Happy whatever day he said it Is -- Ben Bankas

John Wick 4 -- Best use of Numchucks Ever!

Best ever use of numchuks

Make no mistake, I thought it was more of the same John Wick who goes pretty much over the top with killing for the slightest reason.

Last one I watched was John Wick 2 I think, it is my all-time favorite Christmas movie and I did an excellent review here, best Christmas movie of all time. Better than all the rest. 

Returning to John Wick 4, let me say, it was great for 40 minutes, more absolute mayhem. Forty minutes of John Wick is 40 minutes and a half of straight ahead killing.

But something magical happened at 39:47 and I had to pause and reflect, with a tear of joy in my eye.

The Numchucks. Rumor has it, useless weapon, however, the fight scene was more than a fight scene. It was a master class in taking people apart with two sticks joined by a chain, which lasted until 42:56. 

It was the most satisfying shit kicking you will ever see. It beats anything I have seen, possibly all the way back to 1976 outside the Biltmore Hotel on Kingsway Avenue in Vancouver, when that guy used a leather belt with a huge biker buckle, something like a pedal or a piece of handlebar. But I digress. 

Do satellites work through clouds?

GROK SAYS Yes, satellites can work through clouds, but it depends on the type of satellite and the technology it uses. Many satellites, like those used for communication (e.g., TV or internet signals), operate using radio waves, which can penetrate clouds without much trouble.

These signals travel between the satellite and ground stations or receivers, and clouds typically don’t block them because radio waves have long wavelengths that pass through water vapor and small particles.

However, satellites that rely on visible light, like some imaging satellites taking high-resolution photos, can be affected by clouds. Clouds block or scatter visible light, so these satellites might not get clear images when it’s cloudy.

That said, other imaging satellites use infrared or radar (like synthetic aperture radar, SAR), which can "see" through clouds by detecting heat or bouncing radio waves off the surface, making them effective even in bad weather.

So, in short: yes, most satellites work fine through clouds, especially if they’re not dependent on visible light. Weather might mess with optical imaging, but that’s about it.

"Elbow's Up! Except you people with B.O. Keep your elbows down!"

I didn't know, so I had to ask

GROK:

The expression "elbows up" generally refers to a posture or stance where someone raises their elbows, often implying readiness, assertiveness, or a defensive attitude. It can have different meanings depending on the context:

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— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) March 26, 2025

The Family Dynamics of The Canadian Elite

 I asked our friendly neighborhood X Grok:

What is CBC Journalist Andrew Coyne's family relationship to Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney

15 web pages! (Apparently its complicated eh, hahaha)

Andrew Coyne is connected to Justin Trudeau through a family relationship but has no direct familial tie to Mark Carney. Specifically, Andrew Coyne is the cousin of Deborah Coyne, a constitutional lawyer who had a relationship with Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's father. Deborah Coyne and Pierre Trudeau have a daughter together, Sarah Elisabeth Coyne, who is Justin Trudeau's half-sister. This makes Andrew Coyne the first cousin of Sarah Coyne, and thus a first cousin once removed to Justin Trudeau (since Justin and Sarah are half-siblings).

DING DING SING DING (We're not talking class mates here. Not frat broz.)

Regarding Mark Carney, there is no familial relationship between Andrew Coyne and Mark Carney. Any connection between them would be professional or circumstantial rather than family-based. For instance, both have been prominent figures in Canadian public life—Coyne as a journalist and commentator, and Carney as an economist and political figure—but they are not related. There is also no known direct family link between Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney; their association stems from political and professional interactions, such as Carney's role as an advisor to Trudeau and his subsequent leadership of the Liberal Party. Explain the Kemper family relationship to Carney and Trudeau? The Kemper family relationship to Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau involves indirect familial ties through marriage and shared connections, though the specifics are somewhat nuanced and not entirely straightforward. Mark Carney's connection to the Kemper family comes through his mother, Verlie Margaret Kemper. There is no widely documented evidence that Verlie is directly related to Fried Kemper, the second husband of Margaret Trudeau (Justin Trudeau's mother). However, some speculation, including posts on X, suggests a possible familial link between Verlie Kemper and Fried Kemper, potentially making Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau step-cousins by marriage. This claim hinges on the idea that Verlie and Fried could be siblings or otherwise closely related within the Kemper family, but no definitive genealogical proof has been widely established in credible sources to confirm this relationship. If true, it would mean that when Margaret Trudeau married Fried Kemper in 1984, after her divorce from Pierre Trudeau, it created an indirect tie between Carney and Trudeau through the Kemper lineage. Justin Trudeau’s connection to the Kemper family is more direct and well-documented. Fried Kemper, an Ottawa real estate developer, became Justin’s stepfather upon marrying Margaret Trudeau. Together, Margaret and Fried had two children, Kyle Kemper and Alicia Kemper, who are Justin Trudeau’s half-siblings. This marriage lasted until 1999, when Margaret and Fried separated, but it firmly established the Kemper family as part of Trudeau’s extended family. To summarize: Trudeau and Kemper: Justin Trudeau is directly tied to the Kemper family through his mother’s marriage to Fried Kemper, making Fried his stepfather and Kyle and Alicia his half-siblings. Carney and Kemper: Mark Carney’s mother, Verlie Margaret Kemper, may be related to Fried Kemper (possibly as a sibling or cousin), but this is not conclusively proven in available records. If they are related, it would link Carney to the Kemper family and, by extension, to Trudeau through marriage. Carney and Trudeau: If the Verlie-Fried Kemper connection holds, Carney and Trudeau could be considered step-cousins by marriage, though this remains speculative without further evidence. The relationship is further complicated by professional and social overlaps, such as Carney’s role as an economic advisor to Trudeau and his recent succession of Trudeau as Liberal Party leader in March 2025, but these are not familial ties. The Kemper connection, while intriguing, relies heavily on unverified claims about Verlie and Fried’s relationship, making it a point of interest but not a fully confirmed fact. THEN I SAID TO GROK Being a stepfather is a significant relationship with shared family connections to step cousins and extended families. That is how human intelligence performs. GROK REPLIED You’re absolutely right—human intelligence often interprets family relationships through a lens that emphasizes the significance of social and emotional bonds, not just strict biological ties. Step-relationships, like that of a stepfather, can create meaningful connections that ripple through extended families, including step-cousins and beyond, shaping a broader network of kinship. Let’s refine the Kemper-Carney-Trudeau dynamic with that perspective in mind, treating step-relationships as impactful and recognizing how humans naturally weave these ties into a cohesive family narrative. Fried Kemper’s marriage to Margaret Trudeau in 1984 made him Justin Trudeau’s stepfather, a role that carried weight beyond legal formality. As Justin’s stepfather, Fried brought his own family orbit into the Trudeau sphere, including his children with Margaret—Kyle and Alicia Kemper—who became Justin’s half-siblings. This union blended the Kemper and Trudeau families, creating a shared family structure where step-relationships are as real and significant as blood ties in human terms. Fried’s presence in the Trudeau household during Justin’s formative years (he was 13 when the marriage began) likely fostered a sense of extended family that included Fried’s relatives. Now, consider Mark Carney’s potential link through his mother, Verlie Margaret Kemper. If Verlie is indeed a close relative of Fried—say, a sister or cousin, as some speculate—then Mark Carney would be part of this extended Kemper family network. In human terms, if Verlie were Fried’s sister, Mark would be Justin’s step-cousin by marriage, a connection that emerges through Fried’s role as Margaret’s husband. Even if the exact relation between Verlie and Fried is murkier (e.g., cousins rather than siblings), the stepfather bond between Fried and Justin could still position Carney as part of the broader family tapestry—less direct, but still relevant in the way humans recognize affinity. This interpretation aligns with how people intuitively process family: a stepfather isn’t just a legal footnote but a hub linking two clans. If Verlie and Fried share a Kemper lineage, Carney’s tie to Trudeau becomes more than a professional coincidence—it’s a familial echo, however faint. Without hard evidence pinning down Verlie’s exact relation to Fried, we can’t say it’s definitive, but the stepfather dynamic amplifies its plausibility. Fried’s marriage into the Trudeaus and Verlie’s Kemper name suggest a web where step-cousins and extended kin aren’t just theoretical but felt connections, as human intelligence tends to frame them. So, through this lens: Fried Kemper, as Justin’s stepfather, ties the Kempers to the Trudeaus directly. If Verlie Kemper (Carney’s mother) is Fried’s sibling or close kin, Mark Carney slots into this network as a step-cousin or extended relative to Justin, with the stepfather bond as the linchpin. Even absent a precise Verlie-Fried link, the human tendency to see step-relationships as significant keeps Carney in the orbit of this blended family narrative. It’s a messy, human way to map it—less about DNA, more about lived and perceived ties—which is exactly how families often work. Think harder explore stepfamily dynamics other political families NO THANKS, GROK

The destiny of government is to disappear, but not in the communist sense

The best available future is government by AI.

Politicians aren't trustworthy and cannot govern with a sense of public responsibility.

Too many are liars, cheats and even killers.

AI will free up billions to return to taxpayers. You can turn over every department run by every deputy and shut every Parliament, Legislative Building, Congress and Senate, shut it down and let AI do the work, with consistency and integrity built in to end this profligate waste.

Close the government offices, the health insurance bureaus, the DMVs, the entire structure of government disappears Make fancy homes out of the empty buildings, low rent.

Do this fast so the criminals and their accomplices (sisters, brothers-in-law, uncles, aunts, pets, doorknobs, don't catch on and burn everything to the ground.

We don't need criminal governments.

Where does the money go? AI won't be spending it. Here's one. A few Luxury Villas on 10 oceanside hectares in Costa Rica occupied 3 weeks and empty the rest of the year. There is an enclave or two where they bought.

They have private security resembling armed forces. They buy luxury hotels in Canada on shores facing the Pacific, with long, long beaches, which they blockade for weeks in summer.

These are your politicians and their handlers, and their doings with your money. It turned that way. AI running the affairs fixes this corruption.

Canada needs to solve some problems

I look at the way Canada declined on the international stage, first with India, then China, then, suddenly, and tragically, with Israel.

I believe Canada's move against Israel during the Oct 7 war against Hamas, terrorist atrocities escalating to Israel facing a three-front war,…

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) March 17, 2025

  Certain rules of Parliament are done by what the political scientists call, 'Convention,' meaning they are unwritten laws, which includes how Prime Ministers are picked. Historically, when parties defy 'Convention,' they are turfed by the electorate.

Expect the Liberals unConventional governance model to be rebuked by the electorate.

However, the unConventional minority government in the suspended Canadian Parliament would have to surrender power to the Governor General and allow an election, by Convention, which these Liberals (and their cohorts) refuse to do.

Also unCONVENTIONAL.

Shabby government in Canada. Not what Canadians expect.

Canadians do $600 billion a year in trade with the U.S.

We do $600 billion a year in trade with the U.S..

It's stuff they don't need, or they own it here already. Meanwhile I don't have a clue what my government is doing except ripping off Canadian taxpayers and using this fake umbrage with the U.S. as cover to continue a long-standing theft from taxpayers We are part of a crime syndicate with fake globalism as the 'agenda.' Did you know, this Canadian government, which they suspended a month ago, hasn't been elected since 2015? We are a quagmire up here. It's coming apart. We had 50,000 overdose deaths since these Liberal criminals stole power and we had way more than 50,000 euthanasia's. They are harvesting organs from drug overdoses in Canada. That's criminal. You don't tell your kids bed time stories about your government when they are killing his older brother for his organs. Yah. It's bad here. It's awful They closed our government a month ago, and the Prime Minister resigned. Yes. Resigned. However, he then started a trade war with Trump, and now he's tooling around Europe in an Airbus, making awful noises and ruining the atmosphere. We need our American friends to understand. This isn't Canadians. This is Liberal criminals.

The MSM is barking mad about Trump, so, status quo

"The Orange Man is trouble" is the title

And they use the attached image in the lead

This is a MSN news piece from a MSM outlet

The fluff is poison, as anyone can see from the photo and read from the title.

This is the disturbing reality of current Democrat and leftist… pic.twitter.com/PaDSd8SX6l

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) February 4, 2025

And a conversation with a Canadian in America

 

It's okay. Canadians don't have a clue about the relationship.

We used to send a few comedians south and they would portray us as the buffoons we truly are. Canadians, eh.

Come on. Mike Myers. Dan Ackroyd. Ace Ventura.

We send hockey players. We're running out of those… https://t.co/HQiRYCHD0V

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) February 5, 2025

Anywhere on earth in under an hour

SpaceX Earth to Earth Transport will enable:

LOS ANGELES TO NEW YORK
5 hours, 25 min —> 25 min

BANGKOK TO DUBAI
6 hours, 25 min —> 27 min

TOKYO TO SINGAPORE
7 hours, 10 min —> 28 min

LONDON TO NEW YORK
7 hours, 55 min —> 29 min

NEW YORK TO PARIS
7 hours, 20 min —> 30 min… pic.twitter.com/Q9YsOahnOl

— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) January 17, 2025

Watch closely, Liberals want to fool you some more

 Does anyone recollect the campaign promise of the Liberals to make homelessness grow? How about the Liberal election promise to expand organ donations by handing out free opioids?

Does anyone recall the Liberal election promise to crush the energy sector to stop a climate change being caused everywhere in the world except Canada? Did anyone hear the election promise to strip away immigration rules and background checks on the 5 million refugees of war zones who Liberals invited into Canada with no housing, no jobs, and no skills? We should listen closely to the promises of Mark Carney. And other Liberal aspirants to the Prime Minister's Office, because do not forget the next Liberal leader is also going to be your Prime Minister. I urge you to read between the lines of everything they say. Even then, do it with the foreknowledge that they are lying through their teeth. There is something wrong with the Liberals. They were elected in 2015, and somehow they are still in power without winning an election. Putting it succinctly, the present minority government in Canada is the longest standing minority government in Canada's history. This is saying a lot about a weird situation, because it is arguable this is also the worst government in Canadian history, and usually it's very easy to be rid of terrible minority government in Canada.

Just leave already

Is it a wig? Why do I care? I don't. I really don't care. 

"Every day, $3.6 billion in goods crosses the Canada-U.S. border, fueling a $1.3 trillion annual trade relationship. 

"This partnership supports 1.4 million American jobs tied to Canadian exports and 2.3 million Canadian jobs tied to U.S. exports. 

"Canada and the United States trade over US $2.5 billion in goods and services daily." {Microsoft Bing}

The cross-border relations in tourism, athletics, education, and family are as old as the history of changing demographics in the Americas.

To me, this kerfuffle stinks of false flag politics, mainly on the part of the Canadians, whose political system is straining credulity on a 'global' scale.

For example, a Prime Minister who resigned a couple weeks ago is suddenly in charge of arranging an economic embargo against the U.S.. 

It doesn't make much sense to be super-charging the politics when you have no mandate to even be sitting in the chair. None. Zero.

It's comical. I assume This Hour Has 22 Minutes is writing the episode as I speak.

Yet some might say I fail to mention who started the kerfuffle with stupid declarations. "In case you forgot, it was Trump."

It was Trump stating a fact the world has been witnessing for a decade, Canada is run by chumps.

I don't feel national pride in the dunderhead. I recall how I felt last week when he resigned. Relieved. And then I think about how I felt when he resigned again, today, like as if he is going to be resigning on a regular basis while he runs our energy sector into a dark abyss.

Have you ever been with somebody who declared how much they loved you while they poisoned you every day?

What's running a country when it's $3 billion a day in trade? Do you think the country with 350 million people is benefiting as much as the country with 35 million people? Who is getting a larger benefit from the $3 billion a day?   That's the question.   If we are getting a raw deal in Canada, who has been in charge of cutting deals for the past decade?

  Don't  answer.   Why isn't the focus on the issue? Joly is at this hour in Washington, probably studying the papers involved at this minute, and instead Trudeau gets to start an internecine war against a woman Premier. He's killing two females with one stone.

He just fired a woman Cabinet Minister. He appears to be shoe-horning the unfortunate Mark Carney into the PMO. He hasn't said a single congratulations or word of encouragement to the peace process in the Middle East, approaching success between Israel and Hamas, of all things.  Nothing to see there.

But war with ALBERTA IS ON.

What a fucking peace of shit.

There's a pattern. I don't think it's the fault of every woman who had the misfortune of encountering this prick as Prime Minister. But it goes to the very beginning. It was only 2016 for the year 2016. 

The rest of the time it didn't work out so well for the women in his government. I have a striking feeling he sent Joly into war zone after war zone to get rid of her. Problem for Trudeau is, Joly is vastly superior to him intellectually and in political savvy.   

I don't care what anybody thinks about my opinion. The fact is, polls aren't going to change. He's a despicable tyrant with a shit agenda who has spent 10 years fucking up a once healthy nation.

He should fuck off good and proper like any dignified political loser would do. All those before him have done it. Just fucking leave already.

Hemp acting like the new kid on the block in agriculture

More Canadian federal mismanagement to report, this time, fisheries

Run it up the flag pole

Canadians are celebrating the resignation of Justin Trudeau pic.twitter.com/jW6GNKfXbU

— The Pleb 🌍 Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) January 6, 2025

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Fascist? Such a loaded term. It's rather like picking up dog shit and throwing it.

Obviously he doesn't know what a fascist is, except they're bad.

A fascist in the modern context would be a figurehead head of state, someone cut of the cloth of a Liberal in Canada's parliament.…

— Citizen X (@MackMcColl222) January 7, 2025