

Half think COVID vaccine is deadly

Nearly a third of the nation believes the COVID-19 vaccine has killed somebody they know, highlighting the safety concerns the public still has about the shot.

As the first family renewed their call for the country to get vaccinated, 28% of likely voters told Rasmussen Reports that they “personally know” somebody they think died from the side effects of the shot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Politics in Canada: The rich equally on right and left — but overall most people in centre

The findings of a new poll suggest political parties should be fighting over people in the middle, not those on the edges of the spectrum

If Canadians are asked to place themselves on the political spectrum — right, left, centre — most will put themselves smack dab in the middle, according to new polling on Canadians’ ideological affiliations.

… The research came from a survey of 3,031 Canadians done via a Leger web panel between Oct. 3 and Oct. 14. No margin of error can be associated with an online survey …

This is why our two main political parties, the LPC & CPC, are virtually identical in policy.

We are the Land of Lemmings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada