My relatives used to bale hay with stuff called “haywire” and used it to fix their equipment.
When something had a lot of haywire holding it together, it was said to have “gone haywire”.
Thus endeth our lesson for the night.
Conservatives Crush Liberals In By-Election
Margin of victory for Conservative candidate surges in Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands & Rideau Lakes. The Conservatives have won big in the by-election taking place in the riding of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands & Rideau Lakes. The riding was held by the Conservatives, and the by-election was necessary due to the tragic death of Conservative MP Gord Brown.
They weren’t thinking. They were whacked out on substances according to anything ever written about them, and by their own admission. They were wealthy beyond their own wildest dreams. At least they had a choice. They were the genuine taxpayers, part of a large group, born post WW II, the Boomers born between ’46 and ’64. And it was Boomers that made them rich. They could have written and recorded what they did because they had the demographic to buy it.
They seem rather amusing to me now. In the song I submitted they were coked out according to the comments afterwards. It is history. Stewart was a different sort from the Stones. We all heard their songs because there was only radio and records. Things have surely changed. Most Boomers today like other stuff. Like abtrapper is a jazz man, yourself, B A, into Classics and as for myself, it’s a mixed bag full of memories and days gone by. At least we have something. The kids today don’t.
I’m not nuts about what I submitted here either. In fact the site owner, Kate, had the best pick “Wild Horses” – a nice and slow tune, quite romantic…”wild horses couldn’t drag me away!”
So with that choice taken, I am left blabbing about the Rolling Stones because of their familiarity and longevity. Truth is, I was recently listening to a Russian cover group and they are excellent musicians. They are now able to play Western music because it used to be forbidden in the old U.S.S.R. This is something, in and of itself, to behold. Good for them.
Let’s hope we can keep our freedom. Freedom to play the best and the worst of it all. Freedom to be healthy, to live, love and laugh!
Here is that Russian group mentioned ▪@ 2:40 am, they are enthusiastic and seem to enjoy playing. They are called “Leonid and Friends”. Here they play a tune from the American group “Chicago” called “Beginnings”… “about how time passes much too quickly”… you know the rest.
Amusing too that the creaky old Rolling Stones are now well-heeled members of the very Establishment they used to spite.
It was ever thus.
And a lot of them now have received knighthoods from British Royalty like: Mick Jagger.
As well as Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Van Morrison, and Ray Davies, although, I must say that I don’t know which of these ‘knights’ disliked the Royals. Paul did mention Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth, Her Majesty, in a Beatles song.
(Funny – we used to call our male teachers “Sir” all the time. I still say “Sir” to real men especially when a gentleman holds a door open for me and I thank him)
“… I still say “Sir” to real men especially when a gentleman holds a door open for me and I thank him
We’re still around Nancy….being courteous was instilled in me at a very young age by my mom…I’m awaiting the day I get shat upon for doing so by some purple haired fat ugly monster… and I don’t mean Calgary’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi.
To Steakman ▪ @ 11:13 a.m.
So, THAT was you!
Heh, heh!
Keep on trucking, man!
Next time I’ll tell you my name!
It was also used over the opening credits of the TV series Tour of Duty.
Yes, excellent choice, I forgot about that song. Your memory is better than mine, I’m jealous! Can’t compete! “Tour of Duty” was so poignant as a series. I binged watched it one winter on a weekend and “Paint it Black” was a perfect theme song! In fact I liked the song better when I watched the show than when it came out way back.
Who is the best r&r band? Stones win hands down. I know I know it’s subjective.
As for the Brits bestowing knighthoods….arrrrugh. British hubris.
“Who is the best r&r band?” Should take votes here.
Who has stayed together long enough and who has the recordings to prove it, like the Stones? And who is still alive to merit this ‘best’ title and who has the best showmanship? Gosh, perhaps the Stones… but they are British and r&r is an American invention. Gee I like Eric Clapton, he plays guitar like nobodies business…Mick doesn’t…is Keith better? It’s a toughie?
I do refer to the annual Award show and watch it faithfully annually, it’s the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” as seen on H.B.O. usually in the month of April. The rockers are getting so old now that in future who knows if they will even have it anymore. I don’t see anyone new. Do you?
Yeah, I like the Stones too, abtrapper.
My statement about the Stones being the best r&r band doesn’t mean I think they are. They are the best because the marketplace says they are.
I hesitate to ever say one band or player is better than another. Better at what? Yes Clapton is a very good player but so is Billy Kirtchen.
There is no way to prove these things so when the inevitable discussion comes up I simply differ to who is the most
popular according to the public.
It is after all the public (market) who decide who is a rock star and who isn’t.
We don’t have to agree.
LOL low talent, crappy vocals, insipid lyrics. Doesn’t take much to please stones fans.
And you probably can’t be quiet to hear anything.
Ah stick it where the sun don’t shine. There are lots of great rock and roll bands, from the sixties and seventies. The only thing the Stones have in their favor is longevity.
BTW I can play and have all my life. Grest bands of the sixties? The Who, The Band, Colosseum, Jeff Beck, Led Zepplin.
The Stones wanted Rory Gallagher to be their guitarist. He left after a week to play a gig in Tokyo. He got tired of waiting for the prima donna, Richards, to get out of bed. You need to put away the bong and listen to better music.
Cool video of Chuck Norris, and Hungarian President, Viktor Orban
Blatant Islamophobia and Clintonphobia by dRumpf’s DOJ!
“Three Northern Virginia men –including one who reportedly celebrated New Year’s Eve in 1999 with the Clintons– were charged last week for their alleged roles in a scheme to defraud the Pentagon after receiving an $8 billion contract in 2012 to provide food and supplies to troops in Afghanistan, the Department of Justice announced.
Abdul Huda Farouki, 75, the former Anham CEO; his brother Mazen Farouki, 73; and Salah Maarouf, 71, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to eight counts each of fraud and violating sanctions against Iran, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. The men were charged in Washington, D.C.
Abdul Huda Farouki and his wife were Washington socialites and donated to the Clinton family charity, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Washington Post reported that the former CEO celebrated New Year’s Eve with the Clintons in 1999 and was invited to a state dinner. The report pointed to a Bloomberg article that cited a government audit that found that Anham overbilled the Pentagon $4.4 million.”
What evidence do you bring to the discussion? What then is the lie?
Hey Gang. Help me out here. George Orwell wrote a book about a bunch of farmyard animals staging a revolution, and taking over the farm. “4 legs good, 2 legs bad”. Now, I read this book when I was in high school. I see leftists all over the internet spouting off about this book. Back then, we used to study history in school, to prevent the horrors of the past from repeating. If you happened to study the Communist Revolution in Russia, in the very early 20th Century, you would realize Animal Farm is the same story. It is a very ANTI-COMMUNIST book. But apparently the public school system is not very good at churning out thinkers. It is very good at producing drones who will repeat the government approved thoughts. What am I getting wrong here?
Your built-in assumption that the public school system is supposed to churn out thinkers for one…
You haven’t gotten anything wrong as far as I can see. The educators are dumbing down the kids today on purpose. Remember the saying “Knowledge is power?” Well ‘they’ will bestow power on whom they choose not one who merits it through education. (like you know who)
Yesterday, out and about, I was in a place where I was waiting for something and out of the clear blue I struck up a conversation with a woman who revealed how dismayed she was because when she asked about the kids of today and what they were learning in school, she was told that the kids play and are entertained all day! Yikes! We were both dismayed because as as kids, we ourselves had hours and hours of written homework, in grade school!
In high school it was the same, we used to have to memorize poetry, we read Shakespeare and Dickens etc. We had Latin, French, Algebra, Trig, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, also World History and Canadian History and more. Who knows what they learn today. They pass the kids even the flunkies, there’s no repeating grades. Have times changed!
(Yes, I guess dance class and hockey are more important)
Liberal government earmarks 20% of what it spent compensating LGTBQ “victims” who were discriminated against to rejoin the NATO surveillance program.
“The Liberal government has budgeted up to $20 million in this fiscal year to rejoin NATO’s Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) program, reversing a Conservative-era budget cut in the name of alliance utility and solidarity.”
“Canada had been part of the AWACS program for decades. When the Conservatives pulled the plug they cast the decision in economic terms, saying it had little direct benefit.”
No that is not true.
“One of the major complaints voiced about the program behind closed doors in Stephen Harper’s government had to do with NATO’s reluctance to deploy the sophisticated surveillance aircraft on missions to Afghanistan and Iraq. The aircraft eventually were used for those missions, but not without considerable debate and what some Canadian officials saw as foot-dragging on NATO’s part.”
Under Harper, Canada was paying for the surveillance but were not receiving the service, so he cancelled. As in…
“The debate within the Harper government was over the logic of paying for a defence system that doesn’t contribute directly to the defence of North America.”
So why rejoin?
“National Defence defends the decision to jump back into the program, saying in an email that several things have changed, causing Canada to re-evaluate the relevancy of its participation. A major factor is the introduction of the Liberal government’s new defence policy, which emphasizes the need for better surveillance and reconnaissance.”
The Liberal government feels the need for better surveillance and reconnaissance so it is “earmarking” (not spending) $20 million for the military and spending (not earmarking) $100 million on compensating LGBTQ individuals.
For the record I am not against compensating people in the LGBTQ community for $100 million, but $20 million is not much of an earmark. In fact it’s barely 2 terrorist compensations.
And what did Trudeau say? “We just don’t have the money” to compensate our veterans?
The law of unintended consequences strikes the #MeToo set:
“..In fact, as a wealth adviser put it, just hiring a woman these days is “an unknown risk.” What if she took something he said the wrong way?”
‘What if she took something he said the wrong way?’……………
——————————————————
“Accusations can damage a reputation and a marriage. Sometimes irreversibly.” Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Not a fan of Neil but can’t help but sypmpathize. Some frivoulous incidents that *tramatized* the women “victims” and one serious charge……. which took place 34 years ago (allegedly). No man is safe ever and the higher your profile and reputation, the less safe you are.
I saw mick and the boys at the old cne stadium when it was still there in the 90s.
‘voodoo lounge’ it was. m’kay, finally got the $ and proximity . . . .
until the upside down crosses poured out on the big screen.
I walked out and gave my ticket to a panhandler suggesting they scalp it.
I can’t decide whether this belongs under Volkfest or 20 Hitchhikers:
150 students and staff at Ottawa High School warned about a TB risk. Who the hell has TB in Canada today!
I use the CBC to see what the other side is thinking, or not thinking.
TB in Canada is part of the price Trudeau and company is willing to pay for mass immigration perhaps?
Wonder how thoroughly his “Irregulars” are checked for such diseases?
It seems to me if they were being housed in hotels and University dorms during the summer without thorough health screening we will see more such cases.
Well Liz, it may not be one of the irregulars.
1600 cases in Canada in 2016, 90% affected 2 main populations, with ~20% of cases being Indigenous persons. (70% Immigrants of unstated origin).
While this does point to an issue with screening, of more importance to me is the health care of the Indigenous, Elderly and Poor Canadians that is being neglected as multi-millions o dollars are spent on non-Canadians.
Preaching to the world while not keeping your own house in order is by far the greatest failure of any politician. And today’s batch are the worst yet!
Got to wonder how many university and college kids coming home from dorms for Christmas Holidays are bringing something a little extra home with them?
When I come home from exotic climes, change in the garage and bag everything until it can be sanitized. Unfortunately there have been times I’ve had to do this coming home from Canadian cities, bedbugs are horrible!
When it comes to the Rolling Stones they take it for longevity. Keith Richards, who once fell out of a tree…he may have been higher than the tree….should donate his body to science.
I heard a comment on the radio the other day, don’t remember it all so will paraphrase it.
The world will be destroyed by Climate Change / Last Great War / Trump. There will only be cockroaches left. And Keith Richards strumming his guitar on a hill top.
I just listened to 20 minutes, but this man looks at the phenom wrt teen suicide, who uses twitter etc, and how it’s correlated with anxiety and depression. Interesting POV with fresh eyes. Looks at the personalities of the inventors as prototypes of some users.
Churchill get a train.
Supposedly today some time.
Interestingly the locals had to form a company to buy the line,so they could then fix it.
Link is CBC so naturally no mention of cost of repair.
Check this out! Starting at 5 min mark starts to get interesting.
So far every hate crime on a university campus has proven to be a hoax:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38982/hate-crime-hoax-swastikas-and-racist-graffiti-ashe-schow
Because it’s just so hard to find real racists.
And this one falls under the “I, for one, welcome our new, self-PILOTING overlords” category:
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/opinion-lion-air-plane-crash-shows-hazards-of-ai-going-haywire-264286/
The pilots fought the planes automatic pilot settings for six minutes and it still crashed itself. Methinks that Boeing will be paying out huge compensation money for this one.
Haywire is a great fixer-upper until it until it isn’t and then things go ‘haywire’.
Haywire Mechanic
Thus endeth our lesson for the night.
Conservatives Crush Liberals In By-Election
Margin of victory for Conservative candidate surges in Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands & Rideau Lakes. The Conservatives have won big in the by-election taking place in the riding of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands & Rideau Lakes. The riding was held by the Conservatives, and the by-election was necessary due to the tragic death of Conservative MP Gord Brown.
https://www.spencerfernando.com/
Are the people finally waking up to the disaster that the government of PM Butts is?
No, it’s not a surprise to anyone here. It would have been a huge surprise if the Liberals had won.
Maybe it wasn’t that the Conservatives won but the Liberals lost.
Exactly. Even the Dear Leader’s appearance at the Geronimo coffee shop in downtown Kemptville was never going to put a dent in “Gord Brown Country”!
(In fact, his appearance might only have served to remind locals again to get out and vote Conservative.)
Are the people finally waking up to the disaster that the government of PM Butts is?
Nah. It was because of Andrew Scheep’s overwhelming personality and persuasion. (sarcasm = off)
(Jumpin’ Jehosophat! About half a dozen capcha windows before I could post!)
There has been nothing about this by-election on the CTV main website.
In that riding more people voted Librano last time than voted Conservative this time. Hardly overwhelming
TQ for Wild Horses. Remember this from way way back?
https://youtu.be/hic-dnps6MU
I wasn’t much of a fan of Mick and the boys, but that song totally destroyed their credibility with me for many years.
Similarly, I can say the same thing about Rod Stewart, who totally trashed his reputation with me by recording this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs
What were those people thinking?
“What were those people thinking?”
They weren’t thinking. They were whacked out on substances according to anything ever written about them, and by their own admission. They were wealthy beyond their own wildest dreams. At least they had a choice. They were the genuine taxpayers, part of a large group, born post WW II, the Boomers born between ’46 and ’64. And it was Boomers that made them rich. They could have written and recorded what they did because they had the demographic to buy it.
They seem rather amusing to me now. In the song I submitted they were coked out according to the comments afterwards. It is history. Stewart was a different sort from the Stones. We all heard their songs because there was only radio and records. Things have surely changed. Most Boomers today like other stuff. Like abtrapper is a jazz man, yourself, B A, into Classics and as for myself, it’s a mixed bag full of memories and days gone by. At least we have something. The kids today don’t.
I’m not nuts about what I submitted here either. In fact the site owner, Kate, had the best pick “Wild Horses” – a nice and slow tune, quite romantic…”wild horses couldn’t drag me away!”
So with that choice taken, I am left blabbing about the Rolling Stones because of their familiarity and longevity. Truth is, I was recently listening to a Russian cover group and they are excellent musicians. They are now able to play Western music because it used to be forbidden in the old U.S.S.R. This is something, in and of itself, to behold. Good for them.
Let’s hope we can keep our freedom. Freedom to play the best and the worst of it all. Freedom to be healthy, to live, love and laugh!
Here is that Russian group mentioned ▪@ 2:40 am, they are enthusiastic and seem to enjoy playing. They are called “Leonid and Friends”. Here they play a tune from the American group “Chicago” called “Beginnings”… “about how time passes much too quickly”… you know the rest.
https://youtu.be/7kQ1llzPiB4
Amusing too that the creaky old Rolling Stones are now well-heeled members of the very Establishment they used to spite.
It was ever thus.
And a lot of them now have received knighthoods from British Royalty like: Mick Jagger.
As well as Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Van Morrison, and Ray Davies, although, I must say that I don’t know which of these ‘knights’ disliked the Royals. Paul did mention Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth, Her Majesty, in a Beatles song.
(Funny – we used to call our male teachers “Sir” all the time. I still say “Sir” to real men especially when a gentleman holds a door open for me and I thank him)
“… I still say “Sir” to real men especially when a gentleman holds a door open for me and I thank him
We’re still around Nancy….being courteous was instilled in me at a very young age by my mom…I’m awaiting the day I get shat upon for doing so by some purple haired fat ugly monster… and I don’t mean Calgary’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi.
To Steakman ▪ @ 11:13 a.m.
So, THAT was you!
Heh, heh!
Keep on trucking, man!
Next time I’ll tell you my name!
The RS with Muddy Waters in the Checkerboard Lounge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmESwRgigY
Saw the RS once in Redmonton. Voodoo Lounge tour. I was ‘in the pit’ center stage – 15′ from the band. Whata night!
Colin James opened.
https://youtu.be/RbmS3tQJ7Os
Lucky you ab. Had no such opportunity. Their concerts are on Crave TV, so I enjoyed that.
Stanley Kubrick used this for the closing credits of Full Metal Jacket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
It was also used over the opening credits of the TV series Tour of Duty.
Yes, excellent choice, I forgot about that song. Your memory is better than mine, I’m jealous! Can’t compete! “Tour of Duty” was so poignant as a series. I binged watched it one winter on a weekend and “Paint it Black” was a perfect theme song! In fact I liked the song better when I watched the show than when it came out way back.
Who is the best r&r band? Stones win hands down. I know I know it’s subjective.
As for the Brits bestowing knighthoods….arrrrugh. British hubris.
“Who is the best r&r band?” Should take votes here.
Who has stayed together long enough and who has the recordings to prove it, like the Stones? And who is still alive to merit this ‘best’ title and who has the best showmanship? Gosh, perhaps the Stones… but they are British and r&r is an American invention. Gee I like Eric Clapton, he plays guitar like nobodies business…Mick doesn’t…is Keith better? It’s a toughie?
I do refer to the annual Award show and watch it faithfully annually, it’s the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame” as seen on H.B.O. usually in the month of April. The rockers are getting so old now that in future who knows if they will even have it anymore. I don’t see anyone new. Do you?
Yeah, I like the Stones too, abtrapper.
My statement about the Stones being the best r&r band doesn’t mean I think they are. They are the best because the marketplace says they are.
I hesitate to ever say one band or player is better than another. Better at what? Yes Clapton is a very good player but so is Billy Kirtchen.
There is no way to prove these things so when the inevitable discussion comes up I simply differ to who is the most
popular according to the public.
It is after all the public (market) who decide who is a rock star and who isn’t.
We don’t have to agree.
LOL low talent, crappy vocals, insipid lyrics. Doesn’t take much to please stones fans.
And you probably can’t be quiet to hear anything.
Ah stick it where the sun don’t shine. There are lots of great rock and roll bands, from the sixties and seventies. The only thing the Stones have in their favor is longevity.
BTW I can play and have all my life. Grest bands of the sixties? The Who, The Band, Colosseum, Jeff Beck, Led Zepplin.
The Stones wanted Rory Gallagher to be their guitarist. He left after a week to play a gig in Tokyo. He got tired of waiting for the prima donna, Richards, to get out of bed. You need to put away the bong and listen to better music.
Cool video of Chuck Norris, and Hungarian President, Viktor Orban
https://zox.ee/video/cool-video-of-chuck-norris-and-hungarian-president-viktor-orban
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The rustlers from Brussels, hustlers all, began to panic…
Chuck Norris is SEVENTY EIGHT YEARS OLD.
Blatant Islamophobia and Clintonphobia by dRumpf’s DOJ!
“Three Northern Virginia men –including one who reportedly celebrated New Year’s Eve in 1999 with the Clintons– were charged last week for their alleged roles in a scheme to defraud the Pentagon after receiving an $8 billion contract in 2012 to provide food and supplies to troops in Afghanistan, the Department of Justice announced.
Abdul Huda Farouki, 75, the former Anham CEO; his brother Mazen Farouki, 73; and Salah Maarouf, 71, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to eight counts each of fraud and violating sanctions against Iran, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. The men were charged in Washington, D.C.
Abdul Huda Farouki and his wife were Washington socialites and donated to the Clinton family charity, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Washington Post reported that the former CEO celebrated New Year’s Eve with the Clintons in 1999 and was invited to a state dinner. The report pointed to a Bloomberg article that cited a government audit that found that Anham overbilled the Pentagon $4.4 million.”
All rightwing media lies!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/prominent-clinton-supporter-among-3-charged-in-alleged-scheme-to-defraud-pentagon-billions-doj-says.amp?
Please explain the lies part.
What evidence do you bring to the discussion? What then is the lie?
Hey Gang. Help me out here. George Orwell wrote a book about a bunch of farmyard animals staging a revolution, and taking over the farm. “4 legs good, 2 legs bad”. Now, I read this book when I was in high school. I see leftists all over the internet spouting off about this book. Back then, we used to study history in school, to prevent the horrors of the past from repeating. If you happened to study the Communist Revolution in Russia, in the very early 20th Century, you would realize Animal Farm is the same story. It is a very ANTI-COMMUNIST book. But apparently the public school system is not very good at churning out thinkers. It is very good at producing drones who will repeat the government approved thoughts. What am I getting wrong here?
Your built-in assumption that the public school system is supposed to churn out thinkers for one…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
You haven’t gotten anything wrong as far as I can see. The educators are dumbing down the kids today on purpose. Remember the saying “Knowledge is power?” Well ‘they’ will bestow power on whom they choose not one who merits it through education. (like you know who)
Yesterday, out and about, I was in a place where I was waiting for something and out of the clear blue I struck up a conversation with a woman who revealed how dismayed she was because when she asked about the kids of today and what they were learning in school, she was told that the kids play and are entertained all day! Yikes! We were both dismayed because as as kids, we ourselves had hours and hours of written homework, in grade school!
In high school it was the same, we used to have to memorize poetry, we read Shakespeare and Dickens etc. We had Latin, French, Algebra, Trig, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, also World History and Canadian History and more. Who knows what they learn today. They pass the kids even the flunkies, there’s no repeating grades. Have times changed!
(Yes, I guess dance class and hockey are more important)
Liberal government earmarks 20% of what it spent compensating LGTBQ “victims” who were discriminated against to rejoin the NATO surveillance program.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/awac-nato-surveillance-ukraine-1.4931098
“The Liberal government has budgeted up to $20 million in this fiscal year to rejoin NATO’s Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) program, reversing a Conservative-era budget cut in the name of alliance utility and solidarity.”
“Canada had been part of the AWACS program for decades. When the Conservatives pulled the plug they cast the decision in economic terms, saying it had little direct benefit.”
No that is not true.
“One of the major complaints voiced about the program behind closed doors in Stephen Harper’s government had to do with NATO’s reluctance to deploy the sophisticated surveillance aircraft on missions to Afghanistan and Iraq. The aircraft eventually were used for those missions, but not without considerable debate and what some Canadian officials saw as foot-dragging on NATO’s part.”
Under Harper, Canada was paying for the surveillance but were not receiving the service, so he cancelled. As in…
“The debate within the Harper government was over the logic of paying for a defence system that doesn’t contribute directly to the defence of North America.”
So why rejoin?
“National Defence defends the decision to jump back into the program, saying in an email that several things have changed, causing Canada to re-evaluate the relevancy of its participation. A major factor is the introduction of the Liberal government’s new defence policy, which emphasizes the need for better surveillance and reconnaissance.”
The Liberal government feels the need for better surveillance and reconnaissance so it is “earmarking” (not spending) $20 million for the military and spending (not earmarking) $100 million on compensating LGBTQ individuals.
For the record I am not against compensating people in the LGBTQ community for $100 million, but $20 million is not much of an earmark. In fact it’s barely 2 terrorist compensations.
And what did Trudeau say? “We just don’t have the money” to compensate our veterans?
The law of unintended consequences strikes the #MeToo set:
“..In fact, as a wealth adviser put it, just hiring a woman these days is “an unknown risk.” What if she took something he said the wrong way?”
https://business.financialpost.com/news/fp-street/wall-street-rule-for-the-metoo-era-avoid-women-at-all-cost
‘What if she took something he said the wrong way?’……………
——————————————————
“Accusations can damage a reputation and a marriage. Sometimes irreversibly.” Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Not a fan of Neil but can’t help but sypmpathize. Some frivoulous incidents that *tramatized* the women “victims” and one serious charge……. which took place 34 years ago (allegedly). No man is safe ever and the higher your profile and reputation, the less safe you are.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/on-being-accused/10156870826326613/
I saw mick and the boys at the old cne stadium when it was still there in the 90s.
‘voodoo lounge’ it was. m’kay, finally got the $ and proximity . . . .
until the upside down crosses poured out on the big screen.
I walked out and gave my ticket to a panhandler suggesting they scalp it.
I can’t decide whether this belongs under Volkfest or 20 Hitchhikers:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tuberculosis-ottawa-high-school-1.4931536
150 students and staff at Ottawa High School warned about a TB risk. Who the hell has TB in Canada today!
I use the CBC to see what the other side is thinking, or not thinking.
TB in Canada is part of the price Trudeau and company is willing to pay for mass immigration perhaps?
Wonder how thoroughly his “Irregulars” are checked for such diseases?
It seems to me if they were being housed in hotels and University dorms during the summer without thorough health screening we will see more such cases.
Well Liz, it may not be one of the irregulars.
1600 cases in Canada in 2016, 90% affected 2 main populations, with ~20% of cases being Indigenous persons. (70% Immigrants of unstated origin).
While this does point to an issue with screening, of more importance to me is the health care of the Indigenous, Elderly and Poor Canadians that is being neglected as multi-millions o dollars are spent on non-Canadians.
Preaching to the world while not keeping your own house in order is by far the greatest failure of any politician. And today’s batch are the worst yet!
Got to wonder how many university and college kids coming home from dorms for Christmas Holidays are bringing something a little extra home with them?
When I come home from exotic climes, change in the garage and bag everything until it can be sanitized. Unfortunately there have been times I’ve had to do this coming home from Canadian cities, bedbugs are horrible!
When it comes to the Rolling Stones they take it for longevity. Keith Richards, who once fell out of a tree…he may have been higher than the tree….should donate his body to science.
I heard a comment on the radio the other day, don’t remember it all so will paraphrase it.
The world will be destroyed by Climate Change / Last Great War / Trump. There will only be cockroaches left. And Keith Richards strumming his guitar on a hill top.
The toxicity of social media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmXcjvL9VSc
I just listened to 20 minutes, but this man looks at the phenom wrt teen suicide, who uses twitter etc, and how it’s correlated with anxiety and depression. Interesting POV with fresh eyes. Looks at the personalities of the inventors as prototypes of some users.
Churchill get a train.
Supposedly today some time.
Interestingly the locals had to form a company to buy the line,so they could then fix it.
Link is CBC so naturally no mention of cost of repair.
Check this out! Starting at 5 min mark starts to get interesting.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z4iEAwYJC5WP/