Nap on the footstool
A deep afternoon #cat nap
Saturday Photo: More Roses…
Enjoying the flowers while we can. I understand that picking roses and trashing the ones that have blasted on the bush will encourage more blooms. We shall see...
Saturday Photo: More Roses…
Enjoying the flowers while we can. I understand that picking roses and trashing the ones that have blasted on the bush will encourage more blooms. We shall see...
#NoKings Day, June 14, 2025
F&ck you Trump. No Kings. List of cities hosting No Kings Day Protests Against Trump and the GOP that Support Him. The post #NoKings Day, June 14, 2025…
Happy Birthday King Trump!
Today in Washington, DC, Donald Trump is planning a $45 million Soviet-style military parade to celebrate his 79th birthday, while using 4700 military personnel to suppress protests in Los Angeles…
Some Funny Ha-Ha and Funny Strange posts about Trump’s parade and the No Kings protests, plus how it feels to cut off America
I don't know who get AI to do this, but isn't it great! The MacDonald's "medals" in particular. Looks like its going to rain on Trump's parade. With any luck...…
‘Let all who are hungry eat’: Where are Canada’s pro-Palestine rabbis?
Members of Rabbis for Ceasefire stage a demonstration at a United Nations General Assembly meeting to condemn the US veto of a ceasefire in Gaza, January 9, 2024. Photo by…
In classic Friday afternoon bad-news dump, UCP moves to make COVID vaccines expensive and hard to find
In a classic Friday afternoon bad-news dump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government announced a scheme to make seniors pay “the full costs” for restricted supplies of COVID-19…
Musical interlude
BANKS - Stay
coming up for air: two thoughts on aging from george orwell
I came upon these passages in George Orwell's 1939 novel, Coming Up for Air. They seem very appropriate to me today.* * * *The change in his appearance after twenty…
coming up for air: two thoughts on aging from george orwell
I came upon these passages in George Orwell's 1939 novel, Coming Up for Air. They seem very appropriate to me today.* * * *The change in his appearance after twenty…
My latest: why israel had no choice
We were beside the border with Gaza, in Israel’s South, when the artillery shell hit. The explosion was pretty big, and it landed behind where I was standing. I was…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Susan Glaser writes about the dictator cosplay arising from Donald Trump's military parade, while Jeet Heer is rightly more concerned about Trump's actual claim…
The jolly greenbelt giant
#DougFord, #Greenbelt, #FOI, #SafeWords
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from February 7, 2007
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from February 7, 2007 via Wise Law Blog: Starting A Law Firm https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2007/02/starting-law-firm.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
happy birthday to me: retirement update edition
I have been alive on this planet for 64 years. Didn't I just write my last "happy birthday to me" post, like, a week ago??I looked back at my last…
happy birthday to me: retirement update edition
I have been alive on this planet for 64 years. Didn't I just write my last "happy birthday to me" post, like, a week ago??I looked back at my last…
Carney’s military buildup benefits the US, not Canada
On June 9, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada will meet the two percent of GDP spending target pushed by Washington, committing $9 billion in new funding for the…