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  1. This story takes place in the UK.
    Teddy Mac was a singer for a good part of his life. When he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, his memory deteriorated to a point where he often didn’t recognize his son Simon. (Driving the car.)
    To alleviate his father’s woes, Simon drove around the city of Blackburn, Lancashire, England. He had a dashcam, he played music that his Dad could sing to. The video went viral. Teddy’s voice is superb, and he recalls the songs meticulously. After you’ve watched the video, read the article in the Telegraph about Teddy landing a recording contract. The proceeds will go to an Alzheimer Fund. Enjoy!!
    https://youtu.be/9UQ5mjFzHTA
    Telegraph Article:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/15/80-year-old-man-with-alzheimers-wins-record-deal-after-car-singi/

  2. What a wonderful voice the old guy has. And his son looks so delighted to be able to share those moments with his father. This is so much better than all those other carpool karaokes.

  3. Quebec Mosque Attack Motive

    no evidence outside of those two Facebook likes (for Trump and LePen) have been provided to substantiate the claim that Bissonnette behaved like an extremist online.
    Moreover, refugee advocacy group members who say Bissonnette was known to them as an extremist online… Well, they too have yet to provide any evidence to substantiate their claim.
    In the meantime, Canada’s mainstream media has carried on with a portrait of the suspect as a right-wing extremist, while calls for more gun control abound.

    http://www.therebel.media/update_quebec_mosque_attack_motive

  4. Sorry for missing the repost at the first link. I saw it elsewhere then noticed it had already been linked at SDA. Great minds . . .

  5. Sorry for missing the repost at the first link. I saw it elsewhere then noticed it had already been linked at SDA. Great minds . . .

  6. MSM Stands on Principal.
    …-
    “Donald Trump more troubling than 9/11? Ritzy, New York City private school principle thinks so
    Toronto Sun”

  7. ‘Winter wheat produced 64 bushels per acre, with 17.28 million bushels harvested’
    The US wheat grower in Ken’s link is from Maryland so I just had to look that up. Who would have guessed that little Maryland could produce so much wheat?

  8. Sask Watch: What a great talent, and heart wrenching story. Many people will appreciate it. Thanks.

  9. AGW RIP.
    Phil B says:
    “This is something to be celebrated. It marks the death of wind and solar power in Australia. Any state which ditches its renewable demands will see all business move to it from all the other states which don’t. The free market will win again”
    …-
    “Northeast U.S. Hit by Powerful, Fast-Moving Snowstorm” (bloomberg)
    “Ottawa weather forecast calls for 2-day deep dreeze” (cbc)
    …-
    “South Australia Heatwave Wind Power Collapse, Rolling Blackouts”
    “South Australia, the world’s renewable energy crash test dummy, is once again experiencing horrendous power price spikes and rolling blackouts, thanks to excessive reliance on wind, a lack of dispatchable power capacity, and high demand caused by a Summer heatwave.”
    “The rolling blackouts make a mockery of South Australian government assurances in December, that the state of South Australia has sufficient thermal power capacity to meet requirements.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/09/south-australia-heatwave-wind-power-collapse-rolling-blackouts/

  10. Wrt the pending meet up between President Trump and the P/T drama teacher a couple of notes:
    1 The pending meeting is being reported widely in Canadian media and one can’t help but notice the unintended or intentional build of expectations.
    2 The US media seems to have far less interest in this pending meet up almost to the point of not even reporting.
    3 Its patently obvious to anyone that has paid attention to PM potato head that he has every public event he attends stage managed to make him appear as the reason the event has any significance at all.
    4 Contrast this with Trump who is given no end of coverage at any apperance not because he tries to be the center of attention but because he refuses to play nice with the media.
    5 Specifically because of his behavior anyone paying attention should know that Trump has never suffered fools gladly and even makes a point of making an example of anyone trying to ingratiate themselves into his circle of trusted advisors.
    6 The media reports of juthtin sending out his “senior” ministers to meet their US counterparts in DC have helped build expectations that when Trump meets potato head some big thing is going to happen
    7 Every day the POTUS has a briefing in private where he’s given his daily appointments and a background on who he is meeting. In this case the Trump-potatoe head meeting, Trump will get a recap of what makes juthtin tick, his weak points, what he’s hoping to get out of the meeting and his pressure points. He will also be reminded about some of juthtins past statements about chicom dictatorships and his admiration for Castro. Just as Tillerson likely got a brief on Freelands past history and anti-captialist writings.
    I’ll make the prediction that the meeting, which will be in private, will last 15 minutes and won’t end with the two posing for pictures after.
    Trump will request a timeline with hard commitments on NAFTA and Canada meeting its 2% of GDP spending on defence. Potato head will come back to Ottawa with his marching orders and the prospect of having to sell this to his anti-Trump caucus.

  11. PET Cemetery Report.
    ““I’ve never seen a rat in the City of Ottawa,” Mayor Jim Watson said…”
    …-
    “PM heads to Nunavut as MPs debate whether his government ‘misled’ Canadians on electoral reform” (citizen)
    …-
    “Councillors want to know about city’s anti-rat efforts”
    “I’ve never seen a rat in the City of Ottawa,” Mayor Jim Watson said after the council meeting. “I’m sure there are rats in the City of Ottawa but if it’s a problem then obviously we’ll see what we can do to eradicate it because it’s obviously not a pleasant experience to have rats in any neighbourhood.”
    http://www.ottawasun.com/2017/02/08/councillors-want-to-know-about-citys-anti-rat-efforts

  12. “[No] evidence outside of those two Facebook likes (for Trump and LePen) have been provided to substantiate the claim that Bissonnette behaved like an extremist online.”
    Indeed. I note little mention that his Facebook likes also included the late Jack Layton and the NDP. Also a wide spectrum of others including Pope John Paul II, Marilyn Manson, the Parti Québécois and US Senator John McCain.
    Could it be he had no particularly sinister motive other than just “liking” them in a manner any other Facebook user might?

  13. Trump looking directly into those vacant eyes:
    ‘Well Justin here’s the way I see it, if the smallest Euroweenie country can pony up 2% of their GDP for defense I think it’s time Canada’s free ride came to an end. What says you? Incidentally I was just elected on a promise to better police who we allow into our country. What are you doing on this file to ensure that we will have no future issues with Canadians crossing our borders?”

  14. Profiling Bissonette by labeling him a Trump supporter and Le Pen enthusiast is simply attempting to build a narrative.(So obvious when you note how the other details — eg. like for the NDP, etc. are not mentioned at all.) Personally, I think something else was involved. He did not appear to be full of hate. Apparently, he was something of a contrarian when it came to political discourse, but lots of folks are. Because university students are such one-dimensional thinkers, he would have stood out in that regard, but this does not signal hateful motives. I am curious about what the court case will reveal — should it actually be made public.

  15. Liberal Wynnetario’s Crime Gang.
    2 + 2 Liberals = 4 Liberals on trial.
    …-
    “Two Ontario Liberals facing Election Act bribery charges set for trial in September”
    “Another Liberal trial will be happening at the same time in Toronto, as two of former premier Dalton McGuinty’s top staffers face breach of trust and mischief charges related to a gas plants scandal.”
    http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/two-liberals-facing-election-act-bribery-charges-set-for-trial-in-september

  16. In addition to the coming influx of misunderstood Muslims coming from the United States in the next few weeks we can expect to see these unjustly tried and convicted misaligned refugees immigrating to Canada where as Justin’s Liberal party has said “A Canadian, is a Canadian is a Canadian!”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4207256/Rochdale-grooming-gang-deported-appeals-rejected.html#ixzz4YBnYQFo8
    I’m sure the Liberals will come up with a plan to save these poor souls the inconvenience of having to return to Pakistan before applying for refugee status in Canada. I mean look at the money we’ll save by bringing them in direct from the UK.

  17. *
    john galt says… outside of those two Facebook likes”
    apparently bissonette also “liked” katie perry and
    ndp stalwart jack layton… but it seems the media
    is skipping over those awkward facts.
    wake up folks and smell the manipulation.
    *

  18. AGW Kills. Update.
    …-
    “Doorman Dies Shoveling Snow in New York City: Winter Storm Niko Cancels Schools, Over 2,000 Flights”
    “A 59-year-old doorman died after falling through a plate glass door or window, authorities told ABC7. The man, identified as 59-year-old Miguel Gonzalez, was shoveling snow in front of a building on East 93rd Street at around 9:30 a.m. when he slipped and crashed through the glass, sustaining injuries to his neck and face.”
    https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-niko-impacts-new-york-new-jersey-connecticut

  19. Patrick Buchanan:
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    Meanwhile, Trump’s White House should use the arrogant and incompetent conduct of these federal judges to make the case not only for creating a new Supreme Court, but for Congress to start using Article III, Section 2, of the Constitution – to restrict the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and to reclaim its stolen powers.
    A clipping of the court’s wings is long overdue.
    http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/trump-must-break-judicial-power/

  20. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “RCMP respond to shots fired at wind turbine near Fort Macleod”
    “Fort Macleod RCMP have responded to a complaint of damage caused by shots fired at a TransAlta wind turbine site south of the town Wednesday night.”
    http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2017/02/09/rcmp-respond-shots-fired-wind-turbine-near-fort-macleod/
    …-
    “Terence Corcoran: Canada’s green electricity bailouts make the Bombardier giveaway look like peanuts”
    http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/terence-corcoran-now-up-to-50-billion-canadas-green-electricity-bailouts-make-the-bombardier-giveaway-look-like-peanuts

  21. Palin would be a good ambassador. She knows Canada and when we need a pipeline to tidewater she would be valuable. Valdez Alaska would be a good terminal destination. A deep water port and they need the product.

  22. “75,000 lbs of bombs”
    ummmm…. ummmmm…… uuuhhhhhh…… OYPH!
    I swear to God the Almighty Creator, put me in the cockpit one of these or an A10 warthog sose I can see the plume, see the debris flying, hear the ground personnel say right on target. goddamnit I hate violence but you HAVE to dish it out to those that work themselves up wanting to strike the first blow.
    Chirer will rue the day they take on the American military. steal some blueprints, well the yanks are 5 years ahead in design and 20 years ahead in concept.
    the Japanese have redeemed themselves over and over again since 1945 and are in 2017 right on the front line against Beijing’s plans for that part of the world.

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