CNN coverage on Trump guilty on 34 counts. Truly unbiased reporting there.
My prediction: If they handcuff Trump and take him to jail, there will be blood on American streets. That Civil War movie, which I have not yet seen, could be prophetic. Thoughts?
We end this month with a funny/heartwarming video from Granger Smith entitled Merica.
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Unwrapping A 2000 Year Old Red Haired Elongated Headed Mummy In Peru
The Hub- The vaccine mandates have proved to be one of the enduring legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic
A few years on, vaccine mandates have proved to be one of the enduring legacies of the pandemic. In British Columbia, they remain in place for health-care workers. The persistence of mandates is a reminder of the inertia of regulation: new powers, once wielded, tend not to be voluntarily retracted.
I doubt anyone is really shocked at the verdict. Democrat jury obeys Democrat judge and convicts Trump. Found guilty of running against Biden.
Grab a beverage.
Vancouver Sun- Terry Glavin: Canada slowly acknowledging there never was a ‘mass grave’
Within the T’Kemlups community, however, almost from the beginning there were serious misgivings about the way their story was being told. The 14 major families within the community made it known to Casimir early on that an excavation of the orchard site should begin as soon as possible. Three years and nearly $8 million in federal funding later, no excavation has occurred.
National Post- ‘Overwhelming majority of the Canadian poor are white,’ report finds
At the low end, defined by low after-tax income, some 58 per cent or 1.6 million people living in poverty are white, or what StatsCan refers to as “not a visible minority nor Indigenous.” For the other figure, which measures poverty based on the cost of living, 2.5 million people or 64.4 per cent of the group living in poverty are white.
“In other words, the overwhelming majority of the Canadian poor are ‘white,’ and thus cannot receive race-based allocations from governments if unchangeable characteristics such as skin colour or ethnicity are accounted for in policy,” the group said in a press release announcing the findings.
Be a shame if something were to happen to it.
National Post- Canadian, 93, wanted to give her kids a gift. Instead she got slapped with $40K in capital gains tax bill
The two lots were appraised at $125,000 and $145,000, totalling $270,000, leaving Diachun with a tax bill of about $40,000, an amount she said she cannot pay.
“I’m on pension. How am I going to pay for that?” said Diachun. “I’m not one of the wealthy. I’m 93 years old. Who is going to give me a mortgage? Who is going to give me a loan?”
It was the height of audacity and hypocrisy for Mayor Plante to tweet yesterday that the images from Rafah were, “extremely troubling and shocking” and that, “Montreal, a metropolis of peace, joins its voice to those who are calling for a ceasefire and respect for international law.” […]
Why Mayor Plante have you never expressed shock at Hamas’ treatment of its own people? Why Mayor Plante have you never condemned the Hamas leaders for the slaughter of Israelis on Oct.7th?
Why Mayor Plante have you never demanded that Hamas release the hostages? Why Mayor Plante have you never demanded that Hamas – a recognized terrorist organization in this country – themselves cease fire and lay down its arms? And why Mayor Plante are you complicit in condemning Israel which is engaged in a war of self defense against an organization that was the official government of a political jurisdiction that breached international law by invading Israel while you have been silent on Syria’s President Al-Assad who has slaughtered over 300,000 of his own people?
The answer to these whys is that Montreal’s Mayor is pandering for radical Islamist votes. Radical Islamists who by their own creed would replace her with an Imam rather than be governed by a woman. She is jeopardizing the safety and security of all Montrealers by giving license to the mobs that clog our streets, assault our citizens, disrupt commerce and movement and practice intimidation with blood-curdling screams calling for the extinction of Israel and the eradication of Jews.
Demographics is destiny.
Blacklocks- Loan Defaults Low But Rising
“For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic mortgage delinquency rates began to rise at the end of 2023, up to 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023,” said Mortgage Industry. “Our main findings are the risk in the mortgage market has likely more than doubled,” it added. “Increasing the amortization schedule from 30 to 40 years would likely have little effect on reducing that risk.”
The report estimated four percent of low-cost mortgage owners could not meet payments and still afford groceries when it comes to renew loans at higher interest charges. Any return to pre-pandemic jobless rates would see “more than eight percent of homeowners with mortgages would not be able to keep making their mortgage payments and afford their life essentials,” wrote analysts.
If this hush money thing was such a big deal, why did it take 8 years to get to trial? Why not when he was in office, or right afterwards? Why now? Ask yourself that.
Some might accuse Trump’s opponents of specifically holding legal action against him for various alleged misdeeds until such time that he would otherwise be on the campaign trail. Guess what? It’s working.
Eight years ago, Trump made a big deal out of his North Dakota campaign stop. It’s when and where I got to ask him if he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline. This year, Trump’s legal battles kept him from the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, which I attended two weeks ago. Unfortunately, I’ve been pretty busy, so I haven’t had the time to write this until now. But the timing is fitting, with the trial wrapping up.
Trudeau needs to apologize again. This time for slavery or something. Behind a paywall but you get the drift from the intro.
Rick Bell: After this column was written, Trudeau took away housing $ from Oakville, Ont. after they refused citywide fourplexes
More background here.
Dementia Joe’s America: The Gaza pier. Laughing at Brian Stelter. Victor Davis Hanson on our revolutionary times.
Blackie’s Canada: Comrade Chow’s homeless camps. Today our Dear Leader burns jet fuel to Toronto for a photo op.
Today In Islam: Hamas shoots civilians. Hamas celebrates Pride Month.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
Tonight, this video may encourage you to rewatch a certain Bond film: Goldfinger: The Movie that made James Bond
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At this rate, will any businesses be left in the Winnipeg core within 5 years?
A rash of violent incidents targeting a Winnipeg grocery store came to a head Friday with a brazen daytime arson attack caught on camera.
Security footage from the incident shows the moment two women approached a couple of cars belonging to co-owner Tarik Zeid and his cousin. They smash a window, douse the car with a flammable liquid, and set it on fire.
He believes the suspects are the same women involved in a shoplifting incident inside the store the day before.
Just over two weeks after the first incident, three staff members were assaulted when five masked attackers stormed the store.
What Happened to Movie Stars?
“Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the country’s total residential mortgage debt totalled $2.16 trillion as of February this year, up 3.4 per cent year-over-year and representing the slowest growth in 23 years.”