Back to Square One for the Cheeto Benito
It seems that Hurricane Hanna isn’t impressed with DJ Trump’s new southern border wall. This silly bugger just can’t catch a break. Oh dear.
July 2020
This week’s Sparky: the October surprise!
This week’s Sparky: October surprise! pic.twitter.com/XJX0fUxjpG — SparkyTheTalkingRat (@RatSparky) July 26, 2020
Will Facebook Be Trump’s Ace-In-The-Hole in November?
The reporter who broke the story of how Cambridge Analytica swung the 2016 vote to Donald Trump, Carole Cadwalladr, is back and this time she’s warning that Facebook could swing…
You have no choice; you have owners.
George Carlin: “It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Why is a monument commemorating a Nazi SS division still standing outside Toronto?
Heinrich Himmler, centre, reviews troops of the Ukrainian 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, June 3, 1944. Photo courtesy the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. From a distance, the cenotaph…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Murray Mandryk writes that any responsible government has to be willing to prepare for renewed restrictions on activity if the spread of…
UK Govt. "Desperate" for Trump to Lose.
Apparently BoJo has had enough of Donald Trump. It seems he yearns for Biden to become America’s next president. The UK government is privately “desperate” for Donald Trump to lose…
From Beyond The Grave
It’s been 12 years since George Carlin left us, yet the ensuing years have made him even more relevant than he was in his day. The following video uses his…
Defiling And Destroying
Former federal prosecutor Glen Kershner argues that Donald Trump and William Barr have declared war on China because they know Trump is going to lose. They will claim that China…
Comparing colonial India to Canada?
Why have so many people from the sub-continent immigrated to Canada? What attracted them to this country? These people are welcome. This question is raised because of a really confused…
Button, button, who’s got the button?
Well, this is a little strange. Today the Globe and Mail published a story about how Canada’s pandemic early warning system within the Public Health Agency of Canada has been…
Makes Sense To Me
I get the sense that Jonathan Pie is a tad vexed about government irresolution and people’s stupidity when it comes to the wearing of masks: Recommend this Post
We Stand On Guard For Thee. That’s An Idea.
It might be time for us to dust off that line about how we stand on guard for thee, Canada, at least until the American elections are called. Even that…
July 25: A very depressing blog…..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/trump-federal-agents-portland-ploy-election_________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/houston-consulate-jeers-for-china-as-us-officials-shut-mission Western threats and bravado might seem like “making America great again”; but it won’t make anybody great. A war with China would be a no-winner.Even a conventional war…
Privatizing natural resources, by stealth
Despite the NDP promise that resource development must provide a fair return to the public, John Horgan’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources functions just as it did under…
Us versus U.S. We’re not the same, kids
A lot of Canadians – particularly young, American-media obsessed Canadians who have never been taught enough about their own country – seem to believe that Canada and the United States…
rotd: "systemic racism" is redundant
Revolutionary thought of the day: “Institutional racism” and “structural racism” and “systemic racism” are redundant. Racism itself is institutional, structural, and systemic. Ibram X. Kendi, How to be Antiracist
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian examines a few crucial questions as to what Canada needs to keep, throw away and modify based on the lessons learned…
Satruday Photo: Not a Trojan Horse, but More Whimsy
Because we all need a little whimsy these days, here’s what I found in an alley not far from me. Couldn’t do much carpentry on this saw horse, but kudos…