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Fly High Jackie
We all have our coping strategies, to deal with the craziness of what’s going on in the world these days. One of the ways that I, myself, along with millions of others, was to follow the story of the bald eagles, Jackie, and Shadow, on YouTube
A friend introduced me, last year, to bald eagle WebCams. Jackie and Shadow have been mates for a number of years. Raising their young each year. I started following them daily late last year. They had a clutch of two eggs earlier this year. But while they were away one day, ravens attacked their nest and destroyed the eggs. But, determined as she was Jackie laid a second set of eggs. We got to see Jackie and Shadow taking turns incubating the eggs and then raising the two chicks Sandy and Luna from babyhood all the way to juveniles. We got to see the individual personalities of the parents and of the two eaglets including the eaglets rebellious teenage stage. Then we got to see the eaglets fly from the nest for the first time..
It was also a love story between Jackie and Shadow as they shared their duties in raising the babies. We human beings can learn a lot from them.
Unfortunately, Jackie got into a fight with two juveniles. She was rescued. But the fight, and possibly the stress of laying a second set of eggs was too much for her. And now she is soaring with the angels.
Goodbye Jackie. We will miss you.
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Separation Bust
if you look on social media, as I do, you will see that the separatist posts are getting angrier each day. This might be because of the declining polling numbers.
The western standard, a heavily right wing operation had a poll, under May, ju showing 45% of Albertans, supported separation. However, polling taken in June and July show the level of support at around 20%.
There is more bad news for the separatists. The Republican Party of Alberta formed just a couple years ago had no donations for 2024. In the first part of 2025 they had $190,000 in donations. An amazing upsurge. It came out that the hundred $190,000 came from only 50 donators, with at least four of them being from out of province and donating more than $5000. Both of these violate elections Alberta rules where donations have to come from within province and cannot be any higher than $5000.
The separatists are the same group that went to the United States seeking funding totalling 500 billion billion dollars dollars from the Trump administration to fund startup costs for the country of Alberta. Alberta, separated from Canada would be a perfect target for Trump as a 51st state. Alberta oil would become Trump oil.
Referendum day is October 19. The separatist are hoping for a low turnout to aid their cause. With 10 questions on the ballot, lineups will be long. Albertans should take advantage of the special ballot mail in opportunities provided by elections of Alberta. To all Canadian loving Albertans make sure to vote.
That’s all I have.
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Iran Sets Conditions
You have been hyping up all week that the Strait of Hormuz will be open very soon given intense negotiations. Well, negotiations have been going on, but they have been between Iran and Oman. It looks like an agreement has been reached, but then Iran set conditions on the US.
They include pulling out of the region, militarily, war reparations, unfreezing of assets, sanctions, relief, and cessation of all hostilities by you and Israel against Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine.
Of course you will not accept you cannot accept these conditions. So what next. News reports came out last week that US is running low on munitions. You have denied that, that is the case, yet at the same time you want to find the leaker of this information calling the leak treasonous. For once I agree with you, Donald, it’s very well might be. Because it is damaging information and it is giving comfort to the enemy
Whatever, Donald, you are definitely between a rock and a hard place. I truly have no idea where what you’re gonna do next. The scary thing is you have no idea either.
That’s all I have for today.
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Same Problem Different Holes
Donald, I have a little story that you definitely will relate to. We had this pub, in our town, that is right beside the main thoroughfare. You come into town and it’s there. Well the pub closed down, six years ago, and was totally demolished. So it left a big hole. Three was supposed to be a development of some sort to replace the pub but here we are, six years later, and the hole is still there. It is an eyesore for anyone travelling on the thoroughfare to see
Donald, I know you like to do things in a grand style. So while we have this eyesore in our town, for everyone to see, you have an eyesore for the entire world to see. Of course this is the ballroom hole. You had the balls, or the stupidity, to tear down the entire east wing of the White House, as historical a landmark as one can get.
And now a court has halted construction on it. This is turning into $1 billion boondoggle of an eyesore.
So now you’re going crying to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court does not look at it and says let the lower court handle it, which is a possibility if not even a probability then you might have to go to Congress to get approval for the ballroom. With the midterms coming up that’s no guarantee not even close.
Donald, you really dug yourself a hole this time for the entire world to see. Everything you seem to touch these days turns into a mess. Iran, the reflecting pool, the tariffs and on and on and on. This nasty Canadian is loving it.
That’s all I have.
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NASTY Canucks
So, while Donald Trump was in Vegas, giving a speech, he called Canada and our leader leadership, NASTY a bunch of times. We are a NASTY country. We are just plain NASTY!!!
So Donald doesn’t like it when we don’t roll over in submission. He has hit us with tariffs, as high as 50% on aluminum and steel, and we still are not backing down. He is threatening another round of 50% tariffs, effective August 19 and we are still not backing down and this is getting him angry and is making us NASTY!!!
Well, Donald, you don’t piss off an angry beaver or an angry Canada goose. You just don’t.
We’re known for being polite and for saying sorry a lot. But if you push us that sorry turns into an FU.
Donald got more bad news this morning. The US economy last month lost 23,000 jobs. At the same time the Canadian economy gained 75,000 jobs. How are them apples Donald. For all those the sky is falling Pierre Poilievre supporters crying that we are in a recession, the latest numbers show that our GDP will go up by 3.4% annually in the second quarter of this year. So using an old Happy Days insult, SIT ON IT.
That’s all I have for today.
NASTY!!
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This Is Winning?
Donald, in your first election campaign you said that you would be winning so much, that your supporters would say please Mr. Trump stop winning so much. Do you remember that?
So are you winning with Iran right now? Before you attacked Iran, in March, the Strait of Hormuz was completely open, and Iran was not collecting tolls and the price of gas per gallon in the US was three dollars.
The first day you attacked Iran, you said that you had won the war, sorry, the incursion. Then you said it would be over in two weeks. Then Iran closed the Strait. Then there was the MOU where you said that the US had gotten everything it wanted. Do you remember that? How did that one go for you?
Here we are, seven months later, and the Strait is basically closed, you are running low on munitions, and Iran is negotiating with Oman. Not with the US, but with Oman. Not a good look Donald.
Iran is now talking about a toll of 5 to 7% of the value of the cargo of each ship? Iran says in negotiating with Oman, that the Strait could be open with the toll mentioned above and provided that the US remove the blockade and remove sanctions and make sure that Israel stops it’s incursion into Lebanon.
A lot of ands there. And if this agreement does come to pass, it’ll probably last as long as the MOU was in effect. So tell me, Donald. How the f#%k is this winning?
That’s all I have for today.
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Getting Worse
Things are getting worse for these two characters. This is according to the latest poll numbers.
Donald Trump is at 34% favourability. The last time he was at this low number was right after January 6. How low can you go Donald?
The image of Pierre Poilievre (PP) smiling like that, was probably back in 2024, when his numbers were a lot better. Because like a frown, which is an upside down smile, his numbers are upside down
The liberals are supported by 47% of Canadians, while the conservatives are down to 29%. This is according to Nanos. This 18 point gap is huge. In terms of who you would vote for in the next election, Mark Carney is at 57% while PP, is tied with ‘I don’t know’, honestly, ‘I don’t know’, at 18%
This again was according to polling done by Nanos
PP supporters on social media will say that Nanos surely must be paid for by the liberals or that the polling was totally inaccurate and only liberal supporters were contacted by the pollsters. Well, Nanos poll numbers, back in December 2024, had the conservatives at 48% and the liberals at 21%. Same polling company, same polling process.
That’s all I have to say.
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Dead To Him
You cross Donald Trump on anything, and I do mean anything, you put yourself at risk. Do you remember when Mike Pence crossed him on the certification back in 2020? When the gallows were set up for Mike Pence on January 6 and when the insurrectionist mob chanted ‘ hang Mike Pence’. Trump was reported to have said maybe he deserved it
This time it’s Jeanine Pirro in his crosshairs, because she contradicted his story about vandalism of the reflecting pool
“Frankly, I think she choked because the judge was really vicious.”
“I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro, really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella, and people get away with things, and it’s a disgrace.”
She is as loyal, as loyal can be, to Donald Trump. However, she has now learned a lesson that so many other former Trump favourites have learned. For Trump loyalty is a one-way street.
That’s all I have for today.
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What Universe Am I In
In the hit series ‘ Stranger Things’ there’s a land underneath called the upside down. I get that same feeling today.
Trump says that Iran will be meeting with negotiators today. Iran says there’s no such thing happening. The Department of justice said there was no vandalism done on the reflecting pool. Donald Trump still insist that there was.
The Strait of Hormuz it’s still closed, the southern end of the Red Sea is under blockade yet oil per barrel is down under $90. The Dow Jones so far today is up 600 points past 53,000. What am I missing here?
Scientists and professionals, such as Anthony Fauci are getting attacked by people such as Rand, Paul, and fruitcakes like RFK Junior. I am seeing posts on the social net saying that unvaccinated were proven right and vaccinated should be feeling embarrassed. The vaccinated have responded saying that the only effect they’ve had is they look five years older than when they took the first shot back in 2021.
And then we have Todd Blanche finally put in writing that the $1.8 billion slush fund is dead. But I think it looks like the IRS is still banned from any investigations in the past on Trump and his company. It’s like saying, we won’t follow up on your past murders, but make sure not to commit anymore.
I’m at a loss. But at least the Dow is over 50,000
That’s all I have.
Bird's Chirp
So I don't have to put it on Facebook anymore….