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  8. How Trump is doing depends upon which source one consults. If I believed what John Batchelor’s guests say, Clinton’s going to sweep the election. On the other hand, certain conservative websites show that Trump’s leading and that he’s slowly moving even further ahead.
    This reminds me of something that John Diefenbaker apparently said in response to pre-election polls, some of which showed him in the cellar (against St. Laurent, I think):
    “Poles are for dogs.”

  10. You beat me on that one. ha.
    –
    Kate-Thanks for all the Soul Music..
    We used to blare it out into the jungles and the Vietcong said they loved it..
    Eating their rice and dancing around the fire..

  11. Trumps speech in Charlotte NC
    A snippet;
    Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that, and I regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues.
    But one thing I can promise you is this: I will always tell you the truth.
    I speak the truth for all of you, and for everyone in this country who doesn’t have a voice.
    I speak the truth on behalf of the factory worker who lost his or her job.
    I speak the truth on behalf of the Veteran who has been denied the medical care they need – and so many are not making it. They are dying.
    I speak the truth on behalf of the family living near the border that deserves to be safe in their own country but is instead living with no security at all.
    Our campaign is about representing the great majority of Americans – Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Conservatives and Liberals – who read the newspaper, or turn on the TV, and don’t hear anyone speaking for them. All they hear are insiders fighting for insiders.
    These are the forgotten men and women in our society, and they are angry at so much on so many levels. The poverty, the unemployment, the failing schools, the jobs moving to other countries.
    I am fighting for these forgotten Americans.
    Video here (Trumps speech staets at the 42 min mark and goes for aprox 47 min)

  12. Trumps speech in Charlotte NC
    A snippet;
    Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that, and I regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues.
    But one thing I can promise you is this: I will always tell you the truth.
    I speak the truth for all of you, and for everyone in this country who doesn’t have a voice.
    I speak the truth on behalf of the factory worker who lost his or her job.
    I speak the truth on behalf of the Veteran who has been denied the medical care they need – and so many are not making it. They are dying.
    I speak the truth on behalf of the family living near the border that deserves to be safe in their own country but is instead living with no security at all.
    Our campaign is about representing the great majority of Americans – Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Conservatives and Liberals – who read the newspaper, or turn on the TV, and don’t hear anyone speaking for them. All they hear are insiders fighting for insiders.
    These are the forgotten men and women in our society, and they are angry at so much on so many levels. The poverty, the unemployment, the failing schools, the jobs moving to other countries.
    I am fighting for these forgotten Americans.
    Video here (Trumps speech staets at the 42 min mark and goes for aprox 47 min)

  14. The latest on the Aron Driver story is the taxi driver that showed up to pick up Driver and was caught in the ensuing conflagration is that the police didn’t do enough to protect him and he’s hired a lawyer.
    There was however something about his story that made me pause.
    He insisted that because he reached for his cigarettes it saved his life. The odd part of the report was the close up of the cabs dashboard emblazoned with a no smoking sign prominently dislayed

  16. Will some media person please ask Goodale to explain how they are going to protect us from terrorists?
    He needs to explain how his pipe dream to offer therapy to those radicalized is going to be accomplished before they act. Does he think they are going to ask for help? It’s becoming very clear the people of Canada are not in good hands with a pack of inexperienced MP’s and a few oldies well past their best before.
    Seems Trudeau had himself a good holiday, we got the odd glimpse of him photo bombing or marching in pride parades. We should see him in Ottawa’s pride parade this weekend, the shirtless show off will steal the show as usual, we may hear onlookers yell take it off!

  17. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre admits there has been decades of neglect in building and maintaining transportation infrastructure in the city. He uses bad language when a reporter complains about multiple construction and repair projects that will be going on at the same time, such as only one lane in both directions of the Ville Marie tunnel and its shutdown on weekends, for example:
    Mayor Denis Coderre says the perfect storm of roadwork is unpleasant, but it is necessary — he says the need is urgent, and suggests the work should have been done decades ago.
    During the news conference, he also took issue with a suggestion that the non-immediate work like the transformation of the Bonaventure Expressway and the covering over of a portion of the Ville-Marie Expressway, were vanity projects.
    And he did so in animated fashion.
    “What kind of city do we want?” Coderre thundered. “Do you want to have news every day because there’s a big hole there, and somebody will give me s—t because they say nothing has been done, or do want to have somebody that will [engage in] prevention and invest?”

  18. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre admits there has been decades of neglect in building and maintaining transportation infrastructure in the city. He uses bad language when a reporter complains about multiple construction and repair projects that will be going on at the same time, such as only one lane in both directions of the Ville Marie tunnel and its shutdown on weekends, for example:
    Coderre says the perfect storm of roadwork is unpleasant, but it is necessary — he says the need is urgent, and suggests the work should have been done decades ago.
    During the news conference, he also took issue with a suggestion that the non-immediate work like the transformation of the Bonaventure Expressway and the covering over of a portion of the Ville-Marie Expressway, were vanity projects.
    And he did so in animated fashion.
    “What kind of city do we want?” Coderre thundered. “Do you want to have news every day because there’s a big hole there, and somebody will give me s—t because they say nothing has been done, or do want to have somebody that will [engage in] prevention and invest?”

  19. “Poles are for dogs.” Dief the Chief was right. And, as we found out this past weekend when our daughter and her family showed up with their new Schnauzer male puppy George, so are kitchen chair legs.
    All too often polls are wrong, as we have seen in the past, because they skewed by the pollsters to advance an agenda. See my Sharyl Attkisson Tip above.

  21. In the great debate over rising CO2 levels, the lack of discussion about role nuclear fission generated electricity should play has always puzzled me. It’s always been a discussion about wind power and solar generated electricity.
    By accident I came across a website that answers many of my questions and does so in a clear and straightforward way.
    Here’s a sample:
    “Sixteen countries depend on nuclear power for at least a quarter of their electricity. France gets around three-quarters of its power from nuclear energy, while Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia and Ukraine get one-third or more. South Korea and Bulgaria normally get more than 30% of their power from nuclear energy, while in the USA, UK, Spain, Romania and Russia almost one-fifth is from nuclear. Japan is used to relying on nuclear power for more than one-quarter of its electricity and is expected to return to that level. Among countries which do not host nuclear power plants, Italy and Denmark get almost 10% of their power from nuclear.”
    There is all manner of useful information on the site. I recommend it strongly if you too are interested in what is going on in the world of nuclear electrical production ….. including mining, processing and storing of nuclear materials.
    There is this too:
    “Uranium in Canada
    (Updated July 2016)
    Canada was the world’s largest uranium producer for many years, accounting for about 22% of world output, but in 2009 was overtaken by Kazakhstan.
    Production comes mainly from the McArthur River and Cigar Lake mines in northern Saskatchewan province, which are the largest and highest-grade in the world.
    With known uranium resources of 582,500 tonnes of U3O8 (493,900 tU), as well as much continuing exploration, Canada has a significant role in meeting future world demand.”
    http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library.aspx

  23. Ken, I understand a number of polls factor in what they believe will be a higher Dem turnout, which sounds a bit like generals fighting like the last war.
    That difference, along with the recalcitrant GOP snobs, is where we are now, with Clinton slightly ahead but Trump closing nicely.
    That’s all a mystery to the demmediocracy, with Trump plummeting on the verge of quitting, oblivious to their mendacious monarch’s malevolence.
    I think WikiLeaks and other revelations going forward are going to tamp down support for Clinton. All Trump has to do is stay on message, unafraid to admit that he’s human and so makes mistakes, and he will win a close contest. I do believe Hillary’s health is of concern, so wonder about the debates.

  24. My father’s dachshund is like that, too. There’s hardly anything in his house that the dog hasn’t chewed or “left his mark” on and that included my leg during one visit.
    As for polls, I visited my father in B. C. right after the last provincial election. The statistical fortune-tellers quoted in the news predicted that the NDP would win. The voters thought otherwise and returned Christy Clarke to office.

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