Suspect descriptions say “light skin” and “fair skin” I honestly don’t know what that means, white? Or does that mean not white because white is the only accurate description allowed now?
Probably just misguided youths celebrating life is a blast.
CBC says no indication it was a terrorist attack. Nothing in this country is ever a fu****g terrorist attack.
Since CBC News states that the attack was definately not terror related, this is an indication that Islamic terrorism remains a possibility.
It was a terrorist attack, but the reasons are multiple possibilities. Knowing the area it’s equally possible to be muslim versus Indian, Sikh Indian versus Hindu Indian, or the owners son banged the wrong girl and honour is involved so her brothers did the deed.
Lefties across the country are likely praying that the suspects might be white members of the alt-right.
Why would ANYONE put these damned things in their home, let alone one in EVERY ROOM:
In a statement Thursday, Amazon confirmed the woman’s private conversation had been inadvertently recorded and sent. The company said the device interpreted a word in the background conversation as “Alexa” — a command that makes it wake up — and then it interpreted the conversation as a “send message” request.
The woman, who was identified only by her first name in the news report, said every room in her family’s home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her home’s heat, lights and security system.
As I’ve said since these things came out:
Anyone who has these devices should lose their security clearances immediately.
I fully disabled Cortana from my new laptop.
Every room in our home is wired with digital devices to control the heat, lights, and security system. They are called switches, and they can be operated with a single finger (digit.) Hard work, I know, but they don’t do what we don’t tell them to do.
Should be good…
“Canada’s military is considering lifting a longstanding citizenship requirement as a way to boost its numbers.”
Maybe they could recruit the Mississauga restaurant bombers as they seem to have some experience with explosives and as long as one of them is female.
Meanwhile, it seems Ontario voters have not had enough economic destruction in their province and want to go from the frying pan directly into the fire. The demonization of Ford by the media seems to be paying off. George Soros will be smiling.
FORUM POLL: Ontario NDP Lead PCs By 14 Points, Projected To Win MAJORITY Government
Ontariowe may as well hit rock bottom. People 35 and under think Bob Rae is a bit of sunshine on a cloudy day and 1984 a good year to have been born, not a book about the USSR. “They’re promising free stuff everybody! Lets vote for them!” “Da. Iz good , comrade. Tell me again what your friend zaid about our Beloved Leader.”
Ken, I remember the Rae days during my 15 years living in Ontario. One of the more grotesque laws was that, under the NDP’s atrocious rent control regulations, each appartment had to have a lifetime rent log, which meant that – if the apartment was sold – the new owner could not raise rents above the maximum rent-increase limit. I owned a modest duplex in Ottawa at the time, and I recall stating losses of $1,000 a year on my tax forms. An NDP government could reinstate such a draconian system, which could render the Onario housing market into chaos.
The Dippers might even inflict a land bank on Ontario. After all, it worked so well when Dave Barrett ran B. C., didn’t it?
no kidding. iow a new buyer was hobbled by *whatever* rates previous, regardless of the reason.
I knew more than one rental property owner and the BIGGEST concern was the FACT clever tenants found the ‘loophole’ that allowed them to squat rent free whilst the ‘new’ democrap policies plodded along. for many months.
I rent rooms. it’s called shared accommodations. the landlord tenant act explicitly states it does NOT apply in this situation.
meanwhile, the municipal gubbamint floated an idea to charge past due hydro bills onto the landlord. prob is, in this privacy act world we live in, the landlord was stopped from ‘checking up’ on the status of the hydro account of the tenant.
I sent them a letter advising them they had ‘solved’ one problem by creating THOUSANDS more once word got out tenants can thumb their nose at the last 3 months hydro bill. and thus create a backlash of HUGE security deposits and dumping the cost of overdue bills on subsequent responsible tenants, not to mention whatever number of rental properties were about to go off the market.
jeezuz murphy. anybody know a politishun who EVER played devil’s advocate with their ideas?
p.s. with fierce opposition from the local landlord association the idea was scrubbed.
I think the poll is BS. Media induced voter suppression.
But, if the NDP do win there will be a mass exodus west.
That’s fine, they would mostly be welcome except for one thing, those idiots will still vote Liberal or NDP.
Happening in the States, people leave their high tax state to move to a low tax state but don’t have a clue why the state has low taxes and votes Democrat destroying the low tax environment.
Liberalism/progressive is a mental disease.
The entitlements they expect because they exist is going to hit a wall of reality.
An NDP government in Ontario is going to mega damage to that province and the country, hopefully enough that people will wake up.
as long as one of them is female
Or identifies as one or, better yet, has the full-body renovation to look the part.
“FORUM POLL: Ontario NDP Lead PCs By 14 Points, Projected To Win MAJORITY Government”
Canadians really are that F***ing STUPID.
(No Kate, I don’t speak for you)
Something weird in the poll, someone looked at the raw data. Turns out the PC’s actually led the poll but Forum did some weighting trick and the NDP came out on top. The raw numbers were 342 PC, 307 NDP, and 143 Liberal. How this is translated to a 14 point NDP lead is anyone’s guess, but to me it looks like someone is trying to create false momentum for the dippers.
Remember what Mark Twain said about statistics.
Canadians are showing a dangerous predilection to vote for what they don’t want.
This times are too good paradox will sink this country, we cannot afford its largesse.
Thank God our boomers weren’t thrifty in large enough numbers to retire are still in the workplace, but that won’t last with the youngest boomers at 56 (b. 62), the oldest at 71. with the massive clump of middle kids in their 60s. Many though are cutting way back on work time and technology can only do so much to bolster dampened productivity, unless ones assumes a perfect macro workplace where retired are replaced with mentored and properly prepared underlings.
Does anybody believe that’s happening.
We have exhausted monetary policy. We have exhausted fiscal policy. Our ability to further leverage is at great risk due its volume and rising inflation/interest rates.
Continuing to hamper the market, as statists do and brag about, will only accelerate the need for further government, at the cost of great coercion of the exhausted taxpayer, the poorest hit hardest again, but then held up as their champions in the ever expanding search to enlarge government.
Think about it. Federally, AB, BC, now ON possibly, electing arrogant statists, waffling in the political winds to maintain political power, while the rest of the world whizzes by in powered vessels.
That’s our future. In ON the Canadian voter reveals themselves.
They throw themselves into the arms of the other socialist rather than vote Conservative.
This nation is in the process of being shut down, except for government directed fanciful experiments in battling climate change with crippling taxation and willfully destroying the trusting bond between men and women of all sexual persuasions through their gender equity nonsense.
We need to stop blaming the politicians. We are the ones selling ourselves to hell in handbasket.
We seem to require great injury in order to change our political behaviour. Not good; not good at all.
“This nation is in the process of being shut down, except for government directed fanciful experiments in battling climate change with crippling taxation and willfully destroying the trusting bond between men and women of all sexual persuasions through their gender equity nonsense.”
That is the plan my friend. Maurice Strong’s dream coming true one province at a time.
That’s really bad. Very bad. Since these people have not governed before a minority would be prudent at this time. Majority will be a disaster. Horvarth does not have a team that can govern, plus most candidates are very new and not very smart. Yikes, what a mess. Our only hope is that the polls are way off. I would even accept a Liberal win (ideally minority) rather than the NDP.
I remember hearing the same things in 2015; a not so bad Trudeau minority turning into a God forbid majority. It happened then, it seems to be happening again.
One question though is what this means for the Grit federal vote, given the inertness of the federal NDP.
Many of the attack hit pieces coming out in the MSM outlets regarding the PC Party have been brought to the public’s attention by none other than “Press Progress”… another foreign funded organization hell bent on destroying whats left of Canada, probably all so called Canadians working at PP as well, as this country has no shortage of citizens ready and willing to take it down. I wonder if there is another foreign funded entity that works side by side with Canadian Media organizations for the primary purpose of hurting the PC’s electoral chances…? Will the MSM acknowledge that their hit pieces on the PC’s are bought and paid for by foreign interests?
“…“Press Progress”… another foreign funded organization hell bent on destroying whats left of Canada,…”
Not surprising in the least. Soros’ scumbags are busy everywhere.
At Sunday’s debate, the PCs should surprise everbody and have Christine Elliott, their new leader, at the podium.
They cannot really do that, unless something happens to Doug — like being accused of sexual harassment or something. But I’ll be PC’s are kicking themselves that Elliott is not their leader. She needed to do more to court social conservatives who are sick of being left out of the discussion.
Maybe an NDP government is a blessing in disguise. Remember when Rae was elected? The NDP haven’t been elected in Ontario since.
The one problem with full-socialism is the lack of money and high debt rate of Ontario. It would be amusing to watch the NDP attempt to fulfill new promises. Not to mention expensive.
As I remember when Rae was Premier, the ROC paid, in more ways than one. Remember what happened to interest rates? They resumed an upward trajectory. Ontario was the Big Kahuna on sucking up cash on the open market, becoming the market on borrowed money in Canaduh. Everybody else paid more because of it.
I’m selling off some more TSX today & into next week. I should be able to buy back later at lower prices….if they survive.
Open borders, open recruiting, right?
Hell of an idea! I can think of about 90 young fellows with recent military experience who are probably looking for work right now. We can call it the “Royal 23rd ISIS Brigade” and put a French Canadian General in charge .
““Royal 23rd ISIS Brigade” has a nice ring to it.
And then the Romans hired the barbarians. The sequel is history.
Great White Balkans Journal.
h/t Stupid Liberal Justine’s PET POT Cemetery Report.
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“Morneau books date in Calgary on eve of Trans Mountain deadline”
“‘Inaction is not an option’: CIBC pounds the table for new pipelines
Trans Mountain backstop is insurance on provincial strife: Morneau
‘We have reduced our competitive advantage’: Frank McKenna” (BNN)
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“Trans Mountain fight shows Canada ‘at a crossroads’: Cenovus CEO”
““Canada really is at a crossroads,” Alex Pourbaix told BNN Bloomberg in an interview Thursday.”
“Pourbaix argued investors are looking to see whether Canada can be a “reliable and responsible” global oil producer, pointing to TransCanada’s Energy East and Enbridge’s Northern Gateway projects as examples of past failures that have chipped away at investor confidence.
“We have this incredible opportunity, but right now I think investors are on the sidelines,” he said. “If we are not able to get this project done and completed and moving oil, I think investors are going to really question [whether] Canada can be there, not just to deliver oil but any major infrastructure project.””
And I’ll bet that he’s asking himself that why there aren’t any rainbow flags if it’s a pride parade. Uh, no–it’s not that sort of pride…..
The conflict isn’t so obvious in an intellectual vacuum.
If Trudeau were to rub two thoughts together he might generate a spark capable of blowing his head clean out of his posterior.
This would require two discreet events.
1st, a catastrophe great enough to fracture his cerebral hymen thus breaking the vacuum. (This event would have to be bad for Canada. Bad enough to reflect so poorly on Trudeau that his ego, the outer layer of the bone head, would have to be almost completely destroyed.)
2nd, Trudeau would then have to have two thoughts; thoughts of conflicting perspective. This would require learning followed by a contemplative moment. The resultant mental friction (in theory) would generate the big bang required.
The odds of the latter event are almost insurmountable and would require Canada an immense investment of time and money. It would be a great risk, given the abundance of methane known to exist within individuals, like Trudeau, who are full of elemental 5-h1-T.
An enormous undertaking to say the least.
It’s either that or:
1st, draft and pass an amendment to the Constitutional Act of 1892 defining the parameters for the removal of a sitting Prime Minister.
2nd, move forward with proceedings toward the removal of Trudeau based on the parameters so keenly defined in the amendment and win the votes required in Parliament to remove the pretty pretty Prime Minister without descending into a civil war.
Didn’t you know that the lack of evidence that there was Russian meddling is proof that there was Russian meddling? They just happened to be particularly good at covering their tracks.
And, yes, the investigation will continue until they find something, anything. By that time, Trump might be out of office because he had finished serving his second term.
Thanks Ken, that was a good read.
It highlights the left’s utter hypocrisy of their faked hysteria about foreign meddling compared to their refusal to address foreign interests meddling by heavily funding these anti-oil industry groups. Not to even mention the Soros types, flooding in the cash to manipulate American’s voting choices. Or the countless non-Americans voting as Americans, for that matter.
Nope, they only get their panties in a twist if they think someone … gasp… is helping a Conservative cause.
Remember Ncheki Diallo? No? You may recall her by her “former” white name, Rachel Dolezal. Guess who’s in trouble for welfare fraud:
I, for one, welcome our new self-driving over-lords….
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SALT LAKE CITY — A Tesla that crashed while in Autopilot mode in Utah this month accelerated in the seconds before it smashed into a stopped firetruck, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press Thursday. Two people were injured.
The car company has said it repeatedly warns drivers to stay alert, keep their hands on the wheel and maintain control of their vehicle at all times while using the Autopilot system.
Back as late as the 1960s, the Canadian Forces recruited from within all Commonwealth countries. We had New Zealanders, Aussies, lots of Brits and even a white Nigerian-born immigrant. The requirement for Canadian citizenship came from a demand by the Americans that only Canadian citizens could be allowed access to joint material (CANUS, CANUKUS, etc.). I don’t see that changing unless we are to limit access to classified materials by non-citizen soldiers and that would be a nightmare to administer.
Thanks for the backstory!
I hadn’t thought about the risk to shared intel under this policy.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see that as a fast-track to citizenship, either.
“But they served in the military! Of course they love our country. I thought you people worshipped soldiers.” etc..
I suspect they can’t reach their recruiting goals because they won’t take white men. They would rather recruit foreign women than Canadian men because they must meet the goal of being 25 percent women.
The doomsday scenario will be a lot closer if Ontario goes ndp.
Bob and Ray found out what it means to owe money and maybe not pay it back. Back in the day the head of the autoworkers Bob White had unrestricted access to the ndp government. His advice to Bob and Ray was to default on the provincial debt…. after all it’s just money we owe to ourselves – right?
Word got out to the money lenders and one day the money boys from NYC summonsed Bob and Ray for an immediate ‘consultation’.
They explained that they had lent the money to the government and expected to be paid back. It was made clear in terms even Bob and Ray could understand.
Shaken, Bob and Ray returned to Toronto and immediately went to work changing his circle of advisers. Bob White was disappeared (later the UAW also disappeared him) and there was no more talk of defaulting on the debt.
The Ontario government is again in serious debt. The ndp if it forms government will find out quickly what the responsibilities of governing are. They will do maximum damage as is their want but I would think that with finances in the condition they are (undoubtedly a lot worse than the liberals are reporting) borrowing money to deliver election promises might not be an option.
For those of you that don’t remember, Bob and Ray were a Las Vegas comedy team back in the day when the mob owned the strip.
For those of you that don’t remember, Bob and Ray were a Las Vegas comedy team back in the day when the mob owned the strip.
Their Komodo dragon sketch is a true comedy classic.
And don’t forget ace reporter Wally Balou, not to mention Natalie Attired.
AGW Fail.
Three (3) Why?s a Spring Maketh Not.
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“‘Why? Why? Why?’: Dismay and disbelief in Newfoundland as late-May snow smothers spring
‘You would think you were in January. People have been golfing, and raking, everything here was very spring-like. So this has set us back'” (NP)
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“Arctic sea ice volume greater than 2014
Meanwhile, the earth’s surface has cooled since the last powerful El Nino ended, and thus could be having some effect on Arctic sea ice.
Japanese climate skeptic and blogger Kirye tweeted yesterday that Arctic sea ice volume has in fact exceeded the level seen in 2014, and is now just somewhat below average, and so fully within the range of natural variability:…”
High school diplomacy and Valentines, or is it leadership – or is it “talent?”
“Following Trump’s letter to Kim on Thursday suggesting to hold the meeting would have been “inappropriate,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blasted the president, suggesting Kim had “won.”
Pelosi described the letter from Trump to Kim as a “Valentine.”
“He’s the big winner and when he got this letter from the president saying ‘okay nevermind,’ he must be having a giggle fit, right now, in North Korea,” Pelosi said on Capitol Hill Thursday.”
Methinks Kim didn’t get her punchline. “A top North Korean official had issued a statement Thursday evening expressing the regime’s “willingness” to sit down for a summit with the U.S.”
“We express our willingness to sit down face-to-face with the U.S. and resolve issues anytime and in any format,” North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan said, according to Yonhap News outlet, which cited the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA.)”
DJT: “Very good news to receive the warm and productive statement from North Korea. We will soon see where it will lead, hopefully to long and enduring prosperity and peace. Only time (and talent) will tell!”
Maybe the POTUS has a better grasp of the situation, aka the first walkaway:
“Democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with North Korea. Just like they are coming to the defense of MS 13 thugs, saying that they are individuals & must be nurtured, or asking to end your big Tax Cuts & raise your taxes instead. Dems have lost touch!”
Let the resistors resist, straight to the political boneyard with Trump as their traffic cop. The Demedia tried to school Trump and once again has become a part of one of his teaching moments.
and… he’s expected to be in the “general population”
hence, “death sentence”
… !
Viscious treatment of Robinson — such a brave person. 13 months for livestreaming something is totally our of line. The UK has turned into a police state. They are looking to rival the old Soviet Union with their justice department simply doing the government bidding. I am really saddened by this as I think Tommy is a very brave and patriotic person.
“The early righteousness of the anti-Trump lynch-mob was deflated when the Steele dossier was revealed as defamatory lies assembled and paid for by the Clinton campaign. The feeble effort at claiming a boozy conversation between a very junior member of the Trump campaign team and a former Australian politician (who had secured $25 million of Australian government money for the Clinton Foundation) as the source of the investigation has crumbled. The origins were earlier, and Christopher Steele and prominent members of the FBI and CIA shopped his inane and scatological dossier around the media to incite the misplaced belief that there were multiple disinterested sources for its contents.”
It also seems to be clear that Comey, and former National Intelligence and Central Intelligence directors James Clapper and John Brennan, were involved in improper leaks of confidential information and in coordinating their activities to mislead the president-elect. All three also appear to have misled congressional committees while under oath. The inspector general of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, is apparently only a week away from a release to the Congress (i.e., the world) of his report on the official handling of the Clinton emails affair. His report is reportedly 400 pages, and there has never in recent history been a 400-page nothingburger.”
A snapshot of this welter of dubious antics today reveals these points: The tide is running in the president’s favor; high and trusted positions have been seriously misused in a partisan cause that would not have come to light if the election result had been different and is the greatest scandal in American history; the Trumpophobes can’t go on trying to make grenades out of marshmallows like the amusing divertissement of Stormy Daniels (whose obnoxious lawyer wasn’t her lawyer — just a volunteer militant Democratic publicity hound and undischarged bankrupt); and the public is bored with Mueller, and unless he looks at the Democrats too his investigation will be an unmitigated fiasco. Anyone who sees a blue wave in the mid-terms coming out of this immense shambles is in the desert suffering a mirage with Maxine Waters.”
Seeing crooked Hillary in an orange pant suit would go a long way to restore my faith in justice.
Not likely but one can hope…
I am pretty sure Black is right, but will anyone face the consequences? The political scammers seem to have a way of escaping penalties for their corrupt actions. If they would at least be exposed by the media, then Americans would be more informed, but the media seems to want to protect some of the corrupt self-serving and deceptive individuals.
Officer-cadet from Royal Military College Saint-Jean expelled for defiling Qur’an
…The military consulted Hassan Guillet, spokesperson for the Quebec Council of Imams, on how to handle the crisis.
Guillet said the incident is unacceptable, but it is better that it came to light.
“Imagine if they had not done this horrible act now, we would not have discovered them,” he said.
“They would have been in the army for a long time. They would have graduated and perhaps even become senior officers with a racist attitude like that, lacking respect, lacking sensitivity to the faith of their colleagues. It’s serious.”
Christians under attack but not in Canada, you say, that’s only in West. Europe, the Middle-East, Africa, S.E. Asia, South Asia, …
Will there be any Christian churches and clergy raise an alarm? Any politicians? Anyone at all?
Back in the day when I was a stupid poli-sci student id go to the CSRR and read the CS Monitor. It was a pretty good source of straight up reporting from areas around the world. Perhaps a bit less political than most publications.
It was quiet – more so than a library and no proselytizing NME666.
That is awful. I had not heard about that happening. I hope they get the guy who did it.
MSM leftist urinalist beaten down by justice served.
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“Alberta Appeals Court bumps up award to ‘Scud Stud’
A former war correspondent has been awarded another $200,000 in costs related to his years-long legal dispute with one of Canada’s biggest media companies.
Arthur Kent won a defamation suit two years ago against the company that is now Postmedia and its former columnist Don Martin.
The case stemmed from a 2008 column that painted Kent as an out-of-control egomaniac as he campaigned for a seat in the Alberta legislature.”
“A judge found the piece would cause right-thinking people to think less of Kent and awarded him damages of $200,000 and costs of $250,000.””
so, what are your weekend plans dear SDA?
I got a concret planter out front, about the profile of a street curb thats getting smashed out and turned into gravel to provide the base of an extension on the sidwalk in the back yard.
to save a few bucks and for lack of a place to dispose of the busted concrete. eureka!! 2 birds with one sledge hammer!!
Im 67 in august. wtf is a senior citoyen like me doing smashing concrete when I could be twttering all day and watching oprah?
because my generation and fambly has WORK ETHIC hardcoded in the DNA.
compared to the present wuss generation with their manbuns, triggers and
gender-in-yer-face gender-in-yer-face priorities.
they would give up after 5 minutes as opposed to stopping when the job is done.
wtf has the world come to? up is down, black is white, on is off, truth is whateverthefcuktheysayitis.
sign of the times !!
I’ve been spending a few hours this week cleaning and waxing my car. I plan on finishing it tomorrow after I do some laundry and get 2 loaves of bread ready for baking.
Lifting weights in the basement before a late steak dinner. Addition to my deck tomorrow. Girleen is working but I have beer, the dog and tunes to keep me company. I’m only 54 though. Cheers.
Painting
I am going to vote in the Ontario election. You can do advanced voting starting tomorrow. I will be voting for a guy who is with the Trillium Party. He is our current MPP, having left the PC’s over altercations with Brown. I like him because he is very good about keeping in touch with the community. He works hard and has some very good ideas. If he is elected as an independent it will be good, no matter which party gets in.
NDP will be greatful for your vote for Trilium.
NDP will not win in my riding. Liberals could come up the middle. Voting always poses a dilemma, but if an incumbent works hard and is responsive to constituents, I think they deserve loyalty.
Opening the pool, finishing the garden.
Out to the range.
Fire up the Q.
A few pops at BP for lunch.
Full retirement in a couple of months.
Then it’s into the wood shop to build those projects I have been planning to for years
Today, in 1973, Skylab 2 with Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, and Joe Kerwin, was launched.
Skylab 1 was to be America’s first space station. It was a Saturn S-IV that had been re-designed as a habitat and laboratory. It was launched on the 14th and it was the last time that the Saturn V booster flew.
Soon after launch, Skylab suffered a mishap. One of the main photovoltaic arrays, as well as part of Skylab’s external meteorite shielding, had been torn off. When the lab had reached orbit, mission control found that its internal temperature was far too hot and the remaining main PV array hadn’t deployed. The entire program appeared to be close to failure.
The crew was launched and took with them equipment that might free the PV array as well as a parasol that would provide shade for Skylab.
The parasol was installed and the temperature dropped low enough that the crew could enter the lab. For the first few days, power was provided by the PV arrays for the Apollo Telescope Mount, which was one of the on-board experiments. Eventually, it became necessary to free the remaining main PV modules.
Once that was accomplished and sufficient electrical power became available, the astronauts were able to complete their 28-day mission.
Conrad, a veteran of Gemini and Apollo, thought that his time on board Skylab was perhaps his most important contribution to spaceflight.
Indian restaurant bombed in Mississauga
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-explosion-mississsauga-indian-restaurant-explainer/
Suspect descriptions say “light skin” and “fair skin” I honestly don’t know what that means, white? Or does that mean not white because white is the only accurate description allowed now?
Probably just misguided youths celebrating life is a blast.
CBC says no indication it was a terrorist attack. Nothing in this country is ever a fu****g terrorist attack.
Since CBC News states that the attack was definately not terror related, this is an indication that Islamic terrorism remains a possibility.
It was a terrorist attack, but the reasons are multiple possibilities. Knowing the area it’s equally possible to be muslim versus Indian, Sikh Indian versus Hindu Indian, or the owners son banged the wrong girl and honour is involved so her brothers did the deed.
Lefties across the country are likely praying that the suspects might be white members of the alt-right.
Why would ANYONE put these damned things in their home, let alone one in EVERY ROOM:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-echo-alexa-mishap-1.4677465
In a statement Thursday, Amazon confirmed the woman’s private conversation had been inadvertently recorded and sent. The company said the device interpreted a word in the background conversation as “Alexa” — a command that makes it wake up — and then it interpreted the conversation as a “send message” request.
The woman, who was identified only by her first name in the news report, said every room in her family’s home was wired with the Amazon devices to control her home’s heat, lights and security system.
As I’ve said since these things came out:
Anyone who has these devices should lose their security clearances immediately.
I fully disabled Cortana from my new laptop.
Every room in our home is wired with digital devices to control the heat, lights, and security system. They are called switches, and they can be operated with a single finger (digit.) Hard work, I know, but they don’t do what we don’t tell them to do.
Should be good…
“Canada’s military is considering lifting a longstanding citizenship requirement as a way to boost its numbers.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/caf-military-foreign-recruits-1.4675889
Maybe they could recruit the Mississauga restaurant bombers as they seem to have some experience with explosives and as long as one of them is female.
Meanwhile, it seems Ontario voters have not had enough economic destruction in their province and want to go from the frying pan directly into the fire. The demonization of Ford by the media seems to be paying off. George Soros will be smiling.
FORUM POLL: Ontario NDP Lead PCs By 14 Points, Projected To Win MAJORITY Government
https://www.spencerfernando.com/2018/05/25/forum-poll-ontario-ndp-lead-pcs-by-14-points-projected-to-win-majority-government/
Ontariowe may as well hit rock bottom. People 35 and under think Bob Rae is a bit of sunshine on a cloudy day and 1984 a good year to have been born, not a book about the USSR. “They’re promising free stuff everybody! Lets vote for them!” “Da. Iz good , comrade. Tell me again what your friend zaid about our Beloved Leader.”
Ken, I remember the Rae days during my 15 years living in Ontario. One of the more grotesque laws was that, under the NDP’s atrocious rent control regulations, each appartment had to have a lifetime rent log, which meant that – if the apartment was sold – the new owner could not raise rents above the maximum rent-increase limit. I owned a modest duplex in Ottawa at the time, and I recall stating losses of $1,000 a year on my tax forms. An NDP government could reinstate such a draconian system, which could render the Onario housing market into chaos.
The Dippers might even inflict a land bank on Ontario. After all, it worked so well when Dave Barrett ran B. C., didn’t it?
no kidding. iow a new buyer was hobbled by *whatever* rates previous, regardless of the reason.
I knew more than one rental property owner and the BIGGEST concern was the FACT clever tenants found the ‘loophole’ that allowed them to squat rent free whilst the ‘new’ democrap policies plodded along. for many months.
I rent rooms. it’s called shared accommodations. the landlord tenant act explicitly states it does NOT apply in this situation.
meanwhile, the municipal gubbamint floated an idea to charge past due hydro bills onto the landlord. prob is, in this privacy act world we live in, the landlord was stopped from ‘checking up’ on the status of the hydro account of the tenant.
I sent them a letter advising them they had ‘solved’ one problem by creating THOUSANDS more once word got out tenants can thumb their nose at the last 3 months hydro bill. and thus create a backlash of HUGE security deposits and dumping the cost of overdue bills on subsequent responsible tenants, not to mention whatever number of rental properties were about to go off the market.
jeezuz murphy. anybody know a politishun who EVER played devil’s advocate with their ideas?
p.s. with fierce opposition from the local landlord association the idea was scrubbed.
I think the poll is BS. Media induced voter suppression.
But, if the NDP do win there will be a mass exodus west.
That’s fine, they would mostly be welcome except for one thing, those idiots will still vote Liberal or NDP.
Happening in the States, people leave their high tax state to move to a low tax state but don’t have a clue why the state has low taxes and votes Democrat destroying the low tax environment.
Liberalism/progressive is a mental disease.
The entitlements they expect because they exist is going to hit a wall of reality.
An NDP government in Ontario is going to mega damage to that province and the country, hopefully enough that people will wake up.
as long as one of them is female
Or identifies as one or, better yet, has the full-body renovation to look the part.
“FORUM POLL: Ontario NDP Lead PCs By 14 Points, Projected To Win MAJORITY Government”
Canadians really are that F***ing STUPID.
(No Kate, I don’t speak for you)
Something weird in the poll, someone looked at the raw data. Turns out the PC’s actually led the poll but Forum did some weighting trick and the NDP came out on top. The raw numbers were 342 PC, 307 NDP, and 143 Liberal. How this is translated to a 14 point NDP lead is anyone’s guess, but to me it looks like someone is trying to create false momentum for the dippers.
Remember what Mark Twain said about statistics.
Canadians are showing a dangerous predilection to vote for what they don’t want.
This times are too good paradox will sink this country, we cannot afford its largesse.
Thank God our boomers weren’t thrifty in large enough numbers to retire are still in the workplace, but that won’t last with the youngest boomers at 56 (b. 62), the oldest at 71. with the massive clump of middle kids in their 60s. Many though are cutting way back on work time and technology can only do so much to bolster dampened productivity, unless ones assumes a perfect macro workplace where retired are replaced with mentored and properly prepared underlings.
Does anybody believe that’s happening.
We have exhausted monetary policy. We have exhausted fiscal policy. Our ability to further leverage is at great risk due its volume and rising inflation/interest rates.
Continuing to hamper the market, as statists do and brag about, will only accelerate the need for further government, at the cost of great coercion of the exhausted taxpayer, the poorest hit hardest again, but then held up as their champions in the ever expanding search to enlarge government.
Think about it. Federally, AB, BC, now ON possibly, electing arrogant statists, waffling in the political winds to maintain political power, while the rest of the world whizzes by in powered vessels.
That’s our future. In ON the Canadian voter reveals themselves.
They throw themselves into the arms of the other socialist rather than vote Conservative.
This nation is in the process of being shut down, except for government directed fanciful experiments in battling climate change with crippling taxation and willfully destroying the trusting bond between men and women of all sexual persuasions through their gender equity nonsense.
We need to stop blaming the politicians. We are the ones selling ourselves to hell in handbasket.
We seem to require great injury in order to change our political behaviour. Not good; not good at all.
“This nation is in the process of being shut down, except for government directed fanciful experiments in battling climate change with crippling taxation and willfully destroying the trusting bond between men and women of all sexual persuasions through their gender equity nonsense.”
That is the plan my friend. Maurice Strong’s dream coming true one province at a time.
That’s really bad. Very bad. Since these people have not governed before a minority would be prudent at this time. Majority will be a disaster. Horvarth does not have a team that can govern, plus most candidates are very new and not very smart. Yikes, what a mess. Our only hope is that the polls are way off. I would even accept a Liberal win (ideally minority) rather than the NDP.
I remember hearing the same things in 2015; a not so bad Trudeau minority turning into a God forbid majority. It happened then, it seems to be happening again.
One question though is what this means for the Grit federal vote, given the inertness of the federal NDP.
Many of the attack hit pieces coming out in the MSM outlets regarding the PC Party have been brought to the public’s attention by none other than “Press Progress”… another foreign funded organization hell bent on destroying whats left of Canada, probably all so called Canadians working at PP as well, as this country has no shortage of citizens ready and willing to take it down. I wonder if there is another foreign funded entity that works side by side with Canadian Media organizations for the primary purpose of hurting the PC’s electoral chances…? Will the MSM acknowledge that their hit pieces on the PC’s are bought and paid for by foreign interests?
“…“Press Progress”… another foreign funded organization hell bent on destroying whats left of Canada,…”
Not surprising in the least. Soros’ scumbags are busy everywhere.
At Sunday’s debate, the PCs should surprise everbody and have Christine Elliott, their new leader, at the podium.
They cannot really do that, unless something happens to Doug — like being accused of sexual harassment or something. But I’ll be PC’s are kicking themselves that Elliott is not their leader. She needed to do more to court social conservatives who are sick of being left out of the discussion.
Maybe an NDP government is a blessing in disguise. Remember when Rae was elected? The NDP haven’t been elected in Ontario since.
The one problem with full-socialism is the lack of money and high debt rate of Ontario. It would be amusing to watch the NDP attempt to fulfill new promises. Not to mention expensive.
As I remember when Rae was Premier, the ROC paid, in more ways than one. Remember what happened to interest rates? They resumed an upward trajectory. Ontario was the Big Kahuna on sucking up cash on the open market, becoming the market on borrowed money in Canaduh. Everybody else paid more because of it.
I’m selling off some more TSX today & into next week. I should be able to buy back later at lower prices….if they survive.
Open borders, open recruiting, right?
Hell of an idea! I can think of about 90 young fellows with recent military experience who are probably looking for work right now. We can call it the “Royal 23rd ISIS Brigade” and put a French Canadian General in charge .
““Royal 23rd ISIS Brigade” has a nice ring to it.
And then the Romans hired the barbarians. The sequel is history.
Great White Balkans Journal.
h/t Stupid Liberal Justine’s PET POT Cemetery Report.
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“Morneau books date in Calgary on eve of Trans Mountain deadline”
“‘Inaction is not an option’: CIBC pounds the table for new pipelines
Trans Mountain backstop is insurance on provincial strife: Morneau
‘We have reduced our competitive advantage’: Frank McKenna” (BNN)
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“Trans Mountain fight shows Canada ‘at a crossroads’: Cenovus CEO”
““Canada really is at a crossroads,” Alex Pourbaix told BNN Bloomberg in an interview Thursday.”
“Pourbaix argued investors are looking to see whether Canada can be a “reliable and responsible” global oil producer, pointing to TransCanada’s Energy East and Enbridge’s Northern Gateway projects as examples of past failures that have chipped away at investor confidence.
“We have this incredible opportunity, but right now I think investors are on the sidelines,” he said. “If we are not able to get this project done and completed and moving oil, I think investors are going to really question [whether] Canada can be there, not just to deliver oil but any major infrastructure project.””
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trans-mountain-battle-shows-canada-really-is-at-a-crossroads-cenovus-ceo-1.1082538
Heh,
Haven’t seen this one before.
Great fun!
http://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1447/89/1447897863838.png
And I’ll bet that he’s asking himself that why there aren’t any rainbow flags if it’s a pride parade. Uh, no–it’s not that sort of pride…..
The conflict isn’t so obvious in an intellectual vacuum.
If Trudeau were to rub two thoughts together he might generate a spark capable of blowing his head clean out of his posterior.
This would require two discreet events.
1st, a catastrophe great enough to fracture his cerebral hymen thus breaking the vacuum. (This event would have to be bad for Canada. Bad enough to reflect so poorly on Trudeau that his ego, the outer layer of the bone head, would have to be almost completely destroyed.)
2nd, Trudeau would then have to have two thoughts; thoughts of conflicting perspective. This would require learning followed by a contemplative moment. The resultant mental friction (in theory) would generate the big bang required.
The odds of the latter event are almost insurmountable and would require Canada an immense investment of time and money. It would be a great risk, given the abundance of methane known to exist within individuals, like Trudeau, who are full of elemental 5-h1-T.
An enormous undertaking to say the least.
It’s either that or:
1st, draft and pass an amendment to the Constitutional Act of 1892 defining the parameters for the removal of a sitting Prime Minister.
2nd, move forward with proceedings toward the removal of Trudeau based on the parameters so keenly defined in the amendment and win the votes required in Parliament to remove the pretty pretty Prime Minister without descending into a civil war.
Wow, hard times.
Its funny because its real.
From Russia with Love
http://epaper.calgarysun.com/calgary-sun/20180525/281728385186310
Didn’t you know that the lack of evidence that there was Russian meddling is proof that there was Russian meddling? They just happened to be particularly good at covering their tracks.
And, yes, the investigation will continue until they find something, anything. By that time, Trump might be out of office because he had finished serving his second term.
Thanks Ken, that was a good read.
It highlights the left’s utter hypocrisy of their faked hysteria about foreign meddling compared to their refusal to address foreign interests meddling by heavily funding these anti-oil industry groups. Not to even mention the Soros types, flooding in the cash to manipulate American’s voting choices. Or the countless non-Americans voting as Americans, for that matter.
Nope, they only get their panties in a twist if they think someone … gasp… is helping a Conservative cause.
Remember Ncheki Diallo? No? You may recall her by her “former” white name, Rachel Dolezal. Guess who’s in trouble for welfare fraud:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/25/rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-posed-as-black-charged-with-welfare-fraud/
I, for one, welcome our new self-driving over-lords….
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SALT LAKE CITY — A Tesla that crashed while in Autopilot mode in Utah this month accelerated in the seconds before it smashed into a stopped firetruck, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press Thursday. Two people were injured.
The car company has said it repeatedly warns drivers to stay alert, keep their hands on the wheel and maintain control of their vehicle at all times while using the Autopilot system.
http://ottawasun.com/news/world/tesla-that-crashed-in-autopilot-sped-up-before-hitting-firetruck/wcm/635d663e-8810-46cc-a8e6-cab8951f1379
Back as late as the 1960s, the Canadian Forces recruited from within all Commonwealth countries. We had New Zealanders, Aussies, lots of Brits and even a white Nigerian-born immigrant. The requirement for Canadian citizenship came from a demand by the Americans that only Canadian citizens could be allowed access to joint material (CANUS, CANUKUS, etc.). I don’t see that changing unless we are to limit access to classified materials by non-citizen soldiers and that would be a nightmare to administer.
Thanks for the backstory!
I hadn’t thought about the risk to shared intel under this policy.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see that as a fast-track to citizenship, either.
“But they served in the military! Of course they love our country. I thought you people worshipped soldiers.” etc..
I suspect they can’t reach their recruiting goals because they won’t take white men. They would rather recruit foreign women than Canadian men because they must meet the goal of being 25 percent women.
When I read that Clint passed I thought of this Toby Keith song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIq1LvzSLsk
The doomsday scenario will be a lot closer if Ontario goes ndp.
Bob and Ray found out what it means to owe money and maybe not pay it back. Back in the day the head of the autoworkers Bob White had unrestricted access to the ndp government. His advice to Bob and Ray was to default on the provincial debt…. after all it’s just money we owe to ourselves – right?
Word got out to the money lenders and one day the money boys from NYC summonsed Bob and Ray for an immediate ‘consultation’.
They explained that they had lent the money to the government and expected to be paid back. It was made clear in terms even Bob and Ray could understand.
Shaken, Bob and Ray returned to Toronto and immediately went to work changing his circle of advisers. Bob White was disappeared (later the UAW also disappeared him) and there was no more talk of defaulting on the debt.
The Ontario government is again in serious debt. The ndp if it forms government will find out quickly what the responsibilities of governing are. They will do maximum damage as is their want but I would think that with finances in the condition they are (undoubtedly a lot worse than the liberals are reporting) borrowing money to deliver election promises might not be an option.
For those of you that don’t remember, Bob and Ray were a Las Vegas comedy team back in the day when the mob owned the strip.
For those of you that don’t remember, Bob and Ray were a Las Vegas comedy team back in the day when the mob owned the strip.
Their Komodo dragon sketch is a true comedy classic.
And don’t forget ace reporter Wally Balou, not to mention Natalie Attired.
AGW Fail.
Three (3) Why?s a Spring Maketh Not.
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“‘Why? Why? Why?’: Dismay and disbelief in Newfoundland as late-May snow smothers spring
‘You would think you were in January. People have been golfing, and raking, everything here was very spring-like. So this has set us back'” (NP)
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“Arctic sea ice volume greater than 2014
Meanwhile, the earth’s surface has cooled since the last powerful El Nino ended, and thus could be having some effect on Arctic sea ice.
Japanese climate skeptic and blogger Kirye tweeted yesterday that Arctic sea ice volume has in fact exceeded the level seen in 2014, and is now just somewhat below average, and so fully within the range of natural variability:…”
http://notrickszone.com/
High school diplomacy and Valentines, or is it leadership – or is it “talent?”
“Following Trump’s letter to Kim on Thursday suggesting to hold the meeting would have been “inappropriate,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blasted the president, suggesting Kim had “won.”
Pelosi described the letter from Trump to Kim as a “Valentine.”
“He’s the big winner and when he got this letter from the president saying ‘okay nevermind,’ he must be having a giggle fit, right now, in North Korea,” Pelosi said on Capitol Hill Thursday.”
Methinks Kim didn’t get her punchline. “A top North Korean official had issued a statement Thursday evening expressing the regime’s “willingness” to sit down for a summit with the U.S.”
“We express our willingness to sit down face-to-face with the U.S. and resolve issues anytime and in any format,” North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan said, according to Yonhap News outlet, which cited the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA.)”
DJT: “Very good news to receive the warm and productive statement from North Korea. We will soon see where it will lead, hopefully to long and enduring prosperity and peace. Only time (and talent) will tell!”
Maybe the POTUS has a better grasp of the situation, aka the first walkaway:
“Democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with North Korea. Just like they are coming to the defense of MS 13 thugs, saying that they are individuals & must be nurtured, or asking to end your big Tax Cuts & raise your taxes instead. Dems have lost touch!”
Let the resistors resist, straight to the political boneyard with Trump as their traffic cop. The Demedia tried to school Trump and once again has become a part of one of his teaching moments.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/25/trump-welcomes-productive-statement-from-north-korea-says-dems-rooting-against-talks.html
England.
Tommy Robinson.
“Arrested, tried, and sentenced within an hour: Tommy Robinson gets 13 months for livestreaming outside courthouse”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/05/arrested-tried-and-sentenced-within-an-hour-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse
and… he’s expected to be in the “general population”
hence, “death sentence”
… !
Viscious treatment of Robinson — such a brave person. 13 months for livestreaming something is totally our of line. The UK has turned into a police state. They are looking to rival the old Soviet Union with their justice department simply doing the government bidding. I am really saddened by this as I think Tommy is a very brave and patriotic person.
Here is Stefan on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irhQtamQ6Mo UK STASI is prohibiting reporting on Tommy’s case. No creeping Sharia at all.
Also Lauren reports on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRt-iFANWKg
Ezra Levant’s comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w7MJZX5YU
What Conrad said.
“The early righteousness of the anti-Trump lynch-mob was deflated when the Steele dossier was revealed as defamatory lies assembled and paid for by the Clinton campaign. The feeble effort at claiming a boozy conversation between a very junior member of the Trump campaign team and a former Australian politician (who had secured $25 million of Australian government money for the Clinton Foundation) as the source of the investigation has crumbled. The origins were earlier, and Christopher Steele and prominent members of the FBI and CIA shopped his inane and scatological dossier around the media to incite the misplaced belief that there were multiple disinterested sources for its contents.”
It also seems to be clear that Comey, and former National Intelligence and Central Intelligence directors James Clapper and John Brennan, were involved in improper leaks of confidential information and in coordinating their activities to mislead the president-elect. All three also appear to have misled congressional committees while under oath. The inspector general of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, is apparently only a week away from a release to the Congress (i.e., the world) of his report on the official handling of the Clinton emails affair. His report is reportedly 400 pages, and there has never in recent history been a 400-page nothingburger.”
A snapshot of this welter of dubious antics today reveals these points: The tide is running in the president’s favor; high and trusted positions have been seriously misused in a partisan cause that would not have come to light if the election result had been different and is the greatest scandal in American history; the Trumpophobes can’t go on trying to make grenades out of marshmallows like the amusing divertissement of Stormy Daniels (whose obnoxious lawyer wasn’t her lawyer — just a volunteer militant Democratic publicity hound and undischarged bankrupt); and the public is bored with Mueller, and unless he looks at the Democrats too his investigation will be an unmitigated fiasco. Anyone who sees a blue wave in the mid-terms coming out of this immense shambles is in the desert suffering a mirage with Maxine Waters.”
http://www.conradmblack.com/1395/the-collapse-of-the-collusion-narrative
I hope Black is right!
Seeing crooked Hillary in an orange pant suit would go a long way to restore my faith in justice.
Not likely but one can hope…
I am pretty sure Black is right, but will anyone face the consequences? The political scammers seem to have a way of escaping penalties for their corrupt actions. If they would at least be exposed by the media, then Americans would be more informed, but the media seems to want to protect some of the corrupt self-serving and deceptive individuals.
Officer-cadet from Royal Military College Saint-Jean expelled for defiling Qur’an
…The military consulted Hassan Guillet, spokesperson for the Quebec Council of Imams, on how to handle the crisis.
Guillet said the incident is unacceptable, but it is better that it came to light.
“Imagine if they had not done this horrible act now, we would not have discovered them,” he said.
“They would have been in the army for a long time. They would have graduated and perhaps even become senior officers with a racist attitude like that, lacking respect, lacking sensitivity to the faith of their colleagues. It’s serious.”
The imam said the Armed Forces is sending the right message with the punishment issued to those involved. ”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/officer-cadet-from-royal-military-college-saint-jean-expelled-for-defiling-qur-an-1.4678092
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To know who rules over you, find out who you are not allowed to …
The M.B. won the last Fed. election, their narrative rules. “racist”? If the U.S.S.R. had been so clever…
Post 9/11, the important question is not what fell, but what remained standing.
Looking for that all expenses paid get away?
Look into Roxham Road Paradise.
https://youtu.be/G9BbbK0YJiE
Victim of vicious reading room attack dies
Elisabeth Salm, 59, was volunteering at Christian Science Reading Room when she was assaulted Thursday
CBC News · Posted: May 25
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/christian-science-assault-ottawa-1.4677948
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Christians under attack but not in Canada, you say, that’s only in West. Europe, the Middle-East, Africa, S.E. Asia, South Asia, …
Will there be any Christian churches and clergy raise an alarm? Any politicians? Anyone at all?
Back in the day when I was a stupid poli-sci student id go to the CSRR and read the CS Monitor. It was a pretty good source of straight up reporting from areas around the world. Perhaps a bit less political than most publications.
It was quiet – more so than a library and no proselytizing NME666.
That is awful. I had not heard about that happening. I hope they get the guy who did it.
MSM leftist urinalist beaten down by justice served.
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“Alberta Appeals Court bumps up award to ‘Scud Stud’
A former war correspondent has been awarded another $200,000 in costs related to his years-long legal dispute with one of Canada’s biggest media companies.
Arthur Kent won a defamation suit two years ago against the company that is now Postmedia and its former columnist Don Martin.
The case stemmed from a 2008 column that painted Kent as an out-of-control egomaniac as he campaigned for a seat in the Alberta legislature.”
“A judge found the piece would cause right-thinking people to think less of Kent and awarded him damages of $200,000 and costs of $250,000.””
https://globalnews.ca/news/4231590/arthur-kent-defamation/
so, what are your weekend plans dear SDA?
I got a concret planter out front, about the profile of a street curb thats getting smashed out and turned into gravel to provide the base of an extension on the sidwalk in the back yard.
to save a few bucks and for lack of a place to dispose of the busted concrete. eureka!! 2 birds with one sledge hammer!!
Im 67 in august. wtf is a senior citoyen like me doing smashing concrete when I could be twttering all day and watching oprah?
because my generation and fambly has WORK ETHIC hardcoded in the DNA.
compared to the present wuss generation with their manbuns, triggers and
gender-in-yer-face gender-in-yer-face priorities.
they would give up after 5 minutes as opposed to stopping when the job is done.
wtf has the world come to? up is down, black is white, on is off, truth is whateverthefcuktheysayitis.
sign of the times !!
I’ve been spending a few hours this week cleaning and waxing my car. I plan on finishing it tomorrow after I do some laundry and get 2 loaves of bread ready for baking.
Lifting weights in the basement before a late steak dinner. Addition to my deck tomorrow. Girleen is working but I have beer, the dog and tunes to keep me company. I’m only 54 though. Cheers.
Painting
I am going to vote in the Ontario election. You can do advanced voting starting tomorrow. I will be voting for a guy who is with the Trillium Party. He is our current MPP, having left the PC’s over altercations with Brown. I like him because he is very good about keeping in touch with the community. He works hard and has some very good ideas. If he is elected as an independent it will be good, no matter which party gets in.
NDP will be greatful for your vote for Trilium.
NDP will not win in my riding. Liberals could come up the middle. Voting always poses a dilemma, but if an incumbent works hard and is responsive to constituents, I think they deserve loyalty.
Opening the pool, finishing the garden.
Out to the range.
Fire up the Q.
A few pops at BP for lunch.
Full retirement in a couple of months.
Then it’s into the wood shop to build those projects I have been planning to for years
Today, in 1973, Skylab 2 with Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, and Joe Kerwin, was launched.
Skylab 1 was to be America’s first space station. It was a Saturn S-IV that had been re-designed as a habitat and laboratory. It was launched on the 14th and it was the last time that the Saturn V booster flew.
Soon after launch, Skylab suffered a mishap. One of the main photovoltaic arrays, as well as part of Skylab’s external meteorite shielding, had been torn off. When the lab had reached orbit, mission control found that its internal temperature was far too hot and the remaining main PV array hadn’t deployed. The entire program appeared to be close to failure.
The crew was launched and took with them equipment that might free the PV array as well as a parasol that would provide shade for Skylab.
The parasol was installed and the temperature dropped low enough that the crew could enter the lab. For the first few days, power was provided by the PV arrays for the Apollo Telescope Mount, which was one of the on-board experiments. Eventually, it became necessary to free the remaining main PV modules.
Once that was accomplished and sufficient electrical power became available, the astronauts were able to complete their 28-day mission.
Conrad, a veteran of Gemini and Apollo, thought that his time on board Skylab was perhaps his most important contribution to spaceflight.
To protect and serve: https://www.local10.com/news/local-10-investigates/parents-call-for-investigation-into-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-assault-involving-sheriffs-son jakbooted thugs one and all.